BattleCry@WPI 14 - Reg Open 2-Apr 1200

[ColleenShaver]

One might even call it the 'New England Championship'

Excited to see so many top-notch teams in the bunch. Regional winners, finalists, Chairman's Award winners, you name it. It's going to be a blast.

Bonus, there is only about a foot of snow predicted this time..

It's true we typically have some New York representation in the group. It's certainly been a long time since only the the New England states were represented.

Other than a few finishing touches, BC is ready to roll! Can't wait too see all the teams here. Pit map is attached for those itching to see where they are!

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by ColleenShaver

One might even call it the 'New England Championship'

Excited to see so many top-notch teams in the bunch. Regional winners, finalists, Chairman's Award winners, you name it. It's going to be a blast.

Bonus, there is only about a foot of snow predicted this time..

It's true we typically have some New York representation in the group. It's certainly been a long time since only the the New England states were represented.

Other than a few finishing touches, BC is ready to roll! Can't wait too see all the teams here. Pit map is attached for those itching to see where they are!

Where is that secondary small room where the higher numbered teams are?

Thanks for releasing this!

[ColleenShaver]

It's the loading dock area connected to the main pit area. It's designed to host teams (rigged for power drops, etc), but the way HVAC had to be in that area the head space is lower.

If the map were drawn to scale, that room is just in the upper left corner, directly attached to the main room right around the 'pit admin' label (which I just realized is incorrect, it's at the other end).

It's not unlike our small annex in the previous year, quieter, more elbow, and plenty of doors to open to enjoy the beautiful weather.

[Ken Streeter]

Webcast looks pretty good, linked off of http://wpi.edu/+bc Thanks to those that organized the webcast for those of us that can't be there in person!

However, the match schedule and match results currently linked off of the above web page still point to the 2012 versions. Hopefully the BC crew will be able to post here to let us all know when the new ones are up!

[MOE]

enjoy

1- 195,3467,663
2- 1519,126,121
3- 3280,228,1058
4- 138,839,1687
5- 125,230,3780
6- 3236,558,3182
7- 2168,716,3555
8- 181,190,4097
9- 172,78,2079
10- 166,176,1729
11- 3323,1350,2423
12- 61,1073,2342
13- 1124,1474,2836,
14- 131,2648,3623
15- 348,1100,501
16- 1991,157,173
17- 1735,88,1721
18- 467,238,2713

15 vs 18 = seed 15
16 vs 17 = seed 16
Then reg 1-16 2-15 etc

Good luck to all
MOE

[CTbiker105]

Following the 3rd finals match of the afternoon, the winning alliance consists of...

Team 195 - The Cyber Knights, from Southington, CT
Team 3467 - Windham Windup, from Windham, NH
Team 663 - The Robonauts, from Whitinsville, MA

After a 4 point win in the first match from the red alliance, followed by a not-so-close win in the second match from the blue alliance, the red alliance takes home the win by a mere one point lead in the last match.

Team 195 congratulates Team 126 Gael Force from Clinton CT, 121 Rhode Warriors from Newport County RI, and 1519 Mechanical Mayhem from Milford, NH for their awesome game play. They made it a tough finals!

[Jay O'Donnell]

I had a blast at Battlecry (again) this year. It being my first competition as a driver, I was obviously nervous, but the support of teams around me was fantastic. A HUGE thanks to the volunteers and everyone who helped run the event, it was perfect. Also thanks to teams 3280 and 228 for working with us in eliminations and making it to the semi-finals, it was a really fun time.

Can't wait til next year!

[Zuelu562]

Once again, I had an ABSOLUTE BLAST volunteering for BattleCry for the 3rd straight year. Thanks to everyone on the BC Planning Committee (Ken, Francis, Coleen and Ruth, among others) for putting together a stellar event as usual. Thanks to our FTA's, Jacob and Matt. And to the rest of my fellow volunteers, Koko Ed, the field reset team and all the participating teams, thanks for giving me a reason to keep fighting through the pain.

"You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you spent three days setting up a field, counting disks, high five-ing everyone within arms reach, knees buckling, feet on fire and back aching and you are sad as you drive away from the venue."

[ReaperGoat]

I just want to say thanks to everyone who came to help us out this weekend! I also had a blast, and it was such a pleasure to get to work so closely with all of the volunteers.

Special thanks go to Colleen, Ken, Francis and Mitch, the rest of the BC14 planning committee. It was an honor to be able to work with you again to put on such a spectacular event.

--Ruth, BC 14 Volunteer Coordinator

[LilsisdeRosie]

Congratulations to the winning alliance:
Team 195 - The Cyber Knights,
Team 3467 - Windham Windup,
Team 663 The Robonauts,
That was an awesome finals to watch!

[Jay O'Donnell]

Would anyone happen to have any match videos?

[who716]

Wow, that was one of the best events ever everyone that is part of organizing battle cry deserves a hugecongratulations, it was awsome to see 54 teams compete.
I was very happy to see our teams hard work since the end of the year pay off and have a very good robot. Thanks aluminum falcons for picking us we made a great alliance and hopefully we can alliance again sometime down the road.

I didn't know what to do after leaving wpi I still wish there was another 5 days to compete..... Seeya all next year

[BrendanB]

What a weekend! Huge thank Thank You to the WPI crew and all of the volunteers who put in the hours to make BC14 amazing! It was another flawless event and really is one of the finest competitions FRC has to offer!

Big thank you to 195 for asking us to join your alliance it was a pleasure working with you guys! You have one of the deadliest FCS and can still cycle with the best. Good luck to the rest of your 2013 season, hopefully we can play more with each other!

To 663 you guys were phenomenal! These guys worked extremely hard in the eliminations playing a role they hadn't experience much this season and kept excelling the further we went in the tournament. These guys were great to work with on the field and were serious about making sure their robot was 100% ready to go. It would have been impossible to win without your last second hang in finals match 3!

Congratulations to the number 2 alliance of 1519, 126, & 121 for a spectacular 3 finals matches. It was shocking to see the three of you playing considering the extremely deep Battlecry history you three have combined! The finals were one of the most intense matches this season with constant strategy changes. The blue alliance always had another trick up their sleeves with 1519 blocking 195 and 121 blocking our shots at the pyramid in between their cycles. The intensity of the finals was truely measured in that the final score in match number 3 came down to one point!

Thank you to all the teams who offered assistance to us during the semi finals and finals (126, 1519, 2168). For those who are wondering in the first semi finals match our driver felt the drivebase didn't have all the power it should have had. After the match we checked all the wiring and without a source of the problem assumed a bad battery was the cause. During semi final match 2 the problem was increasingly worse with turning difficult/laggy and our robot refused to drive in high gear (even low was painfully slow). While waiting for the finals to begin we tested all of our cim motors assuming one (or two) had failed and after ensuring all were in working condition discovered the source was overheating motors! The long elimination tournament had fought back with our robot not getting sufficient time to cool. The problem continued in finals match 1 and before finals match 2 we got ice packs and some air flow during our time out. This solved our problem and in finals matches 2 & 3 (after more ice) our drivetrain ran as it should!

[Kims Robot]

BattleCry is always such an amazing event!! The more we get to know the New England teams and event committees the more we love volunteering & getting to see everyone!!

Colleen, Francis, Ruth & Crew - you guys put on one heck of a show!! Francis, we had such an awesome time finally getting to do the thrift shop video!! Can't wait to see the release of the official video!

I'm hoping it won't be much longer before I can finish up the real photos, but I still have to catch up on CT State Championship photos from last week!! So I've posted a quick fun album of the Uberbots Monkey taking a full tour of BattleCry!! There are fun captions with all the photos to give you a little more story to his day, so be sure to check those out!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimsrob...th/8753934383/

I will get the real previews & full album posted as soon as I can

Thanks again to the committee, the volunteers, and all the teams for such a great time!