Archi-medes!

Competition Championship Event
#531

On behalf of the Team 525 Swartdogs, I want to thank all the teams we were allied with during our qualifying matches. There were several really great matches against tough opponents where we succeeded together.

Thanks to Team 27 RUSH for joining us in the Archimedes eliminations. Your hybrid mode and hurdling ability were awesome. Congratulations on receiving the Motorola Quality Award.
We were proud to wear the buttons in memory of John Lafata. I’m sure he is missed.
We were very happy to be able to ask Team 93 N.E.W. Apple Corps to join us on Saturday afternoon. We worked well together in Minnesota so we knew we would here also.
Our alliance had some exciting close matches through the quarter and semi finals but unfortunately we could not get enough points scored to go to the finals.
Congratulations to 1124, 1024, & 177. You performed well on Einstein.

Thanks also to the volunteer crew and referees on the Archimedes field and in the pits. You put in a lot of effort to provide a great experience for the teams and we truly appreciate what you do.

I along with the rest of the Swartdogs are looking forward to next year and the challenges we will encounter.

#532

Thanks you to ARCHIMEDES and everyone who supported our [size=]TRULY SUCKY ROBOT[/size] … thanks to MORT We also would have loved to have had the opportunity to work with your team in the Georgia Dome… However, driving against you and the entire # 1 alliance 71, 11, 2166 was immensely fun aswell… (I am the base driver for 1771) I figured that if I could maneuver enough hurdles/points out of our robot that we would have had a good chance to cause and upset for the match. I hope those two Quarter final matches will show up on thebluealliance.net some time … They were some amazing matches in my opinion. Very fun. :cool:

Unfortunately this was my last year of eligibility for driving the robot :stuck_out_tongue: (graduating senior) Ending the season in the quarter finals of nationals was really fun though :smiley:

I am looking forward to next year’s challenge and all our off season excitement and the eventual Georgia Dome 2009 showdown. I guess I will have to train a new driver to take my place … MENTOR FTW … lol
:smiley: :smiley:

#533

You can still drive next year. If you technically read the rules there is an age limit which is 19.

#534

Which rule would that be? Driver and HP/RoboCoach are limited to “pre-college students”.

#535

Yeah… i wish i could still be eligable driving the robot in the competitions next year but the rules say pre-college student… But, dont worry 1771 will show up to competition with some fresh new divers come '09.

#536

I think I may have finally recovered enough to type.

Thanks to all the really great teams we met and played with this year. I wish I had more time in the pits but it was fun to meet Smurfgirl, Qbranch and the FRO. Thanks for my chocolates Warrior Pride.

Big CONGRATS to MIKE T WALKER and the Archimedes crew for running the field so well that they were chosen to run Einstein. Now if they could only run the closing ceremonies it might run on time.

Thanks to the FEDs for putting our piggy on the robot. It was fun to watch.
I’m sure I missing alot but thats all I can think of right now.

#537

Archimedes was super fun this year even for teams who got knocked out like us. I’d like to thank any teams who were partnered with us throughout the day. And a special thanks to 386 for working with us and to 555 for helping us as well (hint to 555, don’t forget to tell the alliance captain that your bot is in the crate). Also sorry to anyone who I said I would meet up with, I was plagued with a Fever and Throat issues throughout the weekend and really didn’t have much energy to do anything except go out to matches. Anyone try to be an alliance captain when you’re half awake, it’s not one of my fonder memories of FIRST. LOL

#538

This was my first time at world.

I had a great time at Archimedes. Much better than going to school…:smiley:

#539

Hey no problem, it was really cool to have it on the robot. I think it actually made us better on the field. We need another one for next years robot when the time comes around.

#540

Nice to meet you too Wendymom. And, I’m glad to hear you all did get your team award from us.

Sorry we couldn’t present it personally… we went by your pits once when we distributed the other awards… nobody was there.

Then we got into the finals, and I guess we never had a chance to come by and find you guys in your pits again. :o

Congratulations on being Team 1024’s Most Spirited Team award recipient!

OINK OINK BOOM! :smiley:

-q

#541

FIRST off, sorry about the double post. :o

Protronie, if you want the really basic explanation, it made the robot drive really good without me bothering it. :smiley:

On the whole job thing… well I did get an offer from Allison Transmission yesterday to give a 30 minute presentation of my control system as well as for a job… :yikes:

I’m going to the University of Illionis at Urbana-Champaign (anybody else?) and majoring in Electrical Engineering.

…Amazing how far you can get with some software that makes a robot do some tricks for 15 seconds… :wink:

Thanks everybody for a great season, and thanks to 1024 for building a great machine… without the rest of the robot all my software would have done is spin some motors real nice. :o

-q

#542

Wow… I know how you feel on that one. I was blessed with a sore throat Tuesday morning, so I stayed home from school to keep everyone else on the team healthy and recover a bit before we left Wednesday. I had a swollen throat for basically all of the competition, and it left me with a very scratchy voice that was very audible. Try being a coach and an alliance captain with no voice… My team members were great though, I had a lot of fun overall, and I did regain most of my voice by alliance selections. Somehow multiple key people on my team manage to get sick during every competition we go to, and recover just around when it ends. :rolleyes:

#543

Hope to see and work with a lot more of you next year. Please come to MORT’s home at the NJ regional. It is one of the best regionals in FIRST and more people should come and enjoy it. You will meet amazing teams like 103, 25, 75, and so many more and I just want to see everyone again next year.:slight_smile:

#544

Ahh I’ve finally had the time to get back to this thread…

WOW That was an amazing time at Championships.
I was a runner so I was dead tired half of the time, but all of the people I got to meet were great!
Thanks to the High Rollers, 987, for the opportunity you guys gave us in the alliance selection, and thanks to MOE, 365, for being our other alliance partners! I’d say we did very well though we lost, it was an awesome time!
Congrats to 1124, 1024 and 177. It was a well deserved win!

Hopefully I’ll have the privilege of seeing you all next year at Nationals!

#545

That’s cool, and for a code like yours it’s easy to see how far it could take you. Have fun at college next year!

#546

Thats a pretty fancy system you have in there q. id like to see the formula you used in the curve interpolation- it sounds pretty neat (=

we used essentially the same thing for our autonomous control, with the PID speed controllers and the heading system. I guess the only difference is that we didnt use an interpolator for the arcs (really only a dead-reckoning thing on the turns), and our driving was ultrasonic based rather than encoder based.

#547

hey everyone!
i wanted to tell you all that our team had a great time playin with you on archimedes :slight_smile:
weve learned a lot playing with you and hopefully we will come improved next year instead of tipping over four times…

anyway, i need your help- i need to contact anyone from team 1474, however, their team has no updated website and none of them have accounts on cheifdelphi…
so i was wondering if maybe someone here has a way of contacting any student of the team?
Thanks a lot, Ziv.

#548

ContactNancy O., she was making a list of student emails from every team, she may have one from team 1474. Hope you can find one!

#549

Thanks!

#550

Can’t you just skip college, go the year after next, then you’re still a pre-college student and can still drive…just a thought, besides which do you think you’ll learn more from FIRST or college? haha

Thanks! You guys scared the crap out of me in the quarter finals, I thought you had us in that tied match by penalties…guess we lucked out :D. You were high on our list and definitely had a solid robot…you’re just never left for us to pair up with. I remember the same thing happening in '06 when you guys made it to Einstein by 1 point in the third match against us in Galileo:(.

Thank you to 525 for picking us, and to 93 for being awesome as well. We made a good run.

Congrats to our division champs, and of course to the SimChicken Wranglers, who we all knew were going to take it after week 1…

On a personal note, Q it was pretty sweet talking to you, your pretty amazing at what you do, and even better at explaining it, congrats to you and your team on the award.