PARC Results are in!
 

Congratulations to the alliance of 341, 25, and 225. It was a great show by all teams.


- Steve (25), you continue to marvel everyone with your 'psychotic' driving skills. Congrats on another great achievement!

Congrats!!!!
 

Congrats to all participating teams, the PARC was the best it has ever been and it's all because of the great teams we had!!!!!! Thanks again for helping us put on such a grea show by bringing all your awesome machines!!!

639, 365 and 284 were semifinalists.. w0000000t!!

PARC
 

Another well-run event by the Tigertrons! Thank-you.

And a BIG thank-you to Wisahickon (431) - seeded #1, who gave us a ride to the top when we were seeded next to last! Very generous & much appreciated.

Lisa T :D

Re: PARC
 

341 ;)

Don't worry, it couldn't have been done without you 225. Even the last place team is a force to be reckoned with in FIRST.

I had a great time at PARC, we had some uhh minor problems with the robot but there was some really nice people than helped us. I would like to say thank you to 284 and 639 for the great amount of help they gave us in the matches, and they didn't get to upset we had some uhh minor problems. congrats to 341 and 25 they both had some really good bots and great drives, everyone did a great job. I had a great time and i cant wait to see you all at The Duel On The Delaware....

will the results (complete) be put up on the website? I had to leave at 4pm and i was wondering how everyone did.

Man. Nobody on my team listened to me...we could have threatened 222 to make us win or possibly 'lose' their trophy. But noooo...all this 'gracious professionalism' crap got in the way and we had to present it. Fine. Be that way. *hrumph*

http://evulish.is-a-geek.net/cgi-bin...=1?folder=parc

Have at it. :)

Ohh...and did you guys redo your gym? It looks a lot less orange than before. And I recall wooden bleachers. Nice update. I hardly even needed a flash this time.

Great competition as always (although I'm upset that you guys ran out of XL shirts so quickly! GRR!)

King of the Hill?
 

What were the eventual results of KOH? Since it was getting pretty late our team went into pack up mode as soon as the Evil Machine was flipped (first time ever). I feel bad for Melanie, the rookie KOH driver, because now she's going to hear a lot of razzing about it. ;)

As one guy commented "I guess the 222 guys finally succeeded in fulfilling the wishes of 400 teams"

Payback's a b_____.


We had a lot of fun, got some real life driving time for 5 new drivers and hopefully, gave the crowd something exciting to watch.

My favorite round was in the Qualifying when Steve was driving and cleared the ramp of the two robots on the other team with a little push and then a second.

Then there was that high scoring round against Moe.....

WC

Special thanks to 25 and 225 for being spectacular alliance partners...

Congratulations to all, especially team 1218. They came with just two students, and still managed to be a top-seeded team!

A big apology to teams 103 and 365...we certainly didn't intend on flipping your robots! That arm of ours can get tangled in just about anything...

IMO, any head-to-head competition involving a ramp is going to see a lot of flipped robots, and I think that's what we saw this year. Miss Daisy was flipped a total of 4 times, sometimes incidentally and sometimes intentionally.

Hey 25...what was up with all the Chuck-bin smashing? It seems that nearly every bin we brought to PARC was smashed by you guys. We brought twelve...I don't think we brought nearly 12 home :P

Yeah, great comp. I loved semifinal match 2 for our alliance ... comeback! :)

And boy were Greg and I confused in the stacking competition. We were supposed to stack while Brian kept track of the time. He knew it was a min but obviously didn't realize the clocks started at 1:45 and went to 0:45... so we had 5 and were going for 6 when the buzzer sounded, while MOE had 3 but had them released :) Ah well, I know who won deep down :P

Our robot likes proving Woodie wrong. Weight reduction holes DO lighten a robot, and bins DO fit under the bar.

:D

Re: PARC Results are in!
 

ya dont just give steve the congrats, throughout teh qualif. rounds we had all first time drivers give it a go.

but good job in the finals steve

Re: PARC
 

ya that proves my point that seeding means nothing when it come to judging how good a bot is

ie: this was overheard during picking time
a team in the top 8 was making their choices list-
"How about 25?"
"What, are you kidding.... Look how low they are ranked!!"

The past two years have been like that.

I like the idea of slightly different scoring systems during qualification and elimination rounds. That way teams can design aggressively for the playoffs, like 25 this year and 365 last year, knowing that they will probably get picked and will then excel in the playoffs. Or, teams can design all-around point-scoring machines to rise to the top of the seedings, enabling them to pick whoever they want to be partners.

It certainly puts a premium on scouting, and results in more varied robot design.

Payback's a b____
 

Wayne, all I can say is you guys have a great machine, but we really gave the crowd somthing to cheer about.....I didn't think the beast would go over, but we got it. As for payback you better be careful for what you wish, our payback to you is gonna be finally beating you guys!!!!......you can pay us back too, just bring it!!!! The Claw is ready for any and all competition!

Don't worry about that, we'll see you in next years competition...2004!

I must say, everyone I talked to (at least before the elims, which I wasn't too happy about) had a wonderful time at PARC. We'll see if 487 can't make a comeback run at Ramp Riot...

Thanks to all teh teams, especially 222, for making this such a wonderful and joyous event!

PARC gaming
 

Thank you to teams 25 and 225 for being a part of Miss Daisy's alliance! I think that we had a great run and I know that it meant a lot to my team as well, especially the leaving seniors.

Congrats to team 1218 for doing as well as you did with only 2 (and a 1/2 i guess ;)) team members. I am sorry that I didn't pick you, don't be mad at me!

Sorry to teams 103 and 365, I know what it feels like when our robot is flipped, I hope that yours survived the flippage you endured.

Thanks again to everyone that made the day as spectacular as it was!

(click here for full size img)

Yea so.. I stole a broken bin from a room.. LOL.

Sorry MOE for the match in which we dented your robot, btw ;)


Okay, at PARC... I was successfully human player in the practice round. Well, except for my team told me to not get off the field in 10 sec, and then I didnt know when to get off... :)


Oh yes, I definitly had fun being in MOE's mascot and walking around for awhile.. except when my team started to attack me when they saw me :D

There is 2 things i like about PARC each year and those things will never change. Each year i am still 3 + hrs away from my folks and most civilization. The second thing is Each year 30 of the most competitive teams sign up to be in PARC.


All I have to say is that the matches were cool and all the teams played competitively.



BTW - 222 If you guys find a set of Keys on your property like the field across from your gymnasium or anywhere in your gymnasium please let me know. i really can't describe the keys, just look for a 14B etched in one of them its a brass colored key. - contact me at dayrunner6969123@hotmail.com - thanks to 222 for holding the best non first sanctioned event again.

congrats to 341 25 and 225 strongest alliance all day.

also anyway take pictures of the life size moe stick and a life size human player stack of bins.

Yea that 3 stac was a bit lame, We could have gone much much higer bu we took off the boxrighter that rights the bins so we can stack them and once that was off our driver had to get the bins in the right postition on his own. And i would also like to give code red congrats on being the first team to hit our bot that hard and leave a dent like they did. that was the first time that ever happend this year i think.

You could've saved yourself that dent if you had just dropped that stack like we wanted you too :)
Greg

Yup, PARC was a lot of fun and there were many interesting and competitive matches to view. It's good to see that many of the robots are still in prime condition (before PARC that is, lol)

Just remember to fix up your robot and keep it working for the Blitz! (more information to come on that still... yes, I'm aware that this is taking a while, info should be out soon. Date is Aug 16. Location: Boston).

Thank you for enabling me to have an excellent time as a ref, this was my first time reffing... but practice makes perfect. I realized that I really enjoy it so you just might see me in a striped shirt at a regional next year. You teams were great!

Customized ref shirts are the best!

222 once again put on a great event. Another great looking shirt to go in my collection. Great people, Great Times. My Favorite part was a MOEstick lightsaber duel with Big Mike. It was all going my way until he sliced off my hand. Someone on 87 got a video of it.

Our alliance partners 284 and 639 were great and made up for robot breaking so much. We made it all the way to the Finals to face 225, 25, 341. Our robot broke way too much. 2 bad Bosch (1 broke after we fixed the other) transmissions (1 broke after we fixed the other) meant we we running on 3 wheels almost every match. Thanks to 87 for all the help. Also our stacker motor started skipping chain links just in time for the stacker round. I admit the 3 stack was kinda pathetic. We got 6 during practice at Beech Street. I coached that round and with all the problems we were just happy to put down a stack. Also everyon got to see the return of Tippy the Wonder MOEbot (We havent tipped since Annapolis). We tipped backward once because we didnt deploy the wheelie bars. We tipped sideways once which has never happened before.

Well, we have plenty of time to fix the bot before the next round of off season competitions. Hope to see you all at the Duel on the Delaware.

THANKS 222!
 

To repeat, thanks 222 for filling the competition void after the official FIRST season. We all were going through withdrawal.

Congrats to the winning alliance - 341, 25, and 225. Terrific job in eliminations! Thanks to 284 and 639 for being GREAT alliance partners. That semi-final match comeback by 284 and 639 was fantastic!

Thanks to 176 for bringing "Tubby" the bin with wheels. One of my favorite memories of the event is when MOE stacked Tubby and drove over to return it to Aces High. After MOE lowered Tubby and backed away, Tubby just drives off. Classic.

This event had more competition than some regionals!

Thanks to all the people who made it that way.

See you at the Duel on the Delaware in October. Especially whoever wants another shot at flipping 25, who were the first team to sign up!

Duel on the Delaware

Thanks to everyone who made the PARC possible. I really had a lot of fun.

does someone have video of this "tubby" at all? What did they use tubby for?

No video, but I uploaded a pict of Tubby winning the limbo here . I'm really glad that Ace High brought him (her?) along. Tubby's antics were one of the things which made this year's PARC truly memorable. I nearly burst when Moe gave him a hug! (there I was, fumbling with my camera and not getting the shot, darn it)

Aloha Everyone!

PARC was an awesome event...not like that hasn't been said many times already. =) Good job!

Driving was a lot of fun...even if I did get us flipped. But like you guys keep saying, there's always Duel on The Delaware...

Anyway, who did win the KOH?

PARC Results
 

PARC Results are now posted here:
http://www.tahsroboticsteam.org/PARC/results.htm

THANKS 222!
 

That was one of the greatest, funniest things I've ever seen. Definitely made the two and a half hour drive worth it :cool:.

Once again I have to thank 222 for putting on a great event. I'll definitely be there next year, I just hope I can get FURY to go with me too :D.

even though you could kick my tush and are about 2 foot taller than me, I have this to say to you: Boo! Bad Joke!

Well, I have to point out that the impact inflicted upon your robot is approximately equal to that which impacted us :) I have to say that one thing I am proud about this year's bot is that it's been so consistent and haven't had any need of any repair that takes more than around 10 minutes and even that was rare... luckily this was a good thing when 25 started banging us... no dents, 25. Better luck next year :) :)

Oh yeah, guys on MOE or any other team, if you have pics with our team in it, I'd greatly appreciate them. Tell me if you do and I'll set up an ftp account for them. Thanks.

Re: THANKS 222!
 

OUCH!!!

I hope we didn't anger too many folks out there. The drivers for the qualifying rounds were all rookies that are in training for next year. The Evil Machine is a hard machine to drive so some of the hits were harder than I like and I hope we didn't hurt too many. You know rookies- they all want to show their stuff and take on the world.

Of course next fall head driver Steve will be off at college so whomever drives against the EM will be facing a rookie driver and the games will be interesting. We are bound to flip again- our team always flips over FIRST robotics (sorry). Of course we have several months to train...

I hope all enjoyed the games and we offended nobody. We came out to play and not necessarily win. Saturday was a training mission just for fun. I think we accomplished our goals.

Best wishes to all and see you in the fall at DoD, RR and the NJ event.

WC

ask moe, first morning at annapolis, HEY MOE!!!! Good MOE-ing to you guys...


i got millions of them, and i dont kick tush, i throw freshmen at people :)

It happend in the most secluded pit in the place......... ours so dont feel bad not to many people saw it. thankfully it happend ne of the few times our bot wasnt being worked on.

Flip 25
 

Who said that? I dunno anything about that.....What, flip 25???? Sorry, I was just a spotter Sorry guys, and Sorry LilMellie......you have to admit it really got the crowd goin. Cant wait to see 25 around at the minis. Hope we make it to DOD again this year! I promise I won't be a spotter and broadcast my evilness through my drivers....hey 365 and 316 how bout an Alumni/engineer KOH match at DOD!!!?????:D

Re: Flip 25
 

Mike you dunno who you're messin with
 

Mike that would work, but "big mike" would hafta get past Cliff-Meister or as I used to be called Demolition Cliff and my partner...Machine Gun Charlie.....Ponders Mike I think we should join forces here and convince 365 and 316 we want this match to happen.:yikes:

ure not the only one. u didn't notice tubby till lunch time when it was moving mysteriously past the bleechers by itself. kinda woulda been funny if a robot stacked tubby and tubby just roll off during the match. can tubby be considered a point if he/she was stacked during the match or would he/she be considered an additional robot on the field. just curious thats all !

How many tubby's are there now?

The only true Tubby is SVR's Tubby. besides, Dean wore him.

Cory

Hm? I'm confused. We told you to come back between 10 and 15 seconds because we didn't want 25 to have a chance to flip us... you didn't realize that there was a digital clock at the center of the field and looked clueless at us and we waved at you to get back. You didn't get back in time... the only reason the robot was started was because it was a practice round.

Yes, I know, what I MEANT was that I successfully stacked the bins.

I have the tape of kristen in that match, im not sure if its better than annopolise or not since it was a practice round agiain.

stacking rounds
 

who won the stacking rounds, and how high did they go???

Re: stacking rounds
 

Yeah, as mentioned, Greg and I were going for bin #6 in our stack of 5 when the buzzer rang and we yelled at our coach who 'keeps track of time'. Good job MOE... you guys have competent coaches.

Um... there were clocks on both sides. When we turned our heads up we saw the 0:45 in bold red. If there weren't clocks on either side, then it'd not have been a fair competition.

Hm, suggestion for next year: Program a clock that does not require running through 25 seconds of stuff before the robot can move. Plus it just confuses people.

Thanks:) . Not too bad for my first match coached. It was a driver coach consensus to drop at 15 sec.

Ya I cant believe FIRST didnt provide an easily modifiable program. The KOH round was really bad b/c the one of the mock human players was not stepping on his mat between 10 and 15 sec to disable autonomous. Never send a human to do a computer's job.

That was great. It took them like 3 times to get everyone to do it right :yikes:. I feel kind of sorry for that one kid though. Can you imagine having to be replaced by one of your mentors because you couldn't step on the mat between 10 and 15 seconds?

I am sure the entire crowd cheering when he was replaced didnt help his self esteem any. However, he wasnt putting a lot of effort into it by sitting on a sandbag and putting one foot the mat. I think he just didnt care so I dont think he was disappointed to lose the job.

yeah he was probably happy to lose his position as Human Player....

Human Player is almost as much fun as driving....it's crazy :p

Hm... I don't normally try to listen to the announcer or hear the announcer anyway when driving. Did the announcer count down the time left for the matches? If so, I wish I listened (or heard).

NASA/Langley's Mike Wade has rewritten the scoring program from scratch...he can turn human player and autonomous modes off, change timings, etc.

I can't wait to see it in use at Ramp Riot and whatever other local competitions will be using his field.

15 sec warnig
 

the announcer said "15 sec left" at bout :57 sec left on clock, so we started the drop sequence. We might have made it to the ramp if our drive wasnt anemic.

That sounds like Mike. I figured he would do something like that. That will be very useful at the Duel on the Delaware.