I’m working on making a little team information book for the Pacific Northwest regional but I hope to make one for the championship event too which can be handed out to all the teams. It is basically a few simple questions about your robot and how it works. All of the questions are optional to answer (if your team doesn’t want to explain a piece that is completely understandable and normal). Most of what is on there everybody will see at the regionals anyway but having plenty of data on the robot already will help make it easier to sort teams. All of the data about teams that I collect will not be released to anybody until it is sent down to the championship itself and handed out. I know sometimes people do tend to say their robot does more than it actually will do but a few rounds into the matches will correct the information. The idea of this is to see if perhaps a standard booklet can shorten the number of questions and lower the number of scouts who clog your pits at the events. It can also help anybody watching practice matches to know what they need to about the robots right from the start, things that usually take questions to find out like autonomous and drivers.
Will you help out?
BASIC
Team number
Team name
Robot name
Events you have been to/will be attending
Short description of your drive train
Short description of your box lifter
Short description of your box rotator
Short description of your bridge guard
Short description of your plow
Short description of your frame
Easy ways to tell your robot apart (colors etc)
A link to a picture of your robot in its most recent form you have. It is also helpful if it shows the whole robot.
PEOPLE
Do your drivers alternate?
Do you have trained human players?
Can your human players stack 8 in 10 seconds?
AUTONOMOUS
Time to top of the ramp:
Data input source (line tracker, dead reckoning by seconds, dead reckoning by piece of robot)
Number of box stacks your box seeker finds in 15 seconds:
Level at which seeker “looks” (in boxes):
SWINGING ARM
Level where it hits (in boxes):
Number of columns hit:
Time to set up and hit:
STACKING
How high do you stack in 1:45?
How many stacks?
How often does a stack you put down stay upright?
BRIDGE GUARD
How much does it cover? (Top ____ ft, all top, all top one alley, all top two alleys)
PLOW
Extending time (seconds):
Columns hit:
Level where hit:
Width when extended:
CLEARING BAR (which of the following)
Never does
Starts up, down =____ seconds
Expands, down again = ____ seconds
Expands, doesn’t go down again
Falls to make 5 by 3 foot base = _____ second fall
Always under
Reading this and not planning currently on the championships? Remember I’m also setting up a book for the Pacific Northwest Regional and also I’ll be more than happy to give you a blank copy of the basic sheet we use to keep track of teams if you want.
Once again, if you do not want this information to go out before the championships PM it to me and it will not go anywhere until the actual the event.
Thanks everybody
Katy
