Best moments of Rack N' Roll

[Tottanka]

Hey,
I am making a vdeo of the best moments of the season of 2007's Rack N' Roll.
Can you guys please suggest of matches i can download from TBA/SOAP where i can find exciting moments like : Last minute ramping, robot lifters, beautiful autnomous, taking ringer off a bot etc...

Thanks!

[Bomberofdoom]

Why don't you start the with the IRI'S 6 keepers scoring match :D

[Tottanka]

Why don't you start the with the IRI'S 6 keepers scoring match :D

cant get a direct link to the video...

[Billfred]

Einstein F3. The camera crew got a beautiful shot of 987 shoving the Ringer of Destiny up 71's ramp, then of 179 trying to fight it off.

[MoeMom]

Just watching double lifts-one right after another- from 316's Elevation Machine at FLR was AWEsome... the kind of thing where everybody in the place goes Whoa! Did you see that?

I don't know exact match #s- maybe somebody else can help there...they DO have a youtube video, though.

[notaPINKtruck]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk48U0DXXyk

We always say this was our best play of the year.

The 6 ringers at IRI was pretty amazing to watch. I'd have to pick that.

[ShadowofaCat]

one of the hardest things this season to watch was at the Detroit regional where both our alliance members fell of our ramp in the final match.

where as it could be considered a "bad moment"
it really showed that you cant win them all
and it gave a great victory to teams 247 123 and 903

im not sure where exactly you could get this video, but i have photos and i bet theyre out there somewhere...
just a suggestion :D

[DhavalP]

i would definetly have to say for our team it was this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AWxBY6X9EZQ

1089 takes off a spoiler in the last 4 seconds

[SgtMillhouse648]

I'd have to say the first auton score at midwest, Q19, we had been putting keepers on the rack on the practice field, but no luck on the playing field. We finally scored one, the first keeper of the Midwest Regional, bounced right off the ground and on to the lower rung. The other would be FM3 when it flipped down onto the lower rung.

[Tottanka]

i would definetly have to say for our team it was this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AWxBY6X9EZQ

1089 takes off a spoiler in the last 4 seconds

Can you please tell what match number it was and in what regional?

[DhavalP]

it was match 71 on the newton field at the championship even

[Tim Delles]

Sounds like you are looking for moments such as the 6 keeper auto at IRI, Final 1.1 of the Curie Division (67, 48, 1732 v. 330, 910, 1270), Final 1.1 of the Galileo Division (65, 79, 503 v. 173, 1902, 1319), Einstein Final 1.3 (190, 177, 987 v. 233, 179, 71).

Ummm i'll try to find soap links to those matches.

Also there are quite a few good story lines from regionals you may want to incorporate into the clip.

[MChapman]

A semi final round at the UTC regional with 25 ramping at the last second on 2104 with 176 already on the ramp, and almost pushing 176 off, but were just hanging on there?

[sheltie234]

Here is a link to the IRI Quarter Final match 2.1 (6 keepers). Not only is it phenomenal in autonomous, it's an incredible match too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHc4gyhVo28

[Joe Matt]

The best moment of Rack N Roll hasn't happened yet: the last match of Brunswick Erruption. That means we never have to see/play this game ever again.

[Tottanka]

Here is a link to the IRI Quarter Final match 2.1 (6 keepers). Not only is it phenomenal in autonomous, it's an incredible match too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHc4gyhVo28

Isere a way i coul download it?

[Grant Cox]

You can't forget the last second ramping on the Einstein up onto 71's ramps. The video (http://thebluealliance.net/tbatv/match.php?matchid=3977) gets a good shot of it, but the announcer doesn't really do it justice. Beatty deployed at 10 seconds, 177 and 233 both hopped up with literally 1 or 2 seconds left. The crowd went INSANE.

Other great ones would be Wildstang's unbelievable last-second spoilers in the IRI finals. Like 3 matches in a row, they dropped them on the buzzer, and they almost always decided the match.

[Brandon Holley]

Im tooting my own horn here.... 125 driving from mid field to the top of 69's ramps in the final 3 seconds of the finals match 3 of the boston regional (the score was tied before the ramp, and before the other alliances penalty)

video of webcast (doesn't show the ramp, but you can hear andy grady announcing at the end) : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5389388552528220184&q=Finals+Match+3+Boston&total=33&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

video from one of our team members (lower quality, you can see the ramp) :
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5122284098205386354&q=Finals+Match+3+Boston&total=33&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2

[AdamHeard]

Im tooting my own horn here.... 125 driving from mid field to the top of 69's ramps in the final 3 seconds of the finals match 3 of the boston regional (the score was tied before the ramp, and before the other alliances penalty)

video of webcast (doesn't show the ramp, but you can hear andy grady announcing at the end) : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5389388552528220184&q=Finals+Match+3+Boston&total=33&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

video from one of our team members (lower quality, you can see the ramp) :
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5122284098205386354&q=Finals+Match+3+Boston&total=33&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2

seconded.


Also, in the curie finals 48 hits 330 in autonomous, whose dead reckoning is supposed to score on the outer leg, they end up scoring on the leg next to it on accident.


hmmm.... The Final match 2 of San diego. Our alliance had been winning by playing defense on our part, offense from 368 and ramping on 1717 at the end. 330/696 lured us to their side of the field towards the end, making us think we were playing defense, and then blocked both aisleways back to prevent us from ramping, which won them the match.

[Schnabel]

I say the St. Louis Finals. Huh, I wonder why :rolleyes: .

[Travis Hoffman]

Sounds like you are looking for moments such as ... Final 1.1 of the Curie Division (67, 48, 1732 v. 330, 910, 1270) ...

This match is archived at The Blue Alliance.

I'm glad there's video of this as I never witnessed this match live in person. I was in a daze behind the curtain at the time. I did return in time to see The Match That Never Was, though.

My personal favorite, for obvious reasons, was Buckeye Finals Match 2. This was one of our typically "boring" rack battles, row of 4 vs. row of 3 (this was typical one offensive 2 defensive strategy for the 48, 291, 379 alliance), but 4 robots ramped 12" at the end. Team 379 ramped at the last possible second, in an awkward way - I have no idea how they stayed on top of us. Their ramp under pressure gave both 379 and 48 our first regional victory ever.

[nuggetsyl]

I know someone here can post it but i saw a ringer bounce on in auto. That wowed me.

[Tottanka]

I know someone here can post it but i saw a ringer bounce on in auto. That wowed me.

Yes, i already have that one.
That team actually had 2 bouncing autonomuses =]

[Kristian Calhoun]

The best moment of Rack N Roll hasn't happened yet: the last match of Brunswick Eruption. That means we never have to see/play this game ever again.
*Technically,* the last time we'll ever have to see/play Rack 'N' Roll ever again would be the last match of Ramp Riot, on November 10th.

BUT, that still doesn't mean that you shouldn't come to Brunswick Eruption on November 3rd! :cool:

[dcbrown]

GSR, Rookie All Star Award ceremony for Team 1991. Specifically the crowd signing clapping for this great rookie team.

[johnr]

see if you can use-" rogue spoiler" off of you tube. sorry for no link.

[David Brinza]

Other great ones would be Wildstang's unbelievable last-second spoilers in the IRI finals. Like 3 matches in a row, they dropped them on the buzzer, and they almost always decided the match.Their spoiler play was awesome - Wildstang's drive team delivered some of the most incredible game-changing plays you'll ever see in a FIRST competition.

[Collin Fultz]

The last match of the Boilermaker regional was pretty exciting...it came down to a double robot lift. The crowd should be pretty loud in that one.

[Tottanka]

Their spoiler play was awesome - Wildstang's drive team delivered some of the most incredible game-changing plays you'll ever see in a FIRST competition.

They have also produced the first tube-take-off-bot i've seen. Happened on Newton im a match along with 1574...

[SoMe_DuDe904]

check out the very last match from the Milwaukee Regional it was amazing team 537 got up our ramps at the very last second after moving a tube out of the way to win the final match 61 to 60

heres the link to blue alliance and to youtube

http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/match.php?matchid=716 (http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/match.php?matchid=716)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydGq45HHCuM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydGq45HHCuM)

[B. Flaherty]

It may not have been important to the outcome of the match, but in Semifinal 1-3 in Boston, 1922 places a spoiler which is promptly removed by 1626. The crowd and the announcer go nuts.

http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/match.php?matchid=2303

[Tottanka]

check out the very last match from the Milwaukee Regional it was amazing team 537 got up our ramps at the very last second after moving a tube out of the way to win the final match 61 to 60

heres the link to blue alliance and to youtube

http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/match.php?matchid=716 (http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/match.php?matchid=716)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydGq45HHCuM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydGq45HHCuM)
Thanks, it will be used

[Tottanka]

It may not have been important to the outcome of the match, but in Semifinal 1-3 in Boston, 1922 places a spoiler which is promptly removed by 1626. The crowd and the announcer go nuts.

http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/match.php?matchid=2303
Nice play!

I would like to see more robots falling though, do you guys know any matcher where such things happened?
I know about 1 in Israel where we lifter 2 bots, one on each of our forks, and then one of them fell, making us lose blance, and therefore the other one fell to. The final result was 8-2, and we had great defence against the best team in the regional, almost won it, almost...

[Andy Baker]

The Robot Casserole team had a match in Wisconsin where they performed a cool spin move. Here is a link discussing the match and a youtube link. (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55505&highlight=spin+move+casserole)

Andy

[AdamHeard]

Oooooh.... i forgot which regional, but a team places a spoiler and 118 instantly takes it off, and places it right back.

-Adam

[Tottanka]

Oooooh.... i forgot which regional, but a team places a spoiler and 118 instantly takes it off, and places it right back.

-Adam

I'd love to see that one!

[AdamHeard]

Darn, too late to edit... I meant to say placed right back on the other alliances row.

[Grant Cox]

Nice play!

I would like to see more robots falling though, do you guys know any matcher where such things happened?
I know about 1 in Israel where we lifter 2 bots, one on each of our forks, and then one of them fell, making us lose blance, and therefore the other one fell to. The final result was 8-2, and we had great defence against the best team in the regional, almost won it, almost...

I have a picture from a match during the Detroit qualifiers where someone drove up another bot's ramp, drove too far and fell right off the back of it. I couldn't point you to the video, but maybe someone else who remembers it could hook you up.

[Travis Hoffman]

I have video courtesy of Team 1038 of a rampless 48 driving straight out full speed during a practice match against 1038 in Pittsburgh. It was our driver's first practice match of the season. He proceeds to trap a ringer between 1038 and us, drive up the ringer, try to do a barrel roll/pirouette, and lands upside down. Of course, we just flip the bot over after the match and go on our merry way. There's a youtube link here.

I'll have to dig up the raw video.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CjHMb55EXmY

[gurellia53]

I made a short hi light (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xft89I1Y6rY) video of Robot Casserole at th Wisconsin Regional. If you want it in .wmv, its on our websight. There are some cool shots of some spins and ramping.

In the quarterfinals at Wisconsin there's video (http://thebluealliance.net/tbatv/match.php?matchid=703) of 1259 lying on the ground, but the camera missed it falling over.

I remember I've seen video of 111 taking a ringer off of a team mate's flag. I just don't remember where.

[Lil' Lavery]

I personally loved it every time a scoring bot "dunked" the tube over a defenders head (scored over a defensive bot). Unfortunately the matches that come to mind that I know of it in aren't on SOAP or TBA (or don't show it in the video), but I know it happened plenty of times, and I'm sure you can find some footage of it if you surf around SOAP and TBA.
I also loved 340 getting knocked in auto, and still scoring. http://media.putfile.com/Newton-Match-66-340-Another-View

[Tottanka]

I have video of a rampless 48 driving straight out full speed during a practice match against 1038 in Pittsburgh. It was our driver's first practice match of the season. He proceeds to trap a ringer between 1038 and us, drive up the ringer, try to do a barrel roll/pirouette, and lands upside down. Of course, we just flip the bot over after the match and go on our merry way. There's a youtube link I'll post later, and I think I have the actual video on a DVD somewhere. Fun times.
I'd love to see that one. Sounds like a good one for what im doing.


I remember I've seen video of 111 taking a ringer off of a team mate's flag. I just don't remember where.

That was on Newton along wit team 1574. Match 40.


I personally loved it every time a scoring bot "dunked" the tube over a defenders head (scored over a defensive bot). Unfortunately the matches that come to mind that I know of it in aren't on SOAP or TBA (or don't show it in the video), but I know it happened plenty of times, and I'm sure you can find some footage of it if you surf around SOAP and TBA.
I also loved 340 getting knocked in auto, and still scoring. http://media.putfile.com/Newton-Match-66-340-Another-View

I already have this autnomous, which i think is one of the best this year.
Can you give me team numbers of teams that did those Dunks oftenly?

[B. Flaherty]

Check out team 121 the Rhode Warriors. In Boston the announcer frequently referred to it as the "Air Jordan".

[s_forbes]

Nice play!

I would like to see more robots falling though, do you guys know any matcher where such things happened?
I know about 1 in Israel where we lifter 2 bots, one on each of our forks, and then one of them fell, making us lose blance, and therefore the other one fell to. The final result was 8-2, and we had great defence against the best team in the regional, almost won it, almost...

How about the first quarterfinal match at Davis (Alliance #1 vs. Alliance #8)?

several match highlights:
-Right off the bat the top scorer from alliance #1 (team 100) gets a ringer on its flag.
-Shortly thereafter, 997, the best lifter of the competition and also on the #1 alliance, gets tipped.
-1458 removes the ringer from 100's flag!
-Seconds later, team 100 is tipped.
-The match ends with an unanticipated double ramp from the #8 alliance and two robots on their side for the #1 alliance.

http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/match.php?matchid=3695

[Andy Baker]

Qualification match 55 (http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/match.php?matchid=4272) on Galileo was probably one of our team's best scoring under heavy pressure. Between 1:10 and 1:30 on this match, the TechnoKat robot drivers, Kyle Love and Nick Bailey did some amazing work to get tubes on the rack. From 1:20-1:26, they extend over team 84's blocking attempt, score a tube, and steal a tube from the other alliance all at the same time.

Andy B.

[Chris_Elston]

My favorite is when Team 45 Kyle Love, squeeks by a fallen robot, gets on the lift anyway, and 1501 lifts 45 for a double lift:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWxjhmG9AVA

longer video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIWh4F_3jjk

I also still like our buzzer lifts too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHx9IC1W9wQ

[Joe G.]

One of the best autonomous moments would probably be 67 and 1114 scoring on the same column.

http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/match.php?matchid=1030

[Hunter Levesque]

Semifinal 1 match 2 on Newton 987 and 177 ramped at the last few seconds onto 190, but then tipped. We still got 15 points each.

Here is the link, http://thebluealliance.net/tbatv/match.php?matchid=4095

It says the video isn't available, but you can still download it to watch it.

[Tottanka]

For all of those who posted re a youtube link, i'd like to ask you, if possible, to post a direct download link to those movies, so i can edit it into the movie.
Basicly, i found a way to download movies from youtube. Only problem is that they are in .flv format, and i need to convert them to wmn, avi or mpeg or something that i can work with. So now i needed a converting tool, and the only one i found is limited to 90 seconds video (in its free version). It takes a while but i can work with youtube small videos.
For the larger videos i need to find a .flv movies spliter, aplit them to 90 seconds parts and then convert.

That's a lot of work, so i would really appreciate if you guys could found me those movies in normal formats with a direct link...

Thanks =]

[MishraArtificer]

Hey,
I am making a vdeo of the best moments of the season of 2007's Rack N' Roll.
Can you guys please suggest of matches i can download from TBA/SOAP where i can find exciting moments like : Last minute ramping, robot lifters, beautiful autnomous, taking ringer off a bot etc...

Thanks!
A suggestion for background music, as this is essentially a highlight film: "And The Crowd Goes Wild" by Mark Wills.

[Tottanka]

A suggestion for background music, as this is essentially a highlight film: "And The Crowd Goes Wild" by Mark Wills.

I think ill go with Final Countdown, or Eye of the Tiger, but i will check that one too

[SgtMillhouse648]

I don't know, something is telling me Thunderstruck by ACDC would be pretty cool... I've had that song stuck in my head since MWR.
Malhon

[Travis Hoffman]

I think ill go with Final Countdown, or Eye of the Tiger, but i will check that one too

You could also go against the grain and use something edgier than the usual crop of songs people typically use for these FIRST videos. Something you don't hear at a FIRST event. That means avoiding even "Thunderstruck". A change of pace never hurt anyone!

My suggestion? "Ladies and Gentlemen (http://www.amazon.com/gp/recsradio/radio/B000KJTFD4/ref=pd_krex_listen_dp_img/002-3874797-0573668?ie=UTF8&refTagSuffix=dp_img)" by Saliva. TNT used this song for their end of playoff coverage wrap-up montage video after the Eastern Conference Finals. It was very entertaining (Note to ABC/ESPN - your NBA coverage is horrible!!! Let TNT take over....).

You wanted vid of robots dunking over defenders - this song went great with video of humans dunking!

[Tottanka]

I've picked 2 songs:
Killin in the Name of, by Rage Against the Machine
Down With the Sickness, by Disturbed.
The video is right now beeing uploaded to youtube.

[Joe G.]

Can't wait to see it :)

[Tottanka]

Uploading files to youtube takes years...
The video is 130 MBs, if you want a direct link just ask for it.
You can use vixy.net to download youtube videos.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=m75h9VW4S2s

[Tottanka]

Its too late to edit.
I wanted to thank those who suggested videos, and to mention that the video is not over yet.
Any moments you think i could add to it are welcomed =]

[Stephi Rae]

Keepers bouncing on in autonomous were mentioned previously so I don't know if you've seen this one or not, but in the semifinal 1, match 2 of the Las Vegas regional 1425's keeper bounced on at the same time that team 8 knocked the cap off a bottom spider leg. 1425 and the red alliance then proceeded to circumnavigate the bottom spider leg resulting in the highest scoring match of the LV regional.

The link to the blue alliance is http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/match.php?matchid=3165 but it does not show either the bounce or the broken leg very well.

The youtube link shows both a lot better. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcJViZ4fLxA and is short (does not show the rest of the match, only the autonomous)

[JB987]

Team 987 applauds and appreciates your efforts this summer.

Great job on the highlights video, Liron! Always a pleasure to see the results of someone's hard work, especially when they expect nothing in return. Talk about gracious...thanks for sharing.

[Travis Hoffman]

Its too late to edit.
I wanted to thank those who suggested videos, and to mention that the video is not over yet.
Any moments you think i could add to it are welcomed =]

Great job! It's neat to have all the best season highlights in one tidy package.

[Kristian Calhoun]

Nice play!

I would like to see more robots falling though, do you guys know any matcher where such things happened?

In Qualification Match 82 (http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/match.php?matchid=4299) on Galileo, Team 25's ringer got stuck on the top of Team 2228's robot, and knocked them over as we tried pulling away. It starts at around 1:30.

Also, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhxsvs-w1Ik, for a compilation video of our successful caps in autonomous mode, including several occasions where the keeper fell and scored on the lower spider leg.

[Rich Ross]

I just realized


You have got to show some screen shots of really high scores. Also, showing 2056, the Rookie Sensation, seems obligatory. Also, The "wrap around" should be shown a few times.

[wendymom]

Great job...lots of fun to watch

[Joe G.]

I just realized


You have got to show some screen shots of really high scores. Also, showing 2056, the Rookie Sensation, seems obligatory. Also, The "wrap around" should be shown a few times.

Yeah, definatly get some clips from this (http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/match.php?matchid=515)
match

[johnr]

just watched it- well done. thank you.

[Speeder]

Check out 316's Elevation Machine in the Finger Lakes Regional matches 5, 11, 17, 20, 24, 29, 35, 41, 45, 54, and 59. Lots of lifting going on!

Here's a link to our Elevation Machine promo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdN2UmaNIXY

[Tottanka]

Check out 316's Elevation Machine in the Finger Lakes Regional matches 5, 11, 17, 20, 24, 29, 35, 41, 45, 54, and 59. Lots of lifting going on!

Here's a link to our Elevation Machine promo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdN2UmaNIXY
316's elevation machine is already in the video.

[popo308]

does anyone have the link to the IRI match where 6 Auton keepers were scored??

[Tottanka]

Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHc4gyhVo28
it is also included in the video.

[Branden Ghena]

That video is gone try here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U02DOVK0mFQ

[SSMike]

You can't forget the last second ramping on the Einstein up onto 71's ramps. The video (http://thebluealliance.net/tbatv/match.php?matchid=3977) gets a good shot of it, but the announcer doesn't really do it justice. Beatty deployed at 10 seconds, 177 and 233 both hopped up with literally 1 or 2 seconds left. The crowd went INSANE.

Other great ones would be Wildstang's unbelievable last-second spoilers in the IRI finals. Like 3 matches in a row, they dropped them on the buzzer, and they almost always decided the match.

Yeah I have to say that although Wildstang's IRI preformance ^ was spectacular as was the 6 keeper match, but when 179 and 233 climbed the Beast as time expired I couldn't believe it. In my humble opinion that was the best play that I saw all year.

As for my team's best moment this year, with the exception of winning FLR, our human player hung a tube on the rack with about 20 seconds left that gave us a 4-2 win.

[Nuttyman54]

Beatty deployed at 10 seconds, 177 and 233 both hopped up with literally 1 or 2 seconds left. The crowd went INSANE.


For the record, that was 179 doing the climbing.

On topic, the video is excellent, and I really like the way you divided it into sections. Keep up the good work!

[Tottanka]

I am still oking for more moments and sections to add there.
Please suggest anything you have in mind.