Texas Rankings 2014

[Coach Norm]

Originally Posted by lynca

We have 18 Texas teams represented at the Championship.




Potentials: 1817 , 3847 , 2468

We are hoping to make this potential come true. We are very excited about the opportunity.

[itsjustmrb]

Originally Posted by Coach Norm

I like the idea of Robotics being a full-fledged extracurricular activity but we need to be careful about getting the State and/or UIL involvement. We do not want to fall under the 8 hour a week limitation.

Actually we still fall under the 8 hour limit if you follow the UIL/TEA side by side rules, which apply to all extra curricular activities. see Http://www.uiltexas.org/policy/tea-uil-side-by-side.

The way some of us skirt the letter of the law is that the 8 hours a week only applies from the beginning of school Monday to after school Thursday.

[wireties]

Originally Posted by itsjustmrb

Actually we still fall under the 8 hour limit if you follow the UIL/TEA side by side rules, which apply to all extra curricular activities. see Http://www.uiltexas.org/policy/tea-uil-side-by-side.

The way some of us skirt the letter of the law is that the 8 hours a week only applies from the beginning of school Monday to after school Thursday.

I had no idea about the 8-hour rule. We couldn't meet that from Monday early PM to Tuesday late PM!


Yikes!

[wireties]

Hey Texas teams - please stop by our presentation in room 230, 5PM on Wednesday the 23rd. The topic is "Real-Time Software in FRC Robotics".

Topics include:

- Hard/soft real-time - temporal restraints, engineering methods etc
- Real time operating systems - basic properties, IRQ and scheduling latency, what is a task?
- Synchronization & Mutual Exclusion - semaphores, messages and delays
- What is running on the robot? - BSP, OS, WPI & multi-tasking applications
- Standard Practices - avoiding dynamic allocation, C++ dos and donts, formatted output, init then loop, resource reclamation, state machines
- Analysis - simplified RMA equations, looking at DS message task, multiple PID classes and a drive task
- WPI templates - Basic, Command-based, Robot Builder, custom methods - Q&A

We do expensive week-long corporate training on these subjects (using VxWorks and Linux) - drop by and get a quick taste for free!

[JohnSchneider]

Originally Posted by wireties

I had no idea about the 8-hour rule. We couldn't meet that from Monday early PM to Tuesday late PM!


Yikes!

Just do what football does and have mandatory Optional meetings

[lynca]

Originally Posted by lynca

Here are my picks for who will make it to elims (10 out of 18 teams ! ) .

Locks: 118 , 148 , 624 , 1477, 3310

Potentials: 1817 , 3847 , 2468

Dark Horses: 2158 , 2848

Here is how the Texas teams are predicated to go based on OPR (now this could be way off the mark... so caution) .

1477 - ranked 1st at 9-1
118 - ranked 8th at 8-2
148 - ranked 15th at 7-3
1817 - ranked 18th at 8-2
3847 - ranked 20th at 7-3
624 - ranked 21st at 7-3
2468 - ranked 26th at 7-3
457 - ranked 40th at 6-4

the rest of texas teams are not predicted to have winning records so I didn't include those schedules.

[JohnSchneider]

Originally Posted by lynca

Here is how the Texas teams are predicated to go based on OPR (now this could be way off the mark... so caution) .

1477 - ranked 1st at 9-1
118 - ranked 8th at 8-2
148 - ranked 15th at 7-3
1817 - ranked 18th at 8-2
3847 - ranked 20th at 7-3
624 - ranked 21st at 7-3
2468 - ranked 26th at 7-3
457 - ranked 40th at 6-4

the rest of texas teams are not predicted to have winning records so I didn't include those schedules.

We actually have the 2nd hardest schedule in our division, and would need an OPR of almost 140 just to go 8-2 lol.

But that's why they play the matches

[Kris Verdeyen]

Congrats to 2468 on winning the curie engineering inspiration!

[Aaron.Graeve]

Congratulations to 2158 for taking home Archimedes Engineering Inspiration. Way to represent!