2007 RachaCha Ruckus

[triggerhappy336]

hm, well technically, we've been to the Ruckas, just not with a robot of our own.

[Kims Robot]

Originally Posted by triggerhappy336

hm, well technically, we've been to the Ruckas, just not with a robot of our own.

If we have any left after we give out the invites, we can pass a bag your way But the bags are aimed for teams that havent come before (so start another rookie team, and they get a bag!!)

Anyways, another SPECIAL TREAT... the goodie bags will include a set of puzzles, the first new team to solve the puzzles and turn them in to our pits will get FREE registration for Ruckus 2007!!

Instead of whipped cream this years pies will be sour cream.

AND GROSSSS STEVE!!! You get my pie!!! Actually I was thinking of trying to get the chocolate cool whip this year thought it might look more like mud! hehe

[Ellery]

Kim,
I believe we are lucky enough to have it at Webster Thomas HS again this year. The facilities and support from Bob Schlegel is unbelievable. We just need to finalize the date again since I remember that there might have been some conflict with volleyball or something. I'll email Bob about it next week.

[Josh Goodman]

When is the planning commitee starting up?

[Sagar Vyas]

1503 will most likely be there from the great white north...

[Alex Cormier]

Will we be having reall alliance selections this year, with the believe of having more teams and higher caliber teams too i think that is the way to go.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Alex Cormier

Will we be having reall alliance selections this year, with the believe of having more teams and higher caliber teams too i think that is the way to go.

That's up to Kim to decide.
She really likes the Bash selection process.

[Josh Goodman]

Will we be having reall alliance selections this year, with the believe of having more teams and higher caliber teams too i think that is the way to go.

That's up to Kim to decide.
She really likes the Bash selection process.

I think it all depends on how many teams we have this year. I think if we had about the same number as last year, we should do bash style. But if we get a lot more, we should do pickings.

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by Josh Goodman

I think it all depends on how many teams we have this year. I think if we had about the same number as last year, we should do bash style. But if we get a lot more, we should do pickings.

For everyone who doesn't know, can you explain what the selections from Bash is.

[jagman2882]

Originally Posted by Alex Cormier

For everyone who doesn't know, can you explain what the selections from Bash is.

yeah explain it to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[Kims Robot]

We will see on the selection process... And Alex, if you bring a team, you can help decided that

We basically have done a straight assignment of teams in serpentine fashion (like 1, 8, 24; 2, 9, 23; etc). But we may switch it up... you never know! We liked this at Bash because teams didnt have to worry about scouting, they could just have fun, show their new drivers what to do, etc. Plus it gives teams more time for matches (we dont have to stop for selections, just for lunch). Since we try to use this event to help Rookie teams, and many teams dont have their full team to help scout, it seems more fun/fair to just do it at will or at random. Just my thoughts. We will see what the committee says!

[Spider-Man]

Originally Posted by Kims Robot

We will see on the selection process... And Alex, if you bring a team, you can help decided that

We basically have done a straight assignment of teams in serpentine fashion (like 1, 8, 24; 2, 9, 23; etc). But we may switch it up... you never know! We liked this at Bash because teams didnt have to worry about scouting, they could just have fun, show their new drivers what to do, etc. Plus it gives teams more time for matches (we dont have to stop for selections, just for lunch). Since we try to use this event to help Rookie teams, and many teams dont have their full team to help scout, it seems more fun/fair to just do it at will or at random. Just my thoughts. We will see what the committee says!

If you want to expand the Halloween theme, you could always have the alliance numbers on a bunch of apples and have representatives bob for them . You could even replace apples with something more robotics related...

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by Kims Robot

We will see on the selection process... And Alex, if you bring a team, you can help decided that

In the process.

Had my faculty meeting presentation. Showed a video and talked about FIRST and such. had 20 minutes and i hope i gave them a good image. I'll check back in 2 weeks and pick up the sheet of interested faculty. I'll update ya when i get the information.

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by Kims Robot

We will see on the selection process... And Alex, if you bring a team, you can help decided that

We basically have done a straight assignment of teams in serpentine fashion (like 1, 8, 24; 2, 9, 23; etc). But we may switch it up... you never know! We liked this at Bash because teams didnt have to worry about scouting, they could just have fun, show their new drivers what to do, etc. Plus it gives teams more time for matches (we dont have to stop for selections, just for lunch). Since we try to use this event to help Rookie teams, and many teams dont have their full team to help scout, it seems more fun/fair to just do it at will or at random. Just my thoughts. We will see what the committee says!

I respectfully state that if I were a competitor at this event, I think I'd prefer the top seeded teams have the option to pick their own alliances. Because the intermixing of the alliance robots' functions is so critical to the alliance's strategy and success this year (Can you climb our ramps? How many ramps do we want in the alliance? Do we want a 2 defensive/1 offensive alliance or another configuration? etc.), I don't think random pairings would be the best choice for the elimination rounds. For example, what if numbers worked out such that 3 defensive/rampbots ended up in one alliance? I don't think any of those 3 teams would enjoy that too much. Although it would be fun to see full team defense played against an alliance, I don't think it would work for very long. You run the risk of formulating too many weird/incompatible alliances, and then the gameplay in the elims would suffer.

Just my opinion. Hopefully you guys get a ton of teams this year and you can run a standard playoff operation.