2015 Curie Divison

[AmoryG]

Originally Posted by glennword

I never understood which of 148's robots are called what. Anyone care to explain?

The one that moves and picks up bins is called Batman. The one that sits at the feeder station and builds stacks is called Robin. They used to have a 3rd robot called Alfred which I believe was only used for their autonomous mode.

[Ginger Power]

Originally Posted by glennword

I never understood which of 148's robots are called what. Anyone care to explain?

Batman is their primary robot which moves stacks from the tote chute to the scoring platform. Batman also grabs RC'S. Robin is their tethered robot at the tote chute that just stacks. Alfred was their autonomous tool to move the RC's out of the way for their stacked tote set. Alfred was ruled illegal early on in the competiton season for having their low visibility tether suspended at a level that could cause problems. I'm also curious why they no longer need Alfred?

^^^Beat me to it

[glennword]

Are there any videos or pictures of Alfred in action? I've of course seen Batman and Robin in their reveal video and on live streams, but I never got to see Alfred. (May he rest in peace)

[Alicia V]

We are in!

[Ginger Power]

Originally Posted by glennword

Are there any videos or pictures of Alfred in action? I've of course seen Batman and Robin in their reveal video and on live streams, but I never got to see Alfred. (May he rest in peace)

148 Reveal video shows Alfred in action. I haven't seen them use it in a real match.

[TCMJ1816]

Originally Posted by Jim Schaddelee

Who are the canbugulars in curie ?

1816 can, we have spent the last week and a half making it much faster, at 10 Thousand Lakes we hit 100% of the time with the container captured in about 3 seconds.

[glennword]

Just re-watched it a few times. Is Alfred the thing that falls over at the end on the far right of the screen?

[Ginger Power]

Originally Posted by glennword

Just re-watched it a few times. Is Alfred the thing that falls over at the end on the far right of the screen?

Yes. It was brilliant.

[Abhishek R]

Originally Posted by glennword

Just re-watched it a few times. Is Alfred the thing that falls over at the end on the far right of the screen?

Yes. According to their Facebook post a while back, they felt they could do better without Alfred (maybe a few issues with consistency or something, possibly weight, not sure) so they went on to Las Vegas without Alfred. They made a 3 tote auto still, maybe 2 cans as well, don't remember.

[cjl2625]

148 doesn't have Alfred anymore, but somehow still manages to grab all 3 RCs during their 3 tote.
They grab one with their claw, hold another on the back, and have some kind of pole that drags the 3rd one. I don't think the 3rd one always makes it into the auto zone, though.

[SciBorg Dave]

TEAM 4061 SciBorgs are excited to be playing on Curie ( after the curse ended last year) with all the great Curie teams.

[JohnFogarty]

I'm interested to see how 4613 stacks up against this field.

[MooreteP]

Originally Posted by Ginger Power

1114+148 in the same division= dream come true. It'll be tough to stop that combination.

You are assuming that they will rank 1st and 2nd. If so, than it will be a tough combination. Remember though, that their 3rd pick will be crucial, as it will for every playoff alliance.

If they are not ranked 1, and 2, then any team ranked above one of them can poison the field by choosing and being declined as I think happened on Curie a couple of years ago.

[George A.]

Originally Posted by MooreteP

You are assuming that they will rank 1st and 2nd. If so, than it will be a tough combination. Remember though, that their 3rd pick will be crucial, as it will for every playoff alliance.

If they are not ranked 1, and 2, then any team ranked above one of them can poison the field by choosing and being declined as I think happened on Curie a couple of years ago.

Technically only one has to finish 1st. If 1114 finishes 1st and 148 finishes 75th then 1114 can still pick 148. However if anyone else finishes 1st they can break up the alliance.

Or you know....we can form our own alliances to the best of our ability!

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by MooreteP

If they are not ranked 1, and 2, then any team ranked above one of them can poison the field by choosing and being declined as I think happened on Curie a couple of years ago.

To be fair they don't need to be #1 and #2, they just need one of them to be #1 to guarantee they play together if they both want to. It will be interesting to see what happens with Co-op points in their matches.