Lone Star Regional 2014 (15th Anniversary)
 

The 2014 Lone Star Regional will be it's 15th Anniversary. It's being held April 4-6th in it's regular home at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Downtown, Houston.

We have 62 teams registered for the event and possibly more still on the waitlist. This may be one of the biggest events in its history.

We'll have at least 4 nations represented with teams from China, Australia, and Mexico joining teams from Arkansas, California, and Pennsylvania all coming to play with their new friends from Texas.

We have 7 rookie teams registered; 3 from Texas, 3 from China, and 1 from Mexico.

Since Lone Star is a Friday-Sunday event this year, it will be the last Regional of the year (New York City should be an hour ahead of us).

Who else is excited for Lone Star this year?

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GRT had a great time at Lone Star last year. It is a shame that our home event SVR is at the same time.:( Lone Star is a class event that should not be missed.

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We were upset that FRC scheduled Bayou and Lone Star on the same weekend as our State Mu Alpha Theta Convention (Math Club). :(

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I'm excited to see how FIRST handles the regional spot shortage.
Two Fields at an event or a full Double Regional ?

This is the 1st time that only a handful of regional spots are available.

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56 Teams - http://www.thebluealliance.com/event/2014txho

118 - Won Alamo & KC
148 - Won Dallas
457 - Won Dallas
624 - Won Alamo and RCA
1477 - RCA from Dallas & World Champion from 2013
2848 - Finalist from Dallas
3481 - Finalist from Dallas

3 Teams from Mexico
2 Teams form China

Wildcard spots: 118, 148, 418, 457, 624, 1477, 2848

Anyone know details on the webcast ? I would be happy to post it on the http://houston.txfirst.org website

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What, no love for 418? We won the Engineering Inspiration award at the Arkansas Regional, so we are also bringing a Wildcard spot to Lone Star. And we intend to give it to someone. ;)

-Danny

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I could not be more excited for a regional. This is going to be a great regional to end the season before CMP. I think it will be a good segue into the MAR and Michigan championships, serving as a preview of the competitiveness. Combined with how well the regional is run and the stellar venue as always, Lone Star is one for the books.

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Give it here, Danny!! lol ;-)

--Michael Blake

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Looking at the teams generating available Wildcard Spots I can't help but speculate that most likely the Winners and Finalists will be 4 of the above Wildcard teams and therefore the only Wildcard pass-down would be the 3rd bot in the Finalist stack.

Who knows, anything is possible, especially if the old "Better to be lucky, than good" kicks in... BUT I sure do look forward to the District Model in Texas where the CHAMPS eligibility is spread out among more Tier 2 teams.

I have such respect and admiration for these Tier 1 teams and the performances they deliver year after year that as an FRC fan is awesome to consume.

--Michael Blake

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A message from your Regional Director:

Greetings Lone Star Regional Teams,

I just wanted to let you know a couple of activities that will take place at the Lone Star Regional April 4th thru 6th.

* Full Service a band from Austin, Texas will play at the Regional on Friday, April 4th from 5:30 to 7:15 p.m.

* Teams will be making banners on Friday, April 4th for the Team Parade. An announcement will be made in the Pits advising when this activity will start.

* Team parade at Opening Ceremonies on Saturday, April 5th.

I look forward to seeing you at the regional.

Lucia Sevcik
FIRST Lone Star Regional Director

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The 2014 Lonestar Regional will include a VERY COOL bonus this year.

The Gatorzillas have helped to arrange for some LIVE MUSIC for all of the teams!! An awesome band from Austin, TX called Full Service will be playing live after the practice matches on Friday evening. The music will start at 5:30 (perhaps later if matches run late) and will continue until 7:15. You can check out their tunes on iTunes...or better yet, check out a FREE DOWNLOAD of one of the songs from their most recent album. Click the link for an awesome tune called Evergreen! http://fullservicemusic.com/index.ph...free-download/

All of their music is available on iTunes! Let's be sure to welcome Full Service into the FIRST Family with a huge crowd on friday evening!

Jim

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3481 Bronc Botz - Practicing and Iterating for next week's Lone Star Regional (Houston)...

VIDEO:

https://www.facebook.com/Bronc.Botz

--Michael Blake

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Here are my 24 elimination picks for LSR:

Contenders(7) : 118, 231 , 148, 624 , 1477, 2848, 3847

Challengers(8): 418, 457, 1429 , 2587, 2936, 3481 , 3735, 4587

Dark Horses(9): 1801, 2234, 2582 , 2881 , 3103, 3335, 3997, 3999, 4328

This is a deep regional field, many good teams will not make the elimination rounds.

Good Luck to all the teams !

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Attending teams

57 Alamo 34/64
118 Alamo 2/64 (Winner), Kansas City 1/58 (Winner)
148 Alamo 7/64 (Finalist), Dallas 1/45 (Winner)
231 Alamo 27/64 (QF), Dallas 6/45 (SF)
418 Arkansas 26/39 (SF) (EI)
441 Alamo 43/64
457 Alamo 14/64 (QF), Dallas 19/45 (Winner)
624 Alamo 1/64 (Winner) (RCA), Orlando 3/62 (QF)
653 Alamo 39/64
1255 Alamo 45/64
1429 Hub City 12/42 (QF)
1477 Dallas 21/45 (RCA)
1622 San Diego 42/60, Wisconsin 21/60
1745
1801 Hub City 23/42 (Finalist)
2234 Hatboro 15/40 (Finalist), Chestnut Hill 33/34 (QF)
2582
2583
2585
2587 Dallas 34/45 (QF)
2848 Dallas 4/45 (Finalist)
2881 Alamo 9/64 (QF)
2882
2897
2936 Alamo 30/64 (SF)
3016
3028
3103 Alamo 4/64 (SF)
3335 Alamo 17/64 (SF)
3481 Alamo 15/64 (QF), Dallas 22/45 (Finalist)
3545
3728
3735 Dallas 12/45 (QF)
3834
3847 Dallas 14/45 (SF)
3997 Dallas 43/45 (SF)
3999 Alamo 8/64 (QF)
4155
4280
4295
4328
4346
4570 Hub City 40/42 (QF)
4587 Hub City 6/42 (QF)
4589 Dallas 30/45
4610 Alamo 48/64
4639
4735 Mexico City 17/38 (QF)
4842 Mexico City 27/38
5070
5093 Mexico City 32/38
5261
5287
5307
5308
5342

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LSR looks to be like a TRR or Texas State Championship in the near future.
So many good teams!

Good luck to all.

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Andrew,

Any chance this video help move 2936 from Challengers to Contenders? :-)

Go Gatorzillas!!!!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=...&v=NQRXyPAIcZk

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57, the horse so dark it even takes itself by surprise... I'm hoping 57 will have a better showing at LSR with a much strengthened arm system and some software and coaching bugs worked out. But we'll just have to see come Friday, won't we?

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You guys had a rough Alamo Regional (though congrats on your SF showing). What have you guys done to improve the robot since Alamo?

-Danny

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We fixed basically everything that wasn't fixed in Alamo....At least on our practice robot, that is. We have a solid plan to transfer those fixes to the competition robot on Friday morning. Our shooter is much improved, our ball intake is much improved, our drive train is much improved, our autonomous is much improved (as shown in the video above). We believe we always had a good design for our robot during build season, but 6 weeks just wasn't enough time to get all of our ducks in a row this year. During the time after Alamo, we have lined up all of our ducks and the mean, green Gatorzilla has chomped right through that line of tasty ducks and we cant wait for Lonestar!

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Spent about 30 minutes searching and haven't found any info on the LSR webcast... Does anyone have an answer to Andrew's Question?

~Jim Cash
Jersey Voltage

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Spectrum should be running the webcast on our youtube channel but that assumes the internet connection at the venue is reliable enough. I don't want to promise anything but we will for sure have all the matches recorded and uploaded each night at the minimum.

We are using the same setup they use in Michigan plus we are testing a way to add the FMS overlay and the ability to play recorded matches between matches.

I'm very hopeful it will all work out.

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I emailed a few people this morning. I'm told , the webcast will be on the robonauts page. https://ccisdrobonauts.org/

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We have a 2-ball auto as well. But I'm not moving Disco up to Contenders... both our teams have a lot to prove still.

Here's a video of our prototype build up to our 2-ball auto.
http://youtu.be/aWFKSSoqZHo

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I'm prepping for the regional, and I haven't been able to find good data from before 2002. Since we're celebrating the regional's 15th anniversary, I'd like to have complete data.

Does anyone know (winners, finalists, chairman's, EI, #1 seed, etc) for 2001 and 2000?

Since 2002 inclusive, there have been 48 blue banners given out by the LSR.

29 of those are represented by teams at the event this year

I have no context for that statistic

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Wish I could be there this weekend! Lone Star will always be my "home regional" at heart. I can't believe it's been so long since my first FIRST regional at Lone Star, back when it still smelled like rodeo!

Good Luck to all the teams!

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According to 364 they were Finalist in 2001 and Champions & RAS in 2000.

The Cheesy Poofs also came to Lone Star in 2000 and they walked away Champions and with the Defensive Strategy Award

148 has some information for 2001. They were Champions and Innovation in Control winners.

After doing the google thing I remembered 358 has all the awards ever in an Excel file on this page. I cut out the 2000 and 2001 Lone Star awards and uploaded them below.

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We took photos of most of the robots at the event and they are uploaded here.

The event is also has two streams.

The official 118 webcast should be at the robotics.nasa.gov webcast page

Spectrum is also running an experimental full field only stream that should be on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59LwLamR2Ak. We are working on getting all the field sounds but it does have the score overlay.

Lone Star is stacking up to be an amazing event. There are a ton of good teams that will be facing off of the next two days.

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The Lone Star regional is easily my favorite! Best of luck to all teams!

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Have you got a URL for that NASA feed? The #2 feed on Blue Alliance has neither audio nor video, and the #1 feed (Spectrum's live YouTube) is now dead. I'll take sound over nothing!

[Edit] And sometimes teh googel comes through: Video only, no sound (If sponsor frames are running, they're between matches.)

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Any chance the Spectrum stream will come back? It was a lot better quality.

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Sorry for it going down. Yes it will be back we are going to put it on twitch. I didn't get notified of the take down till pretty late. It's a bit of an experiment for us and we are learning new stuff all time. I'll post a link in the morning when we have it up.

We are uploading archived matches right now to our channel.

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It took way longer then I would have liked but all the archived matches from Saturday are now up on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...9ausWlQhQe4uJX

We are running the stream off of a 4g connection so we aren't able to upload and stream at the same time like we had hoped.

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It also looks like we will be continuing the full field stream tomorrow morning on Justin.TV, twitch is being sort of strange.

http://www.justin.tv/spectrum3847

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Please read the manual.

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Yeah, caught that a few minutes after I posted. It's been a long weekend.

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Does anyone know if the elimination matches are available online anywhere?

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I'm uploading the quarterfinals now to our youtube channel. We have the semis and finals but they may not get up till later this afternoon.

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Thank you!