Suffield Shakedown Scrimmage Pre-Season Event

[MWTrek]

Pre-Ship Scrimmage
February 14th

Hello FIRST team

Aces High Team 176 invites you to attend our annual FIRST Robotics scrimmage - Suffield Shakedown '09.

As in the past, we will be using the official FIRST playing field.

It will again be held at Suffield High School, in Suffield, CT, on Saturday, February 14th.
Cost will be $75 in advance or $100 at the door.

Please e-mail, Arlene Willett at saw869@cox.net, with your intent to attend.

We hope to see you there...more info will be coming via e-mail and on our website: http://aceshigh176.org/drupal/

[jfish013]

Even if your team isn't competing, or you don't belong to a team, stop by and check it out! Hope to see you there!

[Brandon Holley]

125 will be there in full force!! Looking forward to an awesome event

[Koko Ed]

Will it be webcast again?

[AcesPease]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Will it be webcast again?

I will ask.

[Elgin Clock]

Bill, do you need volunteers for setup (on Friday evening) or field reset or queing or anything like that Saturday during the competition?
Let me know! I'll be up in the area (in Springfield, MA Friday night) & also I'll be there Saturday in Suffield for the competition as well.
Thanks!

[Rosiebotboss]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

Bill, do you need volunteers for setup (on Friday evening) or field reset or queing or anything like that Saturday during the competition?
Let me know! I'll be up in the area (in Springfield, MA Friday night) & also I'll be there Saturday in Suffield for the competition as well.
Thanks!

When are you NOT near a FIRST event?

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Rosiebotboss

When are you NOT near a FIRST event?

Very rarely it seems. lol
I'll be crashing up at WNEC that night so I'm there bright & early at Suffield for some fun (and of course some scouting & general info gathering) on Saturday.

It's good when you have friends who let you crash nearby to FIRST events though - it helps the overall attendance count rack up!

[BobC]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

Bill, do you need volunteers for setup (on Friday evening) or field reset or queing or anything like that Saturday during the competition?
Let me know! I'll be up in the area (in Springfield, MA Friday night) & also I'll be there Saturday in Suffield for the competition as well.
Thanks!

I think they were looking for scorers. Unfortunately tomorrow is Wednesday during build season and which is our meeting night and guess what it is going to do. SSSSNNNNOOOOOWWWWW it is build season and it is a Wednesday so of course it is going to snow. When there is no school we can not have meetings. I will try to find out what they need for help. I am sure we are all set for setup because the FIRST people usually come down from Manchester to learn how to setup field.
I hate snow.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by BobC

I think they were looking for scorers. Unfortunately tomorrow is Wednesday during build season and which is our meeting night and guess what it is going to do. SSSSNNNNOOOOOWWWWW it is build season and it is a Wednesday so of course it is going to snow. When there is no school we can not have meetings. I will try to find out what they need for help. I am sure we are all set for setup because the FIRST people usually come down from Manchester to learn how to setup field.
I hate snow.

Bob or Bill,
Is there any word on if any positions are available for volunteering or is there someone I can contact for more info???
Thanks.

[MamaSpoldi]

Yes, Team 230 will be providing the webcast of the event again (as noted it can be accessed through our website www.shsrobotics.org).

I would also like to thank Aces High for including our request for teams to help us restock the Shelton High School Food Bank by bringing donations to the scrimmage. As most of you already know there was a fire at Shelton High only a few days before the FRC season kick-off which kept our school closed for an additional week after the winter break. Unfortunately, in addition to the damage done to the building which has now been repaired, ALL of the food bank supplies (which were stored at the school) had to be thrown out due to fire, smoke, and water damage.

We thought that it we could help by appealing to our friends within the FIRST community to help us replenish those supplies which are provided to those in need within our school community. Thank you all for your support.

See you in Suffield...

[MOE]

HELLOOoooo from the North East
Yep its me Old MOE and Team 88 TJ2 the TYE DYE team, oh yeah ???? OH YEAH !!!!
We will see all the great North East Teams on the 14th in Suffield CT. Good luck SEEeeeeee YAAAaaaa SOOOooon
MOE and Team 88 TJ2

[Teammax]

The Suffield Shakedown is a great way to get a feel for the game. It is nice to see other scrimmages pop up over the years in other areas. When we first started we would always try and bring 2 robots, our real robot and the previos year's robot with some 'fittings'. Now the Shakedown has gotten too big for this (which is a good thing) but we always make sure we are there with our robot

I would encourage teams to send members to the scrimmage even if their robot is not competing. I have no data to support this but I think teams that go to the scrimmage have an advantage over teams that do not when the regionals start.

[Phoenix Spud]

Are there videos anywhere of the event? We know that 126 won and we have been talking with them about it but we were wondering if we could see any of the matches! It sounds like it was a great event. congratulations to all participants for getting your robot ready early!

[MarcD79]

Good evening everybody! You might not recognize the name, but you will recognize the face. I am Mr. Davis who has enthusiastically volunteered every year in the setup & take down of the scrimmage fields. I had the honor of official Field Supervisor & to mentor FIRST FTA Frank Merrick. First of all I want to thank everybody involved with help in scoring, field reset, judging, DJ sound, webcasting & anyone else who was directly involved. It is a very energy draining, but greatly rewarding event to be involved in. Now to an answer for how the rounds went. We obviously had to rethink how to reset the field, count scores & get the next round of robots on the field in a quick manor. We changed the sequence around probably 4 times until we obtained the smoothest transition & eliminated round-to-round turn-around from 9 minutes to around 5.5 minutes. I can personally say that having the payload specialist be the only one to load the robot from his/hers own station was the best solution. There was confusion as to when they could obtain those moon rocks. In the end the solution was to bring all bins on the field, fill them & return to each station. I'm sure FIRST will make some changes.
D.C. is waiting for us!!!