Team 1640 2011 Fall Practice Kickoff

Team 1640 kicked off its fall design training with an mock FRC kickoff on Saturday, 17 September from 10AM-5PM. We reintroduced the 2003 game, Stack Attack for this exercise. For the Kick-off, we:

• Played the Video
• Read the rules
• Simulated the game using StudentBots on a full-scale field - several iterations as appreciation of strategic options were developed.
• Set up a 1/7^th-scale mock-up field table, with scale crates and robots - using this as a further game-play test-bed allowing quick simulation for testing what-if scenarios.
• Brainstormed game-play ideas (the WHATS, not the HOWS)
• Presented and shared ideas - tested them and synthesized new ideas and approaches.
• Eventually came to a tentative game strategy consensus.

Strategy

This is answer to the question: How will we play the game and win. At this stage, the hows are not addressed.

From a parsing standpoint, the team considered scoring, de-scoring and defending as three completely separate actions whereas descoring is preventing your opponants from scoring and whereas defending is protecting your alliance score from the opposition.

Photo Galery

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  Team discussing idaes around field mock-up table

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  Sarah, Douglas & Allen writing ideas

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  Douglas, Kira & Allen discussing initial strategy ideas

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  StudentBot match on field

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  StudentBot match - Douglas & Sarah

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  Post-match post-mortem

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