Rofl, so true. However, that “competition” was only one match :rolleyes:.
If someone will pay for it then we’ll send as many teams as you want/pay for!
The NZ Champs are pretty tough. 2 teams (2921, 2919) are former world champions, a number of teams are former division winners and division finalists (2921, 2919, 2915 at the very least), and a host of teams winning various judged awards (2918 Build Award, 2901 Co-Operate Award, 2921 Energy Award and Think Award, 2919 Think Award and Judges Award, 2915 Create Award, and others). And also consider that we have relatively few qualification spots as well as high travel costs, with only about 8 teams attending Worlds from NZ each year.
Just saying.
It can also be considered that there are:
2 2921 teams
1 team (720p) made by a former 2921 member
4 2915 teams’
2 2919 teams
etc.
Yeah… New Zealand Nationals is going to be absolutely amazing. Off topic, does anyone know if there is going to be a media release thingy like there was at World Cup? Basically I’m asking, will videos of NZ nationals be released onto the internet or not?
Kiwibots said they would live stream it :).
:eek: That would be awesome!
Aww, now why’d you have to go and descore all our pretty blue tubes? 
And then flipping over our alliance partner? 
Tsk tsk. Haha (yes, I’m kidding), very nice, and impressive autonomous! We had one similar going on for awhile, but given that 24C had a claw, it wasn’t quite as effective, and took a long time to get our own stack back on. 
(Lots of switch-a-roo going on.)
I know that WASABI has some incredible robots, and did very well last year, and are doing impressively this year, as well.
As for the Mid-Atlantic Championship, this year we have a new excellent team - Cheese. They’ve been our sort of “rival” this year, as they come to every tournament and kick us around. (We’ve become very good friends.) We also have a rookie Canadian team signed up! Unfortunately, no Green Egg this year. Also, it is only one day this year, but we’ll be going aaalll day, and it should still be a pretty big tournament, as we have 79 teams signed up at the moment, I believe.
I’m very much looking forward to the New Zealand National Tournament, and I have no doubt that the BC Championship will be another “high-end” tournament.
~Jordan
For the sake of metagaming 
we liked less barbaric ways of playing defense in autonomous. Just kidding, we usually ran our ram autonomous in eliminations haha. I think 1107B had the same autonomous figured out before Worlds last year. WASABI thought of the idea independently at Worlds and just went on and programmed it on the practice fields. Kudos to 1447 for a super consistent autonomous that really let our autonomous shine. If 1447 had not been flipped while we were descoring their tubes, I’d say the match would have been too close to call.
Wow! Thanks for all the responses! There are truly some other demanding tournaments out there. I knew there would be, of course, but it is always interesting to see where they are. I think I’ll be quite happy to continue referring to A Division as “one of the toughest VRC tournaments in the world”… there is enough VEX hype coming from this part of the world already!:rolleyes:
So now I’m curious… at these other uber-tough tournaments… what do you do for the less competitive teams? “A division” started out because we had some truly elite teams in our area, but also a lot of teams who had never advanced to the eliminations. While we wanted to have the elite teams and developing teams in one venue so the developing teams could learn from the world championship contenders, it made little sense to put protobots up against the best from Gladstone, Cambie, Exothermics and a few other top performing clubs.
It was a fabulous success… the elite teams spent the whole day smacking each other around and getting ready for worlds, while the B division champions were actually happier about winning than the A division winners because it was a brand new experience for them to “go all the way”. (And presumably the A division champs had some bigger goals in mind…)
At the Cambie tournament this year we carried on the tradition by running a “consolation final” of 24 teams, after the top 24 were picked by the usual alliance selection process.
So since we’ve got the attention of competitors from some of the top events now, let me modify the question to ask… what do you do at your event to help develop the less competitive teams?
Jason
P.S. This year’s tournament, A division and BOTH B divisions, is likely to be live streamed again. We will also have a “Da Vinci” surgical robot on site for hands-on demos, thanks to robo-surgery researcher (and VRC fan) Dr. Chris Nguan. http://stellar.urology.ubc.ca/our-team/christopher-nguan.html
P.P.S. Yes… the plan is 70-80 teams total in three divisions (A, B1 and B2), six playing fields, one skills field and one practice field. We will basically be running three 24+ team tournaments in one venue in one day. We are running out of gym space… but that’s a good thing!
this is it, tomorrow is the BIG competition!
team 1107, 10, 2, and many other top teams will be there to compete for the top rankings!
you can watch the whole event live right here!
http://www.justin.tv/bcittelevision#r=-rid-&s=em
you DO want to see defense improvements on our robot righhhttt?
I just ran across this thanks to murdomeeks bump.
PA State Championship
Acme, Jones, Sparks, Haverford, Army of Two, Downingtown
It was ugly. It was awesome. It was fast. It was furious. We need to move it to March because it is Madness.
Leave the left coast sometime and come to the right coast.
Looking forward to seeing your matches from today.
Forget the extreme left and extreme right! The best is the center: come to the midwest!
But seriously I cant wait for BC tournament.
Noooooo. Where did the stream go Wish we were there! But our members are all busy with SAT’s!
Edit: Stream is up again.
Awesome competition to all who came; 3 divisions! A, B1 and B2 each had 2 fields, + the skills field. I wasn’t so happy about running 8 quals with 24 teams though. I think twice we had back to back matches on the same field, once with the same alliance partner.
(To people interested, we got 6-2-0 in quals, and lost 2 of our quarterfinals matches by 2 points because our partner was down. Robot works much better now and is almost impossible to move if we don’t want it to.)
If you’ve got video of any matches, please consider uploading to Youtube so the footage will stay up. I think the live stream footage will only be there for so long.
Dang. 3 divisions sounds crazy! Did both B divisions qualify teams for Worlds? Can’t wait to see you at Worlds. Hope to be in the same division as you so that we can choose you as an alliance partner (or you choose us, please? :D)
I was watching a bit of the livestream. It seems that you guys like starting in the interaction zone now, but that means you guys will get less points. Oh and it was really funny seeing some other teams trying to put things on your intake. lol I think it is nearly impossible to do that since you have precision lexan surrounding it. Great job though. Btw who won the A tournament? I had to leave at 2 and couldn’t watch the rest of it.
I believe 10B, 10N and 10C won the tournament. The finals matches were very close, and there seemed to be a lot less defensive strategies at BCIT…though I did see a wallbot! (2M?)
The livestream is archived, I believe, at http://www.justin.tv/bcittelevision/b/311253635
There is a news clip at the 11:04 mark of this broadcast [CTV News at Six for March 1 - 31, 2012 | CTV News
We should also be featured on the Global TV News for BC broadcast, but today’s hasn’t been uploaded to their site yet.
Good tournament… congratulations to Exothermics in particular for utter dominance of A division.
I’ll have some photos up soon, but I hear there is fresh snow at Whistler so it might take a day or so.
Congratz to all those teams. I saw a wallbot as well but it wasn’t very big. It was around 1492Z’s current size.
I don’t understand why people aren’t making extremely large wallbots. The ideal wall bot would be something like this:
Or you could just have 2 steel c channels on each side and then you can have a hoarder in the middle.
You mean it was around 1492Z’s version 4.1 size from Feb? The Honeybadger is on its 5th iteration now, and I can assure you it has found its food and become much larger again
It was not big because it was built in like 2 days…