Brunswick Eruption 10 Nov 5, 2011

[BJC]

Originally Posted by Bharat Nain

“Winning Game and Design Strategies” by Shaun McNulty
Join Shaun McNulty for a presentation on success strategies used year after year. From the simple techniques used during the robot build process to the complex strategies on Einstein, Shaun will explain Team 25’s journey. In 2006, Team 25 won 45 out of the 50 matches and finished second in the world. After going through two regionals undefeated, they repeated it again in 2010. In this workshop, Shaun will reveal the success principles employed by top teams along with the major pitfalls they avoid. Learn how to successfully dominate the field and be consistent on the field every year.

Shaun McNulty has been involved with Team 25 since its inception. Starting off as a student, Shaun was inspired and dragged into the vortex of FIRST. Since then, he has been an integral part of the team. Shaun’s meticulous attention to technical details along with his talent to critically analyze a FIRST game has provided team 25 with a considerable advantage over the years. While on the field, Shaun coaches student drivers to pay attention to the right details and follow a set of instructions leading to many wins. You will not want to miss this workshop since this is the first time Shaun will uncover 25’s various success strategies that any FIRST team can use!

Will this talk be videotaped or recorded? It sounds very interesting and I'm sure there are lots of people who would enjoy learning from it who are unable to make the actual event.

Thanks, Bryan

[jwfoss]

Originally Posted by BJC

Will this talk be videotaped or recorded? It sounds very interesting and I'm sure there are lots of people who would enjoy learning from it who are unable to make to the actual event.

Thanks, Bryan

Seconded, any opportunity to learn from a successful team is helpful to other teams across the country (and beyond). It's excellent to see more teams having seminars, but please document them and make them available to the rest of FIRST.

[Bharat Nain]

Originally Posted by jwfoss

Seconded, any opportunity to learn from a successful team is helpful to other teams across the country (and beyond). It's excellent to see more teams having seminars, but please document them and make them available to the rest of FIRST.

Unfortunately, at this time there are no plans to record these workshops. However, if the presenters have a powerpoint that they want hosted, we'll gladly do that.

[Alexa Stott]

Just a reminder to all the teams attending this year's event--we are holding a food drive for the North Brunswick Food Pantry. The 5 teams who bring in the most food will earn 75 points towards the Aloha Award!

Also, thanks to all the teams that submitted entries to the Mike Wade Memorial Award. It's great to see you all giving your mentors the recognition they deserve!

[Kristian Calhoun]

As promised, here is the link to where the webcast will take place!

http://be.raiderrobotix.org/webcast.php

Be sure to tune in this Saturday! We also plan on tweeting the scores for each match.

[Alexa Stott]

Originally Posted by Kristian Calhoun

As promised, here is the link to where the webcast will take place!

http://be.raiderrobotix.org/webcast.php

Be sure to tune in this Saturday! We also plan on tweeting the scores for each match.

Yup! In case you can't watch the webcast, follow us @BrunsEruption10. You'll also notice we have a twitter feed set up on the webcast page. Simply tweet using the hashtag #omgBE to see your tweet show up there and talk to other FIRSTers about the event!

[Hallry]

Boy, that extra hour of sleep last night really helped, but I'm still exhausted from yesterday. That was one of the most exciting yet nerve-breaking events I've ever been to.

Congratulations to all teams that participated; everyone did a terrific job, and certainly made it a tough competition.

Thanks to 1075, the Sprockets, and 2554, the WarHawks, for being great alliance partners; we couldn't have won without you. I can't imagine what time 1075 got back to Canada last night with not leaving North Brunswick until around 7:00. I lost track of who won the tube-hanging count challenge between us in the eliminations

Also, congrats to finalists 25, Raider Robotix, 369, High Voltage, and 2559, Normality Zero, for being amazing challengers to go up against in the finals. You guys not only had a great strategy, but thought fast on your feet as well. It was an honor to be able to play such an impressive alliance as you.

Furthermore, I would like to say a special thanks to Team 41, one of the most gracious and professional teams I have ever met. Having to withdraw due to a malfunctioning robot is one of the most heartbreaking things that a team will ever have to do, but you did it extremely honorably, and truly embody FIRST's founding concept of G.P.

Last but certainly not least, I would like to additionally thank everybody involved with organizing Brunswick Eruption 10. It was an extremely well ran off-season competition, and one of my favorite competitions to go to overall. Just watching that Evil Sundae Contest is going to give me nightmares until Kickoff. The field was resistant to work, but the FTA's did a tremendous job getting it to cooperate as soon as they could, and made sure that every team was able to play.

Again, thank you and a job well done to all of those who coordinated and participated in B.E. 10, and all of us from 1676, the Pascack Pi-oneers, can't wait to see you all next season.

P.S. Is there any way to get that webcast archived somewhere? There are some action-packed matches that I would love to watch again! And were any of the workshops recorded that could be posted as well?

[Akash Rastogi]

Special congrats goes to 2554 for your first competition win. You guys keep improving every year and have come a long way from building your entire robot during the last two weeks of build at our shop, keep it up!

[Cyberphil]

To everyone who helped at BE this year,

This was an excellent event, and you should be really proud of what it came out to be. Though it was a bit slow to start, once all of the bugs were worked out it ran very well. I once again loved the awards, and the evil sundae was awesome.

Keep up the good work!

[Alexa Stott]

Hey guys! We've put together a short 10 question survey to gather some feedback about BE. You can fill it out here. We'd really appreciate it if you took a few moments to answer the questions so we can keep working to make Brunswick Eruption a fun time for everyone.

Thanks!

[delsaner]

Man, what a competition! Congratulations to all the teams who competed, you all certainly played your hearts out!

BE once again was ran phenomenally, and it continues to be one of my favorite off-season events. Staff was great, organization went well, food was delicious, and the workshops were very informative. Shout-out to Shaun for the excellent strategy and design workshop, I certainly learned a lot.

Great job Team 25, can't wait for next year!

[Racer26]

Anybody have the match results for the whole day?

I see some information on twitter from @BrunsEruption10, but I can't make proper sense of it.

Based on my viewing of that, it looks like 1075 was 6-0-0 and 1676 was 5-1-0 (losing once to 1075), but 1676 seeded #1, picking 1075, and then 2554. It appears then that as an alliance they blew through QF and SF undefeated but finals results are missing.

Also, there doesn't appear to be any posts from BE10 from @frcfms.

[Bharat Nain]

While I do not have the match results, here are the list of awards:

Winners: 1676, 1075, and 2554
Finalist: 25, 2559, and 369
Top 8: 1676 1075 1089 2559 2180 25 41 56
Mike Wade Memorial Award: Jim Giacchi, Team 41
Fastest Minibot: 2607
Food Drive Champion: 806
Aloha Award: 303
Dave Beck Memorial Award: 2180
Best Autonomous Mode: 1075
Evil Sundae Survivor Contest: 2554
Big Kahuna: Walter Suchowiecki and Mike Lubniewski

I want to thank all the teams who came out and competed at BE 10. We hope you had fun despite the delays due to field issues. Those will not return next year.

I also want to thank all the qualified volunteers who helped us run the competition and make it a success.

We hope to see you all next year!