2016 Carson Subdivision

FIRST General Forum
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Quals schedule here.

List here.


11	MORT	Flanders, New Jersey
41	RoboWarriors	Warren, New Jersey
51	The Wings of Fire	Pontiac, Michigan
60	Bionic Bulldogs	Kingman, Arizona
135	Penn Robotics	Mishawaka, Indiana
225	TechFire	York, Pennsylvania
233	The Pink Team	Rockledge/Cocoa Beach, Florida
296	Northern Knights	Montréal, Québec
319	Big Bad Bob	Alton, New Hampshire
525	Swartdogs	Cedar Falls, Iowa
610	Crescent Robotics	Toronto, Ontario
746	Gearheads	Torornto, Ontario
868	TechHOUNDS	Carmel, Indiana
904	D cubed	Grand Rapids, Michigan
973	Greybots	Atascadero, California
1024	Kil-A-Bytes	Indianapolis, Indiana
1126	SPARX	Webster, New York
1137	Rocket Sauce	Mathews, Virginia
1156	Under Control	Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul
1159	Ramona Rampage	Alhambra, California
1258	SeaBot	Seattle, Washington
1369	Minotaur	Tampa, Florida
1533	Triple Strange	Greensboro, North Carolina
1619	Up-A-Creek Robotics	Longmont, Colorado
1718	The Fighting Pi	Armada, Michigan
1918	NC GEARS	Fremont, Michigan
1939	THE KUHNIGITS	Kansas City, Missouri
1987	Broncobots	Lee’s Summit, Missouri
2052	KnightKrawler	New Brighton, Minnesota
2067	Apple Pi	Guilford, Connecticut
2122	Team Tators	Boise, Idaho
2137	TORC	Oxford, Michigan
2202	BEAST Robotics	Brookfield, Wisconsin
2403	Plasma Robotics	Mesa, Arizona
2445	RoboKAP	Kapolei, Hawaii
2474	Excel	Niles, Michigan
2485	WARLords	San Diego, California
2486	CocoNuts	Flagstaff, Arizona
2526	Crimson Robotics	Maple Grove, Minnesota
2590	Nemesis	Robbinsville, New Jersey
2655	The Flying Platypi	Colfax, North Carolina
2761	IronHorse Robotics	Fresno, California
2771	Code Red Robotics the Stray Dogs	Grandville , Michigan
2978	Cavaliers	St. Louis, Missouri
2996	Cougars Gone Wired	Colorado Springs, Colorado
3021	The Agency	Escondido, California
3352	Flaming Monkeys 4-H Robotics Club	Belvidere, Illinois
3538	RoboJackets	Auburn Hills, Michigan
3688	Norsemen	Suttons Bay, Michigan
3824	HVA RoHAWKtics	Knoxville, Tennessee
3970	Duncan Dynamics	Fresno, California
4026	Global Dynamics	Decatur, Georgia
4028	The Beak Squad	Cincinnati, Ohio
4121	Vikings	North Canton, Ohio
4131	Iron Patriots	Renton, Washington
4135	Iron Patriots	Modesto, California
4264	The Fellowship of the Springs	Rogersville, Tennessee
4362	Gems	Brighton, Michigan
4592	M3 Mighty Mechanical Mustangs	Hollywood, Florida
5084	Team FridgeBot	Corunna, Michigan
5167	Vi-Bots	Marysville, Michigan
5332	Toaster Tech	Decatur, Georgia
5454	Wild Fire	Rogers, Arkansas
5572	ROSBOTS	San Antonio, Texas
5663	Ground Control	Perth, Western Australia
5712	Hemlock's Gray Matter	Hemlock, Michigan
5879	Shadow of Orion	Beijing, Beijing
5895	Peddie School Robotics	Hightstown, New Jersey
5897	Apex Robotics	Calgary, Alberta
5907	CC Shambots	Novi, Michigan
5913	Patriotics	Pequot Lakes, Minnesota
5931	Bots of Prey	Caldwell, Idaho
6025	Adroit Androids	Istanbul, Istanbul
6098	bIrobot	Beaver Island, Michigan
6144	Angelbots Gold	El Paso, Texas

Team 2052 KnightKrawler is excited to compete in the Carson division this year. There are a lotta good teams and I can’t wait until next week!

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Team 1126 is looking forward to seeing you all on Carson! :smiley:

Be sure to inform yourselves on our glorious leader.

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There are some good teams on this field (233, 610, 2122, etc). Pretty deep! Eliminations are going to be very fun to watch.

4

Looks like a great division! Lots of good teams, I’m excited to see how the competition turns out! I’m looking forward to seeing and meeting you all in half a week!

5

Looking forward to see our good friends MORT 11 from the Hawaii regional last year, Northern Knights 296 from GTRE and an old face in Coconuts 2486 from 2014, our old alliance captain.

Looks like a pretty decent division!

6

Happy to see that 51 and 1918, our 2014 Archimedes alliance partners, are here with us again! Looks like a stellar division.

7

Carson subdivision is going to be fun! There’s a lot of teams my team hasn’t met before, so I’m glad that we’ll get the chance.

Shout out to team 6144 Angelbots Gold for us being the only two Texas teams in Carson :smiley: #Represent!

I would also like to say that I’ll be glad to see teams:
6025 Adroit Androids from Istanbul, Istanbul
5897 Apex Robotics from Calgary, Alberta
5879 Shadow of Orion from Beijing, Beijing
5663 Ground Control from Perth, Western Australia
1156 Under Control from Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul
746 Gearheads from Torornto, Ontario
610 Crescent Robotics from Toronto, Ontario
and 296 Northern Knights from Montréal, Québec

Of course I’ll be glad to see all the teams, but one of the things I’ve always loved about FIRST is meeting teams from other countries.
I want to wish a good luck to everyone on Carson, and cheers to a great season!

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The Cyborg Cats created a global sheet for all teams going to worlds. It is currently being updated on a per division basis. It is found here.

9

That’s a pretty impressive sheet! Is that what y’all plan on using for your scouting, or is that just to act as a database for numbers?

10

Interesting division, almost exclusively blockable low shooters. I expect to see a lot of easy defense here able to greatly affect match outcomes.

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I’d take a closer look

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I think there are many courtyard shooters IMO… that’s where the easy defense comes in when bots can push other bots around. Outerwork shooters will be highly valuable.

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I can agree with you there. As the season has gone on, more and more teams have learned how to properly defend the courtyard. There are a lot of teams that can shoot really well and really consistently, but the fact that some of them are required to be in particular places, at particular distances can really change their match shot averages whilst against a good defender.

Never the less, this subdivision is gonna be fun for scouts!

14

Took another look, still mostly blockable teams.

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Thanks!
Any practice match schedule?

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Do they usually post the practice match schedules? I may just be blind or clueless(because that’s never out of the question), but I have never been able to find a physical list. It’s a little frustrating for the scout team, we just end up skipping practice matches and just focus on qualification matches.

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I don’t think they do. They just hand the practice match schedule to your team Wednesday morning to my knowledge.

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Okay, that would make more sense as to why I can never figure it out. Thanks!

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135, 868 and 1024 are going to represent Indiana! This will be fun to watch!

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It’s funny…the past few years, 135 has been in very Indiana-influential divisions. 2014, we were in Curie with 447, 1501, and 3301. Last year, we were with 234 and 5403 (taking seeds 2 and 3 together, and 5403 also made elims). Now 135 gets to play with 868 and 1024, which are again two of Indiana’s best.

Carson also has a pretty good international representation this year. There are several Canadian teams (more than usual, or do a lot usually make it?), as well as a team from Brazil, Turkey, Australia, and China.