Minne Mini-Regional 2016
 

Discussion thread:

Thank you to team 2169 for hosting this event. Although this is our first time attending we are very excited to take part. The event will take place at the Prior Lake High School,7575 - 150th St. West, Savage, MN. on November 19th. 36 teams will be competing.

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The teams registered for 2016 MMR:

876 Thunder Robotics
1816 The Green Machine
2052 KnightKrawler
2129 Ultraviolet
2169 KING TeC
2175 Fighting Calculators
2264 Wayzata Robotics
2491 NoMythic
2498 Bearbotics
2509 Tigerbots
2512 Duluth East Daredevils
2531 RoboHawks
2574 RoboHuskie
2667 Knights of The Valley
2823 Automatons
2846 FireBears
2847 The Megahertz
3042 Cobalt Catalysts
3102 Tech-No-Tigers
3184 Blaze Robotics
3275 Regulators
3313 Mechatronics
3633 Catalyst
3848 Bots in Shining Armour
3883 Data Bits
4198 RoboCats
4215 Tritons
4506 PioNerds
4536 MinuteBots
4607 C.I.S.
4648 Techno Tech
4665 Predators
4859 Cybears
5299 Winger Tech
5541 Shakopee Robotics
9999 The Stingers (Rookie team from Big Lake)

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The breakdown based on last year's accomplishments
876 regional winner cure finalist
1816 regional semi state qualifier
2052 chairman winner regional winner Carson winner state winner
2129
2169 regional quarters
2175 regional winner
2264
2491 regional quarters
2512 Regional semis State semis
2498 regional quarters
2509 regional quarters
2531
2574 Regional finalists
2667
2823 Tesla quarter finals state qualifier
2846 Regional finalists
2847
3042 Regional winner Tesla semis
3102 Regional winner State semis
3184 Regional quarters
3275 Regional quarters
3313 Regional quarters
3633 Regional semis
3848
3883 Regional quarters
4198
4215 Regional quarter
4506
4536 Regional finalists
4607 Chairman's award Carver quarter finals state semi finals
4648
4665
4859 Regional quarters
5299
5541
And the mysterious no number rookie team

Looks like a tough field.. should be fun

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Hello CD,

KING TeC's student captains and board of directors are currently meeting weekly to work out all of the details on the Minne Mini, however, here are some details we have currently.

• There will be three events run at our "Minne Mania" event: Minne Mini Regional (the FRC offseason event), FLL Regional Tournament, and a JrFLL expo.

• Doors open at 7 am on November 19th, however, you may load in your pit the night before. The time to do this is currently undetermined.

• We will be running workshops before FRC opening ceremonies. If you are interested in running a class, contact tournaments@kingtec2169.com

More to come and stay tuned!

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Any plans of running a stream at the even?. People who are unable to attend are asking me.

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KING TeC is planning to stream it. We are definitely going to run it through our Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK0...6ZLU8huS9G1bqQ). We are also considering a Twitch stream, but I do not think our Marketing team has made a definitive decision on that.

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Here are the rule changes:

Other than that it seems like it will be normal game play. Looks like it'll be a good event! Sadly I won't be able to attend because of a couple midterms around the date.

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So, is it 3 or 4 teams per alliance? This is unnecessarily confusing.

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If I am correct, it means that there will be four alliances of three teams.

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The four alliances is pretty straightforward, the 3 teams per alliance is less so. There are two ways to do it, 3 team alliances with backups or 4 team alliances. 3 team with backup is what I think they mean, but if you have alliance captains picking 1-4, 4-1, 1-4 then you have 4 team alliances.

At MRI, they did 4 team alliances and none of the alliance captains seemed to realize that they needed to communicate to the folks managing field which 3 of the 4 teams would be playing and at which drivers station before each match.

My vote is for 3 plus backups, but if the event organizers want 4 I'll be happy to set it up that way.

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I just assumed it was 4 alliances of 4 robots just like most regular off-season events. :confused: That's what it should be in my opinion.

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I realized I didn't provide a reference for my quote. It comes from this email attachment sent to attending teams.

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Hello everyone,

I just came out of a planning meeting and we found the miscommunication about alliance selection. Yes, in the email it said "1 > 4; 4 > 1; 1 > 4" for the selection process. It is meant to be 1>4; 4>1.

Again to clarify, in eliminations there will be 4 alliances of 3 teams. Each alliance will have a backup/substitution coupon for the next highest seed, just like standard regional play. I hope this clears up some of the confusion.

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Thank you for the clarification. If you wouldn't mind sharing, what was the rationale for this decision?

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The rational behind it is for the Minne Mini to be as close to regional play as we possibly can, as it was one of the Minne Mini's original intentions: to introduce new members of a team to how regionals work.

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this looks like a ton of fun! I am going to see if I can come down and watch this weekend and good luck to everyone competing (maybe ill throw the robot in the car just in case :D )

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Updated event info, copied in full here:

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More documents.

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It looks like 2531 was dropped and 4239 was added to the team list.

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Team 3275 is going to have to drop. Our school administration has deemed it unsafe to travel. I would expect other teams from Northern MN will be doing the same.:mad: :(

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It looks like we, team 876, will be unable to get there due to the winter storm between Fargo and Minneapolis.🙁

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Thank you, Minnesota's weather pattern:'(

To everyone not dropping out for weather, stay safe during travel!

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Big Lake (9607) and Becker (4607) will be there. However, due to early dismissal today, we will not have the much needed time to help Big Lake put the final touches on GreenHorns Rivvet. So tomorrow we will need some help straight away when we get there.

Safe travels everyone - it is already getting messy out here by St Cloud!

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If anyone from Prior Lake is looking at this thread, an FYI - the person that's in charge of managing the waitlist for the event has a full voicemail box. It's hard to get in touch with our status when we can't leave her a message!

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I'm assuming the event is still on. I'm leaving Duluth right now so I can make it to set up the field.

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If there is enough KING TeC people available who can help with whatever you will need (unloading, robot work, etc), I will make sure you guys are helped. Some kids (me included) will be busy with practicing/playing in the KING TeC band at the FLL competition on the other side of the school, but there is great deal of people on our team that are not assigned a job between 7-8 am that should be able to aid you.

I have sent an email to our coaches regarding the problem. I'm hoping we can rectify this justifiably aggravating problem as soon as possible.

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The Daredevils will be making the trip to Prior Lake despite weather conditions. If anything develops overnight I will keep you guys informed.

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Time to make my predictions for this off-season event. (don't take these seriously, I just do them for fun)

Alliance Selection and Elims results:

1) 3883, 2052, 3184
2) 2175, 2512, 2169 F
3) 3102, 1816, 3042
4) 4536, 4607, 2509 W

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Where can I find the livestream for the event? The link posted earlier in this thread didn't seem to have it.

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It should be on our youtube now

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Alliance Selection:

1) 2052, 2512, 2509
2) 4198, 4536, 2823
3) 1816, 3042, 4607
4) 2667, 2169, 3633

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Finals:
1) 2052, 2512, 2509 Winners
2) 4198, 4536, 2823 Finalists
3) 1816, 3042, 4607
4) 2667, 2169, 3633

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Thanks everyone who came!
It was a flipping success

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Thanks to all that made this possible - especially 2169; you guys put on one heck of a show today!

Thanks to the NDSU Bison Robotics team for allowing Big Lake to use the 2016 GreenHorns Ri3d robot, Rivvet. With out a doubt the Big Lake team walked out of the school today fired up with their new hardware and a great appreciation for how FRC is supposed to run! They were beaming from ear to ear and could not stop talking about how they will adopt/adapt a lot of the team strategies that they learned today.

A special thank you to all of the teams in attendance for helping out this young team. There were times I walked over to Big Lake's pit and there were 4-5 teams helping them out! The students were in doubt heading into the competition, but as they found more and more success, you could see their confidence build. I have never been more proud of MN FRC teams than I am today. All around, this was one of the greatest things I have seen at a FRC competition.

Thank you all again.

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Thanks to all the volunteers, as well as 2169, for putting on this event. Team 3184 had a great time and got tons of drive practice in for our new members.

I think this is the first year that we've actually used our competition bot- in 2013, 14, and 15, we made an entirely new robot for the event. Due to circumstance, not preference, I assure you.

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4536 had a really great time at Minne Mini. I wish our alliance could have put up a better fight in the finals, but 2052, 2512, and 2509 were all very deserving of their win. Thank you to 2169 for hosting. Events like these are really important for the community.

For future reference, I believe 9 qualification matches per team to be a bit too high for a one-day, 32 team off-season event. I'm usually the one wishing that we got more matches, but 9 was a little excessive. There is really just no room for unexpected delays when that many matches are packed in. I did really appreciate the static defenses during quals though as this allowed for shorter cycle times and more matches.