Re: 2013 Waterloo Regional
 

Alliance #1 wins the event with a score of 239–168 in F1-2.

That's 407 points between the alliances. Definitely a job well done for everyone involved.

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You Canadians put on a helluva show. From the crazy competition to the music selection, Karthik's energy to the Mike and Justin analytics, I was hooked on your stream all weekend.

Well done. In fact, does someone have the email to the event coordinator?

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I want to congratulate all the six finalist teams at this awe inspiring Waterloo Regional. Insane that an alliance can put up 168 points in a match and still end up second. Canada has raised a bar for FIRST, and it is exciting to see what will play out for the rest of the season. Once again congratulations to all who participated in the Waterloo Regional competition. You put on quite a show indeed. :D :D :D

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Thanks to all those who offered, cheered us on and then commiserated with us on as we tried to get our 30 point climber working today. It worked perfectly for about 30 climbs last week on our practice bot but we worked all this weekend to get it going on the good version A 45" hard dismount during the 1st round of semis against 1114, 2056 and 4039 bent the front of the frame and threw off our aim but that has already been repaired. A cracked weld will be reinforced Thursday at GTR West. We do have a plan and hope that it will be working better this coming weekend. We may even have a working dumper. We also may change the name to Humpty Dumpty. Stay tuned.

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I think you may be looking for Brad Morris and Mark Breadner... check the link below for their emails

http://www.firstroboticscanada.org/main/contact/

Re: 2013 Waterloo Regional
 

Was 610 Full court shooting to score? or were they Full court shooting to feed their waiting alliance partner, 1310, at the opposite end of the field?

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It's hard to tell from the webcast, but it looked like they were missing the centre goal (slightly low) on several occasions.

I think that 610 realized that they weren't quite getting the desired range, and started throwing passes more deliberately the next match. (Their alliance scored 168, so it must have worked pretty well regardless.)

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When 610 full court shoots, their shot interval is normally much slower. Looked like they were trying to send a barrage of disks over to 1310 before they started their cycles.

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That was an amazing regional. A potpourri of thoughts:
-Best rulechange FIRST has ever made is the rule allowing the trickle-down of champs spots to the finalists. People were cheering 1114/2056 throughout finals as they did their amazing feats, knowing that even though they were going to steamroller everyone, it was still possible for one of the many other extremely deserving robots to make it to STL. I really felt a difference in the mood throughout qualifications: no more whisper campaigns, but rather cheering whenever they pulled off 7-disc autons or 50-point climbs. Ontario finally has it all: world-class teams to make us reach higher, and plausibly-attainable champs spots for when we do.
-This regional was insanely deep.
-There needs to be more bleachers.
-I hate those two discs under the pyramid - they sit exactly where we needed to go to get our under-pyramid auton to work, which meant we were missing it most rounds in elims. If we'd hit our 3 discs in auton during our last elimination match, we would've won it.
-I can't believe 4069 was available as a 3rd pick for 1114/2056! An effective full-court shooter to back up the best floor-loader in the world? WHAT? That also speaks to the quality of the robots at this event that the 24th pick was a bullet-like full-court shooter. Waterloo is becoming a bit of an in-season IRI.

Congratulations to every robot there. That was probably the best elimination and qualification round I've ever seen.

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Took me a little while to figure out 2702's logic in declining 1241, but then I remembered the winner of the #4/#5 Quarter plays the winner of the #1/#8 Quarter in the Semis, and 2702 wanted to (and very nearly did!) get their hands on a finalist trophy for the ticket to CMP.

Agreed about the wildcard rules being among the best changes ever. There's still room for improvement, and it hasn't shrunk the target on 1114/2056's back any, but it HAS improved the malicious style of play against them that was becoming quite concerning.

I think there is still a big drive amongst Canada's second tier to best them, as they would forever be "the team(s) that ended 2056's streak".

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Our robot (Taz) sufferred a long-range shooting problem in Waterloo that we can't identify in time for the Elimination rounds. (due to unavailability of a long-distance practice field.) Bad timing as we needed it to outshoot 1114/2056. For the finals, we continued shooting them to feed 1310 who did an amazing job picking them up and score them.

Our normal long-range is like this in BAE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc_cTC5Ma0A), ~80% to 3 point goal.
[EDIT: fixed link]

We have work cut out for us for Champs to correct this; and maybe we get another crack at this Canadian showdown with 1114 or 2056 at Champs.

The Waterloo stadium was packed with enthusiastic fans. Great atmosphere and amazing competition. Yes, 4069, a good full-court shooter was the 24th pick... crazy.

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My boys are looking forward to seeing many of their favourite teams up close since the FLL World Festival ends on Friday evening and we will most likely stay for Saturday.

Since watching the archived videos of the Elimination Matches, we have been joking with our youngest son that he may want to go live with Grandma in Toronto and join an FRC team there.

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My photos from the regional - message me if you want any High res copies - http://tinyurl.com/ccfxjch