2012 Madtown Throw Down

[roystur44]

Just a reminder

MadTown Robotics is holding there 4th offseason competition. This will be an offseason FRC Event. The competition will be hosted by Team 1323 with the assistance of WRRF/SCRRF. The event is aimed at helping teams train and recruit old/new members while spreading the message of FIRST. Also to promote STEM education in the Central Valley and raise donations for Cancer research. Go Pink.

Event will be on November 9-10th.

There will be a webcast @ madstream.team1323.com


There will be some great teams playing:


295
399
692
841
971
1280
1323
1458
1662
1671
2073
2135
2339
2813
2854
3256
3482
3495
3647
3859
3970

2nd/3rd Bots.
399 aka 6399
971 aka 5971
973 aka 8973
973 aka 9973
1323 aka 1324
2073 aka 5073
3256 aka 6256

Pre Rookie Teams
4543

[Eugene Fang]

Actually, the webcast will be at http://www.thebluealliance.com/gameday#view_0=2012mttd-1

[ButterflyXing]

hiiiii! the fembots are here! :]

[ace94x]

I want to suggest something to whoever is running the live feed.

Place the blue alliance camera on the other side of the red camera so you can see the bridge from 2 sides, (2 angles) just an opinion, but would be good I think.

[Eugene Fang]

I want to suggest something to whoever is running the live feed.

Place the blue alliance camera on the other side of the red camera so you can see the bridge from 2 sides, (2 angles) just an opinion, but would be good I think.

Good idea, but we're limited by the length of wires and the field of view of the cameras... I'll see what can be done.

[Andrew Lawrence]

Hey Eugene, is there anything you can do about the terrible lag on the webcast? (both audio and visual)

[Eugene Fang]

Hey Eugene, is there anything you can do about the terrible lag on the webcast? (both audio and visual)

Things seem fine here.

[Nuttyman54]

Are there scores and/or a match schedule posted online somewhere?

[Eugene Fang]

Are there scores and/or a match schedule posted online somewhere?

Throwdown.team1323.com

[Nuttyman54]

Throwdown.team1323.com

Thanks Eugene. I don't see 1662 on the rankings list?

[Eugene Fang]

Thanks Eugene. I don't see 1662 on the rankings list?

Talked to the guy in charge. Fixed.

[Nuttyman54]

Stream down? Also 971 possibly shouldn't be #3 seed since it appears one of their matches was a surrogate....Not sure if the on-site rankings match the website though.

[Eugene Fang]

Stream down? Also 971 possibly shouldn't be #3 seed since it appears one of their matches was a surrogate....Not sure if the on-site rankings match the website though.

Thanks for the note on 971. We have them in 8th place here. The stream should also be back up, FMS had to be restarted and took out our webcasting computer as well. Unfortunately, this also means we won't have a timer for elimination matches but we will still have live scoring.

[hammerhead_399]

Congrats 1323, 971, and 1324 on your win! You guys were a joy to watch.

On behalf of 399, I'd like to thank all of the teams that lent a helping hand to us. During our last qualification match, our shooter gear boxes decided to jam. As we scrambled to find the correct tools and replacement parts, we truly appreciated the assistance we received from 973, 971, and 1323. We wouldn't have had a shooter in the eliminations without you guys.

We had to pack light for this trip as we had 5 robots on our bus(399, 6399, 3647, 2339, 2493). I'm glad we had some friends to fall back on.

-Gabriel Ruiz

[AdamHeard]

I was stoked to see our buddies on 1323 seed 1st and take their first event win, they had a really solid robot this year.

[dsirovica]

Hi all,

did anyone notice comms problems on the Blue side after the qualifiers?
(1) We were dead after autonomous, and had intermittent problems in the second match (we would have lost to the other side anyways).
(2) if you look at the stats Red won everytime except once - and once it was a disqual for Red. This seems statistically significant.

Thanks,
Dean

[MrTechCenter]

Our team personally had no connection problems when we were on the blue side of the field. However, I believe our alliance partner 3256 had one instance where they lost connection for about 10 seconds.

[Chris is me]

(2) if you look at the stats Red won everytime except once - and once it was a disqual for Red. This seems statistically significant.

It's a statistically significant difference because in the quarterfinals, the red alliance is the higher seed. The #2 seed is red until the finals, and the #1 seed is red the entire way through. These seeds are nicely correlated with winning.

[R.C.]

Congrats 1323, 971, and 1324 on your win! You guys were a joy to watch.

On behalf of 399, I'd like to thank all of the teams that lent a helping hand to us. During our last qualification match, our shooter gear boxes decided to jam. As we scrambled to find the correct tools and replacement parts, we truly appreciated the assistance we received from 973, 971, and 1323. We wouldn't have had a shooter in the eliminations without you guys.

We had to pack light for this trip as we had 5 robots on our bus(399, 6399, 3647, 2339, 2493). I'm glad we had some friends to fall back on.

-Gabriel Ruiz

Thanks Man,

It was extremely fun to have 399 come out here and bring not only their robot but our friends from San Diego and Riverside (SISK!) bots as well. I'd like to thank all the teams for coming out, especially our friends on 973 for supporting the event the last three years. It was a very fun event and we again raised $2,000+ for cancer/abby. Special thanks to:

-James Tonthat, we can't thank you enough for flying out of Texas to help us out with the event!

-Austin/Micheal Schuh, it was awesome to have you guys help us with FMS and trouble shoot all robot communication issues. The event ran really smooth, we made all of our matches and we finished 20 minutes ahead of schedule!

-Andrew Nabors/1671, we honestly couldn't have ran this event without you guys. 1671 helped with the field/audio/fms/scoring/field setup and teardown.

-Eugene Fang/Alec, it was awesome having you guys out here and the webcast/live scoring was awesome.

The Results are here:

http://throwdown.team1323.com/

The videos of 1323 playing are here:

FRC 1323 - Youtube - MadTown (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ8tDtnrTQ19gVf3m3twOwBwx2URF9IUe&feature=plcp)

We will have the entire event up on TBA in the following weeks.

-RC

[R.C.]

Hi all,

did anyone notice comms problems on the Blue side after the qualifiers?
(1) We were dead after autonomous, and had intermittent problems in the second match (we would have lost to the other side anyways).
(2) if you look at the stats Red won everytime except once - and once it was a disqual for Red. This seems statistically significant.

Thanks,
Dean

It's a statistically significant difference because in the quarterfinals, the red alliance is the higher seed. The #2 seed is red until the finals, and the #1 seed is red the entire way through. These seeds are nicely correlated with winning.


Dean,

1) We weren't told of any comms issues or noticed any. But next time, please do let me or Austin/Andrew know.

2) The red alliance normally wins due to being #1 seed/#2 seed. You will most likely get the next best robots at the event. At MTTD, since it was #1-8 #1-8 in terms of picking. The top 4 seeds shoudl've been the strongest.

-RC

[dsirovica]

Thanks for clarifying the seed sequence - that would indeed account for the difference in scores.

RC, we did talk to Austin/Andrew, they didn't see any probs during our match when we died. We never had any coms problems throughout the season despite many reported problems, so it was a bit surprising. Also in our last match we had a bunch of 10-sec blackouts.

No worries, it was all great fun! and thanks again for hosting a wonderful event!

Its a lot of hard work & it is much appreciated.

Thanks,
Dean

[rsisk]

Thanks Man,

It was extremely fun to have 399 come out here and bring not only their robot but our friends from San Diego and Riverside (SISK!) bots as well. ...

-RC

some day we are gong to make the trip for Madtown. Step 1, get a robot out there. Step 2, get the rest of the team out there.

Thanks to Adam Heard on 973 for reaching out to us and asking to borrow Phoenix for a rookie team. I can't express how cool it is to build a robot that others want to compete with.

[roystur44]

2) The red alliance normally wins due to being #1 seed/#2 seed. You will most likely get the next best robots at the event. At MTTD, since it was #1-8 #1-8 in terms of picking. The top 4 seeds shoudl've been the strongest.

-RC

It's hard to beat the 1st seed in eliminations when 30 of 36 shots taken in autonomous go in the basket.

Eugene and Alex great job on the YouTube videos. Real cool the way you set that up.