Big thanks to the organizers and the crystals people. We never experienced a single interference problem.
Our team’s looking forward to the next competition in Courtenay. Also, in response to the media question, I’m personally not going to upload any media and I don’t think anybody in my group is either. I’d recommend getting your ideas from the pan-pacific competition, there’s far more bots there than there were in Vancouver so you’re far more likely to see a good design that you can improve on ;D
We had several students and parents shooting video and taking digital pictures. I’ll post a note when someone gets around to uploading it somewhere. Right now, I think I’m the only person in the club who is awake. We didn’t get back from BC until about 10 hours ago. :):eek:
Gee Whiz you guys,
Ok, I’ll admit, I slept in a bit this morning and took time to read the paper and have a second cup of coffee … welcome to the digital age, I guess …
Anyhow… to respond to topics raised thus far…
Our tech group shot a great deal of media and we will likely post some still shots and video but I’ve yet to discuss post-production and distribution (i.e. where and how we post) with the AV team leads. I know that people are interested in design ideas and real-world performance data… we will endevour to act promptly I will keep you posted (no pun intended).
While I appreciate the kind words there were a couple of incidents that might have been interference related and we did do one crystal swap between matches in an elimination round semi-final. I should also note that as a two field event we only had eight crystals active at any given time.
I had asked for event scheduling information in another thread and promised to report back on the results. I will do so today.
lbb
I’ve posted all the photos I shot at the tournament to Photo and Video Storage | Photobucket I apologize that I haven’t got around to tuning the white balance on all of them… I’m still learning the joys of working in RAW.
There was a LOT of video recorded and I expect it to be posted once it has been edited down to something useful, and I certainly hope it will show the elegant designs that many of these robots had. I know that videos posted by other teams helped inspire my students.
A big thanks to our friends from Washington State and Vancouver Island for getting up early to make the trip, to West Van Secondary for hosting, and of course to Lance for making this all come together so smoothly.
Now I’m really looking forward to seeing how the teams will take this experience and use it to create the next generation of Elevation robots!
Jason
EDIT: P.S. Rick… no worries on those FTC bots… 1346B, members of the VVR Champion alliance, didn’t actually receive their tank tread kit until 72 hours prior to the tournament! You’ve got OOODLES of time…
Well i have to say that tournament went pretty smoothly. Nothing went wrong for us in terms of staff(crystals, organizing etc.). There were things like batteries falling out, but that’s more team related i guess. Also we made a few friends from the Island, hope to see ya’ll at their competition in January!
It happens all the time. No matter how often we remind teams that the robots run MUCH better if you have the batteries connected and the robots turned on…
Thanks for posting the pictures from the tournament. I looked at them over the weekend and they showed a lot of great robots. They gave me a few new ideas for my own elevation robot.
Videos and pictures can be a great source of inspiration for all of us. I know that they are for me. I am always seeing some great robot and wondering how they came up with that idea. Some of these students come up with some amazing creations!
The frustrating part is trying to figure how they built it!