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I would also like to see any standings that you guys have, esp where my team sits. Do any teams have unofficial standings/point markers from all their scouts they could post?

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Whatever scoring system they are using is having a lot of problems, the real time scoring was not up until the afternoon. I guess a lot of teams will have to scurry to get their alliances set up for finals:( :ahh:

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You are correct, they were slow last year at posting the results on usfirst.org.
It takes a while to double check the regional results, combine it with the Saturday results & awards, send it the their webmaster, gather results from other regionals and post them. (so expect the same this year)
:ahh:

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I hope they get their system working by tommorow morning it seems they didnt get much done yesterday regarding to setting up and dealing with technical problems.... But hey atleast they are doing this for us its all good and fun.

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Absolutely a great strategy. We considered robot designs that would be totally defensive - move goals away from the shooter, block ball chutes, move 5 and 10 pointers out of the way, de-score 2x's. We chose not to take that approach but it sounds like some teams are doing it.

This strategy is no different that previous years of knocking down stacks (03) or capturing all three moveable goals (02).

Don't boo them - find a way to beat their strategy!

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Not if you have been scouting religiously all weekend and have some choices made already.

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Score and rankings could matter less. Compatability, if you like the people, if they're reliable matter more. If they met this criteria and they were ranked last I would still pick them because not only is that my best chance to win but also my best chance to have a lot of fun. Our first alliance partner last year met all this criteria last year but they happened to be a top eight seed too.

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I know a few people wanted pictures of our robot. Now named "The Fridge". We are even printing out Fridge buttons for the regional in Annapolis lol. Thanks for the nickname :p
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=26425

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There used to be a lineman for the Chicago Bears nicknamed the "Refrigerator". (back in the 80's I think) Maybe you can get him as a sponsor!

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Hey 303 just wondering how much is the capacity to # of small balls u can hold in ur robot. i havent seen our scouting sheet yet thats tmrw morning from 9-11 since we only have 2 matches tmrw.

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To all who are pointing out the many problems on the field and the events, please be patient!!!!

Remember, this is the first weekend of regionals, and the fields have not been field tested to this extent. So if there are issues, be aware that the volunteers and the FIRST staff know about them, and they ARE working almost 24/7 trying to fix them.

I know that in NJ at least, some staff were there till 3 AM in the morning on Friday working out these bugs.

BE PATIENT!!!!!


To all those who are interested in the status of NJ here is a run down that I know of.

We have ~50 teams here in Trenton NJ with 2 teams joining us from Brazil.
The people who sang the National anthems here did a phenomenal job for both anthems. I believe they were FIRST team members from teams from the US and Brazil.

Practice went well minus the bugs, and I believe all teams had one less practice match than planned but most teams were doing well by the end of the day.
Inspection took a long time (~50 teams here) At one time in Thursday afternoon there were still 34 teams that had not been inpsected yet.
I believe 1 team left after Thursday's practice round and did not return on Friday because of major difficulties in their drive train and I wish them the best of luck in the future!

There is a practice half-field for testing and that has been used non-stop during these two days so far. It was a mock-up full scale field just made from pvc, nothing fancy but it was full scale and did work for autonomous, and goal testing. No chin up bar though! But oh well!

Friday went well, all teams were scouting like crazy (again), and the usual general madness ensued at the venue. I believe all teams had a chance to play 6 or 7 matches today and will finish up the rest tomorrow.

The awards ceremony was good, and had a lot of fans cheering from one particular "Everything I need to know I learned in FIRST" poem donated to be read here by RAGE 173 from CT.
The regional Woodie Flowers award was awarded to a team mentor from the Cyber Sonics team 103. (Sorry, I don't remember his name off hand.)

Scores were finally able to be displayed on the big screens at about 3:00pm but I don't believe it is the "actual" screen they will be using this year.
Just something for the time being.

On multiple occasions I saw goals blocking coralls, robots tipping over and a few matches even 3 robots were able to hang and score.

I want to wish everyone good luck tomorrow who is here, and if you're not here, you are missing one heck of a competition!!!

Just wait till you compete, you will love it!! They don't call this year's game FIRST Frenzy for nothing!!

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Looks like someone has been busy behind the camera here in NJ!!

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=26405

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Heh - The Fridge. While not exactly fear inspiring - it does fit rather well.

I've been seeing a lot of robots tipping, often on the bottom 6" step - robots can caught on the step, and then back up into a purple ball when they try and disengage.

Personally, I like 1403 a lot. They are a rookie team, and can get more balls in autonomous than most teams can get in an entire match. They have a large net, and they sit under the ball release in autonamous. I've seem them get 14 balls at once. They feed them into the goal corral at about the rate a person can throw - so they can more or less start feeding players balls within 30 seconds of the start of the match.

AND they can do large ball. And they don't tip over.

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I'm here onsite in Trenton scouting.. 1382 is playing as I speak, they are the onlly team all day to successfuly hit the 10 pt ball in auto mode, and now they just hung all the way up to the top- they won big time, 140-20, the highest so far

the other team- 1156 just went and had soome kind of mechanism to hook from the side.. they they successfully hooked but it looks like they were illegaly touching the bar or something..


I'll keep a eye on those two teams all day long, the competition has been interesting sofar, almost no big ball capping and small ball manipulation/pushing..

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if you don't mind, could you guys come to the tigerbolt chat room if you're at the regional.
http://www.rit.edu/~us1stwww/chatindex.html
there's always someone in there watching the regionals.