2012 MAR Rutgers University District

[kinganu123]

We just came back from Hatboro-Horsham.
You have the 6 hours to open the robot at your school or where ever you usually work in two hour blocks. After that, when you go to Rutgers (I believe Thursday afternoon for inspections and practice matches), you'll be allowed to open it up once again and keep it open for the remainder of the competition.

[Deetman]

A few tips from Hatboro-Horsham:

• Get inspected as early as you can on Day 0 (Thursday). This makes the "compressed" district time schedule much less stressful the morning of Day 1. This weekend I do not believe they were letting teams go to scheduled practice matches Friday morning unless they were fully inspected. Thursday practice matches required the first "practice" to be a safety inspection and subsequent practices required full inspection. If for whatever reason you can't get completely inspected Thursday, get as much of a partial inspection done to save yourself and the inspectors time Friday morning.
• If at all possible arrive on Day 0 at or before the opening time. This gives you quite a bit of time with the robot unbagged for work, inspection, and practice. For Hatboro-Horsham the pits were open from 4PM to 10PM.
• There will probably be a small practice field at the event. Utilize it early and often to calibrate, check functionality, etc. Hatboro-Horsham had a real bridge and a real barrier. There are significant differences in both of these that the low cost wood versions do not accurately represent. In general, the bridge is more difficult to tip and the barrier is at the proper height and the corners have a radius. We had difficulty with the wood barrier, but had absolutely no problems with the field barrier.
• VERY IMPORTANT: MAKE SURE AN INSPECTOR IS PRESENT WHEN YOU UNBAG AFTER ARRIVAL!
• Ask for help if you need it. Teams are super helpful and day 0 seemed to be slightly lower stress than day 1 at the older regional formats.

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by kinganu123

when you go to Rutgers (I believe Thursday afternoon

Originally Posted by Deetman

Get inspected as early as you can on Day 0 (Thursday).

Minor correction: FRIDAY is load-in, pit setup and inspection at Rutgers, and Saturday & Sunday are competition days.

Show up on Thursday and you'll be disappointed

[thedries]

For anyone attending the Rutgers district:

Have an old iPod sitting around, collecting dust? Get a fancy new phone and don't use your iPod anymore? Well put it to good use!

The non-profit organization Music and Memory needs donations of new or used iPods for the treatment of Alzheimer's patients. They personalize each playlist to the individual, finding out about their history and family to develop a mix of music to connect to their past. The results are astounding; patients light up and come back to life.

Team 11, MORT, has partnered with Music and Memory to spread the success to even further. We will be collecting iPods at all of the competitions we're attending, including Rutgers, and hope to teach Music and Memory what Gracious Professionalism is all about. Please see us in our pits if you wish to donate.

For more information please visit http://mort11.org/music and http://musicandmemory.org for more information, including videos showing this amazing transformation.

[Horsegirrl]

Can't wait to see everyone at my lovely university Rutgers!


Katie Stevens

[flyingcrayons]

ah i'm mad that this event takes place right as spring break starts.. i live at Rutgers so normally i could just take a bus but now i'm gonna have to drive up from my house.

oh well it'll be worth it

[Dripto]

A couple of us 694 guys will be coming down to watch on Sunday, looks like it's gonna be a fun time!

[rdlevy1215]

Webcast Info:
I will be providing the webcast for this MAR event, on behalf of Team 1676. The webcast will be viewable starting Friday afternoon at www.team1676.com

[Hallry]

The webcast is now live at team1676.com!

[TD912]

Hi guys! I was watching the webcast today. Seemed a bit stuttery at first, but worked fine later on.

Anybody know where I can get match scores and rankings so far? It seems FIRST's website is giving me a 404 error, and The Blue Alliance isn't updated, probably because they gather data from FIRST's site.

https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index....CA1CpIyj183FBF
Click Match Results/Standings/Awards on the above page, and you get an error.

[George A.]

Originally Posted by TD912

Hi guys! I was watching the webcast today. Seemed a bit stuttery at first, but worked fine later on.

Anybody know where I can get match scores and rankings so far? It seems FIRST's website is giving me a 404 error, and The Blue Alliance isn't updated, probably because they gather data from FIRST's site.

https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index....CA1CpIyj183FBF
Click Match Results/Standings/Awards on the above page, and you get an error.

Theyre working on uploading them now.

Top 8 as of Saturday night:

1: 1676
2: 1302
3:1279
4: 224
5: 1403
6: 56
7: 223
8: 4128

[flyingcrayons]

Hey guys. I'm gonna be driving up tomorrow to cheer on my former team does anyone know where we can park? I assume the lot right behind the gym is fine but I know there's a lot of lots on college ave and the parking deck is pretty close too (i go to ru) so am I correct about the lot behind the gym? thanks!

[Mike8519]

Originally Posted by flyingcrayons

Hey guys. I'm gonna be driving up tomorrow to cheer on my former team does anyone know where we can park? I assume the lot right behind the gym is fine but I know there's a lot of lots on college ave and the parking deck is pretty close too (i go to ru) so am I correct about the lot behind the gym? thanks!

There is indeed a lot behind the gym, but I am not sure how fast it fills up.

[Koko Ed]

What are the final awards tally at the event?
The FIRST page is not listing them.

[TD912]

Don't suppose anybody has video of the awards ceremony? Apparently my team got discouraged after having quite a few robot issues and decided to leave right before they won the Coopertition Award...