2004 1st (Annual?) Beantown Blitz - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

[Greg Perkins]

I have seen one Bad come from Beantown Blitz.


all the bickering and slandering, it should stop. there is no biased decisions made by the refs. so all rules are LEGAL. Any decisions made by the officials should be kept to the feild, and not tossed around like a pack of wild dogs. PLEASE, keep FIRST about the kids, and engineering, and not follow the footsteps of every other sport. Lets just all have fun


Greg

[Astronouth7303]

How is it that when the guys from FIRST do ref'ing, only a few contained incidents come up, but when another team is doing it, Huge things are argued over?

[Pin Man]

You know what guys... I'm sorry I lied... There was one thing that really kinda bothered me... Our first three matches were with 121 in one match and against them in two... We played with and against teams over and over... We played with like 10 other teams... Teams we didn't even see on the field at the same time as us were 571, 61, 190, 175, 213, and many many other great teams... I don't know... Next year I would love to see the matches spread out more and not see the same teams over and over again...

[dez250]

Originally Posted by Pin Man

You know what guys... I'm sorry I lied... There was one thing that really kinda bothered me... Our first three matches were with 121 in one match and against them in two... We played with and against teams over and over... We played with like 10 other teams... Teams we didn't even see on the field at the same time as us were 571, 61, 190, 175, 213, and many many other great teams... I don't know... Next year I would love to see the matches spread out more and not see the same teams over and over again...

33 teams total with 4 teams on the field at a time with the same amount of time between teams matches caused the scoring system to generate matches that were not so random... Yuo want to be more spread out next year then get more teams to come!!!

Originally Posted by Astronouth7303

How is it that when the guys from FIRST do ref'ing, only a few contained incidents come up, but when another team is doing it, Huge things are argued over?

All these refs were picked from the utc, long island and another regional i think. They all were refs this year at one or more FRIST regionals with soem even beign refs at the championship, they arent just "another group of people".

[Pin Man]

Originally Posted by dez250

33 teams total with 4 teams on the field at a time with the same amount of time between teams matches caused the scoring system to generate matches that were not so random... Yuo want to be more spread out next year then get more teams to come!!!




All these refs were picked from the utc, long island and another regional i think. They all were refs this year at one or more FRIST regionals with soem even beign refs at the championship, they arent just "another group of people".

Well Dez its not that... We played 7 matches... with 3 other bots on the field... thats like 21 teams there... but we played with some teams like 3 times and like 2 times and some teams we never got to see...

[Solace]

it is like that during the normal season too. unfortunate, but unavoidable.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Pin Man

Well Dez its not that... We played 7 matches... with 3 other bots on the field... thats like 21 teams there... but we played with some teams like 3 times and like 2 times and some teams we never got to see...

It happens everywhere, even more so with the smaller events. Just try to get used to it! I reluctantly have. And it has gotten better. I remember last year in NYC we played with and against the same teams many times.

[Astronouth7303]

Originally Posted by dez250

All these refs were picked from the utc, long island and another regional i think. They all were refs this year at one or more FRIST regionals with soem even beign refs at the championship, they arent just "another group of people".

My bad. Still, I didn't hear anything like the other thread during the main season.

[Heretic121]

OMG!!!

TEH AWSOME!!! lol... ya i can't belive i forgot this... and it was the higlight of the day too...

Mr. Woodie Flowers came by our pit on his way out... stopped by, shook all of our hands, and asked us a few things about our bot... it was awsome...

[ahecht]

I don't know why everyone is complaining about parking. We were able to drive our van directly into the arena, drop off our people and equiptment, and then park for free a few blocks away.

The only real complaint I had is that the "Robots Only" and "People Only" signs were too low.