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Unread 12-09-2008, 14:27
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Tempest 'N Tampa 2008

Several teams have asked for additional information on this year’s Tempest ‘N Tampa so I thought I would start a thread to make sure I get all the questions answered.

Once again, the TNT Robotics Competition will be held in the SUN DOME arena on the University of South Florida campus in Tampa. Thanks to the outstanding efforts of mentors and students from several FIRST teams we are able to expand the offerings at TNT to include a multitude of robotics competitions and workshops.

The FRC Overdrive competition will be a 2-day event starting Friday, Oct 24th with set-up and practice matches throughout the evening; a Team Lock-In at the Sun Dome on Friday night for any FRC team that wishes to save money on lodging costs; and the qualifier and elimination matches on Saturday, Oct 25th.

For FTC we will be hosting the Traveling Roadshow which includes workshops and demonstrations of the new FTC control platform. We will also have a field available so that attending FTC teams can practice and work on their designs.

Our FLL offerings are two-fold. First, there will be an official FLL Qualifier held on Saturday. Registration for the qualifier should be done through the main FLL webpage. Secondly, we will be hosting a series of hands-on workshops for Lego League teams. For more information, please see the FLL event page for TNT here, http://www.roboticsboosters.com/tnt/schedulefll.html.

We are also pleased to offer a VEX competition demonstration and workshop on that Saturday. We will have a full field set up for teams that have begun construction on their Vex robots.

The cost for TNT is $300 for FRC teams, $25 for FLL teams entered in the Qualifier, free for everyone else.

Please visit our event website for more information and the registration form, http://www.roboticsboosters.com/tnt/. If you have any additional questions you can post them here or contact me at the information below.

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Unread 12-09-2008, 15:12
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Re: Tempest 'N Tampa 2008

Also Team 79 plans to demonstrate thier Beta controller at TNT.
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Re: Tempest 'N Tampa 2008

FTC team registration for the workshops at Tempest 'N Tampa is open: http://www.flfirst.org/TNT2008.shtml
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Re: Tempest 'N Tampa 2008

Team 254 is excited to make the trip to Tampa for the event.
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Re: Tempest 'N Tampa 2008

Looks like another fantastic weekend. Getting bigger every year
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Re: Tempest 'N Tampa 2008

I am SOOOOOOOO excited for this event!! I cannot wait.
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Re: Tempest 'N Tampa 2008

Team 1345 has registered for the event and finalizing all the plans for this trip. We are very excited to take another trip to Tampa for a crazy competition. I can't wait to work with the crew again.
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Re: Tempest 'N Tampa 2008

TNT last year was one of the funnest things I have ever done. This year is looking like it'll be even better. The Pink Team is extremely excited for this event.
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Lan Party!

Last year at TNT we wanted to have a LAN party for the students to give many of them something to do during the lock-in. You guys all came through and brought your systems, controllers, games and monitors and it seemed to go pretty well.

This year we are looking to do the same, but bigger and I wanted to gauge the response and participation from you all. If you are interested in a LAN party at the lock-in this year, please respond with the following information:
  • Are you interested? (I know, I know, I asked to only respond if you were)
  • What game(s) do you want to play?
  • Are you willing to bring your own system?
  • Are you willing to bring your own monitor?

Right now the plans have been oriented toward the Xbox 360, but there's no reason players can't bring along their PS3s and do the same.
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Re: Tempest 'N Tampa 2008

Team 1251 will be joining the action in Tampa can not wait. See everyone at the sun dome!!!!!
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Re: Tempest 'N Tampa 2008

TNT is gonna be fun stuff can't wait to see what this years competition holds in store. Especially the lock-in that was fun last year.
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Re: Tempest 'N Tampa 2008

For those hosting off-season events, I've attached a scoring/ranking Excel spreadsheet that we developed for TNT that maintains real-time rankings. It's set up for 30 teams - 3 on 3 matches, but is expandable if needed. Just enter the teams competing and import/enter the match parings. As scores for each match are entered it will automatically calculate win/loss/tie records, QP and MP. The ranking sheet then displays the team rankings. Unfortunately, currently the ranking sheet requires the user to run the sort command interactivelty after each match, but the sort order criteria is already set.

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Re: Tempest 'N Tampa 2008

All,

For the LAN party Team 1902 is planning on bringing 4 XBox 360s, however we need XBox 360 Controllers and monitors or standard televisions with Composite or Component video inputs. We need 2 televisions/monitors, please reply if you can bring one.

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Hey TNT folks,

There is a very credible rumor that a full 6-player set-up of the 5th Gear Overdrive simulation will be up and running for the TNT lock-in and perhaps for the entire TNT. 5th Gear debuted at the NASA/VCU Regional's Technology Row NASA/VCU Champs, came out of retirement for a summer encore at IRI, and is now on its way to a winter appearance on Florida's beautiful Gulf Coast.

Does any team or multi-team alliance out there have the "thumbs" become the new kings of the hill? At IRI, Wildstang (with CyberBlue hot on their heels) set the bar pretty high with a high score of 234 on the simulator (IRI 5th Gear Champions).

Also, I/we would be very interested in hearing from any allied teams or solo drivers at TNT who practice strategies using the simulator. We hope that rookie drivers can use the simulator to get a feel for the pace of the real Overdrive game, to get a sense of how the field's walls and other robots can block your view during matches, to get a feel for when to chase a ball or do something else, etc.

I'm looking forward to reviewing the replay files.

Be sure to thank Tom, Sarah and the rest of the TNT and Exploding Bacon crews for making this piece of TNT possible.

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For those hosting off-season events, I've attached a scoring/ranking Excel spreadsheet that we developed for TNT that maintains real-time rankings. It's set up for 30 teams - 3 on 3 matches, but is expandable if needed. Just enter the teams competing and import/enter the match parings. As scores for each match are entered it will automatically calculate win/loss/tie records, QP and MP. The ranking sheet then displays the team rankings.
Could this be used to manage a 5th Gear Overdrive simulation tournament???
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