2016 MAR Season

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Anyone doing the mathematical tracking and prediction of where the DCMP cutoff will be?

Going off of last year's rankings, the cutoff was around 50 ranking points when taking into account declined invitations to DCMP. I would expect roughly the same to be true this year.

[galewind]

Originally Posted by Ben Martin

Thanks!

I watched some Seneca footage last night, and I was very impressed with the 2590 & 365 alliance. We definitely have our work cut out for us to make our outer works shots more consistent for Westtown and MAR Champs.

We're thinking the same thing, Ben. We might need to tighten our error angle when we're > 11ft out. That said, we were pleased with our performance when our machine was functioning. We thankfully got a lot of that resolved, too

[Big Kid]

Congratulations to the Winning Alliance and the Runner-Ups at Seneca. As always a great event to watch and participate in.

I have one request, if anyone has a good picture of the (unfortunately failed attempt) of the the 816-87 robot stack (aka "Seneca Stack"), can you you please link it or send it to me that would be great.

[vmorgs]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this so if it's not, let me know. Anyway, I am a mentor from Team 5401 and received this e-mail from the Mid-Atlantic Region's District Advocate:

Hope everyone who competed this past weekend had fun. While I was judging at the Hatboro-Horsham Event, I was made aware of an issue pertaining to Team 87, Diablo from Rancocas Valley Regional High School District.

I am hoping someone will be able to help. They needed to borrow a RoboRio, from Spare Parts, during the competition since theirs had failed and their robot became inooperable. They are still in possession of the borrowed RoboRio, so they can compete at Seneca.

The mentor tried to order a replacement from AndyMark. Unfortunately, it is out of stock.

Is there any team that has an extra RoboRio that they are willing to lend or even sell to them?

If you can help, please contact Harvey Hans directly at harveyhans57@gmail.com or hhans@rvrhs.com.

Thank you and enjoy your competitions

It went out all of the teams in the MAR Region and we have one we might be able to lend them but I am not sure so I thought I would post this here in case another team was certain they did.

[Hallry]

I greatly appreciate The Blue Alliance tracking District Ranking Points (and the official FIRST site too, if it ever starts working again), but I also enjoy being able to see how the rankings and MAR/World Championship advancement would play out by inputting hypothetical scenarios. So, I made this Google Doc to track the MAR Rankings through the 2016 season: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing.

I'll be continuously updating this document ASAP over the next coming weeks of competitions. I'll also do my best to update it real-time offline at MAR Champs, so feel free to find me there if you'd like a (completely unofficial) preview at your team's World Championship advancement prospects. Please message me if you find any errors in the document.

Thanks so much to Jack Greenbaum for the template, with credit also given to previous ranking Google Docs created by Scott Meredith and Antonio Papa.