BuildBlitz, which team are you on?

FIRST General Forum
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Which team are you cheering the most for? Being from Michigan I’d have to go with TeamCopioli.

For those of you that don’t know what BuildBlitz is: BuildBlitz

2

Being from Texas, and a fan of 148 since my rookie year, I’m on team JVN. May the best 'bot win. :slight_smile:

3

How about Team Dan & Andrew! ha

But honestly, being very close to Texas, I’ll be pulling for JVN

4

Still not exactly sure what BuildBlitz is after checking out the link, but definitely gonna have to go for JVN being from Texas.

EDIT: Never mind, I guess it’s a Ri3D deal except…pro?

5

From my understanding its a friendly competition between Team JVN and Team Copioli to see who can build the best robot in 72 hours.

6

I am waiting for the draft, both Paul and JVN are awesome. It’s like Manning vs. Brady it comes down to who is on each of their teams.

7

Will there be a Fantasy First draft as well?

:wink:

8

cough Fantasy FIRST *cough

9

6 Einstein appearances, going with Copioli right now.

I reserve the right to change my opinion after the draft, especially if Raul is draftable.

10

Copioli + RC = Mega Awesomeness. Team Copioli.

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JVN all the way. (I could ride my bike to IFI:P)

To answer a question, yes, it is like Ri3D from the pros. Now we will all have 3 robots to gain inspiration from this year just a half week into the build season.

12

Does one of the the teams get to draft Karthik? I think he should be a neutral observer.

13

He said he was going to be apart of it during the VEXPro release, but throwing him on either team might just be too much for the building to handle kind of like Einstein in 2008 when 148,217, and 1114 teamed up IFI dominated. I think I will go with whichever team he gets drafted on. Also I wonder what the odds will be that they will make Karthik the intentional last pick. :wink:

14

Can a poll be added?

#TeamJVN

15

Is this where we start speculating who is the number one pick?

16

My choice depends on the draftability/team of Raul and Aren :stuck_out_tongue:

17

From personally knowing Paul, I’m going to have to go with his team. I’m expecting to see great robots from both of these teams. I’m excited to see what they create!

18

That would add to the drama for sure. The winning team will be the one that gets Karthik.

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They would be some of the top picks, but there is a lot of depth in the IFI shop. Even split into two teams there is a lot of talent. I’m excited, I think we will see two vastly different but very competitive robots.

20

It’s interesting to see the posts speculating on pick strategy, seeing as I’m one of the people who will be forced to pick. :slight_smile:

A few things to note:
There were a number of Build Blitz candidates who were listed as ineligible (mostly due to work conflicts that time of year or uncertainty about their availability). Notably, the great Raul Olivera will not be bringing his legendary skills into the Blitz.

In addition Karthik & Grant Cox will be serving as Build Blitz Sideline Reporters – they’ll each be embedded with one of the two teams, but will not be part of the primary draft.

The strategy going into this sort of draft is interesting. There are a few considerations which are important to me, which many people may not think about.

  1. I want to fill TeamJVN with people I’ve worked with before and ideally who have worked together before; in my opinion, this will improve efficiency.

  2. I want to make sure we have a team with a wide-range of skills. I know I personally am not the world’s best prototyper or builder (my skills are more related to CAD design). You can bet I want to make sure TeamJVN gets some great prototyping talent early in the draft.

My first pick is not who you’d expect. :wink:

I can’t begin to express how excited we are.

-John