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WELCOME TO THE CESAR CHAVEZ MIDDLE SCHOOL BOTBALL 2003-2004 TEAM'S WEBSITE


Please be Sure to Visit the News Page everyday for Updates on the Team's progress

The Cesar Chavez Middle School Botball Team is the team representing Cesar Chavez Middle School in Botball Competitions. We are all Middle School Students (Grade 6-8) who are using our skills of making Robots with Lego Mind storms and combing them to form the Ultimate Robot to compete against other schools and their robots in the game of Botball (explained in section WHAT IS BOTBALL?)

On the right side of this page, you will find updates on this website and when our meetings are held. On the News Section (located on the Navigation Menu on the top left), you will find our current events within our team.


Information about Botball


:\\What is Botball?
Botball is an interactive sport that involves minds, wits, and a whole lot of work. Botball (not to be confused with its destructive counterpart "Battle bots") takes strategy to get cups, stack cups, and to shoot balls into baskets. Sounds simple enough, but it becomes complicated when the robots on the other side of the arena
are scoring the same goal, against you

:\\What's the object of the sport?
The object of the game is to get all the yellow cups onto your side, move blue cups onto the other side, and to try to shoot orange balls into baskets.

:\\Rules of The Game
These rules are simplified of the rules set by the Botball Officials.

  1. In order to score points, you have to have
    - Yellow cups on your side
    - Stacked Yellow Cups
    - Orange Balls in Baskets
  2. If the team's robot just stays in the starting box's boundary (is not breaking) can never score any points.
  3. If the robot's motor and power isn't off by the end of the round the team cannot win over a team that does, unless in a case of rule number 2.

:\\What does the court layout look like?
The court layout simply looks like this.

The black lines are where the cups are placed on.

:\\How are ties and elimination rounds like?

  1. Tie of Teams with Scores more then 0 Points
    - Team with more specially marked cups.
    - Team with fewest Blue Cups
    - Team with more Yellow Cups
    - Team with a robot with a power switch closets to the speed bump.
  2. Tie of Teams with Scores of 0-0
    - Team with a smaller amount of blue scoring stack cups.
    - Team with more specially marked cups.
    - Team that has a robot with the power switch closets to the speed bump.
  3. Seeding/ Performances Rounds

    These rounds take place before each Elimination round. These rounds consist of the best 2 out 3 rounds. All of the teams play on the black side.

    In Seeding, the score for the side is the height of the yellow stacked cups minus the height of the blue stacked cups. Scoring is (black score)- (white score). When you choose to take your option of passing on a round is -1 for that certain round you passed. The seed score is the average of the best two rounds. A perfect seed score is

    • 92 pts for 46 Yellow cups all stacked on your side

    + 44 pts for 44 Blue cups on opposing side

    + 40 pts for 4 orange balls in goals on your side

  4. Double Elimination Rounds
    - When a team loses 2 rounds, its out of the tournament.
    - Initial matches are decided by seeding round
    using an "equitable draw"
    - Matches are arranged using KIPR tournament
    software
    - Judges' decisions are final

:\\How big is the Board?
Here is a picture of the board's dimensions.

:\\What is the point of the cups, stacked cups and what is the "basket"
The object of the cups is for the robot to push them over to your side. However, not all the cups are perfect. The Yellow cups are best for you to have on your side because they give you a point. However, the blue cups give a negative points. In order for you to regain the points, the cups that are on your side by the end of the round. The basket is the pipes on each of the 4 corners on the board. The object of the basket is for you to shoot the orange balls into it.


:\\What is the point system?
Yellow Cups= +1 Point
Stacked Yellow Cups= + Extra Points
Orange Balls in Baskets= +10 Points
Blue Cups= -1 Point

:\\How do you get the robot to do whatever?
You have to program the robot with a special code called C programming.



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:\\Team Meetings

Team Meetings

Every weekday, we will have a meeting, but Tuesday are must come meetings.


:\\Website Updates

Website Updates

March 14, 2004
-I made a Cesar Chavez Middle School Botball Wallpaper...Download it on the pictures page...I also updated the About Us Page
-Adrian L

March 13, 2004
-Wow, I'm amazed that I got this finished, I just read a part of the rules that said "All files must be on our servers" and I quickly got to work. About two-and-a-half hours later, it's finished!
-Adrian P

March 12, 2004
- After spending 4 hours, I added the extras that Ms. Zach asked for. Added some more coding, and added more pictures.
-Adrian L

March 10, 2004
- Put some scripting and fixed some html
-Adrian P

March 10, 2004
- I finished mainly everything. The site is ready to be uploaded to the main Botball Site tomorrow. Let's wish that this page wins!
-Adrian L

March 9, 2004
-I started with the home page. I'm planning to finish this version of the CCMS Botball Site by Friday.

:\\Contact Us

Adrian Lee
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Adrian Perez
(webmaster)
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Rick Needham
(instructor)
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Joanne Zacharaides
(instructor)
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