Central Valley Regional 2015
 

Teams Registered March 7th and 8th 2015:

US CA Palo Alto Team 8 8
US CA San Jose The Cheesy Poofs 254
US CA San Jose Robo-Rams 256
US CA Granite Bay Renevatio 295
US CA San Jose Blazing Bulldogs 581
US CA Tehachapi Cyber Penguins 585
US CA San Jose Quixilver 604
US CA Saratoga M-SET Fish 649
US CA Cupertino Homestead Robotics 670
US CA Sacramento The Fembots 692
US CA Fairfield RoboVikes 701
US CA Portola Valley barn2robotics 751
US CA San Mateo ART 840
US CA Richmond The BioMechs 841
US CA Madera MadTown Robotics 1323
US CA San Jose TKO 1351
US CA Lodi Raptor Force Engineering 1662
US CA Clovis Buchanan Bird Brains 1671
US CA Davis Citrus Circuits 1678
US CA San Jose The Janksters 1967
US CA Elk Grove EagleForce 2073
US CA Encinitas Team Paradox 2102
US CA Mountain View Lancer Robotics 2367
US CA La Cañada La Canada Engneerng Cub 2429
US HI Lihue Kauaibots 2465
US CA Chula Vista TitanBOT 2543
US CA Rolling Hills Estates Panthers 2637
US CA Fresno IronHorse Robotics 2761
US CA Escondido The Daedalus Project 2839
US CA Sherman Oaks RoboKnights 3120
US CA Escondido Super NURDs 3255
US CA Fresno Metallic Thunder 3303
US CA Campbell Arrowbotics 3482
US CA Fresno MindCraft 3495
US CA Sunnyvale Firebots 3501
US HI Kailua-Kona WHEA Sharkbots 3881
US CA Ventura Circuit of Life 3925
US CA Fresno Duncan Dynamics 3970
US CA Modesto Iron Patriots 4135
US AZ Tucson Bit Buckets 4183
US CA Monterey RoboDores 4255
US CA Placentia TiGears 4470
US CA San Jose The Illuminators 4543
US CA Oroville Thunderbird Robotics 4643
US CA Camarillo The Flying Aces 4711
US CA San Francisco Gator Gears 4973
US CA Pacific Grove BreakerBots 5104
US CA Clovis Hungry Wolves 5134
US CA Visalia Visalia Vanquishers 5529

Discuss.... who's got this Regional in Week 2 ?

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You just listed them all ;)

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Yup! LOL

Go "Team Escondido" lets see if San Diego can take this one too as #1 after Kearny (Hammer Heads) in IE!

The Daedalus Project 2839
Super NURDs 3255

and...Encinitas Team Paradox 2102

Go SD county bots!

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1678 and 254 on the same field is always fun. But throw in 1323 and 1671 and you have quite the party.

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Don't forget 2073.

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A lot of friends from our off-season excursions at this event. Looking forward to seeing what 1678, 2073, 692, 1671, 1323 and of course, 254 bring to the party! Good luck to all...

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Agreed. Looking forward to a bunch of great teams coming together for some FRC fun.

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Leaving Friday after work to head to Madera. Pretty amazing field of robots.

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Team 2465 from Kauai is heading out tomorrow morning for Madera. Looking forward to checking out and competing with an extremely high caliber set of robots/teams.

If anyone attending has any questions about the navX MXP, please feel free to stop by our pit and chat when you have a free moment.

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Does anybody know if/where there will be a webcast for this event?

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Team 1678 will be providing the webcast for CVR.

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Any link yet?

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This is going to be a very exciting Regional to watch.

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Can't wait to be back at my hometown regional, first time as a judge too.

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If Alex is still the JA at CVR you'll have a great time. CVR is a great regional to start judging at :)

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is there going to be a webcast.

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1678 has been gracious enough to do the event webcast once again.

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I think a link would of been quite a bit more helpful than just saying you are providing the webcast. We want to watch and cheer for our island teams that took the long trip there..

Just saying... Aloha!

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A link should be posted as soon as it is available to be posted.

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Wait,
Hawaii teams are there?:ahh:

Nice.

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2- Hawaii 1-Arizona 46-California

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You all do realize this is a Friday-Sunday event right? Practice matches start tomorrow.

If 1678 is streaming on YouTube, they won't have the link until they go live.

Looking forward to another great event and great broadcast!

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We will get the webcast embedded on the regional website when it is available. (And on TBA).

I know 1678 is working to get it ready for this weekend. Please be patient.

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Crazy I know.. Tuff swim but they were up to the task! :D

Imua, Kauaibots(2465) & Sharkbots(3881)

Make Strong!

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The webcast has been embedded on the Regional Website here: http://www.cvrobotics.org/frc/region...dules-webcast/

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Thanks!

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1678 cannot wait to compete with some of the best teams in CA this weekend!

I can confirm 1678 will be webcasting the event. The students have packed up our necessary equipment and will likely start broadcasting practice matches tomorrow. See the post above mine for an embedded link.

Unfortunately, we will not be permitted to use our HD set up at CVR this year, which will likely be true for all three events we attend (CVR, SAC and SVR). This is out of our hands, and has to do with union regulations regarding "broadcasted events" and the labor fee's that FIRST pays to Show Ready Events.

We are not happy about this decision, but we have been instructed from the Regional Director level that this is how it will be in CA this year. The quality of these broadcasts is not what we want to provide the FRC Community, and we apologize in advance for any viewing frustration this may cause. We hope you'll still enjoy cheering on your favorite California teams this weekend.

See you all soon.

-Mike

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Thanks for the explanation that probably explains the lack of quality in week 1 pretty much throughout event live webcasts

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Pretty unfortunate. I was wondering what the conclusion was to the FIRST President's meeting on webcasts was. Apparently it is this :/

That's sad but nothing you can do

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Note the better quality webcasts from the PNW and MI district events last weekend.

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Ugh....

Would you guys be able to record them and upload later? As potato quality is hardly worth watching. Atleast elims?

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Just one more reason to love districts. FIRST doesn't have to pay a company to setup the event. We can do most of the event planning and setup ourselves.

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I really hope this is an option...... I'm so sick of crappy streams.

That said, I'm super excited to see what happens this weekend.

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All,

I spoke too soon.

Our Webcasting Student Team Leader just informed me that, at least for CVR, we will be providing a full-field HD broadcast. Future events (Sac and SVR) are still up in the air.

We will be archiving HD as well and will upload after the event.

Hooray!

-Mike

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Awesome thanks for the update!

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Happy to hear that, Mike. I wasn't looking forward to watching potato cam for an entire weekend. Good luck, 1678!

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Awesome, now I'll have something to do while I sit sick in bed.

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Thank you for helping push the FIRST community to have better live streams.
I have one question, why does your team continue to use YouTube for live streams when we already know the problems that exist when copyrighted music is played? There are various other options that don't have this problem. Either way, thank you!

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Citrus Circuits will be livestreaming CVR at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSBM2cmqn24. the link is also available on the homepage of our website (citruscircuits.org) and our Facebook page. Good luck to all teams!

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Just a guess since I'm no longer an official member of the team: we were previously banned from twitch due to their "video games only" policy, so this may be to avoid that trouble again.

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That seems a little odd to me, as twitch regularly has streams that broadcast talk shows, board games (chess), tabletop games (D&D), and card games (MTG). Many of these are, at one time or another, extremely popular.

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That was a problem before, but Twitch has become a bit more lenient these days. I think 2 or 3 live streams during week 1 were on Twitch.

Twitch is not the only solution, USTREAM and Livestream are other options. PNW FIRST uses USTREAM because it is a generally a solid platform, I don't know if we have tried using Twitch, but I don't think we will need to switch in the near future.

Livestream is cool with the whole rewind thing (though we already do near instant uploads), but there are a few drawbacks, specifically you need the actual site open, so GameDay becomes useless.

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Wait, you're judging at CVR? Cool one week behind the glass as elimination partners, next week judging together at CVR

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Haha yeah I am excited to see all the great bots there this year!

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I cant speak for 1678 but we use YouTube because of the ease of playback and dvr functions. It also let's us easily host them on our channel, where we host all of the individual clipped matches as well. We deal with the music problem by getting an audio feed from just the microphones and game sounds.

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Since the FIRST website seems to be having issues right now, I have posted the Practice Schedules for CVR here: http://www.cvrobotics.org/frc/region...dules-webcast/

Good Luck Teams! See you all tomorrow.

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Ah, that makes it a bit clearer. We haven't really run into any problems since we have a dedicated volunteer to record and upload matches on the fly. Thanks for the insight.

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Anyone else having problems with the stream?

I have even tried it off campus to be sure the DOE isn't blocking it..

No luck..

:(

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Same anybody got an alternative feed for it other then through Citrus Circuits?

It looks likr the practice schedule has matchs starting noon pacific time. I think the feed will only go up then.

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Michael can you please post here when tomorrow qualifications are posted too? Thanks.

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If youh have the TBA Android app, you can sign up to receive a push notification when the event's schedule is updated!

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Don't have android oh well.

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1678,

Just to let you guys know (if you don't already), the webcast audio seems to be screwed up. It's making a pretty terrible sound in place of any real audio. In addition, the Skype call ring comes through the feed every 30 seconds (someone gets a lot of Skype calls?) along with the occasional sonar-ish pings. It's weird haha.

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Citrus Circuits is livestreaming CVR here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzzkJV3xQ2Y. This is an UPDATED link, please do not use the last one. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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I do believe there are some sound issues with the stream currently. Sounds a bit over-compressed and clipped out.

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​Hi everyone, we have an even newer updated version for livestreaming, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2lDe5wTvSA. Please use this instead, as the last one was creating static-y noises. Again, we apologize for the mix up!​

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"You do not have permission to view this page"

I don't know if it's because the stream hasn't started yet or if there is an issue on your end?

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Can you try accessing it again? I went through our channel then to the video and the link should be working. Here is the link again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2lDe5wTvSA

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I have that stream working, but the sound is still quite messed up, lots of static.

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Stream still has strange audio on my end too.

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It's working for me thanks!

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The webcast is currently extremely laggy, to the point of being unwatchable.

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The feed has gotten a little less choppy as the day goes on, but the overlay is displaying the incorrect match. Right now the overlay says match 20, but match 18 is playing.

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Can anyone post an update about this event? I would love to know in particular how 1678 and 254 are doing but also if there is anyone else making a strong case.

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254 has a ceiling that is high, but not as high as 1114's. They are also slightly inconsistent.

1678 has been fairly consistent, especially as the day went on. They're scoring 2-3 stacks of 5 totes + litter almost every match. However, their score ceiling is relatively low. We also haven't seen the chokehold mechanism in action.

No other team is in the same tier at the moment. However, I'll put my money on 3970 as a sleeper pick. They've been consistently strong every year since 2013, and this year is no different.

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New livestreaming link here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K9rAPqi149A

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Is there anyway you can get this added to Gameday?

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Sorry for the delay. It's up now.

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On behalf of team 1678, I would like to thank the organizers, volunteers, judges and referees of the Central Valley Regional for putting on another fine event. Everything ran smoothly and the atmosphere was electric from start to finish.

A huge thanks to our alliance partners, teams 254 and 1323, especially Madtown for letting us mount our second RC grabber on your bot.

Congratulations to the finalist alliance of 701, 2102 and 1662. All three of you looked like the seasoned teams you are and, sitting next to 2102 in the stands, I can say that you are one of the most enthusiastic but gracious teams in FIRST.

Congratulations to team 604 for another well-deserved Chairman's win and to team 585 for taking the EI trophy.

A huge shout out to Team 5529 for catching the Judges eye, winning the Rookie All Star Award and a trip to champs. You guys made huge progress from Friday to Sunday and were one of the few teams to complete two Coopertition stacks.

last, but by no means least, I can't tell you how pleased I am that Paul Lake has finally earned a well-deserved Woodie Flowers. Your dedication to FIRST and leadership of one of the most outstanding teams in California is something you should be very proud of.

Also, thanks to all the great teams who came to this event and made it so much fun. Looking forward to seeing some of you at Sacramento and SVR.