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.