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The only offseason competition that's old enough to join it's own FRC team...

RIVERRAGE FOURTEEN

FIRST's Longest Running Offseason Event

Presented by Manchester NH High Schools
Central - Memorial - Trinity - West

Come to the Home of FIRST and dress in your Halloween best to give your robots one last try at Breakaway! Along with classic FRC awards, prizes are given to Best Dressed Team and Best Dressed Robot.

Schedule:
Practice rounds 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Opening ceremonies 9:00 AM sharp
Closing ceremonies not later than 5:00 PM

When: Saturday, October 30, 2010 at 9:00 AM
Where: Memorial High School - 1 Crusader Way Manchester, NH 03103
Cost: $200 Entry Fee
Registration: Make checks payable to: RIVER RAGE COMMITTEE and mail to Ed Forcier (94 Lancaster Avenue Manchester, NH 03103)
Contact: Ed Forcier
Phone: 603-666-4741
Email: elf305@yahoo.com
Web: www.riverrage.org

Hey NJ Teams: I see BE and RR are not on the same date this year - I expect to see some of you there!

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Way cool, hope there will be a webcast for all of us that cannot be there!

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Team 190 will be there, ready to defend the Best Costume title for the fourth year in a row!

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Yes please! It sounds like a great competition, I'd love to watch it.

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So excited for River Rage! Jess, is there any sign up/need for volunteers? This may be the first tournament for me without a team! :o

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WOOOHOOOOOOOOOO! P.S.: Loving the picture of our R2-D2 costume from last year haha, it's still hanging up in our shop!

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I'll be there whether pinkerton can make it or not, is it possible for a single person to enter the best costume contest?

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Haha nice. Actually I think it would be more fun if it was, they should consider that as an award!

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i was very disappointed that not a single person outside of my team knew what i was last year (Repoman from Repo! The Genetic Opera)

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Never heard of it :P

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It's a rock opera. It's really entertaining and gory. It usually nerdy people like FRC'ers that have seen it

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Wait, I'm not a normal FRCer!:eek:

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Sweet! I can't wait to play breakaway once more! I wonder if I can give the robot a Pele costume...

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Hahaha, I'm most likely just wearing my cheerleading uniform, unless our team does a theme again...

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I will discuss this idea with the comittee. We are always looking for ways to make River Rage more fun!

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Thanks Andy, i may have to depart a bit early, but I'll be sure to leave my name and number so you can award me best costume :rolleyes: :D //statement oozing with satirical/sarcastic ego//

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Is there a list of the teams currently registered to attend?

Looking forward to this event.

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If you guys are coming, that would be amazing! River Rage is the best competition of the year! :)

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we will be attending!:D

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We're signed up to come too!

Trying to Help

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I just found out last week that 1922 Oz-Ram will be there and I will be able to attend too! Now I have lots of questions.

Is www.riverrage.org the best website for the event? It looks like it has not been updated for a while. When it is probably most of my questions will have answers (I do realise that it is time consuming when everyone has school work, jobs and robot work to do).

Are Andy Grady and Dave Price going to do the announcing?

Only 37.5 days left.

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Glad to hear that 1922 will be making it. The current url is the official one. I'm not sure how updated it will be over the next month, but I'll try to get some information out here.

The competition will be held at Memorial High School in Manchester, which is great because it is a big venue with alot of history. We will we using the double elimination format again. This year, the standard rules of Breakaway apply. The only differences will be that we will not be using a DOGMA timer (DOGMA delay of game penalties will be assessed at refs discretion). Also, the draft will have the top 8 picking as per normal FIRST rules, with the exception that it will NOT be serpentine. It will go 1 through 8, then back through 1 to 8 again.

We will also be having best robot costume and best team costume awards. I forgot to mention the best individual costume award to the RR comittee at the last meeting, but I still love the idea.

Also, we will be once again doing the Legacy Award. I highly encourage teams who are attending the event, to bring materials (posters, info packets, etc.) for the Legacy teams and the River Rage Comittee to judge. We want to know why your team exemplifies FIRST! Past legacy award winners include team 178 from Farmington CT, Team 88 TJ Squared, Team 126 Gael Force, and team 78 AIR Strike.

Finally, registration is capped at 24 teams. So far, we have 23 signed up! First 24 to pay are guaranteed enterance. If you want to attend, please make sure that you contact Ed Forcier through e-mail at elf305@yahoo.com. The enterance fee is 200 dollars. WE ARE ALMOST FULL! IF YOU WANT TO COMPETE, PLEASE CONTACT US ASAP!

Hope to see you all there. If you have any further questions, please post them and I'll try my best to answer them.

-Andy Grady

p.s. I will be on the microphone in some manner, most likely emcee. I'll figure out who my partner is soon.

p.p.s. Start practicing your Bobblehead. :D

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I am disappointed to report that team 241 will not be attending. We are too busy planning NHTechfest (www.nhtechfest.org, everyone is invited, its free!) amongst other things. But I think I will still stop by in my Halloween costume and cheer on FIRST in general lol

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Thanks, Andy for the info. Two more questions: Do you have a list of the teams attending this year? And most important - Does anyone have any video of Dave's Bobblehead performance?

Dan - Sorry that 241 can't make it but I am also looking forward to NH Techfest!

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Team 1519 is hoping to be able to compete at River Rage again for our 6th consecutive year; payment is already in the mail!

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I'll see what I can do about getting a team list up here.

Going to be an excellent event. Get your robot costumes ready!

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can't wait! Just finished tuning up and testing the robot!

When and where will there be a list of teams competing?

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As of 10/4 this is the list of teams attending that was sent to us
Teams coming to River Rage 14:
20,40,78, 88,125,131,134,166,172,190,
237,238, 348,501, 509,811, 839,1058,1474,1729,
1735,1922,2648,3126,2523

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Here is some basic info on the above list:
20-THE ROCKETEERS-CLIFTON PARK,NY
40-CHECKMATE-TRINITY HS, MANCHESTER, NH
78-AIR STRIKE-NEWPORT COUNTY, RI
88-TJ SQUARED-BRIDGEWATER, MA
125-NU-TRONS-BOSTON, MA
131-C.H.A.O.S.-CENTRAL HS, MANCHESTER, NH
134-TEAM DISCOVERY-PEMBROKE, NH
166-CHOP SHOP-MERRIMACK, NH
172-NORTHERN FORCE-GORHAM/FALMOUTH, ME
190-GOMPEI AND THE H.E.R.D.-WORCESTER, MA
237-T.R.I.B.E.-WATERTOWN, CT
238-CRUISIN CRUSADERS-MEMORIAL HS, MANCHESTER, NH
348-NORWELL ROBOTICS-NORWELL, MA
501-THE POWERKNIGHTS-WEST HS, MANCHESTER, NH
509-RED STORM-BEDFORD, NH
811-CARDINALS-NASHUA, NH
839-ROSIE ROBOTICS-AGAWAM, MA
1058-PVC PIRATES-LONDONDERRY, NH
1474-FUNK ZOMBIES-TEWKSBURY, MA
1729-PLAN B-PETERBOROUGH, NH
1735-GREEN REAPERS-WORCESTER, MA
1922-OZRAM-CONTOOCOOK/WEARE, NH
2523-LAB RATS-ST. JOHNSBURY, VT
2648-INFINITE LOOP-OAKLAND, ME
3126-FLASHPOINT-HOLLIS, NH

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Wow, 7 states will be representing this weekend which equals all of New England theoretically, we'll leave NJ out of New England.

Can't wait! :)

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BUZZ 175 is trying to figure out what is going on. We are planning to come but do not see our name on the list (now 25 teams with a max of 24???). Asking Ed Fourcier! Did we not officially register? Was check messed up at our end???

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Stop asking so many questions Stuart :p

Update: BUZZ 175 will be attending RiverRage 14. We signed/registered back in July, though there seems to have been an issue with the submission of our payment. Unsure whether or not it is due to lack of communication, but we are being allowed to attend.

See you all there.

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NJ is not considered part of New England by any measure I can recall...

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One of my college professors argued me to the death about that! And then my cousins who live down there consider themselves to live in New England. Oh well, they need to come up with their own regional name. ;)

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Haha, I spent the first 18 years of my life in New Jersey and no one I know down there considers themselves or NJ to be part of New England.

The NJ regional was known as the Mid-Atlantic regional for a very long time, up until 2004 I believe.

-Brando

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Haha I lived in Maryland for 10 years and for some reason I call it the South now!

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Sounded for a minute like there were actually some New England wannabees.

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They are just jealous that we have a regional name that trumps the Northeast, Southwest, etc. ;)

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After qualifying rounds, below are the top 8 seeds:

1. 811
2. 40
3. 134
4. 1058
5. 1519
6. 175
7. 131
8. 238

No "in-picking" was permitted during alliance selections. A historic 1-8, 1-8 draft was used instead of the "serpentine" draft. Below are the elimination round alliances:

1. 811, 78, 237
2. 40, 1922, 348
3. 134, 88, 190
4. 1058, 2648, 501
5. 1519, 1073, 3126
6. 175, 20, 172
7. 131, 125, 166
8. 238, 839, 1729

Elimination rounds are not the normal FIRST style, but instead use a double-elimination tournament format.

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Congratulations 20,175, and 172 as the champions!
Finalists were 1519, 1073, and 3126.

River Rage was an amazing event today! :)

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Congrats team 20, 172, and 175. You guys did great.


- Team 348 3D Animation Captain

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20, 172, 175!!!

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Excellent event with excellent teams. Great experience; looking forward to next year.

Thanks to 20 (The Rocketeers) and to 172 (Northern Force) for their help with the struggle to the top.

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Awesome event! Big thanks to 172 and 175 for making a great alliance, and an even bigger thanks to all of the people that made this event possible!

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Jeez! Even though I spent the day queuing with you guys and and your alliance I still can't remember who was there! :rolleyes:

Great jobs guys, you have had a very successful season! :)

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I also enjoyed the event. It was great seeing and talking to some of my favorite teams that we have competed with and against all year. It was well run and all went smoothly.

Two suggestions. If there is any way to get a larger screen placed high and center it would be much easier to see scores.

I got confused with the "Double Elimination" format. Our alliance was eliminated after losing one match.

The format did produce the best two alliances in the final rounds. Both alliances had great robots, well driven and worked well together. Congratulations to them and to all who ran the event!

One sad note: it was the last competition for Tin Man V, our robot, who has served us so well in over 100 matches. The team has vowed to keep him in running shape for ever.

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I'm glad you enjoyed the event and thank you for the feedback. We'll have to look deeper into how we can make viewing the scoreboard easier in the future.

As for the double elmination format, I will try to figure out ways to better allow the crowd to follow what is going on next year. I'll probably make up some blank brackets with instructions for teams to fill out so they can follow along with the action. I can assure you though that no one was elminated after losing only 1 match. The way the bracket works, it would be physically impossible for it to happen, because if there was no winner/loser at any point, it would leave a hole in the bracket and completely bring the queing line to a halt. If I can figure out what two matches you guys lost (I need to get a copy of the queing bracket somehow) i'll let ya know.

Hope to see you there next year! The Tin Man was an amazing robot this year and I look forward to seeing what you guys pull off next year!

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p.s. I believe that BUZZ has a copy of the big bracket, maybe one of those guys can clarify what happened.

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Team 20 also has a copy, I can get back to you on that by the end of the week...

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I'll look into it. Most likely by the end of the week just like Carl.

(The bracket is in possession of BUZZ 2010 atm..)

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I too was one of those who was very confused by the bracket, but just did what the quers told us to do. This year I helped with queing which was confusing at first in the elims, but was very easy after understanding the sheets Andy is talking about were given to each of us quers.

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Thanks, Andy.

That's the loss I remember. I mostly wanted to make sure I understand how it works for future events. The main thing is that we had a great time and were able to give some new drivers and new kids on our team a taste of what we will be working for in a few weeks.

I see by the top of the page only 119 days till the first regionals!

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What's nice about the "We're all winners, but with just one loss" bracket is that if you look to the left of the numbers, it shows the match the team originated from. So in 1922's case, the only way to make it to match 13 was to lose match 11. This means you got really far on the winner's side and would have moved to the finals if you had won 13. That's a really great run!

Memorial is a very hard venue to project anything (we've tried), so I think having copies for the crowd to keep score is a great suggestion.