The first human vs robot off season event - Long Island

[Eric Scheuing]

Just keep your head down, and you'll be fine

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by Matt_Boehm_329

Can humans be over 6 ft 6? and how will they be disabled for violations xD

I haven't met too many 6 week old humans who are over 6ft 6.

[Tinmint1]

The tin mints would be interested in this since wvrox isn't happening this year

[Sperkowsky]

Update 2:

So we have decided on a name

The Cyborgames


Right now we are in the process of figuring out the cheapest way to secure a field.

Andymark has been ruled out since it will cost over 3k in travel expenses. At this point it down to first hq or Mar. Both will be similarly priced depending on whether the Thundercolts (or other surrouding team with this years carpet) will lend us their carpet.

We will be meeting with the school board to figure out a date and whether we can have access to all facilities.

The game rule book is also being worked on.

Team 1796 offered to help host the event which will be a great help!

Right now our biggest issue is finding volunteers who are qualified for positions like FTA's, Refs, and scorers.

With some rough estimates it seems we can accomadate about 35-40 teams with 7 by 7 pits.

theres still a lot to work out but it should be fun!

Heres the first rev of the Logo!

(http://i.imgur.com/UHfCzoM.png)

Thank you

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

With some rough estimates it seems we can accomadate about 35-40 teams with 7 by 7 pits.

Have you ever tried to do anything in a 7x7 pit? That's half the space teams are used to.

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

Have you ever tried to do anything in a 7x7 pit? That's half the space teams are used to.

This was the first year my team said they ever had the pleasure of 10x10 pits at sbpli. At nyc some pits were 8x8.

At the off season event we attend (hhh) we had 6 by 6 pits. All real work can be done in our shop which is a short walk away so if a team really needs to work on their bot it should be ok.

[Sperkowsky]

Hi all!

Update #3


Final Logo! - Imgur made the gear purple for some reason dont worry its blue.

I personally got a lot of work done on the google doc. Here is the link to it
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...it?usp=sharing

I allowed commenting but please dont abuse the power otherwise I will have to remove it.

We planned on a proposal on monday but we realize we need more information. We are going to make more accurate measurements of the facilites along with sketching up layouts.

We also have to figure out power as we dont know whether we will blow something running 30 pits in a single room.

We have to find qualified volunteers so if anyone is in the area please PM me!

We havent gotten responses to any of our emails to mar, or hhh. We are going to wait till we have all of our options weighed before we decide on where to get the field.

We also had the idea to take out noodles entirely. They are confusing and annoying.

Pros
Fun to throw noodles at humans
fun to throw noodles in general
can give human players something to do if they arent a feeder station bot
look cool flying through the air

cons
will be extra cost for us
make field reset harder
an get tangled in wheels
will make driving harder


I want to hear your votes on that!

Thats it for today more updates soon!

Thank you - Sam

[Mr V]

For transporting the field I suggest having a Mentor do it. Shipping is expensive and you can rent a 26' truck with a liftgate in our area for about $100 per day, plus the fuel.

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by Mr V

For transporting the field I suggest having a Mentor do it. Shipping is expensive and you can rent a 26' truck with a liftgate in our area for about $100 per day, plus the fuel.

I put that in the doc for the option from first hq. Do you need a truck license though.

[nighterfighter]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

I put that in the doc for the option from first hq. Do you need a truck license though.

No, just a regular driver's license.

http://www.uhaul.com/Trucks/26ft-Mov...uck-Rental/JH/

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by Mr V

Contact the people running the NE and MAR districts. They should have a ton of game pieces if they are anything like us. FIRST shipped the PNW district ~800 totes, ~800 noodles and ~30 Recycling containers. We had one tote that was damaged and we have 400 noodles that are still shrink wrapped on the pallet they came on in addition to the ones that survived DCMP. While we gave away a lot of the carpet we always keep 2 sets just for off season events and then get rid of that just before the new season starts.

Neither have replied. We will keep trying. The good thing is if we do end up having to buy a set of 100 totes it won't go to waste as we will probably use quite a few as long term storage.