CAGE Match VIII

[carpedav000]

Originally Posted by Taylor

Emergency Munchie Truck

Yes, love the E.M.T. Good thing I should be back on the team by CAGE.

[Chris_Elston]

Originally Posted by Logan Byers

While I remember seeing a noodle or two negate a stack/container score, I don't recall this being a very common issue. Is this maybe more common than what I thought?

Happened to us twice and once at worlds. I am certain that if the stack would have counted we would have had a world record with Poofs. No big deal to me, we just need to learn to not do that...LOL...

http://www.thebluealliance.com/match/2015cars_qm114
Well - I just did the math...really CLOSE 280 would have been. Record is 290.

[logank013]

Originally Posted by Chris_Elston

No big deal to me, we just need to learn to not do that...

Probably not helpful now that the season is over, but is there any way for your robot to slide a stack onto the scoring platform vs. going onto the platform and dropping the stack like you usually do? Just wondering now.

[Chris_Elston]

Originally Posted by logank013

Probably not helpful now that the season is over, but is there any way for your robot to slide a stack onto the scoring platform vs. going onto the platform and dropping the stack like you usually do? Just wondering now.

Yes, when we "straddle" stack, that's the way the robot was designed. There is a preset button to lift the stack to the top of the surface via a PID loop, however I remember that we didn't get the preset right on that last stack shown in the video and it lifted too high or the button was pressed a bit early, otherwise the noodle should have never gotten under the stack, it would have been pushed out of the way. The first stack in reference to the video, was stacked we call the "hard way" is not really the way our robot was designed so it's more skill of the drivers to get that stack to stick. But I understand what you are saying and that was our thought process was to get the stack bottom to mate up with the top of the scoring surface so nothing would fit inbetween, but it just didn't work out that way for us.

[Taylor]

Attending Team Update:
1529 CyberCards
1741 Red Alert
4485 Tribe Tech
3138 Innovators Robotics
461 Westside Boiler Invasion
1501 THRUST
3494 The Quadrangles
868 TechHOUNDS
234 Cyber Blue
4272 Maverick Boiler Robotics
135 Penn Robotics

Early registration discount ends soon! Get in quickly!

[Hgree56]

Originally Posted by Taylor

Attending Team Update:
1529 CyberCards
1741 Red Alert
4485 Tribe Tech
3138 Innovators Robotics
461 Westside Boiler Invasion
1501 THRUST
3494 The Quadrangles
868 TechHOUNDS
234 Cyber Blue
4272 Boiler Maverick Robotics
135 Penn Robotics

Early registration discount ends soon! Get in quickly!

*Maverick Boiler Robotics

[Taylor]

Attending Team Update (we're over half full!):
1 1529 CyberCards
2 1741 Red Alert
3 4485 Tribe Tech
4 3138 Innovators Robotics
5 461 Westside Boiler Invasion
6 1501 THRUST
7 3494 The Quadrangles
8 868 TechHOUNDS
9 234 Cyber Blue
10 4272 Maverick Boiler Robotics
11 135 Penn Robotics
12 3940 CyberTooth
13 1024 Kil-A-Bytes
14 2171 Robo Dogs
15 5188 Classified Robotics
16 5403 Aluminosity
17 1646 Boiler Precision Guessworks

Early registration $25 discount ends very soon! Get in quickly!

It's very cool how many teams will also be competing at the IndyRAGE event. October will be a busy month (good practice for the upcoming backtobacktoback district season ).

[MechEng83]

Is the scholarship information going to be updated? I've got a few seniors who will be applying.
Thanks.

[logank013]

Originally Posted by Taylor

Attending Team Update (we're over half full!):
1 1529 CyberCards
2 1741 Red Alert
3 4485 Tribe Tech
4 3138 Innovators Robotics
5 461 Westside Boiler Invasion
6 1501 THRUST
7 3494 The Quadrangles
8 868 TechHOUNDS
9 234 Cyber Blue
10 4272 Maverick Boiler Robotics
11 135 Penn Robotics
12 3940 CyberTooth
13 1024 Kil-A-Bytes
14 2171 Robo Dogs
15 5188 Classified Robotics
16 5403 Aluminosity
17 1646 Boiler Precision Guessworks

Early registration $25 discount ends very soon! Get in quickly!

It's very cool how many teams will also be competing at the IndyRAGE event. October will be a busy month (good practice for the upcoming backtobacktoback district season ).

Super true. And the best thing is both events are in the same school district. Interesting to see if they post anything about these events on our township website.

[Taylor]

Attending Team Update (only 9-10 spots remaining!):
1 1529 CyberCards
2 1741 Red Alert
3 4485 Tribe Tech
4 3138 Innovators Robotics
5 461 Westside Boiler Invasion
6 1501 THRUST
7 3494 The Quadrangles
8 868 TechHOUNDS
9 234 Cyber Blue
10 4272 Maverick Boiler Robotics
11 135 Penn Robotics
12 3940 CyberTooth
13 1024 Kil-A-Bytes
14 2171 Robo Dogs
15 5188 Classified Robotics
16 5403 Aluminosity
17 1646 Boiler Precision Guessworks
18 45 TechnoKats
19 829 The Digital Goats
20 447 Team Roboto

Early registration $25 discount ends Friday! Get in quickly!

*For those who have done the match and are saying "Hey, 20 + 9 or 10 does not equal 32!" we are expecting 2 or 3 pre-rookie teams to join us.

[logank013]

Originally Posted by Taylor

Attending Team Update:
1529 CyberCards
1741 Red Alert
4485 Tribe Tech
3138 Innovators Robotics
461 Westside Boiler Invasion
1501 THRUST
3494 The Quadrangles
868 TechHOUNDS
234 Cyber Blue
4272 Maverick Boiler Robotics
135 Penn Robotics

Early registration discount ends soon! Get in quickly!

Team List Update? It may be a few week way but I'm getting pumped because I want to go to a competition again. Haha. Thanks

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by logank013

Team List Update?

The CAGE Match web site has the live list of registered teams.

http://thecagematch.com/main/whos-coming

[logank013]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

The CAGE Match web site has the live list of registered teams.

http://thecagematch.com/main/whos-coming

Thanks

[carpedav000]

Time for some predictions:

Rankings (1-10)-

1.) 234
2.) 1501
3.) 1024
4.) 5188
5.) 1741
6.) 135
7.) 868
8.) 829
9.) 1747
10.) 5403

Alliances-

1.) 234, 1501, 447 (SF)
2.) 1024, 5188, 45 (W)
3.) 1741, 829, 3940 (F)
4.) 135, 868, 3138 (QF)
5.) 1747, 5403, 4485 (SF)
6.) 461, 4272, 3176 (QF)
7.) 2171, 3494, 1529 (QF)
8.) 148, 33, 2056 (QF)


NOTE: I know the 8th alliance consists of teams that arent coming.

[sciencenuetzel]

I am glad we made it further than 2056.