Welcome to the Warlocks Team #1507 Web Page!
Silver Medalists at the Finger Lakes Regional
Rookie All-Stars at the Chesapeake Regional
Highest Rookie Seed at the Chesapeake Regional
Highest Rookie Seed in the Galileo Division at Atlanta
FIRST Web Site Excellence Award recipient, 2005
and....
THE DELPHI GOLDEN GEAR AWARD!
The Warlocks are very honored to receive the Delphi Golden Gear Award, which recognizes the highest-scoring Delphi-sponsored team in each year's FIRST Robotics Competition. By a very narrow margin, Team 1507 earned this amazing status among the Delphi teams in 2005. Previous recipients of the award include:
- Team 47 Chief Delphi (1997)
- Team 45 TechnoKats (1998, 2001 and 2002)
- Team 48 Delphi ELITE (1999 and 2000)
- Team 378 the Circuit Stompers! (2003)
- Team 868 the TechHounds (2004)
The members of the Warlocks were absolutely ecstatic when they heard of their achievement of being placed among the best teams sponsored by Delphi!
Thank you to everyone who helped us reach our goal of attending the F.I.R.S.T. National Competition in Atlanta.Our thanks to all those who helped us with donations big and small; they all helped. It is most gratifying to know our community supports us and believes in our program. It's not too late to help out. Learn how to help the Warlocks here. Along with our sponsors, the Warlocks wish to thank the many generous people and organizations who have donated generously in order for us to travel to and compete at the Nationals. |
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* This is our 2005 website. You'll find information on our 2005 team and achievements here, but we are no longer updating it. Our current 2006 website can be viewed here.
The Warlocks team is a first year robotics team out of Lockport High School in Lockport, New York. We have recently competed in the Finger Lakes Regional competition in Rochester, New York from March 3rd to March 5th, bringing home a Second-Place trophy, and in the Chesapeake Regional in Annapolis, Maryland from March 17th to March 19th, where we won both Rookie All-Star and Top Ranked Rookie Team awards.
Officially, we have only been around since the beginning of the 2004 school year. However, a few of the team members were mentored by the Circuit Stompers 378 team last year. This guidance acted as a stepping stone giving several of us some experience with US FIRST and the robotics competition. The Circuit Stompers mentorship has been instrumental in our success this season, and we wish to acknowledge and thank them publicly for their role in our success.
Both teams are sponsored by Lockport's Delphi Thermal & Interior, which was instrumental in starting both teams along the way. Delphi is now a joint sponsor for seven teams including both the Warlocks and The Circuit Stompers.
About the competition
Earlier this year, teams across the US, and the entire world got together to find out what our objectives would be and what obstacles our robot would have to be designed to overcome.
"Triple Play" is a game in which three-sided PVC pyramids (tetrahedrons) must be placed atop others in order to score points.
Each tetra placed atop another is three points; another is six, and so forth. A ten point bonus is awarded if they are placed in rows of three with ours on the top of the columns; the field of play is set up much like a tic-tac-toe board, so there are many ways to get the bonus. Obviously, command of these rows is very influential in deciding the victor. If you would like to see the full set of rules, please visit the US FIRST web site.
