2015 Hopper Division

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by Chad987

Awww yiss. #CornerPit4lyfe

#TeamCornerPit

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Chad987

Awww yiss. #CornerPit4lyfe

Originally Posted by Hallry

#TeamCornerPit

#rogerthat

[LittleDries]

Originally Posted by Hallry

#TeamCornerPit

#youcompletmy #cornerpit #TeamCornerPit

[jnicho15]

#hiinspectors
#endpit

[Ryan Dognaux]

Corner pit for the win!

Team 4329 has been practicing hard since our last regional in Week 4. We can now cap scored 5 stacks, can upright and work with cans in any orientation and have a 2 can grabber that we will be dialing in tonight on the practice fields.

2 Can Grabber Video: https://youtu.be/NglEznYpjng

Bringing 1 can into the auto zone: https://youtu.be/GS1cBr7PVRQ?t=6s

Drive practice from a few nights ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO_X8n8zB9w

We can make 6 stacks from the feeder using our tethered ramp, co-op using our on-board integrated ramp, & grab totes from the landfill. We strongly believe we'd make a great 3rd or 4th bot on any alliance and hope to prove it this week! See you all tonight and good luck this weekend!

[Bluman56]

Can someone snap a pic of the rankings? The FMS hasn't synced up the rankings for Hopper yet. Thank you!

[ChubberBob]

Anyone got the final rankings?

[EricLeifermann]

987
2826
548

Don't know the rest

[AGPapa]

Here's the top of the rankings.

[orangemoore]

Rankings on TBA are up to date.

[Jakest3r42]

This should be an updated ranking list.
http://frc-events.usfirst.org/2015/HOPPER/rankings

[Hallry]

Team 1676's HD full-field footage of yesterday's and today's qualification matches has now started uploading on our YouTube Channel. Given that there were 127 qualification matches, it might take a while, but as the videos are uploaded, they *should* automatically populate this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...38hz9Y6nolxGWX

[cglrcng]

I won't make any official Hopper predictions here, as I am currently proudly clicking a scoring trigger for the Hopper Division (as that just wouldn't be right afterall, and know fairly well the ones that currently rule the Inagural "Hop-Hop-Hopper" Highrolling Roost...(as my team plays w/ them & against them annually...too often against, and too rarely with them, but we have a friendly rivalry, and they earn well everything they ever receive by performing at very high levels constantly)...You'll know who I am, as I also align those totes at every corner most matches, and If I asked you nicely to push the bots back behind the number even once too many times, then I'm genuinely sorry, so accept my apologies now. But...my ankles just cannot take even 1 more whack on the tight backfield north field end, and any accidental encroachment onto that carpeted area, is encroachment onto the field of play this year.

And, those HP's may just also need very quickly...all of those very valuable grey totes you may just be using for a desk or a leaning post sometimes...LOL. (Or us to affect a quick repair of a Tote Chute...YES...TOTE CHUTE!)
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But, sitting here the night before draft time (just a tiny bit more than 6 hrs. to go before the 2015 FIRST FRC Champs Divisional Serpentine draft time), and having seen all the action on HOPPER FIELD really up rail close (sometimes a bit too many matches, due to connection issues faced over the last few days, though the crew worked very, very hard & not even got you back on schedule, but at one point actually ahead of schedule in the end, and had to s-l-o-w you down a bit).

Not a prediction, though I fully envision a very tough & fast perfectly capped & littered wall building and landfill munching/human player ramp finishing off #1 seed, a fast 4 can snatcher that can also go back on any near misses too, and revert to canburglaring 1-2 or even 3 missed cans as soon as teleop starts if actually necessary (they actually have, & great canburglar won a great shelf can war of many I have personally witnessed, and they are exciting to say the least...something I personally thought day 1 (game release day in January), would certainly be the key to winning in 2015, and 2 human player station bots that are fast builders too to swap out if necessary....(Plenty of them in Hopper to go around there), all working together to give Carson, Curie and all the 6 rest, a great run for their money tomorrow.
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But, then afain, I'm not the one doing the drafting of the Hopper Division...I'm just accurately tallying what you place in just the right places.....repeatedly!

Whoever it is, I'm sure they will be very complementary to their hard charging attitude and usual, onfield performance. (And those 4 just may rule the roost and raise a Division Banner and much, much more).

Though I'm also sure the others will also play as hard as they "can" to "litter up the place" and attempt to upset the Highrolling apple cart a bit too.

The competition has at times been quite fierce on the field, and an extreme pleasure to watch from the immediate sidelines.

Go HOPPER! (Thanks for allowing me to share your experiences by serving as part of the 2015 FIRST Champs Hopper Division Volunteer crew). It has been a fantastic crew to serve with so far (still another long day to go yet), and make new friends with in the FIRST Family.

That 4 AM Alarm is just a few hrs. away now...Good Luck tomorrow all. (Why am I now craving Cheesecake?)