Re: 2014 Central Valley Regional
 

At least in my mind, California (and the west coast in general) tends to play more offensive, faster and with prettier robots than the rest of the world. IE fit that generalization.

Re: 2014 Central Valley Regional
 

You haven't even seen the pretty robots play yet! ;)

Re: 2014 Central Valley Regional
 

+1

I think CVR is going to be EYE POPPIN!!

Re: 2014 Central Valley Regional
 

If those matches were "clean", then I gotta wonder about the rest of the country. I think they were referring to some of the robots out there.

Re: 2014 Central Valley Regional
 

I am really excited to watch CVR, considering 254 and 973 are going to be there as well as my team (696). I agree this regional will include some of the prettiest robots if not in just in California but the country as well. :)

Re: 2014 Central Valley Regional
 

I know I speak for everyone else on 2637 when I say WE ARE PUMPED!!!!!! I absolutely can not wait to see all the robots and I hope this regional will be awesome.

I for one can't wait to see some of my favorite teams at CVR.

See you tomorrow evening!

Re: 2014 Central Valley Regional
 

Here's the full team list. I got this off of TBA so it might not be 100% up to date.

8 The Vikings
254 The Cheesy Poofs
256 Robo-Rams
295 Renevatio
649 M-SET fish
670 Homestead Robotics
691 Project 691
696 Circuit Breakers
702 Bagel Bytes
841 The BioMechs
973 Greybots
1072 Harker Robotics
1148 Wafflebots
1159 Ramona Rampage
1323 MadTown Robotics
1422 The Neon Knights
1458 Red Tie Robotics
1671 Buchanan Bird Brains
2073 EagleForce
2085 RoboDogs
2135 Presentation Invasion
2443 Blue Thunder
2637 Panthers
2643 Dark Matter
2761 IronHorse Robotics
3022 MKS Explosion
3045 SWAT Robotics
3120 RoboKnights
3189 Circuit Breakers
3256 WarriorBorgs
3303 Metallic Thunder
3482 Arrowbotics
3495 MindCraft
3501 Firebirds
3512 Spartatroniks
3562 LiveWire
3970 Duncan Dynamics
4135 Iron Patriots
4159 CardinalBotics
4543 The Illuminators
4695 Chowchilla Robotics
4973 Gateway Gators
5102 PAL Robotics
5104 BreakerBots
5136 Mechapirates

Re: 2014 Central Valley Regional
 

LiveWire Robotics 3562 can't wait for the competition! We're making the 12 hour drive from Idaho to compete in California for the first time since 2011, and we're excited to be back!

LiveWire's robot "Wilma" is quite unique as far as we've seen thus far. With only two motorized parts (excluding drive train) on the entire robot, it'll be interesting competing against the likes of 254 and 973. We're looking forward to some excellent competition and an overall fantastic regional!

Re: 2014 Central Valley Regional
 

Is there a webcast for this event?
Checked out TBA but doesn't seem to be loading.

Nevermind this started working: http://www.thebluealliance.com/gamed...w_0=2014cama-1

Re: 2014 Central Valley Regional
 

Should be working now.

We're trying something new this year. Matches are uploaded to TBA a few minutes after each match. Check it out!

http://www.thebluealliance.com/event/2014cama

Re: 2014 Central Valley Regional
 

Awesome! Can you do this for every regional, or is it not automatic?

Re: 2014 Central Valley Regional
 

It's currently mostly automatic, but requires manual input at the start and end of every match. We are working on making it fully automated.

Re: 2014 Central Valley Regional
 

I have noticed that many teams at this event are driving to the white zone when transferring the ball to another robot. Are the refs not giving credit for position unless a boundary in the field is crossed?


R | W | B | Robot #
X | - | - | 1
X | X | X | 2
- | - | - | 3

and

R | W | B | Robot #
X | X | - | 1
- | X | X | 2
- | - | - | 3

Should have identical Assist Values. So why waste Robot #1s time carrying the ball to the white zone if robot 2 is already in the red zone waiting?

Re: 2014 Central Valley Regional
 

254 just chose 973 as the number one overall pick.

973 was ranked third last with a record of 2-9. Were they having issues, or just the worst schedule imaginable?

Re: 2014 Central Valley Regional
 

And also the 41st rank. (in addition to the 43rd) I didn't get to watch enough matches, but it does seem like a deep field.