Hub City Regional 2016
 

Hub City is the 3rd Texas event of the season.

Add your team's robot picture on TBA.
http://www.thebluealliance.com/event/2016txlu

Wildcard Generating Teams:
3310 - Black Hawk Robotics - Winner @ Rock City
3481 - Bronc Botz - Finalist & Wildcard @ Bayou
4063 - TriKzR4Kidz - Winner @ Bayou

Top Performers
1987 - BroncoBots - Finalist @ Greater Kansas City
4522 - SCREAM - Finalist @ Oklahoma
4635 - Eugenio - Semi-Finalist @ Mexico City
4959 - Millennium Falcons - Semi-Finalist @ Greater Kansas City
2158 - AusTIN CANs - Semi-Finalist @ Alamo
5572 - ROSBOTS - Semi-Finalist @ Alamo

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Team 4301 is excited to be returning to the Hub City Regional for its 4th consecutive year! It's shaping up to be another great event this year, with teams coming in from all over the place to compete! Good luck to all teams defending their strongholds in Lubbock this year!

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FRC Team 1987 The Broncobots are very excited for Hub City. We are hoping that a couple of changes we made to our robot will improve our competitiveness. It appears the weather forecast looks awesome, which is appreciated after last week's weather at several venues.

Probably to both teams amusement, FRC Team 1987 The Broncobots and FRC Team 3481 Bronc Botz both have a similar named robot. I wonder what the correct spelling is, Is it "KNIGHTmare" or "Knight Mare"? Great minds think alike.

Here is to hoping the fun and inspiration is bigger in Texas.

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Haha yeah what a coincidence! My coach swears that y'all copied our name, but I can see how both of us could've easily come up with the same name. Hopefully we get the chance to play in the ultimate bronco/knightmare alliance for one of our matches :D .

We're super excited to compete in the Hub City Regional again this year. I can already tell by the list of teams at this event that there are going to be some great matches!

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Don't forget all the quarter finalists too!
418
457
1860
3802
4364

Don't forget the home town hero 1817 might have something up their sleeves! I can't wait to see everyone at Hub City!

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FRC 2468 Team Appreciate would like to wish everyone at Hub City safe travels and good roboting. We will be watching the stream of the tournament in the shop.
We will miss competing at Hub City with so many of our friends we have played with there the past few years.

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A late addition of FRC Team 5437 Rocky Balboabots yesterday has the regional back up to 41 teams. They were also a quarter finalist.

Good luck to all teams.

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Team Rocket 2723 will be on our way later this afternoon and is really looking forward to our first competition of the year. Safe travels to everyone! We're excited to meet you.

Of course, the two important questions for our parents back home are:

(1) What's the webcast address?, and
(2) what's the hashtag? #FRChubcity seems to be unused, so I'll tell our tweeters to use that unless there is already one from last year.

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Hi Travis, we'll be sending out the webcast link within the next 24 hours. We currently don't have a hashtag. I think #HubCityRegional or #FRChubcity works. I'll be looking forward to seeing you guys in Lubbock!

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Thank you, George. It looks like #HubCityRegional was the one that was used the last few years, so we'll go with that.

We tweet from: @frc2723
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MSMRocketRobotics/
Our robot reveal video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAbO...ature=youtu.be
I don't think we have an FRC instagram account, yet.

If anyone else has social media accounts, please post them so we can be sure to follow you.

This is going to be a lot of fun. See you soon!

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Team 4301 can be found on Instagram at @nto_narcissist.

Our reveal video is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0m8dJ7GS34

We can't wait to compete with you all tomorrow!

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any webcast on blue alliance today? I want to keep up with 1987.

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I do not know if they will webcast the practice day at Hub City. This tournament is a Friday, Saturday and Sunday event this year.

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I am not even seeing updates on FRC Spyder, any clues on where to find data if not a stream?

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Well, as a Friday/Saturday/Sunday event, today would just be a practice day, so that's to be expected, wouldn't it?

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Matches start tomorrow.
Today is inspection and practice.

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Thanks, I was thinking it was a Thu-Sat event.

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They are working on the webcast.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/lbkstuart

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Congrats to 1987 for the Engineering Inspiration award. It will be nice to see all 3 of our schools in St. Louis. Good luck and safe travels home tonight.

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Well, Hub City was pretty fun everyone!

Big thanks to everyone who ran the event and all the refs, inspectors, and volunteers! It was also really nice that the event was running on time, and even early, for the entire day!

While we, unfortunately, had a hard time in quite a few matches, it was a pretty great regional.

However, I really wanted to thank team 4635 Eugenio for helping us get scouting data. They were super awesome and super friendly!

I also want to thank our alliance captains 4959 Millennium Falcons and our alliance partner 5866 Frenship JETS! A special thanks as well to our backup bot 6144 Angelbots Gold who stepped in when we needed them!
Really awesome job everyone. It was great playing with y'all and it would have been amazing to have shown a little more of what we can do. We still did quite well, losing to a very capable alliance of 2158 ausTIN CANs, 4694 Atomic Armadillo's, and 5986 Iron Fangs.

Thanks to all of the other teams too and congrats to the regional winners 3310 Black Hawk Robotics, 4063 TriKzR4Kidz, and 4301 New Tech Narcissists.

The Hub City regional is getting better every year and we cannot wait for next year.

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FRC Team 1987 Broncobots had a blast at Hub City 2016. We would like to thank all of the organizers and volunteers that made this regional possible. The weather was a challenge on day 1, but the rest of the regional it was phenomenal. The regional running on time was a big plus.

We would like to thank FRC Team 3802 RoboPOP and FRC Team 5771 Marfa Robohorns for teaming up with us in eliminations. We had potential to run further than we achieved.

Cowboy hats off to the winning alliance of:
FRC Team 3310 Black Hawk Robotics
FRC Team 4063 TriKzR4Kidz
FRC Team 4301 SM Energy New Tech Naricissists

Your alliance earned a well deserved win. The eliminations rounds were fantastic to watch.

Congratulations to FRC Team 1860 Cephatron for their regional Chairmans award. The program you have in Brazil is fantastic.

FRC Team 1987 Broncobots have started uploading match video. There are currently a few out on our YouTube channel:
2016 Hub City Regional

We recorded every match and plan to put all of them on YouTube for all to view. We will be submitting them to Blue Alliance to be added as a link also.

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I'd like to echo what the previous posters said -- congrats to all the award winners! It was fantastic to meet and play with so many great teams that we aspire to be like.

Our team has rebooted as "Team Rocket" this year after a history of being a one-event/six-week team, and are shaking things up with the program to kick-start some major improvements. It was soul-crushing to flip our robot in our last two matches and kill our playoff chances after doing so well on the first day and in practice. So, we've still never been to the playoffs at a Regional, but there is always next year. Hopefully we can add a 2nd regional to our schedule next year, because we could have fixed the flipping problem pretty easily if we knew it was coming (we never flipped in 100+ crossing of the ramparts before -- it saved that surprise for actual competition -- maybe something to do with steel versus wooden defenses + tire pressure).

We plan to attend 2-3 offseason events in Texas and maybe Kansas City this year, so if anyone has any recommendations and tentative dates, we'd love to hear about them so we can get them on the calendar.

Thank you so much for posting the video! Do you happen to have any video from practice matches? We have some still pics of our robot flying through the air but no video of the better ones that happened on practice day.

Thanks!

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It's always great to hear about teams being reborn with such enthusiasm. Don't lose that excitement.

A friend of mine used to mentor teams trying to build themselves up. He had a great saying. "If you're not doing it year-round, you're not doing it right." Believe me, there is more than enough to keep any team busy the whole year.

As for off-season events, let me suggest the Cow-Town Throwdown in Kansas City. It's usually held the last weekend in October, making it one of the last (if not the last) off-season events of the season. The event is very, very competitive so if you attend, bring your best. The web site is at http://cttd-robotics.com/ but I don't think a date has been announced yet.

Good luck and hope to see you at Cown-Town this October!

Ken

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We did not record all practice matches, but do have a few of our early practice matches that we were in. We will take a look and see if they are worth posting.

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1st congrats to the winners 3310 4063 4301
Like to a shout out to my team 5734 rocky balboabots and their team mates 5572 rosbots and 3366 plowbots for taking to 7th alliance all the to the finals and taking the 1st seed to the final seconds in the 3rd match.Teams 5437 and 5572 winning wildcards to words, feeling bad for 3366 not going with us without them we would not made it to the finals.
Last I would like to thank team 16 bombsquad for helping us scout OnLive feed back home and their mentor and regional director Meredith Novak for coming to hub city to help us.

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Thank you, that is good advice. We've been moderately successful on the FTC side of things, and are now trying to get FRC off the ground. It takes a lot more resources, though -- more money, more dedicated kids, and better mentors than myself. We are working on those things pretty hard, and definitely taking the "no offseason" approach.

Thanks for the info - we are definitely looking at that one, and planning to use the time between now and then as a learning exercise in a lot of areas.

Congrats on the EI award! Some of us are headed to Championships to support our Dean's List Finalist, so perhaps we will see you there!

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Thanks, we are very happy to finally receive a Chairman´s after all this years of hard work

I have a question for you. Do you have the video of the awards announcement. I was not able to go to US and I really want to see this, but my team was so nervous that no one have made a video of the announcement.

thanks again

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Unfortunately we didn't record all way through Chairmans Award. Maybe someone else recorded it for you.

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All videos are up.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...UYKmsMMM6qP9zE
https://www.thebluealliance.com/event/2016txlu