"Most Improved" Award 2015

[Caleb Sykes]

Originally Posted by MikLast

Instead of focusing on their rank, im going off Qualification OPR...

Those look like Qualification Average numbers, not OPR numbers.

[The other Gabe]

Originally Posted by MikLast

most teams between their first event and the DCMP improved by about 60 points, that's pretty impressive.

To be fair, that has a lot to do with the depth of the field at a district event compared to a district championships

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by MikLast

360
Event 1 - 46.17
Event 2 - 78.58
DCMP - 112.58

Thanks for the mention. I am definitely proud of the kids.

We went from just a few totes in Week 1 Quals, to being able to put up almost 2 full stacks going in to CMP...

[The other Gabe]

yeah you guys improved a heck of a lot, as did 3393... also your auto is super entertaining, cuz you guys do a 360 during it (It entertains me anyways)

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by The other Gabe

yeah you guys improved a heck of a lot, as did 3393... also your auto is super entertaining, cuz you guys do a 360 during it (It entertains me anyways)

I enjoyed it too. It's even more impressive when people realize it was written by a lone freshman who didn't know Java at the beginning of the season...

Thanks to the new ramp we won't need it anymore. I'm not sure if I should be relieved or disappointed.

[thejerishbrown]

My team did very poorly at Los Angeles at Rank 63 with an avg score of 25.22, but we came back strong at Las Vegas in 8th place with an qual avg of 78.17 and an OPR of 39.07.

A small tethered ramp is what mainly increased our performance, as well as practice. We were able to get 2 stacks of 3 with a can+noodle on top consistently.

[Shrub]

2175 is one, although I have that MN bias as always. I think they're one of the first teams to ramp tether.

2502 as well, as well as 3055. Both showed great improvement from one regional to another.

[jwfoss]

Here is NE, and specifically CT I'd have to say 195 and 999. Both teams went through a rebuild after Waterbury and came out with significantly more competitive machines. After working closely with these teams over the last few seasons I can only say that they are eager to perform well on the field and constantly learning and improving.

195 finally saw the benefits of playing with pneumatics.
999 got a taste of what continuous improvement can do for them.

[Lij2015]

Completely agree with the mention of team 836.

They went from a start at palmetto that even they knew they had to overturn and ended up being easily the third best robot at Chesapeake after a COMPLETE rebuild of their bot

[Banderoonies]

999 got a taste of what continuous improvement can do for them.[/quote]

Totally agree Justin. 999 went from nearly not having a season in 2014....to building a great robot that season that was on the winning alliance at the Southington District Event.

They then came back strong with another GREAT robot in 2015. They get better and better at every competition. I can't wait to see what they achieve at Championship!

[Tom Bottiglieri]

195, easy.

[Jared]

195 had some serious improvement after their first event. They currently have one of the best robots in New England, but you wouldn't know that from watching their first event.

In their first match of the season, their alliance scored 12 points.
In their most recent match, their alliance scored 256 points.

That's over a 2000% increase.

Their average playoff score also went from 28 to 228 between their first and last events.

They went from being able to score a few totes here and there to being able to put up 3 capped/noodled six stacks quite consistently.

[dodar]

1523 MARS

They wont from not even being picked at their 1st event, to being the #1 overall alliance captain and making it to the finals. That is also only going from week 1 to week 3. So the time to which they changed, and the little influence they had when changing, means their growth is far greater than some who improved over later weeks.

[MrForbes]

4183 36 at CVR, won Arizona East

1296

[Jay O'Donnell]

Going to toot my own teams horn for a post, simply because of how proud I am of our improvement.

At our first event, Reading District, our best match consisted of putting up a single uncapped six stack, and a high score of 105 points, and our QA was 40.6 points. http://youtu.be/HOAAmuBDxqQ

At our second event, UNH, we added an arm to pick up the RCs, intake wheels to help control moving the ground tote, and increased the speed of our elevator and pusher by 50%. We increased our scoring ability to a capped six stack and an uncapped three stack. Our high score of the day was 140, and our QA was 69.7 points. http://youtu.be/Uuph9v8srww

At New England Championships, we fixed the intake wheels to spin correctly, and changed our controller from joysticks to Xbox controllers, which myself and our other driver found more comfortable. We were able to put up two capped six stacks, our high score was 169, and our QA was 130.8 points. http://youtu.be/noqyyMzKmLk

We definitely aren't the best robot in the world, and we probably haven't shown the most improvement (195 definitely has us beat for this) but I love how much our team put into the robot during the season to continue improving. Expect even more from 1058 in St. Louis!