Winning this years game!

Competition Off-Season Events
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Team #64, the Gila Monsters, would like to thank all 13 teams who made our 6th annual pre-shipping Open House such a great success. It was simply an outstanding day.

After watching this years scrimmages it became very clear, that to win this years game you must be :

  1. As fast as lightening
  2. As agile as a ballet dancer
  3. As strong as a battleship

If your robot isn’t all three of these, you have less than 3 days to redesign and rebuild your robot.

Thanks again to all the Phoenix area teams for a great day!

Ken Loyd
Team #64:cool:

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How many broken bins?

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Sounds like Sparky 4. Any video of what to expect?

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*Originally posted by Gadget470 *
**How many broken bins? **

Seveal.

Lots of flying tops (we didn’t fasten them
)

Noise level very high as the bins went flying.

I was suprised how many bins stayed on the ramp clogging up the movement of robots.

“Robot that knocks down the wall first…wins!” several people.

Suprised at the carnage on the robots. Protect your insides. Lots of arms piercing robots. Lots of arms being knocked off.

Will look into video.

Ken Loyd
Team #64.

PS Our Graduate kids who attend U of A and started a club in Tucson, built a neat little robot. Congrats kids.

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Got an average broken bins per match figure?

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*Originally posted by Ken Loyd *
**PS Our Graduate kids who attend U of A and started a club in Tucson, built a neat little robot. Congrats kids. **

Ah, thanks Ken :slight_smile:

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How fast is fast? How fast were teams making it to the stack?
Shawn

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*Originally posted by Shawn60 *
**How fast is fast? How fast were teams making it to the stack?
Shawn **

Hi Shawn,

How was Chatsworth?

We stayed out of the scrimmages because our shields were not in place and it was getting down right messy out on the field.

Fast is hard to describe. In Auto mode none of the robots did very well. Programing needed work.

I would guess in the driver mode, most of the robots could climb the ram in 5 to 7 seconds after auto was shut off.

This year we are once again fast, but we think we also solved our torque problems from last year with our automatic transmission.

Looking forward to seeing you folks in month in Phoenix.

Ken Loyd
Team 64:cool:

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I guess i’ll be doing a lot of quick changes to our bot :stuck_out_tongue:

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*Originally posted by Rob36 *
**I guess i’ll be doing a lot of quick changes to our bot :stuck_out_tongue: **

Rob36,

On Friday 2/14/03 we weighed 87 lbs. with the battery. You can bet your KK donuts, we are putting armour plating on our bot.

Ken Loyd
Team 64 :cool:

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“Robot that knocks down the wall first…wins!” several people.

Not true at all! Rage and Team Paragon will attest to that immediately!

Good Luck,
Andy Grady

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*Originally posted by Ken Loyd *
**Rob36,

On Friday 2/14/03 we weighed 87 lbs. with the battery. You can bet your KK donuts, we are putting armour plating on our bot.

Ken Loyd
Team 64 :cool: **

I’ve heard many people are beefing up their robot. I wonder how many ‘tanks’ we’ll be seeing on the field, hope our robot doesnt get crushed:yikes:

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At the SCRRF Preseason Scrimmage in Chatsworth, the robots that won were similar to the ones Ken described in AZ. The teams that won the event in CA were so strong and fast, they looked like they could have competed in Battlebots. There was a large amount of vigerous interaction and therefore there were several heavily damaged robots by the end of the day.

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*Originally posted by Andy Grady *
**Not true at all! Rage and Team Paragon will attest to that immediately!

Good Luck,
Andy Grady **

True not always will the person who knocks them down first will win but most of the time that is the way it works especially since stacker bots dont work too well.

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Stacking robots weren’t doing much at the scrimmage, true. I think that once the teams that have stacking mechanisms make them more efficient they will be quite valuable. At least, I hope so.

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what teams competed?

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I don’t quite recall all the teams, but here are the ones I remember:

898 (Desert Storm, the Cammo Guys, Go us!!!)
460
64 (not sure if they had a working bot at the time)
498
698
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And some other teams, I recall there being a rookie team with a king of the hill machine that had a ramp that folded out. Maybe one of the people who put it on know…

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*Originally posted by Billius *
64 (not sure if they had a working bot at the time)

And some other teams, I recall there being a rookie team with a king of the hill machine that had a ramp that folded out. Maybe one of the people who put it on know…

The Gila Monsters had a working robot. We did not have our shielding in place and did not want to damage the robot that close to shipping.

The team you are speaking about is from Tucson (mostly Gila Monster Alumni). They are a great group of kids. They will be in Phoenix and Los Angeles.

Ken Loyd
Team 64 :cool:

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I recall there being a rookie team with a king of the hill machine that had a ramp that folded out.

That was team 1011

Thanks to Mr. Loyd for all of the kind words, but don’t go giving us too mush credit yet, wait until Arizona.

Thanks for an awesome three years.

PS remember all these kind words you gave us when you are #1 seed

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Eric,

We just hope Gila VI can live up to all the expectations everyone wants to put on us. We will be in Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Houston, ready, once again, to leave parts of our robot all over the field trying to do what our alliance partners need us to do.

Looking forward to seeing all of you in a week.

Let the fun begin!

Ken Loyd
Team 64:cool: