Minnesota Robotics Invitational

Competition Off-Season Events
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The 2018 Minnesota Robotics Invitational will be held on Saturday, October 13th in Roseville, MN.

FUN will be doing the livestreaming: https://www.twitch.tv/firstupdatesnow

2018 Team Shirt Design:

36 teams competing

Number Team Name
876 Thunder Robotics
1816 The Green Machine
2052 KnightKrawlers
2129 Ultraviolet
2175 The Fighting Calculators
2177 The Robettes
2220 Blue Twilight
2239 Technocrats
2491 NoMythic
2500 Herobotics
2532 FLASH Power
2606 Irish Robotics
2846 FireBears
2855 BEASTBot
2987 Rogue Robotics
3055 Furious George
3082 Chicken Bot Pie
3100 Lightning Turtles
3130 The ERRORS
3184 Blaze Robotics
3244 Granite City Gearheads
3407 MVHS Robotics
3750 Gators
3883 Data Bits
3926 MPArors
4198 Waconia RoboCats
4207 PyroBotics
4511 Power Amplified
4536 MinuteBots
4539 KAOTIC Robotics
4549 Iron Bulls
4607 C.I.S.
4859 Cybears
5172 Gators
7038 Pizza Pi’s
7432 NOS

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Look forward to this every year! That is a great list of teams, should be a lot of fun!

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This will be Team 4539’s first time attending MRI and we are excited to participate! Good luck to all teams participating! Looks like a great team list!

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We have a ton of new volunteers coming in to be trained at the event too, including a bunch of robot inspectors! While we aren’t doing formal inspections, if a group of them come by and ask to do an inspection, it’s a great chance for some of your younger students to gain some experience going though an inspection, while they do the same! Of course, if you’re too busy or have a match soon, politely decline and they’ll move on to another team :slight_smile: We’ll have an experienced inspector or an LRI with each group, and we very rarely make teams change anything at the event - I can only think of a couple of safety-related issues over the years, and none took very long to fix.

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This is probably the strongest MN off season event lineup I’ve seen! Looking forward to seeing how it all plays out!

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7432 can’t wait to attend! Will you guys have a practice field available?

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I will be working the event although i am not affiliated with the host school. I do not think there will be a practice field unless something has changed from years past. Most off season events are not able to provide that luxury. Just putting an excellent off season / training event like MRI on is a MASSIVE undertaking!!

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You’re a rookie team this upcoming season, right? Just coming to an event like this is going to give you a leg up! Are you bringing another team’s practice bot to compete with?

There won’t be a practice field - there simply isn’t enough room for one! I’m one of the Lead Robot Inspectors for the event - inspectors wear yellow hats, and the LRI’s also have a black vest. I can help with any questions or assistance you guys need, and I’ll be sure to stop by and introduce myself in the morning!

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We have cleared it with the organizers and we will be bringing our practice robot. They said they will try to have a room available for people to drive it if they have not had a chance to drive a robot or are interested in seeing how this may drive different than their machine. Just FYI.

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They’re not your average rookie team… I suspect you’ll recognize a lot of them!

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Ranking projections:

Team	average rank		1	Top 4	Top 8
4539	2.5			38%	89%	98%
5172	2.6			39%	86%	98%
3244	5.0			9%	55%	86%
3130	5.6			7%	48%	83%
2052	7.7			2%	27%	64%
1816	8.6			2%	21%	57%
3750	8.9			2%	21%	54%
2175	9.3			1%	16%	51%
876	12.1			0%	7%	31%
4198	12.2			1%	7%	33%
3100	13.0			0%	6%	26%
2987	13.0			0%	4%	25%
2846	13.8			0%	4%	22%
2491	14.9			0%	4%	16%
3082	16.6			0%	3%	13%
2220	17.4			0%	1%	10%
3184	18.2			0%	1%	7%
2177	18.7			0%	1%	6%
4859	20.3			0%	1%	5%
2606	20.5			0%	0%	3%
3883	21.2			0%	0%	3%
4536	22.3			0%	0%	2%
4607	22.9			0%	0%	2%
4207	23.5			0%	0%	1%
3055	24.8			0%	0%	1%
3926	25.2			0%	0%	1%
2500	25.3			0%	0%	1%
2129	25.4			0%	0%	1%
4511	25.4			0%	0%	1%
4549	25.9			0%	0%	1%
3407	27.7			0%	0%	0%
2532	29.8			0%	0%	0%
7432	30.4			0%	0%	0%
2239	30.7			0%	0%	0%
2855	31.2			0%	0%	0%
7038	33.3			0%	0%	0%

Note that these use only in-season data and have no additional off-season correction. This means they are a fair bit overconfident, but should give a general idea of which teams we can expect to do well.

Looks like a pretty stacked event! I’m going to try out scorekeeping for the first time so we’ll see how that goes.

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If 7432 is using Kaotic’s practice bot I would move them up in the rankings a notch or 10…

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I am certain that they will do well with their own robot! I mean, I have never seen this team in action before… :stuck_out_tongue:

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It’s 3026’s bot, it looks like Caleb’s model is just assigning them some default values for the ranking predictions.

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Looking forward to being a part of the GA team tomorrow! It’s going to be a fun event for sure!

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MRI looks like it’s going to be a ton of fun this year. See you all tomorrow!

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Yeah, it has pre-rookies set to the average 2018 rookie strength. I’ve heard this pre-rookie is something special though, so it’d be cool to see them beat the odds.

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Matches are going on right now! Come watch at https://www.twitch.tv/firstupdatesnow or on The Blue Alliance

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Lunchtime update

Team	average rank	1	Top 4	Top 8
4539	4.4		25%	63%	86%
2491	4.4		21%	60%	87%
876	5.6		15%	48%	78%
3750	5.8		11%	46%	78%
5172	6.9		10%	39%	67%
4536	8.1		2%	27%	59%
3244	8.1		6%	28%	57%
2052	9.1		<1%	14%	46%
1816	9.3		3%	21%	49%
4198	10.5		3%	16%	39%
2846	12.3		1%	9%	28%
2987	12.5		<1%	8%	27%
3130	12.6		<1%	6%	25%
4207	13.3		<1%	5%	23%
7038	13.7		<1%	5%	20%
2175	14.1		<1%	2%	14%
4859	17.7		<1%	<1%	4%
2220	17.8		<1%	<1%	6%
3184	18.0		<1%	<1%	4%
2177	21.0		<1%	<1%	2%
4607	22.1		<1%	<1%	<1%
2500	22.1		<1%	<1%	1%
2606	23.2		<1%	<1%	<1%
2129	23.7		<1%	<1%	<1%
3883	24.0		<1%	<1%	<1%
3055	25.8		<1%	<1%	<1%
2239	27.2		<1%	<1%	<1%
3407	27.9		<1%	<1%	<1%
3082	28.1		<1%	<1%	<1%
2855	28.4		<1%	<1%	<1%
3926	29.6		<1%	<1%	<1%
9992	30.6		<1%	<1%	<1%
4511	30.9		<1%	<1%	<1%
2532	31.8		<1%	<1%	<1%
3100	32.6		<1%	<1%	<1%
4549	32.7		<1%	<1%	<1%

2491’s sitting pretty good.

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  1. 3750-4539-2175-3184** 3rd**
  2. 876-1816-4607-2491 F
  3. 3244-2052-2846-7432*
  4. 5172-3130-4536-4198 W

I thoroughly enjoyed watching the event as a spectator. This was definitely the most competitive non-State Champs off-season event MN has probably ever seen. It was ridiculous how evenly matched every alliance was

Thanks to 2846 for hosting. You put on a great event.

*listed as 9992 on TBA, had 7886 bumpers, and played with 3026’s robot