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NEforecast 12-04-2016 18:17

Re: NEforecast: New England District Championship
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Dan Petrovic (Post 1572035)
I'd like to know more about how the Chairman's predictions are made.

Hello Dan,

Thank you for bringing this question to light. While it is our goal to know as much information as possible, you are correct in that we cannot get every team's essay, or every team's video, or know about every outreach event that a team hosts. However, we do know quite a bit - several of NEforecast's team members have experience writing Chairman's Awards for their own FRC teams and in that process, they learn more about their competitors' submissions. We also get small bits of data from other sources - the judges' speeches at events about winning teams, the winning teams' videos (if presented), on team websites, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and more.

We hope this answered your question. If not, please do not hesitate to contact us again!

-NEforecast

Like they say on GameSense, we don't take ourselves too seriously, and we hope you don't either. We do it for the fun and we hope you enjoy our predictions. :)

Dan Petrovic 12-04-2016 18:42

Re: NEforecast: New England District Championship
 
Thank you for the quick and detailed response. You have definitely done more research than I have on what the competing Chairman's teams have done.

Perhaps that bevy of knowledge should be shared with the rest of us so that we can all weigh in on which four teams we believe will be recognized?

wjd13 12-04-2016 18:53

Re: NEforecast: New England District Championship
 
Ahhhh! When I first saw this post I jumped up and down shouting I was so excited, my family thinks I'm a little weird now... Great analysis, looking forward to competing for Chairmans and on the field. Good luck to everyone!

page2067 12-04-2016 20:24

Re: NEforecast: New England District Championship
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by CTbiker105 (Post 1571990)
Both of these brackets would result in some of the most competitive elimination rounds New England has ever seen (although I can't imagine 2067 being left for the 24th pick in the second bracket). The hype for Saturday is real.

Yeah that what we thought last year! We would love to play again with Mayhem.

By the way - people discussing CT teams keep leaving 230 out - they are right there after 195 and 558 imo.

PayneTrain 12-04-2016 20:42

Re: NEforecast: New England District Championship
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by page2067 (Post 1572131)
Yeah that what we thought last year! We would love to play again with Mayhem.

By the way - people discussing CT teams keep leaving 230 out - they are right there after 195 and 558 imo.

I don't imagine they will ever leave 1/8'' 2''x1'' out of their cart ever again (:

prensing 12-04-2016 22:52

Re: NEforecast: New England District Championship
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Jay O'Donnell (Post 1572022)
Finals:

(1) 558-195-2877 vs (6) 319-1768-166

The alliances are fairly evenly matched, and 2877 ends up being the difference maker with some great defense and clutch shots at the end of the matches.

Boy, that would be terrific! We have the top auto scores in N.E. and have been working on improving it. Our tank tread would be good at defense.

We will see this weekend. Can't wait!

jwfoss 13-04-2016 07:29

Re: NEforecast: New England District Championship
 
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Originally Posted by Aidan Cox (Post 1572052)
This is true. For logistics reasons, 131 has decided not to attend this year's NEDCMP. As a team with more-limited resources, we simply did not perform as well as we would have liked to in our district events to warrant the use of those resources for District Champs. We had a great official season nonetheless, and very much look forward to playing with everyone at the various off-seasons.

I personally will be down there Saturday to check things out. Looking forward to some wicked crazy matches, New England style. Congrats and good luck to those competing this weekend.

-Aidan

This is a crying shame, we thought you guys had an excellent design and strategy and personally I was really hoping to get a picture of the robots that inspired our redesign next to our robot.

who716 13-04-2016 09:23

Re: NEforecast: New England District Championship
 
My prediction:

1.195,558,3461
2.1519,133,2168
3.78,125,2877
4.230,4564,2648
5.1058,1768,228
6.177,2067,4905
7.4048,166,4909
8.319,5813,176

Hitchhiker 42 13-04-2016 09:26

Re: NEforecast: New England District Championship
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by who716 (Post 1572384)
My prediction:

1.195,558,3461
2.1519,133,2168
3.78,125,2877
4.230,4564,2648
5.1058,1768,228
6.177,2067,4905
7.4048,166,4909
8.319,5813,176

I spy the winning alliance from Hartford. :)

who716 13-04-2016 09:32

Re: NEforecast: New England District Championship
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Hitchhiker 42 (Post 1572385)
I spy the winning alliance from Hartford. :)

Not just that but 195 and 3461 have two blue banners together this year

Chris is me 13-04-2016 09:54

Re: NEforecast: New England District Championship
 
228 has a new trick or two up its sleeves for NE Champs this weekend, hopefully! I'm hoping we can build on our performance at RIDE and continue to seed high, but the level of competition here is just sky high.

One team not to overlook in this crowded field of competitors is rookie team 6153. They were instrumental to our alliance's success at RIDE and are a very reliable breaching, low goal, and defense robot.

4761 also quietly built one of their best robots ever, and are a very good team to work with. Somehow at Rhode Island they managed to fall to the second pick of the #3 alliance, but they were a top 10 robot at that event easily. They should only get better and better.

EmileH 13-04-2016 10:43

Re: NEforecast: New England District Championship
 
I'll post my own bracket, why not.

1. 1519, 1058, 3467 W
2. 195, 133, 839 SF
3. 558, 4564, 2648 F
4. 125, 166, 4761
5. 319, 155, 2168 SF
6. 238, 228, 176
7. 177, 5687, 4909
8. 5813, 2067, 4905

3467 and 2648 are the two big steals of the draft, both with good breaching and accurate shooting that brings both alliances to the finals, but 1519's autonomous shot and 1058's climb carve out the win for #1.

/NHbias

Skragnoth 13-04-2016 11:09

Re: NEforecast: New England District Championship
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by EmileH (Post 1572414)
I'll post my own bracket, why not.

1. 1519, 1058, 3467 W
2. 195, 133, 839 SF
3. 558, 4564, 2648 F
4. 125, 166, 4761
5. 319, 133, 2168 SF
6. 238, 228, 176
7. 177, 5687, 4909
8. 5813, 2067, 4905

3467 and 2648 are the two big steals of the draft, both with good breaching and accurate shooting that brings both alliances to the finals, but 1519's autonomous shot and 1058's climb carve out the win for #1.

/NHbias

Team 133 got picked by 195 and 319? They must be really good. :D

Nathan Streeter 13-04-2016 11:13

Re: NEforecast: New England District Championship
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by EmileH (Post 1572414)
I'll post my own bracket, why not.

1. 1519, 1058, 3467 W
2. 195, 133, 839 SF
3. 558, 4564, 2648 F
4. 125, 166, 4761
5. 319, 133, 2168 SF
6. 238, 228, 176
7. 177, 5687, 4909
8. 5813, 2067, 4905

3467 and 2648 are the two big steals of the draft, both with good breaching and accurate shooting that brings both alliances to the finals, but 1519's autonomous shot and 1058's climb carve out the win for #1.

/NHbias

I can't say I mind the results! ;-)

You do have 133 competing on both sides of the bracket though... losing in the semi's both times. Too bad their alliances didn't both make it to the Finals for a "win-win" situation for BERT!

Edit: Skragnoth beat me to it.

BrendanB 13-04-2016 11:33

Re: NEforecast: New England District Championship
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by EmileH (Post 1572414)

1. 1519, 1058, 3467

Now this an alliance I would love to see! ;)


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