Newton Discussion

[AcesPease]

Here is some info I have summarized from CD and the FIRST site. W1 means winning alliance captain. W2 and W3 mean winning alliance picks in order. F1,F2, F3 is for finalist. The shooter mentions are from a CD thread on "Pure Shooters" and the D Dumpers is from a CD thread on Defenders and Dumpers. Looks like a great bunch of robots with maybe a shortage of corner scoring bots.

Team #
11 W1 Top shooter
25 w1,w1 Top shooter
40 F1
49
66 Shooter
71 W2,F2 Shooter
85 W2,F1 Top shooter
93
111 w2,w1 Top shooter
122
133 W3 BAE shooter
151
168
176 f3,w2 D dumper
184
195 D dumper
207
223
229 W2 Top shooter
236
254 w1,w1 Top shooter
280
294
304
322 Shooter, D dumper
340 Shooter
348 D dumper
359
379 D dumper
397
406
440
461 F1 Shooter
476
492
514
527
546
573
612
662
714

Team #
753 f1,w2 D dumper
803
816
846
868
900
928
968 W1 Top shooter
987 W2,F1 Top shooter
1006 W1
1033
1102
1124 W3
1155
1188
1261 W1 Shooter
1272 W1 Shooter, D dumper
1281 W2
1306
1350
1379
1402
1425
1481
1503 W2,W3,W1 Top shooter
1519 W2 BAE shooter
1541
1563
1577
1601
1617
1646
1657 W1
1685
1718
1727
1746
1778
1810 W3
1846
1887 W3
1918
1977 W3

[Rick TYler]

Nice list.

Team 753 is a center-goal shooter that cannot reload during a match, and a superb defensive robot, but it doesn't dump.

Team 492 dumps, dumps in autonomous, and (at Portland) could shoot the center goal from the platform. As always with Titan robots, 492 has an outstanding drive team and plays smart defense.

[Josh Hambright]

Woah 1272 is a shooter now, I cant believe the kids finaly found a way to get the weight to attach one.... erm...

Rather I think your data collection method might be a little flawed, I am assuming that since the team number 1272 was mentioned in the pure shooter thread that you put us into the shooter catagory, however we can only play defense (only play defense feels like an understatement...) and score in the low goal.

[VEN]

1281 is a shooter but an outstanding defense bot, human loaded

[xzvrw2]

ouch
this is going to be a tuff division
but so will curie hahahahaha
good luck teams

[RoboMadi]

WHOA!........... its gonna be tough guys.
heres some info on Team 612
Shooter and Dumper
Can pick Balls from the ground
Human Player can refill too.

Can be defensive and can be offensive

We were 41st in NASA/VCU and 20th at Chesapeake (we would've been 6th if we only had 'ONE' more point...we lost the turning match with 33-32.....that was kinda sad)

Good luck to all the Teams. Really looking forward to see every single one of you.

[379Robocat]

Here's a Little background on Team 379:
(1st regional)Cleveland-28th/42
(2nd)Detroit-16th/33
(3rd)Philly-8th/46

We started off a little rough as I'm sure everyone did with it being the first regional. As we progressed we were getting auto mode 10 Pt's every time. We were ranked 8th out of 46 teams in Philly moving up to 6th during alliance selections and have been picking or picked during these 3 regionals for alliances. We are a very strong defensive robot when need to be and we also score in the side goals. We can be in low gear to play defense and in high gear to shoot across the field to collect balls or score. We are about 13.5 ft/sec in high gear and 4 ft/sec low gear. We have custom built transmissions with a pneumatic shifter for high and low gear with treads. We have pushed 2 robots at the same time in Philly and can easily get up onto the ramp at the end. We can load by HP but prefer to drive around and pick up balls on the floor. Auto mode we start in the first position and drive straight out to the side goal and dump 10. If Need be we can shoot across the field to stop other robots from scoring. This is just a little bit about our robot, so if anyone has any questions about our robot you can post here or PM me and I will respond to you as soon as possible. And if you are looking for a reliable and powerful robot don't forget to check us out. Team 379, hope to hear from people soon.

This looks like a great strong division. Lets go out there and show them that we are the best, robot performance wise and team spirit. Good luck to everyone in our division as well as every other division. Hope to see everyone having a blast in Atlanta and hope to be hearing from some of you soon.

[AcesPease]

Originally Posted by 379Robocat

We started off a little rough as I'm sure everyone did with it being the first regional.

We started slow too. By the end of the New England Regional we had almost everything going well . We haven't seen our robot since then and I'm starting to forget what it looks like .

In the finals of NE our job was to score 10 points in the corner. Harvest balls after we won autonomous (which we did) and then shoot 3 point goals like crazy. Near the end of the match we got on the ramp with our partners 177 and 1124 (also in Newton).

Can't wait to see the other robots in Newton.

[George A.]

Yes Newton will be a little tough, but Ciniqua is our MC so that means we have the best division out there. I put in to be play by play announcer (for those of you at NJ,NYC, or Philly, you've already heard me)...but alas, I didn't get it. But I'll make sure we get the Georgia dome rocking and take the hardware back to Newton for the second straight year.

ISSAC!!!! NEWTON!!!

[VEN]

Made a newton userbar

[xtremehumanheat]

wow ive did my homework on the teams in the newton division and believe me its not a walk in the park. team 223 can shot into the lower goals in autonomous mode( either one if neccessary), we are working on shooting into the center goal ( which is getting better cause of the camera) and we can have the robot pick up balls off the floor.

[rees2001]

This is going to be a TOUGH division. I know there will be a few surprises come Saturday afternoon. I believe that at least 5 teams that won a regional or were finalists (or both) that will not make it to the elim's. I would expect that the alliance that represents Newton will have 3 GREAT shooters to take to Einstein. Don't be surprised to see a score around 150+ in the elim’s. The finals will be mind-blowing! I hope the scoring system can keep up.

My math has ~at least
8 unstoppable shooters
7 very good shooters
12 good shooters
2 surprises
29 teams for the elim’s

Uh-Oh….

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by rees2001

This is going to be a TOUGH division. I know there will be a few surprises come Saturday afternoon. I believe that at least 5 teams that won a regional or were finalists (or both) that will not make it to the elim's. I would expect that the alliance that represents Newton will have 3 GREAT shooters to take to Einstein. Don't be surprised to see a score around 150+ in the elim’s. The finals will be mind-blowing! I hope the scoring system can keep up.

My math has ~at least
8 unstoppable shooters
7 very good shooters
12 good shooters
2 surprises
29 teams for the elim’s

Uh-Oh….

I wouldn't be surprised, with all the great shooters, if defensive powerhouses went before the 'good' shooters.

[Alex Cormier]

It will indeed be a great division and i can't wait to watch it on the webcast. Now does the webcast have 4 separate videos or can we only watch one feed at a time?

[rees2001]

Originally Posted by Alex Cormier

It will indeed be a great division and i can't wait to watch it on the webcast. Now does the webcast have 4 separate videos or can we only watch one feed at a time?

Webcast? What, you're not going? Say it ain't so....