Rochester Update

[Mike]

Hey all, i'm in the pit area of my team at Rochester now.

A decent amount of tetras are being stacked (more so than the scrimmages predicted).

Autonomous mode is non-existant.* The best one (other than our teams) drove to the tetra and grabbed it.

* Our team has been able to grab the tetra, drive to the goal, get over the goal, but has yet to stack it (All it needs to do is release our grabber, we're debugging the problem now)

I'll be back on later to answer any questions.

[Elgin Clock]

Anyone else care to give a recap of Day 1: Practice Day?

I see there are pictures at: www.FIRSTRochester.org/gallery

Good to see.. And I hear that Team 237 is possibly going to have a live webcam set up at some point tomorrow.. Hopefully early, so I can watch on my break and at lunch time..

[Kyle Love]

Awesome pics Elgin! I really wish I was there now... is Paul the MC or a ref or what?

[Rabbit222]

sooooooooo many days untill my competition. RRRRRRRRRRRRR can't wait. Looking @ those pics makes me want to leave right now! Sweet pics Elgin.

[Elgin Clock]

Those are not my pictures, so I will take credit for finding them online, but not taking them and making them available to everyone.

That credit goes to Rochester FIRST.

[Ali Ahmed]

Can anyone tell me how well the volunteers are? Or more specifically, the student ones because most of them are from my team.

[Josh Siegel]

The event seems really well organized, and the volunteers are most helpful. I love the machine shop people there!
The summary of the game is fairly accurate. Few people had auto as of 5:00 on Thursday, but we'll see tomorrow. I'm very impressed with several of the teams, but watching them makes me realize what a tough challenge FIRST gave us this year. I'd say the average team probably gets 3-ish tetras per round, or 9 per alliance per round.

[Alex Cormier]

the practice field was a mess today. tomorrow will have rules; 15 minutes max at a time and only 2 bots out at a time. today there was average 3-4 and it is almost 1/4 the field so yeah a lot of no room and bots hitting people. yes the stacking of tetras has be amazing! and it is a lot of fun his year can't wait till tomorrow!

[Koko Ed]

Mike got his usually quality pics up on his site.
Good stuff.

[Elgin Clock]

More pics from Rochester.
http://www.team237.com/gallery/Rochester-2005

[Collmandoman]

how often did teams run the field and cap the other side?
what have the refs said about the loading zone?
Why am I not at one of these competitions yet?

[Josh Siegel]

how often did teams run the field and cap the other side?

Fairly often, though I'm not sure how intentional it really is. You just kind of go wherever you can quickly and cleanly, with rows coming as sort of a side-effect (for me, at least). Line of sight is critical! Non-agressive blocking was rampant, just by crowding a driver into lurching away and losing a tetra or something of the like.

what have the refs said about the loading zone?

They've been VERY picky. Make sure you have fringe!

[maikull]

Unfortunately, the link from Ed's post no longer works, because it was a temporary place-holder. You can see my 2005 Finger Lakes Regional photos here: http://robotphotos.org/2005-flr.

I've got Day 1 (practice) and Day 2 (first day of competition) sorted into folders and I've got Day 3 (last day of competition) left to do. That'll probably happen over the next week or so and once everything is sorted, I'm going to delete duplicates and keep only the most interesting of the photos.

Feel free to add comments if you want, but please don't post anything offensive or illegal.

[DarkFlame145]

w00t ROCHEST ROCKED MAN. T-RX FOREVER MAN we may not of wone but it was the funnest thing i'v ever done. (yes i am a rookie)

[Kims Robot]

Did anyone get, or know where we can get a full set of match results?