Crowley's Ridge BEST

This year you will be able to follow your favorite team as they compete in the BEST Robotics Competition on Game Day, October 29, 2011.  All you need is to visit the BEST Scoreboard site online, or install the BEST Scoreboard app (iPhone version or Android version) on your mobile device.  Choose "CrowleysRidgeBEST" as your Hub, and you can follow all the action as it happens!  And don't forget that you can also tune in to live video streams right here or at livestream.com/crowleysridgebest. 
Good luck to all our teams!

On October 30, teams of 6th to 12th grader students from schools all over the northeast Arkansas region competed with their robots in the Total Recall competition.  The results of the day are as follows:

   1st place BEST Award - West Memphis Christian School
   2nd place BEST Award - Buffalo Island Central High School
   3rd place BEST Award - Hillcrest High School

   1st place Robotics Competition - West Memphis Christian School

Hillcrest High School
West Memphis Christian School 
Buffalo Island Central High School
Tuckerman High School
White Station High School

During Mall Day several really good questions were posed about this year's game.  If your team is not in the habit of reading the Official Q&A (click here to view), then you really should be!  Remember that any questions that are answered there become rules... The rules of the game are often altered slightly as a result.
We're looking forward to seeing everyone on Game Day!  Good luck to all our teams!

This is the video showing the animated overview of the game.  It is in mp4 format, so most media players should have no problem with it.  Sorry for the broken file on the CD (the file worked before we made the CD... not sure what happened).
Even if this file won't play in your browser, you can still use the "download" link to download it and it should play from your hard drive.

Click here to view the 2010 Teaser Trailer!

Click here to view the gallery of photos from the 2009 Game Day:  High Octane.

The first BEST national competition will take place in 2010 at the Dallas Convention Center in Dallas, Texas on April 23 and 24!

Saturday, October 31's Game Day marked the end of six weeks of work for all of the students involved in the 2009 BEST Robotics Competition.   All of of the students who participated deserve congratulations for their efforts!  Singled out for specific recognition were the following:
 
BEST Award (notebooks, table displays, oral presentations, spirit/sportsmanship, robotics):
     1st place: Buffalo Island Central High School
     2nd place: Hillcrest High School
     3rd place: West Memphis Christian School
Robotics Competition (20 seeding competition matches, 1 wildcard match, 6 semi-finals matches and 3 finals matches):
     1st place: West Memphis Christian School
     2nd place: Hillcrest High School
     3rd place: Mid-South Community College
Robotics Finalist (4th place Robotics Competition): Williford High School
Founders' Award for Creative Design: Buffalo Island Central High School
Most Robust Machine Award: Mid-South Community College
Outstanding Web Page Design Award: Hillcrest High School
Top Gun Award (most collected in a single match): Williford High School
Outstanding CAD Design Work: Buffalo Island Central High School
Most Photogenic Machine Award: Mid-South Community College
Outstanding T-shirt Design Award: Jonesboro Magnet School for Math and Science
Most Elegant Machine Award: Buffalo Island Central High School
Outstanding Rookie Team Award: Mammoth Springs High School
Blood, Sweat and Duct Tape Award: Tuckerman High School
Outstanding Middle School Team Award: Jonesboro Magnet School for Math and Science
Teacher of the Year Award: Buffalo Island Central High School (Steve Brummett & Debbie Olive)

Because of their standings with respect to the BEST Award and Robotics Competition, the following teams go on from here to the regional competition, Frontier Trails BEST, at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith on December 4 and 5:
     Buffalo Island Central High School
     West Memphis Chrisitian School
     Hillcrest High School
     Mid-South Community College
Good luck to them all as they represent Crowley's Ridge BEST against teams from a large part of the nation!