Hi, so i'll keep this simple and to the point. I'm part of my school's notebook group but we're rookies here. We really haven't grasped how to start the...
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wllmspaul@...
wllmspaul...
Oct 10, 2011 3:53 am
In the past the top 2 teams from each Hub in the robot and Best competitions advanced to Regionals. Is that still the case?...
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Stephen Ritchey
stevonte33
Oct 10, 2011 3:54 am
Hi this is berry middle school, do you recommend costumes or business type clothing for presentations? We are not sure which ones we should do! Thanks for your...
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SHAKYES@...
mom2cpt
Oct 10, 2011 5:04 am
The best guide for the notebook is the judges' score sheet. You can find these at _www.bestinc.org_ (http://www.bestinc.org) . Click on the participants...
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Greg
gdyoung45
Oct 10, 2011 5:04 am
You should contact your hub for the number of teams advancing to regional championship from your hub....
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seancsnm
Oct 10, 2011 5:04 am
Hi, An obvious answer would be to start with the judging sheet - it lays out some basic requirements, constraints, and things that judges will be looking for....
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Lee Brownell
lee_brownell
Oct 10, 2011 12:25 pm
It depends on your team's outlook. However, whichever you choose, play it to the hilt....
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Jasmine
silly_kid15
Oct 11, 2011 6:58 pm
Thank you, i guess our problem was that we were trying to simplify something that was already simple. It seems all we had to do was reorganize it all in a way...
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Lori Jack
mailthejacks
Oct 11, 2011 6:58 pm
We have always gone the professional route since we are a "company selling a robot to BEST". ... -- Lori Jack *""To get the right word in the right place is a...
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Jasmine
silly_kid15
Oct 11, 2011 6:58 pm
Thank you, the links are helping me get a clue on how this all goes and the advice helped so much as well. Especially on how your team split the notebook...
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wllmspaul@...
wllmspaul...
Oct 11, 2011 6:58 pm
Our hub didn't know the answer....
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dmgauntt2002
Oct 16, 2011 5:01 am
Forty two. Could you be a little more specific?...
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ripphyzard
Oct 16, 2011 5:02 am
So today was the second most frustrating day of BEST I have experienced in the past ten years. Every round had robots not running because the VEX joystick lost...
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Ann Boes
anboes
Oct 16, 2011 3:55 pm
Wow - sounds incredibly frustrating....
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Michael Carroll
carromj_au
Oct 16, 2011 3:55 pm
I believe that this was w/r/t advancing teams. It depends on the hub and the regional that you will advance to. There is typically a formula provided by the...
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Michael Carroll
carromj_au
Oct 16, 2011 3:55 pm
I'm surprised to hear this. Part of the reason for the move to VEX was to reduce radio interference problems that we have had in years past with the old-style...
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Sean Shenold
seantpr
Oct 17, 2011 4:38 pm
OKBEST ran across this problem last year, though apparently not to this degree. This year, the solution was to 'confiscate' all the keys from all teams, and...
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Sam
samnsaenz2001
Oct 17, 2011 4:39 pm
After 13 years of preparing teams for the wonderful BEST competition, this year's competition was an absolute disaster due to linking problems with the VEX...
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me_dardo2007
Oct 17, 2011 4:41 pm
SA-BEST completed our HUB competition this past Sat, Oct 15, 2011! It was exciting and spirit filled! Just check out www.sabest.org (and get a peak at your...
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michaelblazer77
Oct 17, 2011 4:41 pm
We also had several problems with 'communication dropping'. This seemed to be related to just a few teams. In all the cases that I troubleshot, either the...
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Lee Brownell
lee_brownell
Oct 17, 2011 4:42 pm
I'm wondering if the teams mated the receivers and the controllers. That might cause this sort of problem....
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ripphyzard
Oct 17, 2011 4:43 pm
I had previously checked with our school district because of problems we had using our FIRST driver station. It operates in the 2 GHz range like VEX. We have...
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seancsnm
Oct 17, 2011 4:46 pm
Your problem has been interesting, though very unfortunate. I say interesting because last year, we had very occasional problems with connections using the VEX...
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Tammie
tammie.friberg
Oct 18, 2011 10:30 am
Anyone else having issues with speed controllers on the drive wheels/big drive motors burning out while the students are driving the robot? We have had 3 go...
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Lori Jack
mailthejacks
Oct 18, 2011 10:30 am
I'm surprised that you're surprised. we competed at auburn and had connection problems. our hub even sent an extra wifi key with us because of all the...
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michaelblazer77
Oct 18, 2011 11:27 pm
In San Antonio, we had 4 motor controllers returned. On had the case broken open. I haven't had a chance to check them out yet. Mike...
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ripphyzard
Oct 18, 2011 11:27 pm
Like you, we had problems after we built our robot and tried all the fixes you described, to no avail. My hub must not have gotten the "memo" that a usb...
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Lucas
vaporization...
Oct 18, 2011 11:27 pm
One burned out on our team during one of the seeding rounds in our hub competition... I would bet that the 3+ amp stall current that those large motors pull...
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Lucas
vaporization...
Oct 18, 2011 11:27 pm
Our team had wifi linking problem after we updated the mastercode. When we rolled the mastercode back to the version that is on the cd's that our hub provided,...
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ripphyzard
Oct 18, 2011 11:27 pm
We checked for connection before the other robots arrived in the pits that morning. We had connection for about 3 minutes, then it was gone. We lost connection...
