Team Update 2 (2016)

[GeeTwo]

How do you post a question to the Q&A? I created an account on Thursday, got the e-mail, verified, saw a web page that said I had full access, and logged in, but I can't find any place to ask a new question. Is the control hidden somewhere in plain sight?

• The Q&A tab looks the same as before
• The Team Questions tab says "Your request is in pending state"
• The My Account tab says
  • Account Information (with info)
  • Change Password (with blocks for that)
  • User Settings (with two check boxes)
  • Questions I'm Following (with an empty table, as I have not followed any questions)

[RufflesRidge]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

How do you post a question to the Q&A? I created an account on Thursday...

You use the account info in TIMS, don't create one with your personal info. Personal accounts basically let you follow questions and that's about it.

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by RufflesRidge

You use the account info in TIMS, don't create one with your personal info. Personal accounts basically let you follow questions and that's about it.

Thanks. I just thought they were anonymizing the names of those posting questions. Can any of the mentors/contacts associated with a team get this from TIMS, or just the primary and alternate? I don't see where the password would be.

[Mark McLeod]

It's only available to the team's Main Contact and Alternate Contact.
I think the intention is to only have one person per team collecting and submitting questions, but a team can designate anyone to do that job.

[Kevin Sevcik]

Completely aside, but I just noticed 118 has a Q&A that can be summarized: "Were you serious about that G18 thing?"

I asked Q504 fully expecting the given answer. I am proud to have been correct and apparently ruined 118's day.

[Mike Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

Completely aside, but I just noticed 118 has a Q&A that can be summarized: "Were you serious about that G18 thing?"

I asked Q504 fully expecting the given answer. I am proud to have been correct and apparently ruined 118's day.

Does anything prevent you from hanging this way for 10 points? Take a foul to make design simpler? The 'if repeated robot will be disabled' clause is pretty vague, repeated within the match? Repeated match to match? Perhaps a Q&A question.

[cgmv123]

Originally Posted by Mike Schreiber

Does anything prevent you from hanging this way for 10 points? Take a foul to make design simpler? The 'if repeated robot will be disabled' clause is pretty vague, repeated within the match? Repeated match to match? Perhaps a Q&A question.

Given that Frank has said the GDC never wants teams intentionally taking fouls, I'm pretty certain what their response to that Q&A question will be.

[Chak]

Originally Posted by Mike Schreiber

Does anything prevent you from hanging this way for 10 points? Take a foul to make design simpler? The 'if repeated robot will be disabled' clause is pretty vague, repeated within the match? Repeated match to match? Perhaps a Q&A question.

You might want to follow Q589

[jeremy callahan]

Originally Posted by Mike Schreiber

Does anything prevent you from hanging this way for 10 points? Take a foul to make design simpler? The 'if repeated robot will be disabled' clause is pretty vague, repeated within the match? Repeated match to match? Perhaps a Q&A question.

let's be honest Hot won't be taking a penalty to get the extra 10 points. Hot doesn't do simple.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by jeremy callahan

let's be honest Hot won't be taking a penalty to get the extra 10 points. Hot doesn't do simple.

Particularly when one of those two rules is an immediate disable for violating it, no "repeated" about it.

[sanddrag]

Very glad I came across this before we built something. G18 ruins a lot of very innovative designs. I cannot understand why they don't want teams rotating to hang. It worked very well for some teams in 2010.

[FrankJ]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

... I cannot understand why they don't want teams rotating to hang. ...

To be clear. it is not that you can't rotate, it can't violate the extension 15" beyond the frame perimeter rule.

[JB987]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Very glad I came across this before we built something. G18 ruins a lot of very innovative designs. I cannot understand why they don't want teams rotating to hang. It worked very well for some teams in 2010.

Or...G18 stimulates a lot of very, very innovative designs

[pfreivald]

Originally Posted by JB987

Or...G18 stimulates a lot of very, very innovative designs

Exactly. G18 makes it harder, which is reason enough to make the rule!

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by JB987

Or...G18 stimulates a lot of very, very innovative designs

This. My students have come up with an interesting design for a Swiss Army... Arm. That includes scaling while staying inside the 15" envelope.

Also, G18 doesn't prevent rotating to hang. I keep saying that Ri3D 1.0's scaling mechanism looks G18 legal or easily made so, and they do a 90 degree curl to scale. I get the feeling that when people are complaining about it restricting innovative designs, they mean it restricts innovative designs they've seen work before in other competitions.