Tonight starting at 8:30pm ET Roasts and Robots bring together great minds from the community to debate some of the most pressing issues in FRC live on air! Giveaway from Word Play All Day if you watch live!
Guests tonight:
Mike Corsetto from FRC1678
Adrienne Emerson from FRC148
Brandon Holley from FRC125
Debate topics:
Volunteer experiences
Preliminary regional schedules
Should all events switch to Saturday-Sunday
Different district models and how this could evolve
Team experiences in districts now and in the future
Edit: Thank you everyone who tuned in live. We had an awesome live turnout. For those who didn’t get a chance to watch these electric discussions or want to re-watch the stream here are the segments:
775pro stall capabilities and 775pros in drivetrains has been a pretty hot topic lately, with a lot of well-informed people not being able to come to an agreement.
I’m sure it’s too late to add discussion topics for this show, but I’d be interested in hearing the opinions of some of FRC’s best mentors in the future.
If/when you do discuss 775Pros, any chance you can snag some guest spots for people from VEXPro or notable electrical engineering wizards (like Al) to chime in?
Sure. You know how some teams can do it all. They build two absolutely ineradicable robots that can do everything extremely well with lots of custom parts every year. They have lots of time to but together a jaw dropping autonomous before there first event. You look at them and just know that they will be rank 1 and win the event. Then they also get Chairman’s, a Woodie, and Deans List and go to worlds every year. And they have a team with lots and lots of students and mentors.
Compared to the teams that have no money and can barley get a drive train and one simple mechanism to function.
Better take away all those teams resources so they can’t do all that awesome stuff! While we’re at it, better distribute their mentors out to other teams because they shouldn’t get to have all that experience on one team.
I don’t think he’s saying we should remove those resources from the top tier teams, but instead try to create better resources for lower level teams? The best teams to create these kinda resources would be the teams that already achieved this level of success.
I’ll take an additional stab at describing a topic based around this. How about discussion centered on members of new teams, understanding and responding to the imbalance of technical achievement.
What does it mean to be a high-performing team? How does one get there? On that journey, what attitude should one take? Should FIRST HQ have a goal as to the technical achievements that teams should strive for?
Again, not required for this round of FUN, but a potential future topic.
Use a good game analysis to pick something important and work within your means to execute it well and reliably. 3461 succeeded at it this year with scale play, and that’s why we picked you at Champs
If you want to seed higher, then one of those things to work on has to be something that will pick up RP while minimally relying on partners.
We did. It’s great. We’d do it again. 775’s -> Decimates -> Transmission of your choice. Power management to prevent brownouts, test to failure before competition season so you know how hard you can push the motors.
While I agree with this I personally think my teams original strategy was not a good one. Yes they made it worlds but I think the biggest reason was due to the driver, operator and two coach/strategists.
Also when I brought up this topic I was not talking about my team. I think my team is some wear in the middle. I think we fall into the category of not consistent year to year.
