Matches worth watching
 

Just post links to the matches you think are worth watching, So we can save time looking them up in TBA and YouTube. No matter the reasona, a close score, some funny tortuga or a huge score, if you think it is worth watching post it!

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Thought this one was pretty good. It was a high-scoring bonanza 162-118 for the Colorado Finals 1--at 1:12, 1619 gets knocked over, then right away their partner 1011 rights-them.

1619 looks great shooting and 1011 really moves too.

Also, only match in CO where 1619 used their spring-based climbing mechanism that lifts them really fast. But I only got them at the edge of the frame when this happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaYMKPisxzo

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...What happened to 1983? Did their arm get stuck in the low bar some how?

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All of Philmath's elimination matches were insane. Finals 2 & 3 were much closer though and are definitely worth watching. Also SF-4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk3h...9UAFp_ZPSzWRai) was also crazy!

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A few of my favorites

Greater Toronto East Finals 3 2056 fighting 1114 to keep the streak alive

Perry Meridian Finals 3 The final decided by a red card

Buckeye Regional #7 seed beats #2
QF3-1
QF3-2
QF3-3

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This was a close semifinal set and was pretty interesting to watch. Especially as the 5980 driver it teaches me quite a bit.

Semifinals 1

Semifinals 2

Semifinals 3

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We were driving towards the low bar and about 5 feet away and lost coms... the robot continued forward because the last command we had given to the drive controllers was forward at speed.

We believe that we may have had a loose ethernet connection on the roborio. We were never able to regain control of the robot. We tried rebooting the roborio to no avail. We hit our collector on the low bar and were stuck there anyway... we suffered some damage to the shooter/collector but were able to accomplish fixes and continued into finals 2. That was a very exciting match.

We are in the process of rebuilding the shooter collector and repairing damage (not all from that occurrence....) ?

It is rather amazing how much damage a robot takes in this game. We have been in 55 matches now in three districts and we need repairs from normal game play.

Our opponents (2046, 2811 and 5803) played a great finals and we applaud them for winning the Philomath event. Our partners, 1318 and 2411 played very well and we were sorry that we couldn't win with them in the third match of finals.

During quals we were experimenting with our shooter and trying some new things as it was our third district (no points).

We are looking forward to improving for the District Champs next week!!

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I'm looking forward to the video of Q44 in Rhode Island. We pushed a Tortuga'd partner off a defense, finished the breach, pushed them all the way onto the batter (which required multiple nudges from different directions), and parked ourselves to get the capture. We got 4RP in the end for the match.

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Their RoboRIO rebooted/lost com and the talons (on CAN bus) held their last state for a few seconds and caused the collector to move up and the robot to run into the low bar, at least that's what I heard from their driver before finals 2 began.

That wasn't really a fun match :/, especially because the role we had 1983 playing in those finals matches wasn't one such that we could lose them for a match and still come out on top easily.

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This is kind of tangential, but this thread reminds me of a half-backed feature for TBA that's been tossed around for a while.

The idea is that we could crowd-source a list of good matches throughout the season, and we can either have a GameDay feed that auto-switches to the next one, or push notifications to your device when one is upcoming. Or something.

Anybody got any ideas about such a feature?

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I'd like that, as long as there's a way to turn it off if desired and when on, make automatically switching optional.

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Not to be sarcastic but what was you favorite part? That we beat the #2 alliance before the red card or that we got the red card?

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Whoa! That's awesome!

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Wayne, hard not to be sarcastic there and you come across as a little peeved to boot.

But I kinda have to agree with Wayne here. The first two Perry-Meridian District final matches were much more exciting. After the damage happened to the pneumatics of 1024, which is a mostly pneumatic robot, this match became painful to watch for their alliance. Watch the video and look for the 1024 arm manipulator to slowly drop as pressure is released while they go over the defense following the mid-field contact with 1501 that drew a red flag for contact inside the frame.

I have watched the match several times and both alliances had a very good strategy. I think if 1024 wasn't crippled halfway through the match and were able to keep scoring this would have been a very close match with the difference being 71/1501 climbing like in the second final match.

This final red card match was a disappointing way for all involved to end an awesome and high scoring tournament as the side that ended up winning definitely didn't feel like they earned it cleanly and the other side feeling like they were robbed of a clear victory. I think everyone on both sides would have been happier with a replay if that was possible. One of the few cases where in my opinion a replay of the match would have been a better solution as it was not intentional damage, but there is no allowance for that.