Re: 2008 New York City Regional
 

Congrats Wayne on winning the WFA!!!

Should be fun to watch the eliminations tomorrow.

Re: 2008 New York City Regional
 

As far as game announcing and Emceeing goes, rather than rotate, I believe Blair and Chiniqua (sp?) thought it might help speed things up to just "hand off" rather than run to the other end of the field to save a wee bit of time on the late-running event.

With game announcing, George A. has been kind enough to share the mic with me because I'm a "GA in-Training". There's no miscommunication or "disarray" there.

There are a few contributing factors to why we're running behind there, and they include:

1) Teams taking too long to get their robots on and off the field
2) Refs deliberating for a long time about penalties (and I will qualify that by giving ridiculous props to the head ref who has been busting his tail this entire regional).
3) Technical issues, largely due to teams slamming into driver station walls. I witnessed at least 5 times on Saturday where controller boards fell off the driver station. That's being conservative.

To be critical, the biggest issue for me at the NY regional is the sound. When I'm on the field, I'm fighting over being able to hear the Emcees and being blasted over by the FTC area and FRC pit area. I'm not sure if its the same in the stands, but it really makes my job harder when I hear the field error sound to realize it's on FTC and not FRC.

Re: 2008 New York City Regional
 

211,74. and i forget the other.

My team came home with the Motivate Award, so I'm happy:)
We were the 8th alliance captain and had to face 74 and 211 first match of elims....so didn't make it past that lol. I really didn't like the fact that alliance selection wasn't serpentine, it actually pissed me off a little.

Re: 2008 New York City Regional
 

Just something interesting. I have a calculated the offensive power rankings (How many points, on average, a single robot will contribute to their alliance) for all the qualification matches in this regional. These are the results:

Based on that, the average scores should be roughly:

Just something interesting.

Re: 2008 New York City Regional
 

Hats off to rookie team 2344. Impressive design. I don't know why I like it so much?:rolleyes:

Re: 2008 New York City Regional
 

i agree that it was weird that they went back to old school FRC for the alliance selections, but in the rules is says that the order that the teams pick will be repeated for the second alliance partner, while not quite understanding it, they did it right, and apparently other regionals have done it wrong.....


i will agree that was another frustrating thing that NONE of the FTC teams could hear when they were up. Granted it was not too hard to go up and just as what match they were on, but i think something needed to be worked out...

Re: 2008 New York City Regional
 

Well it was hard to hear due to all the noise coming from the FRC competition. I was frantic with my FTC team (123) trying to get our bot in queue two matches in advance.

I really hope next year, they put the FTC competition in the other hallway, like what the guy at opening ceremonies said they might do.

Re: 2008 New York City Regional
 

Not every other FTC regional... they did it right in Washington.

There was a small problem in Washington, though. Last year we only had a dozen or so robots in the tournament, so there weren't enough teams to make eight alliances of three each for the Eliminations. The solution was to just pick 2-team alliances for Eliminations. Most of the last-year's teams were not prepared to pick a third alliance partner because of this (failing to read and remember the manual, I suppose), and were surprised that there were three 'bots per alliance. Another item for my mentor's checklist: Remind the team to completely re-read the rules about two weeks before an event, just to make sure.

Re: 2008 New York City Regional
 

My Regional Winner Prediction-

41, 555, and 1989.

Really hope 555 can have this win, they've been working really hard all season long. 41 as well. I don't know of 1989 though (never met them)

Finalists will be 375's alliance..I will keep this updated.
UPDATE: wow, 694 just put on an awesome show against 375 and won 72-44 due to two penalties on 375. 694 would have won anyway. That was a sweet match. They are now 1-1 and moving onto a third match.

UPDATE: Holy cr@p, 694's alliance took Semi finals to a third round and busted out a hurdle at the buzzer. Moving onto the Finals is 375, 348, and 637 due to penalties on 1403 and 694. If not for penalties, 694 would have won with a score of 72-66. Awesome job from 2344, 1403, and 694 though. It was intense to watch.

UPDATE: Finals match 1- Due to what appeared to be a shooter malfunction, 375 wasn't able to hurdle near the end of the match which cost them dearly. 375 also had a penalty for impeding a hurdle. 555 put up awesome hurdles and won the #1 alliance the match. 555's alliance wins 74-58 74-68 was pre-penalty).

UPDATE: Congratulations to teams 41, 555, and 1989 called the "New Jersey Sweep" for winning the NYC Regional with a clear victory of 96-54!!!!

Awesome job by 348,375, and 2234. Predictions were right and I will try to keep you all posted on awards as well.

Re: 2008 New York City Regional
 

:ahh: :ahh: :ahh: 375 must have had a problem with their shooter. They were in the home zone 3X with the ball, and no shot taken. I hope they can recover.

Re: 2008 New York City Regional
 

Congrats to the NJ Alliance of 41,555,and 1989

Re: 2008 New York City Regional
 

i think they ran out of air

Re: 2008 New York City Regional
 

Awards- Sunday

Outstanding Volunteer of the Year- Firooz Mirbaha
GM Industrial Design Award- 395, 2Train Robotics:cool:
Motorola Quality Award- 1517, P4
J&J Gracious Professionalism Award- 334, Techengineers
Chrysler Team Spirit Award- 230, Lehman Lionics
Judge's Award "For Spreading the FIRST Fever"- 1660. Harlem Knights
Rookie Inspiration Award- 2596, Ferrous Bulldog Innovations
Rookie All-Star Award- 2344, Saunders Droid Factory
Highest Rookie Seed- 2344, Saunders Droid Factory
UL Industrial Safety Award- 571, Team Paragon
Regional Finalists- 348 Norwell Robotics, 375 Robotic Plague:cool: 637 Mr. T
Regional Champions- 41 Robo Warriors, 555 Montclair Robotics:cool: , 1989 Viking Robotics ftw!!!

Engineering Inspiration Award- 694, StuyPulse ftw!!!
Regional Chairman's Award- 116, Epsilon Delta

Congratulations to all teams and see some of you in Atlanta!

Re: 2008 New York City Regional
 

HUGE Congrats to 1989 for the win in their second year. 555 and 41 are awesome (scary awesome) teams to be allied with, and you guys deserve it all the way.

See you in Atlanta!

Don

Re: 2008 New York City Regional
 

yeah i had fun @ new york it was my favorite regonal nd i honestly did wanna go this weekend but after going i was glad i went..it was so big and engery packed...yeah u couldnt hear the mcs cause of those green shirt 1403 children buts that alright that why i love my freshmen haha..it was good matches and lot s of fun ...i hoped 1403 will go next year