2012 Buckeye Regional
 

Getting this up on http://watchfirstnow.com, putting a thread up for the CD link. Good luck teams!

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Man, I've been keeping track of the Match scores when I was at work today. Could not be more proud of my team :D.

Hopefully I can get down to Cleveland tomorrow and catch a couple of my team's matches since I couldn't get down either Thursday or Today. It'll be nice to see all the FLR teams down there. And from what I can see, two teams from the FLR are Number 1 and Number 2 right now :cool:

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How cool would a 340/1507 alliance be? They met in the finals at FLR, and they could be in the same color at Buckeye. FIRST at its best.

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That would be epic, and right now, doesn't seem that unreasonable. After FLR, it was obvious that both temas would have a strong presence at Buckeye, and I thought that these two teams would end up together. We shall see!

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They were one of my favorite teams at FLR. I loved their dumper idea and their ability to have a low center of gravity.

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Anyway you shuffle the deck tomorrow, FLR teams are going to be instrumental in the results. We already had one match with three FLR teams against three Ohio teams today. (FLR triumphed)

Right now, 340 and 1507 are 1-2 with Canadian team 188, a past FLR champion third. It's going to be an interesting day, for sure!

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Congratulations to Chuck Trautwein, the WFFA winner, from 1629, GaCo!

A well deserved award, Chuck!

Best regards,

Steve

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Congrats ... You were amazing yet again.

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The Fingerlakes came to Buckeye, and the Fingerlakes conquered.

Great job guys in representing our region!

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Congrats to our friends on the winning alliance!

Truth be told, some of us Buckeyes were a bit busy elsewhere. :-)

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It's great to see 1507 have a stunning year. Depending on how the Championship divisions are put together, I bet 1507 will be on Einstein once again. Congrats to them, 340 and 3015.

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Congrats on another regional win Travis. Two in row. Looking forward to seeing you guys in Cincinnati in two weeks.

I was in Cleveland to see Buckeye (though we are not competing until Queen City, several teams we helped out this year were at Buckeye) and it was a good event as always. It is fun to watch without having the pressure of keeping a robot working. Congrats to all the participants today.

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Travis, We missed 'ya. You guys always make us bring our best game.

Looks like you've been doing alright for yourselves anyway... ;)

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Does anyone know if there's a recording of the Buckeye Regional? I know CIA was doing a webcast but is there an archive somewhere I can reach? I wanted to check out Friday's matches since I missed those.

On topic:

I want to thank Teams 340 (or was it 350? ;) ) and 3015 for being the absolutely brilliant alliance partners they were. Teaming up with the team that gave us the most trouble at FLR was a no-brainer and our scouts couldn't believe that 3015 was still left for us to pick as a second choice. We had them ranked 10th on our Scouting rankings - what a steal for us!

Also to teams 188, 1551, 1270 - you guys were awesome. The second our team chose 340 as our first selection we knew 188 was going to be the Dark Horse. Despite your "low" ranking we saw you guys play and we knew just how good of a robot you were. It may not have shown, but up in the stands you had us running scared. We did not want to face you guys. And to 1551, I'm glad you got to compete in the finals in this tournament! I had a chance to speak with a couple of your mentors in FLR and you guys are now one of my favorite teams; I'll be keeping an eye on you guys and rooting for you (when not against us of course). I still don't know what I'm more surprised about, that we managed to pull off another regional victory (something we've never done before) or that we managed to play defense for the first time and push you guys away from 340. I had no idea anybody could push you guys out of the way, much less us! So once again, fantastic job guys, you were great competitors out there. :cool:

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That... was... awesome!

While I would have preferred gold and a trip to Championship, I'm thrilled to see the 1507/340/3015 alliance take the top spot -- as soon as 1507 picked 340, I thought, "I hope they pick us, and there's no way we're going to be available". We knew it was at least possible to take you guys down, but that it would be an uphill fight. Thanks to 188 and 1270 for a solid alliance -- maybe next time!

And I, too, want to find video -- especially of when we shot 1507's ball out of the air... Car Nack can have his predictions, but mine is that nobody else will pull that off this season!

Edit: And we were on our mech wheels when you pushed us -- it was a great heads-up play on your part!

Edit 2: My bad... In the excitement I got my details wrong. It was 1271's ball we shot out of the air.

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-I did not see that but now I desperately want to!

-That definitely explains a lot. Our robots have never been designed for a lot of pushing power so that's why I was so shocked. Guess we got extremely lucky to catch you guys off guard like that.

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We were joking around about the "point defense system" play after FLR; I was amazed when Adam actually pulled it off!

...it wasn't so much "off guard" as "air still recharging after all the back-and-forth switcheroo on the octocanum". Next year we might go with more air storage just in case.

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I guess "off guard" was the wrong terminology to use. I couldn't really tell what technical minutia was going on up in the nose bleeds.

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Leave it to the guy who went to Wisconsin to know this, but....

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/pittsb...egional/videos

has archived videos from the Buckeye Regional webcast. 291 never created a new site to house Buckeye Regional vids - they used the same channel they used to store the archived Pittsburgh Regional videos.

Enjoy! :cool:

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That link is for Pittsburgh. :(

Edit: And my mistake, it was 1241's ball we shot out of the air, not 1507's.

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Look at the screenshot of the first vid on that page and tell me again if it's Pittsburgh. I don't think 188 was in Pittsburgh. :D

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Weird, neither were we...

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It's this match: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/21334084

(On that link to Pittsburgh that Travis so graciously provided :p )

About 55 seconds in.

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That is amazing.

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I was standing on the scoring table side of the field at that end when it happened. I didn't see which robots shot, but the sudden change of trajectories was unmistakeable. The guy standing next to me and I just said "Did that really happen?!?"

It was like fireworks in the air overhead!

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I never noticed... but it makes sense to just reuse the same account.

I really appreciate the work CIA 291 put into providing the video feed. They had several team members working at their video station all weekend when they surely could have been used for something else.

I watch a lot of regionals online and even though I was at Cleveland, it's great having them archived for later viewing.

So a big thanks to CIA and all the other teams that do this (Code Red, etc.) It is appreciated and truly in the spirit of coopertition and Gracious Professionalism to do this!

Also not to be forgotten, sites like theredalliance.com and Madstream.team1323.com that help us find and watch them. Same goes for you - a big thanks.

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On behalf of Team 1629 GaCo, we would like to thank all of the volunteers, teams, and anyone who made this event what it is. I think this is the 4th or 5th year in a row that we have come to Cleveland, and we always have a spectacular time.

1507,340,3015, you all were a truly amazing alliance, well deserverd, congrats on the win!!!

188, 1551,1270, thanks for the hard fought battle in the semis, it was alot of fun, and that is what it is all about!!!

340 congrats on your EI award also, that is awesome!

We hope to get to compete again with you all in St. Louis.

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I'm just happy that alot of these teams that are doing so well are frequent Rah Cha Cha Ruckus supporters. Looks like were in for another great year with another great set of teams (but we could always use more).

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You guys are the only team that even tried to prevent us from crossing the barrier, and you delayed us a good 30 seconds (while deftly avoiding a transitive bridge-contact technical foul) -- it gave us a great *gasp* moment! While I know that given the opportunity we'd all rather win than lose, I hope you guys had as awesome a time as we did in that well-played, hard-fought tournament.

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I am particularly happy that 3015 broke through and got a regional win. They were really downhearted when they had to withdraw from the finals at FLR and eventually they fell to our alliance but I told them that they could take what they had learned at FLR and use that knowledge their advantage to succeed at Buckeye and I'm glad that it all worked out in the end for them.

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The all Rochetser or upstate NY alliance what ever you want to call it was pretty cool. The Rochester region has always been quite strong but it is starting to get even stronger. I still think it would have been funny if 1507 picked 340 at FLR and Buckeye but 191 was a good pick too :) I liked the dynamics of play with two different offensive weapons.

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I'm glad they picked us. at FLR. :)

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Team 291 CIA will always be happy to host the webcast and archive matches for all regional events we attend. Also we have all the matches for the Pittsburgh and Buckeye Regionals archived in the same channel.

A big congratulations to teams 1507, 340, and 3015 for winning the regional! And to 1629 for winning the Chairmans award! And a great job by all teams. Thanks for making Buckeye 2012 a competition to remember!

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Thanks CIA!!! You all do an amazing job with the webcast for those that cannot be in attendance. And you are always an amazing competitor as well as alliance partner. For those teams that have never been to the Buckeye Regional Event, you should make this a priority event to get to!!! Again, congrats to all and thanks for the hospitality!

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After a near win at FLR, it was a dream come true for 3015 to get a 2nd chance at winning our 1st regional ever! Thanks to 1507 & 340 for picking us. Our 1st visit to Buckeye will never be forgotten. This time we got to play all of our elimination matches!

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I didn't realize this was your first win -- AWESOME! (Even if you had to trounce all over us to do so...)

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I'm glad we got a chance to be a part of your team's first win. Regardless of what your ranking was going into the elimination matches we had you as one of the best teams at the entire regional. Our mouths were literally agape that no one had picked you yet - it was almost too good to be true.

The irony doesn't escape me either that it was you and 340 that very nearly took Gold at FLR as well. There's something so very...FIRST about teaming up with the very competitors you had to beat at one regional to win the other. I wish I could I say I'll be looking forward to seeing your team at St. Louis but sadly I won't be attending. I have no doubt the rest of the team that attends will keep a close eye on you guys ;)

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Indeed. After 188 picked us, our team captain had encouraged 188 to pick 3015 instead of 1270 -- though 188 had very good reasons to pick 1270 and they were a very good choice!

Your ranking did not reflect your overall performance, by any stretch.

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Not only was it our first time winning a regional, this was the first year we're weren't an 8 seed and eliminated in the first round. This year was so much fun and I'm really proud of 3015 and what they were able to accomplish this year. It was awesome to play with 340 in both regionals! Our alliance at Buckeye was ferocious.

Hopefully the team and I will be able to go to St. Louis because I can't even imagine what that is like.

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Quite the understatement... An absolutely terrifying trio to play against, in all the right ways!