Re: 2009 BAE Granite State Regional
 

Looks like it isn't up yet.

If it were up it should be located at:
http://www2.usfirst.org/2009comp/eve...edulequal.html

I only see the schedules for DC, Midwest and Buckeye posted.

Re: 2009 BAE Granite State Regional
 

Hmm... There's a couple of possibilities, none of which are working for me at the moment.

First off, there's this link, which should list the regionals. All of the schedule related links turn up 404 though.

http://usfirst.org/whatsgoingon.aspx

Also, in another thread, there's a link to the Midwest schedule. First's nomenclature for events typically is the first two letters of the state (i.e. ours should be "NH") but no dice there either.

posted link: http://www2.usfirst.org/2009comp/eve...edulequal.html
theoretically this should work: http://www2.usfirst.org/2009comp/eve...edulequal.html

It seems like you'd be more "in-the-know" than I (judging by your last name). Did they give any sort of time frame? I'd be really interested in seeing the match schedule.

Re: 2009 BAE Granite State Regional
 

Not sure whether to post this in the general webcast thread or not, but it seems to make more sense here at the moment.

If you are a student team member and would like to try your hand at webcasting I'll have a signup sheet at the webcast station (corner of field area just before you return to pits next to the vid/audio arena drop). The webcast can use both a video director and strategy/chat room moderator. Signup slots are 1 hour long and each team can sign up for 1 director/chat room slot each day so that multiple teams/students have the opportunity to help out. Just make sure you clear it with your mentor and coordinate with your team first.

The video director watches the stream and tries to keep it running which was no small task yesterday. *IF* the network is stable then we run match record/instant replays during the next match setup period. All you need is some basic computer experience and about 5 minutes training which I can provide.

The stategy/chat room moderator will watch the chat room and make comments as appropriate. Often folks are looking for on-line links for information such as the schedule or just general questions about the event.

I'd love to have company. If you just want to stop and say hi - I'd appreciate that too -- really!

Bud

Re: 2009 BAE Granite State Regional
 

For anyone who is interested, here is the seeding ranks as of 6:20 on Friday night. I know that these are available online, but last year the list was incorrect. This one is double checked:

1- 238
2- 1276
3- 20
4- 134
5- 121
6- 175
7- 562
8- 501
9- 58
10- 1519
11- 1729
12- 241
13- 1512
14- 1073
15- 151
16- 87
17- 467
18- 1517
19- 1277
20- 2342
21- 40
22- 1831
23- 571
24- 2621
25- 2067
26- 1721
27- 509
28- 138
29- 2370
30- 3074
31- 319
32- 885
33- 172
34- 131
35- 1058
36- 1824
37- 663
38- 1922
39- 1307
40- 811
41- 1761
42- 166
43- 1138
44- 1289
45- 1247
46- 133
47- 1995



Good luck to all tomorrow from 1519 Mechanical Mayhem!

Brendan

Re: 2009 BAE Granite State Regional
 

Why is 241 ranked 13 and 14?

I'd also like to thank everyone for being so helpful at this regional. We only traveled with 5 team members from California and no programmers or engineering mentors. Everybody at this regional has been extremely helpful in getting us up and running through all of our issues. The past two days we have seen almost everything go wrong and pretty much everyone has been more then willing to help out.
Thank You NH


Team 1138

Re: 2009 BAE Granite State Regional
 

I guess that I forgot to triple check, I was talking with several people about today while doing this.

Hope all goes well for 1138, and Mayhem is always available across from you guys if help is needed. :)

Re: 2009 BAE Granite State Regional
 

Hopefully you'll get all the bugs worked out here and take home gold in LA and Hawai'i

And if y'all still need some help, let us know in Plan B (1729). We're always willing to help.

Re: 2009 BAE Granite State Regional
 

After repicking, the alliances are:

1. 238 562 319
2. 20 40 885
3. 241 501 2342
4. 121 175 2621
5. 1729 1073 166
6. 151 58 571
7. 1512 134 1517
8. 87 1276 1519

Re: 2009 BAE Granite State Regional
 

What happened with alliance selection. I looked like there was an alliance selection and then another one when I was watching the webcast.

Re: 2009 BAE Granite State Regional
 

Congrats to Kristen Kelso on the Woodie Flowers Award. Way to go Kristen :D:D

Re: 2009 BAE Granite State Regional
 

I have to say, this has been one of the poorest run regionals that I have seen in a wile. There were several matches that had to be re played because of error. In one insrance, the blue alliance was disabled for the last 15 seconds of the match and still managed to win, but the regional staff made them re-play the match despite that fact that they said they didn't see any need to re-play the match. that alliance then lost by 2 points. The fact that they had to re-do the selection due to error is also un-beleavable.

Hopefully the other regionals this year don't have these issues.

Re: 2009 BAE Granite State Regional
 

As far as I understand it, match 60 had to be replayed several times because of field error. But the final results were not incorporated into the standings. So the teams picked in the wrong order. When they realized this, the selection had to be redone.

Re: 2009 BAE Granite State Regional
 

Congrats to 121, 175, and 2621 on winning, and to 20, 40, and 885 on putting up a tough fight.

Re: 2009 BAE Granite State Regional
 

Not to mention the constant replay of quarter final matches.
They finally narrowed down what they though the field problem was to static build-up. To fix it, they taped the airlocks so that robot frames or members couldn't come in contact with them to conduct, and they watered the field.
Yes, they wet the carpet around the regolith to aid in the static problem. I think this is as close as we'll come to getting that water game we've been waiting for.

Re: 2009 BAE Granite State Regional
 

I think we have the problem isolated. The robots spinning their wheels on the FRP build up huge static charges similiar to helicopters flying through the air. Then when the robots would slam into the drivers station walls or arena side rails, they'd do a high voltage ground discharge. I didn't know if the DSes were sending something into the FMS SCCE switches or not causing errors, but I went in the switches logs while you were finishing elims and the recorded error log had no errors for your whole tournament, so it seems the issue is isolated to the DS. The SCCEs are built from industrial hard gear this year from FIRST's great sponsor Allen Bradley and they did a great job despite the static issue. Hopefully FIRST will announce solutions quickly.