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awesome keep us posted


tom you have much to learn about the wonders of northeastern's co-op

and yes i am also curious

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we'll shes not answering my emails and text's...

it's only a bit away from start of practice matches. so we'll all know soon.

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I hope we get to see some practice matches:D

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I am hoping for practise match watching as well. And yes Co-op is awesome, in Canada as well lol. Guess that makes us northeastern too though lol :P yay for webcasts, hopefully some matches are up today!

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wheres the link to the webcast to even see if there is one or not today..

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Is this where the webcast would link from? Or would it be off of soaps site ??

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It will usually link right from the NASA site.

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alright thanks

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:) word is that they are setting up right now, unknown amount of time until they get it going and for how long it will last today. :)

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Team "Soap" Teehee I wonder when they will be officially recognized as The SigmaCats?

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Do you know if it will be on the NASA or SOAP's site? Thank You.

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view the nasa link i provided above.

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On NASA's site there is no link to SOAP's webcast though. Is that just because it is not set up yet?

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I believe that is the case, be patient young padawan, it is just practice day and I'm sure the webcast folks are running a bit behind.

/edit even tho I find myself click refresh on the nasa link every thirty seconds.

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haha well thats understandable, we are all excited!

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you know you can get Reload Every for firefox so it refreshes the page automaticly every x sec.

thats what i am using right now for that, and thats what i use for wootoffs on woot

but yeah, they need to be calle the sigmacats, SOAP is just a partnership bewten 108 and 1002 for scouting purposes if i am correct

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the thing i am wondering about, haven't in the past soap been on CD a little bit before hand and told all of us non eventers they are going live and such?

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I thought so too, but if its been said they are setting up, I'm going to trust them (and if they lie:mad: :mad: they will get it!!) lol kidding:p

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"apparently they're broadcasting soon if not now"

just got in a text.

yay!

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"Soon if not now"...that's a really good phrase to hear. I can't wait to watch!

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now we just need them to update the site... pretty please? or a link. that too.

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Cool! Can't wait...

My team is there today...but since I am taking the SAT on Saturday, I was unable to go. :(

Hopefully I will be able to see them online.

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links would be great lol.. or we may have to wait for nasa to update :yikes:

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i know i know!!

im just giving information as i get it...

usually soap can call nasa easily in case of a mishap, hopefully they will get it up and going soon!

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This is driving me crazy. I only have about 2 hours before i go to class. I hope it's up before I go.

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good to hear. I'm setting up my laptop to connect to my 42 inch tv in my room

can anyone post a schedule of the practice matches once the webcast I up and running


I hope someone will do the same for tomorrows matches

tia

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SOMEONE GIVE ME THE LINK PLEASE!!! :ahh:

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oh the fun of waiting at a computer for a robotics webcast

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Lol, my poor refresh button.

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oh god the suspense is killing me to watch the first FIRST regional!... oh look kfc =D *chomps down*..well at least the suspense tastes good!

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As I read this thread I cannot help but think about those "Black Friday" commercials where the lady is standing in front of the store saying "OPEN! OPEN! OPEN! OPEN!" The only difference here is that you people are saying "UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE!" or "REFRESH! REFRESH! REFRESH! REFRESH! REFRESH!" LOL Although most of you are in high school you remind me of my 6 year old daughter waiting for Santa on Christmas eve.

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FIRST 2008 regional webcats>>>santa

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But I'm in college....;)

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lol im in college as well..OH THE HUMANITY OF NEVER WANTING TO GROW UP AND STAY IN FIRST FOREVER!

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But I'm in high school.... :D

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I'm in Limbo.

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Looking more and more like were going to have to wait till tomorrow.....

I hope the teams attending will post some good observations.

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Hey if ya don't mind, post the link in this thread as well:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=65124

I posted the midwest link there and there's no telling which thread will be bumped off the portal by tomorrow.

edit

Never mind, nasa put up the links:
http://robotics.arc.nasa.gov/events/...s.php#webcasts

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NASA UPDATED!

http://robotics.nasa.gov/events/2008_frcwebcasts.php

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Sweetness... Webcast is coming in loud and clear =)

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YES!!!!!!!!!

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As am I.

Good to see it up, WOW WATCH THEM GO IN A COUNTER CLOCKWISE CIRCLE OVER AND OVER! BEST GAME EVRAR!

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webcast is coming in pretty good, no delays or anything, amazing.


To bad this midterm in 10 minutes is going to ruin the fun.

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yes... thats all i can say

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I did realize though everytime they change the score it goes to a green screen. edit: sometimes it does not always. strange.

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3 matches so far...I know it's just practice but WOW no one's broken 30 pts

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Looks like Santa came after all. LOL

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haven't seen a single hurdle yet.

though all practice matches are full with teams, unlike previous years.

*Dancing to regional webcast with endless smile on face*

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From what I've seen most of the teams shown so far are high high number teams (lowest maybe a 1600), so it's not unexpected in my book. No 75 yet with their arm vs. 25 with their shooter... thing.... lifter.... elevator... stuff.

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Hmm, remind me again...balls have to be removed from the overpass to be considered in play, therefore if a ball never left the overpass it doesn't count for the endgame correct?

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it does.
just saw an hybrid for 16 total points by an alliance, 12 of them by a single team....niiiice

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i wouldn't count out 11 and their mechanum...oops did i spill the beans?

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1511 looks fairly quick. Not too much action right now.

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Note: 1811 (1611? 1511?), by plowing thru traffic, was able to do 4 laps in 60 seconds...not too shabby

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seems to me like teams are having some hard time removing the trackballs.
The winner has for now been always decided by balls left on the overpass in the end of the game...

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There were some fast robots in that last match, and the fastest one (sorry, can't see team #s) also appeared to clothesline itself in the overpass.

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they also plowed into the wall at the beginning of the match

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The webcast is up and running. We had a couple issues earlier, but now is all well. It is difficult to orchestrate this stuff when I'm 1300+ miles away. :p So far, so good.

You can use http://nj.webcast.soap108.com/ which redirects to the proper stream url. Enjoy!

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WOW! a shooters almost had it, but lost the ball last sec...:(

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was that the same same bot that helped the red team robot get unstuck from the overpass?

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I HEAR DISTURBED.. FOR THE WIN! lol never heard disturbed at a region be4 yay :) im so happy right now haha

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There's a very fast robot with bright blue bumpers who I foresee racking up a lot of points in rough-handling penalties tomorrow if their drivers don't start being a bit more courteous. They plowed into several robots at full speed trying to complete laps.

Edit: 2016, looks like. Very fast robot (5 laps in the match I watched), but my impression was they were a bit lax in avoiding slower traffic.

Edit2: ooo, low-number match coming up.

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HURDLE SIGHTING!!!! Who was that?

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woohoo! 2 hurdles!
i think it's 1980
also one of the bots tried to shoot, but hasn't got high enough...

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i think it's 2016

woow!
next match is 75, 103 and 486!
action
and with Megadeth's Paranoid. can you ask for more?

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Man, 2016 is FAST!

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75 is up next!!

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But I don't see them playing. hmmm maybe the amazing invisible robot?

btw, holy $@#$@#$@#$@#, this is good music!

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finally a decen t match with some rep on the line 103 v 75 :yikes: :yikes: :yikes:

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I can't connect to the webcast... :(

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Hurdle by the scissor-lift team with red bumpers!

Edit: Haha, there's a short member of the field-reset team having trouble getting the balls back up. Although I guess you don't have to be that short to have trouble reaching the overpass with a 40" ball.

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Yay another hurdle!

I wonder when we'll see the 4x or 5x hurdles/match

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That scissor lift was FAST!

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That was a fast lift, wonder if something went wrong since it took a while to lower it and go again.

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the scissor lift bot has a fast lift, but looks like it got stuck coming back down

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amazing music! who's the D.J?!

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Not seeing a whole lot of "bumping to pass" going down...

A lot of high speed collisions though. Intentional or no, it's impossible to tell.

Still on the fence on whether or not those are going to be called as penalties...

These practice sessions are getting rough. No rougher than past years, but a lot rougher than I'd thought, since there was a lot of effort in the rules to tone down the contact this year.

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I think there is a standard list of FIRST songs they play at regionals. You can probably find it somewhere on CD if you search for it.

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no dj. They just have a list approved by FIRST that they shuffle at every regional.

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this is a very good shuffle then, i know at VCU we usually get pop, rap, and techno junk a lot, not good classic rock.

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seems like the team numbers written are wrong. i don't see 25 there

LOL one bot was in possession of 2 balls :D

EDIT: Sick and Destroy!

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two hurdles by the scissor lift bot

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Really loving the music here!

That siscorlift robot is very good at hurdling

and 11 had 5 laps =D

This is very exciting

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11 + 25 ... gonna be a good match against 104 + 1279

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click link below to open up the NJ regional directly

mms://a3.l1856956002.c18569.n.lm.aka...eflector:56002

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Holy... 1547 is a fast little one =D

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$@#$@#$@#$@# 25 is a good tosser, though i do see them getting a ball as a problem later on in the game. ditto with their whole auton strategy...

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Yeah, that didn't work for me. lol

Finally.... The NASA link is broke.. this one Matt linked above works if you plug it in directly in Windows Media Player..

Just a heads up to everyone!

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Interesting to see 25 fail the one hurdle, looks like they either need a pretty good velocity or to be really close to the overpass to hurdle, may be interesting when pilups occur around their finish line.

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25 was good.
turns out their strategy for picking up balls works great....
they had 1 bad shot though.

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wow 1547 is fast... 7 laps
go waldo

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Haha, 1547 looks like it is barely bigger than its battery.

Wow, 25 is amazing. Though it was interesting to see them stopped by a slower robot in their runup.

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Someone needs to give 25 a few pool noodles...

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Are they not running the practice match schedule outlined in the FIRST manual? They might be behind and wanting to speed it up, I have just started watching.

From The Tournament:
The first five minutes of each practice match will start with a 15-second hybrid period,
followed by a “free-form” session, in which the ROBOTS may be exercised to evaluate
operational characteristics, gain driver experience, determine system robustness, etc.
During this five-minute period robots avoid robot-to-robot interaction.

(15 sec Hybrid, 4:45 Teleop)

The second five minutes of each practice match will be conducted as a “competition
match” with approximately two minutes for set up, two minutes and fifteen seconds of
regular game play (including operations), and one minute to clear the field.

(Normal Match)

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Sweet 1547 =P

Waldo's speed and size will be good for 7+ laps a match, even in traffic!

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Looks like they're just running 2 "competition matches" with the same teams.

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1547's drivers are great. 25 looks good, as usual. Should be easy to play keep away with them, though.

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4 hurdles by 25, last one almost got placed on overpass.
awesome robot, awesome drivers, awesome Hybrid.