2012 Chesapeake FRC Regional in Baltimore

[LinuxArchitect]

Originally Posted by RB73

FIRST team 2866, Phoenix Robotics, is hoping to make a comeback this year as compared to years past. If any of you saw us at Play Day in DC, then expect an improved version of that to be competing at Chesapeake!

Team 53, and I'd guesstimate the majority of teams are in the same boat with you. We would all love to improve on our performance from last year.

For my rookie FLL team, I gave them increasingly difficult goals that resulted in pizza and then ice cream (still pending) parties after they (surprisingly) won the regional and then (shockingly) won an award at the state championships.

Maybe it will work at the FRC level... So I'm sponsoring a Most Improved Team award and pizza party. Should Team 53 happen to win, I'll invite the 2nd place team to join us. I assume there are no "rules" against this.

Shall we use the final qualification rankings as the measure, with w/l record as a tie breaker? Or what is a fair way to measure improvement? I'm not worried about the top 10 teams not being in the running for the award... I hope they will cheer us on to join them at the top (just behind them, of course).

FYI, we went from 49/50 in 2010 to 32/60 in 2011. While we had some critical problems with key mechanisms, we had a perfect drivetrain and pretty decent minibot. My goal is for our team to crack the top 20 this year.

George
Coach, Alien Cow Abductors