2013 Kettering District Event [Archive]

JABot67

26-02-2013, 16:04

Looks like the Kettering district event will be upon us in three days! Two if you count Thursday night. I'd like to start some discussion on what to expect at this high-powered Week 1 competition. Looks like 862 (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/38732?) has posted an image of their robot and 68 (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=114342) has posted some video footage. I wonder if there are any more pieces of pre-event intelligence available...

Anyway, Team 3322 can't wait to compete at Kettering!

atiaquatic

26-02-2013, 16:22

1504 is excited to get the season started...,.Penguins Rock..

Basel A

26-02-2013, 16:30

The EngiNERDs have a facebook event page (https://www.facebook.com/events/345986115519442/345995972185123/) up that you can join and invite your team, friends, and family to.

Should be really exciting! Weird that this is my first event as an alumnus. Doesn't feel like it's been four years.

BJC

26-02-2013, 16:56

Some members of 33 will be there as spectators! Looking forward to a fun weekend!

RonnieS

26-02-2013, 17:34

MO can't wait to get it started! This should be an interesting weekend.

jeremy callahan

26-02-2013, 21:32

I hopefully will be there after school on Friday and all day Saturday I cant seems like some good competition and ready to get it started! Go 68 and the captains but we wont be competing

P.J.

27-02-2013, 00:36

The Foley Freeze is super excited to make our return to Kettering for the first time since 2010!

Here's to hoping it runs smoothly and we don't have the typical "Week 1" problems of years past.

Squeakypig

27-02-2013, 06:48

I'll be there all weekend and some more Crevos will come on by on Saturday to see what Michigan has in store. We will be the guys and girls in the stands watching the Traverse City (Go TC!) webcast in between matches :P

xSAWxBLADEx

27-02-2013, 07:06

Too bad we will be at traverse city...but I'm glad to be able to see 201, 217, and 1918.

IceStorm

27-02-2013, 08:41

Does anyone know if there will be a webcast for Kettering. Or team will be there competing and the school would like to run the video feed on all the tvs in our commons area for the rest of the students to see.

tr6scott

27-02-2013, 08:53

Code Red is planning on it.

http://www.coderedrobotics.com/webcast/Kettering-University-FIRST-Robotics-District-Competition-2013/

is the link from their website, but the page is not found at the moment.

I'm going to miss not playing week 1, FIM said Waterford was our home event...

nikeairmancurry

27-02-2013, 09:19

It'd be cool if somewhere in the pits, they could play the Traverse City District.. Everyone loves more robotics!

jwallace15

27-02-2013, 09:47

This will be my first district event, and I am super excited!

Good luck to all teams attending!

rmhooks573

27-02-2013, 14:57

A few mentors and students from 573 will be in attendance in the stands watching. Good luck!

Kaitlyngrac3

01-03-2013, 11:49

It doesn't look like the webcast is streaming properly or at all; does anyone have any update on this? Code Red says FIM opted for sponsoring the webcast, but I can't find any sort of link.

Zebra_Fact_Man

01-03-2013, 13:24

It doesn't look like the webcast is streaming properly or at all; does anyone have any update on this? Code Red says FIM opted for sponsoring the webcast, but I can't find any sort of link.

I second this notion. I can't find Kettering anywhere on any of the these sites: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=114464

What gives?

mjustice66

01-03-2013, 14:06

http://www.youtube.com/user/FIRSTinMichigan?feature=g-high-u

Heres what you are looking for.

synth3tk

01-03-2013, 19:53

http://www.youtube.com/user/FIRSTinMichigan?feature=g-high-u

Heres what you are looking for.
Not 100% what we're looking for.

Are there no live streams coming out of this regional?

jar24

01-03-2013, 22:23

any thoughts about today and how far behind schedule we got?

JABot67

01-03-2013, 22:34

any thoughts about today and how far behind schedule we got?

In my experience, the Kettering competition tends to get behind in schedule because of the unforeseen field issues of week one competitions. They got the matches flowing pretty fast toward the end so hopefully that will continue into tomorrow!

Zebra_Fact_Man

01-03-2013, 23:09

I'm going to take it that there just aren't any live streams for this event and assume my role of being sad.

jar24

01-03-2013, 23:14

their was sadly no live steam of the event, a lot of my teachers were disappointed, they were going to show it to all there classes to try and get them to join our team, I heard that they posted most of the matches on youtube tho

Brian Ha

02-03-2013, 00:36

All matches were uploaded to youtube to my knowledge. Lets just say we watched those videos more than once.

Basel A

02-03-2013, 00:37

Every match goes on youtube in the few minutes after it's played on the field. They're uploaded at a significantly higher quality than any webcast. As someone who scouted from home today, I appreciated being able to pause, rewind, and, you know, actually see what's going on.

synth3tk

02-03-2013, 01:24

There's just something about being able to watch and react with others in real time.

But thank you to whomever is uploading the videos so quickly anyway. We'll live!

johnr

02-03-2013, 15:43

So, the powers that be could not leave well enough alone. Now there are no up-loads and no info on the first site. I hope FIM doesn't elect to do states. found them - http://www.youtube.com/user/FIRSTinMichigan/videos?view=0 Now i just need to find the match scores/results.

Miksoko

02-03-2013, 16:16

Good luck to finalists!
FRC Team 2115

Mr. Pockets

02-03-2013, 19:48

Anyone know if the award winners have been posted somewhere? I couldn't find them on the FiM site.

EricH

02-03-2013, 19:53

Anyone know if the award winners have been posted somewhere? I couldn't find them on the FiM site.

They're up on FIRST's site--the usual place for up-to-date awards info.

Schnabel

03-03-2013, 19:09

Here are the Results/Awards/Etc. (http://www2.usfirst.org/2013comp/events/MIKET/awards.html)

Joe J.

03-03-2013, 21:57

Aside from some minor field delays early on this was a very smooth and well run event. Lightning Robotics had an awesome time.

Thank you to team 70 More Martians for selecting us for eliminations! You guys were awesome! Foley Freeze, I couldn't believe that you were still available to join our alliance, you guys were a great addition to our alliance.

The Kettering District has been an event of firsts for 862, our first semifinals appearance in 2009, our first finals appearance in 2012 and now our first event win!

Thanks to all the teams and volunteers for making this event a success, and Congratulations to Truck Town Thunder on their District Chairman's Award!