910 did it! ill post a video as soon as i can, but in the final practice match of the day, 910 (Foley Freeze) scored two tubes in the autonomous period.
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That was pretty amazing.
Dang, I missed it taking the reffing test…
Hope they do it again tomorrow!
There’a neat picture in this thread taken by Ronnie Ann Tront from Team Ford First right after the second keeper went on. Thanks Ronnie!
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58205&page=2
The MARC was definetly a lot of fun. I look forward to attending and helping out next year. Congrats to all the teams, I think everyone did a great job.
Did anybody catch the school rock as they were leaving? Seems someone had a bit of fun, writing their team number all over. Wonder who that team was. There were some clocks, too. :rolleyes:. ^.~
Thanks to the whole MARC Team for your wonderful job on this super event! You did everything possible to make us all feel welcome and to make it a fair and fun event. Great job on the rules, the reffing, queuing, announcing, scoring system, field setup, pairings, and concessions. Looking forward to coming back again for our “lifetime invitation!”
Thanks to our GREAT teammates - 1732 & 1023. Everyone did awesome and we seemed to come up with just the right strategy to stop our opponents in the playoffs. 6 straight wins… wow! Against some really TOUGH competition too!
Congrats to our opponents - 1243, 70, 204, and 220, 279, 1504. You played great and everyone was so considerate of each other (no ramming, tipping, or anything). Such a clean day of matches. We played 15 matches overall today and didn’t have one complaint we could even think of for any partners or opponents - wow.
Sorry we missed the double-cap today. We came Soooo close! Maybe at Kettering eh? Take care all and thanks again for a great event!
First things first. WOW what a great time and experience this was. I want to thank Mark Koors and Jack/Keith Jones for you FTA experience, Paul Capioli and Jack Nowakowski for the excellent M/Cand Game Announcing, Dan Swando (even though you failled me on my reffing exam), and crew for “flawless” referring, Kyle Dersch for event coordination and scorekeeping, Ronnie Tront keping the equipment up, Bruce Meyer for the great tunes, all the people that volunteered, and each and every team that came for your outstanding attitude, willingness to help and your competitiveness on the field. Everyone was coming up to me telling me how smooth the event ran and much fun and exciting they thought the event was and they could not believe that this was only a first year event. That is what made running this event all worth it and the credit goes out to all of you. Thank you
With only 12 teams, MARC was a huge success and it is only going to get better.
Congrats to teams 1732, 910 and 1023 for their flawless victory. I can’t wait for next years event.
Can someone post the outcome of this event?
Hi Gene,
The playoffs were as follows:
#1 seed 1732 picked 910 then 1023
#2 seed 47 picked 503 then 1526
#3 seed 1243 picked 70 then 240
#4 seed 220 picked 279 then 1504
Playoffs were best 3 out of 5 matches.
Semifinals:
#1 seed defeated #4 in 3 straight
#3 seed defeated #2 and I think it was 3 victories to 1
Finals:
#1 seed defeated #3 in 3 straight
Sorry I don’t have the scores. We were too busy playing. I know that they were all good matches and often went down to a last second ramp or extra tube to win it. My wife said that although it was a small, first-time event, it was surprisingly fun to watch and the competition was great!
We missed you Gene!
Thanks MARC organizers and volunteers for putting on a GREAT tournament! What a fun and well organized event! Thanks to the teams who came out to this inaugural event and played clean and hard, to the refs for great officiating, to our super partners 910 and 1023! Team 1732 looks forward to coming back next year! Thanks again.
John,
Thanks for the prompt reply and results of MARC. I hope everyone had a great time and I wish that my schedule would of allowed me to be there. As it turned out I think all went very well. I’ll catch up on things when I hook up with my team this week!
Thanks and congratulations on winning this inaugural event!
Gene
Thanks for everyone that made MARC a sucess. It was very enjoyable and provided a great opportunity to try out some new drivers. Thanks to our alliance partners 910 and 1023. Hopefully we’ll see you next year!
My team’s thanks go out to 70 and 1243. We had our shot at the finals, but 910 , 1732, & 1023 were just too good.
Our defense was the only possible stopper to 910’s awesome autonomous mode. I think it even stopped them from making a second ringer once, but their auto mode was just far too fast to stop the first keeper from hanging.
Wow, what a competition. Those were some of the best matches I saw this year. Game two of the finals was silly, when Bedford and Foley Freeze made that row of six on the high row in the last seconds of the game securing their victory. I was really impressed with The level of teams there. The number one alliance was one of the best alliances I have seen in quite a while.
The two on two matches in the qualifying was really a cool twist, it made the game much more interesting. I thought that was the best part.
I really would like to thank Mr. Ketron and Kyle Dersch for giving me the chance to MC their event. I also would like to thank that Paul Copioli guy for teaching me the ways of being an MC/Game Announcer. A definite thank you goes to all of the volunteers for making the competition run super smooth and hassle free. Thanks to all of the teams that came out, especially to team 1732 for coming all the way from Wisconsin, it was sweet seeing all of those teams.
Congrats to all the teams, especially team 1732 (That must have been worth the drive), 910 (even though you never hit the two keepers while I was watching;) ), and 1023 (it is good to see you finally get a win, it can not go to a better group of people).
MARC was a great event! Our thanks as well to the organizers and Teams 70 & 240 for a great partnership in the Finals. Congrats to 1732, 910 & 1023!! It’s been great playing with and against the Hill Toppers this past year! 910’s Autonomous was always impressive to watch- great work guys! Understanding the time and challenge that went into making MARC a reality, it seemed fitting that 1023 be on the inaugural winning alliance!!
Kudos must also go to Team 1528 for effectively shutting-down our offensive capabiliy in the Semi-Finals. I’m pretty sure we had the highest ringer avg. in the quals, so we knew we’d be a target in the Finals, but 1528’s super defense and getting our arm bent in the rack while scoring- about a 45 degree bend- really took the edge off of our alliance’s offense. But the team impressively came together by doing it’s best to straighten it and kept fielding the robot and scoring every match. With all the attention on the arm, we lost sight of maintenance on our drivetrain and a couple bad set screws took the punch out of our drivetrain.
We also got bent up again in the rack during the Finals- about 90 degrees this time- it’s hard to hold a position with one drive box slipping- but again the team stepped up and got it close enough to get out and DO something. Though we were in really bad shape, the students never gave up and everyone worked to get all we could out of the robot. As a mentor, that was one of the biggest testaments to the students development we’ve seen yet. Despite the final outcome, not a single member felt bad or wished for anything different. Now, I just hope there’s enough robot left to get it going for Kettering in about a month!! :ahh:
Again, it was a great event. We look forward to attending this event again. For anyone considering going next year, give it a try, you won’t be disappointed!
This event sounds great, again i wish we could have been there but there is always next year. And who knows maybe next year we will bring out some of our Rochester friends!!! Congrats to the winners!
had a great time at marc. i put some stuff up on youtube. mostly 910, but i do have 240’s block. someone asked me why i put our misses on the video,well our misses are alittle bit different. i think we missed two number one keepers. i think alot of teams would like to say that. i guess you could technically say our auto isn’t working:) i would put alink up but my son hasn’t taught me how yet.you would have to search----910’s auto at marc----see you at kettering.
I believe that this very impressive video can be found here.
I have to admit, our autonomous block of 910 was both great for me as the programmer,
and terrible for me because I wanted to see 910 make two keepers during competition.
Well I have to say I was impressed by the block. You guys got it pretty much spot on to block that second cap. Hopefully at Kettering we’ll be able to get a more official double keeper using real keepers during a full match.
MARC was a great event, especially for being the first one. There is some serious potential I think for this little off season. Thanks 1732 and 1023 for being such great partners, it was a real pleasure working with you guys. And thanks to all the volunteers who made it possible for MARC to be such a great success. Next year will be even better, and maybe if it is at an open time I’ll volunteer next year.