2014 Texas Robotics Invitational (T.R.I.)

[AllenGregoryIV]

Texas Robotics Invitational (T.R.I.)
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What
Texas Robotics Invitational (TRI) is a new off-season event in Houston, Texas designed to get local teams more play time. It’s going to be a relaxed event that will work to strengthen our community. For those of you who have attended Houston Robot Remix in the past two years this event will work in a very similar way.

Planned and organized by Spectrum FRC#3847, Houston area teams and volunteers, and the Lone Star Regional Committee with support from FIRST in Texas and the Texas Workforce Commission.

When
June 21st, All qualification rounds and eliminations will happen on June 21st. Field setup and load in will be June 20th

Where
Strake Jesuit College Preparatory Gymnasiums
8900 Bellaire Blvd, Houston, TX, 77036

Who
Only Texas teams can compete do to sponsorship restrictions.

Invites
Invites should start going out to the first round of teams this week. After May 16th we'll start inviting more teams. We're planning to keep inviting teams till we get to 32 teams.

Cost:
Free to all teams

Social Media:
Twitter: @TRIRobots (http://www.twitter.com/TRIrobots)

For More Information:
Website: www.spectrum3847.org/TRI
Email us at TRI@spectrum3847.org

[safiq10]

So excited to see that texas finally has a invitational! Can't wait to see the team list!

[Abhishek R]

Interesting rule changes. It's like Remix on steroids.

[AllenGregoryIV]

Interesting rule changes. It's like Remix on steroids.

Alliance Selection and Elimination Tournament
The top 8 seeds will be the alliance captains but their selection order will be randomly assigned. Alliance captains may not select other alliance captains. A serpentine order will be in place for first two selection of an alliance. The fourth members of each alliance will be randomly assigned to them from the remaining teams.

During every round of eliminations all 4 teams on an alliance must play at least one match. Rosters are turned into head ref / scoring table like it is done at championships.

That was the goal, it doesn't make sense for teams to come to an off-season and have their day end after qualification rounds are over. This system keeps everyone in eliminations.

In theory this system is supposed to provide incentive for teams to get into the top 8 but doesn't give any team a clear reason to stay out of the top 8. It seems a bit odd but we're hoping to make the elimination alliances all on the same level without having a large group of teams that are all at the same level like at Championship or IRI.

It clearly devalues the #1 seed but that is intentional so your match schedule becomes less of a factor in your picking position. This is especially helpful for one day off-seasons where teams will only get 8 matches or less.

This is an experiment and it should be fun no matter what.

[Kyler Hagler]

I will have to look and see if Team 3310 can come. I'm really interested!

[kyle1997]

Team 4206 can't wait to see the team list for this event.

[AllenGregoryIV]

We have 25 teams registered for T.R.I. including one pre-rookie team.

Texas teams that are interested in being invited please PM or Email me. We are going to keep inviting teams till we reach 32.

[AllenGregoryIV]

Here is the current team list
57 Booker T. Washington/HSEP
118 Clear Creek ISD
148 Greenville HS
418 LASA High School - Austin
457 South San Antonio HS
624 Cinco Ranch HS
1429 Galena Park ISD
1477 College Park HS
2158 Anderson HS - Austin
2468 Eanes ISD - Austin
2585 Bellaire HS
2587 Lamar HS
2789 Manor HS-San Antonio
2881 Girl Scouts of Central Texas - Austin
2950 Harmony Science Academy - Waco
3103 Duchesne Academy
3310 Heath HS - Rockwall
3335 Cypress Ranch HS
3735 Klein ISD
3741 Grulla HS - Rio Grande City
3847 Strake Jesuit & St. Agnes Academy
3999 Shade Tree Mechanics - Killeen
4206 Nolan Catholic HS - Ft. Worth
4587 Jersey Village HS
4639 Seven Lakes HS
5052 Cedar Park HS - Austin
5070 Synergistic STEM
5287 Community Christian School - Orange
9999 Pearland HS
If you're interested in coming and you are a Texas team please let me know ASAP. We still have 3 open spaces.

[Michael Blake]

If you're interested in coming and you are a Texas team please let me know ASAP. We still have 3 open spaces.

3481 Bronc Botz would like to come and compete.

--Michael Blake

[kAILo]

Are you guys going to live-stream T.R.I. and upload the matches afterward like what you did at Lone Star?

[AllenGregoryIV]

Are you guys going to live-stream T.R.I. and upload the matches afterward like what you did at Lone Star?

Of course and this time we plan to have decent audio.

[AllenGregoryIV]

We have our final list of 32 teams. The last three spots were taken by team 3481 the BroncBots and two pre-rookie teams from KatyISD.

Team # School/District/Team Organization
57 Booker T. Washington/HSEP, Houston, TX
118 Clear Creek ISD
148 Greenville HS, Greenville, TX
418 LASA High School, Austin ISD
457 South San Antonio HS
624 Cinco Ranch HS
1429 Galena Park ISD
1477 Conroe ISD
2158 Anderson HS, Austin ISD
2468 Eanes ISD, Austin, TX
2585 Bellaire HS, Houston, TX
2587 Lamar HS, Houston, TX
2789 Manor HS, Manor, TX
2881 Girl Scouts of Central Texas - Austin, TX
2950 Harmony Science Academy, Waco, TX
3103 Duchesne Academy, Houston, TX
3310 Heath HS - Rockwall, TX
3335 Cypress Ranch HS - Cypress-Fairbanks ISD
3481 San Antonio Competition Robotics Alliance (SACRA) & Northside ISD Brandeis HS
3735 Klein ISD
3741 Grulla HS, Rio Grande City,TX
3847 Strake Jesuit College Preparatory & St. Agnes Academy, Houston, TX
3999 Shade Tree Mechanics, Killeen, TX
4206 Nolan Catholic HS - Ft. Worth, TX
4587 Jersey Village HS, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD
4639 Seven Lakes HS, Katy ISD
5052 Cedar Park HS, Leander ISD
5070 Synergistic STEM, Houston, TX
5287 Community Christian School, Orange, TX
9997 Pearland ISD (Pre-Rookie Team)
9998 Taylor HS, Katy, TX (Pre-Rookie Team)
9999 Tompkins HS, Katy, TX (Pre-Rookie Team)


If you are a Texas team that isn't on this list but is interested in competing please let us know. If we have teams drop out we can fill in from a wait list if we need to.

Even teams that aren't competing are encouraged to attend, it's going to be a fun day of robots and a great chance to see teams from across the state.

[safiq10]

We have our final list of 32 teams. The last three spots were taken by team 3481 the BroncBots and two pre-rookie teams from KatyISD.

Team # School/District/Team Organization
57 Booker T. Washington/HSEP, Houston, TX
118 Clear Creek ISD
148 Greenville HS, Greenville, TX
418 LASA High School, Austin ISD
457 South San Antonio HS
624 Cinco Ranch HS
1429 Galena Park ISD
1477 Conroe ISD
2158 Anderson HS, Austin ISD
2468 Eanes ISD, Austin, TX
2585 Bellaire HS, Houston, TX
2587 Lamar HS, Houston, TX
2789 Manor HS, Manor, TX
2881 Girl Scouts of Central Texas - Austin, TX
2950 Harmony Science Academy, Waco, TX
3103 Duchesne Academy, Houston, TX
3310 Heath HS - Rockwall, TX
3335 Cypress Ranch HS - Cypress-Fairbanks ISD
3481 San Antonio Competition Robotics Alliance (SACRA) & Northside ISD Brandeis HS
3735 Klein ISD
3741 Grulla HS, Rio Grande City,TX
3847 Strake Jesuit College Preparatory & St. Agnes Academy, Houston, TX
3999 Shade Tree Mechanics, Killeen, TX
4206 Nolan Catholic HS - Ft. Worth, TX
4587 Jersey Village HS, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD
4639 Seven Lakes HS, Katy ISD
5052 Cedar Park HS, Leander ISD
5070 Synergistic STEM, Houston, TX
5287 Community Christian School, Orange, TX
9997 Pearland ISD (Pre-Rookie Team)
9998 Taylor HS, Katy, TX (Pre-Rookie Team)
9999 Tompkins HS, Katy, TX (Pre-Rookie Team)


If you are a Texas team that isn't on this list but is interested in competing please let us know. If we have teams drop out we can fill in from a wait list if we need to.

Even teams that aren't competing are encouraged to attend, it's going to be a fun day of robots and a great chance to see teams from across the state.
AWWW MAN!!! This is going to a lot of fun! The Devastators are soooo ready for this. Thanks to all who are involved in hosting this event! we can't wait!

[kAILo]

We have our final list of 32 teams. The last three spots were taken by team 3481 the BroncBots and two pre-rookie teams from KatyISD.

Team # School/District/Team Organization
57 Booker T. Washington/HSEP, Houston, TX
118 Clear Creek ISD
148 Greenville HS, Greenville, TX
418 LASA High School, Austin ISD
457 South San Antonio HS
624 Cinco Ranch HS
1429 Galena Park ISD
1477 Conroe ISD
2158 Anderson HS, Austin ISD
2468 Eanes ISD, Austin, TX
2585 Bellaire HS, Houston, TX
2587 Lamar HS, Houston, TX
2789 Manor HS, Manor, TX
2881 Girl Scouts of Central Texas - Austin, TX
2950 Harmony Science Academy, Waco, TX
3103 Duchesne Academy, Houston, TX
3310 Heath HS - Rockwall, TX
3335 Cypress Ranch HS - Cypress-Fairbanks ISD
3481 San Antonio Competition Robotics Alliance (SACRA) & Northside ISD Brandeis HS
3735 Klein ISD
3741 Grulla HS, Rio Grande City,TX
3847 Strake Jesuit College Preparatory & St. Agnes Academy, Houston, TX
3999 Shade Tree Mechanics, Killeen, TX
4206 Nolan Catholic HS - Ft. Worth, TX
4587 Jersey Village HS, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD
4639 Seven Lakes HS, Katy ISD
5052 Cedar Park HS, Leander ISD
5070 Synergistic STEM, Houston, TX
5287 Community Christian School, Orange, TX
9997 Pearland ISD (Pre-Rookie Team)
9998 Taylor HS, Katy, TX (Pre-Rookie Team)
9999 Tompkins HS, Katy, TX (Pre-Rookie Team)


If you are a Texas team that isn't on this list but is interested in competing please let us know. If we have teams drop out we can fill in from a wait list if we need to.

Even teams that aren't competing are encouraged to attend, it's going to be a fun day of robots and a great chance to see teams from across the state.

It's going to be cool to see 2 pre-rookie teams from Katy!

[AllenGregoryIV]

Spectrum is offering a pre-order lunch option for T.R.I.
Teams can pre-order sack lunches for $6 each. The lunch will include a six inch Subway sandwich, chips, cookie/dessert, and either a soda or bottle of water. If you're team is interested in pre-ordering lunches please fill out this form here.
http://goo.gl/arWzJv

[AllenGregoryIV]

An email just went out to all the teams with pit map, venue map, and event information. I've attached it here as well.

[AllenGregoryIV]

From an email that went out to attending teams.

"The Texas Workforce Commission is one of the sponsors for the Texas Robotics Invitational (TRI) event. As one of the sponsors for the TRI event, TWC has required that each student participant attending this tournament participate in an online survey located at www.centraltxfirst.org/survey. Coaches should advise students to consult with their parents or legal guardians prior to taking the survey. The survey needs to be done prior to attending the event.

If you have any questions or your team has already done this survey please contact FIRST in Texas representatives Jessica Galfas or Ben Holquist copied on this email."

In addition there will no longer be a judges workshop like announced in the flyer for the event.

[AllenGregoryIV]

T.R.I. will be played using the 2014 Aerial Assist rules with the following modifications.

1. No inspection, Honor system on legality. +5 pounds allowed. Gross / obvious violations of robot rules will be identified by the referees and must be corrected before the robot continues.

2. There is no zone requirement for possession. In other words, a possession anywhere on the field will be considered a possession in all 3 zones.

3. A trussed ball which is untouched by another robot and enters the low goal will be considered scored.

4. The basic foul of G21 is removed. Continuous / repeated violations will still be a technical foul. Contact outside the safety zone will still be enforced.

G21: ROBOTS may not extend outside the FIELD.
Violation: If intentional or if ROBOT extends into the SAFETY ZONE, NO CALL. If continuous or repeated violations, TECHNICAL FOUL. If contact with anything outside the SAFETY ZONE, RED CARD and the ROBOT will be DISABLED.

5. G14 will be modified to allow for “no call”.

G14: Strategies aimed solely at forcing the opposing ALLIANCE to violate a rule are not in the spirit of FRC and are not allowed. Rule violations forced in this manner will not result in assessment of a penalty on the target ALLIANCE.
Violation: NO CALL unintentional, inconsequential, or part of regular game play as judged by the referees. TECHNICAL FOUL for all others.

6. G12 will be modified so that an immediately rectified possession of the opposing alliance ball (from a truss shot, human play or field crew action, etc) will not be penalized at the discretion of the referees.

G12: An ALLIANCE may not POSSESS their opponent’s BALLS. The following criteria define POSSESSION :
“carrying” (moving while supporting BALLS in or on the ROBOT or holding the BALL in or on the ROBOT),
“herding” (repeated pushing or bumping),
“launching” (impelling BALLS to a desired location or direction via a MECHANISM in motion relative to the ROBOT), or
“trapping” (overt isolation or holding one or more BALLS against a FIELD element or ROBOT in an attempt to shield them).

Violation: NO CALL if immediately rectified unintentional and inconsequential FOUL, if unintentional and inconsequential (i.e. does not significantly impact MATCH play). TECHNICAL FOUL per consequential instance. TECHNICAL FOUL per extended instance. If strategic, RED CARD for the ALLIANCE.

7.G27 will be modified to remove the words “high speed or repeated aggressive ramming”. We're keeping the game play resulting in portion though. This is because everybody has a different definition of what qualifies aggressive ramming. But to stress, we are keeping the gameplay resulting in…

G27: Strategies aimed at and/or game play resulting in the damage, destruction or inhibition of opponent ROBOTS via actions such as attachment, tipping, or entanglement of ROBOTS are not allowed.

Elimination Alliance Selection
The top 8 seeds will be the alliance captains but their selection order will be randomly assigned. Alliance captains may not select other alliance captains. A serpentine order will be in place for first two selection of an alliance. The fourth members of each alliance will be randomly assigned to them from the remaining teams.
1. Top 8 Teams = Alliance Captain
2. Top 8 Team numbers are placed into a hat, the first team drawn is now the #1 alliance captain and allowed to select their first alliance partner from the pool of teams that are not captains.
3. This continues through all 8 teams.
4. The last team drawn from the hat is allowed to select two teams just like a normal 8 seed alliance captain and we continue back up in reverse order like a normal serpentine draft.
5. After all alliances have three teams, the remaining 8 team numbers will be placed in a hat and they will be randomly selected by the alliance captains in 1 - 8 order.
6. This will end with each alliance consisting of 4 teams. During elimination play each member of the alliance must play in one of the first two matches of each series. (In practice this means after the first match, an alliance must switch in the team that didn’t play in the first round). Alliance captains must turn in a line up card to the head ref prior to each elimination match and may not deviate from that line up for that match.
7. One member from the non-playing team may be part of the drive team group and will be considered a COACH.
8. Declines are not allowed unless the team does not want to compete in the elimination rounds.

Thanks to the IRI planning committee for many of these rule changes.

[AllenGregoryIV]

Spectrum is offering a pre-order lunch option for T.R.I.
Teams can pre-order sack lunches for $6 each. The lunch will include a six inch Subway sandwich, chips, cookie/dessert, and either a soda or bottle of water. If you're team is interested in pre-ordering lunches please fill out this form here.
http://goo.gl/arWzJv

Please have your orders in for pre-order lunches by this Tuesday. We will be ordering on Wednesday.

[AllenGregoryIV]

Texas Robotics Invitational Promo Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTx628nQSTU

Thanks to the Discobots and Zach Ahmed for putting this together.

The event setup starts in a few hours and matches begin tomorrow. Webcast link will be posted later today and it should be on TBA (http://www.thebluealliance.com/event/2014txri)

[AllenGregoryIV]

Web Stream:
(http://www.ustream.tv/channel/texas-robotics-invitational)
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/texas-robotics-invitational

FULL FIELD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpYtBe2Ly7o)

[Alpha Beta]

Had a chance to catch a few matches yesterday, but missed the finals. What were the final results?

[AllenGregoryIV]

Had a chance to catch a few matches yesterday, but missed the finals. What were the final results?

Working on getting everything up on The Blue Alliance but it probably won't be submitted to them till tomorrow night.

The winning alliance was
624, 3847, 1429, and 5070

Finalists were
148, 2789, 3735, & 3999

We used a different alliance selection process and I thought it did a pretty good job of mixing things up. We had a 4 vs 7 final, with the #1, #4, #6, & #7 alliances in the semifinals.

All of the matches are on our youtube channel plus the full recording from the day is their as well. We had a whole host of audio and video problems throughout the day on both of our streams so the recordings we have don't have sound.

Match recordings (https://www.youtube.com/user/Spectrum3847/videos)

[AllenGregoryIV]

Here are the qualification scores right out of the FMS.

Elimination scores have to be inputted by hand since we had to mess with the bracket a lot.

[JVN]

Allen,
You and the entire TRI team did a fantastic job with this event. The Robowranglers were thrilled to get the chance to come down and play with lots of old friends.

Kudos also to 3847 for the win! You know I'm a huge fan of your team, and robot. It was fun to get to face off against you in the finals -- though I am getting a little sick of playing against 624 in finals matches. :-P

-John

[Abhishek R]

CRyptonite had a great time at the inaugural T.R.I. From the button design to the overall quality of the event, everything was well run and right on point. Thanks to Spectrum, the LSR Coordinators, and all the volunteers for making it happen.

We would also like to thank our phenomenal alliance partners, 3847 Spectrum themselves, 1429 Kaos, and 5070 Gearnotics. It was a tough road to the end, but we managed to pull it off.

Allen,
You and the entire TRI team did a fantastic job with this event. The Robowranglers were thrilled to get the chance to come down and play with lots of old friends.

Kudos also to 3847 for the win! You know I'm a huge fan of your team, and robot. It was fun to get to face off against you in the finals -- though I am getting a little sick of playing against 624 in finals matches. :-P

-John

As exciting as it was to be on opposite ends of the field - We'd love to be on the same side of the glass sometime soon. We still have two more chances this year :)

[dna1990]

Great venue, planning, people, and execution - gold stars to all the folks that made it happen.

Gold stars to all the teams letting the younger members get a feel for the process.

Such a great collection of teams and volunteers.


CAN'T WAIT TO MARK THE DATE FOR TRI 2015.

[AllenGregoryIV]

Thank you to everyone that came out to the inaugural T.R.I. this weekend. It was a fantastic event and all of that is due to the fantastic people that helped put it together. I promise I tried to make this short, however I failed.

First off thank you to Lucia Sevick for organizing a large amount of the event from bringing in volunteers to getting the table rented. Her experience with running events and getting all the little and big things checked off was amazing. T.R.I. wouldn’t have happened this year without her.

A huge amount of gratitude is owed to Texas Workforce Commission and FIRST in Texas. Their finical support allowed us to put on this event and remove the entry fee for teams. Thank you for all you have done for FIRST in our state, we truly appreciate it.

Mary Jo Maciejewski & Dominic Baula are two new teacher mentors on Spectrum this year and they led the school and facility side of planning and operating this event. Thank you so much for everything you did to make TRI a success. Also, thank you to Strake Jesuit College Prep and their facilities department for working through all our requests and helping put on a great event.

T.R.I. was a success largely due to the great volunteers we had working the event.

Chris Culbert didn’t really have a set position at TRI, I’m not really sure if he does at any event but he is always solving problems and working to give teams, students, and volunteers a better experience. Thank you for everything.

Judy Bryant (57) was our lead at pit admin as she is at the Lone Star regional and numerous other robotics competitions throughout the year. Cecilia Cisar was helping her out at this event as well. Thank you for all that you do for the teams and keeping that part of the competitions running so well.

Thank you to our referees at this event, they were Rachel Smith, Alan Cisar, LaQuinta Parker, Scott Rippitoe(1477), & Robert Oakley(1477). They had a number of people helping them scoring each match including Spectrum alumni, parents, and volunteers from team 3103 Iron Plaid.

We had a phenomenal field crew at TRI. Led by Mark Koors who made the trip to Texas to FTA our event and see how the new AM field perimeter would work out. AndyMark sent along Brett Heininger and Connor Forbes with the field who were awesome the whole event. FTAA for TRI was Aaron Graeve, a 1477 alumni, who has been a staple at Texas events this year helping to fix problems all over the place. Dave Cheuvront and Eldon Jackson were charged with keeping the field and the field reset crews working efficiently and they did a wonderful job of that as always. Scott Eddy and Fran Goundry(3103) were operating the scoring table for the event, and they even managed to work through our crazy elimination alliance selection process, I’m sorry and thank you. The TRI field reset crew included members and alumni from 1477, 3103, & 3847.

Paul Johnson(1429) was our MC and Game Announcer and he had a difficult job doing both tasks and keeping things moving. Thank you for your hard work.

Luis Medina(118) and The Robonauts ran the video, web stream, music, and a whole host of other things for the event. Thank you & it’s always great working with you guys. Nothing was really going are way in the morning but we came up with creative solutions to our problems (https://twitter.com/TRIrobots/status/480387905660014593/photo/1). Next year we’ll get song selections for every team, instead of just the ones we think of on the spot.

Mrs. & Mr. Mendoza, Mike Outlaw (624), David Stoltz, Jim McAuliffe (3847) handled our queuing responsibilities making sure that teams were on the field and ready to play all day long. During eliminations half the time we didn’t know which alliance was supposed to be red and which was blue and we even switch bumpers mid round once but we got everything working and the matches that needed to be played were played. Thank you for your hard work.

Thank you to Lana & Steve Henderson(624) for getting the radio kiosk up and running and all the teams ready to connect to the field.

We had three safety advisers on hand for our event. Marilyn Cisar, Robert Tinker, & Steven Treese(624) kept everyone safe at the event and I happy to report we had no major injuries at this event.

I want to thank all of Texas Torque (1477) for their help setting up and tearing down the field both processes went so much smoother having you all there. Mr. Ball, Chase, London, Domino, Robert, Matthew, Aaron, Scott, and the rest of the way to many of you for me to name right now, thank you.

I want to thank all of the students and parents on Spectrum that spent the last few weeks preparing for this event. Concessions were led by one of our parent volunteers Teresa Smith and a number of parents and students who did an awesome job. There are a ton of little details that make events run well and they wouldn’t have happened without you all. From making driver and volunteer badges, programs, signs, and a whole host of other things. Thank You.

Lastly I want to thank every team that choose to come to our home and play robots with us. Some of you had very long drives (3741 Grulla HS had a 5.5+ hr drive) to come compete, thank you for making the journey. We had 3 pre-rookie teams (Pearland ISD, Katy-Taylor, & Katy-Tompkins) and I have heard they all had a great experience working with the veteran teams and working towards building strong programs for this coming year. Our goal for this event was to build the community we have in Texas and give more teams experience to help them in the future. I hope each team was able to use this event to build their programs, train drivers, make new relationships, and learn.

I am sure I missed people but we are truly grateful to everyone that helped put on this event. Thank you all for coming, we had a wonderful time, and we can’t wait for next year.

We’ll be sending out a team survey in the near future but most importantly please let me know how we can improve.

[2789_B_Garcia]

Thank you to everyone that helped put TRI together! We had a few team members mention that if they hadn't been told, they wouldn't have known that this was the first time the event had been run based on how smoothly everything went, and I completely agree! A special thank you goes to the students on Spectrum that recommended checking out the Hokkaido restaurant around the corner from the school, it was delicious! I would also like to thank our elims alliance partners 3735 & 3999, it was a pleasure working with both of your teams, and we will see you at TRR!

A really big and heartfelt "Thank you" goes out to our alliance captain, the Robowranglers from team 148. Every time we play with you or against you we learn something new, and we learned so much from you at this event. It was truly an honor to make a second run through elims with you this year. Thank you for being the awesome people and organization that you are!

[Bryce Paputa]

How was the game without the zone requirement for possession?

[AllenGregoryIV]

How was the game without the zone requirement for possession?

In my opinion it played better but it also meant there was heavier defense.

T-Shirt Sales
If anyone is interested in buying a T.R.I. shirt please let me know. They $10 each, it'll be a lot easier if I don't have to ship them because I am terrible at mail, so if you are going to see us at event we can bring them to you.

[2789_B_Garcia]

I forgot to mention! Congrats to the winning alliance, and it was also a blast to be with CRyptonite on the alliance that had the highest penalty free score of the day during quals!

[lynca]

Amazing event for the 1st year. I've been to many different summer events, and this was definitely one of the top. Everything ran smoothly and the volunteers were top-notch.

Also the instant youtube uploads were great ! Thanks for posting those videos.
https://www.youtube.com/user/Spectrum3847/videos

A couple questions on the the results.
Will you post rankings and elimination bracket results on TBA ?

What happened to QF 4 video?

[AllenGregoryIV]

Amazing event for the 1st year. I've been to many different summer events, and this was definitely one of the top. Everything ran smoothly and the volunteers were top-notch.

Also the instant youtube uploads were great ! Thanks for posting those videos.
https://www.youtube.com/user/Spectrum3847/videos

A couple questions on the the results.
Will you post rankings and elimination bracket results on TBA ?

What happened to QF 4 video?

I'm really not sure but I don't have some of the stuff clipped like we regularly would. Probably operator error.

Everything is in this video if you would like to find and cut the matches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpYtBe2Ly7o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpYtBe2Ly7o)

[Pjohn1959]

Thanks Alan for organizing the event. It was a lot of fun!

I was also impressed with the new AndyMark field. I think it was the first time it was used. Mark C said that they will need to run about 300 matches on it before FIRST would decide to use it.
The 4 entry/exits were really neat. No plexiglass to slide over the metal ramps when they are raised, which removed the risk of them falling off and interfering with the robots like I heard happened a few times this year.
The glass on the perimeter was riveted with no need of zip ties. All of the aluminum tubes had quick connects for easy assembly and removal.

[Pjohn1959]

Thanks Alan for organizing the event. It was a lot of fun!

I was also impressed with the new AndyMark field. I think it was the first time it was used. Mark Coors (our FTA) said that they will need to run about 300 matches on it before FIRST would decide to use it.

The 4 entry/exits were really neat. No plexiglass to slide over the metal ramps when they are raised, which removed the risk of them falling off and interfering with the robots like I heard happened a few times this year.

The glass on the perimeter was riveted with no need of zip ties. All of the aluminum tubes had quick connects for easy assembly and removal.

[XaulZan11]

The 4 entry/exits were really neat. No plexiglass to slide over the metal ramps when they are raised, which removed the risk of them falling off and interfering with the robots like I heard happened a few times this year.


I'm so glad this issue has been finally addressed!

[Alan Anderson]

I was also impressed with the new AndyMark field. I think it was the first time it was used.

Its first use was at the IndianaFIRST State Championship six weeks earlier.

The 4 entry/exits were really neat. No plexiglass to slide over the metal ramps when they are raised, which removed the risk of them falling off and interfering with the robots like I heard happened a few times this year.

The representative from FIRST HQ supervised some "abuse testing" of the gates after the IndianaFIRST event. Mark Koors identified a slight change that would make them more robust. I wonder if that change was on the field as you used it.

The thing that really impresses me about that field design is how few road cases are needed to hold and transport it.

[2789_B_Garcia]

Was the carpet different? We kept seeing that runners in the carpet would jam up our drivetrain, I was curious to see if we (all of the teams) were just rough on the carpet at this event, or if it was a different carpet that was just getting torn up a lot easier. I know it was a rough game, but we didn't have these issues with the carpet at Alamo or at Dallas.

[ryaneogilvie]

Was the carpet different? We kept seeing that runners in the carpet would jam up our drivetrain, I was curious to see if we (all of the teams) were just rough on the carpet at this event, or if it was a different carpet that was just getting torn up a lot easier. I know it was a rough game, but we didn't have these issues with the carpet at Alamo or at Dallas.

The carpet they were using had been used before after seeing it during setup. Additionally, I don't think they had people going in the field and cutting off the pulled up pieces. (As the day went on, it got worse and worse and no one was removing the torn up carpet). I remember at other events there were people that specifically went in and were removing the pieces after the match which must have been why you didn't notice it at Alamo or Dallas.

[AllenGregoryIV]

Here is a news segment from myFOXHouston that was live the morning of the event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPncFqJK90g&feature=youtu.be

It includes some of the promo video that the Discobots put together here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTx628nQSTU

[AllenGregoryIV]

Match results are up on TBA (http://www.thebluealliance.com/event/2014txri). I wrote down all the elimination results and managed to lose them while cleaning up the event. If I find them or if someone else has them I'll get those up on TBA as well.

That is definitely a first time off-season mistake. We'll be recording results live to a spreadsheet in future years. Probably a google drive spreadsheet so people can get live updates. Just one of many, many improvements we have planned for T.R.I 2015: "T.R.I. Again"

[JohnSchneider]

Just one of many, many improvements we have planned for T.R.I 2015: "T.R.I. Again"

T.R.I 2: Electric Boogaloo

[lynca]

Match results are up on TBA (http://www.thebluealliance.com/event/2014txri). I wrote down all the elimination results and managed to lose them while cleaning up the event. If I find them or if someone else has them I'll get those up on TBA as well.

I did the new TBA method of uploading videos so now all the videos are linked up. We are still missing Elimination results.
The old google doc upload process for TBA has not been updated for a while.

http://www.thebluealliance.com/event/2014txri