Predictions Week 5: The Great Divide

[Tim Delles]

Originally Posted by Mike Soukup

How do you know that, unless you commonly post under a pseudonym with the initials 'LF'? The original statement didn't mention regionals, I just wanted to correct it. I completely forgot about HOT's amazing (or maybe even banner year ) in 2005 and the Poof's successes in 2004.

I think you didn't read what i wrote. let me say that again:

I believe he was talking about REGIONAL Banners.

By saying believe that i just my personal opinion.

hrmmm but as for me being LF i appreciate it but im in college and everything, would i really have time for that?

[Looking Forward]

Sorry for the confusion, I did mean regional banners.

[Sunshine]

Well........

Getting back on track, the Cheesy poofs, team 254 are at it again. They are kicking some real butt in Hawaii. An awesome robot.

[vadyr]

In response to the questions about 103 attending the Championship....

Maybe...Maybe not.....but..maybe...hehehe.

The team is considering attending, and as a mentor for the team and a volunteer for the Championship, I would LOVE to see them go. This year has definitely been a great year for 103 and they are certainly confident with the robot and drive team. A trip to the Championship would certainly be a very interesting and competitive one...we'll just have to see how it all plays out..


In any case, week 5 is going to be a very interesting one to say the least. Being at Philadelphia, I can say there is a large handful of great teams and the competition will be fierce!

[XXShadowXX]

Great Lakes should be a good regional. With many impressive bot's beeing feilded there is sure to be a lot of competion. Personall I believe that the chickens(217) will get there 3rd regional (there bot is a force of nature ranked with; fire, wind, water, air, earth, thunder...chickens).
The thing to look for at these regionals should be defense, many teams with a regional or two under their belt will look to defense as a way to stop powerful scoring machines in their tracks. With all honesty most hurdlers are not that good with out a trackball, most are very slow, and with out the ability to score every few lap (or every) a team's offense is ground to a hault. So if a robot breaks it will most likely be playing defense since one defense robot can (sometimes) halve an oppent's alliance score. Also the new alliance selections i think will be selected the powerful hurdlers; first pick another hurdler, second a good defensive robot.
Also I hate to say it but now that the competion season is grinding down (only new york left after saturday) the finals will be dirty at west michigan I saw around 1 or 2 per match interfering with the hurdler I expect to see 2 to 3 this week per finals match (after semi-finals). This is many teams last shot at atlanta and I expect that many will be playing like it fighting tooth and nail for every lap, hurdle, and trackball that they can get.

just an opinion to disreguard as quickly as others
cody.

p.s. winning alliance great lakes regional; 217, 27, 1718 (all very good and all can play good defense and offense).

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by XXShadowXX

p.s. winning alliance great lakes regional; 217, 27, 1718 (all very good and all can play good defense and offense).

A great alliance, but no way will one of those 3 be around for a 3rd alliance member pick.

[Optimizer]

Wow... I'm impressed we got the mention! Thanks!!

There was actually a six-way tie for first at Finger Lakes, and we squeeked by with the highest tie breaker. All were good, of course, and some were undoubtedly actually a bit better than we humble Warlocks - but don't let my team know I said that!

Having worked some mathematical "magic" (hey - we're Warlocks, right?) with all the match scores in prior competitions, though, I have to report that our sister team, #0378, who helped our team get started several years ago, had almost an identical potential for point-scoring in that competition - and they actually advanced to the final round, getting the silver.

I bring up #0378 (Circuit Stompers) because they are also here, at the GTR - they really deserve equal mention in any prediction-making. Expect to see them in the top 8!


As best I can tell (from that mathematical analysis), the top 10 at GTR should be, in order:

1114, 2056, 1507, 0378, 0188, 1310, 1565, 2200, 1006, and 1503.

Sound reasonable? That's just how the numbers came out. There's nothing subjective to it, but there are teams who haven't played in other Regionals yet that could be missing from having been considered. As far as "The Great Divide" goes, how's this: 2056 came out about 50% ahead of the next best team (us), while the next seven in the top 10 all came out within 50% of us. My apologies to #1676, who have been mentioned elsewhere on this thread, but didn't fare so well in that analysis. Hopefully, your improvements will change things markedly. Hey - we have an elevator, too!

Anyway, "that's my prediction, and I'm sticking to it!"

[T3_1565]

what numbers were you using, if you don't mind me asking

and I am amazed we made the list haha!! not that we shouldn't be there....

[wedellm]

I may be partial, but you may have forgotten or not have heard that Team 1158 is completing in our home regional, even though being a lap bot, we lost in the semi-finals of a very strong San Diego Regional. And this is even picking 5th and alliance partners breaking down.

[Rick]

Originally Posted by JamesBrown

I think 20 could hold there own against 40 and 69 if teamed up with any of a number of other bots.

20 is definitely my pick for best bot/drive team at the regional, I would be surprised to see 40 pick some one other than 20 given the opportunity

After watching 40, 69, and 20 in thier first matches, 40 will win the regional, hands down.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Ricksta121

After watching 40, 69, and 20 in thier first matches, 40 will win the regional, hands down.

20 was one of the strongest robots at the far stronger FLR field.
They will at the very least be a finalist. if not champion.

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by Ricksta121

After watching 40, 69, and 20 in thier first matches, 40 will win the regional, hands down.

69 and 40 both looked a lot like I expected so far this morning, team 20 didn't look as good as they did in pre-ship practice or at FLR, I would give them a few more matches I bet the pick it up again.

[DonRotolo]

I saw 25, I saw 103...and 1114 will eat their lunch. I have seen them, they got everything right this year.

[BBnum3]

In Minnesota, look for 525 and 93 to team up in eliminations. Those two robots have easily the most effective hybrid modes in that competition. If they do team up, they will be very, very difficult to beat. Also look for 2169 and 2177 to do well, they both have solid hurdling machines.

[Danny McC]

Originally Posted by vadyr

In response to the questions about 103 attending the Championship....

Maybe...Maybe not.....but..maybe...hehehe.

The team is considering attending, and as a mentor for the team and a volunteer for the Championship, I would LOVE to see them go. This year has definitely been a great year for 103 and they are certainly confident with the robot and drive team. A trip to the Championship would certainly be a very interesting and competitive one...we'll just have to see how it all plays out..


In any case, week 5 is going to be a very interesting one to say the least. Being at Philadelphia, I can say there is a large handful of great teams and the competition will be fierce!

Well one of the team advisors or mentors told us yesturday in the morning that you guys registered yesturday morning.