Car Nack Predicts 13-3

[CalTran]

This is what the great Car Nack is. Can't help you on who he is though. I'm Looking Forward to finding out who he is, eventually. Perhaps once I ascend the ultimate echelons of FIRST.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by dellagd

Is "Car Nack Predicts" A tradition on chief delphi? Does anyone know the story behind it?

Yes it is. I can't say I know the story, though. Son of Car Nack might know. (Or you could ask Car Nack himself--I'd look for him at Midwest.)

Leeland, Car Nack has been known to play games with wording before. Every word is deliberately chosen. I believe one of the predictions from last year had a very similar wording, regarding 6 robots on a bridge (not specifying whether all 6 were on one bridge, 3 were on 2, or 2-2-2--one of the three could not happen, while the other two happened quite frequently.)

As such, Car Nack can be shown correct, even if only one robot makes a climb to the top. All three robots on an alliance scored 30 climb points, even though only one robot scored them. If all three robots each score 30... well, that's a lot harder to do, and I suspect there might be one. Either way, Car Nack gets this one right, pending further clarification from the camel herder of the Endless Sands.

[IndySam]

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[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Alot of low performers would rather fail spectacularly than go for the low hanging fruit. For some reason they see inspiration in this.

I think it is a cultural thing. People don't want to be seen as building a "boring" or simple robot. We've seen a shift towards recognizing that a significant number of teams build robots that do not score points well. Hopefully that trend will continue, and people will realize that the simple robot you were mocking on Thursday is kicking your butt on Saturday.

I don't think I've ever seen a well executed low goal scorer miss elims at the regional level, and in multiple cases I've seen them do quite well. If you showed up to any regional with a 1 point dumper with a working autonomous, 2 rounds in teleop, and a working 10 point hangar you would be a 2nd round steal.

[Alpha Beta]

Originally Posted by Car Nack

Car Nack predicts 13-3

Surprisingly there will be a least one match where all three robots on an alliance will score 30 climbing points.

Car Nack has spoken.

Just can't see this one happening. One normal sized robot using a balanced CG approach to hoist themselves to the third level will occupy the majority of the area inside the pyramid by themselves.



That would require the other two robots to have mechanisms that do not conflict with that space while achieving their climbs. Attempts to put multiple robots in the 30 point zone also put each robot at risk of being knocked off by an alliance partner.

I can't wait to be proven wrong here, but even if it is possible I'm not sure the teams would choose to risk it in season.

[MetalJacket]

Originally Posted by Alpha Beta

Just can't see this one happening. One normal sized robot using a balanced CG approach to hoist themselves to the third level will occupy the majority of the area inside the pyramid by themselves.
That would require the other two robots to have mechanisms that do not conflict with that space while achieving their climbs. Attempts to put multiple robots in the 30 point zone also put each robot at risk of being knocked off by an alliance partner.

I can see this causing issues in qualifications if you somehow end up with multiple 30-point inside climbers on the same alliance. During elims however, you could remedy this by going with an outside climber (or two, or three) and (maybe) an inside climber. My team is planning on going up the outside to avoid conflict with other robots. I'm sure we will see the 3-robot 30-point climb at some point this year.

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by MetalJacket

I can see this causing issues in qualifications if you somehow end up with multiple 30-point inside climbers on the same alliance. During elims however, you could remedy this by going with an outside climber (or two, or three) and (maybe) an inside climber. My team is planning on going up the outside to avoid conflict with other robots. I'm sure we will see the 3-robot 30-point climb at some point this year.

"Outside climbers" don't automatically rectify the issue he's talking about. His point is that if you're dangling from a horizontal bar, then a large chunk of your robot is occupying a rather limited space inside of the pyramid. This is irrelevant of whether you climbed on the inside or the outside of the pyramid.

[MetalJacket]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

"Outside climbers" don't automatically rectify the issue he's talking about. His point is that if you're dangling from a horizontal bar, then a large chunk of your robot is occupying a rather limited space inside of the pyramid. This is irrelevant of whether you climbed on the inside or the outside of the pyramid.

Sorry about not being specific, I meant a robot that climbs up the corner or other outside part in a way that doesn't leave a large portion of the robot hanging inside.

[Walter Deitzler]

Originally Posted by CalTran

This is what the great Car Nack is. Can't help you on who he is though. I'm Looking Forward to finding out who he is, eventually. Perhaps once I ascend the ultimate echelons of FIRST.

Even I have not ascended the ultimate echelon of FIRST, after being on CD for WWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY too long (too many hours spent, I have only actually been looking at CD since 2011) , I have a good notion of who Car Nack is. (Reading the spotlighted posts is a great way to delve deep into CD history).

On another note, I could totally see a late divisional qualification or an Einstein, and definitely an IRI match, where this happens. MSC and MAR Championships are other great places where we can expect to see this. I do not doubt that there will be a 6 bot climb, but the question is, how late in the season will this be?

[SteveGPage]

I would agree with this prediction, but not in the way most have taken it - <G30> could be the cause of this! If you have an overly aggressive defender, who tries to stop the members of an alliance from climbing, it could result in each member of the alliance being awarded the 30 pts. without actually having them make the full climb.

[SteveGPage]

.... Silly mobile devices, it cut out "G30" from my response!

[Jay O'Donnell]

Just out of curiosity, did this ever happen? I know it never happened in a match, but I was hoping to have it happen in a practice match or an offseason or something.

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by Jay Money 1058

Just out of curiosity, did this ever happen? I know it never happened in a match, but I was hoping to have it happen in a practice match or an offseason or something.

It hasn't happened this year and I doubt it will. The most our team participated in was a double 30 point hang with 236 in a practice match on Archimedes. Also did a double 20 with 1831 at Pine Tree (5 more seconds and it would have been a double 30) and in a match at IRI 1334 hung for 30 and we got stuck on level 2.

[Calvin Hartley]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

It hasn't happened this year and I doubt it will. The most our team participated in was a double 30 point hang with 236 in a practice match on Archimedes. Also did a double 20 with 1831 at Pine Tree (5 more seconds and it would have been a double 30) and in a match at IRI 1334 hung for 30 and we got stuck on level 2.

I would like to remind you of a fact previously mentioned in this thread. The prestigious Car Nack did not say that each of the three robots on an alliance would achieve a level 3 climb, he said each robot would score 30 climb points. Each robot (team) on an alliance scores 30 points when just one robot gets a level 3 climb.

By my interpretaion of Car Nack's 13-3 prediction, it was correctly predicted.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Calvin Hartley

I would like to remind you of a fact previously mentioned in this thread. The prestigious Car Nack did not say that each of the three robots on an alliance would achieve a level 3 climb, he said each robot would score 30 climb points. Each robot (team) on an alliance scores 30 points when just one robot gets a level 3 climb.

By my interpretaion of Car Nack's 13-3 prediction, it was correctly predicted.

You don't even have to go that far, Arkansas match 82 had 90 climb points awarded to 1421, 456, and 1939. See http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...7&postcount=42