WestCoastBestCoast Week 1 and 2 Wrapup + Week 3 Analysis

[WCBC]

[Lil' Lavery]

Color scheme of that graph is identical to Game Sense. Coincidence? You decide.

[rsisk]

Originally Posted by SenorZ

Dude, West Coast Drive is named west coast drive for a reason. It isn't for the west coast of Europe.

Because it was invented in Arizona?

[Akash Rastogi]

Dying

[matthewdenny]

The OP has 2 posts in 1 day to his credit, and check out that reputation.

Does WCBC's reputation go up to 11? *obligatory Spinal Tap reference.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Gregor

Don't forget about their hard earned spirit award!

That's just Pauline overwhelming the judges and them giving them the award in defense to call her off.

[Liam Fay]

We are pretty great.

[WCBC]

We are very encouraged by the positive response.

254 was more than happy to provide us with some strategies to help other teams do well at their future events. Caveats apply: this only works at select California events, but all other events are invalid anyway.

We all know how hard it is to make a great second pick. The rising star of San Jose might have a method some teams should look in to:



Thanks for all of the help, guys and gals!

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by WCBC

We are very encouraged by the positive response.

254 was more than happy to provide us with some strategies to help other teams do well at their future events. Caveats apply: this only works at select California events, but all other events are invalid anyway.

We all know how hard it is to make a great second pick. The rising star of San Jose might have a method some teams should look in to:



Thanks for all of the help, guys and gals!

Whoa whoa, your flowchart is missing some critical pieces. There is no sandbag #1 pick.


We're still working on sandbag #1 seed, not really sure how to accomplish that one yet.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

Whoa whoa, your flowchart is missing some critical pieces. There is no sandbag #1 pick.


We're still working on sandbag #1 seed, not really sure how to accomplish that one yet.

I'm still amazed you managed to sandbag WFFA...

CMP Conference talk on competitive sandbagging?

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

I'm still amazed you managed to sandbag WFFA...

CMP Conference talk on competitive sandbagging?

Minor nitpicky point here: The students had to submit the WFFA nomination, which means that Adam himself couldn't sandbag it. It therefore follows that he has been incredibly successful at mentoring his students on how to sandbag properly and all the necessary communication skills to pull it off. Which means he rightfully deserved the WFFA...so...it wasn't sandbagged?

It brings us to the existential questions: If one intends to sandbag and accidentally doesn't, was it still sandbagging? Did Adam's communication skills actually fail in such a way that he taught anti-sandbagging? Is the whole WFFA premised on a sham? And if so, was the sandbagging actually successful? Is Adam actually Darude? We may never know.

(All joking aside, well deserved Adam, regardless of how well you taught them sandbagging or not)

[Citrus Dad]

We usually work with 254 to find the most non-functional robot at the competition as our joint 2nd pick. We pit test them and if any electrical current flows we immediately drop them from our list. Some teams are better showing dysfunctionality than others.

BTW, how am I supposed to decipher your graphics if you don't put numbers on them?

[Akash Rastogi]

I hope one day we'll be good enough that when we suck, people will think we're sandbagging, instead of just sucking. That's every mentor's dream, right?

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

I hope one day we'll be good enough that when we suck, people will think we're sandbagging, instead of just sucking. That's every mentor's dream, right?

I've been sandbagging for 14 years now.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

I hope one day we'll be good enough that when we suck, people will think we're sandbagging, instead of just sucking. That's every mentor's dream, right?

This only works if you get picked #1 overall after said stinking, based entirely on the fact that the top seed doesn't want to play against you.