Re: 2014 Arkansas Regional
 

Bomb Squad has a heat gun and we will also have a full machine shop.

Re: 2014 Arkansas Regional
 

Team 2992 from Mandeville, Louisiana, is looking forward to coming to Searcy for our very first away from home regional!

It seems that scouting will be extremely important this year. Unfortunately we can afford to bring only a very small travel team, which will leave only 3 or 4 kids for match scouting duties.

Are there any teams out there who would be willing to allow us to work with them and share scouting duties and data? We'll have about 4 kids available to contribute to your scouting system.

Re: 2014 Arkansas Regional
 

418 does "video match scouting" as our primary scouting duty. We take match videos and save them electronically as AVI files. If everything goes well, we should be able to do this at Arkansas. If we do, we'd be happy to share our videos with you - bring a 4GB flash drive to the scouting area (press box) and we'll make you a copy. The videos and pictures we take of robots should be fairly easy to share.

We're also going to be using the paper scouting that SPAM provided on CD - the "Poor Man's Scouting". I don't think that will be easy to share (unless you bring a camera and take pictures of the scouting sheets). If you want to help us do the match scouting, we'll figure out some way to share that info with you too.

-Danny

Re: 2014 Arkansas Regional
 

Team SCREAM would love to have your scouts helping out. I sent you a PM.

Re: 2014 Arkansas Regional
 

Our team is considering paper file scouting, I'd have to ask but I'm sure our mentor would be ok with it.

Re: 2014 Arkansas Regional
 

The Kuh-nig-its would also be happy to work with you. We are planning to use an electronic system, so getting data extracts for you shouldn't be a problem.

Re: 2014 Arkansas Regional
 

Thanks to all of the teams who've offered to let us share scouting! I'll be in touch with you next Thursday.

Good luck!

I just looked through all the reveal videos that teams attending Arkansas posted; this looks like a very competitive group of teams, even by FIRST's standards.

Here's what I'm seeing:

Two robots with three ball autonomous routines, and several more that go for two. Of these teams, most seem like they could succeed in hot goal targeting. Don't be surprised if 55+ point auto runs become the "norm" in most elimination matches.

Soft throwing and secure catching: every team attending Arkansas that I have seen seems to have either a solid catcher or a soft lob option, making truss/catch combos much more likely to succeed. I feel like this part of the game was forgotten by a few teams in Week 1 Events. I witnessed several matches where teams were trailing by less than ten and lost because they wanted to get a high goal shot instead of the easy truss points. I don't expect we will see as much of that in Searcy.


My predictions:

If nothing significant changes in the rules, many of the juggernaut robots at the event might be slowly worn down and broken by standard issue "kit bots" playing defense. I believe that the previous high score of 261 points (I'm not counting fouls here) will be broken, possibly multiple times. Maybe I'm wrong, but I am super excited about seeing these bots in action.

Best of luck,

Jared Crawford
Jackson Redneck Robotics Team 4092

Re: 2014 Arkansas Regional
 

Do you have a list of links to these reveal videos you care to share? I've only been able to count them on one hand so far for Arkansas...

-Danny

Re: 2014 Arkansas Regional
 

We don't have reveal video but we have a HOT goal auto and we'll be working on a two ball

I have only seen pictures or videos of 8 robots attending the regional thus far (so I guess I can only count them on my fingers too.) However, team 3666 has seemed pretty confident about their bot, and I assume that 45 will have an impressive bot as well. Pictures of 832's bot and 4490's bot are sprinkled throughout CD (you might have to dig deep for these as I can't find them.) If memory serves right, 4490 has a pretty big net to catch and dump into the low goal.
As for 4092, I wish we would have done a reveal video, but we were pressed for time. We will be tweaking our 3 ball auto at the regional, along with 2 and 1 ball "hot goal" auto routines. Not a good catcher, but we can inbound easily. We have some "tricks" in our bag using our shooter, giving it options ranging from 2 to 27 feet for both the high and low goal. Pickup is vertical roller intake, and drive train is AM14U long chassis with two speed transmission. Here's a practice video that doesn't show our "tricks" being implemented: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L3d6...ature=youtu.be I apologize for the atrocious driving; it was his first time driving the robot. With an experienced driver, the pickup takes 1.6 seconds from contact with the ball to being ready to shoot.
Also, 1209 posted a practice video very early in the build season. I can't find it now, but their robot was roughly the size of the low goal and uses hooks to grab and dump into the low goal.

Here are the videos I could find:

Team 2992: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg96L...XHrlBorWUywqKw
Team 16: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcsi4zBwIjc
Team 1939: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfsfdWAMzeU

I guess I don't need to tell you that there are pics of PHirewire on CD. Can't wait to see it in action.

Jared Crawford
Jackson Redneck Robotics Team 4092

Re: 2014 Arkansas Regional
 

And here is 3937 (the venue host) team's reveal video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJi7qda5AIc

Re: 2014 Arkansas Regional
 

Team Scream's robot- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7ByQeF80XI
And our robot- http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/39654 the netting will be different but it is the same design.
This will be a great and competitive regional! I could see a record being broken!

Re: 2014 Arkansas Regional
 

Team 3666's robot
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/39755

Re: 2014 Arkansas Regional
 

I'm really hoping that most teams at our regional will know a decent amount about the game, especially about the human player aspects. One of the things that stood out to me last year was the abundance of gracious professionalism by the attendees at our regional, really looking forward to seeing that again!