2007 VCU Regional

[cziggy343]

Originally Posted by Gil Huggins

VCU was fun and Metalinmotion - Team 343 - was very honored to recieve the GM Quality Award. Unfortunately, we lost a laptop computer during the competition. If anyone found a laptop computer in a case and is unsure who it belongs to, we sure would like to hear from you. My boss is not happy....... Anyway, any leads would be appreciated. Use the contact information on our webpage at www.metalinmotion.com.

yeah gil, i heard a couple of people wern't happy about that.

[wdw_mkr87]

does anyone know how many people were able to actually throw ringers on during the matches? our team is trying to work strategy for Las Vegas and Atlanta and we would really like to know if it is even possible to get a technique down like we had for scoring with the balls from last year competition.

[StephLee]

That's one thing I didn't keep accurate count of when I took stats for VCU (it was kind of hard to tell by the webcam), but I think the number was around 6 or 7 if I had to guess. It's a whole lot of luck, but if you've got an excellent thrower I suppose you could make it worth your while.

[blakwyte]

i'd say it was even fewer than that ... though i was in the pits or queing up alot and didn't see some of the matches ... definitely don't count on it. people were getting better at it near the end which resulted in maybe one ringer every few matches, which definitely doesn't make up for the huge amount of clutter you have to deal with.

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by blakwyte

i'd say it was even fewer than that ... though i was in the pits or queing up alot and didn't see some of the matches ... definitely don't count on it. people were getting better at it near the end which resulted in maybe one ringer every few matches, which definitely doesn't make up for the huge amount of clutter you have to deal with.

Not to mention the potential for ringing a robot, rendering it incapable of picking up another tube unless it can get that one off itself. I'd imagine that could be highly annoying, and potentially a strategy-killer.

[Gene F]

Originally Posted by wdw_mkr87

does anyone know how many people were able to actually throw ringers on during the matches? our team is trying to work strategy for Las Vegas and Atlanta and we would really like to know if it is even possible to get a technique down like we had for scoring with the balls from last year competition.

The Ref's at VCU stated that any team that landed a ringer on one of the green lights would be DQ'd for obstructing the target. Make sure your human players understand the risks!

[kjohnson]

Originally Posted by StephLee

Not to mention the potential for ringing a robot, rendering it incapable of picking up another tube unless it can get that one off itself. I'd imagine that could be highly annoying, and potentially a strategy-killer.

1610 was capped by a ringer thrown by a HP in one of their practice matches, and the refs were slow to notice, and to tell the drivers. Their drivers were able to hang 2 ringers while capped, which ended up not counting.

[wdw_mkr87]

yah we had one guy throw one on in the our last match with 116 and 435 in the quaretr finals and he will def. be throwing them in las vegas and atlanta i was just wondering: do you think it is illegal to throw them on a robot to not let them score i dont know how they could catch you as cheating but i never heard a rule for it

[wdw_mkr87]

Originally Posted by nukemknight

1610 was capped by a ringer thrown by a HP in one of their practice matches, and the refs were slow to notice, and to tell the drivers. Their drivers were able to hang 2 ringers while capped, which ended up not counting.

do you think that would be illegal to do on purpose

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by wdw_mkr87

yah we had one guy throw one on in the our last match with 116 and 435 in the quaretr finals and he will def. be throwing them in las vegas and atlanta i was just wondering: do you think it is illegal to throw them on a robot to not let them score i dont know how they could catch you as cheating but i never heard a rule for it

If it was done intentionally and repeatedly, I'm fairly sure this would count as unsportsmanlike conduct; in other words, a great case for a yellow card.

[Frinkahedron]

VIDEO!!

One of our team members taped all of alliance 2's matches during the playoffs and I just finished editing them together into one video.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...032&pr=goog-sl

Gogo Teams 2068, 343 and 612!!


EDIT: You can also see the exact moment our wheel broke in the semis, at 8:45 into the video, the turtles pushed us sideways, bending the side of our wheel inwards towards the motor.

[cziggy343]

Originally Posted by Frinkahedron

VIDEO!!

One of our team members taped all of alliance 2's matches during the playoffs and I just finished editing them together into one video.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...032&pr=goog-sl

Gogo Teams 2068, 343 and 612!!


EDIT: You can also see the exact moment our wheel broke in the semis, at 8:45 into the video, the turtles pushed us sideways, bending the side of our wheel inwards towards the motor.

sweet! ive been looking for those. thanks a lot.

[gblake]

Hey Frinkahedron - Any way you can put that video someplace from which I can download it? Or maybe mail a CD/DVD to me? I'll distribute it to 1885, 623, 2068, and 1895. - PM me - Blake

[sporno]

Originally Posted by Frinkahedron

VIDEO!!

One of our team members taped all of alliance 2's matches during the playoffs and I just finished editing them together into one video.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...032&pr=goog-sl

Gogo Teams 2068, 343 and 612!!


EDIT: You can also see the exact moment our wheel broke in the semis, at 8:45 into the video, the turtles pushed us sideways, bending the side of our wheel inwards towards the motor.

sorry bout that breaking man ... they were playing mad defense for us

[Frinkahedron]

Originally Posted by 1885.Blake

Hey Frinkahedron - Any way you can put that video someplace from which I can download it? Or maybe mail a CD/DVD to me? I'll distribute it to 1885, 623, 2068, and 1895. - PM me - Blake

The video file is on a school computer at the moment, so if you can wait until tomorrow, I can upload it and PM you with a link (don't want to kill my bandwith now )