Newton 2008
 

WOW I think it's one of the strongest divisions

I'm calling it now

(my opinion) NEWTON for the win!!!!!!!!

teams like 233,111,968,503,359,2056, as well us some of our fellow Florida boys 79,179,312,801 just to name a few

Re: Newton 2008
 

O NO, Not a chance of 233, 1251 again... the nightmares continue...:p

Re: Newton 2008
 

well there's a posibility for 233,1251,179 alliance:cool:

Re: Newton 2008
 

Don't forget 39, 68, 488 and 1625

Re: Newton 2008
 

I swear to god, if something goes wrong with that robot again, I am going to send Tytus over with some gasoline. Seriously dude, you guys got a quality robot this year that has the ability to win. I hope everything goes right and I hope to see you guys on einstein.

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Hey, the 233, 179 alliance was pretty fearsome, too. Oh wait, that was last year. . .

Re: Newton 2008
 

Also quite fearsome in Florida Regional in 2005. A nice history between the you two teams

Re: Newton 2008
 

a couple Canadian teams in newton this year: 296, 610, and of course 2056.

Re: Newton 2008
 

my first thoughts, a Florida regional with southeastern power houses.
I would not be surprised if Pink thought of 968 though as a potential 1st pick or vice versa if ranked high enough. Lets remember what pink and the identical version of 254 did in Hawaii!:p
Another scary thought:
111, 233, 179, 79, 968, 39,1086, 488, 2056, 375, 60,1251.
If any 3 of these machines get together in one alliance, oh my god!
I still dont get how 233, 71, and 179 were given the opportunity to pair up together last year.

Re: Newton 2008
 

I believe Miss Daisy 341 is also in Newton this year!

Re: Newton 2008
 

3 Israeli teams in Newton: 1574, 2214 and my personal favourite: 2630!!

see you guys there!
-Leav

Re: Newton 2008
 

This time 1574 is gonna kick some ****
Last year we reached 2nd place in Newton and to Newton's Semifinals. This time we're going all the way to the finals!

Go MisCar!!

Re: Newton 2008
 

My money is on 233.

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i want an Israeli alliance FTW!
1574+2214+2630!!!!
wooha!

(seriously though, Galileo is scary)

Re: Newton 2008
 

1086 and 1714 are both in Newton. Maybe we can make the cheese head alliance. :D
Joey

Re: Newton 2008
 

I was the alliance captain who was in disbelief that that matchup was still available to me - *check the list, check the board, look around, check the board again, announce it slowly so I wouldn't look bad if they had already been picked* - then - *crazy excitement*

PS: Thanks Cory - though I wouldn't put any money on anyone, even you guys, in Galileo - it's just too crazy to predict.

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This is going to be one heck of a battle. I am very glad to be apart of newton division. Hope to see everyone at the competition and it will be very cool to meet some new west coast teams 60,39 that, I've always wanted to talk to as well as many others. Good luck to everyone and we will see you there.

Re: Newton 2008
 

Well, Buzz is certainly excited, competition looks good in Newton as always. See you all there.

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We are not that new, If you remember 64, The Gila Monsters, on the Einstein finals in 2005, we were that team, we just change our number.

Re: Newton 2008
 

Oh I know I meant new for me personally sorry, should have made that clear. Anyone who knows me well , knows I am basically a living book on FIRST numbers/teams. Sorry for this being off topic also.

Re: Newton 2008
 

Whatever alliance team goes on to finals from here will be a strong one. I'm ready for some high scoring qualification matches!

Re: Newton 2008
 

Whatever happens this year, it's gonna be some crazy awesome competition.

Good luck to all the teams, and goodness gracious I can't wait for next week.

Re: Newton 2008
 

Who could forget 64!

Re: Newton 2008
 

I really couldn't wait for divisions to come out, and now that they have I can't wait for the match list. This is going to be lots of fun!

Re: Newton 2008
 

o snap.

Newton ftw!

Re: Newton 2008
 

You talking about us? :rolleyes: If you are, I'm almost positive we've come across every major disaster/malfunction there is and derived simple fixes for 'em.

Re: Newton 2008
 

I am pretty sure he is referring to us. Last year in the finals at Palmetto our robot broke and this year at Palmetto Semi-finals something broke again.

No worries Arefin we got it under control. We have used our fixed window wisely. ;)

I can't wait, this seems like a really fun division with many good teams and teams with great spirit.

Newton ftw!! Indeed.

Re: Newton 2008
 

SO THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU FOLKS! I was just asking about your Gila Monster team, wondering what became of your team.
Yes, I do remember 2005 as you folks squeaked out a win in vegas over 368 and beat us in the finals that year. Plus, we do remember the good old times at SVR.

Re: Newton 2008
 

Don't forget about Team 20.

Re: Newton 2008
 

Ha, Its been almost 12 hours of constant talk about how stacked Galileo is.

Newton is gonna have to knock some sense into them..;)

Seriously, lots of sleeper teams in this field, not all the popular teams, but certainly many many contenders. Depth of field is immense..

1279 will getting their hands dirty in this division

Good luck and it should be fun!

Re: Newton 2008
 

The field of strong teams went very deep in Archi last year for us to have Swamp available as a second pick.

Re: Newton 2008
 

I've heard all about your bot this year and I'm excited to see you guys next week!

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Wow... this is gonna be fun... get to see 1279 again!! Also looking forward to seeing 223's bot have seen and heard awesome things.

Also 102 is there.

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don't forget 2056, by most measures they are the second or third highest scoring team so far this year. They are a powerful team this year, I've seen them match up to 1114 very well in head to head matches. I think a combination of 2056 with one of 233, 968, 111, 39 would go very far.

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This is going to be fun to actually compete with teams that we have only been able to see from SOAP and other videos. Go Newton....

By my count:
Galileo
21 one time winnner
7 two time winners
1 three time winners
13 Chairman's winners

Newton
20 one time winner
6 two time winners
0 three time winners
12 Chairman's winners

Archimedes
20 one time winner
0 two times winners
1 three times winners
10 Chairman's winners

Curie
19 one time winner
1 two times winners
0 three times winners
5 Chairman's winners

Re: Newton 2008
 

We're excited about competing in Newton this year and are ready to play. We have been talking about heading down to Florida next year; it seems like Newton is going to be a sneak preview of the competition we'd face down there.

Can't wait.

Re: Newton 2008
 

:cool: we'll be making plenty of laps that is for certain! cannot wait to see what our lil plunger bot can do in Atlanta :p

Re: Newton 2008
 

Hope you can make to to Florida next year. Newton does, in fact, have a lot of our favorite partners, and opponents that we see at the Florida regional.

Re: Newton 2008
 

Well Ms. Krass,
We will finally meet you and the X-Bots.

-Glenn

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and we'll get to meet a team from hawaii. shaweet :cool:

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I think we spend more time with Hawaiian teams than we do with the teams from Washington!

If Hawaii wasn't immediately after the Seattle event, we'd have come out to see y'all there. Maybe next year.

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We hope. :P No, he's right . . . we didn't have any major failures in Denver, a trend that we hope to continue.

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Don't forget the 5 Israeli teams. This is going to be so much fun!

Re: Newton 2008
 

only 3 from Israel on Newton (1574,2214,2630)
2 on Arch (1690,1577)
1 on Galileo (1576)

Re: Newton 2008
 

lol hes a programmer, he can't count :P

edit: well I suppose I program as well, so I guess programmers aren't bad at math :)

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Somehow, we are the only team from Pennsylvania in Newton. Weird how that worked out!

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well, i started off, 4 years ago as a programmer =]

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its all fun... using programming in excel right now

Re: Newton 2008
 

Meant to say 233 not 223..

Ya it seems a lot of Florida competition here.

Re: Newton 2008
 

Should be some exciting matches on newton. Def one of the toughest fields.

Re: Newton 2008
 

I like how every1 notices and predicts teams the have been to the world championship before and not look at teams that have great robots this year and have won multiple regionals.

Re: Newton 2008
 

True - but that's what makes flying under the radar so cool.

Good luck! You guys are awesome :).
Jane

Re: Newton 2008
 

I cant wait. Hopefully we will eventually get paired up with team 832 for atleast one match throughout the championships.
This ought to be a ton of fun.

Re: Newton 2008
 

You might not get talked about but you do get noticed...

Re: Newton 2008
 

The team lists have been moved over to the individual fields. Looks like Newton is pretty much the same as it has been so far. I was hoping that there would be a list for Einstein so we could all see how well Newton is going to do.

Re: Newton 2008
 

I like it how the whole winning Arizona alliance will be in the same division :D

Re: Newton 2008
 

The teams on Einstein come from the 4 divisions. There will be no team list for Einstein until the winners of the four divisions are declared.

Re: Newton 2008
 

Dont forget about 39 guys.....

Re: Newton 2008
 

Yeap, sound like fun!!

I wish 987 was in Newton like last year.

We made quite an amazing alliance in Vegas:rolleyes:

Re: Newton 2008
 

shhhh...

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I remember you guys in KC. You pretty much flew under the radar there also, until the elimination matches, and as a 9th pick, you carried the rest of the team to victory.

Re: Newton 2008
 

My post was an attempt at humor. A little bit Car-Nack style. Now, if there were all ready alliances posted on Einstein.......

Re: Newton 2008
 

Over my head.

Re: Newton 2008
 

Here are some stats on teams in the Newton division. Columns are sortable (JavaScript must be enabled, I believe).

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I accidentally included two extra lines of:
israeli_teams++;

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Ick..how can you programmers take it? Of course doing all of the physics work wasn't much better, but still...

Anyways, Galileo is overrated, we have some nice bots in our division too. :cool:

Re: Newton 2008
 

Yah we were a sleeper. We are making so many upgrades to the robot in atlanta that we should be able 2 hurdle twice as fast as we usually do.

Re: Newton 2008
 

A combination of two out of these four 39 , 233 , 968 ,2056 ,and the addition of a third partner from ,20 ,47 ,79 ,111,141 ,175 179 , 397,359, 503 ,1625, could be a power house!!!!! It will all depend on who finishes #1 in qualifying.

Re: Newton 2008
 

i would add 2214,1574 and 2630 to the second list.

Re: Newton 2008
 

Do you really think that the majority of those robots listed as "third partner" would still be around? I don't see many of them lasting that long.

Re: Newton 2008
 

Well, since there are 15 robots there, and I would expect some other teams to crack the top 8, a few of those teams will have to be 3rd robots.

Re: Newton 2008
 

But almost certainly not for an alliance with two out of the first four mentioned, I'm pretty sure that if 2 of those 4 get together it will be as 3 seed at worst, more likely 1 or 2 seed.

Re: Newton 2008
 

Oops, my mistake

There are a few other team that will also be around for 3rd robots that would really make a solid alliance. With the depth of this division, every alliance should be pretty strong

Re: Newton 2008
 

Thats why I'm so excited to be in this division!

Re: Newton 2008
 

yeah this division has a lot of consistent teams so it should be fun to watch

Re: Newton 2008
 

Thanks for this very helpful document!

It really helps with Pre-Scouting.

Best of luck to everyone in Newton!

Re: Newton 2008
 

COMMON PEOPLE
the other division have more than twice as newton but they don't know than newton is gonna win:D


SHOW SOME Enthusiasm


NEW-

Re: Newton 2008
 

-TON

that better?

:)

Re: Newton 2008
 

For those doing advance scouting in Newton, here is the Team 341 Robot Brochure. We are going to have a smaller scouting crew than normal this year, so we wanted to get this out in advance of the Championships.

Happy Scouting!!

Re: Newton 2008
 

Most of the teams i know in this division prefer a stealthy approach.

Re: Newton 2008
 

pink swamp tigers, all i need to say.

Re: Newton 2008
 

QFT, we intend on picking. :cool:

Re: Newton 2008
 

I watched a good portion of the west michigan regional the wobot was quite impressive good luck to you guys and too the whole division.

Re: Newton 2008
 

They did extremely well in Wisconsin, one of the top teams.



It doesn't make a big difference, but who has a launcher? I know there's 1625, 141, and there's us (1736).

Re: Newton 2008
 

I know 39 has a pretty impressive launcher.

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Giving a quick glance at the teams: 68 (kind of a hybrid arm/shooter), 375, 397, 503, 968, and 1086. I'm sure there are more.

Re: Newton 2008
 

60 has a launcher as well, They had some difficulties in Vegas, but they should be ready for the Atlanta

Re: Newton 2008
 

That'd be awesome Santosh! Oscar loves teams that suck!

Re: Newton 2008
 

I ran through 200 simulated qualifications (all 100 matches, using the FIRST match generator). I used each team's best opr for their contribution to a match.

Here are the statistics for all teams:

QPs:
Seeds:
You can compare to the same thing for Galileo

Re: Newton 2008
 

I'm not exactly sure what you did, but thats pretty cool. :D


And for the scouts, cross 1756 off your list. They won't be there, their robot's here in Peoria.


-Andrew

Re: Newton 2008
 

The powerhouse alliance depends on one thing,if one of the four do not finish #1 in the rankings then you will see parity in the alliances. Also you will have a few teams that you never expected picking alliances ,moving teams you thought would be first round to second round. This is why i have so many good teams on the second list , and your right some of them will be picking or picked first. The good thing for this division is that it is loaded with talent!!!!!

Re: Newton 2008
 

[SIZE="5"]Come On People......[/size]

Only 1 1/2 days til we leave for the CHAMPIONSHIPS!:ahh:

IS-AAC

Re: Newton 2008
 

Hey! Team 223 in the curie division and are looking to align with a team from each division for scouting. With a small group like ours, it is difficult to scout in all four divisions.
With a team in each division, we can all share our scouting information when it comes time for pairings. If your team is interested or has further questions, feel free to e-mail me at kazzykaty@aol.com.

Re: Newton 2008
 

NEW-TON
:cool:

Re: Newton 2008
 

Hey, join the Newton Facebook group. . . .
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=30801085191

Re: Newton 2008
 

The Wobot joined that group too. He doesn't have too much to do sitting in a crate in Atlanta. I guess he was able to get a WiFi signal.

Re: Newton 2008
 

Nice :)

Re: Newton 2008
 

Is it legal for a robot to have internet access?

Re: Newton 2008
 

DONT FORGET ABOUT 440! JUST ASK AROUND!


WE'RE LEAVING TONIGHT ON THIS 14 HOUR DRIVE WITH 903 (WHO IS IN CURIE)

Re: Newton 2008
 

Looking forward to 1318's first visit to Atlanta. Also happy to be on the same field as 488, which has been a great alliance partner in 2007 and 2008.

I haven't been to the big one since 2000 in Orlando, so this will be exciting.

Good luck to you all. Beware of the Killer Rabbit.