Re: 2013 SVR
 

Re: 2013 SVR
 

Love the mods for 4543 Roy. 100 and 256 will also be bringing some major redesigns to the competition, which makes the already deep field at SVR even deeper.

I'll leave most of the robot specific talk to Looking Forward, but this is probably the strongest field of teams we've seen here since the early 2000's. Not only are several big guns coming from out of state (and bringing 4 regional wins and a finalist appearance with them), but a number of California's own powerhouses and up-and-comers contribute to a strong top tier. Being such a late regional, many mid-tier and lower tier teams have already competed once and had a chance to tune their machines. This may be the most serious threat to 254's dominance at the regional ever.

I believe Silicon Valley will play out more like a division with a field this deep. The scheduling gods will definitely come in to play, but with so many top teams and great depth, it will be hard for anyone to come out unscathed. 3rd round picks will make or break alliances, and the lower seeds will have opportunities to pull major upsets. All bets are off this year: when it's said and done, whoever emerges victorious will have earned the title.

Most years, the #1 seed alliance includes the perennial powerhouse Poofs, and anyone who has to face them in the bracket is woeful of their position. Making it to the finals at SVR, win or lose, is a bragging right. Both of these sentiments remain true this year, but for different reasons: with so many wildcards potentially in play from top teams, making it to the finals is likely a ticket punched to the big dance in St. Louis. If any 3 teams in the finals can open wildcard slots, all 6 teams get to go. There are no guarantees, but I'm hard-pressed to see this play out in a way that at least the captains of both finalist alliances don't get invitations to championships.

The 2013 Silicon Valley Regional is going to be a hard-fought, high-octane battle from start to finish. Bragging rights and wildcards in Week 6. Will the title stay in California, or will our guests from Texas and Florida grab a piece of the gold? Get your popcorn ready and keep your eyes glued to the webcast folks, there's a storm brewing in San Jose.

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WAY too good to settle for watching the webcast!
I'm going to be there for the elims.

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Oh, I so wish that I could be there for this one, but unfortunately I have to defend my MS thesis the following Tuesday. No way I can fly out there. My consolation is that this way I also get to watch Las Vegas....

Re: 2013 SVR
 

After seeing the practice day at SVR today, I really do believe that this is flat out the most talented and deepest field that I have ever seen at any regional- ever.

If you are in driving distance, do it!

Really looking forward to some serious playoff madness!

Re: 2013 SVR
 

#svr #dat254climb #dontmesswithtexasrobots #majorupgrade #coolmentors #1662sevencycleteleop #powdercoat #supadeepregional

Today in hash tags.

Re: 2013 SVR
 

Matches up.

Re: 2013 SVR
 

99 matches!

Hot matches:

Match 24: 118 v. 254
Match 31: 118 + 254
Match 61: 254 v. 118
Match 87: 254 + 233

to name just a few.

846 appears to have a favorable schedule.

Can anyone add to this list to optimize this two day time vampire?

Re: 2013 SVR
 

Match 7: 118 v 1662
Match 18: 233 v 148
Match 12: 971 + 118
Match 30: 192 + 1662 v 973
Match 31: 254 + 118 v 971
Match 37: 148 v 973
Match 46: 148 + 192
Match 54: 148 v 1662
Match 57: 973+118
Match 61 is 148 v 254, not 118 v 254
Match 75: 118 v 233+973
Match 82: 973 v 971
Match 92: 1662+254

These are a few that stick out to me.
Good luck to everyone. Not sure who I'll be rooting for come elims, but it will sure be a fun one up in SVR.

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The FIRST thing I did as I got home was flipped on the SVR stream, and the match that was on was 254 + 118 vs 971. The eliminations are gonna be intense, I have no idea who's gonna take this one. (Kinda inclined to root for Texas ^_^)

Re: 2013 SVR
 

Field is so deep this year, it's hard to look at the match schedule and determine the outcome for a game.

So far things haven't gone as we'd like on the field. But we've been improving quite a bit - we've got our autonomous tuned down just right now, and have been hitting 3 each time. Hopefully we'll have a good showing tomorrow. We've been shooting really well on the practice field, and hopefully that will translate to matches.

Tomorrow should be pretty exciting.

Re: 2013 SVR
 

Here are my predictions for pre-alliance selection seedings:

1) 254 (9-1)
2) 971 (8-2)
3) 118 (8-2)
4) 1662 (8-2)
5) 233 (8-2)
6) 192 (8-2)
7) 973 (7-3)
8) 670 (7-3)

Based on OPR. Conclude what you may about eliminations...

Re: 2013 SVR
 

I got the same thing, but you're missing 1868 seeded 2nd at 9-1, as well as a number of 7-3 teams that would seed higher than 973 or 670.

Tiebreakers based on average AP thus far.

Note that this is basically guaranteed to be wrong, but all teams should be within a match or two.

Re: 2013 SVR
 

Rank Team
1 233
2 254
3 1662
4 973
5 192
6 971
7 118
8 2144
9 114
10 670
11 2915
12 649
13 841
14 1868
15 766
16 115
17 840
18 4159
19 846
20 2854
21 295
22 100
23 1388
24 1072
25 852
26 3256
27 4186
28 2135
29 2489
30 3501
31 2643
32 8
33 3598
34 3933
35 2035
36 4765
37 2085
38 675
39 2813
40 4047
41 3995
42 4543
43 581
44 692
45 148
46 2761
47 2367
48 256
49 751
50 1700
51 1967
52 604
53 3482
54 668
55 2473
56 4171
57 3022
58 4255
59 1351

Pink/Grey against Robo-Monkeys in Match 75 = Hot
Pinky Poofs in Match 87.

Pinky Poofs could take it all, but with whom?
Monkeys played awesome defense in Boston, will be picked before, but by whom?

The first alliance picks will be incestuous. Good scouting, the second pick, and a well executed elimination strategy will make the difference and portend the divisional play and Einstein in STL.

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Pink is projected to lose their last match against a certain orange and black team, which will lose them first seed. I doubt that 254 would pick Pink first; I believe 118 is a fundamentally more consistent and beter robot with an opr to prove it.