ARCHIMEDES DIVISION - 2007

[JoeXIII'007]

Shameless Self Promotion

Team 66

Great Lakes: 0-7-1

Buckeye: 6-2-0 Went to Semis Only to be Shut Down by the better of 2 equals - Delphi ELITE 48 and their alliance - With their better ramps and better drive.

Champs: who knows , I stay optimistic.

Other than that, it is really cool to see RUSH, BEAST, and Martians are landing on the same field this year. Makes me feel REAL comfortable.

-Joe

[Brandon Holley]

This is a personal message to 3 certain teams that I have admired my entire FIRST career..... TEAMs 71, 254, and 494

I have watched you guys since I was a little frosh back in high school. I have dreamed to play with you, or even against you. In my 6+ years in FIRST, never once has my team competed with/against any one of you. I hope this year is the year (and were preferably on the same alliance) ... if not, so be it, we'll give you our best shot!

[Goober!!!]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJuxH_nHp8w

here is a link for ones that would like to some of 1501's lifting!!!

[AdmiralAllen]

Hey, for everyone that knows about the Davis Quarter finals match that went for a whopin 5 Rounds against a number 1 seed!

there alliance captian 1662 is there.......

[laultima]

Im bringing my 100 hat, just incase were with 100 or 997 again. that would make me happy.

[Brian Beatty]

Originally Posted by Brandon Holley

This is a personal message to 3 certain teams that I have admired my entire FIRST career..... TEAMs 71, 254, and 494

I have watched you guys since I was a little frosh back in high school. I have dreamed to play with you, or even against you. In my 6+ years in FIRST, never once has my team competed with/against any one of you. I hope this year is the year (and were preferably on the same alliance) ... if not, so be it, we'll give you our best shot!

Brandon;

We had a great run together in 2001 resulting in a national championship.


Brian Beatty

[Josh Fox]

Originally Posted by Hachiban VIII

Are we the only team in this division with a "roller" style manipulator?

Team RUSH does

[Astronouth7303]

Originally Posted by AdmiralAllen

Hey, for everyone that knows about the Davis Quarter finals match that went for a whopin 5 Rounds against a number 1 seed!

there alliance captian 1662 is there.......

Sounds an awful lot like the Midwest Regional finals matches - #7 seed against #1 seed. Except that the caption (111) is in Newton.

BTW, anything to say here other than "we're gonna rock nats!"?

[slickguy2007]

Archimedes:

I am looking forward to seeing 175 in action. I thoroughly enjoy watching them play because you can count on them putting on a great show. I know Buzz has been on the Einstein field before and I am willing to bet they'll put up a fight for another chance.

From what I understand team 71 is a force to watch out for. I haven't personally seen them in action, but I've heard great things.. I mean comon' its Hammond.

Team 254... the CHEESY POOFS! This is one team everyone strives to be like. A regional win every year I believe? Their bot is extremely quick this year and if left alone they can be devastating.

Team 233, Think Pink has always been great. When I heard they were rebuilding their 2005 robot, I knew they started the formula for another dominating robot. They had their issues this year, but I think they straightened them out now. I wouldn't be surprised if they start putting up 7+ a match consistently.

Team 179, Swamp Thing is a quick scorer. If by some really slim chance that they fall to the 2nd round and get with 2 other great scorers, Archimedes will have the Championship event in the bag.

Team 125, Nutrons. Another great robot that can certainly deliver. I wouldn't be surprised if they end up in the top eight.

Team 494, the Martians. I have heard great things about their robot and I'll be watching out for them in qualifying rounds.

[JackN]

Originally Posted by slickguy2007

Team 494, the Martians. I have heard great things about their robot and I'll be watching out for them in qualifying rounds.

Just once I want to be under the radar.

[Conor Ryan]

Archimedes - The Only Division where screwing around gets us somewhere.

On a more focused note though, this division seriously looks like it will do something beyond the normal in Atlanta. If Tim's Data mining is correct (and thats quite a long list of winners and runners up) it should be a very competitive field. And if it isn't competitive on the field, you will see some awards come out of this division, there are a lot of Chairmans and EI teams here too.

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

I predict this division will have some very surprising matches. Don't be shocked to see some rookies in the top 8, and scores less than 20 in elims.

Scores less than 20 because everyone is scoring on the rack and they aren't able to get rows, you might see 10 tubes on the rack but only 20 points scored, it is possible to do this with the amount these robots are capable of.

[b-rant]

I believe this is our robot groups if I understand it correctly

Group "A" Bots
4
27
47
58
66
71
85
95
100
107
120
125
138
155
175
179
192
223
233
238
254
288
293
302
329
337
342
354

Group "B" Bots

364
386
435
462
494
522
555
611
619
677
714
768
829
832
857
904
935
997
1013
1029
1086
1111
1127
1153
1216
1266
1302
1323
1403

Group "C" Bots

1458
1501
1506
1516
1533
1559
1598
1601
1646
1662
1683
1713
1731
1745
1795
1824
1868
1912
1946
1997
2029
2053
2062
2081
2134
2161
2180
2234
2274

[pakratt1991]

I don't think there is really a way to rank robots like that.
A teams performance varies based on; the way they work with other teams; their driver and drive style, and who they are against.

Plus it's all from a personal point of view

[Greg Needel]

Originally Posted by pakratt1991

I don't think there is really a way to rank robots like that.
A teams performance varies based on; the way they work with other teams; their driver and drive style, and who they are against.

If you are referring to the A,B,C, that is above it isn't a ranking it is the way that the scoring system groups the teams for the purpose of creating matches. Each match will have and ABC vs ABC. Most people agree that this is not a good way to do it, but that is how it is done so we must accept it.

[Tom Bishop]

Originally Posted by pakratt1991

I don't think there is really a way to rank robots like that.
A teams performance varies based on; the way they work with other teams; their driver and drive style, and who they are against.

Plus it's all from a personal point of view

I think he is refering to the alliance selection algorythm as opposed to a straight ranking of teams.

Of course, team number predicting performance is sort of the reason for this particular craziness.