2014 St. Louis Regional
 

FRC Team 1501 T.H.R.U.S.T. will be traveling to St. Louis for the first time.
Who will be joining us?

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Team 1208 will be there (not on the list yet, but hope to be added from the wait-list soon). Here is a link to our St. Louis info packet; it is for the Championship, but has some useful stuff anyway: http://www.othsrobotics.com/pdfs/2013%20StL%20Guide.pdf

You folks are not rookies, but might benefit from our Rookie Guide to the St. Louis Regional, since you have not been there before. http://www.othsrobotics.com/pdfs/Rookie%20Guide.pdf
We are looking forward to meeting your team!

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Great to see an Indiana team coming out for the regional! FRC4329 has registered for our home regional and will see you there.

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I was glad to see an Indiana team like 1501 sign up for the regional this year due to the high likelyhood of you all going to the district structure next year along with Illinois. What worries me is that of 1208 not being able to attend Stl. Louis next year. That would be a huge loss for the regional. Something else that is interesting from a regional perspective is that its already at 40 teams with 931, 1094, 1208, and 4256 still being wait listed.

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I'm very interested to see how an Illinois/Indiana district would affect St. Louis. With Missouri's major FRC hubs on opposite state borders it often feels like two completely separate regions. The boundry line between St. Louis and East St. Louis is about as blurred as the one between Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. We are absolutlely tied to our neighboring states.

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:eek:

Looks like 4256 is registered now. :)

None of the other three teams above has ever missed a St. Louis Regional. Ever. And each has won at least one RCA and at least one WFFA at St. Louis. Sustaining teams, no doubt. I expect we will see them all return for 2014.

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Thats a relief to know. All of the other three teams had registered at other events initially, but Saint Louis filled up very quickly this year. I hope they all make it in off the wait list, St. Louis just wouldn't be the same with out them.

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Teams in areas that have taken up the district structure have the option of opting out. Which Team 1208 would do, not because we are opposed to the district model, but because in every way, except a political boundary, we are part of St. Louis.

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The Stl. Regional is now up to 5 rookie teams this year with 5326 joining the list. 931, 1094, and 1208 are still being wait listed(I assume ;) ) but since the NASA grants have been announced I expect that they will be hopefully added soon.

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Hello to teams attending the St. Louis regional.
Team 1208 has made an unofficial guide to the St. Louis regional, here is the link: http://othsrobotics.com/pdfs/unoffic..._regionals.pdf
I hope you find it helpful.

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Scouting time! Anybody want to trade pics of robots with 3397? Or should we all just post pics here? Either way, I would love to see what teams at STL have come up with.

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Specs:
6WD 4 CIM drivetrain with Super Shifter gearboxes
Intake with innovative basket for securing the ball
Catapult for high goal scoring and truss shooting
Intake can score in low goal

Ask questions!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXjOwtk1b50

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Here is 3397, if you have any questions, just ask.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...hlight=Ulysses

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The Lutheran Roboteers are looking forward to renewing old friendships and making new ones at the 2014 STL Regional. Our "shakedown cruise" at CIL this past weekend gave us a great chance to be tuned up and ready to go. Check out our 2014 Videos: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG_G...?feature=watch

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And here is the promo page. See you in STL!!

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There were a handful of teams at the Central Illinois Regional that will be at the St. Louis Regional.

For those interested in seeing how the game was played or for scouting, check out this link for videos from CIL.

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnxYxpXol19JVG7sar12H2Q

Feed the Fish!
DeAnna

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1658 will be attending as usual. Hopefully we have a functioning robot this year!
(we bagged a fully functioning bot so fingers crossed)

Autonomous video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDNP...ature=youtu.be

Practice video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q16M...7xo1Oi08f0dphg

There are more improvements on the way and should be expecting a good competition.

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So i was checking out the websites of teams that will be at the STL regional and OMG look at the Lightning Lancers robot!!

http://www.first1444.com/discord/

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Wow, cut out the swerve drive that they had last year and they replace it with that... Dang. Can't wait to see how it performs, It does look like a total beast.

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Yeah I am by no means a friend of mecanum, but swerve on the other hand is my lover for life!!

If it performs as good as it looks they will be seeded extremely high this year.
And a team that pays that much attention to detail on aesthetics will likely have paid that much detail all throughout the year

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I was not saying that as a bad thing, the swerve last year seemed to causes them a lot of problems. They took the time they spent on the swerve it into that beast of a manipulator. Awesome job guys!

(There is a reason I am bad at English class, I am not the best at conveying what I am thinking without drawing/CAD)

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All of the teams that will play at Arkansas and St. Louis are in eliminations.

1985 is the second alliance and their captain
1706 is the seventh alliance and their captain
4500 is the second pick on the first alliance

My predictions, 4500 will win the event with their captain being 16 and 1985 will be the other Finalist. 1985 may pull through though!! I look for it to be a close match, 1985 made a very smart first pick.

1706 is going to have a hard time against 1985 and I doubt they make it past Quarterfinals, 1706 is a great team but they had a tough schedule and continue to have a tough schedule.

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Go RoboHawks!

Following the semifinals now -- your team is representing St. Louis very well.

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(Better look into that drivetrain issue. :) )

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On a side note, Clayton HS seems to be well on their way to winning the whole thing. St. Louis teams are looking very good this year.

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Robohounds managed to win but only by foul points, very close!! Great job guys and can't wait to see you at STL

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Congratulations to team 4500 at the Arkansas regional. They have now created the possibility for a wild card spot at STL this year. If any teams could show there robots in this forum that would be nice!

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1444 will, as usual, be there in force. We are looking forward to another exciting St. Louis Regional!

And thank you to those above for the kind words. Our team is very excited about the robot this year and we look forward to competing with it. Several students have also worked very hard in putting together a new website, so I am glad you came across and shared it here!

See you all on Thursday!

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Okay, who ordered the snow storm for Indiana?
Your cruel plan will NOT work, FRC Team 1501 will be there, snow or no snow.

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Fortunately, the weather is supposed to be beautiful in STL this weekend. Good luck getting here and stay safe!

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A lot of great looking robots and teams today on Thursday. Good luck to everyone tomorrow and keep your eyes peeled for our swappable blocker featuring Mutombo. It could make an appearance at some point.

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Cool!

The real Mutombo is 86" tall, and I think his diameter above the 60" mark exceeds six inches. So he'd get G23 fouls, if he were somehow able to pass inspection as an Aerial Assist robot and appear in a match. ::rtm::

Did your swappable blocker pass inspection?

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Sure did! Within the 6" cylinder all the way up and all our mechanisms + robot are at 119.4 lbs.

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Oh boy, I hope there's a webcast 'cause I really want to see this thing in action, today or tomorrow.

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There sure is a webcast, right here: http://robotics.nasa.gov/events/live...=stl_0313-1514

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My predictions for the rest of the qualification matches :) JUST FOR FUN!!! and i don't wanna call the ones my team is in, seems like bad luck and biased predicting lol ::safety::

THE ALLIANCE COLOR MENTIONED IS THE ONE I PREDICT WILL WIN
Q63: BLUE
Q64: RED
SKPPED
Q66: BLUE
Q67: RED
Q68: RED
Q69: RED
Q70: BLUE
Q71: RED
Q72: RED
Q73: BLUE
Q74: RED
SKIPPED
Q76: RED
Q77: RED
Q78: BLUE
Q79: RED
Q80: RED
SKIPPED
Q82: BLUE
Q83: BLUE

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Hoping to prove you wrong about 63 there ;)

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Go for it!! They are just for fun, i'll be suprised if I have a 50% accuracy lol Wanna predict the matches that i'm in? 65,75, and 81? :p

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Lets see:
Q63: Skip
Q64: Red
Q65: Blue
Q66: Blue
Q67: Red
Q68: Red
Q69: Blue
Q70: Blue
Q71: Blue
Q72: Red
Q73: Blue
Q74: Blue
Q75: Skip (Or Blue, whichever ;) )
Q76: Blue
Q77: Red
Q78: Red
Q79: Skip
Q80: Red
Q81: Red
Q82: Blue
Q83: Blue

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Congratulations to the winning alliance of 1501, 3284, and 4500. Team T.H.R.U.S.T. represents Indiana very well, and it will be good to see you guys in St. Louis again next month. Nice that a couple of local teams will be appearing in the big show as well. Your alliance put up some impressive numbers.

Does anyone have the awards info? FIRST site does not show it yet -- I am going to guess the final upload did not happen before packing up this afternoon.

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Congrats to team 4500 on their second regional win. It's always nice to win on your home court. Pretty awesome for just a second year team.

See y'all in STL.

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3284 earned a much deserved Chairman's award.
2978 earned the engineering inspiration award.
2408 earned the GP award.
2902 earned the Judges award.
1706 earned the engineering excellence.

Can't remember the rest right now, but thanks to every team out that helped our communication issues this week especially 2408 for the digital sidecar.

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Wow, what a great weekend! The St. Louis regional really kicked it up a notch this year and the eliminations were all very competitive. Thanks to all the volunteers that had us running ahead of schedule on both days! Almost unheard of in my experience.

First off, I'd like to thank teams 4028 & 1329 for joining our alliance and being great alliance partners. I felt really good about our alliance and we were definitely clicking in that first QF match; unfortunately we couldn't pull off the win in the 2nd or 3rd. You guys both have great robots and I wish 4028 luck at Queen City & 1329 luck at Boilermaker next weekend! Watch out for both of these teams, they were stellar in their first event of this season.

Great job to the number 2 seeded alliance of 4256, 1985 & 4330. We knew we were in for a tough fight against you guys, but I was happy to see you go all the way to the finals.

A big shout out to the number 1 seed for taking home the gold, especially team 1501 THRUST. Way to represent Indiana! I can't wait to watch the footage on our 1 point qualification match loss to you guys in match 80, that was a nail biter.

1706 & 931 - you guys have some really stellar robots, great job this year. It was a lot of fun to be able to play with both of you in the qualification rounds.

Lastly, I'd just like to thank everyone for the kind words this weekend. We felt this was our strongest competition performance to date and hope to keep the momentum rolling for next year.

Awards-wise, just for the record, we took home the creativity award, partially due to the heavy use of 3D printed parts on our robot.

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We are currently in possession of a backpack that was left in section 114..

If you (or a team mate) are missing one, contact us through the River City Robots webpage: rivercityrobots.org

Congrats to all the teams that played in the regional - we had a great time competing and working with the teams in St. Louis. Best of luck to those that will be at Championships!

DeAnna

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Looks like the videos from the St. Louis Regional are going up!

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...a3kGEuzrpMogTS

Enjoy!

Feed the Fish!
DeAnna

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We rookies had a great time and want to thank our mentor teams #1208 and #4246, alliance partners 3792 & 5176, and all the other welcoming and friendly squads. Unfortunately we came up against a great group of robots in the quarters and just couldn't press through.

We learned so much and had a blast doing it. We especially liked crowd pleasing truss catches ;)

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RubsNF4zUTU

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I heard that one of your alliance coaches said something like "We should have scored the ball in the lower goal".
That's how we got ahead :D

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That was definitely me. I'm still kicking myself for telling my drivers to go throw it in the high when we were up by 19. I was afraid you guys would just simply put up another 20 points in a matter of seconds and wanted to secure the win. You can re-watch the match in all its glory (or misery in our case) here: http://youtu.be/Bp648fINsrY Those are the kind of calls the separate the good from the great, but we'll get there. The video shows our Go Pro footage side by side with the live match feed.

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Does anyone have a full list of awards? The awards list on the FIRST website is incomplete. http://www2.usfirst.org/2014comp/Eve...sl/awards.html

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Here's the list of awards for those that were asking:
3284 - Regional Chairman's Award
2978 - Engineering Inspiration
1501 - Regional Winner 1
3284 - Regional Winner 2
4500 - Regional Winner 3
4256 - Regional Finalist 1
1985 - Regional Finalist 2
4330 - Regional Finalist 3
2783 - Industrial Safety Award
1208 - Industrial Design Award
4931 - Highest Rookie Seed
2902 - Judges Award
5326 - Rookie All Star Award
4931 - Rookie Inspiration Award
1985 - Team Spirit Award
1706 - Excellence in Engineering Award
2408 - Gracious Professionalism Award
4329 - Creativity Award
1501 - Quality Award
3792 - Innovation in Control Award
4256 - Imagery Award
Volunteer of the Year Award: Mr. James Seeser
Woodie Flowers Finalist Award: Mr. Tom Wendel from 2408

Sorry I wasn't able to recall the names of the Dean's List Finalists.

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Giving Mr. Wendel, who had inspired most of us to go into engineering, the Woodie Flowers award, is about as aweseome as winning St. Louis last year. If you make it to another FTC or FLL event sometime... He'll be there. Through losing our coach and... Guess we can announce our new coach is leaving this year as well, so Tom Wendel is the most consistent part of this team, which these students really need. Tom is why we've won what we have.

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Team 4329 - The Lutheran Roboteers were featured in a Boeing article following the STL Regional. Many of the other STL Regional teams are also shown in parts of the video! Check out the truss pass and catch to Team 1985 near the end of the video.

Enjoy!
http://www.boeing.com/boeing/Feature..._04_23_14.page