2007 Virginia FIRST Robot Rumble

[lynca]

I found the Virginia FIRST website
http://www.virginiafirst.org

I'm curious to know the history of the Robot Rumble competition in Virginia ? How many years, how many teams participate ?

[September]

I believe this is the second year of the state fair rumble. We had 18 teams participate.

There were definitely many more teams participating during the 2006 rumble.

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by lynca

I found the Virginia FIRST website
http://www.virginiafirst.org

I'm curious to know the history of the Robot Rumble competition in Virginia ? How many years, how many teams participate ?

As mentioned above, this was only the second year of the Virginia Robot Rumble, and as in 2006, was held at the Virginia State Fair in Richmond, Va.
However, there is a long history of off-season events in the greater Washington DC area, giving virtually every team attending the Va. RR an off-season competition within a few hour drive. In 2002 and 2003 there was a competition held during the Maryland State Fair, and in 2005 there was the Capitol Clash in Washington DC during the NBC4 Digital Edge Expo. Since then there has been the Virginia Robot Rumble (2006 & 2007) and the Baltimore Brawl (2007) in the area.

[wilsonmw04]

Goochland had a great time at the Rumble. It was our first off season event. It was a lot less stressful than a regional and a great opportunity to get some of our new members a taste of what FIRST is all about. We will be back.

[Wetzel]

18 teams participated in about 60 qualifying matches this year, there were 13 per team. Want to teach new drivers or coaches? Lots of matches for lots of practice.

With only 18, we ran 2v2 so as to not totally run the teams into the ground. For the elims, we did 9 alliances and 8 and 9 had a play in round. Seemed to work out well.

We look forward to seeing more teams come back again next year!

Wetzel

[JesseK]

Yep, 1885 rotated drivers nearly every match until the finals. Different people were put into pit positions they needed to learn but had never done before, and you could tell -- in 3 matches we started with dead batteries and our best set of drivers came from somewhere we would have probably never looked otherwise.

We also had a couple of student leaders emerge from this offseason Rumble, which can do nothing but help the team in the upcoming FRC season.

[sporno]

I had a great time , it was some of the best and closest matches ever.
It was my first time driving , and I had a blast driving with 339.

Most everyone was gracious and professional and we cant wait to see everyone again at VCU

[Lil' Lavery]

Who won?

[wilsonmw04]

336 and 1655, i think...

[chris31]

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

336 and 1655, i think...

Do you mean 339 CGS? There was not a team 336 there.

[BlondeNerd]

It was 339 and 1522.

[wilsonmw04]

yep 339 and 1655 was on the other team in the finals.

[wilsonmw04]

here are some of the pictures one of my parents took during the first day of the Rumble. There are a lot of pictures of 2106 in there, but there are also good images of 339, 1086, Sparky and several others.

http://s199.photobucket.com/albums/a...Rumble%202007/

[petrepan]

Yeah, the Rumble totally rocked this year. Just thought I'd add another concurrence...^__^ Lotsa gracious professionalism...
By the way, this was incredible because it was totally a defense dominated competition. It was totally the ramp bots who ruled the day.
And 975 and 1086--you guys rocked!
Great job t'all the robot-lovin' homies in FIRST!

petrepan

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Team 339

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by JesseK

... We also had a couple of student leaders emerge from this offseason Rumble, which can do nothing but help the team in the upcoming FRC season.

Ever since our team started attending off-season events I have noticed that the students who participate tend to assume leadership or other high-profile roles the next season. I think that is more than simple coincidence.

I see that Jane spotlighted the quote above. Good call.