Maize Craze Admin Manual?

[FlamingSpork]

My team is considering doing an off-season event of Maize Craze sometime next spring.

Does anyone have any information on how the Maize Craze championship worked? (ie. how teams were ranked; rounds of matches; advancing to next round)

Thanks!

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by FlamingSpork

My team is considering doing an off-season event of Maize Craze sometime next spring.

Does anyone have any information on how the Maize Craze championship worked? (ie. how teams were ranked; rounds of matches; advancing to next round)

Thanks!

Go here.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Go here.

Can someone explain why the FRC website itself only goes back to 2002?

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Can someone explain why the FRC website itself only goes back to 2002?

They were probably saving space by not putting that information up.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

They were probably saving space by not putting that information up.

... /s?

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

... /s?

More room for blogs? I dunno.
Thank God for the Technokats.

[Michael Hill]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

More room for blogs? I dunno.
Thank God for the Technokats.

Thanks, now you done made me look through the old history project. Also, I found this gem: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/YH...=w 2560-h1391

Absolutely Photoshop worthy.

[FlamingSpork]

Thanks so much for that information!

I do have one question however. How was it decided which teams were on each side ("Winner's" or "Loser's") of the bracket?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by FlamingSpork

Thanks so much for that information!

I do have one question however. How was it decided which teams were on each side ("Winner's" or "Loser's") of the bracket?

Umm.... The name should say it all? You lose, you end up on that side. Otherwise, you're on the winner's side.


Actually, I'm going to go for one of my favorite old threads, dedicated to discussion of the Bracket of DOOM! There's a link to a picture of the bracket for 1998 (incidentally, the last year of that type of bracket).


On another note: I 100% agree with Ed. That TechnoKats History Project is really great for finding little gems of past games--I often go straight there when I'm working up a new "simplified game rules" for my strategy workshop.

[Peyton Yeung]

I was trying to trace back my old team's (45) path through the bracket of doom and it's pretty confusing.

[Michael Hill]

Originally Posted by EricH

Umm.... The name should say it all? You lose, you end up on that side. Otherwise, you're on the winner's side.


Actually, I'm going to go for one of my favorite old threads, dedicated to discussion of the Bracket of DOOM! There's a link to a picture of the bracket for 1998 (incidentally, the last year of that type of bracket).


On another note: I 100% agree with Ed. That TechnoKats History Project is really great for finding little gems of past games--I often go straight there when I'm working up a new "simplified game rules" for my strategy workshop.

This makes more sense... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFOvldn_IRw

[TheBoulderite]

Cool idea! I'm not sure how many teams still have their Maize Craze robot (maybe 126 does, I don't know), but it still sounds like a fun event!

[FlamingSpork]

Originally Posted by EricH

Umm.... The name should say it all? You lose, you end up on that side. Otherwise, you're on the winner's side.

I managed to figure out how the team names seeming suddenly teleport to the other side of the bracket. Sorry for asking! And now to code this in my Field Management System......

[Peyton Yeung]

45 brings the '92 robot to many events throughout the year such as the Kokomo District Qualifying Event.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by FlamingSpork

And now to code this in my Field Management System......

If I might make a suggestion, it might be more fun (and easier) to do it the old-fashioned way.


Take a big sheet of paper (or a whiteboard, or some equivalent) and draw the whole bracket. Give each match a number. Then, for the second round and beyond, each spot in each match gets a number, dash, and number--representing the match feeding it and which result from that match it is.


You could also do this in a particularly creative way, but that would probably be harder (or would it be more fun?)