California Robot Games 2004

[Ken Leung]

Originally Posted by Paul Copioli

I thought the Cal Games was a blast even though my team wasn't there. Ken L. asked me to be the MC and I was pleased to come out West. I thought it was great meeting all the California teams and the side events were awesome. I had soo much fun jumping between the main event and the side events. I highly recommend CalGames as an off season event you should attend.

-Paul

Haha, when the midwest people are recommending it, it MUST be good!

Now, I know everyone is waiting eagerly for annoucement of registration, but we are still finalizing some details with the high school administration. So stay tune ;-), just start working on your robot or your 2nd robot for Cal Games 2004. We can't promise there will be enough opening slots for 2nd robots because there are lots so much more interest for Cal Games this year, but we will do what we can to get everyone to come play.

Mean while, just to keep Cal Games around the top of your head, here is a few things I want you to think about:

1. Side events: Every year we have too many side events, and they are always hard to run when every is busy preping their robots for the main tournament, especially sumo wrestling and king of the hill. This year we want to try to do less side events, but make them more fun to play.

So what I need from everyone is suggestions for good side events. Think about speed, think about agility, think about power, think about major aspects of the game.

2. Remember we were timing autonomous mode last year? Well, this year we are definitely having more than 1 awards for that. This year preformence in the game is definitely going to matter.

How fast you hit the 10 pt ball in autonomous, how fast you hang from the start of the match, how many balls you push to human players, how fast it take from the moment you touch the hanging bar to the moment you clear the 2nd step, how high your robot is off the ground ;-). We might count all of that for awards, we might pick a few, or we might come up with some other ways to measure your preformence during the matches. So definitely think about that ;-). Feel free to suggest some too.

[Ken Leung]

There are now 21 teams signed up for Cal Games 04! Lots of veteran teams coming back including the Southern California, as well as some new faces from Sacramento and rookie teams of the 2004 season. Take a look at the list of participants:

100 WHS/CHS Robotics Woodside High School Redwood City California
114 Los Altos Robotics Los Altos HS Los Altos CA
254 ChessyPoofs Bellarmine San Jose CA
256 Willow Glen Rams Willow Glen High School San Jose California
670 Homestead Robotics Team Homestead High School Cupertino California
701 RoboVikes Vanden High School Fairfield CA
766 M-A robotics Menlo Atherton High Schoo Menlo Park California
814 Megaforce Squadron New Technology High Schoo Napa California
840 The Aragon Robotics Team Aragon High School San Mateo California
846 Lynbrook Robotics Lynbrook High School San Jose CA
852 Athenian Robotics The Athenian School Danville CA
972 Los Gatos Robotics team Los Gatos High school Los Gatos CA
980 ThunderBots Delphi Academy Southern California CA
1072 Harker Robotics The Harker School San Jose CA
1097 Site-3-Engineering Jesuit High School Carmichael Calif.
1120 Milpitas Xtreme Robotics Milpitas High School Milpitas CA
1120#2 Milpitas Xtreme Robotics Milpitas High School Milpitas CA
1151 The Hitchhikers Middle College High Schoo San Pablo California
1280 Raging Sea Biscuits San Ramon Valley High Sch Danville, CA
1351 AMHS Robotics Team Archbishop Mitty High Sch San Jose California
1458 Mustangs Monte Vista High School Danville CA

The event is back at Woodside High School again, with a similar setup as last year. Pit area and the playing field will be seperated, and there will be food and booths in the quad. Again, Friday is open for teams to come in and setup their pit area.