Re: Week 1 Event Notice - FIRST Robotics Canada
 

In case other people haven't checked in a while, the standings and match results are up now for me.

Re: Week 1 Event Notice - FIRST Robotics Canada
 

Webcast went down for this regional? Does anyone else experience this?

Cullen

Matches are also paused

Re: Week 1 Event Notice - FIRST Robotics Canada
 

Okay, Thanks for the update Duncan!

Cullen

For those keeping track at home. If 1310 wins they lock first seed. A 1310 loss and 1241 win will put 1241 first on assists. Interesting last two matches

Re: Week 1 Event Notice - FIRST Robotics Canada
 

Were the alliance picking done already?

Re: Week 1 Event Notice - FIRST Robotics Canada
 

Nope, starting soon.

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These are all terrible reasons. Show me where on the FIRST website it says that this event is not open to the public?

The FIRST Canada website only posted it on January 30th.

When every FRC event in the history of the program has been open to the public, it is unreasonable to expect that the casual spectator would go to the FRC website, find the GTR-W regional, look for site info (which is not available and could have had a warning that people cannot come watch), still not see anything out of the ordinary, and then click through (but only after January 30th!) to the FIRST Canada website to find that it is not open to the public.

I think he, friends and family, and anyone else who wanted to come have every right to be pissed off.

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Imagine the frustration for the larger teams who paid to actually attend this regional and had to tell some of their students they couldn't go, because of the restriction.

The teams going didn't find out until Jan 30 either.

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I guess we can all be thankful for even having the GTRW event at ALL. If Crescent school had not allowed FIRST to use the field house as the host site it event may not have happened at all :ahh:

To those that where not allowed in I hope you can understand the reasons why numbers had to be held down.

I just hope there are lots of youtube videos as the finials where exciting and for the entire match there was only one, count it. just one truss catch.

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Will 610 post a recording of the regional? WatchFIRSTnow as great as they are won't have the archives posted until later this week and a recording even in raw format would be great.

Re: Week 1 Event Notice - FIRST Robotics Canada
 

The people behind WFN are surprisingly quick about it. Last year they posted several matches within minutes of them happening. I would expect by mid week they'll have them up. The main person behind WFN was competing at Palmetto this weekend in South Carolina while GTRW was being covered by them.

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Guys, please calm down.

The event took place in a domed field house; therefore, the organizers had to place a restriction on the number of people in the dome (I'm sure I don't have to explain this).

If you bring too many people, Crescent is an amazing looking school with a comfortable theater room that was set up for people to watch the game in HD. Nobody was told to go back home.

I'm sure if Crescent could, they would have allowed everyone in. I also saw groups of visitors in the dome with with volunteers guiding them, and explaining the game.

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The 610 students have the match recordings, they will be uploaded in the coming days to the 610's youtube channel, I'll get them to post here when they are uploaded. I am not sure yet if they are also getting posted to WatchFirstNow.

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That wasn't actually true, though. I was there. Both the field house and the theatre were controlled access, as fire code regulations only allow them to have so many people there. My understanding was that each of the 30 teams were allowed 30 people in the field house, and 10 in the theatre.