[FTC]: FTC FIRST ATLANTA NATIONALS

[emmell]

Originally Posted by Kims Robot

Is FTC only for teams from the USA now?

No. We have teams from The Netherlands, Mexico, Canada, and maybe Chine (I believe).

[NalaTI]

Techno Guards (#2848) will be in Atlanta again this year.

Inspire award winner at NorCal and captain of alliance #1 (although we didn't make it past the Semi-Finals)

Highest score in solo practice: 310 (with no gold ball!)

Autonomous? yes... so far 18 basic options x 4 starting orientations = 72 (all in 1 program), score, load, defense, different colors and positions... Most points in autonomous so far: 95 (9 in high goal and local column emptied).

Looking forward to doing better on the field than last year!

[Mushrooshi]

Originally Posted by emmell

No. We have teams from The Netherlands, Mexico, Canada, and maybe Chine (I believe).

Chile or China?

The Alamo FTC Championships have yet to happen... but I hope 3033 can make a return to Atlanta, aswell as our new team 3943

[JohnFogarty]

We a huge test today running our robot for 5-6 hours straight almost, except for battery changes and bolt tightenings. It was a major success.

[JohnFogarty]

I just had a thought, I'm wondering....what kind of Shooters are you using??

Dual Stage Geared Wheel Shooter?
Kicker?
What does your team use?

[R0k0v]

Team 154 Renegade will be attending once again.

Our High Score is 440 (No yellow ball).

[JohnFogarty]

I think this a year for vets. Though my team is all rookies besides me. I'm seeing only 20 or so good teams from Competition footage. To bad USFIRST doest post match results like in FRC then I could know for sure.

The Powerhouses i know of are,
2818 G-Force
Team Duct Tape Florida
417 Exothermic
Smoke and Mirrors
154
1102 M'Aiken Tech Magic
3923 ATOMIX
3864 GFORCE
roboraiders i haven't seen theirs yet??
TechnoWarriors Advanced
Entech 281
complete the list because I haven't got a full scouter sheet yet.

[clwillingham]

our robot can be either a powerhouse or a roadblock


we use a 2 wheel shooter with a compound gearing system to get it up to speed and save space for hording as many balls as we can get with our Belt collector. which we attempt to fire all into the far goal at the end game. its a risky approach to the game actually. we usually either win spectacularly or lose spectacularly.

i can't wait to see the other robots at worlds, its only our second year and we have had a great time and a lot of support from family and friends this year.

i don't remember our high-score but we scored somewhere just over 500 at state with a yellow ball i think.

[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by John_1102

I think this a year for vets. Though my team is all rookies besides me. I'm seeing only 20 or so good teams from Competition footage. To bad USFIRST doest post match results like in FRC then I could know for sure.

"Powerhouse" teams:

2818 G-Force
Team Duct Tape Florida
417 Exothermic, Redmond, WA
245 Xtreme Robotic Minds, Roberts Creek, British Columbia (paired with 417 for a 594 point match)
3231 X-Bot 2, Seattle, WA
Smoke and Mirrors
154
1102 M'Aiken Tech Magic
3923 ATOMIX
3864 GFORCE
roboraiders i haven't seen theirs yet??
TechnoWarriors Advanced
Entech 281

[NalaTI]

What's the definition of "Powerhouse"?

[emmell]

Originally Posted by Rick TYler

"Powerhouse" teams:

2818 G-Force
Team Duct Tape Florida
417 Exothermic, Redmond, WA
245 Xtreme Robotic Minds, Roberts Creek, British Columbia (paired with 417 for a 594 point match)
3231 X-Bot 2, Seattle, WA
Smoke and Mirrors
154
1102 M'Aiken Tech Magic
3923 ATOMIX
3864 GFORCE
roboraiders i haven't seen theirs yet??
TechnoWarriors Advanced
Entech 281

RoboRaiders (679) didn't make it this year. Look out for 1848 Team SOUP and 710 Mariners from Georgia. SOUP has a great archimedian screw and shooter that will hopefully dominate.

[JohnFogarty]

Archimedian screw!!!! I have to if that competes with Atomix's Helix it sounds awsome!! We will be looking for them

The Champs didn't make it, sorry to hear that better luck next year.

[JohnFogarty]

Check out GForce in action on our website, http://www.maikenmagic.com/?ref=gforce

[NalaTI]

We also just posted a video - http://www.technoguards.org

We were waiting for the video from the NorCal competition (it includes some of our autonomous sessions where we got 8 balls in the high goal, and another one where we got 6 in - with opposing defensive autonomous...)

Hopefully that will be posted later! This video includes some of our robot in competition and some of the robot in a demo area we did at the Sacramento Regional FRC tournament last week.

[Barry Bonzack]

I'll be volunteering Wed-Sat. Look for the umbrella hat, say hello.