2016 MAR Season

[Brian Maher]

Originally Posted by vmorgs

For those of you not at Montgomery and not live streaming it, I thought I'd let you know they just announced it will be the top 60 teams going to Lehigh instead of the top 55.

I am happy to hear this. Going to MAR Champs can be a really inspirational experience. My team's first MAR Champs appearance in 2014 did a ton to motivate the team; it made us want to be good enough to return every year. I'm glad that five more teams will be presented with this opportunity.

[Hallry]

With the last District Event in the bag, here are my unofficial rankings going into MAR Champs: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing. Congratulations and best of luck to everyone that is a lock to compete at MAR Champs next weekend!

[Ben Martin]

Congratulations to 5895, 56, and 41 for winning Montgomery! I couldn't watch the stream today, so I look forward to watching the playoffs footage.

[YoJoe360]

Originally Posted by Ben Martin

Congratulations to 5895, 56, and 41 for winning Montgomery! I couldn't watch the stream today, so I look forward to watching the playoffs footage.

Thank you! It was a huge moment for all of us at 5895, and I am so grateful for this amazing team we have. Shout out to our head scout for the fantastic data which allowed us to choose our incredible alliance. And if anyone from 56 or 41 is reading, thank you for being amazing alliance mates. I am extremely excited for MAR as a rookie.

[AGPapa]

Originally Posted by Ben Martin

Congratulations to 5895, 56, and 41 for winning Montgomery! I couldn't watch the stream today, so I look forward to watching the playoffs footage.

Thanks Ben! See you at Lehigh!

It sure was a crazy weekend! I'd like to thank our fantastic alliance partners 56 and 41! They were incredible. I also need to thank our scouts for finding those teams, they really did an unbelievable job.

I also want to draw attention to an ingenious defense selection made by our finals oppenents (222, 190 and 6203). For the finals they had us face the rough terrain instead of the rock wall (which nearly all alliances pick, as the rough terrain is laughable easy to cross). Because of that, we actually hadn't run our rough terrain auto routine for the whole event (we faced the rock wall each time); finals 1 was the first time it was really tested on an actual field. That clever trick made us miss our auto shot that match (we fixed it for finals 2 though). Anyways, I just wanted to give a shoutout to an incredibly clever tactic that cost us 10 points in the finals.


I was impressed with the changes 5684 made for Montgomery. They completely remade and greatly improved their collector, and added a cdf auto routine! It's incredible that this second year team has been an alliance captain at three out of their four district events in team history.


Anyway, here are the top 60 teams that will receive invites to MAR Champs. This is going to be such a crazy event!

225 - TechFire 
2590 - Nemesis 
1676 - The Pascack PI-oneers 
1257 - Parallel Universe 
5624 - Tiger Tech 
365 - Miracle Workerz 
1218 - Vulcan Robotics 
11 - MORT 
25 - Raider Robotix 
5895 - Peddie School Robotics 
56 - R.O.B.B.E. 
193 - MORT Beta 
708 - Hatters Robotics 
1640 - Sab-BOT-age 
834 - SparTechs 
341 - Miss Daisy 
4573 - SRNJRambotics 
303 - The T.E.S.T. Team 
222 - Tigertrons 
3637 - The Daleks 
41 - RoboWarriors 
1391 - The METAL MOOSE 
5404 - Gearaffes 
6203 - Titanium Knights Robotics 
3314 - Mechanical Mustangs 
1403 - Cougar Robotics 
869 - PowerCord 
4454 - Artisan Rockets 
1089 - Team Mercury 
5407 - Wolfpack Robotics 
1626 - Falcon Robotics 
6226 - Blue Devils 
5684 - Iron Mechs 
2607 - The Fighting RoboVikings 
2016 - Mighty Monkey Wrenches 
1811 - FRESH 
75 - RoboRaiders 
1923 - The MidKnight Inventors 
102 - The Gearheads 
223 - Xtreme Heat 
4954 - Palindrome Robotics 
484 - Roboforce 
2559 - Normality Zero 
2234 - Alternating Current 
4342 - Demon Robotics 
4653 - Ironmen Robotics 
5666 - Purple Lightning 
4750 - BERT 
5113 - Combustible Lemons 
1143 - Cruzin' Comets 
1647 - Iron Devils 
272 - Cyber-Crusaders 
6016 - Tiger Robotics 
423 - Simple Machines 
5938 - Razor Steel Robotics 
2095 - Direct Current 
1989 - Viking Robotics 
219 - Team Impact 
5457 - Falcobots 
321 - RoboLancers

If any of those teams decline the next five on the list to get in are:

5401 - Fightin' Robotic Owls 
1712 - Dawgma 
4575 - The Tin Mints 
4637 - BambieBotz 
1279 - Cold Fusion

Good luck to everyone next weekend!

[ScandallB225]

Originally Posted by vmorgs

For those of you not at Montgomery and not live streaming it, I thought I'd let you know they just announced it will be the top 60 teams going to Lehigh instead of the top 55.

Has the schedule changed for MAR CMP? 5 more teams will add 10 matches at 12 matches per team. ~ 7 minutes per match = +35 minutes for each of Thursday and Friday evening?

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by ScandallB225

Has the schedule changed for MAR CMP? 5 more teams will add 10 matches at 12 matches per team. ~ 7 minutes per match = +35 minutes for each of Thursday and Friday evening?

10 more matches will have to be added into the schedule somewhere, and 5 more pits have to be squeezed in too

[jfischer]

Originally Posted by YoJoe360

Thank you! It was a huge moment for all of us at 5895, and I am so grateful for this amazing team we have. Shout out to our head scout for the fantastic data which allowed us to choose our incredible alliance. And if anyone from 56 or 41 is reading, thank you for being amazing alliance mates. I am extremely excited for MAR as a rookie.

A big thanks to Team 5895 for picking us as your partners. You were an amazing rookie team and great captains. You had a strong game plan which worked perfectly. It was also great to play with our friends and long time pit neighbors Team 41.

[George A.]

Originally Posted by Hallry

10 more matches will have to be added into the schedule somewhere, and 5 more pits have to be squeezed in too

This has been the subject of some discussion going back and forth for all volunteers. AFAIK the schedule hasn't been updated and will come out soon?

[Ben Martin]

Running through the numbers--it looks like for playoff rounds, it is likely that the 16th pick will be able to shoot well, scale, or just be really, really good at driving/low goaling. The field keeps getting deeper at every event as teams get better at shooting and scaling. There will be many good robots that go unpicked.

Speaking of good robots, the range from 60-67 on the rankings is loaded with teams who either improved drastically between events or got stuck multiple times on the back half of the draft. I wonder if we will see any teams decline the invitation, and some of these teams could make it in.

[vmorgs]

Originally Posted by Ben Martin

Speaking of good robots, the range from 60-67 on the rankings is loaded with teams who either improved drastically between events or got stuck multiple times on the back half of the draft. I wonder if we will see any teams decline the invitation, and some of these teams could make it in.

I'm a coach of the 60th team and this is KILLING me! Do teams typically decline their invitations? This is my first year as a coach so have no frame of reference.

[George A.]

Originally Posted by vmorgs

I'm a coach of the 60th team and this is KILLING me! Do teams typically decline their invitations? This is my first year as a coach so have no frame of reference.

Last year several teams declined to the point where there were 55 slots available but only 53 teams competed.

A combination of the short notice, the back to back weeks, the registration cost, or maybe qualified for Championships from another avenue (Regional award/win etc).

So if you are 60th in the rankings I would at least start making plans (getting registration fees together, getting a bus reserved, and students getting prepared) in the event that you receive the call.

[M.O'Reilly]

Hm, the FIRST website was updated this morning to list the 60 registered teams for the MAR Championship.

Can't imagine it's completely accurate though, since two of the teams are not actually MAR teams (1671 and 4594). Perhaps typos? Looks like 1676 is a qualifier but not listed as registered.

http://www.firstinspires.org/team-ev...event?id=17365

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by M.O'Reilly

Hm, the FIRST website was updated this morning to list the 60 registered teams for the MAR Championship.

Can't imagine it's completely accurate though, since two of the teams are not actually MAR teams (1671 and 4594). Perhaps typos? Looks like 1676 is a qualifier but not listed as registered.

http://www.firstinspires.org/team-ev...event?id=17365

That is interesting. I can confirm that 1676 is planning on attending MAR Champs.

[Ben Martin]

Originally Posted by M.O'Reilly

Hm, the FIRST website was updated this morning to list the 60 registered teams for the MAR Championship.

Can't imagine it's completely accurate though, since two of the teams are not actually MAR teams (1671 and 4594). Perhaps typos? Looks like 1676 is a qualifier but not listed as registered.

http://www.firstinspires.org/team-ev...event?id=17365

Looks like 1671 is a typo of 1676 and 4594 is a typo of 4954