BattleCry@WPI 15 - Reg opening soon!

[ColleenShaver]

We will be discussing the eighth-finals breakdown at our next BC Planning Meeting. This will include who plays who, if anyone gets a bye, and how many matches determine the eighth finals.

Last year, we played 15v18 and 16v17 to determine the "15th" and "16th" seeds, and proceeded into eighth finals that way. This year, there has been discussion to give the top teams byes past the eighth finals.

Thanks to Mike E who has already crunched some numbers for us, it looks like ~80% of the time, the winner of the first set of 3 matches determines the winner of the set, so it is likely the eighth finals will remain a single match. We do the math/consider that data every year to determine whether 1-2 matches will decide the eighth finals.

[plnyyanks]

Originally Posted by Niezrecki

Hopefully my team has a quick trigger finger.

You guys better have a quick trigger finger if I'm coming all the way up from DC for this

[PayneTrain]

Whether or not 422 ends up there thie year, I want to show up just to take notes and watch. Heard you guys have a lot of fun!

[who716]

As of 12:02 716 got registered hopefully it was QUICK enough!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kevin.li.rit]

Originally Posted by who716

As of 12:02 716 got registered hopefully it was QUICK enough!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rumor has it(one I just made up but is completely plausible) that anyone registered after 12:01 did not make it.

[plnyyanks]

And the list of challengers is up! Looks like a good group

Team Number	Team	City	State
61	BVT robotics	Upton	MA
78	AIR Strike	Newport County	RI
88	TJ2	Bridgewater	MA
95	The Grasshoppers	Upper Valley	NH
121	Rhode Warriors	Newport County	RI
125	125	Boston	MA
126	Gael Force	Clinton	MA
131	CHAOS	Manchester	NH
157	Marcus Fletcher	Worceter	MA
166	Chop Shop	Merrimack	NH
172	Northern Force	Falmouth & Gorham	ME
176	Aces High	Windsor Locks	CT
181	Birds of Prey	Hartford	CT
190	Gompei & the HERD	Worcester	MA
195	cyberKnights	Southington	CT
228	GUS Robotics	Meriden	CT
230	Gaelhawks	Shelton	CT
238	Cruisin' Crusaders	Manchester	NH
319	Big Bad Bob	Alton	NH
467	Shrewsbury Colonials	Shrewsbury	MA
501	Power Knights	Manchester	NH
716	Who’sCTEKS	Falls Village	CT
839	Rosie Robotics	Agawam	MA
999	MechaRams	Cheshire	CT
1058	PVC Pirates	Londonderry	NH
1073	TheForce Team	Hollis	NH
1100	T-Hawks	Northboro	MA
1124	UberBots	Avon	CT
1153	Robo-rebels	Walpole	MA
1350	Rambots	Providence	RI
1468	Hicksville J-Birds	Hicksville	NY
1474	MasterLink Militia	Tewksbury	MA
1687	Highlander Robotics	Worcester	MA
1735	Green Reapers	Worcester	MA
1761	STEAMpunk Tigers	Lynn	MA
2084	Robots by the C	Manchester	MA
2168	Aluminum Falcons	Groton	CT
2262	RoboPanthers	Holliston	MA
2342	Team Phoenix (Greater Nashua FIRST Robotics Club)	Nashua	NH
2423	The KwarQs	Watertown	MA
2648	Infinite Loop	Oakland	ME
2713	iRaiders	Melrose	MA
2836	Team Beta	Woodbury	CT
3236	TriForct	Franklin	MA
3280	Rhode Rebels	Providence	RI
3323	Potential Energy	Litchfield	NH
3467	Windham Windup	Windham	NH
3499	River's Edge Robotics	Durham	NH
3525	The Nuts & Bolts of Fury	Waterbury	CT
3555	Aluminati	Storrs	CT
3566	Gone Fishin	Southborough	MA
3719	STEM Whalers	New London	CT
3958	Schrodinger's Cat	Boston	MA
4006	CIBorgs	Central Islip.	NY
4048	Redshift	Westborough	MA
4097	NHS Devilbots	Northampton	MA
4473	REM Delta Prime	Farmingdale	ME
5122	RobOTies	Old Town	ME

[Branden2648]

I am super excited for Battlecry this year! Last year was a blast and with 60 teams, two full days of matches, and 20 alliances for eliminations, its going to be better than ever.

[ColleenShaver]

Notice there is still some space for a couple more if anyone didn't get in! Additionally, we typically go pretty deep into the ready reserves, so sign up even if it is full.

FYI, the script to auto-update the list isn't running yet, so it will only update if we manually push the list. So if you sign your team up and it doesn't show right away, don't worry!

Excited to see lots of 'regulars' and a bunch of new teams in the mix as well!

Anyone have a guess of how many (and which) teams have been to all 15 BattleCry@WPI's? We'll be doing something special for them this year!

[Jay O'Donnell]

Originally Posted by ColleenShaver

Anyone have a guess of how many (and which) teams have been to all 15 BattleCry@WPI's? We'll be doing something special for them this year!

Possibly 131, 190, 126? Maybe 125?

[AcesPease]

Originally Posted by Jay O'Donnell

Possibly 131, 190, 126? Maybe 125?

I'll bet 238 has made every one, and maybe the 121/78 teams can trace back to all 15.

[Jay O'Donnell]

Originally Posted by AcesPease

I'll bet 238 has made every one, and maybe the 121/78 teams can trace back to all 15.

Maybe 88 also

[BrendanB]

I believe 467 is in that club as well.

[Ben Wolsieffer]

We(2084) made it! This is our first time going.

[pmangels17]

Are there any updates on the cost/availability of on-campus housing? Specifically for volunteers? I'd like to volunteer and I'm working out the logistics so it'd be nice to save some money and stay in a dorm if at all possible (I'm a senior in high school who doesn't quite like spending money).

[Mr. B]

Changes for BC15


1. Bonus Circle ("BC") End Game Opportunity: Two 12-inch circles marked as a "BC" will be placed evenly-spaced under the truss for each match.

•The BC does not have a designated color and is available for any robot to utilize as a scoring opportunity.
• The robot is considered to be completely covering a BC if no portion of the BC is visible outside the "belt line" of the robot (including its bumpers)
•AT THE END OF THE MATCH: •An alliance will be awarded 20 points if a robot of its color is completely covering a BC while in possession of that alliance's ball
•BC scores will be assessed 5 seconds after the match clock goes to zero or when rolling robots comes to rest.

The final 10 seconds of each march will be intense!