2015 Champs Predictions

[Ichlieberoboter]

One team pretty much everyone is overlooking is team 1714 (M.O.R.E. Robotics). They have a fast four canburglar that they used at Lake Superior regional. Their alliance didn't really use them, unfortunately, but...

[Pretzel]

With all the discussion of fast canburglars, I'm curious as to what the fastest canburglars currently are. I know I heard that 3310 can hook into the can in under a quarter second, but does any other team even come close to that?

[sodizzle]

Originally Posted by Pretzel

I know I heard that 3310 can hook into the can in under a quarter second, but does any other team even come close to that?

I don't know their time, but 548 has some crazy fast burglars.

[EricLeifermann]

Originally Posted by Ichlieberoboter

One team pretty much everyone is overlooking is team 1714 (M.O.R.E. Robotics). They have a fast four canburglar that they used at Lake Superior regional. Their alliance didn't really use them, unfortunately, but...

1714 has to shoot the gap to get the cans and take quite a long time to real in their arms if they go for 4.

[Bryce Paputa]

Originally Posted by Pretzel

With all the discussion of fast canburglars, I'm curious as to what the fastest canburglars currently are. I know I heard that 3310 can hook into the can in under a quarter second, but does any other team even come close to that?

We were at a quarter second a few weeks ago. Not going to quote an exact number now but an eighth second is much closer than a quarter.

[FIMAlumni]

Originally Posted by Pretzel

With all the discussion of fast canburglars, I'm curious as to what the fastest canburglars currently are. I know I heard that 3310 can hook into the can in under a quarter second, but does any other team even come close to that?

You would have to get the times from their respective teams but 27, 503, 548, and a cheesecake 1711 were among the fastest at MSC.

[Jaywalker1711]

Originally Posted by FIMAlumni

You would have to get the times from their respective teams but 27, 503, 548, and a cheesecake 1711 were among the fastest at MSC.

The cheesecake is gone, but we have replaced it with dual canburglars, similar to the cheesecake design, that steal in about 300 milliseconds.

And it should only get faster. We have some sort of delay in our code or communication that is costing us time.

[Abhishek R]

Felt like making some off the wall predictions in addition to some of the more likely alliances. so here goes (only gonna do first two robots, after that, it's down to who messes up their scouting or certain niche picks):

Archimedes: 1023 + 2338
Carson: 254 + 4587
Carver: 971 + 368
Curie: 148 + 1114
Galileo: 1619 + 2056
Hopper: 2826 + 987
Newton: 1671 + 118
Tesla: Legitimately no clue...

[Kevin Leonard]

Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard

Archimedes: 1310-4451-188-4334 QF
Carson: 254-973-1241-5122 SF
Carver: 4967-1625-829-216 QF
Curie: 148-1114-341-900 F
Galileo: 1690-27-191-237 QF
Hopper: 2826-987-4265-223 W
Newton: 195-3310-190-1111 SF
Tesla: 2481-3824-1323-3847 QF

I like predicting crazy upsets that are going to be totally wrong.
Plus I personally just want to see a few of these teams go to Einstein. Maybe if I just will it hard enough...

Can we talk about the kind of prophet I am?
148-1114-900, 2826-987-4265,
I also predicted 1690 and 27 would team up.
I've had so much luck this week.

[1493kd]

Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard

I've had so much luck this week.

Turn that luck into a World Championship.... 1493 pulling for you back in the 518

[Ichlieberoboter]

Pretty sure nobody predicted the 254 thing. ): RIP Cheesy Poofs

[mrnoble]

Originally Posted by Ichlieberoboter

Pretty sure nobody predicted the 254 thing. ): RIP Cheesy Poofs

I've not been watching today. Family life takes over sometimes. What happened?

[Ichlieberoboter]

Originally Posted by mrnoble

I've not been watching today. Family life takes over sometimes. What happened?

The lost in the quarterfinals.

[orangemoore]

Originally Posted by mrnoble

I've not been watching today. Family life takes over sometimes. What happened?

As one of their matches ended one of the teams was trying to place a 6 stack with RC and noodle but instead they knocked that over along with another 6 stack with RC and noodle.

[themccannman]

Originally Posted by orangemoore

As one of their matches ended one of the teams was trying to place a 6 stack with RC and noodle but instead they knocked that over along with another 6 stack with RC and noodle.

973 put a stack down at the last second and there was a noodle underneath, it tipped and knocked over another stack. Match two their 3rd bot tipped over and blocked the landfill. Just a series of very unfortunate events and bad luck.