BC17: Registration Opens 18-Apr @ 1200

[Ben Wolsieffer]

Has anyone seen the list of teams that are registered? When I go to the page I get an error.

[SGK]

Seems OK.

http://www.wpi.edu/news/Events/Battl...allengers.html

[Chi Meson]

This took a while to accumulate, but here is the history of BattleCry Victors. I thought I'd post it here so I can find it again in the future!

2000: 190, 173, 42
2001: 177, 175, 121
2002: 190, 121, 311
2003: 166, 69, 1100
2004: 181, 177 (no 3rd bot listed anywhere)
2005: 40, 121, 596
2006:177, 176, 839
2007: 1153, 1685, 271
2008: 40, 121, 1474
2009: 172, 121, 40
2010: 40, 78, 1729
2011: 1073, 1519, 238
2012: 1519, 2168, 125
2013: 663, 3467, 195
2014: 4048, 2168, 3719
2015: 2067, 2168, 4564

Most wins: (5) 121--Rhode Warriors; (4) 40--Checkmate

[Francis-134]

Originally Posted by Chi Meson

This took a while to accumulate, but here is the history of BattleCry Victors. I thought I'd post it here so I can find it again in the future!

2000: 190, 173, 42
2001: 177, 175, 121
2002: 190, 121, 311
2003: 166, 69, 1100
2004: 181, 177 (no 3rd bot listed anywhere)
2005: 40, 121, 596
2006:177, 176, 839
2007: 1153, 1685, 271
2008: 40, 121, 1474
2009: 172, 121, 40
2010: 40, 78, 1729
2011: 1073, 1519, 238
2012: 1519, 2168, 125
2013: 663, 3467, 195
2014: 4048, 2168, 3719
2015: 2067, 2168, 4564

Most wins: (5) 121--Rhode Warriors; (4) 40--Checkmate

Wow, it's great to know team Cash-and-Prizes is still on top!

[Peter Matteson]

Originally Posted by Chi Meson

2004: 181, 177 (no 3rd bot listed anywhere)

This was the last 2v2 game.
There were not enough teams for our alliance to have a third bot that year, so this is correct.

[Chi Meson]

Glad to know we are in from the Wait-List. As usual, it's looking like a replay of New England Champs for the most part. But Welcome Back to New England, Shaker Robotics! Now featuring one of our graduates as a mentor!

The current line-up is:
121 Rhode Warriors Middletown RI
126 Gael Force Clinton MA
131 CHAOS Candia NH
138 Entropy Amherst NH
157 AZTECHS Marlborough MA
166 Chop Shop Merrimack NH
172 Northern Force Gorham ME
173 RAGE (Robotics And Gadget Engineering) Tolland CT
175 Buzz Robotics Enfield CT
176 Aces High Robotics Windsor Locks CT
181 Birds of Prey Hartford CT
190 Gompei & the HERD Worcester MA
195 CyberKnights Southington CT
228 GUS Robotics Meriden CT
237 Black Magic Robotics Watertown CT
238 Cruisin Crusaders Manchetser NH
246 Overclocked Boston MA
467 The Colonials Shrewsbury MA
501 The PowerKnights Manchester NH
716 Who'sCTEKS Falls Village CT
839 Rosie Robotics Agawam MA
885 The Green Team Randolph Ctr VT
1058 PVC Pirates Londonderry NH
1073 The Force Team Hollis NH
1100 T-Hawks Northborough MA
1124 ÜberBots Avon CT
1153 RoboRebels Walpole MA
1474 MasterLink Militia Tewksbury MA
1735 Green Reapers Worcester MA
2079 4H Alarm Robotics Franklin MA
2084 Robots by the C MANCHESTER MA
2168 Aluminum Falcons Groton CT
2262 Holliston RoboPanthers Holliaton MA
2342 Phoenix Robotics Nashua NH
2423 The KwarQs Watertown MA
2648 Infinite Loop Oakland ME
2791 Shaker Robotics Latham NY
2876 Devilbotz Burlington MA
2877 The LigerBots Newton MA
3182 Athena's Warriors Colchester CT
3236 TriForce Franklin MA
3314 Mechanical Mustangs Clifton NJ
3461 Operation PEACCE Robotics Bristol CT
3467 The Windham Windup Windham NH
3719 STEM Whalers New London CT
3958 Schrodinger's Cat Dorchester MA
4048 Redshift Westborough MA
4097 Devilbots Northampton MA
4151 S.C.R.A.P. Weymouth MA
4176 Iron Tigers North Easton MA
4311 Swampscott Currents Swampscott MA
4473 REM Delta Prime Farmingdale ME
4557 The FullMetal Falcons Middletown CT
4564 Orange Chaos Brewer ME
4761 The Robockets Reading MA
4909 Bionics Billerica MA
5122 robOTies Old Town ME
5400 WARP Worcester MA
5556 Carriagetown Robotics Amesbury MA
5813 Morpheus Concord NH

[Brian Maher]

Originally Posted by Chi Meson

But Welcome Back to New England, Shaker Robotics! Now featuring one of our graduates as a mentor!

Shaker is looking forward to making our Stronghold debut in New England! There are so many amazing teams on the roster we can't wait to play with!

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by BMSOTM

Shaker is looking forward to making our Stronghold debut in New England! There are so many amazing teams on the roster we can't wait to play with!

Last time Shaky set foot in WPI they walked out with a medal... just saying.

[Kevin Leonard]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

Last time Shaky set foot in WPI they walked out with a medal... just saying.

And just a medal.

[jtrv]

Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard

And just a medal.

We wound up getting a 2nd place banner...

[Bmarshall645]

Have volunteer role assignments been sent out yet?

[MooreteP]

Originally Posted by Chi Meson

Glad to know we are in from the Wait-List. As usual, it's looking like a replay of New England Champs for the most part. But Welcome Back to New England, Shaker Robotics! Now featuring one of our graduates as a mentor!

Also 3314, The Mechanical Mustangs from New Jersey.
They were at Waterbury and BattleCry the last two years.
IN my opinion, a top-notch team.

[Jay O'Donnell]

Hey Colleen/Francis, are you guys accepting submissions for the mentor of the year award (I think it's called Battlecry Star)? If so, how do you submit?

[ColleenShaver]

Our Tactical Update and Rule Changes have been posted! Go check them out at www.wpi.edu/+bc

BC Star is an opportunity for teams to nominate a mentor to be recognized by their team for their outstanding work and dedication to FIRST. Past BC Star recipients will review the submissions and select a winner. The chosen team will be invited to come up during the awards ceremony and recognize their mentor!

[Jay O'Donnell]

Originally Posted by ColleenShaver

Our Tactical Update and Rule Changes have been posted! Go check them out at www.wpi.edu/+bc

BC Star is an opportunity for teams to nominate a mentor to be recognized by their team for their outstanding work and dedication to FIRST. Past BC Star recipients will review the submissions and select a winner. The chosen team will be invited to come up during the awards ceremony and recognize their mentor!

Very happy to see the blanks be changed to second round picks only. The second seed getting 4564 from a blank last year was just disheartening to everyone else.

Also happy to see the drawbridge and SP taken away. Makes defenses as a whole much easier, I doubt we'll see anyone working with the category A defenses unless they just want extra defense points. Hopefully this leads to more teams scoring boulders and less teams breaking down.

The center dot is super interesting. I bet we'll see a lot of missed captures because of it. It's a very risky play to go for it if an opponent is too, but it could change the playoffs in an instant.

Overall I really like the rule changes and I'm excited to see how it plays out!