Vex Gladstone Open -- Vancouver, BC

Just got home. Amazing tournament – smoothly run, friendly staff, great host school. As usual, our Canadian friends made us feel welcome.

Major awards (I’m doing this from memory, so please correct my errors):

Winning alliance – 722 “Vexagon,” 721 “TBA,” and 859
Programming Challenge winner – 575 “Camelids”
Finalists – 419 “Otis II”, 575, 1010
Innovate – 880 “Pink Sparkle Fairy Unicorns”
Build – 722
Amaze – 721
Rookie Award – 705
Sportsmanship Award – 575
Excellence Award – 575

On behalf of Exothermic Robotics, our thanks to the organizers, volunteers, and competitors at the Goldstone Open. It was a long, fun day.

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The awards look correct to me. The event was a lot of fun, ran very smoothly, and got a good turnout. Congratulations to all the award winners - and to those who want pictures… well… someone will post them eventually…

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Ok… so I need to admit to overlooking a rather fundemental bit of logistics. The game computers were loaded into their boxes and stored away before I remembered to make a copy of the game db… so posting official results will be delayed until Monday when we can retrieve them.

But your ‘unofficial’ recollections match my own… and I can add a few details

Event statistics
40 teams/10 schools/6 jurisdictions in two countries

Winning alliance – 722 “Vexagon,” 721 “TBA,” and 859 “Cubic Droids”
Programming Challenge winner – 575 “Camelids”
Finalists – 419 “Otis II”, 575, 1010 “Aperature Science Weighted Storage Cube Actuator 001”
Innovate – 880 “Pink Sparkle Fairy Unicorns”
Build – 722
Amaze – 721
Rookie Award – 705 " Will’s Wonderful Watchmacallit"
Sportsmanship Award – 575
Excellence Award – 575

Thank-you for the kind words about the event.
PYRS volunteers, Gladstone volunteers and the participants themselves all deserve credit for making it so.
Looking forward to your event next month.
lbb

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I was looking at some pictures of the finals. Did you know that 26 blocks were scored into the high goals (blue had 14 and red had 12)? The goals hold 32 total. **THAT **was an exciting final.

Slightly curious. Did our team hold the record for the lowest score? I know the highest score during the competition should’ve been the one during the practice rounds which was 67-3 by 721 and 575. Was the lowest score also by us during one of the qualifications? 0-4x?

I’m hoping Mr. Balcom posts the complete scores soon.

Ok folks.
Sorry for the delay in posting results
Q-match results, Q-match rankings & E-match results are attached.

Haven’t looked for the lowest winning score (thats a tough one to eye-ball) but the highest scoring Q-match was 22 where Trobotics2 and Sumo Panda notched up an impressive 57 and the highest overall score was 419 (Otis II) & 575 (Camelids) with a whopping 59 in the first game of Semi-final 2-2

Highest QP match was a 35
With twenty-five matches scoring over 20 QP
Lots of competitive matches and high scores.
Well done.

Programming challenge… 8 teams made 17 attempts with Camelids (575) topping out at 14 followed by TBA (721) at 12 and Wills Wonderful Wachimacalit (705) at 9. Acceptable results for the first time out but we’ll be looking for better participation and higher scores next year.
Q-Match Results.pdf (38.8 KB)
Q-Match Ranking.pdf (21.6 KB)
E-Round Results.pdf (22.7 KB)

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