Maize Craze Admin Manual?

[FlamingSpork]

My team is considering doing an off-season event of Maize Craze sometime next spring.

Does anyone have any information on how the Maize Craze championship worked? (ie. how teams were ranked; rounds of matches; advancing to next round)

Thanks!

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by FlamingSpork

My team is considering doing an off-season event of Maize Craze sometime next spring.

Does anyone have any information on how the Maize Craze championship worked? (ie. how teams were ranked; rounds of matches; advancing to next round)

Thanks!

Go here.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Go here.

Can someone explain why the FRC website itself only goes back to 2002?

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Can someone explain why the FRC website itself only goes back to 2002?

They were probably saving space by not putting that information up.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

They were probably saving space by not putting that information up.

... /s?

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

... /s?

More room for blogs? I dunno.
Thank God for the Technokats.

[cbale2000]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Go here.

I don't think I ever realized the scale of that first game. All the pictures I've seen up till now always seemed like the playing field and robots were much smaller. This looks basically FTC scale, if not a bit bigger.

[orangemoore]

Originally Posted by cbale2000

I don't think I ever realized the scale of that first game. All the pictures I've seen up till now always seemed like the playing field and robots were much smaller. This looks basically FTC scale, if not a bit bigger.

The Robot started small and grew in size. Then in recent years have gotten smaller. (2012-> 2013)

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by orangemoore

The Robot started small and grew in size. Then in recent years have gotten smaller. (2012-> 2013)

The pictures here give you a good idea of how large the robots were that year.

[pmangels17]

More importantly that sounds like one of the coolest offseasons ever. I think it'd be awesome to have a recurring offseason that played old games every year. It'd be really cool to see how teams could iterate on a design and really see an FRC game evolve over the years.

[Michael Hill]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

More room for blogs? I dunno.
Thank God for the Technokats.

Thanks, now you done made me look through the old history project. Also, I found this gem: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/YH...=w 2560-h1391

Absolutely Photoshop worthy.

[FlamingSpork]

Thanks so much for that information!

I do have one question however. How was it decided which teams were on each side ("Winner's" or "Loser's") of the bracket?

[The other Gabe]

Originally Posted by orangemoore

The Robot started small and grew in size. Then in recent years have gotten smaller. (2012-> 2013)

& then could be nearly any size this year, other than a height restriction

[Dale]

If you are considering hosting an off-season FRC-class event different from that year's game I'd suggest you check out BunnyBots. Each year we develop a different game that is played with FRC-class robots. We intentionally keep these games simpler than a FRC game so that new members can get their feet wet before the FRC season gets underway.

BunnyBots has been a big hit in Oregon with around 24 teams taking part each season. This year's game will be released Sept 1st. We'd be happy to have more regions taking part.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by FlamingSpork

Thanks so much for that information!

I do have one question however. How was it decided which teams were on each side ("Winner's" or "Loser's") of the bracket?

Umm.... The name should say it all? You lose, you end up on that side. Otherwise, you're on the winner's side.


Actually, I'm going to go for one of my favorite old threads, dedicated to discussion of the Bracket of DOOM! There's a link to a picture of the bracket for 1998 (incidentally, the last year of that type of bracket).


On another note: I 100% agree with Ed. That TechnoKats History Project is really great for finding little gems of past games--I often go straight there when I'm working up a new "simplified game rules" for my strategy workshop.