Cowtown Throwdown 2014

[holygrail]

Thought I would start the thread for this year's Cowtown Throwdown. As usual it looks like it is going to be a great group of teams. Thanks to Teams 1730 - Team Driven, and 2001 HERMES for putting on the event.

I'm curious as to what FMS we will be using at Cowtown this year. Any chance we might use Cheesy Arena? I've heard so many good things about it.

Here is the team list according to the event website: http://cttd-robotics.com/

44 Teams are signed up. Usually they have a capacity of 48.

Team # Team Name - School Name
16 Bomb Squad - Mountain Home High School
938 Team Botman - Central Heights High School
967 Iron Lions - Linn-Mar High School
1094 Channel Cats - River City Robots
1108 Panther Robotics - Paola High School
1444 Lightning Lancers - Engineering and Technology for Lutheran Youth
1619 Up-A-Creek Robotics - Career Development Center
1723 "The FBI" - Independence School District
1730 Team Driven - Lee's Summit High School
1764 Liberty Robotics - Liberty Public Schools
1769 Digital Hawks - J.C. Harmon High School
1775 Tiger Bytes - Lincoln College Preparatory
1777 Viking Robotics - Shawnee Mission West High School
1785 United Robocats - Blue Springs School District
1802 Team Stealth - Piper Robotics
1806 S.W.A.T. - Smithville High School
1810 Jaguar Robotics - Mill Valley High School
1825 Metro Homeschool Robotics - Metro Homeschool
1939 The Kuhnigits - The Barstow School
1982 Cougar Robotics - Shawnee Mission Northwest
1984 Raider Revolution Robotics - Shawnee Mission South
1985 Robohawks - Hazelwood Central High School
1986 Team Titanium - Lee's Summit West High School
1987 Broncobots - Lee's Summit North High School
1997 STAGrobotics - Bishop Miege
2001 HERMES - Ruskin High School
2335 Sargon - Shawnee Mission East
2345 Animal Control - Kearney High School
2346 Cel-Techs - Archbishop O'Hara High School
2410 Metal Mustang Robotics - Blue Valley CAPS Center
2874 Eagles - Grain Valley High School
3284 Camdenton 4H LASER - Camdenton High School
3397 Robolions - University City High School
3485 Cyclone Robotics - Bishop Ward High School
3528 Up Next! - KC Northland Homeschool
3612 GearHogs - Springdale High School
3792 Army Ants - Columbia Area Career Center
3928 FIRST Team Neutrino - Ames High School
3931 Cockadoodle Dominators - Chickasha High School
4329 Lutheran Roboteers - Lutheran High School St. Charles
4522 Team SCREAM - Smith-Cotton High School
4455 The Burger Bots - Warrensburg High School
5006 Apophis - Haas Hall Academy
6001 Rocky Balboabots - Booneville High School

[Alpha Beta]

Much more than a local tournament. It looks like we will have teams from Kansas and Missouri (Both sides of the State), plus Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, and Oklahoma.

Originally Posted by holygrail

44 Teams are signed up. Usually they have a capacity of 48.

Edit: Website confirms 48 team capacity

Cerner Corporation and Lee's Summit High School Team Driven #1730, along with Team 2001 HERMES from Ruskin High School, are proud to bring you a premier off-season FRC event. This event is open to all high school robotics teams who wish to compete with their robots in a friendly, fun atmosphere. Space is limited to 48 teams, so sign up fast!

I wonder how many local teams will end up on a wait-list? Does KC need a 2nd offseason event?

[hrench]

Kind of a bummer that it's on Halloween...

[treffk]

It's fallen on Halloween before and it was a blast having everyone dress up in costumes.

[Pretzel]

Last year Cowtown Throwdown was the day after Halloween, which just gave our team (from Colorado) an excuse to eat lots of candy on the car ride over. I think it'd be pretty cool this year if teams brought candy to go trick-or-treating in the pits with while checking out the other robots.

[Meredith Novak]

4 Arkansas teams! 4 years ago, we didn't even have 4 teams total! Cool to see Championship Rookie All-Star 5006 and pre-rookie "6001" on the list. Rocky Balboabots will have competed 3 times before their first season even begins. They were on the finalist alliance at the Ozark Mountain Brawl and will be at the Gateway Robotics Challenge this coming Saturday.

[wdurgan]

More cool news from this weekend, we have just upped the # of teams attending to 50!!!! Just waiting to hear back from the first couple of teams on the wait list, but I do know that FROG has accepted!!!!

[Alpha Beta]

Originally Posted by wdurgan

More cool news from this weekend, we have just upped the # of teams attending to 50!!!! Just waiting to hear back from the first couple of teams on the wait list, but I do know that FROG has accepted!!!!

This event keeps getting better.

Shocked that 525 is on the waitlist. They usually don't get to travel out of state for offseason events. Would love to see them come down if they can make it.

[Bruce Newendorp]

We are looking forward to being there and seeing old friends. We received permission and by then we ended up on the wait list. We are feeling fortunate to be able to attend.

[runneals]

Originally Posted by Bruce Newendorp

We are looking forward to being there and seeing old friends. We received permission and by then we ended up on the wait list. We are feeling fortunate to be able to attend.

Can't wait to see you guys again and hear about your latest travels of first around the world to China! I'm coming down to watch with one of my friends from 1987

[Dana Simpkin]

Is it true that there's not currently a live feed planned for the event? If there isn't, 4329 is willing to provide the equipment and arrangements.

[wdurgan]

Originally Posted by Dana Simpkin

Is it true that there's not currently a live feed planned for the event? If there isn't, 4329 is willing to provide the equipment and arrangements.

There is a live feed that will go out as well, not sure of the website location just yet. But we will post things once we know for sure.

[CaptainKirby]

The Operation: Code Clash team will be attending Cowtown with team 1619. We would love to have some of the teams participating in the competition (you know who you are) to stop by. For those of you who aren't competing there's more info here.

The competition is going to be great this year. I can't wait!

[wdurgan]

Here is the link to uStream live feed video for all of the Cow Town Throwdown matches. Hope that anyone and everyone watching enjoys!!

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/19181706

Hope everybody has a great weekend,
Wyatt

[Alpha Beta]

30 of the 50 teams attending this weekend saw elimination play during the regular season.

15 of the 50 teams attended the world championship, with 6 of those being selected in the elimination draft.

Thought it would be interesting to let the draft position from previous events create a pre-ranking list for Cow-Town. Points were accrued as follows.

1. 30 - your average regional draft position.
*Undrafted teams were given a draft position of 25.
*Pre-rookies were given an average draft position of 30.
*Captains were given the same draft positions as their 1st pick.

2. Championship bonus of 10% of 30-draft position.
*Teams attending champs, but not selected in the draft were given a 0.5 point boost. (10% of 30-25)
*Teams not attending champs were given a 0.0 point boost (10% of 30-30)

3. Ties are listed in order of team number.

Rank		Ranking	Champs
1	16	31.8	N
2	1986	31.6	N
3	1730	30.2	G
4	1806	28.7	N
6	1108	28.5	G
5	1619	28.5	
7	4522	28.2	C
8	1985	28.0	
9	3528	28.0	N
10	3284	27.6	N
11	967	27.5	
12	1775	27.5	G
13	3928	27.0	N
14	1987	26.5	
15	1825	26.0	
16	1810	24.5	
18	525	24.0	N
17	3612	24.0	
19	2410	22.5	
20	1802	22.0	
21	3792	22.0	
22	1939	20.5	A
23	1094	20.0	
24	1982	20.0	
25	5013	17.5	
26	1723	16.0	C
27	2346	15.0	
28	3160	14.0	
29	4329	14.0	
30	4646	11.5	
31	1710	5.5	N
32	5006	5.5	A
33	938	5.0	
34	1444	5.0	
35	1764	5.0	
36	1769	5.0	
37	1777	5.0	
38	1785	5.0	
39	1847	5.0	
40	1984	5.0	
41	1997	5.0	
42	2001	5.0	
43	2335	5.0	
44	2345	5.0	
45	2874	5.0	
46	3397	5.0	
47	3485	5.0	
48	3931	5.0	
49	4455	5.0	
50	5437	0.0

Some teams have made significant improvements to their machines over the offseason. Can't wait to see everyone again. Have fun scouting.