WVROX

[John Weissman]

Is there a updated team list for this year? 1640 applied but we haven't heard anything. Thanks for your help.

[Alex2614]

FINAL TEAM LIST. 24 teams were selected on a first-come, first-served basis. If your team has paid the registration, but is not on the list, you are on the waitlist.

Final Team List for WVROX 2016, with 10 states and 3 countries represented:
48 Delphi E.L.I.T.E. - Warren, OH
456 Siege Robotics - Vicksburg, MS
888 Robotiators - Glenelg, MD
1038 Lakota Robotics - Cincinnati, OH
1071 Team Max - Wolcott, CT
1126 SparX - Webster, NY
1257 Parallel Universe - Scotch Plains, NJ
1325 Inverse Paradox - Mississauga, ON, Canada (returning champions)
1629 GaCo - Accident, MD
1708 Amp'd Robotics - McKeesport, PA
2614 MARS - Morgantown, WV
2656 Quasics - Monroeville, PA
3193 Falco Tech - Austintown, OH
3260 SHARP - Pittsburgh, PA
3492 PARTs - Winfield, WV
3504 Girls of Steel - Pittsburgh, PA
3511 Road Dogs - New Stanton, PA
3844 Kentucky Wildbots - Corbin, KY
4265 Secret City Wildbots - Oak Ridge, TN
4467 Titanium Titans - Canonsburg, PA
4505 McDonogh Eagle Robotics - Owings Mill, MD (returning champions)
4954 4H palindrome Robotics - Middletown, DE (returning champions)
5418 Sonic Screwdrivers - Hubbard, OH
9999 Girls of Steel (China Exchange Team) - China

Please feel free to like our Facebook page or visit our website for updates or for more information. Keep an eye out for T-shirt sales to go live on the website very soon! (for pickup at the event)

We at MARS cannot wait for the excitement to start! We're saving up all of our sleep for August 5.

[escime]

The latest update for the event has been posted to http://www.marsfirst.org/wvrox-2016/. Included are details about the 3 scholarships being offered, the mentor award, a draft schedule, and other details.

[ChuckDickerson]

Is WVRoX going to be webcast this year? Link?

Any other updates?

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by ChuckDickerson

Is WVRoX going to be webcast this year? Link?

Any other updates?

Yes it is. This was mentioned in the latest "WVROX FAQ 7/21/16" update posted here - http://www.marsfirst.org/wvrox-2016/.

[Alex2614]

Originally Posted by ChuckDickerson

Is WVRoX going to be webcast this year? Link?

Any other updates?

Our local NASA facility is providing the webcast at http://robotics.nasa.gov/events/live...m=wv_0802-0314

Other updates including pool and rock wall access, meals, load-in, etc. should have been emailed to every team by the university's events manager.

[Alex2614]

So who's ready for the special matches!?

There will be 5 special match cycles, and teams should expect 35 qualification matches. i.e. these happen in series of matches, so every team plays one of each of these specialty matches. And yes, they count for ranking

Lights out match: Lights will be dimmed. 3 human players allowed in spy position with intense flashlights to illuminate balls
or defenses. Back coaches will inbound balls

Mentor/parent drive team: The drive team and the human player must consist of coaches, mentors, etc. The back coach
must be a student team member

Silent Match: No music, no drive team talking, no game announcer. Only hand signal communication allowed.

Insane Balls Match: All defenses removed except the low bars. Crossing a defense position scored as normal. Shooting
permitted from all zones. All balls must be reentered into the field as soon as they exit the tower. 12 extra balls
placed on the field. Human players may attempt to score from the feeder position.

Bid the tower strength: Each alliance submits a secret ballot for tower strength of the opposing alliance. The two bids are
then averaged together and the tower capture level set to that number.

[Tangert]

Thank you MARS and WVU for making this an awesome event. To all the teams it was great competing with you, and thanks to all the Volunteers. It was awesome and we can't wait until 2 years from now. I am now going to sleep.

[escime]

Thanks go out to all the teams who made WVRoX such a success. We completed 108 qualification matches (27 per team) along with a full elimination round in just under 26 hours. Teams lent each other entire robots so that machines and drivers could keep competing - a wonderful display of Gracious Professionalism. The crews from AndyMark and FIRST were awesome and our volunteer emcees and game announcers did a fabulous job as well. On behalf of MARS, it was a honor to have you in our "house!"

[TheBoulderite]

For those who weren't there, who won the event?

[MrMARVINMan]

Alliance selections and results:

Alliance 1: 456-2614-3492 (W)
Alliance 2: 1629-3193-1071 (SF)
Alliance 3: 3844-4265-5418 (F)
Alliance 4: 3511-48-888 (QF)
Alliance 5: 4467-1325-686 (SF)
Alliance 6: 4954-4505-2655 (QF)
Alliance 7: 2656-1126-1708 (QF)
Alliance 8: 3504-9999-3260 (QF)

[Tangert]

Thank you MARS and WVU for making this an awesome event. To all the teams it was great competing with you, and thanks to all the Volunteers. It was awesome and we can't wait until 2 years from now. I am now going to sleep.

[M. Mellott]

This was a great tournament--hats off to WVU and MARS for all of the hard work that went into putting on this event. I know every member of our team had a blast, though the bus ride home was more about catching up on sleep than sharing stories (and thanks to the Sonic Screwdrivers 5418 for sharing their bus!). The next 2 years is going to crawl until we can do this again!

Congratulations to the winning alliance...teams 456 and 2614 had robots that just performed consistently well the entire tournament, all the way to the end.

Thank you to 1629 for picking us to their #2 alliance...It was a blast to play with you. Thanks also to our other alliance partner 1071 for all of your efforts. All I can say is sorry for our intake motor dying there in the Semi-finals. I guess 34 matches in 24 hours was its limit .

Also congrats to the hard work that our NEOFRA friends put in--teams 48 and 5418. And congrats to 5418 for making it to the finals! Having you all there to share the experience made it even more amazing!

Here's hoping that once everyone gets a little sleep, you all can come to our home in Austintown, OH on Sunday, Sept. 25 for our one-day tournament: MVRC. See you there!

[ChuckDickerson]

Team 456 wishes to express our sincere thank you to West Virginia University, MARS 2614, and everyone involved in putting on WVRoX 2016. Once again this was a WORLD-CLASS event and if you weren’t there you missed out! The whole event couldn’t have run any more smoothly and I dare anyone to find more FIRST fun packed in 26 hours anywhere!

Team 456 also wishes to express our sincere thank you to Team 2614 and Team 3492 for being such powerful alliance partners during eliminations. Team 2614 really took the brunt of the heavy defense being played which took the heat off us and 3492 was doing and amazing job playing defense for us! The double hang in the finals was so cool, too! Team 456 has been around a pretty long time now and believe it or not this was our first winning blue banner ever! It meant so much to our team and we are proud to have won it at WVRoX and with 2614 and 3492! We can’t wait for WVRoX 2018!