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Looking Forward 28-04-2008 18:48
2009 Season Looking Forward
 
First off, thank you to all those who read and followed the Looking Forward threads in 2008. It was a blast, and should hopefully continue to be a blast again in the future. Congratulations to all the scrimmage, regional, division, and FIRST champions. Even in a year full of parity, we saw some of the most successful machines ever, including our first ever team to win five medals for robot performance (1114).
That being said, what can be improved about the Looking Forward threads for the 2009 season?
What did you particularly like?
What did you dislike?
Are there any areas that need additional focus?

Thanks for reading (and hopefully enjoying)!
See you again in 2009,
Looking Forward

Aren_Hill 28-04-2008 18:56
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
I really liked every part of the analysis, and i look forward to seeing it again next year. It was a really quick read gage of where your team currently lies and how your doing, it was also an honor being on your top 25 list for champs.

i don't really know what i'd ask you to change...

EricH 28-04-2008 19:05
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
I'm with Aren on this.

Now, can we get one for IRI?:)

synth3tk 28-04-2008 19:06
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Offer a mailing list in conjunction with the threads on CD. I'd love to have those predictions in my inbox. Other than that, a thousand kudos, and keep up the good work!!!

Molten 28-04-2008 19:12
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
I liked that you divided the regionals with huge font so that I could only read the regionals that I know about. Sorry, but it was a bit too wordy for me to read all of it. Not that I would make it shorter, I am just too lazy to read a lot that doesn't apply to me. One thing that I might change, would be to put a follow-up on the predictions stating where you were right and where you were wrong. Condensed of course. But I would find it interesting to see how accurate they are.

Aren_Hill 28-04-2008 19:46
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
YES! YES! IRI! IRI!! that will be one insane prediction, i really wanna see what you'll say

JesseK 28-04-2008 20:17
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
I liked how Looking Forward didn't jinx 1114 by selecting them to win it all. Great move.

Alex Cormier 28-04-2008 20:35
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by JesseK (Post 743778)
I liked how Looking Forward didn't jinx 1114 by selecting them to win it all. Great move.
Kinda like the Sports Illustrated cover curse or the Madden video game curse? :p

hoorayforpink 28-04-2008 20:40
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by JesseK (Post 743778)
I liked how Looking Forward didn't jinx 1114 by selecting them to win it all. Great move.
Ya, good thing Looking Forward didn't jinx them....:D

But on subject, I found all of Looking Forward's predictions and analysis interesting, to say the least. I thought it was amazing that such in depth analysis could be made by one group of people for most regionals plus every Championship division. I personally wouldn't change a thing and do things however you see fit.

commodoredl 28-04-2008 20:44
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Next year, it would be great if you could cover every regional; I know you missed a few this year.

Perhaps you could do the whole dark horse and sleeper thing for each week, not just the championship?

Brad Voracek 28-04-2008 20:57
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
I came into this thread expecting predictions for the 2009 season... :rolleyes:

One thing that may be interesting is if you included predictions for awards, if you have the resources it could be really interesting to see your predictions for design awards, or even chairmans. Maybe having them out a little sooner before each regional would be cool, but that's rather nit picky. Other than that I can't think of much that would work better, I liked the format and you generally fared pretty well with your predictions. I'm Looking Forward to next year ;)

SU 39 28-04-2008 22:09
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Molten (Post 743754)
One thing that I might change, would be to put a follow-up on the predictions stating where you were right and where you were wrong. Condensed of course. But I would find it interesting to see how accurate they are.
Actually "Looking Forward" already does that. It's called the "Looking Back" threads...

I thought the whole idea was great. It was helpful in that I got a list of teams to look out for beforehand with the extremely credible information you have rather than the hearsay I had. I don't think there's anything that really can be changed to make it much better besides getting better information. But that's a little harder to control...or is it?

Richard McClellan 28-04-2008 22:21
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
The Looking Forward analysis was awesome this year....I really think there needs to be more discussion like this. I was reading the Championship analysis out loud a few weeks ago and someone not familiar with FIRST overheard what I was saying and asked what sport I was reading about, which I think is an accomplishment. He was impressed with the depth of the analysis of all the teams, and thought it was a real sport, which is what FIRST needs to be seen as from the public point of view. Dean's homework this year of getting the message of FIRST to the public could really be accomplished by showing this kind of stuff to the public.

So, what if all of these Looking Forward posts were to find their way into the sports section of local newspapers? It could be a good move in that it really makes the general public more aware that robot competitions are actually sports. I mean, seriously, ESPN already airs poker tournaments and spelling bees as sports. The only hesitation I might have would be for FIRST to get lost in the mix with the other sports which have all of the trappings and negative aspects that FIRST is trying to avoid. But I think it would be a good thing. What do you think?

Actually implementing this would be difficult obviously since the media decides what goes where and putting a robotics competition with other sports would be pretty unprecedented, but should this be a goal to strive for?

synth3tk 28-04-2008 22:50
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by richardmcc2 (Post 743811)
So, what if all of these Looking Forward posts were to find their way into the sports section of local newspapers? It could be a good move in that it really makes the general public more aware that robot competitions are actually sports. I mean, seriously, ESPN already airs poker tournaments and spelling bees as sports. The only hesitation I might have would be for FIRST to get lost in the mix with the other sports which have all of the trappings and negative aspects that FIRST is trying to avoid. But I think it would be a good thing. What do you think?
I like the way you're thinking. And that's awesome news to hear about somebody thinking you're reading a "traditional" sports analysis. There would be a slight concern for the media's obsession with finding something bad or derogative in almost everything. But if we're all on the same page, it shouldn't be too much of a problem.

Quote:
Originally Posted by richardmcc2 (Post 743811)
Actually implementing this would be difficult obviously since the media decides what goes where and putting a robotics competition with other sports would be pretty unprecedented, but should this be a goal to strive for?
Work it. Maybe ask them to do a poll or a test article, get the readers' repsonses. Then they'll most likely be pursuaded to either include or exclude the weekly feature.

Billfred 28-04-2008 23:26
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
A request, on behalf of those of all who witnessed QF 2-5 and Finals 4 in the same event at Palmetto: Get more ears and eyes trained on the South*! :P

Otherwise, I found the coverage highly enjoyable. Keep it rolling.

*A little birdie reminded me that 148 was mentioned. I argue it doesn't count; everyone knows that Texas is its own country!

Akash Rastogi 28-04-2008 23:40
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by commodoredl (Post 743788)
Next year, it would be great if you could cover every regional; I know you missed a few this year.

Perhaps you could do the whole dark horse and sleeper thing for each week, not just the championship?
Yeah, I agree with this. Also, will you be predicting for some of the off seasons? I'd love to read yours about IRI and also some of the NJ off seasons. And perhaps Beantown Blitz.

CraigHickman 28-04-2008 23:45
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Ditto on the email blasts.

All in all, it was awesome to be able to read these each week. Keep up the good work!

(oh, and if you ever have an opening for a West Coaster, I'm always available...)

EricH 29-04-2008 00:00
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by CraigHickman (Post 743845)
(oh, and if you ever have an opening for a West Coaster, I'm always available...)
As am I.

AdamHeard 29-04-2008 00:01
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by EricH (Post 743848)
As am I.
me too

The Lucas 29-04-2008 00:02
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Great job Looking Forward! I would like to see the AP Poll Top 25 start in Week 2 Look Back (with a Top 10).

Quote:
Originally Posted by CraigHickman (Post 743845)
(oh, and if you ever have an opening for a West Coaster, I'm always available...)
Now that LF has a good following going I think it is time for them to contribute more than just saying "You forgot team XXXX". I want to see more tipsters next year. So if you think you know your regional, our just have a hot tip on a team drop LF a PM. Give LF all the good info possible and let him/her/them decide what is fit to print (it is fun getting your stuff "published"). Note: Please don't hype your own team :rolleyes:, CD has enough of this noise and we want "Honest Analysis" from LF. Plus I don't want to partially responsible for a SPAM-like attack of "Pick Me PMs" on LF. Look Back stories of your team in the finals etc. are good.

Quote:
Originally Posted by richardmcc2 (Post 743811)
I mean, seriously, ESPN already airs poker tournaments and spelling bees as sports. The only hesitation I might have would be for FIRST to get lost in the mix with the other sports which have all of the trappings and negative aspects that FIRST is trying to avoid. But I think it would be a good thing. What do you think?
This ESPN mention kinda gave me an idea that I'll throw out there. What if the community (LF, CD, TBA, SOAP) produced a 5 min Sportscenter like highlight video of each week to compliment Look Back. Of course for this to work the Coordinated Regional Archiving needs to get a little better, but it grew by leaps and bounds this year along with more webcasts, SOAP Gameday and TBA. I think this would be great for the causal FIRST Fan (who doest necessarily watch webcasts or archived match vids). I was surprised how many people on my team hadn't seen Simbots run before Championship. If it was condensed to the just the exciting stuff (w/commentary) fans expect people may take more of an interest in robots other than their own. Maybe if it is really good we can get someone (PBS etc) to air it. What do you guys think?

Nawaid Ladak 29-04-2008 00:03
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
LF, you have done a great job in analyzing regional and championship events in FRC events. it would be nice to do the same for those FTC people, um i mean training another looking forward"...

i second the dark horse, sleeper, and lock theory for EACH regional, i know it would be a stretch, but i know you can do it.

I would also suggest one more thing, im not sure if it has been mentioned, but i would LOVE to see a top 25 list for every weeks events. sort of like a AP poll and to see teams rise and fall.

overall, you have done a great job, keep it up!

Richard McClellan 29-04-2008 00:06
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lucas (Post 743852)
This ESPN mention kinda gave me an idea that I'll throw out there. What if the community (LF, CD, TBA, SOAP) produced a 5 min Sportscenter like highlight video of each week to compliment Look Back. Of course for this to work the Coordinated Regional Archiving needs to get a little better, but it grew by leaps and bounds this year along with more webcasts, SOAP Gameday and TBA. I think this would be great for the causal FIRST Fan (who doest necessarily watch webcasts or archived match vids). I was surprised how many people on my team hadn't seen Simbots run before Championship. If it was condensed to the just the exciting stuff (w/commentary) fans expect people may take more of an interest in robots other than their own. What do you guys think?
Sounds like a great idea to me. What are the chances of getting higher quality video for something like this?

Akash Rastogi 29-04-2008 00:08
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lucas (Post 743852)
This ESPN mention kinda gave me an idea that I'll throw out there. What if the community (LF, CD, TBA, SOAP) produced a 5 min Sportscenter like highlight video of each week to compliment Look Back. Of course for this to work the Coordinated Regional Archiving needs to get a little better, but it grew by leaps and bounds this year along with more webcasts, SOAP Gameday and TBA. I think this would be great for the causal FIRST Fan (who doest necessarily watch webcasts or archived match vids). I was surprised how many people on my team hadn't seen Simbots run before Championship. If it was condensed to the just the exciting stuff (w/commentary) fans expect people may take more of an interest in robots other than their own. Maybe if it good we can get someone (PBS etc) to air it. What do you guys think?
I totally love that idea. Maybe the reporting desk can be made by someone out of some extrusions and lots and lots of 80/20. Don't forget the diamond plate and lexan you could include in all that.

...and speakers
...and and neon lights

This is beginning to sound like a robot cart. :p

chaoticprout 29-04-2008 00:10
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by AdamHeard (Post 743849)
me too
lol. :D

waialua359 29-04-2008 04:14
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
I saw LF right before we won the EI award!
No joke! ;)
In person and NOT on the big screen.

See ya next year!

sgreco 29-04-2008 06:36
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
I liked how Looking Forward didn't jinx 1114 by selecting them to win it all. Great move.
Looking Forward was soooo close to picking the entire winning alliance. 968's alliance definitely could have won that semis match on Einstein(nothing against 1114, 217 and 148). If they did win they most likely would have won the championships.

Great job with the picks!!!

Qbranch 29-04-2008 08:10
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Thanks for all the great work this season, Looking Forward team. It made the season a whole lot more exciting with your expert analysis.

Will you be doing looking backs for Atlanta?

I'd be interested in an IRI prediction too... though our team uses IRI to figure out new drive teams... so... we usually don't do so hot at IRI. :o

Thanks again,

-q

synth3tk 29-04-2008 12:20
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lucas (Post 743852)
This ESPN mention kinda gave me an idea that I'll throw out there. What if the community (LF, CD, TBA, SOAP) produced a 5 min Sportscenter like highlight video of each week to compliment Look Back. Of course for this to work the Coordinated Regional Archiving needs to get a little better, but it grew by leaps and bounds this year along with more webcasts, SOAP Gameday and TBA. I think this would be great for the causal FIRST Fan (who doest necessarily watch webcasts or archived match vids). I was surprised how many people on my team hadn't seen Simbots run before Championship. If it was condensed to the just the exciting stuff (w/commentary) fans expect people may take more of an interest in robots other than their own. Maybe if it is really good we can get someone (PBS etc) to air it. What do you guys think?
I like that whole idea. If you take it further, I'd like to help coordinate it in my spare time.

Quote:
Originally Posted by richardmcc2 (Post 743854)
Sounds like a great idea to me. What are the chances of getting higher quality video for something like this?
Well I know some teams/services already use nice quality cameras (MorqTV, TBATV, etc) but if we could get some local PBS' involved throughout the country, it'd help. Also, you really don't have to spend too much these days to get really good quality equipment. One last thing is a universal file-format would make it a heck of a lot easier to keep track of.

Gene F 29-04-2008 13:43
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
How about taking one more step (look) forward and turning it into a web page with photos and team spotlights. the insights and research that go into the predictions are awesome and could really benefit from some added color (literally and figuratively) to the presentation.

I was an avid reader and will continue to do so! Thank you for sharing with the community!

This could develop into a FIRST magazine!

Greg Peshek 29-04-2008 15:16
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gene F (Post 744004)
How about taking one more step (look) forward and turning it into a web page with photos and team spotlights. the insights and research that go into the predictions are awesome and could really benefit from some added color (literally and figuratively) to the presentation.

I was an avid reader and will continue to do so! Thank you for sharing with the community!

This could develop into a FIRST magazine!
Developing on that idea,

Why not just make the Looking Forward franchise into an addendum of The Blue Alliance website? It already has pictures of robots, the match results from previous regionals, and all the name recognition. I don't know if it could be worked out with the admin's of TBA and the person/ squad behind LF, but I would think it could boost both TBA and LF.

-Greg

Tom Bottiglieri 29-04-2008 15:19
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Greg Peshek (Post 744032)
I don't know if it could be worked out with the admin's of TBA and the person/ squad behind LF
I feel like that wouldn't be an issue.

Joe Matt 29-04-2008 15:41
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lucas (Post 743852)
This ESPN mention kinda gave me an idea that I'll throw out there. What if the community (LF, CD, TBA, SOAP) produced a 5 min Sportscenter like highlight video of each week to compliment Look Back. Of course for this to work the Coordinated Regional Archiving needs to get a little better, but it grew by leaps and bounds this year along with more webcasts, SOAP Gameday and TBA. I think this would be great for the causal FIRST Fan (who doest necessarily watch webcasts or archived match vids). I was surprised how many people on my team hadn't seen Simbots run before Championship. If it was condensed to the just the exciting stuff (w/commentary) fans expect people may take more of an interest in robots other than their own. Maybe if it is really good we can get someone (PBS etc) to air it. What do you guys think?
I think a 10 minute highlight reel produced and hosted by TBA of each week's events, both of webcast and non-webcast video, including scores, updates, and maybe a top 10 plays of the week, alliance of the week, etc.

Get a spiffy background, put them in suits, have fancy side graphics, and this could very well be a huge thing.

synth3tk 29-04-2008 16:17
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Greg Peshek (Post 744032)
Developing on that idea,

Why not just make the Looking Forward franchise into an addendum of The Blue Alliance website? It already has pictures of robots, the match results from previous regionals, and all the name recognition. I don't know if it could be worked out with the admin's of TBA and the person/ squad behind LF, but I would think it could boost both TBA and LF.

-Greg
That would make it easier for sure. If the servers could keep up, we can have the "correspondents" all over (including Israel, Brazil, and our other international friends) shoot and upload content, have editors make up the segment, then put it on the webpage. Make sure it's good quality, though, if we want it to be [somewhat] on the same level as SportsCenter.

Joe J. 29-04-2008 16:27
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
I would like to see Looking Forward have its own forum (like carnack does.)

Dancin103 29-04-2008 16:42
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
I think that the looking forward posts were great. They were interesting and entertaining to read. Thank you very much for taking the time to study, watch, and follow every team and their progress and posting it here on delphi. I am looking forward to what next year may bring, and I can't wait. As always, I am ready for more FIRST.

P.S. Thanks for mentioning our team several times! :)

EricH 29-04-2008 18:51
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe J. (Post 744068)
I would like to see Looking Forward have its own forum (like carnack does.)
Second the motion!

Nawaid Ladak 29-04-2008 23:42
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
on the ESPN idea, i would rather see a Discovery Canada type setting, but with a panel of respected people giving "honest analysis" as it says in LF"s user title. i wouldn't be surprised is SOAP or someone else (111 with Midwest...) could pull something like this off

but thats for another thread in my opinion...

synth3tk 30-04-2008 00:04
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nawaid Ladak (Post 744252)
on the ESPN idea, i would rather see a Discovery Canada type setting, but with a panel of respected people giving "honest analysis" as it says in LF"s user title. i wouldn't be surprised is SOAP or someone else (111 with Midwest...) could pull something like this off

but thats for another thread in my opinion...
Not familiar with the Canadian Discovery thing, for somewhat obvious reasons. Videos, plz?

Nawaid Ladak 30-04-2008 22:56
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by blakcheez (Post 744256)
Not familiar with the Canadian Discovery thing, for somewhat obvious reasons. Videos, plz?
http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/web...robotics-2008/

T3_1565 01-05-2008 08:46
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
I agree! Some sort of video review of each week would be awesome! I would be willing to help with the editing process as well! I would love to have the video resources to put together a top 10 plays of the week!

If many people were willing to help out, Looking Foreward could become not only a very popular read, but a very popular watch as well!

Mr. Lim 01-05-2008 10:02
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
5 minute Top 10 Weekly Highlight Pack is FULL OF WIN... I love it.

At this point, it wouldn't be much harder than starting a thread out there every week on CD asking for the best plays. The hard part isn't even finding the best plays in a given week. The community is large and active enough to be able to have seen them all and quickly identify them. I'd expect us to be able to come up with a solid 20+ plays in literally a few minutes. Have a team harvest the footage from SOAP/TBA.

What else would I love to see?

A weekly running BCS style ranking of top 20 teams in all of FIRST.

It has to be as illogical and controversial as the entire BCS formula/process though, or else it wouldn't be any fun!

Win/Loss, OPR, strength of schedule factors, point differentials... and most importantly, polls from well-respected "writers" =)

T3_1565 01-05-2008 10:08
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by SlimBoJones (Post 744732)
5 minute Top 10 Weekly Highlight Pack is FULL OF WIN... I love it.

At this point, it wouldn't be much harder than starting a thread out there every week on CD asking for the best plays. The hard part isn't even finding the best plays in a given week. The community is large and active enough to be able to have seen them all and quickly identify them. I'd expect us to be able to come up with a solid 20+ plays in literally a few minutes. Have a team harvest the footage from SOAP/TBA.

What else would I love to see?

A weekly running BCS style ranking of top 20 teams in all of FIRST.

It has to be as illogical and controversial as the entire BCS formula/process though, or else it wouldn't be any fun!

Win/Loss, OPR, strength of schedule factors, point differentials...

Agreed! That would be so fun to see!

I'm almost willing to make a weekly highlights reel for this year and play catch up! If this is what can happen for next years Looking Foreward, LF please PM me so I can help out with it!!

Jeff Waegelin 01-05-2008 12:53
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by SlimBoJones (Post 744732)
5 minute Top 10 Weekly Highlight Pack is FULL OF WIN... I love it.

At this point, it wouldn't be much harder than starting a thread out there every week on CD asking for the best plays. The hard part isn't even finding the best plays in a given week. The community is large and active enough to be able to have seen them all and quickly identify them. I'd expect us to be able to come up with a solid 20+ plays in literally a few minutes. Have a team harvest the footage from SOAP/TBA.

What else would I love to see?

A weekly running BCS style ranking of top 20 teams in all of FIRST.

It has to be as illogical and controversial as the entire BCS formula/process though, or else it wouldn't be any fun!

Win/Loss, OPR, strength of schedule factors, point differentials... and most importantly, polls from well-respected "writers" =)

And of course, after all the controversy, we have to change the formula every year to take into account some special case that caused problems..

Joe Matt 01-05-2008 13:44
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff Waegelin (Post 744774)
And of course, after all the controversy, we have to change the formula every year to take into account some special case that caused problems..
Hopefully we won't be as anal/crazy/formula driven to do that, I think using a formula or not we could determine the best teams this past year. The formula could just be one part of picking, with other factors having an equal or more important contribution.


PS- Michigan still sucks. ;) Go Bucks!

synth3tk 01-05-2008 15:53
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Matt (Post 744788)
Hopefully we won't be as anal/crazy/formula driven to do that, I think using a formula or not we could determine the best teams this past year. The formula could just be one part of picking, with other factors having an equal or more important contribution.


PS- Michigan still sucks. ;) Go Bucks!
w00t!!!! Scarlet and gray!

Anyway, we have two options for the weekly host/panel deal. Either get some people in one area to do it or have a high-quality webcam room. Maybe both. I dunno...

T3_1565 01-05-2008 16:09
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri (Post 744034)
I feel like that wouldn't be an issue.
Are you trying to say the admins on TBA and the LF squad are one in the same!?!?!?!:ahh: :ahh: :ahh: (that took me a really long time to find some underlying meaning to that sentence lol.)

hoorayforpink 01-05-2008 17:56
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by blakcheez (Post 744827)
w00t!!!! Scarlet and gray!
Miami got robbed. Should have been back to back....

anyway...
I think having a whole top 20 ranking would be awesome. It sure would be a fun way to share everyone's thoughts on some of the best robots in all of FRC instead of talking about the best robots at a specific regional.

Travis Hoffman 01-05-2008 19:19
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff Waegelin (Post 744774)
And of course, after all the controversy, we have to change the formula every year to take into account some special case that caused problems..
....and we'll let it decide who plays on Einstein....

Mr. Lim 01-05-2008 21:19
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman (Post 744892)
....and we'll let it decide who plays on Einstein....
or more appropriately...

IRI :D

Enigma's puzzle 20-01-2009 15:09
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Well i have been absorbed into the new season, but looking forward to the looking forward "spot on" predictions.

One problem i see with looking forward doing this newscast/sportscenter style video each week, is that by having an anonymous person running the show, would that not make him a known person? Instead maybe it should be a independently run show with a small illusion to Looking Forward, having a portion of the show being about Looking Forwards accuracy, and if he/she agrees the top 25 teams and picks.

Who ever really wants to undertake this project should look into its feasibility and find area correspondents, maybe that could help out, cover a couple of regionals. But it sounds like an awesome idea, i'd love to contribute.

bbr4d3r 24-02-2009 11:15
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
We want predictions!

Rick 24-02-2009 11:18
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by bbr4d3r (Post 827234)
We want predictions!
Seconded.

Greg Peshek 24-02-2009 11:23
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
If you look back to last year, the first one (as well as the rest of the predictions) all came out on Wednesday before the competition, so I would expect them tomorrow. I'm looking forward to it...

bbr4d3r 24-02-2009 11:24
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Lets hope!:D

Alex Cormier 24-02-2009 11:26
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Greg Peshek (Post 827237)
If you look back to last year, the first one (as well as the rest of the predictions) all came out on Wednesday before the competition, so I would expect them tomorrow. I'm looking forward to it...
Unless he is traveling to the DC regional with his old team and new team... ;)

lukevanoort 24-02-2009 11:35
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Enigma's puzzle (Post 804485)
Well i have been absorbed into the new season, but looking forward to the looking forward "spot on" predictions.

One problem i see with looking forward doing this newscast/sportscenter style video each week, is that by having an anonymous person running the show, would that not make him a known person? Instead maybe it should be a independently run show with a small illusion to Looking Forward, having a portion of the show being about Looking Forwards accuracy, and if he/she agrees the top 25 teams and picks.

Who ever really wants to undertake this project should look into its feasibility and find area correspondents, maybe that could help out, cover a couple of regionals. But it sounds like an awesome idea, i'd love to contribute.
It might just be my past interest in Beowulf clusters, but every time I see a large challenge esp. one that is naturally multithreaded involves multiple unrelated events, I start thinking about parallelizing the process. To that end, going decentralized and just having 2-3 people per event record a ~10-15 minute discussion of the robots and happenings at an event seems like a more practical model.

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Originally Posted by Ricksta121 (Post 827235)
Seconded.
Thirded.

nahstobor 24-02-2009 11:39
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
I think "Looking Forward" is waiting to see 71's robot. Come on 71! Your holding up the predictions!

Although it's safe to assume 71 will be back in championship form once again.

Tottanka 24-02-2009 12:31
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by nahstobor (Post 827248)
I think "Looking Forward" is waiting to see 71's robot. Come on 71! Your holding up the predictions!

Although it's safe to assume 71 will be back in championship form once again.
We just know it has something to do with going to the moon to gain a unique advantage on other more human teams...

hipsterjr 24-02-2009 13:07
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Billfred (Post 743837)
A request, on behalf of those of all who witnessed QF 2-5 and Finals 4 in the same event at Palmetto: Get more ears and eyes trained on the South*! :P

*
I know, that was the craziest final I have ever seen or been in!!! Who has ever heard of 2 ties in a final match?! And the final match was a difference of 2 points!! That is how a final should be! Even though we had 2 disabled bots, I enjoyed that match and hats off to team Voltage

I was very surprised that 342 was mentioned at all and I very eagerly wait for your predictions this year. GREAT WORK OVER ALL.

*I was convenced for a while that BillFred was LookingForward, but that is a discussion for another thread lol*

DonRotolo 24-02-2009 20:45
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
My 2 cents says that LF's commentary was entertaining and accurate, even if sometimes creepy in a stalker-ish kind of way. No fear, but his/her minions must inhabit all corners of the world...

I have no suggestions for improvement, it's all good.

Don

kristenliz_28 25-02-2009 20:07
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by bbr4d3r (Post 827234)
We want predictions!
Listen to the drive coach! Predictions por favor!

Vikesrock 25-02-2009 20:09
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by kristenliz_28 (Post 827998)
Listen to the drive coach! Predictions por favor!
They're already out:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...light=lift+off

EricH 25-02-2009 20:09
Re: 2009 Season Looking Forward
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by kristenliz_28 (Post 827998)
Listen to the drive coach! Predictions por favor!
Already done. http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=75191

Now go practice and try to make Looking Forward miss his predictions.


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