Re: 2012-Greater Toronto Regional East
 

Thank you. I've been using MadStream from Team 1323. I like the scale it does and watchfirstnow was being mean to me and overlapping and other problems.

Re: 2012-Greater Toronto Regional East
 

Same thing on that website.

Re: 2012-Greater Toronto Regional East
 

ON GTR EAST is back up on watchfirstnow.com you will have to refresh the page. We got banned by ustream for copyright infringement.

We have removed the music feed from the stream and added a ambient mic to comply with ustreams policies.

Very sorry for the minor down time, We will continue to post archived matches to youtube at

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...E&feature=plcp

Re: 2012-Greater Toronto Regional East
 

Okay, I can understand refusal of the coopertition bridge for strategic reasons, but it looked as if there was a team that was (intentionally?) ramming the bridge to prevent another team from getting coopertition points after they were already balanced. I hate using the GP card, but how is that at all Graciously Professional? Obviously the alliance should've made the decision not to balance instead of one member taking it upon themselves to make the balance points void after the decision had already been made.

Re: 2012-Greater Toronto Regional East
 

I agree, I feel like there should be a penalty or rule... Of course if I were a top 8 team the team that wasn't competing graciously and professionally I would scratch them off my pick list.

Re: 2012-Greater Toronto Regional East
 

I saw the same thing and couldn't believe it.

If a team on your alliance has chosen to work with a team on the opposing alliance and go for the co-op balance, it is ridiculous to try and intentionally try and de-balance that bridge.

You have the right to say no and not participate, I don't believe you have the right to try and knock robots off the co-op bridge once they have balanced successfully.

If this continues at other events with other top ranked teams, it should be an interesting season.

Re: 2012-Greater Toronto Regional East
 

There's video for the match in question here.

A lot of (presumably) unintended consequences of the Coopertition Bridge have been manifesting at this regional. It's not pretty.

Re: 2012-Greater Toronto Regional East
 

I have a feeling tuesdays update will address this in the wake of GTRE.

Probably, strategies aimed at debalancing a balanced coop bridhe will be made a red card offence

Re: 2012-Greater Toronto Regional East
 

The robot that targeted the bridge seemed to have been assigned to play defense on 1114, and for most of the match they did it right--get in the way, knock them away from their shooting spot, that sort of thing.

Once 1114 went onto the coopertition bridge, however, they should have backed off. The only thing you can really do there is damage yourself on the bridge, or maybe deny both yourself and your opponent (and your partners) those coopertition points. Maybe if you get really lucky (or unlucky), you get both knocked off and/or damaged--but then you might get into strategies intended to X, and that's risky. Continuing contact like that is not smart.

The blacklist suggestion--well, I probably would, but it wouldn't work on this team. They made it to the top 8.

Re: 2012-Greater Toronto Regional East
 

Is there a direct link to the Ustream address to watch the webcast? Watch First Now and the red alliance isn't working for me.

Re: 2012-Greater Toronto Regional East
 

What issues are you having with Watch FIRST Now? In either case,

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/frc-gtr-east

Re: 2012-Greater Toronto Regional East
 

I'm having issues with all three with the feed stopping every few seconds, and it's the only webcast I'm having the issue with.

Re: 2012-Greater Toronto Regional East
 

I am watching on a censored network and the proxy I'm using just completely screw up the sight.

Re: 2012-Greater Toronto Regional East
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_dOh...POCJEP6KoJs%3D

If you watch at 2:15, it looks like the red alliance robot that is balancing with 1114 is actually adjusting their robot's position in order to maintain the balance. Very interesting.

Re: 2012-Greater Toronto Regional East
 

I can assure you that from the other side of the field it did not look like that.