2011 Rah Cha Cha Ruckus

[578robotsrock]

What a great event. We defended our tittle (this year being a more positive force for the allience) and I was able to make up for fliping our bot at last years ruckus by playing deffense on the outstanding teams we faced. I have so much respect for sparkx. You have an awesome robot and your team members are outstanding. You made us work for the win. It was also great to get our new memebers out there driving. I would also like to thank our allience for seeing what our robot had to offer. This is always a fun event and can't wait till we do it all again next year.

[GCentola]

[quote=578robotsrock;1083221]I have so much respect for sparkx. You have an awesome robot and your team members are outstanding. You made us work for the win. QUOTE]

Thanks! You guys put up a great fight for 3 intesne yet fun matches and out our strategy and Drive Teams to work! Congratulations on the win!

On another note, I didn't see the pumpkin tubes being used all thay much, despite their ability to be scored by either alliance and add a big bonus.

[stundt1]

On another note, I didn't see the pumpkin tubes being used all thay much, despite their ability to be scored by either alliance and add a big bonus.

With minibots not being slashed at all Minibots were worth it over a pumpkin tube in my eyes. Though we didnt deploy minibots at all we thought it was best to defend our alliance members so they could get to their minibot poles on time.


Also can 1511 archive the webcast on their U stream account please. I wanted to send some video to another team.

[LeelandS]

Originally Posted by GCentola

On another note, I didn't see the pumpkin tubes being used all thay much, despite their ability to be scored by either alliance and add a big bonus.

In my opinion, I think that could be traced to two things. One, maybe some teams didn't know outright what exactly the pumpkin tube was. I don't know, but I'd guess that was a problem for at least one team somewhere at Ruckus.

Secondly, and the one I personally believe in, is they looked two much like regular circles. When coaches are looking for tubes, they're looking for red, white, blue and yellow. When you throw another tube into the mix, with the same body color as another tube, with distinguishing marks that must be near impossible to see for most from across the field... well, I think you get the point. By the last 15 seconds, the field was, most of the time, saturated with tubes. If a team was looking to put up a pumpkin tube, it would have taken a lot of attention to pick one out of the crowd, even before getting and using it.

[578robotsrock]

Pumkin tubes were too hard to see. We originaly were gonna go for them but quickly ditched that as they were too hard to see

[RayTurner1126]

we ditched the pumpkin tubes because unless you happen to have a perfect alliance with 2 great minibots and another robot that can score tubes very well, it's not worth it. it was a 12 point swing vs. a (potentially) 30 point minibot...and the one time we tried to hang it after we deployed, we got red-carded for incidentally touching a deploying robot with our spear, so for the immense risk, it wasn't worth it. i just started telling our human players not to throw it out.

i would also like to thank 191 and 1518 for a great time. our alliance was great and it all came down to less than a half of a second there with minibots. congrats to 1559, 610, and 578. those were some of the toughest matches i've ever played, for sure.

it was a pleasure to build the second robot for 3951, and we were plenty glad to help out. it gave them a jump start, and helped us train a lot of our rookies through constructing it! and of course, it was nice to see a little more flashing color on the field

as garrick said, that was an awesome last ruckus as a student! if i can help it, i'll be back next year, maybe even as a volunteer! thanks to everyone who made this a great success. and the D&C article about FIRST is great, i always love to see more publicity! thanks to all teams that came, it was a blast and i hope to see many of you at FLR with our new game!

[Tetraman]

Pumpkin tubes would have made much more on an impact if there were a set number of points, (like 20 for the top row, 15 for the middle and 10 for the bottom), and they weren't color specific. Or if they could be used at anytime during the match instead of at the last minute.

I enjoyed my time at Ruckus, even though I was in that locker room half the time inflating and patching up the tubes. It made for a relaxing day. Congrats to the winners and to Ed for the Igor award, a well deserved recognition.

As I've heard from many, this year had to be best Ruckus, and I'm glad I didn't miss it this year.

[Cynette]

At the clean-up / tear-down we found a Duel on the Delaware volunteer shirt.

Anyone know who volunteered at Ruckus and Duel and may have left a shirt behind?

[ahollenbach]

My friend, cyberphil, was at Duel on the Delaware, and I know he had a Duel shirt that day. If it is his (I'll ask him), I can arrange picking it up, but he's back down in Philadelphia area now.

On another note, I'd just like to say that I had a great time volunteering at Ruckus! The competition was awesome, the volunteers were very kind, and all the teams were gracious.

Lastly, I'd be interested in student-mentoring any Rochester-area teams in need of help. I am an RIT student (without a car ) but I'd be willing to bike up to 10 miles radius from campus, so if you're in the area, and have any interest, feel free to message me, because I'd love to continue to stay involved with FIRST

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by ahollenbach

My friend, cyberphil, was at Duel on the Delaware, and I know he had a Duel shirt that day. If it is his (I'll ask him), I can arrange picking it up, but he's back down in Philadelphia area now.

On another note, I'd just like to say that I had a great time volunteering at Ruckus! The competition was awesome, the volunteers were very kind, and all the teams were gracious.

Lastly, I'd be interested in student-mentoring any Rochester-area teams in need of help. I am an RIT student (without a car ) but I'd be willing to bike up to 10 miles radius from campus, so if you're in the area, and have any interest, feel free to message me, because I'd love to continue to stay involved with FIRST

The Ignighters might be the closest team to where you're at. I'd recommend going with RIT FIRST and definitely volunteering for FLR.

As for this years Ruckus all I got to say is


Best.Ruckus.EVER!!!

[pfreivald]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

The Ignighters might be the closest team to where you're at. I'd recommend going with RIT FIRST and definitely volunteering for FLR.

As for this years Ruckus all I got to say is


Best.Ruckus.EVER!!!

It was a load of fun. We got another "Purple is awesome!" award, and managed to break our claw, arm, and minibot in the last game of quarterfinals -- so I call that a job well done!

[Aidan S.]

On behalf of team 610, I would like to thank everyone who made Ruckus such a great event. This was our first off-season event in 5 years, and we had a great time.

1559 and 578: Thank you so much for being awesome alliance partners. You guys were a lot of fun to play with and we hope to work again with you in the future.

188: It was nice to see another Canadian team come down with us. You guys are fierce competitors and we are looking forward to working with you again this season.

48, 188, and 378: You guys were one outstanding alliance. It was a lot of fun playing you guys in the finals and you gave us a good run for our money.

1126, 191, and 1518: Those were some of our hardest matches that we have ever played. The third match was such a nail biter and we were just able to squeak through. You guys had unreal robots this year and we wish you all the best in the future

Ruckus Volunteers: Thank you all for running an unbelievable event. It was so nice to finally play in an off-season event. It was definitely one of the best-run events that I have ever been to. Canada definitely needs to plan another off-season event in the future. We look forward to coming back again soon and competing with all of you in the future

[ahollenbach]

Thanks! I'll be sure to talk to them

[Libby K]

Hello Ruckus-type-people!

I just finished up my episode of Let's Talk FIRST! for the Ruckus. I hope you'll check it out! Here's the thread I just posted about it for more info...

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=98190