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2587 DiscoBots signed up !

Looking forward to another great TRI event.

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3999 will be there too!

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456, Siege Robotics, has signed up. We hope we make the list!

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Awesome, it's only an actual invitational if we get too many teams signed up. That wasn't a problem last year with the game being what it was.

If any of your people want to volunteer or do a presentation/workshop of some kind let me know. We are open to suggestions and training people in new positions.

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Here is the current list of teams signed up.

3991
2587
3999
456
148
457
3847

We still have lots of space, so please everyone get signed up. Remind your head coach/mentor/teacher if you don't see your team listed.

We also still need more volunteers, if you ever want to volunteer, off-seasons are a great time to get experience. http://trivolunteer.spectrum3847.org/

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4639 is planning to be there. We are working on reorganizing our shop and filling out the application.

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2582 has signed up !

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Would be possible to put the team list on the TRI website ?

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Now that champs is over, it's time to start thinking about which off-season events you are going to attend. We are still looking for more teams to sign up for this year's TRI.

http://triapp.spectrum3847.org/

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3481 Bronc Botz just signed-up... looking to do some more Newton-dancing like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1MvgtTr4sw

Yes, I'm a proud Papa... ;-)

We may also sign-up our twin practice bot as team "1843" if that's allowed.

--Michael Blake

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Current Team List
3991 KnightVision
2587 DiscoBots
3999 Shadetree Robotics
456 Siege Robotics
148 Robowranglers
457 Grease Monkey Robotics
1296 Full Metal Jackets
2582 PantherBots
4192 Flower Mound HS Jaggernauts
3847 Spectrum
1912 Team Combustion
4295 Hudson Robotics
3481 Bronc Botz
5829 Awtybots
5908 Spartans
3735 Klein Bots
1477 Texas Torque
5414 Pearadox

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Up to 28 Teams

3991 KnightVision
2587 DiscoBots
3999 Shadetree Robotics
456 Siege Robotics
148 Robowranglers
457 Grease Monkey Robotics
1296 Full Metal Jackets
2582 PantherBots
4192 Flower Mound HS Jaggernauts
3847 Spectrum
1912 Team Combustion
4295 Hudson Robotics
3481 Bronc Botz
5829 Awtybots
5908 Spartans
3735 Klein Bots
1477 Texas Torque
5414 Pearadox
5052 RoboLobos
1710 The Ravonics Revolution
2881 Lady Cans
624 CRyptonite
3335 CY-BORGS
57 The Leopards
2721 Blue Mite
418 LASA Robotics "Purple Haze"
4335 Metallic Clouds
4587 Jersey Voltage

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Huh. Guess we are going. Better get working on that shooter and/or climber again....

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If we need to fill spots, Awtybots have a practice robot we can bring or we can lend it to any pre-rookie teams in need of a robot.

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Here is the final list of teams that signed on or before May 6th. We are going to try to include all of these teams at the event. We are still expecting to get 7 matches per team as well. Rules will be coming out this week and teams can decline attendance at that time.

TRI 2016 Roster

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For those who want a summary of the elims:

1. 118-148-5414-57 SF
2. 3005-1296-5986-4335 W
3. 624-4587-457-5052 SF
4. 3481-3847-2585-5829 F
5. 456-1477-2158-2881 QF
6. 5427-5431-3735-3103 QF
7. 1710-231-3999-3335 QF
8. 2582-4639-2587-3991 QF

3481 declined 3005.

Congrats to the winning alliance, and great job to all teams that participated in this event that was very fun to watch!

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Great event ! Congrats to Team Spectrum and Allen Gregory for putting together a top-notch summer event.

When will the elimination matches be posted on youtube ? I see the qualification matches but not eliminations. https://www.youtube.com/user/Spectrum3847/videos

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The clipped matches will be up sometime next week.
Most of elems can be watched here.
https://youtu.be/J2-H_NtRbYA

Thanks to everyone that made this an awesome event, hope to see everyone back again next year.

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The event ran great. Just curious - Did anyone end up using the instant replay?

The students I convinced to go to workshops also said they learned some good stuff too. I'll keep an eye out on the spectrum facebook/here for when they get posted.

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Yes there was one replay it upheld the ruling that was called on the field, so nothing changed.

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TRI 2016 was, as usual, a very well-run event. We had a blast! I think Allen and his team should put together a training manual for groups looking to host off-season events and/or districts. They are very thorough, professional and really get the hospitality side of the effort.

Thanks again and we'll be back!

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Thank you for the compliments. We are so thrilled that teams keep coming back. We'll keep working to put on a great event and it will be even better next year.

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Thanks for posting the youtube videos of the elimination matches !
Awesome to see 148 and 118 pair up !

https://www.youtube.com/user/Spectrum3847/videos

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Would be curious to hear more on the challenge - who asked for it, what was the call & did the team that asked for it feel better about being able to do it? We're going to run the same pilot at GRC so just curious about the details :) Sounds like it went well with hopefully a minor impact to the event schedule.

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Working on TBA data, and getting the presentations posted, sometime tonight hopefully.

Also surveys will be going out to teams, as well as photos, etc.

If anyone lost anything or has notes about the event please get in touch with me.

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It wasn't fully as official as I would like and the process was odd, so I'm not going to post the full details. Mostly cause our hardware wasn't perfect. Basically a team thought they breached and weren't given the defense crossings to reflect that. We were already behind schedule so we didn't really publicize any part of it to keep the schedule moving. The breach wouldn't have changed the out come of the match anyway had the referees missed a cross so we actually shouldn't have even done the replay. (the team had lost by more than 25). I just pulled up the match videos and let the referees count the crossing as we watched. There was some confusion in letting teams know the outcome of the review as well. In the end there was one crossing missed but it wouldn't have given them the breach or the win.

I still think video replay is a needed item, had the score been different and the referees made a mistake in missing multiple crosses that cost a team an advancement to the next round, I would have felt awful if that was the way any teams left our event (or any event). The goal should always be to get the call right and in this case the refs got it mostly right on the field.

The process wasn't perfect but it helped ensure the refs made the right call and that the game was played fairly.

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Yes. (We were the team that asked for the video challenge.)

Another aspect of TRI that seemed to help was extra refs. I think there were twice as many as a regular FIRST event and the extra eyes really seemed to help.

Allen and everyone with Spectrum and all the other volunteers ran a first class event. 456 had a great time and are looking forward to next year. The event couldn't have gone any more smoothly as far as we could tell. Thanks again Allen and everyone involved for giving us such a fun weekend!

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A couple people have asked about the video setup we used at TRI. I'll post a quick overview.

The basics

3 hikvision IP security cameras.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

3 Clamps
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Gopro...v&dp= 0&af=cc

1 Power over Ethernet gigabit switch
http://www.netgear.com/support/produ...gwmng#download
POE switch that I use, got it off ebay for about $100

A PC with gigabit Ethernet card, and a fast hard drive (Very fast SSD)

We open the live stream from each of the cameras in VLC then use xSplit to capture the video player windows, crop, and resize them and then stream that to YouTube. xSplits RTSP stream players is really processor inefficient for some reason, so we had to move to VLC.

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Final TRI 2016 Team Update
Thank you to everyone that came out to TRI 2016. It's always fun to have so many great teams come and play robots for the day. I hope everyone had a good time and I hope to have you all back next year. Please take a moment to go through the links below to find the post event team survey, photos, videos, and more from the event.

Post TRI Survey (Help make this event even better)
http://goo.gl/forms/fAoNfNmsPfxZ21EG3

Free FRC Mentor Workshop July 8th and 9th
hosted by Scott Rippetoe(FRC#1477) and myself
please come out and join us.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16-u...-Bpjo/viewform

TRI 2016 Photos
https://goo.gl/photos/9R9JTLupE5HYCLqa7

If your team took photos you would like everyone to have you can even join the album and upload them for others to use as well.

TRI 2016 Match Video
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...ff6pk35HJXrr9n

TRI 2016 Offical Results
http://www.thebluealliance.com/event/2016txri

TRI 2016 Workshop Videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...A46UWsYp9xAj2I

TRI 2016 Team Interview Videos (More will be going up in the next week or so)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...i2TLbQUvZfIuDF
Thank you to all the teams that participated in this project.

Volunteers Needed for Texas Robot Roundup July 29th & 30th
Just a reminder that TRR needs volunteers
Sign Up Here: http://firstintexas.org/uil/volunteers/

Thank You,
Allen Gregory

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I am a mom/mentor for Metallic Clouds #4335. We just wanted to say thank you and well done. Top notch event. Facility was amazing, volunteers were world class, concessions area was nice. Even at the end of the day the facility was immaculate....Thank you to Spectrum for helping with parts and suggestions when we destroyed our shooter hinge in the first match. Thank you to our alliance partners (Iron Fangs, Full Metal Jackets and Robochargers) for their patience, support and assistance when we destroyed the second hinge in our last match. Your gracious professionalism and calm attitudes were a valuable lesson for the young ladies..Bronc Botz - your mentors talking and sharing with our ladies was wonderful. Sharing your off season schedule suggestions was invaluable..On a personal note. One of our mentors has been in the hospital for weeks. He was sorely missed but we kept him updated throughout the day with our progress. When I mentioned to the beautiful young lady on Robochargers that he was being transferred from Waco to Dallas for more specialized care she reminded me that they were out of Dallas and would be available for anything - meals for the family etc...Wow, just WOW...no words to express how that made us feel..Thank you to all involved!!