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Originally posted by David Kelly
they do real time video, stats and scoring at the competitions that SO@P goes to. there's lots of interesting and useful data that they compile.
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Video
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At the Florida Regional we plan to video record every match and post on the web. If we obtain an Inet connection at the event (likely) then the files will be uploaded ASAP. If not, then they get uploaded by the following Tuesday. This year the video format will be MPEG4 and all matches will have audio as well. We tape the FIRST Video feed, meaning the 2:00 clock and any other info that gets super-imposed (i hear the match number + maybe the unofficial score will be on the video too) is what we capture.
We have same plans for Midwest Regional and hopefully Nationals. Additionally at MidWest, we hope to stream the event over the Inet. Last year when we did this we recorded over 15,000 hits!!!
Last year we created a user guide and setup procedure so that another team at a regional out of our reach could capture video just like us, provided they upload the video to our site. This proved very successful. The SOAP website was able to house video from Great Lakes, New England, and St. Louis thanks to partner teams 111, 65, 67, 177, and 343. We hope they will be willing to provide similar service for all of us this year too!
Match-Scouting Data
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SOAP got out of the watch-a-match-and-write-what-happened business with the onset of WASH. Team 111 heads up that effort along with a dozen other teams.
Non Match-Scouting Data
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What we still do though is provide an on-line u-fill-it-in form. This "SOAP Robot Profile" is filled in by anyone about anyone. It has fields for "how many balls/boxes can you pick up?" ; "what are your strengths / weaknesses" ; "What is your robot weight" ; etc.... The best we can do for accuracy is require a checkbox to be selected which states that the person entering the data did so with "gracious professionalism".
Scoring Data
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In 2002, SOAP was able to obtain the offical scoring data from several events complete with the details (#balls, #goals, etc...)
Hopefully this will again be the case this year. Once the data is entered into our db, stats and charts are immediately available. Also we compute ranking/seeding just like FIRST.
Regards,
KA-108
www.soap108.com
Team 108 - SigmaC@T
Motorola & Dillard HS & Taravella HS
Plantation, FL