Boilermaker Regional Webcast Online!
 

Check late Thursday on the robotics.nasa.gov site for details.


(Fingers-Crossed)


This is the result of a lot of effort on the Part of WildStang.
A lot depends on the network connectivity from the venue.


GO Teams!

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Please visit this site. This may not be up and working until Thursday evening.

rtsp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/encoder/FIRST.rm

Thanks,

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The webcast is up and running. You can use the URL that Amy gave above and open it directly in RealPlayer or you can use this link which should open from a web browser.

Please note that it could take up to 10 seconds for the video to appear after you connect, so please be patient!

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Thx a lot 111....i was beginning to have withdrawls from not witnessing a regional this week....

##Boilermaker Regional Webcast Online##
 

Thats right folks, as promised the Boilermaker regional is being webcast live on to the internet.

Thanks to team 111 Wildstang for providing the webcast!

The address is:
http://live.wildstang.org

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We are doing the encoding on-site, however NASA is providing the servers that you all are connecting to, so thanks to the NASA guys as well!

How's the feed look?

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I'm watching the feed right now, it looks amazing. Great work!!

Does anyone have a practice match schedule that they'd be able to post?

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anyway they can call out the team numbers? or like karthik said post a match list....

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It's up, and the picture quality is fantastic compared to the VCU webcast.

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Awesome feed... Props to everyone who made this possible.

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we were watching ourselves at the scoring table (John V Neun, David Kelly and myself) earlier, so if you see those little white dots by the little black dots on that table, thats us. Slight delay but other then that it looks great, again, awesome job wildstang.

And i will try and get the practice schedule posted soon and the match schedule posted tonight, no guarantees.

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Besides the crappy camera angle, great quality! Thanks 111! :cool:

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Thank You Wildstang!

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Okay in addition to the webcast,
We are also proud to announce a first for FIRST, the SCORING TABLE CAM!
Thats right, see what faces pop up at the scoring table, some people to look out for JVN, David Kelly, Chris Noble, Amanda Morrison, Ricky Q, Molly Menges, Josh Hambright, Andy Baker, Dan Green, and many many more! Good times for all,

you can find the webcam at:
http://indianafirst.org/webcam

We will try to show the field and the crowd as well as our pretty faces so that the action stays hot:) Enjoy.

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w00t.. SOmething I can actually watch on the network here at work.. lol

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Thanks 111!!
This scoring table camera thing ...
I feel compelled to look although it's potentially scary with that list of names. Someone go tell Baker and JVN to put the sandwiches down and come say hi.
And the big question of the day ....
Is the scoring software functioning properly or are bugs still being worked out?

Edit ... What the :eek: :yikes: ??? Even though you expect it from 111 ... watching them run is always an eye opener. /Edit

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John V is around helping out with making sure everything on the field is running properly, i'll try to get him on cam, Andy is around kissing babies and shaking hands, i mean working on something.
The scoring softwar is running, knock on wood KNOCK ON WOOD! we've only broke it a few times today, realtime apears to be working, the software is just sort of confusing, but its running. Its quiet pretty looking:)

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When I first started the stream (over the lunch break) there was sound, but now there isn't. Can anyone confirm that?

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same here Randy .... sound earlier, not now

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just talked to them, they are working on the audio issues.

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i hear nothing also, looks great though

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Sound should be back now.

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it tis, thanks.

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Wowo what here happened in the first practice match. .

Q1 3/17/2005 9:00:00 AM

1501 307
1555
461

135 24
868
234

:ahh:
is that even possible

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hahaha no its not, i think 2 of the goals had like 55 tetras on them in that match, that was from last night when we were testing stuff out and we have no way to get it back off of the FIRST website yet, that we know of, but yeah thats not accurate.
Ohh and the real time scoring works,
Also on the scoring table webcam, look at the celebrity section, including a picture of a pretty cool robot:)

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Thanks man.
Now they are showing the match score with team number and right after the matches.

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the webcast just quit on me, after two matches, and its saying "file not found"...is this happening to anyone else, or is it just me?

p.s. and how about some detailed pics of wildstang, truck town terror, and the beast?

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When I came back from Lunch 1300 Pacific - the webcast was off - did you guys finish already?


Have Dave Flowerday check is private Delphi Messages - I have a trick to keep the webcast going, even if there is network traffic out of West Laffyette.


I saw 30 viewers at one point.

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I keep getting that to, I thought it was just me

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Sorry, the encoder died with a fatal error of some sort. Should be all set now.

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The scoring table cam should still be up and running tomorrow, look for more special guests and more robot action, we plan on alternating and moving the camera around for some non streaming web coverage as a super lowtech alternative for the streaming content that wildstang provided, thought we had a computer running both of them side by side so we could watch ourselves cuz we are that super vain, i mean never mind.

I hope to have the match schedule up at some point, if i can find someone to type it in early in the morning, the matches have been generated and the scoring system should be good to go tomorrow, including REAL TIME SCORING! w00t!

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OK,
All ready to go here ...
scoring table cam in one corner of the screen
111 webcast above that
now, if we can get the scoring software fully functional with the match list and results .... ohhhhh....
Why does Karthik get all the scoring table love? ;)

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OK so we are having some issues getting the first website to update with the current matches right now, so we have a static match list up on indiana first.

the address is:
http://indianafirst.org/webcam/matche.html

This is not an official FIRST match list, this is not to be used or anything other then remote viewing and we are not responsible for the validity of the data, this site will not be updated with scores with any regularity, we may put the elimination rounds up on the same site, we'll see. But yah there ya go for all of you watching webcasts.

things should be getting under way in a few minutes, teams are qued, bots on the field, opening ceremonies about to begin, HOLLA!

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Thanks so much guys. This is awesome for us FIRST couch potatoes.

Looking at this schedule, watchout for match number 2:

Red: 45, 1108, 269
Blue: 68, 71, 1501

That should be a good one to start the day.

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Jesus, turn the sound down ... very distorted

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Sorry, nothing I can do about it. I have the gain turned down as far as it will go - it's the signal they're feeding us.

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everything looks good ....
any way to shrink the real time scoring thing?? It eats up wayyy to much of the screen. Maybe just the scores and not the tringles?

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Karthik was right. That second match ended up being a doozy for only the first day of quals. Blue beats Red 58-40. A large large number of tetras into play!

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We're just broadcasting the feed from FIRST (same as the big TV in the arena) so we can't do anything about the overlay.

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10-4
I'm glad for the statistics, but it makes it almost impossible to identify a robot number close to the floor. Great match between 111 and 234 ... 16 is next ... soooooo many awesome teams to watch

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Thanks to Team 111 Wildstang and to NASA.
For those of us attending only one regional this is
a great thing to have available.

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Wow...

Did I just see a 114-0 game? Every goal controlled by Blue...

And is it just me or does 71's bot look familiar?

Edit - 60 penalty points for one team... Most games don't break 50...

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the scoring table camera is awesome, if i am not mistaken that is amanda not wearing safety glasses!

o wait is that brandon?! in the green shirt

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I just want to thank Wildstang, Nasa and everyone who made this webcast possible. I havent seen such a high quality live feed in ages. I know its a lot of hard work, but you guys have done a great favor to all us hardcore fans.

so THANKYOU :)

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Dave,
Could you try movng the audio to the "line in" for the sound that might fix the problem, or if its already in "line level" switch it to other audio input. Pictures are great, thanks for the webcast. Congrats on beating the AZ high score of 112-13.
Don

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AM I GOING CRAZY?!

I think I just witnessed the greatest tetra cap EVER.

234 spun around a little out of control in the last seconds of the match of Q15. The tetra they were holding flew off the arm, and got airborne. It was heading straight for the middle driver station, but somehow caught the top of the goal, and stacked itself perfectly...

The robot was still about 6 feet away from the goal...

UN-BE-LIEV-ABLE!

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The capture card only has a single (line-level) input and it is connected to the live level output provided by the A/V guys, so not much I can do there.

I found a gain control in the encoder program itself that I just lowered so let me know if it sounds better. However, it may already have been clipped before it gets there so it may not help.

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So while it's illegal to do this by design... If you could consistently do it by accident, you'd be okay.

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Anything that's consistently done by accident tends to be in reality done by intent and if that move is illegal, it's much frowned upon to do it...

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i saw that too, though i thought it was one of the other bots...

either way, it just beat the vault by 190 over 237 at river rage...i hope that they recorded match 15, so i can watch the replay.

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Dave,
Think you found it sound much better now, only cracks every once and a while. Thanks again for the great webcast.
Don

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I believe that is the announcers voice cracking =)

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maybe I missed it, but what was the 10 pt penalty in match 22....Maybe I misheard, but I thought the announcer said there was a 10 pt penalty for aggressive play....please someone correct me or whatever....

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71 and 111 going against each other in that match that was a great match. Alot of scoring hmmm we will see who won

Edit: 84-26 blue alliance with team 71 very nice

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Ohh I want to see it!!!!
But I can't!!!
My computer at home is too slow, so I hear the commentary but there's only still shots ever 10 seconds or so...
And the computers at school won't allow me to stream it (grrr network rules)
:(

Edit: OMGZ IT'S WORKING! *is happy*
Go Wildstang!!1! :D

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watch the unnoficial webcast, with the audio you can almost imagine yourself sitting behind the scoring table:)
http://indianafirst.org/webcam

Ohh and the matches and results were updates on indiana first around lunch here, we might mirror them again tonight, though i might take it down since first is no longer posting the match results on their site, atleast not at this time they aren't until some issues are worked out.

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At peachtree we just used the clock instead of the realtime scoring (even though it didn't work). The production people were complaining about having to shoot so wide.

I'm sure if you mentioned it to the production people (even though they should see it), they shoot wider.

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<edit>
---nevermind---

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Update 15 added a 10 point penalty to <G25> which is the rule about aggressive play.

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any day one standings yet?

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Yeah, ill take the blame for that one....I made the mistake of telling my rookie drivers to play defense.....

If we wouldnt have done it, the score would have been much much worse

Edit: Oops...this is D.J. Fluck on Molly Menges' laptop :D

Re: Boilermaker Regional Webcast Online!
 

and it wasn't just agressive play, but excessively agressive play.

playing agressive isn't illegal, but when damage could be intentionally done, a call had to be made.

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Yesterday there was a match list at:

http://indianafirst.org/webcam/matche.html

It is not there now. Does anyone know of an on-line match list and/or rankings?

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I took down the match list, because FIRST for some reason is not publishing the match list and results, so we are respecting their decision.

Sorry,
If FIRST posts it we will post it.

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The fact that FIRST is not posting match lists and results is why it was such a valuable service for indianafirst.org to do so. I suspect that FIRST is not posting the results because of lack of resources, not because they object to having them posted. Am I missing something here?

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Can someone share the final seedings at Boilermaker?

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1. 71
2. 1024
3. 68
4. 1103
5. 1022
6. 234
7. 1272
8. 135

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Alliance selections for Boilermaker

71 1024 269
68 45 292
1103 111 868
1022 703 548
234 16 393
1272 1108 554
135 876 93
1501 447 1502

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Match results are back online at the address i posted yesterday and the address kit posted earlier.

Hopefully we wont get in trouble for this.


The final results will be posted by somebody eventualy.

Rock on.

Josh

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semi finals:

71 1024 269
234 16 393

135 876 93
1272 1108 554

All upsets accept the #1 seed (71 1024 269)

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finals

71 1024 269
135 876 93

Amazing, 135 876 93 is the #7 seed alliance

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Number 1(71) seed Vs Number 41(93) Seed in the finals:)

w00t!

This is starting to get interesting....


Back to the scoring program... :cool:

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Final #1 tied at 39, this is very exciting :D

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Hahaha this is awesome, if for those of you watching the webcam, did you notice JVN and my face after that one:)

I think we are going to turn the webcam towards the field for the rest of the finals, so we dont give anything away, and so we can have a low connection speed wy for people to watch at home.
http://indianafirst.org/webcam/

"...Its a tie, wait....ITS A TIE! hold on lemme check these" - JVN

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Best finals ever all is down to one final match! i am jumpiong up and down :D

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Going into a fourth match...how exciting can it get?!?!?

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This is awesome i am standing up in my room i cant even sit down

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Looks like everybody wins.

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Fourth match... It's so great they can't even get the match started.
Looks like Josh and JVN got distracted. :D

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omg 71 tipped
!!!!!

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DUDE!!!! That was Hottt

the Bigger they are...

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71, 1024, and 269 win!

Awesome finals and congratulations to all 6 teams.

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we need a picture of the feild with everything scored i want to see it again

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You can rewind the webcast by clicking on the position bar. I watched it twice while waiting for the final score.

I wish they hadn't assessed 20 penalty points to make it 33-12. It would have been more poetic 33-32. It's still the best Regional Final I've seen.

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What were the penalties for? I didn't get to watch the webcast, but I have a good idea what they were.......

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Great regional.

Thank you Dave and Wildstang for providing the webcast, and thanks to purdue for providing the internet connection.

Hope you guys enjoyed our show too:)

Rock and roll.

Josh

Ohh and in response to this one:
Dont blame me, blame the software, it was showing the match number as "ERROR" and then froze up when we tried to replay it as match Finals #1 so yah, that was one of those 'high stress moments'

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I ahve to second what Josh said: Thank you very much to any of you who helped out in bringing us the webcast, it was great that you could include us in your competition. I was talking with a few people online while watching it and we all greatly enjoyed the quality of the feed as well as the quality of the competition. Congratulations to all the teams for putting on a great show.

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Maybe they will list it as match number "ERROR" whenever they put the results up on the FIRST site :rolleyes: The competition software is crazy this year ...*cough* Windows *cough*. It makes me glad I'm a robot inspector.

But seriously, great job everyone. That was a great webcast (I got to watch two regionals from my dorm room). Unfortunately, now everyone is going to bug Wildstang to cut and post the videos of the Finals matches. As a children's book once said "If you give a mouse a cookie..." :D

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The webcast was great. I expected Boilermaker to be a great event, and it was. There were a lot of good matches, not surprisingly, given the number of "powerhouse" teams at the event. I'm looking forward to seeing all you northerners in Atlanta.

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The webcasts weren't saved somewhere, were they? I would love to see what 71 created this year, and by the sounds of it, the regonal was very exciting.

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I would love to have a copy of the regional I had so much fun there and I want to watch all of my teams rounds again. Congrads to all that was such an awsome finals see you all at Atlanta.

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Sorry guys, I tried to get it to save the stream as it was broadcast but couldn't get it to work. I didn't have a lot of time to mess with it so we didn't get the stream recorded. Maybe next time.. ;)

I'm glad the webcast worked out well. Thanks to Dr. Bot and NASA for hosting it on their servers and to the planning committee for setting up the Internet feed that we used!

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check soap hq next week they should have it archived maybe

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NASA was glad to help. I was watching from home and it was just amazing.

We had upto 160 people online simultanously during the finals.


FIRST is always about raising the bar for everyone. Well the darn 111 guys have set the bar pretty high for me, trying to webcast the SVR next week.
(I might be a bit distracted since I'll be insoecting and also routing for 254!) I hope we can do as good a job both webcasting and competition wise as you did in West Laffyette.


I just loved 16's corkscrew tetra grabber, and Cyber Blue, WildStang, and of course the 'Beast' put on quite a show. I'll gladly put an archive of the final four matches up if someone either sends my a tape or encodes them and puts them up for download to the NASA server. You guys may not now this, but I lived and worked in Fort Wayne, IN for 10 years, and am well familar with South Side, HS. It was like being back home again, in Indiana!


I'll look forward to seeing you at the NATs.

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I know that Chris Noble from 1018 and also team 461 captured the whole event on hard drives, what will be done with those hard drives is anyones, guesse. So yah, i'll see if i cant get them to put them online.

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The event was captured by the regional digitally as it was broadcasted. We will have more information on the availablity of the material soon.

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That would be great I want to show some of my family the regional.

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hey what was the highest score of the regional

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The penalties were from a lot of shoving from (I believe) 93 and 135. I would love to be able to watch those matches again, you really see surprisingly little as a human player, even when you are within 3 feet of the field!

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963 was terrible at shoving robots..... they got a few penalties, but there were times when for some reason the teams the hit got the penalties instead.

Does anyone know why, i believe it was team 71, in the final matches, didn't get a penalty for going over the wall with the stack of two tetras? It hit one of our team members when it happened and barely missed our captain and a ref. I could tell the ref was mad, because he stuck his hands up and stuff. But i thought they should have been disabled there and then, and if not that the should have still got a penalty. I was surprised at that.