The championship bout of the 2010 FIRST Apprentice Competition is starting soon. Abounding teams accept collapsed and abounding robots accept collapsed apart. But now it's just the best student-made bots of the lot, aggressive for all the glory. Watch inside!
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You can watch the beck of the event, provided by NASA, here.
Learn about the antagonism here.
I'm watching too, so watch that in one tab and brace this column in the other!
We'll be aback on Monday with a close-up attending at the acceptable robots. I had a bang watching the antagonism today, and, if you acquainted in, you saw just how ablaze our engineering approaching looks. These kids artlessly broadcast action at the FRC championship today. Dean Kamen apprenticed to advance the FIRST affairs harder than anytime this advancing year, with the achievement of accepting adolescent humans beyond the nation absorbed on science and technology.
6:44: And that's all she wrote! Congrats to all the teams who participated, and abnormally Aggregation 67, Aggregation 177, and Aggregation 294, the big winners.
6:42: RED ALLIANCE WINS! 16-13! New World Champions!
The red aggregation double-hangs to victory:
6:41: Ah tie game!
6:40: Blue's off to an aboriginal lead!
6:38: Oh yes! Finals bout 2 about to start. If the Red Alliance wins, they're the champions!
6:35: 10 indicators you charge a breach from Breakway!: (omissions due to my fingers not accepting fast enough)
10. On the demography form, you listed your primary abode as your apprentice body site.
8. You are lobbying your Congressional adumbrative to vote no for bloom affliction until robots are covered.
6. You anticipate if World Cup Soccer was played with 12 balls, Americans ability in actuality watch it (huge applause, here).
4. You get in agitation in gym chic for aggravating to adhere from added kids who are accomplishing cull ups.
2. Your parents are bent because you put red and dejected changeable bumpers on the minivan.
1. You adulation Atlanta, but you are already scoping out hotels in St. Louis! (apparently this is the website of next year's competition).
6:34: Black Eyed Peas bumping on the speakers. It wouldn't be a 2010 robotics antagonism afterwards them, afterwards all.
6:31:"Being the new kid on the block isn't easy"—congrats to aggregation Innovators Robotics, winners of the Rookie of the Year award.
6:30: Creed's playing! (over the PA, not live.)
6:27: The adroitness award, by Xerox, is next. NOT the copycat award, apperception you. It goes to aggregation Las Guerillas, from Bloomfield Hills, MI, for their 10 batter aluminum bot.
6:26: Oh this is cool, though—the woman from Johnson and Johnson is cogent a adventure about how aggregation Ice Cubed bankrupt a bent who blanket a FIRST robot.
6:25: The Gracious Professional award, presented by Johnson and Johnson, for teams with "grace and humility." Robots apperceive no humility, Johnson and Johnson! Don't let Wall-E fool you!
6:22: Hmmm, one of the 7 teams sponsored by Motorola was alleged the "Space Cookies."
6:21: The Red Alliance wins the aboriginal finals bout 16-14! That was close.
6:20: Oh I like this big chicken pyramid bot.
6:19: The Superbowl of Smarts, the anchorperson calls it. It's true—watching these youngster-made machines is appealing alarming stuff.
6:18: A Michigan band on both teams! We win no bulk what!
6:17:The anchorperson is accomplishing a handstand. Things are accepting wacky. Atmosphere at the Georgia Dome seems electric.
6:15:TIME FOR THE FINALS. I've been cat-and-mouse all day for this!
6:14: Engineering Excellence accolade goes to aggregation Patriotics, from Ontario. Theirs is absolutely one of the sleeker searching bots of the bunch.
6:07: Time for the appropriate judges award. They're giving it to the Ridgeview Academy Rambotics, the "best dressed aggregation in Atlanta." The aggregation is, in fact, actual able-bodied dressed, operating their bot in abounding bow-tie get-up.
6:06: Red Alliance wins! They will play in the championship.
6:05: I apprehend "I like to move it, move it," in the accomplishments at the Georgia Dome. That can alone beggarly that the championship is cartoon near.
6:00: Ooh, tie-breaker semi-final match.
5:54: These bots are not so polite. Lots of smashing into anniversary other.
5:53: So this is appealing hectic, but I anticipate this is how these amateur work: The aboriginal 20 abnormal or so are larboard for free apprentice soccer, area the bots just seek out the assurance on their own and try to score. Then the acceptance are accustomed to ascendancy their bots with joysticks.
5:52: This anchorperson has an accomplished authority on the contempo history of FIRST robotics championships. He knows the history of every individual aggregation that's still left, and there's not a individual teleprompter in sight.
5:50: The endure semi-final bout is here!
5:48: The automated architecture accolade goes to aggregation Killer Bees from Auburn Hills, MI. I'm acquainted that a asymmetric bulk of these teams barrage from Michigan, my home state. Why is that, I wonder? We accept a asymmetric bulk of militias, too, as you may know.
5:47: Impressive animations, to be sure. But I wish some apprentice soccer action!
5:44: WHOA, winners of the AutoDesk architecture awards get iPads!
5:43: The actuality that top academy acceptance fabricated all these robots is absolutely appealing amazing. I can't accomplish some of the added complicated LEGO sets.
5:41: Liveblogging is stressful. I don't apperceive how Chen does it.
5:40: Geez, these amateur go fast. Blink and you absence them. Semi Final 1, Bout 2 just concluded and the Dejected Alliance won 22 - 14.
5:37: The anchorperson just said that aggregation O.P. Robotics from Ontario Canada "owns Canada." Next year some Canadian teams are traveling to appear hard.
5:36: So it seems like all of these aggregation are abiding favorites. A lot of World Champs aback afresh to action for the FIRST acme in 2010. Watch here if you're not already.
5:35: Oh boy, it's about to go down! Semi Final 1, Bout 2
5:32:: The Dedalus Project team, acclamation from California, just won the adumbration accolade for the prettiest bot.
5:28: A little video on the abstraction abaft the FIRST logo at the moment. If you absent the video answer this year's challenge—it's an busy aggregate of soccer and apprentice gymnastics—you can bolt up with this video:
5:26: Here's a rap song about FIRST and the joys of robotics, alleged "Dream It, Architecture It, Body It," that you can accept to to pump yourself up for the final match. Nice assembly values!
5:25: The quarter-final matches accept fatigued to a close, and
Dean Kamen, the architect of FIRST (and artist of the Segway), is giving abroad some awards afore the final showdown.
Top photo from endure year's challenge.
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