Kettering District!

c.shu · February 27, 2012, 11:33am

Who is ready for week 1 Kettering District???

John_Bottenberg · February 27, 2012, 11:36am

3322 is ready!!

Let’s take a look at the teams:
33 Killer Bees
51 Wings of Fire
70 More Martians
302 The Dragons
314 The Megatron Oracles
322 Team F.I.R.E.
326 Oh gosh. 326. I feel bad for the announcer whenever he has to say your name…
468 Aftershock
494 Martians
703 Team Phoenix
862 Lightning Robotics
894 Chargers
1243 Dragons
1322 GRAYT Leviathons
1502 1502 Technical Difficulties
1504 Desperate Penguins
1506 Metal Muscle
1684 Chimeras
1701 RoboCubs
1711 SCI-MA-TECH Raptors
2137 TORC
2337 EngiNERDS
2604 Metal and Soul
2611 Jacktown Vectors
2627 Techies
3302 TurboTrojans
3322 Eagle Imperium
3415 The RAMS
3421 Tachyon TECs
3534 House of Cards
3535 GalakTech Invaders
3536 Electro Eagles
3537 Delta Force
3568 Roboeagles
3601 Spartan Sprockets
3769 Droids
4294 StarTREC
4376 Raydernators
4382 SHS Trojans

EDIT: GOSH! I was just about to create a thread on this very subject. Had a team list ready and everything!!!

c.shu · February 27, 2012, 12:14pm

Very nice!

JosephC · February 27, 2012, 12:19pm

Some T3 members will be there as well, testing out our new scouting formulas

Squeakypig · February 27, 2012, 12:25pm

I will personally be there, hopefully bringing some students, to take pictures and testing out scouting sheets and recording some matches.

I encourage all students (and parents) that attend this event to take a tour of the Kettering campus! I’m sure they will have a booth set up where you can sign up for just such a thing.

nikeairmancurry · February 27, 2012, 12:26pm

Of course Team 326 is ready, and all 78 characters of our name. Don’t fear John, Tom Nadar loved doing it last year!

kenavt · February 27, 2012, 3:42pm

Kettering always has a recruiting booth set up between the stands and the concessions areas with information on tours, and Kettering in general. And they have raffles for free Kettering apparel too, usually. Always worth a visit!

GaryVoshol · February 27, 2012, 9:22pm

And he’s running away to Gull Lake this year so he doesn’t have to say it again!

nikeairmancurry · February 27, 2012, 9:27pm

Figured he’d be there…

joeweber · February 27, 2012, 9:44pm

R3P0 · February 28, 2012, 3:26pm

Not to seem like a “home room monitor”… but.

How about mixing up the numbers so we can be by OTHER teams that we have not been next to before. ( No offense 1502 Technical Difficulties or 1506 Metal Muscle). As wanna be engineers I think that the nerds etc on our teams can find our pits without them having to be in numerical order, Mix it up first, stop being so… orderly ( numerically assigned pits).

joeweber · February 28, 2012, 5:39pm

The reason we do it in order is for queing. It is easier for them to chase the teams down. It also makes it easy for other teams to find you.

system · February 28, 2012, 6:34pm

I’m very interested in watching this regional, but I don’t have the time or the gas money to drive to Michigan . Any word of a webcast for Kettering?

P.J · February 28, 2012, 6:36pm

Team 2771, Code Red Robotics, is awesome and webcasts every FiM event. Here is their site:

system · February 28, 2012, 6:41pm

Awesome! Thank you!

Chris_Hibner · February 28, 2012, 11:11pm

To add on to what someone already mentioned:

They tried mixing up the numbers in the past. Too many people complained that they couldn’t find the other teams (for strategy discussions, scouting, etc). I guess no matter what you do, someone is not going to be happy.

John_Bottenberg · March 3, 2012, 8:20pm

Congratulations to the winning alliance: 2337, 33, and 4294!

2337, you were first on our pick list and really improved throughout the competition. 33, you improved a TON since your first couple matches and really figured out the strategy for this game. 4294, your bridge balancing skills were phenomenal.

I would like to thank 862 for picking us and 3601 for joining our alliance. We knew that 3601 would work great for our plan in autonomous, but we had no idea that 862 would fit in perfectly! 6 three-pointers in autonomous is an amazing feat. Car Nack said it couldn’t be done, and we proved him wrong.

Everyone should watch the video of our autonomous working in the finals if such a video ends up existing. It really is amazing… a FIRST Rube Goldberg machine.

The Eagle Imperium will be at Livonia and in the intervening weeks we will fix our problems so that we don’t stop moving halfway through matches. I promise!

EDIT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3oNVwsSWns
EDIT: Better video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqXTZyHvM4A

johnmaguire2013 · March 3, 2012, 8:25pm

JABot67:

Congratulations to the winning alliance: 2337, 33, and 4294!

2337, you were first on our pick list and really improved throughout the competition. 33, you improved a TON since your first couple matches and really figured out the strategy for this game. 4294, your bridge balancing skills were phenomenal.

I would like to thank 862 for picking us and 3601 for joining our alliance. We knew that 3601 would work great for our plan in autonomous, but we had no idea that 862 would fit in perfectly! 6 three-pointers in autonomous is an amazing feat. Car Nack said it couldn’t be done, and we proved him wrong.

Everyone should watch the video of our autonomous working in the finals if such a video ends up existing. It really is amazing… a FIRST Rube Goldberg machine.

The Eagle Imperium will be at Livonia and in the intervening weeks we will fix our problems so that we don’t stop moving halfway through matches. I promise!

Agreed. Allow me to quote the description of our Rube Goldberg machine from another post.

Car Nack Predicts 12-1

This was done with Team 3322 (a consistent, very very strong shooter), Team 862 (a shooter) and team 3601 (a feeder bot with an open top) by lining the three up very close to each other, with 3322 being at the key.

KEY
3322
3601 862

They were all touching each other. When autonomous begins our robot shoots its two balls (which it has never missed as far as I’m aware,) then 3601 passes its two balls to us through the feeder by reversing the feeder motor (something I believe was already a part of their design, they simply modified their autonomous to do it.) As its doings this, 862 shoots at a very low RPM their balls into 3601’s open-topped ball holder. The motors still turning, it sends the balls to us as we have already shot the first two 3601 gave us. We then shoot the two 3601 passed to us.

I don’t believe we ever got less than four, except for during one field error which we re-played and I believe that was the match in which we got all six (technically.) Our average was about five. The reason we didn’t get six every time was simply due to the variables: the way the balls that 862 shot to 3601 bounced before getting sucked down into the feeder, a ball which just barely bounced off the rim (almost unheard of for our autonomous until we tried shooting so many balls.)

It was really great.

Joe_J · March 3, 2012, 11:44pm

Great event!

Congratulations to 2337, 33, & 4294 you guys were a great alliance and we had great time competing against you.

Thanks to 3322 and 3601 you guys were a great alliance partners. The autonomous mode was one of the coolest things I’ve seen! We had some amazing matches.

xSAWxBLADEx · March 4, 2012, 12:08am

does anyone have pictures of all the robots from this competition?