California Robot Games 2004

[Winged Globe]

Team 1151 will be in. Oct 2 is a pretty good date. From around beginning of school to Cal Games, we can try another six week build/retrofitting period for the newbies...

[activemx]

well i think MVRT will be competing two robots at the Next CalGames, haha sadly i wont be a MVRT team member but certainly will be attending the competition. Team will be building a new drive train/chassis over the summer.

[FotoPlasma]

With any luck, 258 will have a much improved robot at CalGames, this year... Anyone who was at SVR knows what I'm talking about...

[Grommit]

Yes, we will be replacing the swerve drive with a poof drive... Sorry poofs, but your 6-wheel idea is just too terrific to pass up! Look out for a much cleaner bot that doesn't have 30 purple people trying to fix at any given moment .

[phrozen solyd]

Originally Posted by Grommit

Yes, we will be replacing the swerve drive with a poof drive... Sorry poofs, but your 6-wheel idea is just too terrific to pass up! Look out for a much cleaner bot that doesn't have 30 purple people trying to fix at any given moment .

Awesome! As they say, "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"...

If you guys need any help with anything, feel free to contact any of us.

Good luck!

[Korbin]

What are the rules like, both in this comp. and other offseason? Everything still apply such as weight, etc? Is it real tight, and formal, or loose and more relaxed?

[Cory]

weight and all will still apply, but the whole competition is much more relaxed.

I can't speak for the event officials, but if you're over by like 1/10th of a pound, or your robot protrudes by 1/8", noone should make a big stink about it.

One thing I dont think Ken mentioned is the side events.

Last year we did robot sumo wrestling, fastest autonomous mode, obstacle course, human player challenge, etc. The side events are a lot of fun and sort of "bragging rights" for us Bay Area teams

Everyone should come to the biggest and best Cal Games yet, if not with your team, just to spectate, because it's tons of fun.

Cory

[Eric Brummer]

being relatively new to the FIRST world, and interested in taking our team to some off season competitions, especially since some of our seniors would like more time in before we part with them, i was wondering, what are the rules etc? obviously the game will be staying the same, but can we redo the entire bot if we choose to? just curious. thanks

[Cory]

You can change whatever you want on your current robot as long as it still fits withn the 2004 FIRST Frenzy rules.

Many teams will completely overhaul their robot to make it perform perfectly, and some teams will build a second robot, or enter a previous year's bot that has been modified to fit the current year's competition.

Cory

[Matt D]

The last two years (at least), we have entered two robots in the Cal Games. One was our competition robot with no changes made to it. The other was a robot we built over the summer. This year, I think we will be entering our competition and our practice robot (got to check with the adults on the team though). It's a great way to try out new drivers.

btw--two years ago I drove our summer built robot, which finished in last place (we spent all our time trying to pick up the soccer balls, finally did in our last match)
last year, I was the human player for our real robot, in which we were the finalists and beat our summer robot in the semi-finals

Cal games rocks!