Update: 2020 VEX Robotics Virtual World Championship Celebration

[ug32166]

For the high school what about Pas Team or sap team

[RNA]

@holbrook

VRC MS (Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, InSight): none found , either with or without the second “s” from “InSight”

Cosi?

[2775Josh]

I was thinking of EAT SPAM, but that doesn’t have the R.

[2775Josh]

For high school, we can have MARS TAPE. (Goes with the MS theme as well.)

[Sylvie]

causally tapes arm

[squiddy_slapper]

thats hilarious… and true

[Sam_9364E]

You’re forgetting a few:
-210Y
-2011D
-10955M

[Sam_9364E]

VRC Predictions Discord Bot

VRC Predictions Discord Bot So I though, “Hey, I wonder what happens if you plug all the results of VRC competitions into a special ranking algorithm” and it turns out it worked pretty well. Then I thought, “I wonder what happens if I put it into a Discord bot?” and it turns out that also works pretty well. Therefore, without further ado, I present that-Discord-bot-wot-I-made-for-predictions. No special permisions are required, but allowing it to send messages is always handy (It …

Two personal hopes I have for the fantasy tournament’s predictions:

1. opinion: I don’t think the stats should be based on the team’s events from early in the season. I know lots of teams that didn’t start off so great, but are amazing teams now, that won’t have the chance to shine at this event. I also know lots of teams that started off strong this season, but, though they are still decent teams, they are definitely not the best in the world, and so these teams will get lots of unnecessary credit. Maybe if the predictions would be solely from each team’s last event they attended.

2. I hope skills scores intervene somewhere in the algorithm. These scores really show how strong a team is by themselves. There is undeniably a good amount of luck involved in matches, so match stats are not even close to 100% accurate. Skills shows the true “skill” of the team. However, some teams didn’t focus much on skills this season, yet still were very competitive in matches. So, skills should play a role in the algorithm, but not mean everything. (Sort of like the auton bonus in matches, if anyone liked my analogy ).

I feel like this would make the tournament a lot more accurate.
End the end though, it is just a game.

[Xenon27]

@Sam_9364E

I feel like this would make the tournament a lot more accurate.

To spice things up there should be a 1% chance that a robot will whitescreen in each match.

[Sam_9364E]

And a 5% chance to blow a port😐. and if that happens, there’s a 75% chance that it will be an intake motor!

[224x]

Skills doesn’t take defence into account is the issue with that, but I agree it should be a factor

[Sam_9364E]

Correct, a small factor, but a significant one.

[ChanOH7x7]

My idea of taking the stats from each teams best competition would remedy this issue.

[9MotorGang]

My bot this season was a skills bot. We have a score of 74, but never made it to the semifinals.

[JD6]

That’s the biggest issue with skills. I know a couple of teams who were definitely ahead of me in skills, but had a robot that was much less effective in matches.

[JD6]

If anyone’s curious, it made two stacks at once…so cool but not as effective in matches.

[Dimension_360]

but how? how do you make two stacks at once?

[Sam_9364E]

Unfortunately that would require input from each team, and the REC Foundation wants this event to not require any action, and just be something fun to watch. Since after all, “Best competition” is opinion based.

[ChanOH7x7]

But finding the peak data is quite easy? You find the event where they had the highest of whatever metric they are using.

[JD6]

It had a wide “claw” that was able to grab two cubes at once, and place them both in the large zone. Then they repeated this, so could get like 2 stacks of 5 in 5 trips.