Newton Division 2010

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by JABot67

I think you've got it nailed! However, just to add to that, don't forget team 20, winners of the WPI Regional, as a 910-esque close zone scorer. And also, team 525 won Kansas City against a stacked alliance of 16 and 1625. Teams 1727 and 3123 teamed up to win the DC Regional, and 399 isn't that bad of a scorer. 2771 is an amazing close zone scorer despite not having a ball grabber or kicker. Finally, team 2669 racked up the scores at the Israel Regional, and won that event.

Clearly you guys can tell I didn't do a close analysis of the event.

20's actually a pretty versatile robot, as they can play a decent midfield game as well. Never really at the level of 67 or 16, but they kicked a few balls up and over. They seeded 2nd at WPI despite code problems for the first half of the event, but with all this time they should definitely be at full performance.

[RMS11]

2415 is excited to compete and will hopefully (finally... iteration 3) be hanging!!!

Does anybody know if this match list is real? I didnt remember them publishing it before the event started, so I thought it might be a test pairing...

http://www2.usfirst.org/2010comp/eve...edulequal.html

[JNelson]

Originally Posted by JABot67

I think you've got it nailed! However, just to add to that, don't forget team 20, winners of the WPI Regional, as a 910-esque close zone scorer. And also, team 525 won Kansas City against a stacked alliance of 16 and 1625. Teams 1727 and 3123 teamed up to win the DC Regional, and 399 isn't that bad of a scorer. 2771 is an amazing close zone scorer despite not having a ball grabber or kicker. Finally, team 2669 racked up the scores at the Israel Regional, and won that event.



...Newton!

It's going to be a blast. I appreciate the compliment about our goal scoring ability. We do have a kicker, too, but haven't had to use it a whole lot. Especially when teams like 67 or 2619 feed lots of balls up to us!

Our whole team is geeked for Atlanta. Does anyone know how many qualifying matches are planned?

[cziggy343]

Originally Posted by JNelson

Our whole team is geeked for Atlanta. Does anyone know how many qualifying matches are planned?

im thinking either 9 or 10

[dodar]

Depending on how fast teams can get on and off the field for reset im guessing we might get up to 12, but that would be amazing speed or im just being over-optimistic

10 would still be amazing though for Championships

[robodude03]

Originally Posted by dodar

Depending on how fast teams can get on and off the field for reset im guessing we might get up to 12, but that would be amazing speed or im just being over-optimistic

10 would still be amazing though for Championships

When the divisions were being setup several of us were able to see a test schedule with everyone having 10 matches. It also was setup with a 6 minute turnaround for every match. Therefore, I don't believe that we will see any more than 10 matches particularly if there are any field issues.

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

971 and 67.

Oh man.

WANT!

[bbr4d3r]

20 is certainly looking forward to this

[George A.]

The MC will probably either be Chiniqua or Jeff Seaton

Blair usually take Galileo with Andy Grady, and Mark Leon usually takes Curie.

Jeff and Chiniqua usually split up Newton and Archimedes.

And of course Dave will be making appearances.

[dodar]

whos the guy that does Einstein and did MSC this year?
(pretty sure that is the same guy lol)

[George A.]

Originally Posted by dodar

whos the guy that does Einstein and did MSC this year?
(pretty sure that is the same guy lol)

that's Dave Verbrugge

he's done Einstein every year since I can remember (at least 04) I think before that it was Dr Flowers.

[dodar]

Man we need to get him, he is an awesome MC

[George A.]

Originally Posted by dodar

Man we need to get him, he is an awesome MC

For qualification rounds he just backs up the 4 MC's of the fields. And then he MC's Einstein. Although they could always change it up this year.

[nikeairmancurry]

Dave gives some of the best speeches in all of FIRST. In 2008, he gave the perfect storm speech, in was the best 5 minutes all friday. Then last year as he presented the links between the final 6 robots on einstien, which isnt to hard considering 4 were from michigan. Even this year at the state championships, he throws out teams historys left and right. Truely and world class person and MC!

[Golto]

Say Hello to the 103rd seed worldwide: The Elm City Robo Squad!

Team 558 info:

• 4 wheel Mecanum drive
• can balance and travel across the bump laterally
• 2 power kicking mechanism
• Ball Magnet
• Ball detection mechanism, provides visual feedback
• Auto-detecting autonomous, will detect zone and act accordingly
• consistent hanger, have successfully hung on every attempt
• Dual gryo system with automatic error detecting
• effective at offensive and defensive play
• put up first double digit score and first double hang at CT

I can't wait to come back guys! This is 558s 3rd time the the championships, and our first time in Newton!