Great Lakes Regional 08

[Josh Murphy]

The 2008 Great Lakes Regional is going to be a blast!!!! The elimination matches here are going to be scary and exciting see everyone there.

[Davey H]

[DGrohnke1023]

The question is not who will win the regional, but who the play by play announcer will be. Will Joel Zumaya be making a return apperance at the Great Lakes Regional? Can GL keep the best MC and PbP duo in FIRST (IMO) together?

[Paul Copioli]

My drive team says there is no way I am announcing, but I am still the announcer of record for the 2008 GLR.

[daf]

Is it just me, or does it seem like the GLR is probably the hardest regional this year? Obviously there are a ton of good ones, I just think that this is the one with the most experienced teams overall. Any thoughts?

[MasterChief 573]

The time is close at hand and I'm sure that with all the power teams in this regional along with complete new comers this will arguably be the most competitive regional of the season (but honestly, hasn't it been like that for years). I think we need to compose a list analyzing all the teams coming into this competition. Speaking from experience, good scouting will make or break a teams shot at winning this regional. Last year our team put a major focus on scouting and it paid of big time. This year we are stepping our game up on all fronts and are ready for another intense competition.

[prettycolors91]

Team 67 HOT is pumped for GLR!! We wish luck to our Chilean friends (we are in the process of making you guys some buttons).

I agree with the importance of scouting. It has always been a key part of our past successes, and as the organizer of our scouting squad, I'd like to get a head start on this (really, really big) endeavor. It would be really amazing if teams could post a picture, stats, capabilities, etc. I'm not a tech person, so I will get more difinitive facts/info when I can, but for right now here's what I have about us:

We attended the Finger Lakes Regional, and lost in semi finals because our partners died. Our record was 5 hurdles per match, and we are in the process of perfecting/writing our hybrid mode. We won the Delphi Driving Tomorrow's Technology Award for our end-effector's roller design. Here's a link to our pic:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/30680

[daf]

hey I'm just wondering how teams use their arm to knock off the ball from the overpass in hybrid mode. (My team has an arm that works really well as far as quick pick up and quick release, but my only concern is that we dont have a way to knock the ball off other than "spearing" it with our arm. This is fine during teleoperated period, but during hybrid I'd prefer a way to knock it off from under the overpass so we don't have to worry about close lining ourselves). Do you teams that knock it off with your arm have a command on your IR control board that tells the arm to raise a certain distance, or do you have that written in the autonomous mode? Any advice here would be great because I'm hoping our robot has an efficient way before friday of GLR. Thanks a ton

[MasterChief 573]

first off, daf, our team uses plexiglass placed at the top that knocks the balls off from the bottom and it works farly well for us.

Now on to the scouting question from the post before that. Here is a picture of what our robot looked like at the end of Pittsburgh Regional and what we intend on keeping it as.



We may perfect the herding design we have right now, but beyond that I don't expect any alterations.

Specs: -6 wheel drive with omni's in the front
- Top speed of 19ft/s, although our motors were slightly out of whack so that number could go up
- Capable of knocking of the ball in both hybrid and teleoperated
- Averages approximately 8 laps a match
- Hybrid is being perfected but we expect to be able to do a whole lap

Previous Competion Record: We made it to the semifinals at Pittsburgh Regional as a first round pick of the number four seeded alliance and lost to the number one seed.

If things go as we anticipate we will be averaging 32 points or more a match.

[johnr]

There is no doubt in my mind that the teams will make this regional one of the best ,if not thee best,after now seeing both detroit and west michigan,BUT, and that is a big but, i am not to sure about this field. At wmr the field went down at about the same time on both friday and saturday. Is there some kind of enternal clock that tells this jinxed field to break? Also our best mechanical mentor was gone for some time to help weld the field on friday . I hope this field doesn't wreck a great regional.
Also teams make sure you have one member watching your scoring. In the semis they missed a end bonus in one match and we think a hurdle in another. If your watcher is absolutly positive they missed something go to the head ref. Remember, video doesn't count.
Perhaps atleast during the finals they could add six refs to just watch the scoring. There is just to much going on in this game.

[IKE]

I think I heard it also went down at Kettering around the same time too. Self destruct mode must be set around 3-4pm......

[daf]

What do you mean "the field went down"?

[Josh Fox]

Any news on a webcast yet?

[KTorak]

If it went down, I imagine the servers running the field components crashed. Judging from MARC, where I ran the field, where we went down to reboot, that process takes quite a while.

[thehurd03]

Team 470 Alpha Omega
Home Team Baby!
Striaght outa Ypsi
It's my rookie year
I"m only in seventh grade!
I am stoked this is so rad.
Sucks I can't be on the drive team.

Anyways it looks like your goona have some younger competition.