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More KSC Info - From a Participant
Posted by Mike Sklar.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #21, ComBBAT , from Astronaut H.S. and Titusville H.S. and Brevard Community College and Boeing Company and NASA-KSC.

Posted on 3/13/2000 12:41 PM MST


In Reply to: KSC Results posted by Karthik Kanagasabapathy on 3/12/2000 10:40 AM MST:



The results posted by Karthik look accurate to me. I was there competing with the Boeing NASA ComBBAT team (#21) and it was awesome. My notes are at home, but the seedings and final rounds look correct. What you can't see from the scores is the unwritten story. One team there definitely had a dominant robot the entire time. Who else but the 'Heat Wave' Team 312, Baxter - Lakewood HS from Tampa, FL. They dominated every match and only lost 1 game in the final tourney. Their alliance partner in the tournament, Baxter Bomb Squad (#16) had a reliable, single bailer type machine. However, all they did the entire finals tournament was play defense. Heat Wave did all the scoring. There's nothing special about their design. It's just reliable and quick. They typically handle 2-3 balls or more at a time and do this 3 times in a match. They can go from the goal, up the ramp and hang in less then 15 seconds. They have a single, rotating bailer machine that picks up balls from the bailer tip using two swing arms that push balls in very quickly. They raise balls out of the bailer (holds 4-5 balls) with an elevator paddle. Very simple! Their drivers have now been driving their machine for 4 years in a row!

As far as qualifying goes KSC had 12 matches per team. The highest Qual point average was around 35-40 points. The top 8 cut-off was around a qual point average of 23 points per match. If anyone wants better data just say so and I'll post it.

One other note. Qual scoring is weird and most teams are too dumb to really handle it. I saw many instances of teams maximizing their own goal score when they clearly were winning the match and could have scored many more qual points by scoring in the opponents goal. Also consistency pays off. There are two teams I know of that could do nothing more than score 2 balls (fed by HP) at a time. They did this 1-2 times per match consistently and somehow ended up in the top 8.

I suggest you all start praying for the gods of FIRST to smile down on your team during qualifying. Unless of course you can dominate the field like heatwave. Then no luck is needed.

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