Forum: General Forum
12-31-2016, 10:39 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 1,933
Re: Drive Practice
We build a practice bot and have a half field in our shop. There's a smooth transition from build to driving practice. At first, drive practice requires stopping and starting multiple times to fix,...
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Forum: General Forum
12-29-2016, 05:21 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,359
Re: Practice Robot?
We are a small, low budget team with just a few mentors, and we build one.
We started building a practice robot two years ago when we had about 8 students. We did it again last year with about 15...
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Forum: General Forum
12-14-2016, 09:45 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 929
Re: LOGO search...
It's a great idea to check this first. Here's a suggestion:
1. Go to The Blue Alliance (previously linked) and type in the search bar any team names you are thinking of.
2. For each team, check to...
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Forum: General Forum
10-13-2016, 11:17 AM
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Replies: 288
Views: 6,601
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Forum: Regional Competitions
10-13-2016, 11:08 AM
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Replies: 317
Views: 71,703
Re: Registration 2017
Anyone else have issues with FIM registration? That was thoroughly frustrating, tbh.
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Forum: General Forum
08-16-2016, 11:53 AM
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Replies: 51
Views: 4,569
Re: Moving Championships back
At ISEF (much bigger crossover with AP exams than FIRST) students take their APs right at the event. That way they don't need to schedule the event around them. That might be a future option for...
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Forum: Off-Season Events
07-10-2016, 03:45 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 6,286
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Forum: General Forum
05-24-2016, 07:51 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 855
Re: FLL Camp Curriculum
Our team has run FLL camps for four years; this year we have 4 weeks of basic and 2 weeks of advanced FLL camps (all nearly full already - yay!, plus FTC and Arduino camps.) Shoot an email to ...
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Forum: General Forum
05-03-2016, 07:23 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,781
Re: Average Team OPRs going in to Einstein
The fact that OPR doesn't correlate well with rankings doesn't necessarily make it useless. There is more than one logical conclusion to draw. I think the fact that it seems to correlate less this...
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Forum: General Forum
05-02-2016, 01:42 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 4,248
Re: MI is the best?
I don't think you can use this year's championship to judge that.
It would be better to look at performance over several years, and probably not even including this year.
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Forum: Team Organization
04-14-2016, 07:13 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,869
Re: Replacing graduating seniors
Make your lead programmer a drive team member. :) That gives incentive to a large and sometimes thankless role. It's also incredibly helpful at the field.
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Forum: General Forum
04-12-2016, 10:47 PM
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Replies: 93
Views: 27,699
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Forum: General Forum
04-11-2016, 11:47 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,264
Re: Judge Consistency Between Events
Sorry to be unclear; yes, I was quoting the requirements from the manual for Rookie All-Star in order to clarify that robot performance is only one piece of the equation and it is more about...
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Forum: General Forum
04-11-2016, 04:31 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,264
Re: Judge Consistency Between Events
That is one of four requirements:
■ This team seems like a “Chairman’s Award team in the making.” (Community activities,
leadership, vision, spirit, etc.)
■ The team is...
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Forum: General Forum
03-23-2016, 10:31 PM
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Replies: 172
Views: 20,686
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Forum: Rules/Strategy
03-07-2016, 01:22 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,617
Re: Possible interference during San Diego Finals
As a mother my first thought was... Where are the children's parents? A short wall is not sufficient protection between a small child and several 120 lb machines programmed and controlled by students.
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Forum: Technical Discussion
03-05-2016, 12:49 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 627
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Forum: General Forum
02-25-2016, 07:51 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 3,054
Re: Human Player
This is what we have found as well. We have a very experienced HP and he worked on this at the practice event we attended. He was able to become very consistent at getting the boulders to the...
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Forum: General Forum
02-23-2016, 11:17 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 2,843
Re: How are you spending your last day?
Put in the RSL, tidied up the wiring, took off our withholding allowance items, bagged, and had snacks. Oh, and a group was working to finish the practice bot.
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Forum: District Events
02-23-2016, 01:04 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 640
Re: District/Robot out of bag
5.5.2 ‘Robot Access Period’ - Schedule
Teams may unlock their robot for a total of six (6) hours during the 7-day period preceding any two-day event in which their team will be competing with their...
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Forum: General Forum
02-22-2016, 08:11 PM
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Replies: 74
Views: 17,163
Re: Week 0 Discussion
We went to a practice event hosted by TORC 2137 for the second year in a row. They had a full field built. I've watched a lot of scrimmage video, and I'm pretty convinced it was the best practice...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
02-22-2016, 05:47 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 568
Re: TIMS short essays
There was an official date last year. This year, there was a reference in the game manual to a date that wasn't listed where it was supposed to be, and then that reference was removed. I have looked...
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Forum: General Forum
02-07-2016, 10:53 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,021
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Forum: Scouting
02-03-2016, 09:21 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 2,503
Re: Opinions of Q&A
We use pit scouting to find out about the robot and the team and use match scouting to find out about performance. That won't change this year.
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Forum: General Forum
01-30-2016, 03:15 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 4,259
Re: The Evolution of Chairman's Teams
Here is their Chairman's Essay from 2005 which states that they started and were currently running FLL and Jr. FLL in Michigan at the time: Chairman's Essay...
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The championship event is a meta-game of inches. People will complain about unbalanced/unequal divisions, whether you think it's silly or not. - PayneTrain [more] 
