2011 West Michigan District

[flippy147852]

Originally Posted by libinator

This is team 3546 first regional ever!!! BRING IT ON!!!

First competition, huh? Words of advice: bring comfortable shoes. You're really gonna need them .

[Jim Schaddelee]

WEST MICHIGAN DISTRICT FOOD DRIVE

Team 74 Holland Chaos, and Team 107 Holland Christian R.O.B.O.T.I.C.S. will be holding a can food/non perishable food drive at the West Michigan District. We would love to have your team participate with us as we give back to our local community food banks. We are asking each team member from each team to bring an item or two with them to be donated.

We will be collecting the food on Friday morning, prior to opening ceremonies. We will be on the end of the arena where the practice field will be (opposite the pits).

We appreciate your support in advance!
Team 74 and Team 107

[MagiChau]

To those who do not know, BOB as always is providing free BOB rags (blue shop rags with the BOB logo on them) to those who stop by our pit.

[Tyler Hicks]

Sounds like a great donation idea. Will it be going on Saturday at all?

Any teams out there who has this week as your first event this season? Are you excited or what?

[Karibou]

It's my team's first event this season. I've already been to two, but I'm excited for them. We have a lot of rookies, and I can't wait to see the inspiration on their faces.


107/74, have you emailed the district coordinator about sending out news of the can drive to the team contacts? I just talked to my mom, who's our contact, and she hadn't heard anything about it. ChiefDelphi can't reach everyone :P

I definitely have to remember to stop by and get a BOB rag!

[Bob Bonczyk]

The Food Drive will be Friday and Saturday mornings. We would like to do this prior to opening ceremonies each day so we do not miss any of the game play.

[flippy147852]

Lane violations are still a big problem. Weird for a week three event IMHO.

[216Robochick288]

Some teams also forgetting their G.P. on field . That means even you too adult robocoaches! Everyone should be nice [no yelling at the other teams, it really grinds my gears to see that happening]! Play nice, its not about winning, its about learning and inspiring the next generation to do good and work with robots....

Remember, be safe

[kgzak]

Well we had an interesting day today...especially in our last match of the day

[MagiChau]

Found the first day of West Michigan pretty exciting. Love the pushing power on one of the robodawgs except when used against BOB on high-speed mode D:

Was pretty stressful to keep BOB up and running though. I had to make my autonomous work again, we had to replace a compressor that broke, and replace the banebot motor on our claw that got demolished.

[216Robochick288]

Originally Posted by MagiChau

Found the first day of West Michigan pretty exciting. Love the pushing power on one of the robodawgs except when used against BOB on high-speed mode D:

Are you meaning the 288 tread bot or the 244 Crab? Both have pretty insane pushing power, but I am sorry you were on the wrong end of it.

This is getting interesting! I'm seeing some of my favourite teams and some of my new friends getting up there in rank and learning a whole bunch!

[GGCO]

Just wanted to thank everyone COMETS Robotics has competed with so far. It's definitely a much better experience since than Traverse City (going into the competition with a robot we hadn't tested)!

A few thoughts:
Not as many lane violations, but still an issue.
Human player penalties are non-existent
Minibots galore!
*** More GP needs to be seen on the fields - congratulate your alliance members (even if they messed up) and make sure to congratulate the other teams! ***

[Karibou]

We were having problems all day, as was probably noticed, but we spent a lot of time on the practice field and I THINK that our minibot deployment works now.

To my knowledge, we are still having problems with one of our solenoids. If anybody knows someone who they would consider a "pneumatics expert" and could send them by our pit, it would be really helpful. One of the robot inspectors was supposed to come by, but he never did.

[GGCO]

Originally Posted by Karibou

We were having problems all day, as was probably noticed, but we spent a lot of time on the practice field and I THINK that our minibot deployment works now.

To my knowledge, we are still having problems with one of our solenoids. If anybody knows someone who they would consider a "pneumatics expert" and could send them by our pit, it would be really helpful. One of the robot inspectors was supposed to come by, but he never did.

We totally know what THAT feels like. At Traverse City we had the exact same experience. Advice: Set obtainable goals and have fun