I personally can’t wait, 2 more days and then RAGE will be there to defend our back to back title. Too bad we couldn’t threepeat with the same robot. LOL.
Out of curiosity how many teams will be attending this year? I heard it was around 27 or so.
Even though we aren’t competing we were thinking of borrowing “Marsha Bee”, last years robot, doing a few mods, and putting her into the off-season competitions. But other things came up and we didn’t have the time. Think if we replaced her suction cup with a neumatic grabber and changed the arm actuator motors with something alittle faster (versus the van door motor in there now) we would do pretty well, except for the fact none us have practiced on a field or know any of the rules in detail.
Its a tradgedy Watkinson wouldn’t work with us to bring us into our 4th year with a bang – but I guess all good things come to an end. I will see you all at RIT Fingerlakes (my new school next year, I’m so stoked) and at UTC Hartford as a voulenteer/spectator.
I can’t wait – I might not be competing, but i’m not out.
Good luck you guys! See you there!
If possible could a list of teams competing and a time schedule be posted. I looked at last years schedule and assume it will be the same. Practice from 8-10 then matches, lunch, picking, finals? Also directions coming from 95 (from RI) would be great too!
There are 29 teams attending this year.
As far as a schedule, team list, and directions from RI - I will attempt to post that before the end of the night tonight (Thursday).
Are we there yet?
Woo-hoo! I cannot wait for this weekend. We have gone (counting this year) 3 out of the past 4 years )and the one year we did not go is the year we dont talk about 
) but everytime I have gone has been a blast and I am sure no doubt this year will be the same it is so nice to see all the robots and all of the hard work that people have put into it and all the new designs that they have thought of. No doubt we will be working late Friday in order to make sure everything is all set and packed so we can leave bright and early Saturday. Just a few more tweaks and we are there!
Just think only 4 more days without sleep W00T (as I take my last swig of my 7th red bull since school started :ahh: )
The teams registered for the scrimmage are: 571, 173, 195, 1124, 1524, 230, 190, 176, 663, 228, 181, 178, 716, 1350, 839, 1071, 521, 1058, 175, 1373, 1027,999, 38, 809, 1099, 236, 694, 88
I believe that the schedule is still tenative.
And lastly, the directions from Rhode Island should be:
4: Merge onto I-95 S toward WESTERLY.
5: Take the CT-85 exit- EXIT 82- toward WATERFORD/BROAD ST.
6: Turn RIGHT onto CT-85 N/HARTFORD TURNPIKE/HARTFORD RD. Continue to follow CT-85 N.
7: Turn LEFT onto CT-82/E HADDAM RD.
8: Merge onto CT-11 N toward COLCHESTER/HARTFORD.
9: CT-11 N becomes CT-2 W.
10: Merge onto US-6 W/I-84 W via EXIT 2W toward I-91 N.
11: Merge onto I-91 N via EXIT 51 toward SPRINGFIELD.
12: Merge onto CT-20 W via EXIT 40 toward BRADLEY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.
13: Turn RIGHT onto Old County Rd.
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Follow Old County Rd. until you come to the stop sign in front of Dunkin Donut then turn left towards Rt. 75
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At the light turn RIGHT.
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Turn LEFT onto 168 in Suffield.
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Continue on 168 until you come upto Sheldon St. which will be a left.
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The school will come up on your RIGHT.
Hopefully those directions will get you there and we will have our road signs up and visable.
Anyone can doubte check me on that. See y’all later!
-J9
We are Webcasting the Scrimmage again this year. (As well as the UTC Regional) if anyone wants to tune in from afar find a link on the Gaelhawks website- (Team 230)
http://www.shsrobotics.org/05/index.htm
We’ll be putting a link on the home page sometime today, but it wont be active 'till Sat Morning.
Pass it on and/or link to our site from yours if you please. (Especially the wonderful Scrimmage Hosts- Ace’s High - 176. Since people may visit your site for info!)
See you there!
Wow, I can’t wait for the scrimmage tomorrow! I work at P&W this year so I’ll be “refereeing” the event. Good, the scrimmage marks the beginning of competition season (my favorite season of the year). I live in the town adjacent to Suffield, CT (I live in Enfield, CT right now) so if you need any tips on what there is to do in CT… I’ll break it to you early: there is Nothing to do in CT (except I know where the local restaurants are).
Looking forward to it! 
Erin is WRONG. There IS stuff to do in CT - You can always come and hang out with RAGE! 
Please let your non-engineering mentors know that there will be a NEMO table set up where they can join NEMO. See everyone tomorrow!
Sadly, Team 195 will not be sending their 2005 robot to the UTC scrimmage this year. We are sending last years robot with our secondary arm mounted on it, and not our 2005 robot that will be used in the competitions. Most of our team will be there, but a few will stay back to work on the real robot. Hope you have a lot of fun (I’m staying back to work on the 2005 bot!) Just wait until you see what we have in store for the UTC regional… 
Is anybody else not able to get team 230’s webcast? It says they will start broadcasting at 0900 but it is 0940 and I am still not getting anything? Just curious if it is something wrong on my end or something on theirs?
Yeah. When I click the link from the home page, I get a page that says:
<ASX version="3.0">
<ENTRY>
<ref href="http://159.247.235.150/channel_230_300" />
</ENTRY>
</ASX>
When I enter the link in the href attribute into my browser (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0) manually, Windows Media Player attempts to open it but encounters an “unknown error”.
ON EDIT: Tried it in Internet Explorer. Clicking the link from the Main Page brought up Windows Media Player, which returned the following error message: “Windows Media Player cannot connect to the server. The server name may be incorrect or the server is busy. Try again later.”
It seems that the problem has been fixed - works now. (I used IE.)
I should have gone… I just slept in and missed my ride… By like 5 minutes… and they were a quarter of a mile down the road… and wouldn’t wait/pick me up… I was so mad and upset… This is so bad… :0( :0( fine I guess I’ll just have to save all my energy for BAE Regional…
Comp looks good though…
We had an AWESOME time today! It was great seeing everyone’s different robot designs and game strategies, and seeing people we haven’t seen since last season.
Good luck to everyone in the upcoming season!
Nice job to all the teams who attended today.
From ACES HIGH’s point of view the scrimmage went off beautifully and as usual everyone got to work out a few kinks.
I hope that it worked out just as well for everyone else
I guess this is the point where I will leave this thread open for any comments and suggestions that y’all may have in regards to the scrimmage setup so that it may be bigger and better for the 2006 season!
Get some sleep everyone! 
-J9
The scrimmage was a blast and very well run. The only suggestion I would have for in the future would be to try to make the announcers a little bit clearer. It sounded very echoy and undistinct at the competion. It might just be an acousitics thing you can’t fix, but sometimes it was a little bit hard to hear what was going on.
Then again, I was usually so focused on the game I wasn’t listening anyway
:rolleyes:
Was there a scoring system ready for the scrimmage? I didn’t see the usual win/loss/ranking screens or a score projected in the gym like the last couple years.
Yes, we noticed the scoring and acoustics issues. Love the music; impossible to hear the announcing over it!
Also, lesson learned - check your tables when you arrive BEFORE you put your robot on them. Make sure the legs are locked into place. Ours collapsed, narrowly missing people’s feet under it, and narrowly missing hitting them in the head as the robot went down. Fortunately no one was injured.
Also, some organization tips - your registration table needs to be better marked; everyone was coming to me at the NEMO table. It might be good to make up a flyer explaining the game and FIRST program, or provide FIRST brochures or something for visitors and post them somewhere where visitors would find it. I spoke at length with someone who had simply seen this advertised online (or in the paper?) and I had no materials with me about FIRST to give to her that would better explain the program [make note to self, pack some with me for UTC regional].