DEWBOT IX FRC Championship
We won Newton Division at the FRC Championship in St.Louis. Our sincerest gratitude to alliance partners teams 303 (alliance captain Test Team) from Bridgewater, NJ and 3476 (Code Orange) from Dana Point, CA. What a tremendous alliance! As Newton's 3rd alliance, we went through Newton eliminations without loss (6-0); racking up Newton Division's highest score (247 points; 440 points combined) during the 1st of the Newton finals matches against the 1st alliance (comprising teams 1538 (Holy Cows) from San Diego CA, 1986 (team Titanium) from Lee's Summit MO and 217 (ThunderChickens) from Sterling Heights MI - awesome teams all).
On to Einstein Field! 1640's first time. We started well against Galileo's champions (teams 1241 (Theory 6) from Mississauga ON Canada, 610 (Crescent Coyotes) from Toronto ON Canada, and 1477 (Texas Torque) from The Woodlands, TX), defeating them 199 to 176 in the first match. Alas, we lost the next two and Galileo went on to become FRC Champions for 2013. They were a great alliance and deserved the win.
We started qualifications in a bad way. Our shooter lost its mojo again (we found it). We couldn't climb (we fixed this). We ran a match with our shooter motor disconnected (embarrassing!). We had our only climb misalignment in our last qual match in front of every judge evaluating our performance and let go of the pole to fall on our rear end (can I repeat embarrassing?). Despite these travails, we finished qualifications as 24th seed (out of 100) with a (5-3-0) record.
Overall, this was an enormous performance by the team, bringing us to a competitive level which had hitherto been no more than a dream. Our drive team was awesome - any other description falls short. Our scouting was timely and spot-on. Our pit crew kept everything together and jumped to the competition's needs.
We received three other unofficial peer accolades:
- Best Climber Award from 1511 (Rolling Thunder)
- Captain Ice3 FIRST Galaxy Award from 1305 (Ice3)
- We are now 58th of 469 in the "Team of the Decade" Championship Elimination rankings
Contents
Match Results
Crew
Students
Drive Team
- Douglas M - Driver
- Kira K - Operator
- Patrick C - Human Player
Pit Crew
- Molly K - Pit Captain
- DJ R - Pit Liaison, Programming
- Kira K - Mechanical
- Patrick C - Mechanical
- Brad M - Electrical
Programmers
- DJ R (pit)
- Mike (pit) - Programming lead
- Kevin
- Rachel
- Hannah
Scouting
- Lucy - Scouting lead
- Ian
- Mike
- Kevin
- Rachel
- Hannah
Media
- Kenneth - Photography & Cinematography
Mentors
- Clem McKown - Head Mentor, Pit & Elimination Crew, Photography
- Siri Maley - Drive Coach & Team Strategist, Pit & Elimination Crew Lead
- Scott Featherman - Pit Crew & Electrical Adviser
- Julie Christopher - Pit Crew & Programming Adviser
- Faith McKown - Logistics
- John Weissman
- Sue Weissman - Photography
- Mike Rizzo - Referee & Most Senior FIRSTer at the Competition
- Andrew Weissman - Pit Crew (Mechanical), Scouting
- Julie Kulik
- Rich Kulik
Family
- Ellen Kellom
- Marianna Curran
- Rich & Susan Tipperman
- Bryan Schwenk
- George Christopher
- Ruth Morganto
- Gillian C
- Jarryd F
- David Moyer
Volunteers
- Mike Rizzo - Mentor, Referee
- Sasha Wall - Alumna, Field Reset
- Nicole Wall - Alumna, Field Reset
- Rita Wall - Alumni Parent, Judge
Championship Photo Gallery
Can you to me how to get to Champs?
Molly & DJ
Hannah & Rachael pit scouting
1640's pit
robot right side
Andrew Weissman
Kenneth
1986's climb
Dumper
Pit
Sue Weissman
Team in stands
Douglas & Patrick C carry robot on to field
positioning robot
Team 1899's wooden robot
Molly
1671's bumper birds
Kenneth & Daisy
queued
carrying robot onto the field
That's different!
Kenneth & Woodie Flowers
88's climber & dumper
positioning the robot
Alliance for match 89 (scored 200 points)
1640 stands
queued
Alliance for match 111 (1640, 3476 & 1515) and 2/3rds of Newton's champion alliance
303 - An opponent in match 111 and future captain of Newton's champion alliance
Climb in match 111
1511's climb & dump
1640 on the practice field
Removing DEWBOT from the pyramid
1640 after team dinner
Pit defensive banner (does this really work?)
Meeting with Judges
Pivot discussions with 467
queued
Newton field pit
Kenneth
Banner
Quarterfinal opposition
Newton's 3rd alliance
DEWBOT shoots a frisbee
20 point climb
DEWBOT on the move
Lined up to climb
Climb started
Stands
Another 20 point climb
Changing bumpers in the pit
Newton field pit
Advanced to the semi-finals
Drive Team
DEWBOT
Sab-BOT-age & Code Orange
20 points again
Shaniqua introducing Sab-BOT-age
Collision! (but not an accident)
Line-up
Climbing
To the top for 30 points! This wraps up the Semi-finals!
Stands
Alliance conference
Patrick prepares
Shaniqua at start of the Finals
303's drive team
3476's drive team
1640's drive team
Finals ceremony
Big handshake between finalist teams
Pole mount
Caterpillar drive engaged and skids extended
30 points
A 247-193 victory! Newton Division highest score!
Stands
Lowering DEWBOT from the pyramid
Last Newton final match - Shaniqua introduces Team Sab-BOT-age
Patrick C feeds DEWBOT's magazine
30 points again
Did we win?
Yes! And the 3rd alliance become Newton's champions!
Moved to Einstein's pit
Robot
Kira & DJ
Patrick C & Douglas
DJ
Shaniqua in Einstein pit with us
Dean Kamen
Code Orange
Test Team
Code Orange
Sab-BOT-age
Sab-BOT-age
Alliance pit on Einstein
Lead scout Lucy
Alliance drive team
Woody Flowers
Alliance drive team
Dean Kamen
Einstein's only 30 point climb
Moving out to the field
Walking into the light
Packing up
