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I think 2471 is pretty pumped to come down for our first Chezy Champs. We’ll hopefully be practicing over the summer at our new practice facility!
Wow, I didn’t expect 4183 to get on there! Thank you for the invite!
Very interesting seeing Michigan represented with 3538, I guess not even Cali is safe from the Michigan powerhouses
Very excited for Chezy Champs 2018, what an incredible line up of teams. Shout to the strong teams coming from all over North America, thanks for helping make this event amazing!
As always, 1678 is honored to be invited to this fantastic event.
Best,
-Mike
Team 8 is excited to participate in Chezy Champs again. Looking forward to competing at one of the strongest events all year!
The top ~12 teams invited to CC look similar in skill to the top 12 invited to IRI. Drops a bit after that but never worse than Curie or Dow except for the last few teams.
By percentile, the team quality at CC looks much closer to the team quality at IRI than it does when looking at rank. The top 20% are a bit better, and the bottom 60% are a bit worse. Certainly much closer to IRI than any regular-season event.
I expect quals matches at CC to be pretty similar in quality to IRI quals matches, although the deeper field at IRI will probably make for some better playoff matches there.
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Caleb, any specific reason you picked Dow and Curie divisions? Just curious
I wanted high quality regular season events to provide a reference that people could relate to, so I chose one champs division and one district champs event.
Curie specifically because 2052 was in it :). All champs divisions were the same size so it didn’t matter much.
Dow because I wanted a district championship event that had about as many teams as CC. No special reason I chose it over the other MSC divisions.
OK, so what’s with 1836 not being able to get into any event with “Champs” in the name this year? Or did they not apply?
Indiana Robotics Invitational doesn’t have “Champs” in the name though
but 254 is too lazy to even spell out “championship”
What a stacked event! Looking forward to it.
1836 did not apply for Chezy Champs this year. Our school limits us to one fall and one summer offseason event. So, for summer we applied for IRI (and didn’t get it) and for fall we applied for Beach Blitz (still waiting :ahh:). Beach Blitz is a much easier trip for us, and since we’ve been to Chezy a few times, the team is trying to provide a new experience for some of the returning the students.
I’m still waiting on Blitz too, but as a volunteer. See you there if you make it!
Heh. I’m actually also waiting on it as a voulenteer now that I’m alum.
Sorry to hijack Chezy thread🙃
I’m definitely excited to head up to the bay with the team to compete and I know the kids are excited as well. Now I just have to figure out if they want to bring a new bot up there to compete or not…
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Here are the rule changes we will be implementing at Chezy Champs 2018:
Inspection
There will be no robot inspections conducted, and teams are allowed an extra five (5) pounds weight for repairs and minor modifications. Event organizers may conduct ad-hoc inspections at any time; violations identified must be corrected before the robot can participate in subsequent matches, and teams may be retroactively disqualified from past matches for egregious violations that resulted in a competitive advantage.
Gameplay (changes to existing rules underlined)
In general, minor violations of game rules that, in the best judgement of the REFEREES, meet ALL of the below conditions, will not be penalized:
- Are accidental
- Do not pose a safety hazard
- Do not change the difficulty of the game for either alliance
G09. Launching POWER CUBES is okay. Robots may launch power cubes without restriction, so long as doing so would not also violate S01, G20, G21, G24, or G25.
G22. One POWER CUBE per ROBOT. ROBOTS may not control more than one (1) POWER CUBE at a time, except when breaking the plane of their own EXCHANGE ZONE.
G25. PLATES are moved by POWER CUBES, not ROBOTS. Except via the weight of placed POWER CUBES, ROBOTS may not directly or transitively cause or prevent the movement of PLATES to their ALLIANCE’s advantage. Movement, or prevention of movement, of PLATES because of momentary ROBOT action resulting in minimal PLATE displacement is not a violation of this rule. A ROBOT forced to affect the position of a PLATE because of contact by an opponent ROBOT either directly or transitively through a POWER CUBE or other ROBOT (e.g. a ROBOT wedged underneath the SCALE by the opposing ALLIANCE either intentionally or accidentally) is not a violation of this rule.
A04. Stay out of your opponent’s side of the FIELD. During AUTO, no part of a ROBOT’S BUMPERS may pass from the NULL TERRITORY to the opponent’s side of the FIELD.
Violation: FOUL. If contact is made with an opponent ROBOT in their side of the FIELD (either direct contact or transitive contact through a POWER CUBE), TECH FOUL and YELLOW CARD. If the contact prevents the opponent ALLIANCE from achieving the AUTO QUEST, the associated Ranking Point will be granted automatically.
Alliance Selection
Chezy Champs will use four-team playoff alliances. All rules governing their selection and operation will be identical to those for Championship playoff alliances in section 10.11.1 in the official manual.
Since all 3 teams capable of a 4 cube will be attending, it will be interesting to see how CC turns out. If 842 and 2471 can team up, I wonder if that could be the combination to take down the poofs.