Car Nack Predicts 2010-4

[JGurnow]

High scores will be happening in elims and rarely in qualifying.

With 0 points scored in autonomous and no hanging robots our alliance at Cass Tech, 217, 469 and 2960, were able to score 26 points using 7 of the 12 balls on the field. This is with one robot doing nothing but defense against the other teams robot in our home zone. If 217 and 469 would have had a perfect auton we would have gotten 30. Our alliance did have a near perfect auton in an earlier match, 5 balls in auton, but that was in the quarter finals.

I believe that 30 points will be broken this year.

[Nathan Streeter]

If 469 can continue to implement their strategy (GDC doesn't limit them somehow), I predict them playing on Einstein and a match including them reaching 35 points. Given what happened at Cass Tech, I'm willing to make this post on Delphi without feeling like an utter fool. Eager to see them play in Atlanta!

[JesseK]

Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter

If 469 can continue to implement their strategy (GDC doesn't limit them somehow), I predict them playing on Einstein and a match including them reaching 35 points. Given what happened at Cass Tech, I'm willing to make this post on Delphi without feeling like an utter fool. Eager to see them play in Atlanta!

Einstein and a 35-point match will probably be mutually exclusive. Unless God strikes 3 robots dead at once, that is.

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter

If 469 can continue to implement their strategy (GDC doesn't limit them somehow), I predict them playing on Einstein and a match including them reaching 35 points. Given what happened at Cass Tech, I'm willing to make this post on Delphi without feeling like an utter fool. Eager to see them play in Atlanta!

Eh... They had possibly the best conventional robot in FRC on their side. I don't think they'll find better partners at Champs; only better opponents.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter

If 469 can continue to implement their strategy (GDC doesn't limit them somehow), I predict them playing on Einstein and a match including them reaching 35 points. Given what happened at Cass Tech, I'm willing to make this post on Delphi without feeling like an utter fool. Eager to see them play in Atlanta!

The limiting factor is the human players. The robots really can't cycle the balls all that much faster than they did during the 25 and 26 pt matches. Maybe a few balls more per match but I doubt it gets much higher.

[Nathan Streeter]

Sorry, my comment was rather unclear - I think that 469 will both compete on Einstein and score a 35 point match; however, I really doubt that these will happen at the same time! I do understand that to score 35 points necessitates scoring a ball every 4 seconds for the entire match, assuming you get 5 points in auto or through hanging on the tower. This means that the single Trident-wielder needs to be putting a ball up at an average rate of one ball every 4 seconds - a truly incredible rate, particularly to sustain for over 2 minutes! So, yes, I do understand how bold my statement was... To be honest, though, I don't see the point in making a "prediction" unless it's a little controversial! For example, predicting a 30 point match hardly seems hard to believe, after 469's astounding "marble run!"

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter

I think that 469 will compete on Einstein

It's only week 2... I'm sure there are at least a few other ball redirecting robots we haven't seen yet.

[Enigma's puzzle]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

It's only week 2... I'm sure there are at least a few other ball redirecting robots we haven't seen yet.

Are we foreshadowing something???


And if (but being a Car Nack prediction isn't it when?) this happens the human player play would have to be as impressive as the actual feat itself, i'd have to imagine.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

It's only week 2... I'm sure there are at least a few other ball redirecting robots we haven't seen yet.

I predict week 4

[Jamie Kalb]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

I predict week 4

Week 4 ... Boston?!? Akash, you said you were making changes, but I didn't expect this!

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Jamie Kalb

Week 4 ... Boston?!? Akash, you said you were making changes, but I didn't expect this!

LOL

I know Tom will be laughing at this post when he reads it.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

Yah, where is the 254 bot? No video or even a picture!

Originally Posted by Enigma's puzzle

Are we foreshadowing something???

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

I know Tom will be laughing at this post when he reads it.

All I was trying to say is that there's tons of teams who haven't competed yet. The ball catcher isn't exceptionally difficult to build, so its within reason that we could see a few more of these.

I'm not saying 469's robot isn't wonderful (because it is). I just try not to count my chicks before they hatch.

[=Martin=Taylor=]

The 254 robot has both 469 style shoots and a 217 style kicker. It dominates as usual. I believe they scored well over 37 points at their scrimmage... alone!

It also has a claw that can be used to forcibly grab alliance partners and lift them into the air for 3 pt bonuses.





























...and it flys.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by =Martin=Taylor=

The 254 robot has both 469 style shoots and a 217 style kicker. It dominates as usual. I believe they scored well over 37 points at their scrimmage... alone!

It also has a claw that can be used to forcibly grab alliance partners and lift them into the air for 3 pt bonuses.
...and it flys.

AND their autonomous scores from all zones, even the opponent's zones.

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

AND their autonomous scores from all zones, even the opponent's zones.

Into all four goals.