Midwest Regional Webcast.

[Josh Hambright]

Thats right folks, you heard it right, Midwest regional is being webcast thanks to the hardwork of team 111.

You can find the webcast on:
http://live.wildstang.org
http://robotics.nasa.gov/events/webcasts.htm
http://www.midwestfirst.org/live.php

One of those 3 websites should have the link soon to the webcast...
In the meantime, the SCORING TABLE CAM has popped up at Midwest regional also!
So you can enjoy our pretty faces, see some more celebs, and probably even get to see some robot action in non streaming format!

Looks like we have internet access *fingers crossed* for the time being, so hopefully we can get a match list and the likes up as well, so you guys can tell whats going on during the webcast.

-edit- Practice Match List is up.

[KyleGilbert45]

Thanks for posting those links. Video and sound look good, even though it is just a practice day.

[Heretic121]

ty for the multiple links...

video and sound quality is great, but i was getting a 3 second jump kinda ilke a slide show... it could be because im on a restricted 100 kbp/s bandwith at school so =/ cant wait til 2pm when i get home :D

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Just saw a match with 111 and 71 on the same alliance.

Wow.. the way 111 loads is so awesome.

[Ben Lauer]

Are we going to get the Scorers table webcam up again? I enjoyed watching the confusion on the scorers faces!

Thanks!

[Ted Boucher]

SWEET.. snow day and a webcast..

I like the scoring table cam.. though my favorite extra cam was at the Finger Lakes Regional. They set up cameras in the drivers station to see how the drivers reacted during the match.

*EDIT* - they have a scoring table cam and cameras set up in the drivers station.. good stuff

[Bharat Nain]

I just started watching and the best part is I think the music:ahh:

[Josh Hambright]

Are we going to get the Scorers table webcam up again? I enjoyed watching the confusion on the scorers faces!

Thanks!
Ben its already up:
http://www.indianafirst.org/webcam

[K.Shaw]

woot something to do on this boring snow day :yikes:

[Katie Reynolds]

Am I the only one who thinks the sound is really quiet? Yes, the volume on my computer and the volume in Realplayer are both at 100% but to hear anything, I have to have my speakers cranked to the max volume - which is fine until Windows makes a (random) (loud) noise!! :ahh:

Other than that, it looks great - and the music is awesome :)

[Bcahn836]

I'm tuned in, and I have already have seen some interesting robots. I am not sure what team it is but it looks really cool.

[BoyWithCape195]

I was going to say that the music was awesome, but then it sorta disappeared :ahh: :confused:

[Alex Martin]

Can someone tell me exactly what teams are there currently?

[Btower]

Can someone tell me exactly what teams are there currently?

Check out the match list. They are running about 25 minutes behind.

http://www.indianafirst.org/webcam/mw_matches.html

[Alex Martin]

Check out the match list. They are running about 25 minutes behind.

http://www.indianafirst.org/webcam/mw_matches.html

Thank you

[K.Shaw]

Am I the only one who thinks the sound is really quiet? Yes, the volume on my computer and the volume in Realplayer are both at 100% but to hear anything, I have to have my speakers cranked to the max volume - which is fine until Windows makes a (random) (loud) noise!! :ahh:

Other than that, it looks great - and the music is awesome :)


ya same here...the sound is really quiet and to hear anything you have to crank the speakers and then of course random IM messages and windows noises scare the crap outta you haha. :yikes: :D

[Btower]

Open realplayer, go to "tools", go to "equalizer" move the "input" slider to the top
that should help.

"Ben"

[K.Shaw]

thanks! will try it tomorrow :yikes: :D

[Btower]

Keith Jones - pulling out all the stops to get the scoring system to work :)





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[Yan Wang]

111, will this regional be archived? I was in NYC during Boilermaker and never got to catch any of you midwestern teams in action.

[tckma]

Aww, webcast no workie...

Maybe I should wait until 9 AM, huh? Unfortunately, I've got to go to work at 10 today, so I probably won't see any matches. :mad:

[Dave Flowerday]

Aww, webcast no workie...

The webcast is running, but there's not much interesting to watch yet...

[Sam Lipscomb]

i pulled up the webcast and some jeopardy thing was running. no answers though! haha twenty-two minutes to nine...

edit // too true matt b! at least the webcast is running now! :D

[MattB703]

Don't forget that Chicago is on Central time.

[Mark Pettit]

'Looks like some great cappers there and also there has been some form of successful autonomous in the last 5 rounds straight. That's great!

[RogerR]

is there a current match list on line? the only one i can find is for yesterdays practice matches.

[Jeff Rodriguez]

http://www2.usfirst.org/2005comp/Events/IL/matches.html

Seems to be working.

[Kevin Sevcik]

Before I fly completely off the handle, did I just hear a team get penalized for breaking the plane of the driver's station? It was in the match that was just scored 0-0 mistakenly. That'd be in match #11.

[KTorak]

Before I fly completely off the handle, did I just hear a team get penalized for breaking the plane of the driver's station? It was in the match that was just scored 0-0 mistakenly. That'd be in match #11.

Yes, a team was penalized for it. I thought they would be disabled also...atleast the Head Ref at GLR said your robot would be disabled if you broke the plane of the drivers station with a tetra or part of your robot.

[Kevin Sevcik]

Yes, a team was penalized for it. I thought they would be disabled also...atleast the Head Ref at GLR said your robot would be disabled if you broke the plane of the drivers station with a tetra or part of your robot.

Disabling I can understand. I don't really like it, but I can understand the reasoning. The 10-point penalty is completely made up and should never have been assessed. We might as well be playing Calvin-ball.

[KTorak]

Disabling I can understand. I don't really like it, but I can understand the reasoning. The 10-point penalty is completely made up and should never have been assessed. We might as well be playing Calvin-ball.

The HEAD REF at GLR said they would do it becuase of safety..apparently someone got hit with a tetra or there were some close calls. I'm pretty sure he said there was a penalty with it also..along with disabling.

And this is pretty cool, They're playing the Incredibles Theme at Midwest :D

[soap108]

The SOAP Crew is uploading the movies live.

http://www.soap108.com/2005/movies/event.cfm?eventabbrev=il&thiseventid=20

KA-108 :cool:

[soap108]

The webcast has been very choppy this afternoon with garbled audio. (Sounds like a bad cell phone connection ;) )
Any possibility that can be improved?

KA-108

[Jeff Rodriguez]

Did Dan start the announcer phrase game around match 41? He definitely used some different terminology there. ;)

[Ryan Dognaux]

Any way we can view the current rankings?

[Jeff Rodriguez]

http://www2.usfirst.org/2005comp/Events/IL/rankings.html

[KTorak]

The video has been messed up since this afternoon, its pretty bad during the awards. It was good this morning. Now it seems as if the video and audio are out of sync.

[Frank Toussaint]

Did Dan start the announcer phrase game around match 41? He definitely used some different terminology there. ;)
In a word : yes.

[Jack Jones]

Disabling I can understand. I don't really like it, but I can understand the reasoning. The 10-point penalty is completely made up and should never have been assessed. We might as well be playing Calvin-ball.

There was no 10 point penalty accessed for breaking the plane in any match. Either an additional penalty was given for something else. Or the scoring system made it up - it has a mind of it's own! :eek:

[Jack Jones]

Keith Jones - pulling out all the stops to get the scoring system to work :)





http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=3188

Sup - Ben? Link gives me this:
Invalid Attachment specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the webmaster

Can you post the pic in the galleries (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pictures.php?) Would sure like to see it.

[Kevin Sevcik]

There was no 10 point penalty accessed for breaking the plane in any match. Either an additional penalty was given for something else. Or the scoring system made it up - it has a mind of it's own! :eek:

That's what I'm hoping, but I clearly heard that a robot was assessed at 10-point penalty for "breaking the plane". Last year that was associated with breaking the plane of the driver's station, so.... Perhaps the announcer got it wrong and a robot was disabled for that and penalized for something else.

[Stu Bloom]

That's what I'm hoping, but I clearly heard that a robot was assessed at 10-point penalty for "breaking the plane". Last year that was associated with breaking the plane of the driver's station, so.... Perhaps the announcer got it wrong and a robot was disabled for that and penalized for something else.Confirmed by a referee - that was the case.

[Swampdude]

It might be me, but I think the volume is way to low. Can someone crank it up a bit?

[KTorak]

You have to edit your equalizer settings. Go to Tools --> Eqiulizer --> Then bump them all up to the desired level.

[Swampdude]

You have to edit your equalizer settings. Go to Tools --> Eqiulizer --> Then bump them all up to the desired level.

All my settings are maxxed. It's not me :D

[KTorak]

Interesting, the 1st match of today was penalty free. I thought you got a penalty for descoring a tetra from the opposing alliance and they also owned the goal for the rest of the match. I didn't see the blue alliance get a penalty for knocking off the red tetras on that center goal.

[Kevin Sevcik]

No penalties. All the scored tetras counting and the other team permanently owning the goal is penalty enough.

[Bcahn836]

I am tuned in once again, this a good competition to watch

[ebmonon36]

Here are the final alliances.

1. 71, 111, 537
2. 269, 45, 706
3. 383, 903, 65
4. 648, 79, 107
5. 9, 74, 1525
6. 1646, 108, 525
7. 970, 81, 754
8. 877, 1675, 1240

Way to go 1646!
Eric

[Swampdude]

Can't wait to see alliance 1 v 2

I think I'd send 706 after 71 and 111, then send 45 to cap opponent rows and center field goal. Let 269 work the home and mid sides.

1 is going to be tough to beat, but I think if 269 and 45 are productive towards the end of the match they can win it. But they need to shut down 71. 45 needs to keep 111 away from the center after they cap it late and last.

I predict 71 will cap deep on alliance 2 and break up their home row.

71 and 111 cap at the same rate as 269 and 45. But 537 caps faster than 706 so I can't see them flat out-capping them.

But if I were 1 alliance I'd send 71 deep and leave 11 and 537 on the home 6.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Baker broke the arena controls! :ahh:

[KTorak]

Baker broke the arena controls! :ahh:

What exactly happened?

[Bcahn836]

102 to 15, that was an awesome match

[Tom Bottiglieri]

What exactly happened?
Correct me if Im wrong..

As far as I could see from the Webcast, the red side of the field went dead when 45's alliance was up to play. IFI then changed out the arena control boards on the red side and got it all set to work again. This took forever.

[KTorak]

Wow, all 3 robots disabled on the red alliance yet they still win! :ahh:

[Swampdude]

whoa, 10 caps on the middle side goal.. Somebody tell em to spread it out :yikes:

[Kevin Sevcik]

Oh lord. And here I thought the tetras stacked inside each other was just a hypothetical situation. Apparently it could very well decide this match.

EDIT:
Who owns this goal? (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32822&highlight=owns+goal)

That was the kind of situation for those not watching. They apparently both counted and the higher tetra owned the goal.

[Swampdude]

Talk about your upsets!
I don't know bout everyone else but I'm seeing defense win the day!
Good job Krunch!

[BoyWithCape195]

That was awesome. 79 is good now that they can control their swerve drive better. That is an awesome upset.....

[Kevin Sevcik]

Okay, that was some inspired defense by 79 in the last match against 71. Also a brilliant play by one blue team to snag the tetras held by 71 at the last second.

[Swampdude]

This goes to show a 1 trick pony won't cut it. You need to be unpredictable and mix it up. These are great strategies we're seeing here. The elite teams are taking it for granted they'll just outcap.

[Kevin Sevcik]

ARGH! That was quite definitely a match that shouldn't have been decided by penalties. I didn't see anything remotely over-aggressive there. I refuse to watch any more of this in protest.

[abeD]

I actually think there were penalties in the second match for loading zone against blue that went uncalled...but that's just me and looking at the webcast.

[David Kelly]

Okay, that was some inspired defense by 79 in the last match against 71. Also a brilliant play by one blue team to snag the tetras held by 71 at the last second.


Beatty and Stang alliance advance 37-36 advance after 10 pt penalty for overagressiveness by blue alliance!!!!!

Going to finals!

[Jeremy Roberts]

Wow! Great job 79, 648 and 107. That must have been a tough ref call. It basically decided the match and possibly the winner of the regional. I've seen more aggressive play that has not been called at other regionals but I guess that's part of what makes the refs job so much tougher than some other years. Maybe I missed something that was not shown on the webcast. In any case, great job to all the teams in that last match.

[David Kelly]

That was awesome. 79 is good now that they can control their swerve drive better. That is an awesome upset.....


no upset!! Red advances after 10 pt penalty by blue!!! :D

[Swampdude]

These refs are disabling like crazy...

[BoyWithCape195]

I feel that that penalty was wrongfully called. Since when are there penalties for playing defense ?! (there was no hitting high, nor ramming at high speeds) This is my opinion though.....

[Kevin Sevcik]

I was noticing that. An elim match with all three robots disabled is pretty crazy.

[Goobergunch]

And now Final 2 has to be replayed because they didn't disable a robot early enough. Hehe.

[Swampdude]

Awe man, these refs must be tired and grumpy. Send em out for dinner and let these guys wrap this up.

[Yan Wang]

Congrats to 71, 111, and 537 for a well played regional. Awesome robots working together is... awesome.

And of course, gj 383, 903, and 65.

[BoyWithCape195]

Congrats to teams 648, 79, 107, you were the best alliance there IMO. Hope to see you go far at Nats. and possibly other regionals.

[av11d]

Congrats 71, 111, and 537. I just watched he elimination rounds on webcast... I think this regional was the toughest we've seen yet. The sheer amount of tetras stacked was amazing. I'll be watching out for y'all in Atlanta. Best of luck at Nats!

[Paul H]

Congrats to Wildstang (111) on winning the Midwest Regional Chairman's award too! Well deserved.

[ebmonon36]

Here's a link to all the other award winners for the Midwest regional:
http://www2.usfirst.org/2005comp/Events/IL/awards.html
Eric

[z3ro nightmare]

wow. 648 and 107 performed beautifly, we couldnt have done so well with out you. congrats to 107 for the sportsmanship award, you truly deserve it :D

hope to see with and hopfully play with you at nats.

yes, we were dissapointed by the whole thing, but 111 71 and 537 are all extremely well built robots with excellent drivers, it was tough and close, but congrats.

we arent going to dwell on whether it was or was not a good call, but continue to refine strategies and prepare for nats. We plan on winning on the Einstein field.

thanks to everyone for their support , and congrats to the champions and finalists.

see you in atlanta!

[Jack Jones]

These refs are disabling like crazy...

...because those teams were breaking the rules like mad! :eek:

[Travis Hoffman]

I feel that that penalty was wrongfully called. Since when are there penalties for playing defense ?! (there was no hitting high, nor ramming at high speeds) This is my opinion though.....
To avoid cluttering this thread with off-topic debate, I have commented on the events surrounding this match by starting a new thread, which can be found here (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?p=360140#post360140).

[Dave Flowerday]

The video has been messed up since this afternoon, its pretty bad during the awards. It was good this morning. Now it seems as if the video and audio are out of sync.
For those of you who watched the webcast on both Friday and Saturday: was the quality improved on Saturday?