2012 National Tournament: University of Central Florida

[allthatglitters]

Any surprises with events or how your team did in events or how other teams did?

[Barker]

It turned out we had a massive communal misinterpretation of the Robot Arm rules so our robot went exactly as planned, our plan just didn't get us a single point. Thus 56th, and we thought it was going to do alright....

[chalker]

SpaceX has now set the target date for the Falcon 9 launch to May 19.

That will be during nationals. It's at 4:55 a.m.

You'll want to wake up for it. Just step out of your hotel and look east - night launches are spectacular to watch even from Orlando.

Unfortunately, it was canceled just before the launch because of an engine issue.

Some of the people on my team got up to watch it, and we found out about the failure when one of us looked online. I also saw another team walking back inside two minutes later.

A lot of us event supervisors got up at 4AM and drove over to Titusville to try to watch the launch. It was cool, but disappointing... then we came back, had breakfast and went to setup our events (except me, I got to sleep some more since scoring doesn't start till the afternoon;)

[FueL]

It turned out we had a massive communal misinterpretation of the Robot Arm rules so our robot went exactly as planned, our plan just didn't get us a single point. Thus 56th, and we thought it was going to do alright....

What happened?

[pjgscioisamazing]

Does anyone know when/if they will post pictures from the Parade/Competition/Awards on the National Website?

[Paleofreakazoid]

Anyone see the dude with the painted face?

[LKN]

I have nats pics for towers, where should they go?

[r00ki316]

I have nats pics for towers, where should they go?

Doesn't really matter since it's boomilever next year but here:
http://gallery.scioly.org/categories.php?cat_id=5

[Barker]

It turned out we had a massive communal misinterpretation of the Robot Arm rules so our robot went exactly as planned, our plan just didn't get us a single point. Thus 56th, and we thought it was going to do alright....

What happened?

We scored entirely bonus points by putting a shelf on top of the jug and then putting all of the objects on that. So none of those counted since they we're in the jug or something.

[ptkid]

Slight correction:
XJcwolfyX--Exp Design and R4S
Infinity Flat--Optics and Sounds of Music and Disease Detectives (such a pro)
zyzzyva98--Sounds of Music
tornado guy--Meteorology
Luo--Disease Detectives
ichaelm--Thermodynamics
Paleofreakazoid - Rocks, Keep the Heat, Mission and Compute O:
L42 - Remote Sensing
Quark - Fermi
hmcginny - Thermodynamics
dragonfly - Towers and Exp Design
pjgscioisamazing - Maglev, Astro and Rocks
danyalukin - Helicopter
FueL - Robot Arm
drummerdude13903 - Robot Arm
starshine - Compute This
blazer - Robot Arm
kentuckyfan1001 - Helicopter, Sounds

From Beckendorff-
Me- 3rd Disease Detectives
Hpfananu- 1st Compute This
purplepeopleeater- 4th microbes
cupcake(icantremember the username)- 3rd forestry
rbears6- 4th DP
Im really proud of our team for working really hard and going from 17th at nats to 5th at nats