Mid-Build CRESCENDO Competition at Kettering University | Matches Posted

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I absolutely wish we could sign up and attend, it sounds like a blast! However I think it might just be a little too far away to justify XD

I hope there’s a local Quokka Quopy close enough to attend, I know we are all looking forward to seeing the Quokka army competing this season!

Good luck to all teams attending and we will be tuning in to cheer you all along from the stream.

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Let’s start a GoFundMe so y’all can go lol

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We appreciate the sentiment! <3
But you’d be looking in the tens of thousands range, and there are many other teams out there that could use that sort of funding.

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Saturday, February 3, 2024 6:00 PM→Saturday, February 3, 2024 10:00 PM

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Catch your first glimpse of CRESCENDO with the Mid-Season Build Competition streamed live on Saturday from 1-5pm eastern (or later) at https://youtube.com/firstupdatesnow/live featuring Kitbots and Ri3D teams!

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Field is set up for tomorrow’s stream starting at 1pm eastern at https://YouTube.com/firstupdatesnow/live !

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Is this going to be released today or tomorrow? The livestream says it will be opened February 4th at 1pm

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Today. Sorry on the confusion. This is fixed.

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We’re about to start with the Mid-Build CRESCENDO Competition! Come get a first glimpse at how this game is played at https://YouTube.com/firstupdatesnow/live

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Thank you to all who tuned in or attended this event. We had 20 matches played with 8 robots competing.

All match videos are on FUN’s YouTube. You can view the entire playlist at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkZ6_Ld1x9Y880CKRBB8jzxCPl01ULmif

Something of interest: The notes that we had held up incredibly well. We had robots with both unfinished bumpers and no bumpers competing and we didn’t have a single note that needed to be taken off or would have been deemed unusable.

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Thanks Kettering and FUN for hosting this event! It looked super awesome, and we learned a lot from it!

PS: I think Cranberry Alarm RI3D could win a district, that robot looks so amazing!

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Thank you @Clinton_Bolinger and Kettering for hosting such an awesome event this weekend! Cranberry Alarm had a blast getting to playing CRESCENDO with you all for the first time!

Also, a huge shoutout to our amazing winning alliance partners, @BigSkyRobotics!

Reminder for those interested in our robot design, strategy, code, CAD, or if you have any questions, check out our CD build thread here:

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I would be curious what takeaways anyone who was there had about the game?

Things I observed from watching online:

  1. The source half of the field gets very crowded very quickly. Being able to navigate through the speakers or even up top seemed great for avoiding the congestion.
  2. It was easier to spotlight in early events than I expected. Having the alliance be ready to double climb on whatever microphone gets spotlighted is still going to require a lot of coordination in the last 20 seconds.
  3. How the game pieces slide out of the source is going to be very important, and I am not sure this field recreated it so we will have to wait for the real thing.
  4. It can be quite easy for a team to go over to their opponents source and snag a note that was dropped early or maybe multiple were dropped. It isn’t a large protected area and doesn’t take long to get in and out of it.
  5. I am interested to see how the game changes as (hopefully) more bots are able to do the Amp and there becomes more strategy around amplification.
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Tyler, the playlist videos seem to be in reverse order from what I would expect (match 1 first, finals at the end)

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We’ve always put them in chronological order. More people care about Finals 1 than Q1 IMHO.

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Anyone else have insights about how the game played from this event?