2014 Greater Kansas City Regional
 

The Greater Kansas City Regional filled its initial 50 slots yesterday, and has already pulled one team off of the wait-list to go to 51.

7 rookies are currently on the list and a couple more may still join the event. It's great to see the area growing.

There are 4 veteran teams who have made KC their home for years which have yet to register for the 2014 season. (1802, 1737, 1984, and 2167)

Current Team List

0932 | Circuit Chargers | Tulsa, OK | Memorial HS (Tulsa Engineering Academy)
0935 | RaileRobotics | Newton, KS | Newton HS
0937 | North Stars | Overland Park, KS | Shawnee Mission North HS
0938 | Team Botman | Richmond, KS | Central Heights HS
1723 | The FBI (First Bots of Independence) | Independence, MO | Independence SD
1730 | Team Driven | Lee's Summit, MO | Lee's Summit HS
1763 | Paseliens | Kansas City, MO | Paseo Academy of Fine and Performing Arts
1764 | Liberty Robotics | Liberty, MO | Liberty & Liberty North HS
1769 | Digital Hawks | Kansas City, KS | J.C. Harmon HS
1775 | Tigerbytes | Kansas City, MO | Lincoln College Prepatory Academy
1777 | Viking Robotics | Overland Park, KS | Shawnee Mission West HS
1785 | United Robocats | Blue Springs, MO | Blue Springs SD
1806 | S.W.A.T. | Smithville, MO | Smithville HS
1810 | Jaguar Robotics | Shawnee, KS | Mill Valley HS
1825 | The Cyborgs | Independence, MO | Metro Homeschool
1827 | Robo-Jackets | Kansas City, MO | Center HS
1847 | Robodogs | Kansas City, KS | Wyandotte HS
1939 | The Kuh-nig-its | Kansas City, MO | The Barstow HS
1982 | Cougar Robotics | Shawnee, KS | Shawnee Mission Northwest HS
1986 | Team Titanium | Lee's Summit, MO | Lee's Summit West HS
1987 | Broncobots | Lee's Summit, MO | Lee's Summit North HS
1994 | Horse Power! | Kansas City, KS | F.L. Schlagle HS
1997 | Stag Robotics | Roeland Park, KS | Bishop Miege HS
2001 | HERMES | Kansas City, MO | Ruskin HS
2164 | The Corps | Harrisonville, MO | Harisonville HS
2335 | Sargon | Prairie Village, KS | Shawnee Mission East HS
2345 | Animal Control | Kearny, MO | Kearny HS
2346 | Cel-Techs | Kansas City, MO | Archbision O'Hara HS
2353 | The Legion | Kansas City, MO | Pembroke HS
2357 | Panthers | Peculiar, MO | Raymore Peculiar HS
2410 | Blue Valley CAPS (Metal Mustang Robotics) | Overland Park, KS | Blue Valley Center for Advanced Professional Studies
2457 | The Law | Lawson, MO | Lawson HS
2560 | RoboDog | Grandview, MO Grandview C-4 SD
2874 | Eagles | Grain Valley, MO | Grain Valley RV SD HS
3172 | HorsePOWER | Salina, KS | Salina Central HS
3485 | Cyclone Robotics | Kansas City, KS | Bishop Ward HS
3528 | Up Next! | Kansas City, MO | UNLF Homeschool Community
3612 | GearHogs | Springdale, AR | Springdale HS
3784 | Bit by Bit 4-H Robotics Team | Aurora, MO | Bit by Bit 4-H
3973 | Pirate Robotics | Platte City, MO | Platte County HS
4455 | The Burger Bots | Warrensburg, MO | Warrensburg R6 SD
4522 | Team SCREAM | Sedalia, MO | Smith-Cotton HS
4646 | Team ASAP | Des Moines, IA | Des Moines metro area schools
4809 | Black Knight Robotics | Marceline, MO | Marceline HS
4959 | Falcon | Kansas City, MO | Staley HS
5013 | Trobots | Kansas City, MO | Park Hill HS
5041 | System Overlord Robotics | West Branch, IA | West Branch HS
5082 | Northmen Robotics | Kansas City, MO |Oak Park HS
5098 | Operation STING - R | North Kansas City, MO | North Kansas City HS
5119 | Firebirds | Lawrence, KS | Lawrence Free State HS
5126 | Park Hill South Robotics | Riverside, MO | Park Hill South HS

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What, no history or trivia of the KC regional like last year?

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1802 has registered now!

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Well, looking at last year's thread:
All the trivia in the "a lot of parity in the field" was broken by team 1986 captaining the winning alliance while 1806 won it's 3rd Greater Kansas City Regional.

As far as a deep top end goes:
2013:
1 Divisional Finalist at Worlds
2 Teams that made Eliminations in their respective divisions at worlds
2 FRC Top 25 Robots (Ranked #3 and #22)
6 Regional Winner Trophies were brought back to the Kansas City Area (967 makes 7, but they are neither from Kansas City nor registered for this year)
8 World Championship Qualifying Teams (By My Count) (Would be 9 with 1710)

5 states are represented: Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma


Maybe the statistics aren't as impressive, but KC and STL got divided last year by being events on the same week, and team 16 opted not to return to Kansas City. With that in perspective, along with the fact that many teams went to the Razorback Regional where they were beat by an alliance captained by eventual FRC World Champions, team 1477, it's quite understandable that we don't have 9 regional winning teams from 2013.

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2167 just got registered and is on the wait list for KC.

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Excellent. I think getting on the wait list before 2nd registration opens up this afternoon is important.

There should still be a few spots left open for teams wanting to come in for 2nd registrations this afternoon as well. We're in a new arena this year, and organizers are indicating a 60 team target size.

And now officialy in as KC's 53rd team.

Wondering what other teams might be lurking on the waitlist.

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And now officially listed on the roster for the KC Regional.

Want to get a sneak peek at the KC Regional? 35 of the 54 registered teams (including 1 of the 8 rookies) will be competing at the Cow Town ThrowDown this coming weekend.

0935, 0937, 0938, 1730, 1764, 1775, 1777,
1785, 1802, 1806, 1810, 1825, 1847, 1939,
1982, 1986, 1987, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2335,
2345, 2346, 2353, 2410, 2874, 3172, 3485,
3528, 3612, 3784, 4455, 4522, 4646, 5013.

Edit: 1769 replacing 4646 in the 48 team Cow Town ThrowDown

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How many teams coming to KC are attending more than 1 regional?

Of the 46 veteran teams registered (8/54 are rookies) 21 of them will be attending a 2nd regional.

Teams Playing Before KC (Perhaps bringing a Wild-Card)

0935 (Arkansas)
1764 (Central Illinois)
1806 (Central Illinois)
1810 (Arkansas)
1939 (Arkansas)
1986 (Central Illinois)
2164 (Central Illinois)
3784 (Arkansas)
4522 (Arkansas)

Teams Playing After KC

0932 (Oklahoma)
0938 (Wisconsin)
1723 (Oklahoma)
1730 (Bayou)
1775 (Oklahoma)
1785 (Oklahoma)
1982 (Colorado)
1987 (Colorado)
2410 (Oklahoma)
3528 (Oklahoma)
3612 (Bayou)
4646 (Wisconsin)

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News from the KC Regional Director:

All veteran teams from last year are now registered for a 2014 tournament, and when Olathe South registers we will have 10 !!! rookies coming to KC.

I'm wondering... whose the one team left on the waitlist?

Additional news

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Had a great time at the "FIRST LOOK" for our new regional venue.

Numbers were drawn at random and teams were then given the oppotunity to select their pit location.
A map of the pits can be found here.

I had to leave the event early, and wasn't there for the pit selection, but I did notice one team on the Pit-Map that isn't on the official registration list yet. Must be that one team on the waitlist still. :cool:

PS. Olathe South is now registered, taking us to 9 rookies. 5041 from Iowa is no longer registered for KC. They are now the only rookie registered for Central Illinois.

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Gonna take a wild guess at that team, 118?

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I "think" that might be a typo for 1108.

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118 sure seems to have a spot in the pits. When I checked the FIRST website earlier in the day, they still weren't listed though. That would be a lot of fun. KC can be pretty competitive.

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It isn't.

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ZOMFG if Robonauts are actually coming then my volunteer duties may or may not end up being neglected....

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So to those that went, how does the seating situation look? It's been a while since I've been to BTC, but I can't imagine there being much room for seating. That's been a major concern of mine since day one.

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Is that going to be a full-size practice field?

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Last I heard the bleachers were going to hold about 950 per side (1900 total) which is almost 1000 seats less than Hale, but still more than 30 seats per team. From what I hear ShowReady loves the venue and doesn't think seating will be a problem. There will be substantially more seating than there was in the pit-fields at the 2011 championship.

Yes. The 3 Lee's Summit teams cooperate together to build a full size wooden practice field, invite teams to use it on the pre-bag weekend, and set it up for the local regional.

Really helps when tuning up those autonomous routines. ;)

There are still two empty pits on the diagram, so... Even after 118 comes off the waitlist there would be two openings for any team out there looking for a fun and competative week 3 regional. Would love to have the number of teams divisible by 6 and avoid surrogate matches. Call up the regional director and see if you can join us today. :cool:

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Seating: The venue is very large and organizers are bringing in bleachers to hold 1900. For comparison, the portable bleachers that were set up for Champs in 2011 held approx 900. Hale Arena had a capacity of 2800, but we all know much of that was empty. The seating will be closer to the field than was possible at Hale.

Practice Field: The venue layout shows a full size practice field area. We in the Lee's Summit Alliance will strive to provide a full field.

For those that have not seen the venue it is easy to wonder if it will be large enough, but it is quite enormous. There is room for a very spacious pit layout, machine shop, practice field, field area, and a large, separated area for FLL, demos, dining, etc. The lighting is much better than Hale, and there are several advantages such as ample free parking, more concession options, BYO food, better judging rooms, pits closer to the fileld, etc. Compared to some of the basketball arenas we have all competed in, it will be very spacious.

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That's great news! I'm disappointed I couldn't attend, but it sounds like the venue will work out really well for the regional! Now just counting down the days until kickoff! (Is it weird that I'm counting those down but not to graduation? haha)

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Tyler, I am glad you will be there again. What are you doing up at this time in the morning? I am looking forward to seeing all the teams compete and have fun. It will be a change, but hopefully a good one.

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We've added another state! FRC 118, Robonauts are offically off the wait list and on the roster. Welcome aboard.

We're now at 58 teams. FYI: There is still pit space allocated for 2 more.

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The Kansas City Regional is going to be great again this year. I'm really excited to meet all the rookie teams and to welcome team 118. I have seen and heard nothing but good things about their helpfulness and professionalism...their robots aren't bad either!:yikes:

Ooh, I would really like to see 118 and 1986 go head to head in a match or five.

On a different note, I really hope the the Lee's Summit teams host the "Saturday before bag day" practice scrimmage again this year. Having some field time before the end of build season was fantastic!

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That would be SOOOO COOL! 118 & 1986! 1939 in the mix would also be cool! Hopefully 3928 can make it down to this one again as well!

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People are working relatively hard to make sure that seating and spaces are comfortable for all. ;) I am excited for KC this year should be a great regional this year as always!

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I think there are still two spots left! Neutrino would be a great addition.

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Q1-
Red 1986, 1806, 1939
Blue 118, 1730, 3928

...
Then again, that might really mess with the rankings later...

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Bringing back memories of 2007 and the algorithm of death.

Absolutely. The only thing that would stop us is if Kansas City landed an official week zero event.

At CTTD 3928 indicated they were pulling back this year and just attending one regional. I don't think they are on a waitlist anywhere.

Q1 eh? I know there is an algorithm with a random factor which generates the qualification pairings, but it seems like some high-end robots end up in that first match quite often. After we won our first regional at Hub City last year (where then reigning world champion 16 was featured in Q1) we saw Q1 in our next two regionals. And as Woolly is aware, we squared off against our top pick in GKC for Q1 OKC. Coincidence? That's what I'm told. It does make for an exciting start to the event.

GKC-2013 Q1 2410 3784 1763 935 1986 1625

OKC-2013 Q1 1775 4523 1986 3169 1806 3507

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I'll add a little more history to this

GKC-2012 Q1 1985 1939 1984 1806 1997 2972
Led to first CO-OP balance in Rebound Rumble. (1985, 1806)

Though, I wonder that if while the pairings may be random, the order may not be (For sake of robots not having back-to-back matches. matches 5 hours apart, etc) and that they look at the list of matches and while ordering matches for team-convenience, they might slip a high-powered match into the Q1 spot while doing so.

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The pairings and sequence are all generated by the algorithm, which takes into account inter-match spacing and attempts to avoid anything resembling the output of the "algorithm of death" -- there's no hand sorting.

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Just saw in the KC FIRST newsletter that Team Neutrino (3928) from Ames, IA will be joining us at the Kansas City Regional again this year!

Welcome back! So glad you are going to be able to attend a second regional this year! Yet another really high caliber team added to the GKC roster. With so many amazing robots, it is going to be quite a thing to be a part of.

Team List:
Team Number Team Name
118 Robonauts
932 Circuit Chargers
935 RaileRobotics
937 North Stars
938 Team Botman
1723 The FBI - FIRST Bots of Independence
1730 Team Driven
1737 Project X
1763 Paseliens
1764 Liberty Robotics
1769 Digital Hawks
1775 Tigerbytes
1777 Viking Robotics
1785 United Robocats
1802 Team Stealth
1806 S.W.A.T.
1810 Jaguar Robotics
1825 The Cyborgs
1827 Robo-Jackets
1847 Ladder 1847
1939 The Kuh-nig-its
1982 Cougar Robotics
1984 Raider Revolution Robotics
1986 Team Titanium
1987 Broncobots
1994 Horse Power!
1997 Stag Robotics
2001 HERMES
2164 Team 2164 The Corps
2167 Radical Tech
2335 Sargon
2345 Animal Control
2346 Cel-Techs
2353 The Legion
2357 Panthers
2410 Blue Valley CAPS Metal Mustang Robotics
2457 The Law
2560 RoboDog
2874 Eagles
3172 HorsePOWER
3485 Cyclone Robotics
3528 Up Next!
3612 GearHogs
3928 Team Neutrino
3973 Pirate Robotics
4455 The Burger Bots
4522 Team SCREAM
4646 Team ASAP
4809 Black Knight Robotics
4959 Millennium Falcons
5013 Trobots
5082 Northmen Robotics
5098 STING - R
5119 Firebirds
5126 Park Hill South Robotics
5141 PRIDE Robotics
5189 5189 Dead Bolt
5268 The Bio-Mech Falcons

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Agreed! I think KC is becoming one of THE premiere regionals to be at with all of these amazing teams!
See you in a few weeks :)

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Thanks, not like that puts any pressure on me or anything! :P

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I thought 118 was at Alamo?

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GKC is a different week from Alamo.

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So, we're sure to have at least 2 2014 Regional Winners attending, and a Regional Chairman's winner. Though, there's a pretty good chance we could add more in Arkansas.
Here's to hoping there are plenty of wild cards up for grabs!

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Looks like another wildcard possibility with 1939 winning chairmans at Arkansas. Congratulations to them.

Also congrats to 1108 on a very impressive showing at crossroads. You will be missed at GKC.

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I think KC might be one of the more underrated regionals. Most of the robots are extremely well built and there are so many great teams. You never know beforehand who is going to win it, and so many of ours go on to do really well in other regionals.

This year, it will definitely be a premiere regional, considering we will have three teams that are already in the Top 25 on FRC Top 25, with 118 being #2, 1986 being #4, and 1806 being #22. And that is just from week one results.

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Hey guys, during the Arkansas Regional this year we came up with a new tradition, swaying whenever Mike (who MCs both the Greater Kansas City Regional and the Arkansas Regional) talks to the crowd. We would like other teams to join in with us during the KC regional this year.
With thanks,
Ethan Lopez

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It always is unrightfuly so, if you look at the depth of teams KC is always hard. This is because we all started around the same time and have learned a lot of lessons though the years which makes it super competitive. Look at the last two weeks alone in team accomplishments.

1939 Chairman's award
4522 Regional Finalist, Quality Award
1986 Chairman's and Regional winners
1108 Chairman's, Regional win, and WFFA (even though they are not coming)

Kansas city teams clean up were ever they go.

With great teams like 1806,1730,1987,1723,935,118,1775,3528,1764 and so on the competition is really hard. I always love KC because I never know the outcome before it happens. :yikes: Many of these teams its the first competition, I know that many teams will end up doing very well at their first and second competition this year.

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8 of the 58 teams gathering for the KC regional this weekend have already played.

Team# -- OPR
1986 --- 82.0
-118 --- 79.9
4522 --- 70.8
1806 --- 66.5
1810 --- 48.4
1939 --- 28.2
1764 --- 25.3
2164 --- 23.9

3 opportunities for a wildcard this weekend too.

1986 Regional Winner and RCA (Central Illinois)
118 Regional Winner (Alamo)
1939 RCA (Arkansas)
(4522 narrowly missed a 4th opportunity for KC, captaining the finalist alliance in Arkansas to near victory.)

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On a completely different subject, my wife was looking for information about the regional. She found a site with a link to a map. When she followed it, it came up with the wrong MCC location in Kansas. When I followed it, I got a location in Omaha. It looks like it is searching by name rather than a hard coded address.

I'd hate to have anyone go to the wrong location. Since that is a usfirst.org website, is there a way that it could be fixed?

Andy

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It seems to be working fine for me. I plug in either my work or home address, and it gives me directions to the correct place. Don't click on any of the recommendations when Google Maps opens up, type in the starting point address, and it should work fine.

But I agree, I think the actual address should be there instead.

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Same here

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Thanks, its nice to be noticed. Most of us will be there--as volunteers.

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It also works for me, using Chrome on Windows 7. What device and program did your wife use to find the map? One of the FLL coaches with whom I work had problems with the directions to our tournament in Kearney, MO. Both my computer & Android phone found the location correctly; on her iPhone both following the link in the email and plugging the address in directly took her to some unknown address in Kansas, about 60 miles away from Kearney.

Did you try a different device & get the same results?

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It's based on location. If you're far enough away from KC, you'll probably get some weird result from Google trying to match nearby businesses. It's telling me that the regional will be at a gas station on the west side of Manhattan. :rolleyes:

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So after seeing the BBQ discussion on the waterloo regional I was curious what it was for Kansas City seeing we are a great BBQ town.

(If my numbers are correct, 1 mistake already)

GKC has:
2 Championship Division Wins (118-2)
1 4 time chairmans (932)
2 3 time chairmans (118,1987)
1 2 time chairmans (1986)
3 1 time chairmans (1730,1939,3172)
1 11 time winner (118)
1 8 time winner (1986)
1 6 time winner (935)
1 5 time winner (1806)
1 2 time winner (1730)
13 1 time winner (932,938,1775,1802,1810,1984,1987,1997,2345,2410,2 457,3528,3612)

58 teams are attending
62 Win or chairmans blue banners total for BBQ of 1.07 (58/62)
58 2005 and after for Sauce of 1 (58/58)
30 (or 31 not sure) 2011 and after for Briquette of .5 (30/58)

Always fun to play with numbers. ::safety::

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Oklahoma Joes is the best of the best!

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I ate at OK Joe's today at lunch. Very good, but you happen to be wrong ;) -- Jack Stack is the best. Better beans, better sauces. As Neil deGrasse Tyson said last night on The Cobert Report -- Living in a country with free speech allows you to say whatever you want. It doesn't guarantee you are right.

:D :D :D

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Have to go with JackStack on this one, OK Joes is superb however.

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OK Joe's is better because it is only a mile from the office :D

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Actually, team 1806 has won 5 regionals.

2008 Greater Kansas City (#8/#9 pick)
2008 Oklahoma (3 Seed Captain)
2009 Greater Kansas City (1 seed Captain)
2013 Greater Kansas City (#1 pick)
2013 Oklahoma City (#1 pick)

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Haven't looked up the schedule of events yet, just wondering if there is still going to be the Saturday AM Pancakes now that you're at a new venue?

Good Luck to all the teams and can't wait to see teams at St Louis.

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It is definitely happening again! I feel like it'll be a sad day when there isn't a pancake breakfast.

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Updated post above. Thanks for the catch. Unfortunately I deleted my data so I am not sure about the briquette value.

It is hard to really compare those values between events IMHO as some events have 60 teams and others 30. Interesting enough if you added 30 teams (total 60) to waterloo with zero wins or chairmans, they would still have a BBQ of 1.95. That event should be epic.

There are many proven winning teams and some up and comers attending GKC. It should be a great event.

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only in kc do we argue about bbq on CD

All in good fun.

Starting tommorow we will have plenty more to discuss besides kc bbq.

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I think at least one of the food trucks should be bbq, if not most of them. Someone want to call one of the restaurants up, see if they'll do it? We used to have bbq at Hale Arena, why not now?

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There is indeed a breakfast! Here is the information for the KC FRC Social: http://www.kcfirst.org/sites/default...20editable.pdf

Thanks,
Becky

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JackStack is good, but I prefer Arthur Bryant's. I like my BBQ sauce spicy. I don't care for KC Masterpiece. It's too sweet.

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Well, BBQ IS the second most important thing in KC in March. :D

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Jayhawk basketball is number 1, right? :D

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I don't think this deserves a response. Shoot, I guess I just did respond.

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Unfortunately I haven't been to most of the big name BBQ places in KC. Rosedale Barbeque is good though.

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Jayhawk anything is dead last always, that's just common knowledge.

M-I-Z!

-Nick

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Live webcast for the Greater Kansas City Regional is here: http://www.more.net/first-robotics

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Apparently not to you. You're not going to be spending Friday and Saturday watching basketball....

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this is asking for a user id and password. is that because it's still early, or is there an issue??????

thanks

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Good luck to all the teams in KC this weekend. Wish I could make it, but I have too many tests this next week.

Also to open the stream in VLC instead of your browser: Media->Open Network Stream and insert the url: http://streaming.more.net/robomatcheslive

The default settings seem to be working fine for me.

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Tried both links and everything is asking me for a userid and pwd

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Did you try the vlc route? I'm not sure where your issue might be.

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JackStack makes a spicy sauce, it's usually hard to find in store. They have it there in restaurant.

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The stream is just showing the normal screensaver for the last 10 minutes. Have any practice matches been playing on it so far?

Gates. My preference. Also have a spicy alternative sauce.

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A few have been played.

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Is the stream working for anyone right now?

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4452 hot auto + Truss specialist
1986 hot auto + Middle assist
118 cold auto + high goal finisher

370 pts, no fouls

(It's just practice.)

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Any defense?

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I wouldn't think so, because it is a practice match.

No defense that I saw.

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I saw plenty of defense being played in practice matches. Particularly in a match when us, 1986, and 118 were on the same alliance.

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Not much, no. 6 x 50-pt. cycles + 70 auto. = 370

It was still an impressive match to watch with how smooth all of them ran together.

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Is webcast working for anyone?

I get sound and a picture of sponsor screen and only saw one match.

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Keeps on freezing every couple minutes for me.

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Got the video but no audio.

Lots of streams are having difficulty. Maybe it is my connection.

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Just watched the 118-1986-3928 trio score 300 points. Pretty awesome!

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Congratulations to our lead mentor/coach Gavin Wood on his Woodie Flowers Finalist Award. His presence has made us a better and stronger team, and I'm proud to work with him.

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Attachment 16554

A picture of what I believe is the first GKC pairs skating event. In match 6 Team Titanium & Up Next got attached to each other -- one of our intake mechanums got caught in some tubing they use to stabilize their intake. The drive teams tried to separate the bots but the tubing wouldn't break, so they did several cycles driving together. It did make some of the assists easy, though :) The tubing eventually did break, and we won the match anyway.

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I believe that was actually the string pot they use to tell how far out their arm is. It was ridiculously awesome to watch. Nice driving!

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Y'all, Cameron and Up Next, drove darn near flawlessly. The movement was so smooth, thats probably why it took so long to snap the line! That, in itself, is a great testament to the driving on both teams.

Also, CONGRATULATIONS Mr. Wood! Seeing you just stand and hug your team was so amazing and heartwarming.

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[quote=CalTran;1359074]Y'all, Cameron and Up Next, drove darn near flawlessly. The movement was so smooth, thats probably why it took so long to snap the line! That, in itself, is a great testament to the driving on both teams.

We hope we didn't give the GDC doesn't get any ideas for the next game! "Tandem Touchdown" anyone?

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Webcast is down

I get a message that says the file is not a movie file.

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Webcast is down

I get a message that says the file is not a movie file.

EDIT:
Got it to work now.

It is still disturbing to see so many matches determined by fouls.

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Here are some pictures of the GKC Regional! More will be coming soon!

http://www.yopyip.com/#!yopyip-forum...l-pictures-vid

direct link:https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0zxagjo4k8iffcq/OkwutULbfT

Re: 2014 Greater Kansas City Regional
 

For those of us in regionals this weekend, can we expect match recordings? I know 1986 usually puts some up but didn't know if they or anyone else recorded.

Re: 2014 Greater Kansas City Regional
 

I am pretty sure 118 was shooting the matches. They would probably be somewhere on youtube.

Re: 2014 Greater Kansas City Regional
 

We did too. Not sure if we had plans to upload or not but if you need them we can

Re: 2014 Greater Kansas City Regional
 

All matches are archived here: http://www.more.net/first-robotics

And are being loaded to YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/user/drunneals