Evergreen Valley High School EVHS Robotics – The Prototypes

If you are wondering, GCER stands for Global Conference on Educational Robotics.

After several hours of practice and working out the kinks, the finals began!

The reason why the tournament process is called ‘double elimination’ is because if you lose one match, you are put into a second bracket. Once you are in this bracket, you have a chance to win by beating everyone in that bracket and facing the winner of the other bracket, essentially giving you two chances at winning.

The finals were going fine. Team 115, the Neo-Assassins, were beating thier opponents with ease and flavor. However, on the third match of the afternoon, one of the robots wouldn’t start.

3pik Ph4il.

We were knocked out, but it was fun having four days of free, awesome food! I have to leave soon, so I won’t be able to fill in on the awards ceremony until later.

Live long and Prosper! c\\//

-Jeffrey Yu

EDIT: July 7th

We didn’t manage to snag any trophies *sad face*.

All we got was a ‘Finalist’ award.

Oh well, as i said before, the trip was definitely a fun time, and it was all worth it for the food and fireworks!

Live long and Prosper! c\\//

-Jeffrey Yu

After a day of rest, practice, and Beyond Botball, the actual Botball double eliminations began! Seeing that it is one in the morning, I will try to make this quick.

Team 115 was knocked out fairly quickly, but we still love em!

Team 116 was able to own and move on to the finals!

We went to see fireworks and it was twenty minutes of heart-pounding ear-exploding AWESOMENESS!!!!!!

Finals start later today.

Stay tuned for the final part!

Live long and Prosper! c\\//

-Jeffrey Yu

Today the Botball-ing officially began. Hundreds of lego and VEX creations began zooming around the regalith fields when the seeding rounds started. And don’t get me started on how many LEGO friction pegs I found scattered across the floor.

After arriving to the competition a few days after the rest of the team did, I have to say, there is one main thing that was blatantly apparent to me: The food was delicious. That is, after navigating the thousands of meters of cavernous passages and hallways, of course.

No joke; the International Conference Center in Washington DC is big. It’s huge. It’s immense. When we first saw it on the brochure, it didn’t seem that large. However, when we arrived, we realized that the specks of black next to the structure on the brochure were actually cars. The six story monstrosity was loaded with hallways and passages galore; in addition to this, it had a recreation room with pool tables, a plasma TV, board games, and comfy chairs. But that’s not all! It had the huge, aforementioned cafeteria loaded with rows among rows of gourmet cuisine and desserts. It had a fitness room where there were several intimidating workout machines…and seveal intimidating, beefy dudes working out on them. Finally, there was the ballroom: this is where the Botball-ing was going down.

The suites themselves were sweet. If the flatscreen at the front of the room wasn’t enough, there was another one at the back. The bathrooms were nice and roomy, the sheets smelled of freshness, and the beds felt like clouds (without the wet part…). The best part was, not surprisingly, the twenty megabits per second internet!

In the end, team 115 did pretty well in seeds, while 116 could have done a little better. Either way, we will be starting the double elimination rounds tomorrow, and I hope we do better on those!

Stay tuned for the next part!

Live long and Prosper! c\\//

-Jeffrey Yu