Capital City Classic 2016 - Registration Open

[niklas674]

Hello,

I was curious if the elimination alliances will be just the normal 3 teams or will it be 4 like at Chezy Champs?

We are super excited to be competing at this great event again.

1 week...

[billbo911]

Originally Posted by niklas674

Hello,

I was curious if the elimination alliances will be just the normal 3 teams or will it be 4 like at Chezy Champs?

We are super excited to be competing at this great event again.

1 week...

The plan at this time is for 3 team alliances in eliminations.

[atong]

Will FIRST Boulders be used or gopher balls (used at CalGames)?

[hybrid.helix]

Originally Posted by atong

Will FIRST Boulders be used or gopher balls (used at CalGames)?

Gopher Balls, same as CalGames.

[Andrew_L]

Originally Posted by hybrid.helix

Gopher Balls, same as CalGames.

Bro you sure about that? Well used FIRST boulders are a lot more consistent than the multicolored Gopher balls. I'll find a way to bring a field's worth of boulders myself if it means no Gopher balls.

[frcguy]

Originally Posted by Andrew_L

Bro you sure about that? Well used FIRST boulders are a lot more consistent than the multicolored Gopher balls. I'll find a way to bring a field's worth of boulders myself if it means no Gopher balls.

Lawrence doesn't mess around...

[Andrew_L]

Originally Posted by frcguy

Lawrence doesn't mess around...

My experience with these balls is seeing teams with normally pretty good shooters miss most of their shots because the variation in density and compression differed enough from the grey Boulders to make a difference in the shots. Maybe it could work differently for CCC, but I really don't want a scenario where only a few teams who had the chance to tune their shooters to the new balls can shoot accurately and everyone else is left behind because their shooters are tuned to grey Boulders.

But like I said, maybe it'll be a non-issue. I hope that's the case. I really like seeing teams work.

[billbo911]

From the feedback I received from Cal Game, which admittedly was very little, and from our tests in our shop, the Gopher ball works a lot like the official ball. We have had to make zero adjustments to our robot(s) for them to perform well for us.

We have a set of 33 brand new, never used, Gopher Balls for the tournament. We will also have a few extra that we will have on the practice field for teams to test with.

[MeGuttieri]

I'll see if Beach Blitz has any normal balls we can contribue. We're bringing back the AV equipment to 254 this weekend. No promises though. Will do my best

[Michael Corsetto]

Hey ya'll!

Sorry for the hassle related to the Gopher Balls everyone.

We recognize the situation is not ideal, but there are significant costs associated with using brand new FIRST Boulders over Gopher Balls.

We will have a half practice field at the venue, open Friday evening, with plenty of gopher boulders for teams to calibrate their robots with.

If you want to know, we were hesitant to spend more money than needed this year since we lost nearly $2,000 on CCC last year. Now, we love doing CCC, love the teams, love everything about it, but that was a tough bullet to bite. We've been conservative this year for that exact reason, and hope to make CCC sustainable for years to come, including the many scholarships we give to local teams that wouldn't be able to come to CCC otherwise.

Thank you to everyone offering new/lightly used official FIRST boulders. I think we will continue to to plan on using gopher balls, but if this is a make or break issue for your specific team, please PM ASAP and we can discuss.

Thanks all,

-Mike

[niklas674]

What will the practice field consist of? A tower and wood defenses?

[hybrid.helix]

Originally Posted by Andrew_L

Bro you sure about that? Well used FIRST boulders are a lot more consistent than the multicolored Gopher balls. I'll find a way to bring a field's worth of boulders myself if it means no Gopher balls.

Logistics before promises That said, if you figure out a way, I'm sure we can find a use for them.

[AdamHeard]

973 will bring 6 or more that are in good enough condition for play.

[Dr.Conrad]

Hi, All. 2122 (Team Tators) plan on doing some scouting at CCC, we were wondering how people with multiple bots are numbering theirs. We are numbering our second bot as 212, cutting the last number off. Also, to the pre-rookie team, Valkyrie Robotics, your number would be helpful as well. By the way, congrats on joining FIRST. See you all at the competition,

The Tators

[niklas674]

Originally Posted by Dr.Conrad

Hi, All. 2122 (Team Tators) plan on doing some scouting at CCC, we were wondering how people with multiple bots are numbering theirs. We are numbering our second bot as 212, cutting the last number off. Also, to the pre-rookie team, Valkyrie Robotics, your number would be helpful as well. By the way, congrats on joining FIRST. See you all at the competition,

The Tators

Our 2nd robot will be 9701.

Look forward to competing with y'all.