BattleCry@WPI 12 - Reg opens 4-April

[Cheerleader1073]

I'll be there with 1073 . This will most likely be my last BC as a senior going to Florida for college! Hoping to see people on teams and people on the field that I've met through volunteering at Boston and St. Louis this year from the area!

[lucybugg101]

Can't wait to see old friends and new! Gonna be so much fun! Old alliances reunited once more. See everyone soon!

[JackS]

Originally Posted by ColleenShaver

Some great announcements about BC12:

- The BC12 Trailer is up! Check it out on vimeo.

This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen.



Good luck to all the teams competing on the field tomorrow. See you there!

[jwfoss]

Below are the OPRs (best regional OPR pre-championship) from Team 1114s System. Thanks to them for posting it up. See you all @ WPI.

78 AIR Strike 43.8
88 TJ^2 42.9
125 Nutrons 41.0
40 Trinity Robotics 40.6
1519 Mechanical Mayhem 40.1
131 CHAOS 38.7
175 Buzz 35.3
176 Aces High 33.4
190 Gompei & the HERD 33.0
230 Gaelhawks 32.3
558 Elm City Robo Squad 31.1
2648 Infinite Loop 30.9
2168 Aluminum Falcons 26.9
181 Birds of Prey 26.7
1100 T-Hawks 25.9
3074 New School Robotics 25.8
716 Who'sCTEKS 24.8
1073 The Force Team 24.6
126 Gael Force 23.4
1027 Mechatronic Maniacs 23.4
1468 Hicksville J-Birds 23.3
121 Rhode Warriors 22.0
1153 RoboRebels 19.1
166 Chop Shop 19.0
157 Aztechs 17.1
3280 Rhode Rebels 16.0
172 Northern Force 15.8
228 Gus 15.1
1735 Green Reapers 14.6
134 Team Discovery 13.0
839 Rosie Robotics 11.6
2791 Shaker Robotics 11.4
3044 Team 0xBE4 6.8
562 S.P.A.R.K. 6.7
467 Duct Tape Bandits 6.2
2370 iBots 5.3
1721 Concord Robotics 3.9
2342 Greater Nashua FIRST Robotics 3.6
1991 Dragons 2.3
1660 Harlem Knights 1.6
238 Cruisin Crusaders 1.3
2079 ALARM 0.7
2523 Lab Rats 0.7
3780 Robot Unicorn Attack -3.3
529 Mansfield Hornets -4.5
663 Robonauts -4.6
2713 iRaiders -4.9
3555 Aluminati -5.9

[Chris is me]

Yeah! Our OPR is positive for this event! Woo!

is there a webcast?

[StevenB]

The webcast is at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/battlecry-12-wpi.

Match 7 will be replayed at 8:15 tomorrow, and the rest of the matches will begin at 8:45. The full schedule is on the event website.

[Dancin103]

Good luck to all teams competing!

Cass

[Chris is me]

1. 78 40 1027
2. 716 1468 2342
3. 2648 125 2079
4. 1073 1519 238
5. 166 131 2713
6. 190 228 1721
7. 3074 175 126
8. 176 2168 ???
9. 3555 230 ???
10. 839 181 2370
11. 1153 1100 1735
12. 2791 3044 121
13. 1991 562 3780
14. 663 558 134
15. 2523 88 529
16. 1660 3280 467

Predictions:

1v16
2v15
3v14
4v13
5v12
6v11
7v10
8v9

1v8
2v7
3v11
4v12

1v7
3v12

1v3

[Chris is me]

On a side note, 2791 / 3044 / 121 as an alliance gives me shivers. 2791 and 121 together upset 40 at the WPI regional, and 3044 is one of our friends in the Capital District region with a very solid minibot and good performance this year. 121 and 3044 were on the same alliance for the WPI elims, so there's a lot of brotherhood on this alliance.

[Koko Ed]

Can someone please posts the award results.

[sgreco]

2079 had a great time at BattleCry. I’d like to thank everyone at WPI who helped put on such a high quality event.

I want to thank 125 and 2648 for being such great alliance partners. You guys both had awesome robots and were really fun to play with in eliminations. Both 2648 and 125 were very gracious in helping us get ready before eliminations and they both played a role in helping us win the purple heart award. I specifically want to thank 125 for helping us diagnose some electrical issues we had with our compressor. 125 has great robot, but unfortunately they’ve been finalists three times this year without taking home gold. Hopefully they’ll show the world what they’re made of at IRI. 125 is among the best in the country this year.

I also want to thank team 88. 88 saved our competition about 5 times on Saturday. None of our mechanical mentors were available to come to the competition on Saturday and we had a serious drivetrain failure in the morning. 88 was more than willing to help us out. They lent of tools to fix the problem, they lent us the experience and time we needed to get out on the field. They lent us the parts we needed that broke from the failure, and the even lent us a Velcro strap when our battery mount broke in eliminations. In short, 88 was always there when we needed help, and they really saved us quite a few times.

Overall I thought the competition was awesome. 1073, 1519 and 238 are more than deserving champions and even though they beat our alliance in the finals, I had no problem losing to such gracious and professional teams.

[grambo]

Originally Posted by sgreco

Overall I thought the competition was awesome. 1073, 1519 and 238 are more than deserving champions and even though they beat our alliance in the finals, I had no problem losing to such gracious and professional teams.

That's about the best compliment I've gotten in my time with FRC, thank you. (Team 238) Cruisin' Crusaders salute all of the competitors who helped make this an awesome kickoff to the off-season.

Huge thanks to WPI for putting on this event!! Can't wait for the new recreation center to be finished for the 2013 Battlecry.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Were the matches (what got pumped to the web feed) recorded?

[BrendanB]

Congratulations to 1073, 1519, and 238! You guys were amazing to watch via the webcast! 1073 had solid defense,a great minibot and solid auto, 1519's double ubertube and consistent scoring, and 238 was a steal of the draft being a phenomenal second scorer/defender when needed!

Very proud of you guys!

[JackS]

Congrats to 1519, 1073, and 238 for putting on quite a show in the finals. I'd like to thank Teams 121 and 3044 for being great alliance partners and even though we lost to the eventual winners it was still fun. And I'd also like to thank all of the volunteers and WPI for putting on a great event. I know I saw KoKo Ed in queuing and some RPI students on field reset, you guys really kept everything running smoothly the whole time. It was my first BattleCry and it definitely won't be my last.

Also, to James Temple of 176 it was so cool to see you take town the 40-78 alliance that I was certain had too much firepower for anyone to stop. And to Steven Greco it was awesome watching you guys in the finals and too bad you couldn't take it home.

If I remember correctly the awards went as follows:

BattleCry STAR- A mentor and multiple event volunteer from 40
Best BattleCry- 2648
Top Gun- 78
Awesome Offense- 40
Dominating Defense- 2523
Noncombatant Service- 1991
Purple Heart- 2079
Medal of Honor- 3280
General Staff- 2791
General Staff-?
General Staff-?
Air Superiority- (1519)?
Engineering Excellence-?

Hopefully others can fill in the holes.