2022 FMA District Championship

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Wow, this season has flown by! The 2022 FMA District Championship is occurring next weekend at Lehigh University. The FIRST website indicates that the following teams have qualified:

11 - MORT
25 - Raider Robotix
41 - RoboWarriors
56 - R.O.B.B.E.
75 - RoboRaiders
102 - The Gearheads
103 - Cybersonics
203 - SOUPer BOTS
219 - Team Impact 219
222 - Tigertrons
223 - Xtreme Heat
272 - Cyber-Crusaders
316 - LUNATECS 316
341 - Miss Daisy
365 - Miracle Workerz
433 - Firebirds
486 - Positronic Panthers
708 - Hatters Robotics
834 - SparTechs
1089 - Team Mercury
1168 - Malvern Robotics
1218 - SCH Robotics
1257 - Parallel Universe
1391 - The Metal Moose
1403 - Cougar Robotics
1626 - Falcon Robotics
1640 - Sab-BOT-age
1647 - Iron Devils
1672 - Robo-T-Birds
1676 - The Pascack PI-oneers
1807 - Redbird Robotics
1811 - FRESH
1914 - The MidKnight Inventors
1923 - The MidKnight Inventors
2016 - Mighty Monkey Wrenches
2095 - Direct Current
2180 - Zero Gravity
2191 - Flux Core
2495 - Hive Mind
2539 - Krypton Cougars
2577 - Pingry Robotics
2590 - Nemesis
2607 - The Fighting RoboVikings
3142 - Aperture
3314 - Mechanical Mustangs
3637 - The Daleks
4285 - Camo-Bots
4342 - Demon Robotics
4373 - RooBotics
4653 - Ironmen Robotics
5181 - Explorer Robotics
5407 - Wolfpack Robotics
5490 - The Dark Byte
5732 - ROBOTIGERS
5895 - Peddie Robotics
6327 - The Fighting Gophers
7045 - MCCrusaders
7110 - Heights Bytes
7414 - RetroRobotics
8513 - Sisters 1st

I hope 8513 is able to attend the championship! They’ve qualified even though they only attended one district event: Montgomery, which just ended.

From 3142 Aperture, good luck to all teams! I personally cannot wait to see all of these amazing robots and teams at Lehigh.

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Here is a list of how many times these teams have attended FMA champs. 11, 56, 75, 222, 223, 272, 1218, 1403, 1640, 1676, 1923, 2590, and 3314 have attended every single one so far and 1914, 2095, 5490, 5732, 6327, 7045, 7110, and 8513 would be attending for the first time.

How many times teams have attended FMA champs
Team # Times
11 8
56 8
75 8
222 8
223 8
272 8
1218 8
1403 8
1640 8
1676 8
1923 8
2590 8
3314 8
25 7
365 7
433 7
708 7
2607 7
316 6
834 6
1089 6
1257 6
1391 6
3637 6
4342 6
102 5
1626 5
1647 5
2016 5
2539 5
3142 5
5407 5
103 4
203 4
341 4
1811 4
4285 4
4653 4
5895 4
41 3
219 3
486 3
1807 3
2180 3
2191 3
2495 3
1168 2
1672 2
2577 2
4373 2
5181 2
7414 1
1914 0
2095 0
5490 0
5732 0
6327 0
7045 0
7110 0
8513 0
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Best of luck to all teams attending!

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The official team list was updated today and contains the 60 teams that have accepted their invitations. It looks like 2095 and 4285 have declined their invitations and their replacements are 293 and 484.

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This would mean 2234 declined as well, as they were the first team past the cutoff.

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It was great seeing everyone this weekend - Lehigh is my favorite event every year.

Some of my favorite robots this weekend were:

341 -
Miss Daisy’s climber is awesome. It really just flies up to the top rung incredibly fast.

1089 -
Incredible cargo shooter. I first saw them at Mt Olive where they had a bad bounce-out problem. I don’t know how they fixed it but WOW that machine can score. I love how the turret searches around to find the goal when it doesn’t see it.

1640 -
What a beautiful robot. Love the turret and the powercoat color scheme looks phenomenal.

3142 -
The traversal climber this team added for Lehigh is super cool. One of the students showed me the design sketches of it - unbelievable - like a hand drawn CAD screenshot. If anyone will be at Houston then stop by their pit and check it out.

5895 -
Incredible machine all year, the shooter is crazy accurate (our students were heavily inspired by it when designing a new shooter for our robot). The intake on the robot is also extremely good.

Overall it was an awesome event - great to see all of the teams competing. I was really missing 225 though - they had such creative robots. I don’t know what they would have built but I know it would have been awesome.

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Everyone in FMA should be proud of FMA Champs. From the teams, volunteers, mentors and students this weekend’s event was a great success. Well done. (well there was the Sat. morning field issue - nothing’s perfect)

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Is it a powder coat? I know a lot of previous 1640 robots were just spray painted.

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Yep! We actually do it in the mall our workshop is in, we altered a smoker (like for food) to be able to get hot enough for it. Spray paint dripped too much and the fumes were a bit of a problem lol

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For any FMA teams going to Houston, United has non stop flights from PHL to HOU that have 45 seats. Group travel opens 7AM CST Monday if you call first thing you can snag them.

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What a fantastic event! As a newcomer to MAR/FMA, I was impressed with the hospitality and gracious professionalism of everyone I interacted with. 3142 couldn’t have had a better season so far and we’re super excited about Houston. I have some thoughts below:

4342 -
Your team is extremely well put together. It reminded me of high level sports discipline the way your drive team takes time after a match to watch recorded video of the match. It makes a lot of sense to do this; you can evaluate performance and determine what adjustments to make. In addition, your scouting is next level. I’ll admit that without your intense lobbying, our alliance would have not chosen this next team:

2607 -
We very much enjoyed being on the same playoff alliance as you. You had so many spare versaplanetary parts for our hastily constructed climber. On the field, you were a powerhouse. It goes to show how deep the field was when your team, with a 4-ball auto and double digit teleop scoring capability, falls to being a second pick. Throughout the whole awards ceremony, I was hoping that you would punch a ticket to Houston with a judged award, but that did not come to pass.

2590 -
Your team is nothing short of inspiring. With such a capable bot, I have to imagine you’re going to be playing well into Saturday at Houston. All that being said, by some happenstance my team is 3-0 against you, but while allied with you we’ve suffered more mechanical breakdowns than one can shake a stick at. I promise we’re not trying to become your nemesis!

365 -
Thank you so much for your team-signed get well card for our student who had a knee injury on Thursday. You are an absolute class act.

341 -
When we called a timeout between semis matches against you, you were right there offering assistance. Though the sorry state of our chain was nowhere near fully solvable in a playoff timeout situation especially given our limited experience with this application, we appreciated the gesture of coopertition!

1923 & 1914 -
Wow! Finalist and Winner and Chairman’s. That is a whole lot of medals. Project Gemini looks like a huge success.

That’s Austin for you. Ever since he saw the videos from 179 and 846 earlier in the season, he was dead set on adding a climber of that style to our robot. He started sketching ideas for ways to manufacture something like that given the tools and materials around the shop. Having a steadfast vision can go a long way.

Question about 225. I saw that 2539 was using a trailer that looked like it formerly belonged to 225. Is there a connection between the two teams?

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225 donated a number of items this season to other teams as they did not compete, the trailer was one of them iirc.

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Knowing us, it probably would have been a tank drive with a turret and a wall climber.

Miss you all

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