Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

If I remember correctly you scored highly in a couple of matches, which pumped the average up.

Median would've been a more accurate representation I suppose... less resistant to outliers. I'm not crunching those again though :p

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Team 1991 would like to thank all of the teams that showed sincere interest in the social that we had planned for tonight. As most of you know, we had to postpone it due to weather:(

However, we are all set up and ready to go for tomorrow (Saturday) night.:)
The details, once again:

FOOD: Pizza, drinks, snacks, dessert
DJ
DDR
XBOX (16 player on 4 projectors)
GAMES

Place: American School for the Deaf (12 minutes away from Convention Center)

Cost: $15 (we won Rookie All Star in NH, and any profits are to help get us there)

Come to our pit for tickets.... we need to know around how many people will come so that we can order food.

Thanks everyone for a couple of great days so far. We are having a blast!

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

DO you have the raw data that you used, if you do I would be interested in seeing it so I can check out the numbers.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

So, I had a hell of a night. I only slept about an hour at a time and visited the porcelain gods four times. I think it was the hotdog I had for lunch yesterday. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to make it today.
Did anyone else get struck down?

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Oh man, I hope it's not a stomach bug going around. Our team had a couple of kids come down with that at NJ.
Feel better!

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

We do, but its dead tree still. When we digitize it I'll let you know.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Here's the excel sheet we have.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

does anyone know what time the webcast will be up this morning

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

It's up. Opening ceremonies.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Wow, a #1 seed (176) v #2 (716) qualification showdown and its a rout. 716 and 40 score 2 blue keepers. They extend the row to 6 even though 716 looks like it has radio problems and 40 is constantly defended. Congrats to new #1 seed 716, your dead reckoning autonomous never ceases to amaze me.

Edit: I was watching the webcast and heard that the winner would be number one, I guess it was one of those weird ranking situations.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

well word is 176 are paired with 25.

i'll update when i get more info.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Here are the final alliances for the 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional

Alliance 1:
176
25
2104

Alliance 2:
1493
20
230

Alliance 3:
716
40
1027

Alliance 4:
1685
236
177

Alliance 5:
237
1089
549

Alliance 6:
195
1124
558

Alliance 7:
1733
173
1099

Alliance 8:
839
134
157


Good luck to all those teams in the final rounds!!!
Great effort by every single team at the 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional :)

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Andy Clarified this during alliance selections, 176 was a surrogate team so they still seeded first.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

CONGRATS 195 1124 and 558!!! THE NEW NEW ENGLAND CHAMPIONS!!!

Nice job 176 25 and 2104

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Congrats to 236 for winning chairmans (again) 5 in a row is pretty impressive ezpecially at a regional with as many quality teams as UTC.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Thank you 1124 and 558 for being a great alliance with us!

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

What does surrogate team mean?

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Since the number of teams at the regional wasn't divisible by 3 you guys had to play an extra round, however they don't count that round because it would be unfair if they did.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Congratulations to 195, 1124, and 558 for their win as well as 176, 25, and 2104 for being finalists! 195 and 1124 are the best offensive duo I've seen yet this year, they seemed so smooth and fast it was beauty in motion. Putting up seven ringers when 25 puts up two is no small feat! And then following that up with, IIRC, five ringers through the awesome defense of the #1 seeded alliance. A very exciting set of finals matches to be sure.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Congratulations to teams 195, 1124, and 558 for battling to the top of the bracket at the 2007 UTC Regional. Also Congratulations to the UTC Regional planning committee on another nearly perfect event. Without a doubt the UTC Regional in the last few years has established itself as one of the premiere regionals in the country. From a great venue, to great teams, to an incredibly enthusiastic crowd this year and loud too!! Congratulations are also in order to team 236 for their fifth (yes fifth!!) Regional Chairman's Award, how they have not won the national yet is utterly beyond me. Congratulations to everyone who competed at and made the regional a success, there was a lot to be proud of.

See you all next year!!!!,

Justin

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

No problem mate. We worked extremely well together... and i must admit that the finals this year were extremely intense.
Congratulations to 558 and 195 for being a great alliance, and to 176, 25, and 2104 for putting up a great fight- you guys were an extremely intimidating alliance.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Congratulations to the winning alliance! You were a tough group to beat!
Thank you to our alliance partners 237 & 549, we sure gave our opponents a run for their money!

This is (don't tell anyone) probably my new favorite regional.
The spirt was wild, and Connecticut really seems to get the gist of what FIRST is all about.

Thanks for a wonderful weekend!

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

I had a great time at the regional. I really enjoyed it, especially as a part of a rookie team. A lot of cool stuff happened, including changing out a BaneBots carrier plate of whom's pins fell out in under 8 minutes!

Kind of a sucky way to end the day though.... After the closing ceremonies, we had a Social back at our build site, and I had to leave to go to the hospital due to some chest pain (I have a history of pneumothoraxs..) Turns out it was just a pulled muscle in my back from picking up the bot.... Glad it was this though (better than a week in the hospital...)

Anyway, the regional was great. Congrats to the winning alliance, and to the rookie all-star winners... We know how hard it is to be a rookie team, and you guys deserve the award for all of the great work.

Jacob

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Does anyone have a video of the match with teams 25 and 1991 in which there were 316 points scored?

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

I think I do. If so it will be posted on www.team2064.com under Video.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Shh! Don't tell them that!

Actually, the finals were very intense and my heart was pounding even when I wasn't up there coaching. It was so much more fun to have a difficult match at the end, so thanks to 195 and 558 for your amazing teamwork, and thanks to 176, 25, and 2104 for spicing things up for us. Congrats to everyone on your excellent robots!

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

If your team/visitors/sponsors/family happened to arrive home this weekend with FIRST safety glasses that they borrowed to visit you in the pits, and you will be attending the Boston event you might want to turn them back in there. A number of them went missing (perhaps because teams left early or in haste on Friday) and were not turned in to the Student Hosts who were collecting them yesterday... They are marked by a yellow line on the nosepiece.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

This was the devil dawgs first time competing at UTC. The competition was excellent, and we made some new freinds. The parking fees were marginal, and the food was moderately priced (where else can you get a cheeseburger for six bucks that tasted that good?). I was kinda confused on loading dock senario. I know it's a union shop and they have their own rules on when certain docks can be used, but to wait to the last minute to tell us we can't use the front doors to load/unload our tool carts caused some confusion, that shoulda been on the UTC event website info. See you next year at UTC...


Stills

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

About a third of our team, including our drivers and coach, came down with a similar problem Friday night/Saturday morning... luckily it worked out in the end, but between that and the snow, we were worried for a while.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

It's the FIRST Flu as I like to call it. Some years it take form as a stomach upset. Some years as a cold. Some years as the laryngitis virus (last year that was the one that got me - couldn't speak in a normal voice for several weeks! and it wasn't from yelling - I caught it at BAE where I was a spectator - not cheering - and had it through Championships). This year it seems to be the stomach thing that is affecting different regionals.
Wash your hands. Frequently. Get rest and drink lots of fluids. Eat properly. Take care of yourself before the competitions and you will be able to fight things off better.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Will anyone from team 230 be putting up an archive of the webcast?

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

The folks over at Soap 108 (www.soap108.com) have already started uploading matches from CT. It usally takes them about a day to get everything uploaded which isn't surprising considering the enormous task they undertake for all these regionals, encoding, editing, and uploading every match...but I'm sure glad they do it!!

-Justin

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

The matches were being uploaded live as they happened, but then stopped after match 20ish. I believe theres a few DVDs floating around with the remaining matches in them. They need to be parsed and uploaded though.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Stills (and anyone else),

As always, things can deviate from the script. I was not happy with the event loading and unloading for the teams but most of this had to do with teams having ignored or not read the information on our event web page.

The info on unloading was posted here ("Access to the Loading Dock"). If you experienced something different please send me an email detailing your experience. Please be as specific as possible.

I was upstairs supervising the load-in at the loading dock and could not be everywhere at once. We need your input if we are to make corrective action for next year.

I look forward to getting your emails...

Mike

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Congratulations to the winning alliance, we saw first hand how powerful you guys were. Also, a big thank you to our alliance partners 716 and 1027.

And a big thank you to team 134 for sharing the bus ride to and from Connecticut with us.

Except for the "FIRST flu" this was a great regional.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

I've got the eliminations rounds parsed out and up. These may only be up for a day or two as we update the TBAtv system with week 3 data and videos. Enjoy.

http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv...utc07/tombeta/

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Congrats to 1124, 195 and 558! And many thanks to our great alliance partners 25 and 176 for giving us the opportunity to have an amazing experience in our first FIRST season. We've learned so much and are looking forward to next year.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Thank you for posting these.

Do you know if there are plans to post the seeding matches?

Jacob

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Team 1493 would like to thank our alliance partners team 20 and team 230 for teaming with us and using great team work to get as far as we did.

Sorry things went bad and a gremlin busted our bot and we were no help for match 2+3 of the semi's....who knows how things would of worked out if that had not happened...

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Also if anyone wants to have the finals in DVD quality of the UTC finals, you can download it here:

http://www.rhodewarrior.org/temp/utc/

Note these are not web-ready videos. These are meant to be burned onto a DVD

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

You have a ridiculously fast server. I'm downloading 10+ mbps from you now.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

There was a problem with one of the files, but it is fixed now.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

All of the elimination matches have been uploaded to The Blue Alliance Match Archive System. We have some of the first few eliminations up thanks to SOAP, but we haven't had time to split all of the other elimination matches. If anyone wants volunteer to help us, let me know and I can send you the big files to cut up.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Thanks to you as well!!! Yeah it's pretty rough when things start breaking. In Semi#2 We would have had it if we could have gotten the second robot up, thats pretty impressive considering you we dead in the water the entire match. But things happen!!! 20 Put up a good fight in Round Three- When we got nailed and the ramp poped open 20Sec into the 2min Human Op time, they were stuck doing everything them selves.

Good job all around regardless.

Congrats to all the Winners- And lets all root for 236 in Atlanta for the Chairmans. This is there 6th year getting there, and 4 in a row for UTC Regional (2003 they submitted and won in NH) So They definately deserve to be there and need to win soon! Good luck to everyone going forward!

Steve

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Oh Alex! I wonder who was telling you this info? :p I told you i would keep you updated, and i guess i did! :D

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

5th year, actually. 4 at UTC + 1 at NH = 5
Last I checked anyway ~__^

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

As the Pit Admin Guy, I would like to thank my wonderful pit assistants for all their help breaking in the rookie (Pat & Bob your great) :) I would also like to thank the TEAMS who were there. You all showed your Gracious Professionalism and it was great to have you all here in Hartford. If you have any ideas that you would like to see for next year please private message me and I will pass it along to planning committee. Thanks again for making my Rookie year a great one and I will see you in Atlanta. Look for the HAT;) Thanks Jack PS I can't control the weather it is New England wait 5 mins. it will change

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Here's a story about GP at UTC...

Our bot was having major gearbox issues, where we need to change a ratio by means of a larger sprocket on Thurdsay evening so we could compete on Friday.

Upon asking, many teams offered to bring one in for us on Friday morning, which was a wonderful offer. Then came the response from Team 177 (the Bobcats).

Upon understanding our need, a mentor and teacher offered to take us to their school shop about 20 minutes away to help us find a sprocket. Less than a hour later we were up and running and ready for Friday.

This isn't GP, this is GP^2!!! Thanks Bobcats!!!