The first human vs robot off season event - Long Island

[Rosiebotboss]

How large is your budget? Who's your sponsor?

From AM website-a field is a minimum of $5000 including an FTA (look it up) with zero game pieces.

Full A/V is another $5-7,000 with webcasting.

Is the venue going to charge you rent? Do you have to hire security? (Many schools require police / EMTs to be on site)

How are you going to power the pits? If you have to rent a generator, that's another $1200. (Including Union Electricians fees to run the cable.)

That is just some of the details you need to consider.

[planetbrilliant]

I would totally try to attend with my team if it wasn't so far, good luck! Please post video of this when it happens!

[Basel A]

This sounds fun and all, but it sounds more like it would be a fun component of a regular offseason competition, in the same way that an offseason would have mentor matches.

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Basel A

This sounds fun and all, but it sounds more like it would be a fun component of a regular offseason competition, in the same way that an offseason would have mentor matches.

This.

Make these an exhibition match during part of a normal off-season. Don't make the whole off-season humans vs. robots.

[WillNess]

Originally Posted by Basel A

offseason would have mentor matches.

Which offseason event is this?

[MikeE]

Originally Posted by WillNess

Which offseason event is this?

BattleCry at WPI for one, although maybe not this year

[mastachyra]

After autonomous, if there are still cans on the step, would it still be unsafe for humans to grab them? I don't think you should assume the cans will be gone in auto.

Also, would humans teams get to play against other human teams?

[lethc]

Originally Posted by mastachyra

After autonomous, if there are still cans on the step, would it still be unsafe for humans to grab them? I don't think you should assume the cans will be gone in auto.

Also, would humans teams get to play against other human teams?

Humans can't grab the cans in auto, but they can in teleop as long as they're the only ones touching. Add a penalty for the human team if they contact a can at the same time as a robot

[Deneb]

Originally Posted by mastachyra

After autonomous, if there are still cans on the step, would it still be unsafe for humans to grab them? I don't think you should assume the cans will be gone in auto.

Also, would humans teams get to play against other human teams?

I feel it would be safe enough for humans to grab cans as long as a robot is not in the process of grabbing or aligning to grab cans. I also think it would lose excitement for two human teams to compete against each other. I feel like if the red side was strictly humans and blue was strictly robots, each team would alternate through the competition to 50% human and 50% robots. In eliminations, it would probably be best to do each match twice where both alliances compete against the other alliance's robots and vice versa. This could consume time, but would be nice to keep it balanced.

It'll be interesting to see co-op human stacking. Sounds like last year a little bit.