On Thursday, May 21st, 1998 the KISS Institute for Practical Robotics (KIPR) hosted the DC Area Botball tournament
at the National Air and Space Museum. I was fortunate enough to be a mentor
for two of the teams entered in this competition (Northwestern and Tilden),
and for anyone interested in robotics (whether it's full-time or part-time as a hobby) I
suggest checking out (and possibly mentoring/competing in) future botball
tournaments.
Botball is a wonderful program put on across the U.S. by KIPR, where
high school students (and middle schools) are given approx. 3 weeks to build
and program (from scratch) a working autonomous robot. These robots then
compete head-to-head in a double elimination tournament of ingenuity and
strength.
What follows is a picture archive from the
DC Botball Tournament,
and a table with the actual tournament results. Also, if you are interested
in this program put on by KIPR, they will be hosting another tournament in
the DC area this coming April/May and you can follow one of the links to the
KIPR homepage for more information.
DC Botball '98
What follows are miscellaneous pictures of the '98 tournament. Click
on the smaller pictures to download a larger version.
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Pre Competition Preparation
There is a picture for each of the nine robots.
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Duval
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NorthWestern
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South Lakes
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Cardoza
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Ellington
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Kennedy Kreiger
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Yorktown
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Tilden
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Thomas Jefferson
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The Playing Field
These are mainly pictures of the first round.
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My Two Favorite Teams
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NorthWestern
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Tilden
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| Tournament Results |
| Round 1 |
Round 2 |
Round 3 |
Round 4 |
Round 5 |
Round 6 |
Round 7 |
Champion |
Thomas Jefferson (8)
vs.
Duval (0) |
TJ (3)
vs.
Kennedy (3+) |
Kennedy |
Kennedy (4)
vs.
Yorktown (6) |
Yorktown |
Yorktown |
Yorktown (1)(5)
vs.
Duval (5)(2) |
Yorktown |
Kennedy Kreiger (3)
vs.
South Lakes (1) |
Yorktown (6)
vs.
Ellington (4) |
Yorktown |
Yorktown (6)
vs.
Tilden (5) |
Cardoza (2)
vs.
Tilden (5) |
Tilden (5)
vs.
NW (0) |
| NorthWestern |
| Bottom Bracket (teams with 1 loss) |
| Duval |
Duval (7)
vs.
South Lakes (1) |
Duval (5)
vs.
TJ (4) |
Duval (5)
vs.
NW (1) |
Duval (5)
vs.
Tilden (2) |
Duval (6)
vs.
Kennedy (1) |
| South Lakes |
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TJ |
| Ellington |
Ellington (2+)
vs.
Cardoza (2) |
Ellington (2)
vs.
NW (3) |
| Cardoza |
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NW |
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Tilden |
Tilden |
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Kennedy |
Kennedy |
Direct questions and comments to:
James J. Maybury
Last Modified:
Tue Aug 4 12:42:50 EDT 1998
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