pic: The Triplets are Coming To Atlanta!!

[Jeff Rodriguez]

Which one is the oldest?

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by Ogre

Which one is the oldest?

Well we always refer to 1114 as the oldest because it's the original team, and 1680 as the baby because they signed up late this past fall. But when it comes to the actual robots, 1114's bot was the first to get assembled and was used for a lot of the early practice. If my memory serves me correctly 1680 was the second to be assembled, followed very soon after by 1503.

[Collmandoman]

I'm curious as to how all of them made it.. it seems to me by FIRST rules one of them is inelligible.. or I dont' know the rules well..
What I know right now is.. rookie teams are not allowed to go to nats unless..
They win
Get rookie allstar award? or maybe another.. regardless it's only one of hte rookie awards.. I think
the big Engineering award
or chairmans
How else can you make it? I need to actually read the rules sometime =/

[Kyle Love]

1503 won Rookie Inspiration
1680 won Rookie All-star
Those two awards qualify them for the championships, I believe.

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by Kyle45

1503 won Rookie Inspiration
1680 won Rookie All-star
Those two awards qualify them for the championships, I believe.

Actually Rookie Inspiration is not a qualifier. Team 1503 was on the waiting list for the Championship. On the Tuesday after the last weekend of regionals, the team received a phone call from FIRST saying that a spot had opened up. Needless to say that the entire team was very excited about the wonderful opportunity.

[Collmandoman]

Karthik PLS realize I'm in no way trying to be rude ~ and there is no way to copy paste this without sounding rude.. but somehow I mean it with as much respect as I can


Important: 2005 Rookies are not eligible for to attend the Championship via Open Registration but must qualify to attend per the Merit Based criteria set forth above.

it's just a matter of confusion

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Collmandoman

Karthik PLS realize I'm in no way trying to be rude ~ and there is no way to copy paste this without sounding rude.. but somehow I mean it with as much respect as I can


Important: 2005 Rookies are not eligible for to attend the Championship via Open Registration but must qualify to attend per the Merit Based criteria set forth above.

it's just a matter of confusion

You're correct. That applied at the beginning of the season though, when only tiers 2 and higher could signup (or whatever it was)

Since FIRST had spaces left, after that registration period had ended, and whenever and veteran teams could have signed up, the teams on the waiting list got in, including rookies.

[Collmandoman]

Awesome! good luck you three..
what stumps me is... if your robot is the same.. and you get first seed.. why don't you pick the robot that's exactly the same?!?!

[sanddrag]

That's what Chatsworth 22 and the Cheesy Poofs 254 did at SVR and then they won.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

That's what Chatsworth 22 and the Cheesy Poofs 254 did at SVR and then they won.

I think that was more a case of 22 slipping through the cracks, but still very cool.

I waited all last year to see a 254/60 matchup, but I guess 22/254 will have had to make up for that

[whakojacko]

Driving skill becomes much more obvious with identical bots, might be a reason for the discrepancies between thes triplets, it was something that was evident with 254 and 22 However theres also the randomness of the qualifiers as well, so it might also be just bad luck. Anyways, gj to all 3 teams for qualifying (2 of them are on curie yay). And wish everybody good luck

[mtaman02]

wow i neva seen three robots identical, i'm suprised they all didn't win the same thing =) very close though.


wasn't there a rule that says you can't have more then one robot that looks the same - oh wait neva mind that was if the team built 2 robots identical and used them both at the regional, if im not mistaken that was last year or the year before that.

anywho, good luck at the nationals. i'll come by the pits and say hi to the 3 of them, btw are they all boys or girls =)

[neilsonster]

Originally Posted by Collmandoman

Awesome! good luck you three..
what stumps me is... if your robot is the same.. and you get first seed.. why don't you pick the robot that's exactly the same?!?!

Our team was at both of NiagaraFIRST's regionals, and I was sort of thinking the same thing before I met the teams (I had the knowledge that they built identical robots). After seeing them play a few matches I was amazed at how differently each team plays, and I quickly lost any thoughts that these were three "clone" teams who planned to carry each other to Atlanta. In fact, I have a video where one of them tips over the other in one of the quarter-final matches we played in Waterloo!

I'm sure those of you in Curie will notice the same things as well. I believe the greatest thing that was accomplished by the NiagaraFIRST "project" was that two different self-sustaining teams were created who have flourished rather than being "subordinates" of their mentor team.

I can't wait to see them again in a few days!