2008 Bayou Regional
 

The Bomb Squad will be attending the Bayou Regional for the first time. I am compiling some 2008 information on the other teams and with only 9 teams researched so far, there are 2 regional champs, 1 finalist, 1 Chairman's winner and lots of awards (and 118 hasn't even played yet). The good news is I can take a break, because this should be enough to seriously get my team's attention! We haven't played since week 1 and it is still a long time til week 5...chomping at the bit and looking forward to Bayou:yikes:

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you're not the only one.

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I see you guys won't be competing before New Orleans. My note to my team is that they need to pay attention to you very quickly and see what you are up to! So what are you doing this year? I saw the 5 week video, but can't tell for sure...

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For some reason we didn't get any run video before the ship, but we do have some pictures uploaded to cd: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/30394

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/30382

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Can't wait for Bayou, just got done with Florida and now have begun counting down the days.

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Team 1429 is going to miss Bayou this year. We had a great time there last year. Good luck to all teams going...

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1279 is looking forward to our first trip to the Bayou Regional.

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The piggies are catching up on sleep and ready to hit the Big Easy. There are 4 Florida teams coming to play. Cant wait

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Awards for team attending the Bayou regional as of March 24th
3 regional winners 148 440 1477
3 regional finalist 34 118 230
1 Chairmanship 34
Regional Engineering Inspiration Award 118
Johnson & Johnson Gracious Professionalism 314
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award 148 832 1477
Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technology" Award 118
Motorola Quality Award 79
Autodesk Visualization Award 499
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award 1902
General Motors Industrial Design Award 16
2 Website Award 16 34
Judges Award 440

20 awards for 12 teams

13 teams from 2007 championships
16 34 49 79 118 148 314 364 456 555 832 1912 2182
This was a very quick search
Hope I did not leave anybody out

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1902 played on Einstein in 2007

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:ahh: t-3 days and counting...who's ready?

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2080 was there last year and will be there this year too. It is gonna be awesome, I cannot wait till Thursday.

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I'm really getting pumped. It seems to me that Bayou has an unusually deep field this year...

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Team 1379 is looking forward to a second regional at Bayou! It'll be good to see some new faces.

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832 just threw our can in last week. Now I just hope our robot makes it in time:ahh:

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So, will Exploding Bacon be defused by the Bomb Squad, or will they join forces and have a real blast?!

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:rolleyes:
<shameless puns>we'll see if we can fry up some booming fun times. Hopefully team 16 won't blow us away. Who knows, mabye team 79 will krunch down on the competition.:cool: <shameless puns>

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Team 34 is looking forward to our return trip to the Bayou. I'll be the IRI guy for this regional. See 'ya soon. :cool:

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Yay! I actually get to go! I was worried I'd miss it because of exams, but I have nice professors who like Robots so I get to play in the Bayou! I'm really excited to go, its a new regional for me and there are a lot good teams competing.

Look forward to seeing everyone thursday.

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Are thebluealliance.net or soap going to webcast this event? Sometimes, the events aren't shown on the websites.

I want to see 1279, 16, 1902, 118, 34 etc. all compete at this thing... Tough field of teams.

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robotics.nasa.gov
you can find the list of websites there or you can go to soap gameday.
I belive the address is gameday.soap108.com
Either one will work, enjoy the show:D

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Team 230 will be webcasting. Go to www.shsrobotics.org click the Click Here under Webcasts and ignore for now that it still says UTC Connecticut Regional.

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I cant wait. :D

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My prediction is team 16 and 118 on the winning alliance...

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I'll be there with 1902, my one regional for the year, see ya'll soon!

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Yes, I agree and even mentioned it as an ultimate alliance here.

I think the 1114/16/X alliance mentioned later in that thread would indeed be unstoppable and would have actually happened in the MWR (if Winnovation hadn't selected the Bomb Squad).

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Unfortunately I will be missing my first ever regional competition, but I hope to be able to meet and greet all of you at Atlanta!

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!!!!Bayou is the best Regional I have ever been to!!!!:D :rolleyes: ;)

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456 will be heading down to the Big Easy in the morning. We will staying at the Embassy Suites but I doubt the students will be doing much sleeping. We are looking forward to another great time on the Bayou! Stop by the pits and say hi. I'll be the one in panic mode all day every day.

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loading on the bus now!!! can't wait, although I know we're forgetting something, see ya'll in the big easy:D

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Bacon is here, Weee!!!

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Does the score table have internet access? They have not posted any results or standings to FIRST. Can someone let them know?

Mannie

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I am watching on soap right now. All i can say is LOTS of penalties, very sloppy play. Competition looks pretty good though.


go 1279

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Soap should point the link on their page to http://www.shsrobotics.org. The server ip address could change during the day depending on capacity and the number of connections.

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It's still not up even at the end of the day. One of our mentors mentioned it to the officials but I haven't heard word on what is going wrong.

http://www2.usfirst.org/2008comp/Eve.../rankings.html
http://www2.usfirst.org/2008comp/Eve...chresults.html

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I spoke with Mike (FTA). Their server cannot get through the internet. Scores will be posted at the end of the day...

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Match results and standings are up now. Props to FTA Mike and the volunteers there for sticking to it.

148 STILL has not seen the losing end of a match in 2008! :eek:

Can anyone stop them?

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Dun worry, There are more matches tomorrow...

1902 yall have a very good bot from what I been seeing. Just that you been getting matched up with not-so good alliance members.


P.S. Yall should check us out tomorrow, Saturday. We will be the first match up at 9:30. (hopefully there is no delay tomorrow lol) It is sure to be an interesting one. 2182 (us, 9th place) vs 2080(10th place)

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Are they still having internet troubles down there?

Anyone got news?

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Richard the internet is up but for some reason the updates aren't being posted. We just had a short burp on the internet so the webcast may have dropped for a minute. The scores may be updated manual at lunch. Yesterday the FIRST servers had no interrnet access. They may have shut off the auto-update feature in the scoring software.

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If there is anyone at the regional now can you post up the top 16 teams to this message board?

Thanks!

Sean

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After 24 straight wins in 2008. The streak has come to an end. Team 148 loses their last qual match of the day.

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Team 148 seeded number 2. I'll try to find out more.

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Team 148 and Team 118 are partners so far.

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I'll post the alliances on team148.blogspot.com

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Saturday Rankings
1 1477
2 148
3 16
4 34
5 2182
6 118
7 230
8 1902
9 449
10 1279
11 2242
12 1379
13 364
14 1550
15 456
16 555
17 79
18 832

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They are going through the alliance selections very quickly. All the tournaments I've been at they drag it out a bit. It is kind of nice doing it quickly though.
Joey

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148 lost to 1902 in Q62.

On another note. I HATE this "graciously accepting"...

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1. 1477 16 440
2. 148 118 49
3. 34 555 2080
4. 2182 230 538
5. 1902 79 832
6. 499 1279 945
7. 2242 1912 1421
8. 1379 364 1927

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Alliance 1 - 1477, 16, 440
Alliance 2 - 148, 118, 49
Alliance 3 - 34, 555, 2080
Alliance 4 - 2182, 230, 538
Alliance 5 - 1902, 79, 832
Alliance 6 - 499, 1279, 945
Alliance 7 - 2242, 1912, 1421
Alliance 8 - 1379, 364, 1927

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Thanks for the posting. Good luck in the finals!

Sean

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I was watching a match with 118 yesterday and said, "I want to alliance with these guys." Long live the swerve drive!

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In addition we are the only two teams with the V6!

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Ok so i just watched the second quarterfinal match for the Seed 2 alliance. And i've got a question.

Did 148 give up the lap-running thing this whole compitition or just for the elims? because they had the 2nd least amount of laps in this match they just played. I mean they still won and it sounds like they've only lost one match so i guess its working i just was a bit dissapointed

I was kind of hoping to see 148 in action. There hybrid is still really good but yea. They ended up with only 4 laps in tele so yea...

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Anyone notice this "lucky number" 40? AKA the amount of points deducted for penalties in almost every other match?

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What could go wrong in the field setup for the autonomous to not work?

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Its lookin like were gonna find out in the semis:yikes:

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geez... that was a slaughter... 148's hybrid didnt work then they get disabled halfway around the track...

They played good defense on that ball that was up for the 15 seconds they were running...

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1477,440, and 16 JUST WON THE BAYOU REGIONAL!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!

Good job everyone.

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Looks like our auto mode self destructed. I only saw it work correctly one time all weekend.

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Congratulations!

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What a terrific, intense pair of final matches between #1 and #2.

The Bayou qualifies for the "Most Exciting Final" thread!

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I was watching all day -- the finals were INTENSE! Congrats red alliance!

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Congratulations guys.
Great job to team 1477. Another awesome showing at the Bayou.

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Well 2080 just got home about an hour ago so I wanted to come on here and thank and congratulate who i need to.
Thanks
34 & 555 for picking us to be your alliance partners, we had so much fun playing with you, I think we could have gone all the way if we had not tipped over, but thanks for also giving us our first ever matches in elimination rounds it was awesome, I am still shaking. A special thanks to 34's captain for taking a chance on us.

To all teams we were partnered with who helped us get in the high spot we were in. There were no real horrible match ups for us this weekend and that helped us a lot.

To team Picayunne, for always helping us out.

To the crew and volunteers for making this one of the best regionals I have been to.

And congratulations to teams 1477, 16, and 440 for winning the Regional, wish we could have played yall.

to team 364 for the Regional Chairmans award when, you really deserved it.

To Scott Marshall for earning and winning the Regional Volunteer award, you really deserve it. You are the reason why we have a team, and a robot, you helped us so much in design, electronics, programming, you name it you helped either this year or last year. You really deserve it.
And to any teams or mentor's I am forgetting I am sure there are some.

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Congratulations teams 1477, 440 and 16. Your alliance was unstoppable, and I could not be happier losing to an alliance as great as yours. The design of your robots and the cooperation between the teams really showed in your alliance.

I also want to give a big shout out to all the volunteers that made the Bayou Regional possible. Their hard work really paid off, and I know that all teams that went to the Bayou were happy with how the competition was ran.

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Congrats to the regional winners and chairman's winners.

1279 thanks to 499 and 945 for their help. It is unfortunate that our alliance had to replay a match that we won so confidently (70-0)... but if we had to lose to a team, i prefer losing to the other nj team, 555.

Great regional to watch and cant wait for Atlanta...

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Congratulations to 1477, 16, and 440, as well as 364 for Chairman's.

I want to thank 364 and 1927 for a great alliance and couple of rounds. It was a pleasure to play with you.

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Def one of he best regionals I have been to in my many years, great facility, the best opening ceremonies anywhere period, great teams, and volunteers, congrats to everyone who won awards this week

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Great performance by both NJ teams 1279 and 555..you guys were great out there, too bad you had to face each other though:P

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I would just like to thank everyone for all the love they have shown my team and our alliance. We worked extremely hard to get to the position to do well in this regional and the amount of other quality teams made it a great and tough regional to compete in.

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The 2008 Bayou Regional was great. Another awesome year. Thanks to all the volunteers that helped make it great. (I was one of them) Also, congratulations to teams 16, 1477, and 440. Your robots were great. And thanks for everyone in our alliance for trying really hard through the elimination rounds. One thing I wont forget was exploding bacon sayin "Randomizer Randomizer, Oi Oi Oi" Thats still stuck in my head lol. Hope we go back next year

2008 Bayou Winning Alliance
 

The 2008 Bayou Regional Winning Alliance - Team 440, Team 16, and Team 1477

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Or the autonomous on 1 side only?

Does anyone have video or the score from this match?

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Thanks for all your support guys! I'll pass the world to my team that we are liked! I don't think we are on Nasa's, 118, good side. We took away their win in Texas and now Louisiana. :)

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This match will haunt me forever ...........

The field ran so well all weekend. I was helping IFI out at the Bayou regional because with 11 events going on, there were not enough IFI employees to go around. I had been baptized by fire at the now famous Peachtree regional and was praying all weekend that I would not have to go through anything like that again.

Then it happened .........

The #3 alliance never left the gate. I knew all 3 robots had an effective hybrid mode and was surprised it wasn't used (so I thought). After the match was finished, I was immediately confronted by team members and field personnel as to why the hybrid mode didn't run right. The equipment I was monitoring does not log the history of the autonomous or disable flags but it does keep stats about packet loss and drops. The data scanner confirmed that the radio link was good at that time. I also reported that none of the robots on Red left the wall. At that point I backed out of the conversation because, unfortunately, my team was involved and I felt it would be improper to say anything else. The alliance captain appealed to the head ref and she decided to re-play the match.

Each side of the field is controlled independently so it is possible that something like this could happen on one side only. The "Red" controller and "Blue" controller are connected to the common "Field" controller via Ethernet. The "Field" controller at the scoring table sends out commands to the zone controllers on each end. They process these signals and pass them to the IFI Arena controllers (3 on each end) which sends these signals via wireless radio links to & from your 'bot. There's a lot of stuff in those zone controllers that can go wrong but I can't tell you exactly what happened. IFI is only responsible for the radio links. We'll never know.

A similar thing happened at Peachtree except the Field controller lost its connection to the "Red" zone controller and nothing on Red would work. We wound up running the whole elimination tournament with six dongles.

You probably noticed that I decided to monitor the OI's the rest of the tournament to be sure every match had a full 15 second hybrid mode (thanks to the volunteers that helped me). That's why you saw six of us jump out of the end zones at the end of hybrid mode. We never saw this happen again.

It was weird ...... and I truly wished it never happened. :(

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We are ok that it happened, but were told that it was the 70-0 match that was being re-run.... so we left thinking that we lost based on a score difference that was un-obtainable even if the opposing alliance autonomous was run.

Now I see the 70-0 match is posted, not our other match. I do not remember the final score of the match that was replayed.... I just wanted to justify in my mind that a replay was the appropriate remedy.....

Unfortunately our shooter jammed in the beginning of the replay(only time it ever jammed!) so it was the end of the regional for our alliance.

In any event, I am proud of the way my students handled the situation, and learned a valuable lesson in gracious professionalism.

Overall, we had a fantastic time at Bayou, and hope it can be in our schedule for next year. The referees were fair, the penalties were well explained, and the opening ceremonies were second to none!

And if anyone is looking for an unforgettable excursion next year, I highly recommend taking an airboat/swamp/alligator tour.

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I guess I'm confused, keep in mind in my volunteering history, I've only done explaining for what happens never really experienced it. In the past if there were no packets lost then matches haven't been replayed. If there was, then its a sure fire way to know that there was a field issue, or is there something else that people go by? I also thought it was strange to order a replay of match 2 after the play of match 3, they had a lot of time in between there to decide, I thought if a decision had been made it probably should have been made before the start of match 3. That can greatly change a teams strategy, especially if there are mechanical troubles, in relation to timeouts or replacements.

All weekend long we struggled with our autonomous mode not running on the field, we would bench test it tethered and every single time it operated perfectly, on the practice fields in the pits, or waiting for our next matches. Yet it seemed when we make it to the field, occasionally it would run and occasionally it wouldn't. The bot for some reason seemed not to go into autonomous mode on multiple occasions, but when the students asked what happened they were told it was not a field error because there were no packets lost. Why the change, in theory.. or is it just because it affected an entire alliance?

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Great game guys. 555 going down to New Orleans for the Bayou regional was my first time down South and it was the most civil and organized regional we've ever been to. The field glitch was odd and they replayed because their was no way of figuring out why none of our autonomous' ran but something was wrong. 34 and 2080 we played a great game and though we didn't win we certainly had fun. 456 gotta thank you especially for the battery in that last match, you guys saved our lives. Thanks to the teams and the volunteers for showing us a great time and how a regional should be done. Hope to see you guys in Atlanta.

P.S.- 148 you guys play some great defense but go for steel bolts on your bumpers! :p