BattleCry@WPI 12 - Reg opens 4-April

[ColleenShaver]

Hi Everyone-

Registration for BattleCry@WPI 12 opens this Monday, April 4th. Slots are assigned in order of signup and we will fill a list of Ready Reserves after that. In past years, all ready reserves have eventually been given the opportunity to signup!

This year's event will feature 48 teams competing over 1.5 days! Your $350 registration fee includes at least 8 matches, guaranteed spot in the elims, 10 event t-shirts, 10 BBQ dinners, 10 Ice Cream Social tickets, 10 Lunches, and access for all to the Team Social. It promises to be lots of fun as always!

Registration will open promptly at 8AM Eastern on 4-April. The link where registration will be at that time is http://www.wpi.edu/news/Events/BattleCry/fray.html.

Even if your team cannot attend, we'd love to have you as a volunteer! Sign up to volunteer here. It's a great opportunity to get some practice or try out a new job at an FRC event!

If you have any questions about the event, contact us via bc@wpi.edu.

[Rosiebotboss]

Rosie and Elroy are planning to come. Got to keep the string of BC t-shirts going.

[Zuelu562]

562 is planning (to my knowledge) to sign up as soon as possible (which reminds me! I need to shoot this off to our head mentor! )

Hope to see you there!

[Macdaddy549]

Looking forward to registering this year. It's been a few years since we did Battle Cry.

[Zuelu562]

Hope to see you there, Devil Dawgs.

[Chi Meson]

Aluminum Falcons are in!

Our game ended too soon in Hartford and no one on the team is ready to stop. We had 100% success in autonomous, consistent top-row logos, a sub 2-second minibot...

we're just getting started!

[Jessica Boucher]

I hereby request that the theme for Battlecry 12 be the Twelve song. This is also acceptable.

[dsmoker]

Team 558 is very excited for it's first ever Battlecry (we were supposed to go last year, but our robot got lost in transit for a time between Atlanta and New Haven). We were very happy with our autonomous mode (100% accurate) and our tube hanging in teleop at the CT Regional, and plan to have a fully functioning minibot for Battlecry. Nice to have such a great off season even to give us a chance to continue to work and improve our skills!!!

[droswell]

This will be our first BattleCry event, and the whole team was pumped to hear we got a spot.

From reading through other posts, it seems that improvements are allowed for this off season event? We've been adding sensors and rebuilding our arm to have a little fun at some public events this summer, just want to make sure it's kosher to still work on it until BC in May.

[jwfoss]

Based on the history of the event I wonder what the game twist will be this year. Here are some options I think would be interesting:

- de-value the minibots
- add more poles to the field
- bring back the black "spoiler" tube from 2007? Only able to be placed in the end game, one per alliance.
- introduce a "golden tube" worth x number of bonus points
- allow stacking of tubes to count

[ColleenShaver]

Glad to see there is so much excitement for BC12! We are currently in the process of discussing the game tweaks for this year to make some small changes. To answer a couple points:

- Jess, we're way ahead of you...
- Robot changes.. those are definitely welcome! We encourage you to continue to improve your robots for the game in general and the tweaks. While we don't do inspections, we expect GP teams to continue to comply with all FIRST robot rules.
- Game tweaks.. feel free to keep the ideas coming! We think this is a pretty good game, but it wouldn't be BC without the tweaks! They should add to the game, allow all teams to achieve more, and should be able to be easily scored within the scoring software!
- If you missed registration, sign up on the ready reserves. The past few years we've gone through the entire ready reserves list!
- For those of you looking to stay in the area, it looks like the date change will allow us to house people in dorms again! Looking at cheaper than past year's for the dorms as well!

As always, up-to-date info, game changes, registration, etc can be found at www.wpi.edu/+bc

[Chris is me]

Good game changes, IMO:

1. Devalue the minibot. Either 20-15-10-5 or a static score of X points as a bonus.

2. Allow herding.

3. All tubes on rack worth 3 points. When two alliances who can fill the top row face each other, the middle and bottom rows are never deep enough to make up for the minibot race.

[Zuelu562]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

Good game changes, IMO:

1. Devalue the minibot. Either 20-15-10-5 or a static score of X points as a bonus.

2. Allow herding.

3. All tubes on rack worth 3 points. When two alliances who can fill the top row face each other, the middle and bottom rows are never deep enough to make up for the minibot race.

Agreed on 1 and 3. Two should read "Allow teams to possess AND Herd up to two tubes (AKA 1 posessed, 1 herded)"

[Chi Meson]

Tweak the autonomous! How about making one of the tracking lines curved?

[ColleenShaver]

Some great announcements about BC12:

- The BC12 Trailer is up! Check it out on vimeo. For other links or to download, visit our video archive at http://www.wpi.edu/news/Events/Battl...eoarchive.html
- The game tweaks were posted last week in case you missed them. http://www.wpi.edu/news/Events/BattleCry/rules.html

Lastly, we still are accepting volunteers for the event! To sign up, go to www.tinyurl.com/bc12vols