2007 Beantown Blitz!

[Brandon Holley]

Originally Posted by whytheheckme

Which position will these spider legs be? (top, middle or bottom) And will they be on chains like a regular spider leg, or will they be stationary?

Jacob

UPDATED...hope it helps

[Brandon Holley]

Well the countdown at the top of chiefdelphi doesn't lie...the 2007 BEANTOWN BLITZ is just about 2 days away. Here a few notes for teams attending:

1. If you haven't already...please inform us (the planning committee) on approximately how many people on your team will be eating lunch with us. Every team at the BEANTOWN BLITZ gets 10 free lunches!! So we're trying to estimate how much food should be prepared.

2. If you haven't already seen (previously discussed in this thread) the 2007 BEANTOWN BLITZ will have a game change. It is known as
"The Golden tube" details can be found here: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...Beantown+Blitz

3. This ones important! ALL TEAMS, please bring not only your 2007 robot radio, but your 2007 operator interface radio as well!! Chances are, you will not use it, but we're asking all teams to bring theirs! Thanks in advance.

4. The beantown blitz has a unique way of loading and unloading robots/pits/supplies as some may remember from previous years. An email will be sent out to all teams shortly that includes details of what you are going to do when you come to drop off your robot on saturday morning. PLEASE LOOK FOR THIS EMAIL IT IS IMPORTANT!!

We have a lot of good things planned this year at the 2007 BEANTOWN BLITZ! It is sure to be a great event, and we look forward to seeing EVERYONE there on saturday!!

[DaBruteForceGuy]

I'll be there!!!

- This saturday marks my Triumphant Return to the world of FIRST robotics.... That's right i'm back to make available my FIRST wisdom to the world.



....It's gonna be a big day

[Brandon Holley]

well im off to go help setup the field...i hope everyone is ready for the blitz

[ChristinaR]

Originally Posted by Brandon Holley

well im off to go help setup the field...i hope everyone is ready for the blitz

I am way more than ready! We'll be bringing our best game tomorrow.

If you guys can recognize me from my WAI pic, then say hi! I'll be wearing our team shirt and most likely pants lined with tie-dye.
Woot!

[Rosiebotboss]

Ready? Ready for what? I'm s'pposed to be what?!?!? Head Judge? When did I say I'd do that?!?!?

[SuperJake]

All,

As a late entry into the Blitz, I will be brining by a TALON robot for demos. Also, this just in - Foster-Miller recently acquired another small robot company (Automatika) who makes the Dragon Runner. I will also have one of these for show and tell. Be sure to find my booth, stop by, and say "hi"! You might even get to drive the TALON!

~Jake

[cdfps]

Thanks to Team 181 and 88 for a great set of finals matches.

Thanks to team 125 for sponsoring this event again, it is always a good time.


Here is a link video of the longest putt executed during a timeout in F.I.R.S.T history.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY4Jo-ljCtQ

[Koko Ed]

What was the results of the event (y'know, things like elimination alliances, elimination results, awards ect.).

[ChristinaR]

What an awesome event! Thank you team 125 for sponsoring, and all the volunteers for making it so great.

A huge thanks has to go to our alliance partners! 181- Thank you for picking us! I'm glad you could see past our rather poor record for the day. (And ya'll deserved that spirit award) 348- You guys played some excellent defense.
Thank you for helping 88 win our first FRC event since (by my records) 1998!

The crowd sometimes seemed like it needed a little coffee, though. Even my normally spirited team was quiet. I turned around at one point to see the MC there, asking us to get a chant started or something to break the silence! We'll have to wake up a bit before BattleCry.

I recognized a few CD posters there, but was too shy to say 'hi'.

[Freddy Schurr]

Is there any videos of the Golden Tube usage during a match?

[dbell]

Originally Posted by Freddy Schurr

Is there any videos of the Golden Tube usage during a match?

This is all i could find:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFoNXA1ey6c
the team trying to score is 195 Cyber Knights.
Although they did not succeed in the video there were several times when golden tubes were scored, and sometimes changed the outcome of the match!
I liked this change to the game. It made beantown blitz more exciting.

[Joe G.]

Here's the only decent picture of golden tube action I got.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/28649?
Taken about 2 seconds before team 40 successfully scored it. Many teams were quite successful with the golden tube, Buzz and the Nutrons partucularly stood out. It also gave a lot of teams the chance to show off their ability to remove tubes. It seemed like a good modification, but should have been worth less if no team scored in auto.

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

What was the results of the event (y'know, things like elimination alliances, elimination results, awards ect.).

1.) 40, 121, 125
2.) 1307 175, 1099
3.) 166, 195, 999
4.) 181, 348, 88
5.) 133, 126, 190
6.)1568, 172, 69
7.) 1071, 2170, 1058
8.)176, 228, 1685

QF
8 beat 1
2 beat 7
6 beat 3
4 beat 5

SF
2 beat 6
4 beat 8

Finals
4 beat 2

The only awards I remember are 181 got the spirit award, 175 got play of the day, 40, 121, 125 won the mentor matches. Any other questions just ask.

Thanks to 172 and 69 for playing with us. 69, it was good to finally get to play with you in eliminations, it is alot nicer than playing against you. 172, we looked forward to playing with you guys all day, after you got bumped out of our last qualifier we were hoping you would still be around for us to pick you. Hopefully our three teams can work together again, maybe next time we will have atleast one fully functioning robot.

[ThunderKhan]

Mucho thanks to 1568 and 172, and high fives all around! we managed to put up a fight despite all the mechanical problems.

and I agree with you up there, we play against each other so often I was afraid that there might be some tension between the teams. It was an honor to work with a Mechanicat