2015 Champs Predictions

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by MaGiC_PiKaChU

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[Tim_Andrews]

Agreed but Team 379 for curie is pretty good also! Iv'e seen their videos. My prediction for Curie is 1114, 379 and 3193

[MrJohnston]

Originally Posted by Tim_Andrews

Agreed but Team 379 for curie is pretty good also! Iv'e seen their videos. My prediction for Curie is 1114, 379 and 3193

Why would 1114 pick 379?

Assuming 1114 is the top captain, why would they not pick 148? I've only just begun to scout and don't know 379 well, but my first impression is that they are a strong feeder station bot - able to put up two full stacks plus a little more during teleop, but nothing more.... There several robots in Curie with that ability - some of which can add some autonomous points and/or center can grabbing....

I'm not criticizing. I'm just wondering if there is something interesting about 379 that I have not seen yet.

[StAxis]

Originally Posted by MrJohnston

Why would 1114 pick 379?

Assuming 1114 is the top captain, why would they not pick 148? I've only just begun to scout and don't know 379 well, but my first impression is that they are a strong feeder station bot - able to put up two full stacks plus a little more during teleop, but nothing more.... There several robots in Curie with that ability - some of which can add some autonomous points and/or center can grabbing....

I'm not criticizing. I'm just wondering if there is something interesting about 379 that I have not seen yet.

I think they'll end up with 148 personally, but I can see the benefit in 379. They're a very good robot and if 1114 doesn't want to have to deal with the tether issue of 148 then they might go with them.

[bkahl]

Got bored sitting home post-surgery, so here it goes!

Archimedes: 1310-503-360
Carson: 254-4488-20
Carver: 1986-368-1768
Curie: 1114-148-1923
Galileo: 2056-1619-2168
Hopper: 2826-987-11
Newton: 1678-118-5188
Tesla: 2481-3476-1323

Don't trust me too much. I sure don't.

Also, way too lazy to do 4th picks and junk.

[Rangel(kf7fdb)]

Originally Posted by MrJohnston

Why would 1114 pick 379?

Assuming 1114 is the top captain, why would they not pick 148? I've only just begun to scout and don't know 379 well, but my first impression is that they are a strong feeder station bot - able to put up two full stacks plus a little more during teleop, but nothing more.... There several robots in Curie with that ability - some of which can add some autonomous points and/or center can grabbing....

I'm not criticizing. I'm just wondering if there is something interesting about 379 that I have not seen yet.

Agreed. If 1114 needed a human player station specialist, 148 would be the most solid choice since it basically splits their sides of the field in half with neither of the two having to cross paths for cans or totes unless 1114 decides to litter the landfill cans. I think 1114's pick might be really hard though if there is can grabbers faster than them. Who they pick will be determined by can grabbing speed as well as the would be captains for the other alliances.

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by bkahl

Tesla: 2481-3476-1323

1323 will be an awesome second pick that will definitely fly under the radar if no one hypes them.

[Clayton Summerall]

Originally Posted by StAxis

I think they'll end up with 148 personally, but I can see the benefit in 379. They're a very good robot and if 1114 doesn't want to have to deal with the tether issue of 148 then they might go with them.

Tether issue? What is the issue you speak of?

[Clayton Summerall]

Originally Posted by Rangel(kf7fdb)

Agreed. If 1114 needed a human player station specialist, 148 would be the most solid choice since it basically splits their sides of the field in half with neither of the two having to cross paths for cans or totes unless 1114 decides to litter the landfill cans. I think 1114's pick might be really hard though if there is can grabbers faster than them. Who they pick will be determined by can grabbing speed as well as the would be captains for the other alliances.

I see this alliance with a really really nice cheesecake on the 2nd pick.

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by MrJohnston

They won't even be noticed amongst the Curie talent. Frankly, I seriously doubt they'll be playing in eliminations on Curie at all!

They are playing on Tesla.

My quote is from Tesla?

[MrJohnston]

Originally Posted by Gregor

My quote is from Tesla?

Oops... My brain was in Curie and I forgot I was not on that thread.

[Electronica1]

Originally Posted by StAxis

I think they'll end up with 148 personally, but I can see the benefit in 379. They're a very good robot and if 1114 doesn't want to have to deal with the tether issue of 148 then they might go with them.

I am curious what weight 148 is at after removing Alfred. 1114 could attach their ramp to Robin.

[AndrewPospeshil]

Originally Posted by bkahl

Archimedes: 1310-503-360

nice

Regarding 1114's pick, I think the only possible way they would pick 148 is if they can get a stealer on Sideswipe that's competitive on Einstein - aka one of the top dozen or so in the world. An alliance with only 3 bins is not going to go very far at all in playoffs. Simbotics knows this, and is going to pick a binstealer if they don't have one (that can go toe-to-toe with the likes of 548 and 1678). Even if 1114 and 148 can stack faster than any combination in FRC, their stacks are effectively worth a third as much once they've used all their cans (12pts for a 6stack vs 36/42pts). As much as we'd all like to think/believe, those two are not 3x faster than everyone.

[waialua359]

Nice little discussion. But in the end 1114-148-xxxxx or 148-1114-xxxxx.

[themccannman]

Originally Posted by waialua359

Nice little discussion. But in the end 1114-148-xxxxx or 148-1114-xxxxx.

Nice little discussion, but anyone who understands the can race will just disagree. I'm sure 1114 realizes that making 9 stacks doesn't help when you have 3 cans.