2013 Championship Newton Division

[seg9585]

Mentor of Team 4276 here, looking forward to meeting you all in Newton Division!
This will be my first time attending Championship (6th year mentoring + 2 years as student), really excited for next week!

With thousands of teams here, may end up being robot overload...

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by seg9585

With thousands of teams here, may end up being robot overload...

Hundreds, not thousands*

*Well, of FRC teams at least...if you count FLL and FTC...then yeah, thousands

[seg9585]

Originally Posted by Hallry

Hundreds, not thousands*

*Well, of FRC teams at least...if you count FLL and FTC...then yeah, thousands

Yes, I was referring to the FTC and FLL teams as well
Aware there are *only* 400 FRC teams.

[Koko Ed]

FYI: We have changed our robot from an interior corner hanger to a passive hanger that shoots while hanging.
This is by the way the practice bot. The actual bot will be changed on Wednesday.

[Chris Deyoe]

Newton, here we (Team 2252) come. I cannot wait to see all the great robots next week. I've been watching (online) them all all season, now it will be live.

[George1902]

I'm so excited SPAM is on Newton. I'm looking forward to seeing in person all these robots I'm pre-scouting.

Our robot looks a little different than it did in our reveal video. Our floor pick-up was removed, and our human loading was improved. We've refined our full-court shooting both in accuracy and speed. We can empty the alliance station of discs in under 50 seconds with no loss of accuracy. We're comfortable cycling to the pyramid or spotting up and shooting from anywhere else on the court.

I'm impressed with the quality of robots I see in the Newton field (especially you Michiganders... y'all are incredible). I disagree with the supposed "weakness" of Newton this year. This was said about Galileo last year, but Gali was able to put together some impressive alliances because of depth. I expect the same from Newton this year.

Best of luck, everyone!

[ThunderChief]

We are in the Newton Division along with our friends, the Holy Cows, team 1538.
Code Orange (from Orange County, California), FRC Team 3476, presents "Highlights" of our robot from our 2013 season at this YouTube link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fI0Oy8AiQU

We shoot our 3 starting discs into the 6 point goal in Autonomous. Then we can pick up 4 discs from the floor and shoot them also. Our 2-speed gear box allows us to both quickly move around and to push others when needed. Our 4 powerful shooter motors and fast aiming setup allow us to score discs from many positions. Watch this video and see how fast our human loader is and how we suck discs off the floor. We have a fast pre- or post-buzzer 10 point pneumatic hanger.
Our alliances in our second regional (Inland Empire) scored some of the highest match points in the country: 125, 147, 149, 153, 169.

We have a different video in the Robot Showcase thread at:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=116208

See you in St. Louis!!!

[HayWire1569]

Team 1569 (Haywire) is incredibly excited to be in Newton this year!!! Can't wait to go out there and show everyone what we have, and to see all the other incredible robots
Less than five days remaining!!!

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by Banderoonies

Missing pictures. Please post if you have them
1676

Here ya go! http://www.flickr.com/photos/team167...in/photostream

[connor.worley]

1538 is ready for Newton. Can't wait to play against some of the teams on this field.

[Banderoonies]

Originally Posted by connor.worley

1538 is ready for Newton. Can't wait to play against some of the teams on this field.

195 is excited as well. Really hoping to play a match WITH the Holy Cows at some point

Your robot is awesome! Congrats on a job well done!

[IndySam]

Ready is anybody ever ready for such a great event?

The Digital Goats (team 829) are excited to be playing on Newton with such great teams.

[pntbll1313]

I've been spending a lot of time pre-scouting this division and I can't wait to see everyone in person at Champs! Team 2052 KnightKrawler is super excited for our first ever appearance. Make sure to stop by our pit and say hi. Three days until matches start, SO EXCITED!
Take a peak at what our bot looks like here: KnightKrawler Video

[JesseK]

We've spent the last week re-working our hopper. We've put roughly 400 discs through it, tweaking it and figuring out what we'd be best at. It only jammed twice early on in, even with violent shake tests to simulate on-field impacts. As of Saturday, our pyramid shots are 100% consistent in under 1.5 seconds. We can now also do some full-court shooting, but we'll have to see which works best timing-wise. You know, maximize expected value per time and all.

I seriously hope we're now able to play the game the way its meant to be played, and hope to give our fellow Newtonians a good showing! Our scouting indicates that Newton may be one of the more dynamic divisions strategy-wise. Good luck to all!

[MechEng83]

Using the Max OPR Data and the preliminary match schedule that FIRST has published, I did a little prediction spreadsheet.

If a match is less than 10 pts in differential, I have highlighted the predicted scores in yellow. Otherwise, the winning alliance score is highlighted.