2011 Waterloo Regional
 

Who's ready for the 2011 installment of the Waterloo Regional? Over the years this event has seen vices and dumbells strapped to robots, a team almost losing a 1 v 0 match, and of course a 300 L bag of popcorn. I'm sure this year's event will continue the legacy of the zany and unpredictable events of what has become known has the most fun event in all of FIRST. Adding to the excitement will be the return of our old game announcer after a one year abscence! I know I'm pumped.

2011 Waterloo Regional... Get your popcorn ready!

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Absolutely can't wait, this venue is always awesome!

2200 has some programming to do on the weekend though :D

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Team 1334 is looking forward to Water Water Water Loo Loo Loo!

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Team 781 Kinetic Knights is excited for this year's Waterloo competition as usual. We can't wait to see teams on the field! :D good luck to everyone!

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The 3 Grandville Michigan teams cannot wait until Waterloo! We are still at the West Michigan event and we are already talking about the trip cross-border! I can only imagine if the guards ask to check the trailer and they open it to see 3 robots, 9 carts full of tools and the other full of luggage!

I can imagine it now:
Guard- "This is lunacy!"
Team member- "No that was 2009..."

~RoboDawGs 216, 244, 288~

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Though my team isnt competing, we'll be attending on Saturday to cheer on our friends.

I'm really excited.

-Nick

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2200 will be providing a webcast this year. This is going to be one of the best regionals of the year, as Karthik said, get your popcorn ready!

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Waterloo was on our short list of 2nd Regionals, but our school administration wouldn't approve the trip out of country. Wishing everyone luck!

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...Interesting... Why does TBA say the match score was 14-20?

I understand the 20. (1006 scored 8 pts (3 robot laps + 1 trackball lap), plus 12 pts for the other red ball still on the overpass), but wasn't <G22> (line violation by 1535 in auto) a 2 pt penalty? I guess the final score makes sense if <G22> was a 10pt penalty...

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G22 was a 10 point penalty.

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Will we possibly see a return of the announcer game?

Waterloo is so much fun to watch it attracts viewers to a 29 team event with prohibitive favorites while other huge regionals are happening

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I hope the announcer game returns, it was really good fun. I wish I was there for the ridiculousness that is the combo of Karthik and Paul. Not sure who is running the webcast, (if you guys need help send me an email), but hopefully there is some level of interaction.

I hope I can sneak down there for Saturday, but its a long way from Kingston...

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We've always wanted to go to Waterloo. Sounds like it'll be great yet again this year.

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Jonathan, Myself, SeanNoseworthy and basicxman (CD Handles) will be running the webcast. if you have any tips for us you can PM me. I'll do my best to see what kind of interaction we can get going.

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Interesting tidbit: 3 of 2056's 6 match losses in 2010 (all 3 at the regional level) were to alliances involving 1114, and 2 of the other 3 were on Einstein, to the eventual 2010 Champion Alliance.

1114 had 3 losses in 2010. All at Championship. 1 in Qualifications, a match they played 6v0 against 111,888, and 469, and 2 in the finals on Einstein.

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781 will be leaving for Waterloo in just a few hours. This is a good indication that I should already be asleep. Oh well, we are looking forward to playing Logomotion!

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Stream is up.

http://mmrambotics.ca/waterloo (Just Waterloo)

http://mmrambotics.ca/regionalfeed (Multiple regionals)

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I have word that another camera has been ordered for Waterloo and tomorrow will have two video sources and alternative between.

Later on in the event today we had the camera focusing on the action instead of an overview of the whole field - unfortunately we could not zoom out the entire way to see all scoring racks.

Tomorrow will be great :D

Water water loo!

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Heading back to waterloo for the day, SO PUMPED! Can't wait to have paul back announcing.

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Yeah... I LOVED 2008. Karthik/Paul made an awesome pair that year. Boom-shaka-laka!

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Feeds up.

http://mmrambotics.ca/regionalfeed

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Earliest Alliance Selection ever?? matches were done by 10:40... I guess thats what happens when you have a well run regional of only 29 teams.

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Can't wait to see einstein. Amazing 147 points, congratulations to 1114 and their alliance.

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QF1.2=:ahh: x147

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The speed and efficiency of the 1 alliance is just amazing. 152 pre-penalty despite tube starving and heavy defense from 1334.

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Warning: This post is going to be super long.

I feel like since I was at the regional (with a good overview of operations at the FTA table) on Wednesday night and then 8AM to <closing time> every day I should do a write up on how much I really appreciate the Waterloo venue.

First of all, I've been to several FTC and FRC events in my lifetime and this was the most well operated regional I have ever been to. It was ahead of schedule the entire event with Karthik even doing an anti-lightning-round to slow things down. +1 to every single volunteer participating this week. Patrick Fairbank and the awesome FTA guys had issues debugged and killed on Wednesday night, even Thursday was quite smooth.

The whole community within the regional is very close, talking to several of the other students made me feel like I was in a highly professional environment. These are people that aren't entirely crazy about winning, but are just down-to-earth fun people who know what they are talking about.

Huge props to the programmer and mentor who I assisted at 1846, these were two highly motivated individuals who I know reflected their team in the utmost prestige. It was a joy to see people dedicated like this and requesting assistance getting their robot running, reaching out to the community and willing to return the favour.

The teams who seem to attend Waterloo are very close are dedicated to making the event fun. There were no such instances of disrespect to higher ranking teams, only curiosity to see how they did it and striving to be like them. Unlike previous years, there was no whispers of cheating and long boo's from the stands when 1114 and 2056 paired up to score a half dozen logos. BTW if anybody from 2056 is reading this, thanks a lot.

If you've ever seen Karthik and Paul Copioli MC and announce together, it's an experience to behold. Paul gets very involved in the webcast chat, if you were participating you already know it truly is a unique experience like no other - it brings even more of the real-life experience to the webcast. I was quite happy to be operating the webcast and chat room beside him. The DJ at Waterloo was amazing, with ustream viewers repeatedly thanking him and even requesting his playlist or muting other regionals just to hear his music.

I encourage anybody who wasn't watching the Waterloo webcast to definitely check it out, and I believe our team will be doing GTR as well. Besides some issues with ustream that are being worked out things went quite smoothly, and our audio/video quality was way above par.

Special thanks to Trevor Kearse for helping Karthik on the chat and moderating as I was helping Paul. Additional thanks to Mark Breadner to making the webcast setup at the FTA table quite comfortable and supplying as much as he could, even ordering a second camera for Friday and Saturday. Also for getting us up on http://canfirst.org quickly.

Now of course, some goodies:

Match Results: http://www2.usfirst.org/2011comp/eve...chresults.html

Awards: http://www2.usfirst.org/2011comp/events/WAT/awards.html

Recorded Video of the Event: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/first-robotics-waterloo

We're planning on splitting up these recorded videos and posting them on YouTube - our media guy (props to Sean Noseworthy) took hundreds of quality photos and those will be posted on our website.

I'm developing several improvements to the Regional Feeds page which many many people have been using who can't make it to regionals in person.

This event went so smoothly it's almost hard to believe. Now I'm going to get some seriously needed sleep.

* basicxman out

P.S. Thanks of course to the awesome FIRST Robotics Canada sponsors who make the event possible, and our sponsors who make us competing possible!

[Boca Bearing Company, Anixter, MG Chemicals and Canadian Host]

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Congrats to 1114, 2056 (10 in a row) and 3756 for winning the Waterloo Regional, good luck at St. Louis

To 1310 and 610, thanks for allowing us to be part of your alliance sorry we did perform as well as we could have. Best of luck at GTR you are two amazing teams and you'll go far at GTR

1305 Congrats on the regional chairmans award, well deserved.

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Excellent. It was a joy to watch the event and thank you for making it happen.

It's always a blast to hear those two going at it.

I am also very excited to come up for GTR next week and volunteer.

See you guys next week!

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The idea of the Announcer Game for suggesting things to say was pretty cool.

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Please don't be sorry. You were excellent and doing the best you could was all we could have asked for.

Thank you for your assisstance and never be sorry about what you're robot is capable of doing. Remember that you are chosen for a reason. Every team had their strengths ad we saw that you're robot was the next best for us.

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I don't see any of the Saturday videos recorded on the ustream site, did will the be available too? Myself and probably everyone else who didn't get a chance to see the webcast would really like to watch some of those finals matches....

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Friday Part 3 is actually Saturday Eliminations Quarter and Semi-Final Matches. http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13579393 The high score matches can be found in here. I'm not sure what the time stamps are.

Friday Part 4 is the final match. http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13582128

Awards Ceremony is here: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13582839

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About 1 hour 20 mins for the 150 points.

About 1 hour 36 mins for the 152 point match and -3 from penalty.

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http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13579393

11:40 for 138 pt match

44:30 for 147 pt match

1:22:20 for 150 pt match

1:36:00 for 149 pt match

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It seams as we have incorectly named the video's on ustream, video's marked THURSDAY are actually FRIDAY, and ones marked FRIDAY are actually SATURDAY

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Fixed.

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Hey everyone, just a message out to the teams who participated at waterloo this weekend. On behalf of my team I would like to express our feelings. We thought everyone was amazingly. Sadly we weren't up to par, but don't worry guys we have our bot fully functional now and will be at GTR eager to play with those of you attending. We'd also like to thank Team 1310 who had spent two days helping us out with our pnuematics system. Also We'd like to thank 610 who had helped us figure out the final flaw in our pneumatics system (faulty solenoid). Without these two teams we'd still be fixing issues with pneumatics. We hope we were helpful to other teams, just as much as they were to us.

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Another great regional!! I would like to congratulate:
1305 on their RCA
1114, 2056 and 3756 on their regional win
1334 on their Engineering Inspiration award

I would also like to thank teams 2200 and 1535 for being great alliance partners!
Hope to see you all at GTR!!!!

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Thanks to our alliance partners 1075 and 1334, we gave it our best shot, and both of your robots performed fantastically.

Just a shout out to the winning alliance:

You guys were a steam roller, I don't think we could ask for a tougher opponent in the semis. 3756 played very clean defence, while 1114 and 2056 scored with inspiring precision and technical excellence.

I was sitting with a friend in second year mechanical engineering who isn't involved in FIRST, and he straight up asked me if I thought we (meaning our group of friends in engineering) could actually build something of the quality of robots fielded by 1114 and 2056. I think it would be a tough haul.

Best luck in Toronto to everyone going, and hope to see you in St. Louis.

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I have the elims of the #1 seed alliance parsed out, they're kinda bad quality but they'll probably hold you guys over until a better quality version gets put up.

Waterloo QF1-1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EisUiEsN5lE

Waterloo QF1-2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8hdSrU9Lr4

Waterloo SF1-1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIhyBOLnliI

Waterloo SF1-2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0zjY6v8kdI

Waterloo F1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6pdCyHF6i8

Waterloo F2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC5pcrC7eR8