Update: 2020 VEX Robotics Virtual World Championship Celebration

Slip · April 9, 2020, 10:36pm

I saw that too. I was wondering the same thing

Sylvie · April 10, 2020, 3:54am

resigned sigh

DrewWHOOP · April 10, 2020, 3:56am

He probably means greenville time. It is 10:55 pm in greenville.

Sylvie · April 10, 2020, 3:59am

I know… pretty much everyone is asleep in Greenville at this point.

DrewWHOOP · April 10, 2020, 4:00am

Not true. I live in austin, which is the same time zone (in fact, its only a few hours from greenville), and pretty much everyone here is awake, though hopefully social distancing.

I do have a rather small sample size though.

Sylvie · April 10, 2020, 4:02am

why??? Your brain needs sleep.

Sylvie · April 10, 2020, 4:07am

I’ll bet you a heart that schedules aren’t posted by 12:01 AM Greenville time on April 10th.

Based on VEX’s previous record of meeting their own deadlines, there’s almost no risk on my end.

DrewWHOOP · April 10, 2020, 4:11am

You’re on.

Sylvie · April 10, 2020, 5:01am

It is now 12:01. I believe that I am owed a heart.

I think we can expect the divisions in approximately 8 weeks.

DrewWHOOP · April 10, 2020, 5:03am

Divisions after worlds? Sounds a little too soon.

Sylvie · April 10, 2020, 5:06am

See, this is what I don’t get. There was no need to cancel worlds in the first place. If we’re going by VEX time, it would have been December by the time April 25th rolled around.

Sam_9364E · April 10, 2020, 5:10am

Taran if you posted that it was 12:01 an hour ago, then what time is it now for you?!?

GBHS_VEX_Member · April 10, 2020, 5:21am

Imagine if there were no divisions, but every team was randomly paired with every team, and placed against each team twice for the ultimate round robin, and then alliance selection happens with a Round of 128 bracket.

DrewWHOOP · April 10, 2020, 5:25am

Eliminations, if all bo3, would be 765 matches. RR for 365ish alliances would take… About 67000 matches assuming BO1. Thats a lot of matches.

Sylvie · April 10, 2020, 5:38am

I’m on AZ time. It’s 10:38, and I’m going to bed very soon.

ug32166 · April 10, 2020, 5:57am

I’m in Ohio and it’s 2 am right now and I’m still awake

holbrook · April 10, 2020, 3:09pm

Division assignments are now live on RobotEvents for everything ~~except VEXU~~ (edit: VEXU divisions went live just after I posted this).

The new division names are:

VIQC ES: Orion
VIQC MS: Physics, Research (“research” is not a new division name, but is new to VIQC MS, I think)
VRC MS: Curiosty, InSight
VRC HS: Physics, Automation

So no luck on HAMSTERS, but I’m sure someone will think of an acronym.

ug32166 · April 10, 2020, 3:31pm

This is the acronym I came up with:
pop CIA

holbrook · April 10, 2020, 3:45pm

Update: I wrote a quick python script to search for division name acronyms, here’s what I came up with:

VIQC ES (Apollo, Cassini, Chandra, Hubble, Viking, Orion): none found
VIQC MS (Science, Technology, Research, Engineering, Arts, Math, Physics): RESTAMP, STAMPER, TAMPERS
VRC MS (Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, InSight): none found, either with or without the second “s” from “InSight”
VRC HS (Science, Technology, Research, Engineering, Arts, Math, Physics, Automation): none found
VEXU (Design, Innovate): ID - but do we really need an acronym for two divisions?

So the future of division name acronyms does not look very bright.

Zach_929U · April 10, 2020, 3:49pm

Arts division is too stacked

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