Hello Everyone!
The Beantown Blitz is merely 5 days away! Team 125 is thrilled to be hosting the event and we are quite busy tying up all the loose ends.
We've had a couple teams come and a couple teams go, but we're still near full capacity. If there are any teams who are looking to join the fun at the last minute we may be able to accommodate you, but we will need to know ASAP! Get in touch with us at
beantownblitz@gmail.com.
Current Team List:
125 NUTRONS
1058 PVC Pirates
88 TJ2 (TJ Squared)
1071 Team Max
78 Air Strike
2648 Infinite Loop
1965 MSJA Eagles
176 Aces High
3126 FlashPoint
121 Rhode Warriors
175 Buzz Robotics
69 Hyper Robotics
246 OverClocked
348 Norwell Robotics
1100 The T-Hawks
2713 iRaiders
172 Northern Force
1511 Rolling Thunder
1991 The Dragons
3451 Simply Robots
839 Rosie Robotics
2877 LigerBots
2593 Brobot
2423 The KwarQs
4648 Infinite Loop 2nd Robot
3236 Tri-Force
2079 Alarm
1027 Mechatronic Maniacs
529 Mansfield Hornets
2523 Labrats
1761 Lynn Tech Robotics
2871 John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science
177 Bobcat Robotics
3585 Rogue Robots of 4-H
1973 Burning Tigers
Volunteers:
We're also always looking for volunteers, so if you feel like coming to Boston for the day to have some fun and help out, feel free to get in touch with us!
T-Shirt Sales:
The NUTRONs are trying something new this year at the Beantown Blitz regarding t-shirt sales. We have always received great compliments on our t-shirt designs for the Beantown Blitz each year. In an effort to get more and more of these shirts to the masses we’ve come up with a fun way to sell them this year that we are calling “The Amazing Minibot T-Shirt Race”.
We are going to start the day by selling t-shirts for $5 each. These are high quality t-shirts with a very nice Beantown Blitz 2011 design on them. Then for every 25 t-shirts we sell, we are going to increase the price of the t-shirts by $1. To those who are proactive and get their t-shirts early, they will be getting a deal! We will stop the process when we sell out of t-shirts. We have enough t-shirts on order to expect the price to get up to around $13 at its maximum. There will be a minibot pole at the t-shirt table with a minibot indicating the current price of t-shirts.
We think this is going to be a fun way to get as many t-shirts as possible out to the masses! Remember, the earlier you get your shirt, the cheaper it will be, so get them early!
Game Changes:
The NUTRONs and the planning committee at this year's Beantown Blitz thought long and hard about what game tweaks we could add to this years game. We've talked extensively with our referee crew as well to ensure changes that will be well accepted and enhance the game, not dramatically change it. It is our belief that Logomotion plays very well, and as such we didn't want to mess with a good thing. That said, there are a few minor tweaks we will be making:
Teams will find that our referee crew will be relaxing calls on such things as:
- lane violations
- crossing into the opponents scoring zone
- scoring ubertubes DIRECTLY after the end of autonomous (still do not count, just no penalty)
- touching opponents towers during the end game
- other minor infractions
Our referee crew is hoping to use judgement in deciding whether red cards are warranted, or if a split second of crossing over a lane divider is worth a penalty. We realize this will only work as well as the judgement of our referees, but we have full confidence in our referee crew. We hope all teams will find this general relaxing of rules to be refreshing in a game where minor penalties often determined outcomes of matches and competitions.
We also are excited to announce a minor addition to the game we hope teams will find fun. The
Golden Wildcard Tube.
The rules for the Golden Wildcard Tube are simple:
-The alliance who scores more points in autonomous mode will have a Wildcard tube placed into their home scoring zone.
-The Wildcard tube can act as any logo piece depending on which leg it is placed. It is essentially a fill-in for whatever game piece is required to complete a logo for an alliance.
-In the event of a tie in autonomous mode- both alliances will receive a Wildcard tube (excluding 0-0 ties which will result in no Wildcard tubes being distributed)
We hope this will be a minor, yet fun tweak to the game that will be unique to this year's Beantown Blitz.
I hope everyone is ready, this year's Blitz is shaping up to the best one yet!
Also, don't forget to help pick the playlist!! Details in this thread:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ighlight=blitz
For any questions feel free to PM me or email us at
beantownblitz@gmail.com
-Brando