Gitchi Gummi Get-Together 2016

[LFrisk]

We now have 18 teams signed up! It's a huge jump from two years ago at the first event where we were struggling to get enough teams to even hold an event. Any rule updates will be posted in the near future.
2175 The Fighting Calculators
4480 UC-Botics
876 Thunder Robotics
857 Superior Roboworks
3102 Tech No Tigers
3275 Regulators
3244 Granite City Gearheads
3883 Data Bits Cotta
3184 Blaze Robotics
1816 The Green Machine
2846 FireBears
4656 Rock Solid Robotics
2169 KING TeC
4009 DNA
2177 The Robettes
93 New Apple Corps

[cpapplefamily]

Rules question. Did I see it somewhere that we can have an additional 5lbs on the bot for a 125lbs limit? or maybe that was some other event? We would like to shore up a part on our bot but the last official weigh-in we were 119.5 lbs. The upgrade would tip us over. I'm not to sure if there is many places to get the weight back down.

[LFrisk]

Originally Posted by cpapplefamily

Rules question. Did I see it somewhere that we can have an additional 5lbs on the bot for a 125lbs limit? or maybe that was some other event? We would like to shore up a part on our bot but the last official weigh-in we were 119.5 lbs. The upgrade would tip us over. I'm not to sure if there is many places to get the weight back down.

We have allowed an additional 5 lbs at the Gitch in the past, but this year we decided not to do so, as most other off-season events do not allow you to do this. On the other hand, we aren't going to be overly strict about ensuring that robots aren't over 120. As long as you aren't going over by more than a pound or two, you should be fine.

[cpapplefamily]

I'm thinking we are going to tip toe the line.

[snoman]

I know this list isn't totally complete I probably missed a few things, but we got some excellent teams attending this event. I look forward to seeing all of them and I think it will be a lot of fun.



2175 The Fighting Calculators -- 2016 Curie gracious professionalism award , 2014 Archimedes

4480 UC-Botics

876 Thunder Robotics --2016 Curie finalist industrial design award, 2015 Galileo engineering inspiration award

857 Superior Roboworks -- 2016 FIM semifinals creativity Award Team Spirit award, 2015 Archimedes, 2014 Galileo

3102 Tech No Tigers -- 2016 Archimedes MN state championship design award industrial safety award, 2015 industrial safety award

3275 Regulators -- 2016 North star quarter finals

3244 Granite City Gearheads -- 2016 10000 lakes quarter finals

3883 Data Bits Cotta -- 2016 MN Northstar quarter finals

3184 Blaze Robotics -- 2016 Iowa and 10000 Lakes quarter finals, 2015 Tesla

1816 The Green Machine -- 2016 Lake Superior semi finals Minnesota state championships first Dean's List, 2015 Einstein, 2014 Archimedes

2846 FireBears -- 2016 Carver industrial safety award team spirit award, 2015 industrial design award

4656 Rock Solid Robotics -- 2016 Northern Lights quarter finals Minnesota state championships, 2015 first Dean's List

2169 KING TeC -- 2016 Illinois and Minnesota North Star quarter finals first Dean's List entrepreneurship award, 2015 Hopper engineering inspiration industrial design 2014 Curie image award Chairman's award entrepreneurship award Team Spirit award

4009 DNA-- 2016 Galileo Minnesota state championships engineering inspiration award, 2015 innovation in control award

2177 The Robettes-- 2016 Woody flowers, 2015 Dean's List 2014 Einstein Dean's List Galileo division


93 New Apple Corps-- 2016 Illinois's quarterfinals gracious professionalism Team Spirit, 2015 Carson gracious professionalism 2014 gracious professionalism

[cpapplefamily]

We where just discussing tonight that we will be in the presents of great teams. Going to learn allot.

[LFrisk]

As we were going over the teams today, it came to our attention that we only have 17 teams including ourselves. We had an error with our spreadsheet, and we accidentally had a duplicate that nobody caught. This means we have one space left open! The site should have the application up. If your team didn't get signed up but wanted to, you have another chance. Sign up as soon as you can, though. We still need to get rooming information to UMD as soon as possible.

[LFrisk]

Originally Posted by LFrisk

As we were going over the teams today, it came to our attention that we only have 17 teams including ourselves. We had an error with our spreadsheet, and we accidentally had a duplicate that nobody caught. This means we have one space left open! The site should have the application up. If your team didn't get signed up but wanted to, you have another chance. Sign up as soon as you can, though. We still need to get rooming information to UMD as soon as possible.

This space has now been filled by 5232. The list has been changed a couple of times, so here are the teams.
5232 Talons
2175 The Fighting Calculators
4480 UC-Botics
876 Thunder Robotics
857 Superior Roboworks
3102 Tech No Tigers
3275 Regulators
3244 Granite City Gearheads
3883 Data Bits Cotta
3184 Blaze Robotics
1816 The Green Machine
2846 FireBears
4656 Rock Solid Robotics
2169 KING TeC
4009 DNA
2177 The Robettes
2500 Herobotics
2512 Duluth East Daredevils

[LFrisk]

We have finally finalized the rule changes for the Gitchi Gummi Get-Together!

We are making a change to rule G38: Driving over or getting stuck on a boulder while holding another is not a violation of G38, as long as there is no intent to move it in order to score points.


Change to 5.4.4: In the event of a tie in playoffs, the match will be replayed, not decided via 5.4.4.


We have also decided to add 15 seconds to the Teleop portion of the match. This is for a couple of reasons. The tower strength is permanently raised to 10 from Worlds, and we don’t want this competition to be terribly competitive. The 15 seconds will hopefully help teams bring the tower down despite the raised strength.


Because of there being only 18 teams, there will likely be about 2 matches between each team’s matches. An additional 15 seconds per match will give teams a little bit more time.

To help with the tower strength, we have also increased the amount of boulders that can be stored in the Castle to 8.

We have a request to make! If any teams have practice robots they could bring to compete, we would be very grateful! Yet another team has backed out. We would really like to have 18 teams here, and it’s getting late enough we don’t want to force more teams to make time in schedules. If any team has a practice robot from 2016 that they could bring to compete, that would be VERY VERY helpful. We can’t make the schedule until we have a finalized list, and teams keep backing out. Any teams willing to do this can PM me and I will send you our team captain’s email so you can get registered. If necessary, we are willing to waive the 200$ fee for the practice robot.


Note: All teams registered: Please DO NOT back out! Your team made a commitment to this event, and we can’t make the schedule until the list is finalized!

[LFrisk]

We have yet another announcement/rule addition. This wasn’t posted with the other rule changes because it doesn’t directly pertain to how the game is played. We would like each time to have 3 drive teams at this event. The Gitchi Gummi is intended to be an event where students can practice driving and work on robots, not be very competitive. These three drive teams should be composed of people of different skill levels, not just the people who drove during the year. We will be referring to them as Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary. However, this doesn't necessarily mean that you should be trying to rank your students. The Primary drive team will be playing team's 1st, 4th, 7th, 10th, 13th, and 16th matches. Secondary will be playing the team's 2nd, 5th, 8th, 11th, 14th, and 17th matches. Tertiary will be playing the 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th, 15th, 18th.

This does not necessarily include the drive coach if the drive coach is using the event to pick new drivers for the new season. The main focus is that as many people as possible get driving and human player experience.

In Playoffs, teams can choose who they want to drive.

If there are more students who wish to drive than will fit on the 3 drive teams, then it's fine if you switch students out. This event is to help students get drive time and experience at events. We want as many students as possible to get that experience.

If you don't have enough students for this many students, it's completely fine.

If anyone is willing to bring a practice robot to participate, please PM me and/or Zach101 ASAP. We need to have the matches finalized by the 17th..

[snoman]

3275 is bringing a small new group. But we are excited

[BumblingBuilder]

KING TeC had quite the adventure at Gitchi Gummi. Despite the problems at every turn, we had fun. The venue was also really superb, much preferred over the high school last year.

We would like to thank 2512 for putting on a very great event. And we also thank everyone who had to put up with us through our difficulties.

We're going to have to work hard to outfit the bot for the Minne Mini, but the trip up here to Duluth, even with the thousands of problems, was definitely worth it.

Btw, really like the amount of Pokemon at Canal Park. Evolved my Growlithe

[jajabinx124]

What were the elimination alliances and results?

[snoman]

Teams 3275/3134 would also like to thank 2512. What a fun , fast pace, well run event. Definitely planning on attending next year. Great job!

[hutchMN]

Originally Posted by jajabinx124

What were the elimination alliances and results?

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