You can see this year's video that was shown at the JCI vision week on Thursday.

Jacob

Boom: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/36355314/Team%2086%20Vision%20Week%20Video.wmv

For the curious team members, only 35 teams of 2506 went to St Louis by open registration.  The majority of the teams at the event were elite robots in the top 15% of ranks. Note that there are 225 (75x3)

district and regional winners.  However, there were so many multiple regional and award winners that 81 alternates are among the invitees.  Team Resistance is close to being a top 15% unit. Let's set a goal to be more improved next season. The route to attending the World Championship in St Louis or any future venue is basically limited by the new rules to earning one of 365 reserved spot as follows:

Over the years, students sometimes wonder how a scoring or design goal for a robot comes about on a given year. This year a 50 point scoring goal was set for Ohmer becasue the preliminary analysis showed an 150 point alliance to be probable. We were at best ~30 point unit most games which was good for an ~82%ile OPR this year. Let's set our sights higher next year for a 90%ile robot and a regional banner. See Ether's data/ graphs on extended news. There is data as follows for team scoring:

Sort Buckets for 12,806 Alliance Scores for 2013

a. 0-25 Points         ~22% or 2,817 alliances

b. 25-50 Points       ~30% or 3,842 alliances

c. 50-100 Points     ~37% or 4,738 alliances

d. 100-150 Points    ~8% or  1,024 alliances

e >150 Points          ~3% or    384 alliances

They even have a Union Break! Hey Vern! Watch 'is!

I will be holding a shop session this Sunday (May 5th - Cinco de Mayo) at Chaos Central. There are a lot of projects that need to happen - some destructo of arena parts from various years, some welding/fab jobs, straightening up and putting away, some opportunity for the Programmos to work on Camera stuff, maybe some robot driving. There is also some important end-o-year paperwork that I need a couple of Hens to assist with.

I will provide Union Break for our festivities. I'd certainly like to have the Senior members present.

Please send me an email with RSVP and text, BM or Toot your pals to let them know what's up! TL CG

Hello All!

Just a quick note to let everyone know I'm still alive and living at (in) Chaos Central.

Things have been incredibly busy and eventful around here since the FT Lauderdale Trip - we're trying to get back to normal after a really riveting 2013 Competition Season.

On the trip back from Ft Lauderdale Saint Lisa's Land Rover coughed up its power steering pump and we had to have it towed to Jacksonville from Palm Coast.....the following Saturday was spent installing a new pump on the Rover....and then Frank the Programmo and I re-powered and re-programmed the 2010 Soccer (roll-over robot) for a trip to One Spark the following weekend..... while I took my mom to her 60th college class reunion at Wesleyan College (Macon GA) last weekend...... Yesterday Warren Miller of WJCT's Closing the Loop Program interviewed me in the Chaos Central shop for a little thing he's going to air on Friday 2 weeks from now. You see what I mean?

This weekend my Bro and I are taking our sons to camp out at Anastasia Park in St Augustine. I'm not going to do anything but sit, read a book, talk on my portable ham radio....... and eat.

OK, so I'm still alive. I'm looking forward to getting together in the next week or so (Sunday May 5th) to do some shop clean-up and maybe run the 2010 robot in the street and do some driver tryouts - thinking ahead for next year already...... maybe play Robot Frisbee in the street to drive the neighbors crazy. And more Union Break than Work....for once.

Watch the website.....

TL CG

For the mathmatically curious, where would Team resistance fit on the 400 teams game board.

1. Gallileo an OPR of 27.4 is  #61- 1114 at #1 is 103.9 pts

2. Curie would have us at #68 - 2056 is #1 at 98.7 pts

3. Archimedes would have us at #64 - 469 is #1 at 92.0 pts

4. Newton would have us at # 57 - 1986 is #1 at 80.9 pts

Note that team 180 (SPAM) at 60.6 pts is #6  in Newton's ranks and #66 in world rank

After world championship, Team 86 is ranked in the upper levels of the 2509 robots that have played in the over the 10 week season 
The Contribution to Win Margin (CCWM)

240/2509 or 90.4%ile at 17.4 a 46.5% improvement over Orlando's 12.7 points

The Offensive Power Rating (OPR)

489/2509 or~81.8%ile at 26.8 a 24% improvement over Orlando's 21.7 points

From this data it is easy to see that our scoring problems is our weakness. Our new stratergy got us to the 80.5%ile level but there were some problems with the field mysterously losing robot communications.  I think attending two regionals is a valid tool for improving the robot's functionality.  I recommend doing two regionals every year whether we go to St Louis or not. There is a statistical correlation between regionals attended and OPR as follows:

5 Regionals - 45.7 pts       1 team or       0.04%

4 Regionals - 46.0 pts      31 teams or    1.24%

3 Regionals - 51.9 pts    147 teams or    5.86%

2 Regionals - 42.9 pts    797 teams or  31.78%

1 Regional   - 29.5 pts  1533 teams or  61.08%

For an understanding of the the diference between us versus the top robots, look at what the tops teams were doing as follows:

Top   25 - 68.8 pts or 2.43X our 27.4

Top   50 - 60.6 pts or 2.21X our 27.4

Top 100 - 52.4 pts or 1.97X our 27.4

To sum it up our latest result (26.8) is above the median by 1.94X (13.8pts) but still about 50% below the results (52.4) for the top 100 robots.

Last chance to order T-Shirts

We have a small window in which to order t-shirts for the 1/3 of the team that didn't bother last time.

Don't miss out. Click the link. Do it NOW.

http://www.teamresistance.org/shirt/

Currently 29 of the 45 teams at S. Fl. are already ranked by CCWM and OPR rating. Team 86  would finish around 13th or 14th with our present CCWM of 12.7 and OPR of 21.7 .  The improved strategy should double our ratings which will put us in the 4th or 5th place finish.  Our main competition will be as follows as ranked by OPR:

A. 179 Swamp Thing - 48.9

B. 180 SPAM - 41.3

C. 1065 Moose -38.6

D. 1902 Exploding Bacon - 41.3

E. 3932 Dirty Mechanics - 39.7

F.  2382 Ninjineers - 22.1

G.   415 RoBo Craft  - 18.7

H.   386 Team Voltage - 23.6

13th    86 Ohmer 21.7

I.  1523 MARS -16.9

J.  4013 ClockWork Mania - 18

K.   108  SigmaC@Ts - 18.3

L 141 Wo-bot- 19.0

M 415 RoBoCRAFT - 18.7

N 1218 Vulcan Robotics - 27.4

O - 1683 Techno-titans -23.2

P 2059 Hitchhickers - 31.3

Q 3410 MotoRobo 26.7

S 3627 Jungle Robotics 24.4

T 3790 Mustangs 21.7

U 4191 IMC 18

Hello All! Pay Close Attention and Follow the Website Entries for more details!

TEAM RESISTANCE is headed to the South Florida Regional (Ft. Lauderdale, March 28, 29, 30th). That's just a couple of weeks from now!

TR has traditionally gone to one regional competition and then gone to the National Championship. This year we are participating in two Regional competitions.

For the "Away" competition, the Team has traditionally paid the travel and room expenses for all active students on the team....bus fare and room. RIGHT NOW! we are presently working on the details but I need to know if you are planning to go to the S Fl Regional be the end of this week so we can size rooms and charter a bus.

As a guess - and this is just typical for what we do - the bulk of the team will travel from Jax to Ft Lauderdale on Thursday. (Driver team and Mentors will leave sometime on Wednesday to unpack and set up and be ready to rock on Thursday AM). Thisis not concrete but a pretty good idea.

What I am in need of IMMEDIATELY is a firm head count on who is going. IF YOU WAFFLE ON THIS DECISION THERE WILL NOT BE A BUS SEAT OR A ROOM RESERVED FOR YOU!! (Just Sayin'!) email Mr. Cruise at jcruise@trailerbridge.com and copy me at t.lovelace@comcast.net. DO IT NOW!

You should have talked to your parental units already about this trip...... at least in general terms. The gory details will come out later this week.

READ THE WEBSITE EVERY DAY!..... OR YOU GET LEFT BEHIND!

More details to follow SOON! TL CG