Welcome the Newbies

[James Tonthat]

Welcome to the community!

As a new member of a new team, I'd recommend pointing you toward
these documents. Simbotics is a great team that puts out these invaluable training materials.

If you'd like to get familiar with FIRST documents before kick off, you can go here to find archived game documents.

thebluealliance.net is a great place to look up game videos of robots you might hear mentioned on CD.

The FIRST Workshops here are pretty good too. The ones I like are JVN's - Applying the Engineering Design Process to Competition Robots and Bill Beatty's - Overall FRC Robot Design and Strategy.

Good luck!

[cablebox]

That is so true! Dont diss nubs, everyone starts somewere. I'm a noob but im good at somethings others arn't. RESPECTEVERYONE!

[Andrew Schreiber]

[Moving to Whitepaper, the wall of text was mildly intimidating (to me)]

Welcome to CD you guys, have fun.

I will offer here just one major piece of advice I learned from a very wise friend, "How will we learn to stand if we never learn to fall?" Don't let fear of failure stop you from posting, we won't tar and feather you, we may nudge you in a different direction but it will be with the intent of helping you and the community grow.

Best of luck to the 936 new people who have joined since May. I hope everyone finds CD as welcoming and fun as I have.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

[*]Read the freaking Manual (RTFM) - Yes I know this has another definition (if you don't know what I'm talking about don't worry about it)

I thought RTFM meant - Read The FIRST Manual - when using it in reference to the FRC manual.

P.S. Have fun. Glad you're joining us in ChiefDelphi!

[EricH]

To add to Andrew's comments on reading the manual:

Chief Delphi is not an official source for FIRST information. Even though there are several game designers, lead inspectors, and people of that sort on here, nothing said here is official. The manual and Q&A are the only official sources for answers; a good response to a rules question will link to or quote one or both. I've been known to link to about half a dozen Q&As in one post to answer one question on the rules, just to make sure that I was interpreting the answer correctly and completely. This after a game designer had weighed in unofficially, too.

And yes, I've occasionally joined in the "quote the rule" "fun" when somebody tries to make up a rule.

Some other advice: unless you really want your head to spin, avoid any discussion of Dave's game hints. Ditto for any game hints, though those threads can be very informative on any topic except the next game.

[electron]

Hey everyone! I'm a new guy also...
this is my first year in FIRST, and I just joined a team who's rookie year was last year
anyway, I can't wait for this year's game to be released!

[littlenarniaa]

This just happened to me earlier today, although it was not a negative reputation but instead someone getting very angry with me for a mistake that I didn't know about. Let's try to not let that happen to anyone else!

[Loremispum]

im a newbie yahyah

[magi65]

I have been apart of chief delphi and i have never been comfortable about posting because there are people that i have seen that get bashed on being a newb and not "following" the criteria of what some of the veterns know about first, but thanks to everyone on this forum i have gained confidence in myself. So Thank you all.

[Nicandy]

I haven't posted anything for the entire time I've had this account, for fear that I'd post a topic that was already covered by another thread/posting on an old thread would make the veterans angry...
I finally worked up the nerve to post because we desperately needed an answer to a question about our wiring. Luckily, those get-off-my-turff-n00b veterans didn't see my thread, so I got a polite and very helpful answer.
I guess it all depends on the attitude of the commentor.

[Rinkat]

Um, ohai. I'm Rin, as I call myself on the internet anyways. My team, The Aluminati, is new as well, so I guess I'm a super-newb. D:
So yeah, I like tigers and computers. Nuff said.

[Ian S.]

I am a 2-3 year competition veteran, and a new member at chief delphi, and everyone here seems to be as nice as they are at the competition. Very gracious, you might say. Tell me if I say something stupid, so I won't later though

[overlord]

Hello all. I am Clint and I am on Team 2180. We are a rookie team thus being our first FRC competition. We competed in the VEX Challenge earlier this year and won Chairman's Award at the NJ Regional. Hopefully we can pull off the same feat again at the NJ Regional in Trenton. Hope to meet some of you at the competition. We dont mind any help or suggestions that you guys throw out there for us. We need all the help we can actually get.

This site looks to be great and everyone seems so friendly. Hopefully I can help contribute to the site as well as other members. Thanks for having me here guys and gals!

[mizscience]

Originally Posted by overlord

Hello all. I am Clint and I am on Team 2180. We are a rookie team thus being our first FRC competition. We competed in the VEX Challenge earlier this year and won Chairman's Award at the NJ Regional. Hopefully we can pull off the same feat again at the NJ Regional in Trenton. Hope to meet some of you at the competition. We dont mind any help or suggestions that you guys throw out there for us. We need all the help we can actually get.

This site looks to be great and everyone seems so friendly. Hopefully I can help contribute to the site as well as other members. Thanks for having me here guys and gals!

Welcome Clint, and goo luck to your team this year!

[Dancing_Chuck]

My name is Chuck, from team 1111, the Powerhawks. I just joined today, but go look up the team video at YouTube; its under saftey dance. Hope everyone has a good robot this year! Good luck!