so what’s the team list up to now?
Right now we have 12 teams registered but I’m going to IRI today and hopefully will have more teams by the end of the weekend.
how did the recquiting at IRI go?
Yeah, Steve, Steve, do we have any new teams??? ::acts like little kid asking for a cookie::
cookies cookies!? i want some cookies.
ooo, and yeah is there new teams?
I don’t have any numbers handy for them, but Steve emailed me stating we will be looking at having around 20 teams or so for the event once some more recruiting is done and we get the registrations turned in. I’m sure he can elaborate more.
OK, I went to IRI and am sorry for all of you that missed the most entertaining event of the year. However, you still have an oppertunity to see something that has not happened all year in the “Rack-n-Roll”. Team 910 is about to be the first team to score two racks in auto mode. They just barely missed this at IRI and the MARC is the next event they are attending and I believe it will be done. IS THIS A GOOD COOKIE?
I have received a verbal committment from a couple teams and a couple said they are very interested in attending but have to make sure they have enough students to come to the event. Now in order to make this event a huge success, I would like to ask each of you to talk to the teams in your area and try and get some of them to attend our event also.
When I have more teams signed up I will drop another post.
910 (Foley Freeze) is really looking forward to coming. As long as one of our partners in a match doesn’t have an auton mode, we can “use” their tube for our second score (it starts out touching their back corner and not ours).
We did it about 20 times in the practice gym at I.R.I. so given the right conditions (non-extreme rack angle & a little luck) we might get it!
Being able to score in about 4 seconds (from camera lock) should also be a nice thing as we’re planning on assigning our cap hi/med/low buttons to that function in semi-auto or auto modes on our control board. Previously, the human players thought it was faster to do in “manual control” mode, but with our souped-up speed, we think the camera/computer can beat them. Especially around the back of the rack. We’ll see!
Question… Will MARC use the same improved rules as IRI? We vote YES!
Thanks and see y’all at MARC!
:yikes:
Acording to the “rules of Engagement”
Looks like 1126, 503, 1732 and 910 are going to be going for the points.
I am so pumped, this is going to be great.
I think that the alliances will all be really good.
OK, team 1126 is unable to make it to our event. It was a lons-shot for them to make and they just couldn’t pull it off with the correct number of mentors/students so we lost one team. However, some of them are still coming to our event to help us out. So thank you guys for the long journey to help.
So this is what we have so far, the following teams are currently coming: 47, 70, 226, 240, 279, 503, 910, 1023, 1243, 1504, 1528, 1732, and 1864. That gives us a total of 13 teams as of now. I am waiting for a reply from 1038 who might bring a pre-registered team with them and I have a pre-registered team from my area also. Any of you that can sweet talk some of your other local teams into coming, We would greatly appreciate it.
Im really excited fot this event! Its great to see that so many people/teams are going to be in attendance! Cant wait to see everybody there.
Courtney
It should be a ton of fun with some really great teams!
How will the eliminations work? Only four alliances? Will the selections go 1-4, 4-1 or go 1-4, 1-4 like IRI?
four teams with a possible 5th if more teams sign up and 1-4, 4-1. Also because of the number of teams I am thinking we take the eliminations to a best 3 out of 5 (This will be asked of by the teams that come and if they want to do the 3 out of 5 we will).
Has any more teams signed on yet?
sorry to see west michigan event cancelled. i would think marc would be happy to invite everybody to come on over. i see a mentor driving skill test is planned. is that code for - " make fun of old guys"
Just a couple days left. Who is getting ready for another awesome event?
I may come down to MARC to check it out and/or lend a hand.
My mom is moving down to Monroe, so I’ve got a good excuse to come now.
I’m ready it’s gonna be fun.
Team 703 will be unable to attend due to a lack of available mentors.
I however to plan on coming down, at least on Saturday to check it out!
I only have three words to say about tomorrow:
LETS GET DESPERATE!
(and have a bundle of fun watching the double keeper score)