Umm… I don’t want to know what my human player accuracy was… lol.
Well… you didn’t play in any qualifying/elimination rounds did you?
I know you were in some practice ones when we were sizing up the potential players.
Not including practice rounds, I think the only time I screwed up was at nats when I had to do a stack by the bar and a stack in the middle and I didn’t quite make it back in time. I had never practiced it though, so I think it’s ok;) And to add a little bit of humor…I am only 4 bins high…so at Cleveland the announcer always had to peek around the stack to make sure there was someone there…small but mighty!!
Stacking 100%
Getting back in time 100%
This may be because I didnt stack anything over 3 .
Accomplishments:
I have knocked off every single dead reckoner’d auto mode except for one robot (930).
*Originally posted by “Big Mike” *
**as much as i <3ed the teams on curie, i think the best human players was a coin toss between our human Player Mike (not me) and DJ on 45, if there was a hp competition one of those 2 would definatly win it strickly on how much they owned at the game **
Well, there WAS a human player competition at the IRI, with 25 and 45 in attendance, and Uriah won!
Thanks Team 111 for putting that together, and thanks to all the people who signed the Best Human Player bin that Uriah received - that’s one of the neatest things I think a FIRST kid could win.
lol yea the human player competition was awesome… even though that day was the first time I’d ever started HP-ing, and I dropped 2 bins in my stack of 3, it was a blast. Maybe we can do something like this next year but bigger, like using 2 people or something?
The Human Player competition was a great idea but my only complaint about it is that it really had nothing to do with the game, basically the competition was a violation of the normal FIRST Human Player rules. I commend the work that the Wildstang Engineers did and am very grateful for the competition, but next year if they do something like that, the rules of the normal game should be upheld so it can truely prove who is the best.
My change I would have made to the game is that instead of putting the bins in the gray areas, put them against the walls of the scoring areas. Your close side be the 1 point and the far wall be the 4 points. That would have truely made the game better
I’m curious what the HP game used at IRI was?
We also had a HP contest at BattleCry, and it went quite well. Details on our contest are here: (scroll ALL the way to the bottom) http://www.wpi.edu/News/Events/BattleCry/tactical.html
I also have pictures and video if anyone is interested…
*Originally posted by WernerNYK *
I’m curious what the HP game used at IRI was?
Basically, each HP was given 8 bins (2 stacks of 4) in the normal HP bin location. They were given 10 seconds to place bins in either of the robot starting areas. Bins in the far robot starting area were worth 4 points each, and bins in the near starting area were worth 1 point each. The number of bins in the tallest stack in either zone was used to multiply the score. Also, all bins had to be upright and completely contained in the grey starting zone. If the HP was not back within the 10 seconds, the bin points counted, but they were not given the multiplier.
This was all put together at the very last minute so we didn’t have a lot of time to come up with the game. We tried to have a game that gave the opportunity to use a little strategy other than just building a big stack. Hopefully most people enjoyed it. Under the circumstances I think it went pretty well.
My change I would have made to the game is that instead of putting the bins in the gray areas, put them against the walls of the scoring areas. Your close side be the 1 point and the far wall be the 4 points. That would have truely made the game better
I definitely understand your interest in having it mimick the real game as much as possible, but do you think that this change you suggested above would have really changed the game? The only thing that I can see that would have been different with this was that you’d have to take 1 or 2 steps less to get to the opposite side.
*Originally posted by Dave Flowerday *
**I definitely understand your interest in having it mimick the real game as much as possible, but do you think that this change you suggested above would have really changed the game? The only thing that I can see that would have been different with this was that you’d have to take 1 or 2 steps less to get to the opposite side. **
You are absolutely right and there is so much that could be done with it that we could debate on for years about. Its a great concept and a great idea, but respectfully speaking as a human players and commenting for a few human players I have spoken to, keeping it game legal does make more of a difference then “1 or 2 less steps.” Human players aren’t sent out during the regular game to do score in the gray (well because its illegal :p), so why should they play a game where they go out there and break the rules of the regular game? What does that prove? Again I enjoyed playing the game and congradulations to all the finalists and winners, you guys deserved it.
*Originally posted by The Paco *
**our hp, uriah , is real good, out of the pre dhip event we held, the three regionals we attened, and nats, he never ever dropped a bin, never ever got a penalty, and always made it back in under 8 seconds (unless instructed to deactivate autonomous which was only once). he even corrected our alliance’s stacks… wow what an accomplishment… props to the best darn human player in the land… im my opinoin anyways… GO URIAH!!! **
Didn’t he win that sweet signed bin full of munchies at IRI for winning that human player contest?
This quite honestly is a little silly considering the human player role in this years game. Now last years game, thats where we talk human player accuarcy not only in distance shots but overall scoring percentage…the guy we had on the BBS was incredible he would get 8 or 9 of his balls every game, I never saw anyone else come close at any regional or nats.
*Originally posted by Gope *
**This quite honestly is a little silly considering the human player role in this years game. Now last years game, thats where we talk human player accuarcy not only in distance shots but overall scoring percentage…the guy we had on the BBS was incredible he would get 8 or 9 of his balls every game, I never saw anyone else come close at any regional or nats. **
It is a little silly… but there is a small bit of accuracy that comes into play. Mainly in regards to the number of flags received, etc. You’d be surprised how many mistakes people make as HP… sometimes without noticing. I flagged at least 10 people for HP violations at IRI, including 4 DQs.
i wasnt the human player so i cant say what my accuracy was, however our human player was excellent. i dont think she messed up at all and she always got back in time.