2015 Cow Town ThrowDown

[cdurgan]

The 2015 Cow Town ThrowDown will take place on Friday October 30th and Saturday October 31st, 2015.

Registration is now open. For details about the event and to register, visit http://cttd-robotics.com/

[CalTran]

Is CTTD adopting any of the off season rule changes, ie IRI auto can rules?

Apart from that, my former team, MMR 2410 is always looking forward to this event, and I certainly love volunteering at it! (Speaking of which, who should I email this year for that? Same as last year?)

[bstew]

Originally Posted by CalTran

Is CTTD adopting any of the off season rule changes, ie IRI auto can rules?

According to the CTTD website here:

FIRST and the Game Design Committee did an excellent job creating rules for the 2015 game, Recycle Rush. There may be a short list of rule changes to the game and how it is played and scored. These changes will be emailed to all registered coaches and posted here. As in the past, the following tournament rules will apply

• +5 pounds allowed. Honor system, unless the referees question you.
• Four teams will be on each alliance in the finals. (see section I)
• Alliance selection is:
  1. 1-8 (from outside the top 8)
  2. 8-1
  3. 1-8
  4. (See section I. (Alliance Selection) for a complete description of the alliance selection process.)
• No extra backup teams are needed, since each alliance has its own backup. there is no requirement to play the backup team.
• Alliances may choose to field any three of the four teams in the alliance. Lower seeded alliance must declare robots first
• FIRST tiebreaker rules apply except for the finals where ties will be replayed.

[holygrail]

Here are the teams that are listed as registered so far. As always it is shaping up to be a great competition! Looks like 34 teams registered so far. Sorry about the rough formatting from the iPad.

Team # Team Name School Name
525 Swartdogs Cedar Falls High School
967 Iron Lions Linn-Mar High School
1094 Channel Cats River City Robots
1108 Panther Robotics Paola High School
1339 Angelbotics Denver East High
1619 Up-A-Creek Robotics Career Development Center
1710 Ravonics Revolution Olathe Northwest high School
1730 Team Driven Lee's Summit High School
1763 Paseliens Paseo Academy of the Arts
1764 Liberty Robotics Liberty Public Schools
1769 Digital Hawks J.C. Harmon High School
1775 Tiger Bytes Lincoln College Preparatory
1802 Team Stealth Piper Robotics
1806 S.W.A.T. Smithville High School
1810 Jaguar Robotics Mill Valley High School
1847 Bulldogs Wyandotte High School
1939 The Kuh-Nig-Its The Barstow School
1982 Cougar Robotics Shawnee Mission Northwest
1986 Team Titanium Lee's Summit West High School
1987 Broncobots Lee's Summit North High School
1994 Horse Power FL Schlagle
2001 HERMES Ruskin High School
2335 Sargon Shawnee Mission East
2410 Metal Mustang Robotics Blue Valley CAPS Center
3284 Camdenton 4H LASER Camdenton High School
3485 Cyclone Robotics Bishop Ward High School
3528 Up Next! KC Northland Homeschool
3792 Army Ants Columbia Area Career Center
3928 FIRST Team Neutrino Ames High School
4329 Lutheran Roboteers Lutheran High School St. Charles
4522 Team SCREAM Smith-Cotton High School
4646 ASAP Des Moines
5006 Apophis Haas Hall Academy
5730 The Professionals Monett High School

[Alpha Beta]

The website shows 50 teams registered, and none on the wait list. Last year's event had 50. What is the capacity this year? Looks like a fantastic slate of teams.

[KCruz]

CowTown Throwdown released their rule changes:

http://cttd-robotics.com/files/2015....le.Changes.pdf

Highlights include:

*Can only access right-side step cans during autonomous
*One extra can per alliance
*Yellow totes are score-able on scoring platforms
*Relaxation of transportation configuration rules

[Tom Ore]

We just got our robot back from China. We have some repairs to make - we had a somewhat minor failure in China in our last semi-final match that twisted the frame we carry totes with and jammed up our elevator. We'll be good to go for Cow Town - we're excited to be going back again.

[TheBoulderite]

Any chance Cow Town will be livestreamed this year?

[Drivencrazy]

Originally Posted by TheBoulderite

Any chance Cow Town will be livestreamed this year?

Yes according to internal sources

[IronicDeadBird]

East Angelbotics while registered is sad to say while we are down to clown at the cow town throw down we are not able to make it due to issues that have arisen. But good luck to all those we can make it. Please remember it is scientifically proven that the team that makes the most noise always wins.

[Ryan Dognaux]

4329 will be attending with both of our competition robot and practice robot. Unfortunately I can't be there but the rest of the team is well prepared and will see everyone tomorrow!

If there's a live stream link once things get going please post it, thank you!

[stopyourself]

2335 is ready to go! Though we'll be bringing a smaller team this year, we are still very excited!

[Drivencrazy]

Stream is live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAzBLKny68M

[runneals]

Photos from CTTD that I take can be found here. I'm trying to get some of all the teams that are in attendance. Feel free to use them for your team! Photos from Friday are up!

-David

[z4t143]

Team 4329, The Lutheran Roboteers, would like to thank all the organizers and volunteers for putting on another great CTTD event!

We also thank Team 1986, Team Titanium, for selecting both our primary (4329) and secondary (432) teams to be on their alliance for elims.

The students had a blast and the new parents who attended with our team are now hooked on FRC!

Well done by ALL!

See you next year as we compete and partner in "Stronghold"!