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OK, I'll start it.

Go Archimedes! At first glance, it seems as if we collectively have a big statistical advantage over the other divisions, but that of course means nothing. Let's all do our best to not believe the press and the hype and stay humble, lest we become overconfident and underestimate "the little guy" at the worst possible moment. That's exactly what *they* want Archimedes to do! ;) Sly dogs with their *reverse psychology*. :)

Little ol' Team 48 is buried deep in the weeds where more offensive predators boldly hunt their prey. May Our Lady of Blessed Defense guide us and protect us as we enter into honorable battle against the offensive monsters that are contained in our division!

It's on! Can't wait! Good luck!

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man the divisions are crazy this year. but i do have to say i like them all.
first did a good job at spreading the "power" around the divisions this year. i likey

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I thought it was random :confused:

Regardless, Archimedes will certianly be an excellent division. Only 9 days left!

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this is gonna be a tough division w/ 233, 71, 179 in here...good luck to everyone!!

it is tech. random but every few years it seems the powerhouses of that year just get in together...but we'll see who comes out on top over all.. cya around!!

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If there is a team who will be updating information on the Archimedes division live on their website, send me a PM or email, I am currently getting all the teams who are doing live updates on each field and will put the on 384's new Championship home page.

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This division sounds like a lot of fun and I'm happy to be in it, and I don't know about the robots but I defenetly hope we have the best spirit of all the divisons. Regardless of what teams go to represent Archimedes in the final rounds; let's all show the other divisions how loud we can be a the Georgia Dome.

:D Go Archimedes :D
Good Luck to all the Teams

Dave

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I just want to point out that the last two Chairman's award winners (103 and 254) we're in the same division as us). That is good news for 48, 65, 79, 233, 342, 812, 931, 957, and 1014 and unless FIRST overcomes it's low number bias (before last year no team over 200 had won the Chairman's award. Maybe this year they'll break 300) things look really good for 48, 65, 79 and 233. If you go by the unscientific method. :D

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Not to mention 173, 401, 245, and 122. Man, Archimedes is stacked this year. But dont count on the Arch winner winning it all. There are enough top-notch teams in each of the division for an amazing alliance to emerge and win it all. 45, 118, 67, 254, 365, 66 and 68 are all gonna try and give us one great fight for the championship! But itll be pretty hard to beat an alliance that can win Arch, especially if it has a combination of 233, 71, 173, and/or 179 in it.

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1027, 173 are both in this division and were on the same winning alliance seeds #1 and 2 going into the picking. I mean there are so many good teams I cant wait to watch some of the matchs.

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don't forget about us!!!!!! lol hey we are a force also. lol not to be big headed... but you do have to look at all of the other divisions also. they are pretty tough this year.

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WOW arch what a division.

This is gonna be fun. Newton will do their best......

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Looks like Archimedes is really on FIRE. I would like to point out some teams...

48, 65, 71, 79, 93, 107, 116, 173, 179, 217, 233, 716, 1114, 1251 are the teams that has caught my attention this season. This division is really going to have lots of crazy Tripple Play. Arefin will be there to watch these teams in action. Good luck to all teams out there.

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There are great teams in each division, but the thing that stands out most about Archimedes is depth. If you made a dream alliance in each division, it would be great, but I think Archimedes has a bit of an advantage with realistic alliance picking.

24 Archimedes teams in the elimination rounds. 25 Archimedes teams won regionals.

I can't wait.

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I have to say I'm SOO honored and excited to be in such a great division, sure to have some of the best matches!!!:D

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You may have an excellent division but watch out for Galileo! My bets are on a Archimedes vs. Galileo finals and that should be incredible to watch. Good luck to all the teams!

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I see a lot of teams repersented in these posts, especially 173..

Can't forget about one of the teams that beat them at UTC is 1071

(not a put down, team MAX had a bit of programing help from RAGE this season.. top notch team to work with)


this is going to be one hell of division, easily 4 or 5 combinations of teams could win this division and nationals.. I can't wait

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WOW... divisions have been up for a while now and no west coast archimedes team has posted to represent. I just counted, maybe because at first glance I can probably only count about 5 teams in California going to Nationals. We can't forget about 980, they are a VERY powerful team. Also it's time for 1266 make it pass the first round of eliminations, they have a great robot and thus many teams have focused their defense on them. I think Archimedes is very powerful like last year, good luck everyone.

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I agree! Let's make the other divisions wonder what's going on in Archimedes! RAGE is up for the challenge, are you???

We have 85 POWERFUL teams in Archimedes, let's
ROCK THE DOME!

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i love to play in randomly generated matches with a list of good teams because your almost guaranteed a good alliance pairing. And with 85 teams instead of somewhere around 40 the "ALMIGHTY ALGORITHM" doesn't stack you against the same teams over and over again and pair you with the ones you just played against and give you the same poor alliance over and over. it's also statistical more difficult for the best team to be first seed. with 6 matches a bunch of teams are gonna be 6-0 and the qualifiers will rank them so the best team ever that wins every match and completely wipes there opponents out will be the lowest seed in that 6-0 bracket

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Tytus, do you remember 2 years ago at Nats we were allied with 1 team twice and then another team twice? I forget how many were in our division, but....

This algorithm hasn't looked any different so far to me. I think they should look at the pairings for these kinds of things and run it a few times until these situations are minimized.

But as you just said, I don't think your going to see the "names" in the top 8 with straight wins. I think there will be at least 6-7 undefeated teams, and not necessarily deserving ones. Some of the good teams will go head to head and lose due to pairings also. I think the so called "super alliances" are going to be very hard to build.

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I love this division , I am hoping that with so many strong teams that the other teams will not be so aggressive toward good scoring teams, because there will so many on the field at once.( hopefully, I know it depends on who you play with) At the regionals it became difficult to show our robots true potential because in almost every match it seems that the other teams had one or two robot trying to block scoring . This makes me think that strategy is going to even more critical in this division.

good luck to all

Jim schaddelee

Team 107

2005 west michigan champs with 93 and 66
2005 semi finalist midwest with 648 and 79
2005 johnson and johnson sportsmanship winner (midwest)
2005 johnson and johnson sportsmanship winner westmichigan
2005 west michigan web site winners

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hey isn't that first line supposed to say western michigan??? just wondering

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sorry ,you are right . That what happens when try to post and work at the same time .I think it correct now.

jim schaddelee

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Hmmm.. could this be a threat to our division having the most spirit? http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...9&postcount=35

Maybe we should challenge the other divisions to see which division has the most spirit???

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Thanks for the mention, we are so thrilled to have ended up in Archimedes this year and get to mix it up with so many incredible teams , we are looking forward to meeting these people and sharing experiences as much out of the playing field as in the field.

See you in Atlanta.

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We must respond! Hmm, we need to show that Arch has the most spirit at the competition!

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Have a gigantic bathtub in the stands with an giant inflatable person in it, and find some use for "Eureka!"

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(Steps from Newton Thread into the Archi-whats-it Division Thread on his soapbox)

I'd like to tell a little story...

I made a mistake at the beginning of the season. I thought our rival in Franklin would not do well. They took us to the semi-finals.

LESSON: DONT COUNT OUT ANY TEAM, NO MATTER DIVISION (HINT-HINT), ROBOT OR RECORD.

Have a Nice Day.
(Steps off the box and walks back to the Newton Thread)

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WOW things are getting a little feisty. I think we need to just accept the fact that we will all be winners after Nationals. No matter who wins in the end we will all do the best we can. I mean look at everything all the teams achieved this year. That in its self is inspiring. Cant wait to see how the competition.

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you forgot 1027... One of my favorite robots this year... Simple design but soooooo goood...

Kathy- Give up on the spirit... WE GOT MORE! WE GOT MORE! WE GOT MORE!!! :D ;)

can't wait to see you guys at nationals!!! We couldn't beat you in Annapolis so we'll just have to beat you and 1027 in the finals of Nationals... ;) haha... both Galileo and Achie look reeeaally tough thouhg...

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i am rediculously excited about Nationals The Championship Event this year.

seriously. i just looked at the Division Lists and i freaked out. This is going to be so much fun!! i cant wait, i really can't! Not only will the matches be exciting--mind you, ALL OF THE MATCHES will be exciting, not just the semifinals and up, but ALL because everyone who made it to Atlanta is a winner and has proven themselves in competition. Every team attending The Championship Event has a chance to win. If they didn't, why would they be invited to come in the first place (besides to have an awesome time)? As i was saying, not only will the matches be exciting, but i'm really interested in who is going to win Chairman's Award. A lot of good teams are up, and its probably going to be close this year. :) i wish the best of luck to all!

i dont think we'll have to worry too much about spirit... i'll try to get my hands on enough body paint to go around, if anyone's interested, but no promises. (knowing my luck, one will be lucky to get pink war-paint on their face) also, i'll be getting a group to run around and do Good-Morning cheers, if anyone's interested. it shouldnt be too hard to find me, i'll be walking around the pits greeting every team and wishing them a good morning and good luck every morning (maybe even more that one time a day)! and i'm sure with the help of teams like Children of the Swamp, KRUNCH, and others (sorry, its late and FL teams were the first i could think of) we should have no problem showing the other divisions how much spirit Archemedies has. :D

8 DAYS!!! the suspense is killing me!!

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While everybody is busy talking about robots this is also going to be a fun division with spirited teams like us and 1547 Where's Waldo and such.
Party on dudes!

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Ah... TJ2 and Buzz tried to outdo RAGE in cheering at Chesapeake - we had a great cheering volley going back and forth across the playing field. But I know that the Archie teams have what it takes!
Who's bringing mascots with them to Atlanta? Sprocket (our red bulldog) will be there!

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It looks like there will be a lot of spirit out there in this division. That's great!!!
The Techtigers are also bringing all our chearing crew so we will be loud as well.

Dave

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Team 93's Apple will be there. He was kind of disappointed at West Michigan with the lack of hugs he got, but I'm sure he will get plenty of them in Archimedes. Good luck to everyone.

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We're bringing Xavier but we have something even more special planned (details to come). ;)

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we have either 2 or 3 mascots (1 may have broken...not sure...) (i might want to add that they are not alive...) but yes. i will (as leslie previously said) try to get body paint and i am one of the extremely spirited people on my team on the good-morning crew. so it shuold be easy to find us hanging in the pits saying hi to everyone in sight (literally). and the most important thing about Atlanta: Have fun!! it doesn't really matter how well you place! we are all winners or we would not have gotten so far!

-Chris

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yep one is dead totally it was destroyed becuase the students were to rough with it at ucf after me and raph fixed it gerrr that took so long to fix

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aww which one died?

:) there will be much spirit in archemedies. many mascots. this will be fun! ...hey... if i was painted pink, would i be considered a mascot? :D just wondering.... i'm sure some of the boys on Children of the Swamp will be doing body paint too (since i saw it at UCF)... what color occurs when you mix pink and green? o.o;

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Hey guys,

I know our team website isn't listed on teh Archimedes page, but you guys should check us out at www.teampioneers.com -- we're really excited about this new layout.

Feel free to PM me anything; I'd like to hear comments on it. Team 1676: The Pascack PI-oneers won the NJ Regional All-Star Award, and are looking forward to competing in Archimedes this year!

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WOW very impressive layout. Rookie teams always impress me with the amount of prior skill they bring to robotics. Not only is it a nice layout, but the content is great and everything seems to be in place. It's professional but at the same time keeps its elegance and cutting edge. Nice Job!!! Hope to see you in Archimedes.

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812 is bringing tons of spirit.. along with 1266 from Team SD to Archimedes :D
The Archimedes Division looks like a ton of fun for Championships.. see you all there! yes, body-painted and all... hmm.. pink and green- maybe a pink-purplish-yellow => weird brownish shade? haha..

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Behind the Archimedes field the X-Cats will be hosting a Tic Tac Tetra tournament.

Here's the details on the game:




. GENERAL RULES
a.) 2 teams consisting of 3 "robots" each (X and T)
b.) each robot starts out with only 1 X or T
c.) each alliance starts out in their respective end zones
d.) on a single turn each robot can only: -move
-place a piece (scoring)
-defend/move
-load/move
e.) scoring is based on competition rules
f.) only 2 robots are allowed in one space at a time
g.) a game consists of 10 rounds
II. LOADING ZONE
a.) robot has to go to the corner spots in their respective end zone in order to load
b.) load + move = 1 turn
III. DEFENSE
a.) if robot declares a defense move the opponent can not score in that spot until THAT robot's next turn
b.) defense + move = 1 turn

Any team can join up and participate. You don't have to be in Archimedes to play. Try it it's fun!

BTW no mascot this year.

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hey for the spirit i have a new cheere:
it goes with the we got spirit yes we do we got spirit how about you!!!!!
i heard it last year at the detroit regional
after a little bit of the back and forth you say:
2 4 6 8 we got more then you can take...we got more we got more we got more....


hmm that just seems mean never mind....it was cool at the time though

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Hi everyone,

Here is a link to a movie on our team web site showing our new autonomous mode. It's a 4 MB download but there's some humor at the end. :-)

http://www.team980.com/#automovie

See y'all soon. Have a great trip to Atlanta.

Doug Hogg

P.S. Check out the "Archimedes Claw" - an animation of an artists concept of an invention by Archimedes: Archimedes/Claw/illustrations.html

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That's too cool, can't wait to see that!

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no wa...that is awesome. wow i am very very impressed

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Very impressive, scoring 6 points in auto!

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Very nice. I want to know what happened right after the guy yelling 'DISABLE!' ;)

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I wasn't there, but my understanding is that there was a collision, and simultaneously, a lapse in correct language occurred. (I was told that it was very late.) Because of the language lapse, the author of the video deemed it necessary to edit out the collision.

Doug Hogg

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If you were sitting in the middle section of Archimedes and are missing a camera, PM me, I picked it up Saturday afternoon.

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There should be some Excellent matchs coming up in this divsion. Team #935 is in this division. This is a sleeper Robot that scored EXTREMELY WELL at the Kansas City Regional. Our Average match score was 104 and we played several matchs as the only one that could score tubes.:yikes: www.team935.info
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG9goI7zbgk

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This thread was regarding last years Archemedes division - see Archemedes 2007 for this years.

Mike Aubry