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no kidding I want to see something today!!!

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Does anyone know if FIRST will be releasing an online version of the match schedule?

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Everyone who doesn't entirely need NJ: Switch to Chicago!

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I don't have realplayer at school.... :(

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If you can install stuff on the PC, try Real Alternative, it's a codec that allows windows media player to play real streams.

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I know times are tough with the webcast, but while we wait for it to get better, let's talk about the few matches that have been played so far. Anyone surprised to see Team 25 be a part of the highest score so far? How about Team 103 being a part of the second highest? Did you guys think the scores would be this high?

I know everyone wants to watch the webcast, but let's just make the most of it for the time being.:)

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So what other first regionals have taken place on the 29th of Feb?

KA

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what happen to 103's launcher.. it doesn't seem to be working during that match

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BAE (New Hampshire)
St. Louis
Midwest (webcasted)
Oregon
New Jersey

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I think he meant throughout history, not this year. 'Tis a Leap year.

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team 25 like that autonomous. very nice

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The NJ crew is exceptional at field reset / turnover time!

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Wow, you're right. Looking at the results, they're getting a match running every 5-6 minutes. Midwest is taking 8-10 minutes per match.

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Did you see that last play!!!! Wow!!!

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And it's down again.

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Down with pants, up with webcast!

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Bah not again, at least it was up for an hour or so.

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Too bad its not on ustream.tv so we could all make witty jokes in the chat while we waited for their computer to get the stream back up.

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:mad: I spy something black and reectangular. Can anyone guess what it is?

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I guess "not a webcast"

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and we're back!

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web cast is back up:D

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It's Back up!


Technical side:
The MDF here in NJ kept dropping us after a few minutes - I think I tracked the computer down to the computer automatically assuming that our subnet mask is class a, whereas it's class c. All problems should be fixed, but I offer no guarantees. :o

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WE LOVE YOU DAN!

*gives dan a cookie*

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wow, did 25's hurdle get blocked?:ahh:

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25's pickup system showed its weakness in that match, those rolling track balls can have a mind of their own some times.

edit: yea 25 hit their teammate who was stuck on the overpass.

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25 just lost :O

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103 looked pretty good that match, 3 hurdles and they seemed to control the trackball well. Good match

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103 has a pretty efficent hurdling system. Lunch break boo, I want more robots.

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Did they just break for Lunch
im not recieving anything except a title screen

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Yes, they're actually on schedule.

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UPDATE!

I just whipped up some reasonably simple gameday page with a nifty automatic score caching system that will auto update on the screen. Scores update in the cache every couple of minutes. Your screen will update at about the same time.

Its ugly and insanely simple, but I wanted to release this now. I will be improving it throughout the day.

http://nj.webcast.soap108.com/gameday.php

If I make any major updates, I will note them in the chat, and you can refresh if you would like.

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Hurrah for the volunteers!

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I'm to lazy to look at the schedule, when is lunch over?

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1 PM their time... i think...

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its back, but it crashed again :(


EDIT:its back

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It worked all through lunch when nothing was happening...and now its broken again :rolleyes:

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Thank you so much for that! I can't watch the stream on this school computer, so this helped a lot!

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That stinks... losing a match because your robot moves backwards in auto mode....

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so is it working now?

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ugh, hannah montana.

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1279 shows some real promise!

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anyone care to help? is this link working on media player for everyone but me?

mms://a3.l1856956002.c18569.n.lm.akamaistream.net/D/3/18569/v0001/reflector:56002

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it is working for me... you can try and go here and see if you can see it... http://nj.webcast.soap108.com/

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75 has just been having bad luck all day...

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102's last sec hurdle was awesome!!


way more action today:D :D

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Does anyone on the forum have a match schedule?

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I'll say it.... Wayne is a better MC than Shanequa IMHO. There.

*backs out*

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Hey, does anyone know how mac users can watch the webcast? i tried using safari and opera, its not working for me.

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:ahh: Cotton EYE JOE!!!!!!!:ahh: :eek: :P ewww

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download Flip4WM
install
open url in quicktime
watch
profit?

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102 looks like the quickest bot at NJ

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YMCA let me hear ya sing it YMCA

woohoo

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What happened in the last match. I looked up and there was 45 seconds left and 80 points scored. How much of that was autonomous?

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100 points for the 25 alliance... very impressive...

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that was an amazing match...50some points in hybrid then 40some in teleoperated...geez

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hey, sorry if someone asked this already
but, are there reruns? as in, has someone been uploading matches onto a website?

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SOAP is going to start uploading the videos as soon as awards are done.

They will be uploaded to http://soap108.com

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Firday Award Winners

Autodesk Visualization Award: 303 Panther Robotics
Imagery Award: 223 Xtreme Heat
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award: 103 CyberSonics
Xerox Creativity Award: 219 Team Impact
Delphi Driving Tomorrow's Technology Award: 449 Blair Robot Project Wrenchman
Klein Parker Caufield and Byers EntrepreneurshipAward: 75 RoboRaiders
Judges Award: 102 Gearheads
Website Award: 1089 Team Mercury
Regional Woodie Flowers Award: Bill McGowan

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There is a Mac version of Windows Media Player, downloadable from Microsoft. (It works as well as...well...other Microsoft products.) I use it at home on an Intel IMac running OS 10.4.8.

- Steve

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Was the music better today? When I got home the competition was over.
Joey

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much better:D (minus cotton eye joe)

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So did anyone actually notice us on the webcast? we were doing pretty good all day and are ranked right behind the cybersonics

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As odd as this may sound, team 2495 wants to thank team 25 for completely destroying our arms. If it wasn't for you, we wouldn't have hit 15th place!!!!!!!!

WOOOOO ROOKIE TEAMS!!!!!!!!!!

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Awesome Day of Competition. Personally we had a big turn around in the afternoon. I can't wait to see what tomorrow brings! :D

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Yeah. Great matches today everyone. We did A LOT better than I thought we were going to. Hope to keep our streak going tommorow. And best of luck all in the Eliminations tommorow.

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What a fun first (ever) day of competition. We saw some very impressive machines today. Congratulations all around to the talented students and thank you to all of the dedicated volunteers. Special congrats to the students of Hamilton High West on Team 2495, great job today.

I think the game designers did a great job, this is a challenging game for the teams as well as an exciting game for spectators.

Looking forward to tomorrow. Get some sleep Brandon.

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I agree 100% with what you said about the game designers. I didnt like this game at first but after seeing the fast paced action and the intesity of the matches in Jersey today I think its one of my favorite games so far.

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What a first great day of competition. We were ahead of schedule by about 6 minutes which is why we started to drag our feet a bit towards the end. Queuing was working so well this year that 99% of the robots made it to the field on time w/o really being too naggy about your on time appearance. Hoefully Us Queuers will continue to build on that and not lose track of our goal that we're all here to have fun and we want to try *keyword on try* and get you on the field as quickly, timely and safely as possible and to make things run smoothly by announcing upcoming matches evenly and not have teams w/ their robots Queued up 5 matches early and be in the way of other teams heading to the field :)...

It really worked out well today - Thanks Ash and Jess.

I like to thank all the teams for their first day of cooperation and understanding it was well appreciated and the team queuers had a much easier job to do.

Congrats to all the teams who earned their first set of awards today... you deserve it!

Oh well, gotta get rest, wake up hit the job and then hit up NJ at 7:20A

CYA in the AM :) Tomorrow will be a blast!!!

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Our programmer has been trying so hard to get our gyro working again... hopefully tomorrow...

How are the teams looking? (i don't get to see much since I am in the pits mostly), and theres about 38094328 pages on this thread, almost impossible to read them all haha.

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My team (1807) has a camera on our robot. We captured some video of the matches from the robot's point of view. This is our third match of the day (2/29/08).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRqJT67cHQI

Enjoy! (And more are on they way.)

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Here is a link to the 2008 NJ Regional Award Winning Website: www.mercury1089.com

We are very proud of our Website team that worked extremely hard to create the amazing website.

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I feel really ripped. I am looking at the other regionals and they have 8 and 9 games played already.

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after watching matches.
Conclusion: Exceptional autonomous play wins matches.
When I saw the last match, how can you overcome a team that scores 50+ during autonomous while the other scores 16 (I think). The other team could stop playing during teleop period and still win.
The game was more fun to watch than I earlier thought or expected.
Other observations:
Team 25 had no problems loading up a ball, and without a manipulator. Impressive. If either they or team 103 are the #1 seed, and pick each other, oh boy!??!!
The best team to watch was 102! Its the coolest robot out there, picking its way around those larger bots. You gotta love it.
Robobees-great performance today. good luck!
We really miss playing here.

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Great matches all. I hope it goes better tomorrow for some.
Question. I just watched the YouTube match. Does the chain link fence go all the way to the floor or is there something clear and solid if front of it near the floor?
Good luck all :)

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If you look at the number of teams at each competition, most are at about 45 teams. NJ has 63! That is why others are getting more matches.
Joey

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I remember last year with less we had less matches. I don't know why we have more this year. It could just be because of easy the field is to reset.

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There is about 6 inches of snow forecasted for Friday night in the New Hampshire area. Because of this, Friday lunch break was cut to a half hour instead of the usual hour and the pits closed a half hour later too. The opening ceremonies will start an hour later, but the pits will still be open at 8:00. This is quite nice because my team (1519) has only one qualifier to play tomorrow and we also get an extra hour in the morning. :D

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Team Standings from Day 1 of competition


Day 1 Match Results

Day 1 Awards

Great to see our mentor and amazing teacher Bill McGowan win the WF Award :D

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Last year you had fewer matches because there was an error with the scoring system. Each year we try to base around 8 matches. =)

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A few people posted earlier (last night) that they were hoping to see 102 in action today... hopefully you were able to catch it :P and thanks to waialua359 for commenting on 102... I will pass the word on to them. And to Mike, the queing was easy :P hahaha. Hoepfully it goes well tomorrow.

I wish all the teams the best of luck tomorrow. About 20 matches remain so we'll see what can happen :) I hope yall at home get a great show to watch :D

And I must say, your team should never leave until the end of the day (aka after EVERYTHING is done) or else you end up like 102 and having 1 mentor and 1 student there to accept the =/ haha.

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I disagree while i think Wayne is a very good MC, Chaniqua shows a level of excitement and energy on par with Mark Leon.

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Thanks for the kind words. Overall our experience this competition has been inconsistent at best and knocking the track ball down has been an unanticipated challenge. We think we have that beat.

103 is certainly the hottest team on the floor this week. Ive watched them catch and settle a bouncing trackball and then quickly pop it off. They did a great job. And we owe them a lot for advice on repairing our ball knocker as well as giving us the key to solving the IR riddle yesterday. They are good friends.
Another team to watch is the rookie Robbinsville. They have been on fire with their auto mode and knocking the balls down. Great job for a first year team.

And congrats to 1089 (my family's team) for winning the web page award. They have worked incredibly hard against some ridiculous odds against them this past year. They deserve the recognition.

WC:cool:

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They are BOTH wonderful emcees and I think the field staff should buy them both Evil Sundaes tomorrow when it is all over.

WC

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Another video from our onboard camera.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ajikaezrGQ

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Nice video. How are you recording it, are you using the cmucam, what recording media, etc.

:D :D

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Our robot has an on board webcam and an embedded PC (mini-itx board). it isn't the cmucam. we use it to track the ball in autonomous. we record on a compact flash drive.

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Totally agree. Those guys are a sure bet for Rookie All-Star. Very impressive performance for a rookie team..heck, any team for that matter. Way to go 2590!!!!:cool:

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So I'm enjoying the NJ regional so far. There are glitches, sure, but that often happens at a week 1 regional. What's upsetting is that some teams are still having trouble driving around the track, which makes it harder to enjoy the game. I am sure it's incredibly frustrating for those teams.

Obviously I was expecting 103 and 25 to be the two big "Contenders" at NJ, but some teams have really shown their stuff!!

The Panthers (816) have been wrecking house and hurdling quite consistently.
The Gearheads (102) are quite a blur at times.... I don't know how they packed all that speed into that itty-bitty box, but man, does it move!
Another good hurdler was 449, and another was the yellow one with the big silver claws (I'm sorry I don't remember your number).
Cold Fusion (1279) was also hurdling exceptionally well, and had pretty good control.

Some teams are doing rather well without the ball, and one team I saw that I think really does that well is Killer Kardinals (136). Just like the Tornadoes (381), they've got a smart boat-like bumper design which helps them push and squeeze in between obstacles, but I noticed that 136 really realizes that they just need to ignore everything and keep driving, and their drive system is holding up and functioning rather well.

I've seen some great hybrid drives out there too. I haven't had the chance to see a lot of them, but the ones I noted the best were Raider Robotix (25) and rookie team Nemesis (2590). Nemesis crossed 3 lines and knocked 2 balls off for a 28-point start during at least one of their hybrid attempts. From what I was told, 25 scored 40 points in hybrid mode in one match.

Good hybrids are now starting to hit the 3-line mark, and some even all 4.

Oh, and I had a lot of fun subbing in for Georga A. on game announcing today. My apologies to Iron Devils, Mid Knight Inventors, and Blair Wrench Project for butchering your names or just plan getting them wrong. That's what I get for not knowing you all.

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Also, a little tip for teams in upcoming regionals: If the elevator or end effector of your alliance partners' robot gets stuck on the overpass and the robot tilts, please help them out to get the robot back on the ground if you are close enough to help right away. I saw some robots helping their alliance partners with this and some that didn't. Overall, its a principle of gracious professionalism and I would like to see it happen more often at upcoming and even tomorrow's competitions. :)

Just something that may help out.

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Galewind is the advisor for Team 1089, so I'm guessing it wasn't us he was talking about!

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Oh, wow, i totally overlooked that.:o I guess too many hours of scouting can mess with your head:p Sorry.

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Absolutely excellent job everyone! NJ is an awesome place to compete not only because of the teams in and around our state but because of the teams that come in from far beyond.

Don't sweat it Chris! You did an excellent job stepping in just as you did at Garden State Rumble!

Good luck everyone, looking forward to an exciting last day!

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I'll be down at Trenton tommorrow with a few other SciBorgs. Anybody have any buttons left to gve out?

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I think thanks to my other thread, he deserves to speak at the Championship event...

103 looks really good, and whats up with 25

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just keeping it exciting..... (pulls pins out of voodoo doll)

WC :D

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Lol I thought we went totally unnoticed this weekend!!!

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it's hard to be unnoticed when you're currently seed #2 :).

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The new spot for the NJ GameDay is http://gameday.soap108.com/?evnet=nj.

Enjoy!

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Bill Miller from FIRST asked me to post this on behalf of FIRST:

TO: The FIRST Community
FROM: Bill Miller, Director FIRST Robotics Competition
RE: FIRST Principles


At FIRST we aspire to some important goals. One of the most important is to change our culture. We try to achieve our goals by operating according to a different set of principles and imbedding them in everything about FIRST - including what we celebrate and what it’s like to attend our events.

Yesterday, music that violated those principles was played at one of our events. The music reflected things in our culture we want to change, not celebrate. It had no place at a FIRST event.

I apologize to the members of the FIRST community who had to hear it. I also want to assure you it won’t be played again at one of our events.

Thank you for your understanding and best of luck in the season.