Announcing Registration for CalGames 2008!

Competition Date: October 24 - 25, 2008

Competition Venue: Archbishop Mitty High School, San Jose CA

Competition: Cal Games 2008 will be a replay of the FIRST Robotics 2008 game.

Registration: $450 + $100 Volunteer Support Deposit = $550 due by September 15

Registration Policy for CalGames 2008

It is vital contact information for your team is up-to-date: send emails to WRRF@Druai.com to confirm email addresses on file for your team! Inform everyone on your team about this event, and think about what you and your team can do to help.

DETAILS
Schedule
June
6/1 Tier 1 Registration opens
6/7 10:30AM – 12:00PM Open TEAM Planning meeting
at Blade Network Technologies, 2350 Mission College, Santa Clara CA
6/21 Working group meeting (leads) at Mitty
July
7/1 Tier 2 Registration opens
~7/12 (tentative) Open TEAM Planning meeting at Mitty
August
8/1 Tier 3 Registration opens
~8/2 (tentative) Open TEAM Planning meeting
September
9/27 Fall 2008 Workshops
9/15 All monies due and payable or registration slot is lost
October
10/4 Open TEAM Planning meeting
10/24 (evening)
– 10/25 (all day) CalGames 2008
• Registration, inspection, field and pit setup on Friday; competition on Saturday.

Cal Games is a COMMUNITY event. We NEED EVERYONE in the Bay Area FIRST community to join the Cal Games Planning Committee to help put the competition together over the course of the summer! The Cal Games Planning Committee is open for all to join, whether you are a student or an adult. So think about what kind of event you want, what side events, what awards, what speakers, what displays, and come speak your mind at the summer meetings!


Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: What if we mail our registration before August 1 for a Tier 3 spot?
A: If received PRIOR to August 1, it will still only be dated August 1, Midnight. If several are sent in early, they will all have same date and time.

Q: What if dates/postmarks are the same and not enough slots?
A: If Tier 3 registration fills the balance of those slots, then a lottery will ensue and others can go on a waiting list. CalGames 2008 will only have 30 slots.

Q: Why did WRRF raise the registration fee to $450?
A: Gas prices are high, as you know. Trucks used for the event use gas. That is one reason. Also, the field this year looks to be more expensive to build and set-up, thus the budget is higher.

Q: When does the $100 Volunteer Support Deposit fee get refunded?
A: The support deposit will be refunded after CalGames 2008 if that team shows up for their assigned volunteer spot.

Q: What happens if not enough teams sign up?
A: In the unlikely event that insufficient teams pay by September 15, 2008, the event will be canceled unless enough teams completely register by September 2 and registration fees will be refunded.

Q: Will a liability waiver be required for each student, mentor, adult, parent, etc. from a team?
A: WRRF liability waiver will need to be completed by every team member attending, similar to that done for any FIRST competition. These will be in each team’s registration packet send several weeks before the competition.

Archbishop Mitty High School Directions:
http://local.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...z=16 &iwloc=A

Originally Posted by caraddicted101 (Post 751212) Competition: Cal Games 2008 will be a replay of the FIRST Robotics 2007 game.

Originally Posted by SamSofa330 (Post 751214) "2007 game" as in Rack 'n' Roll?

Originally Posted by caraddicted101 (Post 751216) It will be a re-play of the 2008 game "Overdrive" Sorry about the mistyping.

Originally Posted by bduddy (Post 771977) Will there be any kind of streaming/archived video?

Originally Posted by JYang (Post 772086) Volunteer was Ken for doing the Sundail and helping all teams

Originally Posted by Hachiban VIII (Post 772067) 692 won the other judges award (I believe)

Originally Posted by Hachiban VIII (Post 772067) The new side panels were unable to dissipate the heat and our breakers tripped repeatedly, causing our robot to be jerky and slow. :( We even tried to use ice-packs to keep things cool... But we never really solved the problem. Nonetheless it was a great learning experience, and something we will be accounting for in the future. Perhaps AM should take note not to use plastic on the motor-side of their tyrannies anymore ;)

Originally Posted by Cory (Post 772199) This is pretty common when you use the FP's with just two CIM's. We had this problem often in 2006. We burned up probably 10-12 FP's with a similar setup. If you don't have a heatsink/fan blasting the motors it's pretty much guaranteed to happen if you're using them under a lot of load.

Originally Posted by Ken Leung (Post 772113) By the way, I would love to see any pictures of the event uploaded. ;)

Originally Posted by Ceal Craig (Post 772679) Find some photos here (courtesy of Tim Craig): http://picasaweb.google.com/CalGames2008 It was awesome, eh? whew!! These photos really show the amount of work AND the amount of fun!! When I get back to San Jose (I'm in North Carolina rignt now), I'll upload the words we put together for the awards and make a nice .PDF of it all. ;) Cheers,

Originally Posted by Hachiban VIII (Post 772201) Suprisingly, it was the CIM's that got hot, not the FP's... The FP's stayed nice and cool (we used heat sinks). We never had this issue of over heating CIM's with our aluminum plates, and we had only half the motors in the drive :ahh:.

Originally Posted by AdamHeard (Post 772709) I really don't understand the issue that was happening, can you provide more details about your system? From what I'm assuming, your gearbox is a Super shifter with one pair of the shifting gears removed, with custom plastic plates, a single small CIM and a FP into an AM planetary (with a heatsink). Breakers were being tripped, and the CIMs were hot are the symptoms you claim?

Originally Posted by AdamHeard (Post 772709) I also don't understand how your CIMs stayed cool when there was only a single on each side; Every drive I've been involved with since 05 had atleast two CIMs (and in once case a FP in additon) and they always became really hot after use.