Introducing - MidKnight Mayhem!

[Kristian Calhoun]

Originally Posted by Siri

Anyone know how full this is currently? 1640 is interested, but we're wondering how much longer we have to scramble a summer crew together.

What's the pre-rookie policy?

I heard this morning there were 24 teams registered with room for about 10 more.

I'm sure Libby or Katie will chime in with information about MidKnight Mayhem's pre-rookie policy.

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by Siri

Anyone know how full this is currently? 1640 is interested, but we're wondering how much longer we have to scramble a summer crew together.

What's the pre-rookie policy?

We have 27 now, capping at 36!

We hadn't decided on a prerookie "policy", but email us at the midknightmayhem@gmail account and we can talk!

Team List as of this morning:

11
25
102
193
225
303
340
369
371
422
694
708
869
1237
1403
1676
1881
1923
2607
2495
2590
3142
3314
4281
4464
4475
4575

Very excited to see this all coming together!

[Clem1640]

1640 has just thrown its hat into the ring (a blue fedora with yellow band, of course)! We look forward to seeing our friends at MidKnight Mayhem.

[Libby K]

Updated Team List - we are now at 30!

Invoices just went out thanks to our lovely school advisor, but we still have space for 6 more teams!
(And more if we really have the interest, but it'll be cozy. )

11
25
102
193
225
303
340
369
371
422
694
708
869
1228
1237
1403
1640
1676
1881
1923
2016
2607
2495
2590
3142
3314
4299
4464
4475
4575

[nickcvet89]

So glad to say that Captain America will be making an appearance! Excited for this event and can't wait.

[galewind]

1089's in the house!

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by galewind

1089's in the house!

Excited to have our neighbors coming!

With an additional registration after 1089, we're at 34 teams. Two spots left, so if you're interested in coming, please let us know soon!

Team List, by request:
11
25
102
193
225
303
316
340
369
371
422
629
694
708
869
1089
1228
1237
1403
1626
1640
1676
1881
1923
2016
2607
2495
2590
3142
3314
4299
4464
4475
4575

Official event agenda to be sent out & posted in the next 24 hours or so, once the entire committee has given me the all-clear.

I think I've said this a million times by now, but this literally is a dream come true - for me, for the committee, and for the team. Thank you all so much for helping us making this happen, and so quickly! The FIRST community is an awesome thing. We decided to make this a 'real thing' the first week in April, and this has all come together so fast. It's been crazy, but crazy in a good way. I'm so looking forward to the 29th and all the Mayhem it will bring.

[jblay]

What are the mentor matches going to look like? Is it going to be 1923's practice robot driven by a different mentor drive team each time or a specific set of matches right before lunch where mentors drive their team's robot in a match against other mentors?

[aboppana]

Joe,

I believe we are going to start a new qualification schedule with the matches during lunch time after we are finished with the original qualification schedule and alliance selections. Then,each team will enter an all-mentor drive team to drive their robot during this new schedule for a match. After we go through a round of the mentor matches, we will resume the original schedule with the elimination matches. This way, mentor matches won't affect your qualification score, no matter how good or bad the mentors might be at driving

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by jblay

What are the mentor matches going to look like? Is it going to be 1923's practice robot driven by a different mentor drive team each time or a specific set of matches right before lunch where mentors drive their team's robot in a match against other mentors?

Hi Joe,

Abhishektha nailed it. We're doing sign-ups in the morning when teams arrive, for the mentor-matches where YOUR team will field YOUR robot... with a grown-up drive team. It'll be before elims, and we won't insert them into the qual schedule either- these will be their own independent matches. We definitely don't want mentor matches to affect the team's rank. Once we know who's signed up, we'll be able to generate a more specific schedule.

[jamescardona]

Team 316, the LuNaTeCs, is totally pumped to be coming to introduce mayhem to your field. We will be bringing our Archimedes drive team but will be rotating through all our students for at least qualifiers. Also we have just switched from C++ to JAVA so you are giving us a much needed opportunity to check out our new code. Thanks!!

We are also pumped about seeing how the mentor matches go - depending on how it looks we might suggest doing it for the Duel on the Delaware - I love the concept!

Looking forward to playing with/against some good competitors - mort, test, nemesis, sabotage, tech fire and the girlscouts among others- see ya there! We gonna be Loooooney!

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by jamescardona

Team 316, the LuNaTeCs, is totally pumped to be coming to introduce mayhem to your field. We will be bringing our Archimedes drive team but will be rotating through all our students for at least qualifiers. Also we have just switched from C++ to JAVA so you are giving us a much needed opportunity to check out our new code. Thanks!!

We are also pumped about seeing how the mentor matches go - depending on how it looks we might suggest doing it for the Duel on the Delaware - I love the concept!

Looking forward to playing with/against some good competitors - mort, test, nemesis, sabotage, tech fire and the girlscouts among others- see ya there! We gonna be Loooooney!

Thanks, LuNaTeCs! We can't wait to see you.

MidKnight Mayhem is two weeks away, so if you're a registered team please keep your eye on your inbox - we'll continue to send event updates to you over the next week or so!

We're so so excited to have you all. The 29th is coming up soon and we can't wait!

[Libby K]

Just wanted to update the team list here, as we've had some registration swaps. New to the list as of TODAY, is 56 - Robbe Xtreme!

11
25
56
102
193
225
303
316
340
369
422
623
694
708
869
1089
1228
1237
1403
1626
1640
1676
1881
1923
2016
2607
2495
2590
3142
3314
4299
4464
4475
4575

With just a little over a week to go, we're pumped. See you all soon!

[jblay]

Can we get some idea on how many qualification matches to expect?

Also what are the alliance selection rules going to be like, is this going to be an event where you aren't allowed to pick teams inside the top 8?

So excited for more robotics, think I've been going through withdrawal. Midknight in 5 days!!!

[Libby K]

We've been speaking with our FTA's today, and looks like 5 qualifications per team. (We've had some teams drop so we are down to 31 - will update the teamlist when those drops are finalized.)

Plain ol' regulation alliance selections. 1-8, 8-1 - you can pick within the top 8, but if you decline someone, you can't accept someone else's invite. You all know the drill by now.

We're all SO EXCITED for this! See you all on Saturday.
(or Friday if you're one of our lovely setup volunteers/loading in for your team!)