Lone Star Regional 2014 (15th Anniversary)

[AllenGregoryIV]

The 2014 Lone Star Regional will be it's 15th Anniversary. It's being held April 4-6th in it's regular home at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Downtown, Houston.

We have 62 teams registered for the event and possibly more still on the waitlist. This may be one of the biggest events in its history.

We'll have at least 4 nations represented with teams from China, Australia, and Mexico joining teams from Arkansas, California, and Pennsylvania all coming to play with their new friends from Texas.

We have 7 rookie teams registered; 3 from Texas, 3 from China, and 1 from Mexico.

Since Lone Star is a Friday-Sunday event this year, it will be the last Regional of the year (New York City should be an hour ahead of us).

Who else is excited for Lone Star this year?

[Seth Mallory]

GRT had a great time at Lone Star last year. It is a shame that our home event SVR is at the same time. Lone Star is a class event that should not be missed.

[geomapguy]

We were upset that FRC scheduled Bayou and Lone Star on the same weekend as our State Mu Alpha Theta Convention (Math Club).

[lynca]

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

We have 62 teams registered for the event and possibly more still on the waitlist. This may be one of the biggest events in its history.

I'm excited to see how FIRST handles the regional spot shortage.
Two Fields at an event or a full Double Regional ?

This is the 1st time that only a handful of regional spots are available.

[lynca]

56 Teams - http://www.thebluealliance.com/event/2014txho

118 - Won Alamo & KC
148 - Won Dallas
457 - Won Dallas
624 - Won Alamo and RCA
1477 - RCA from Dallas & World Champion from 2013
2848 - Finalist from Dallas
3481 - Finalist from Dallas

3 Teams from Mexico
2 Teams form China

Wildcard spots: 118, 148, 418, 457, 624, 1477, 2848

Anyone know details on the webcast ? I would be happy to post it on the http://houston.txfirst.org website

[Danny Diaz]

Originally Posted by lynca

Wildcard spots: 118, 148, 457, 624, 1477, 2848

What, no love for 418? We won the Engineering Inspiration award at the Arkansas Regional, so we are also bringing a Wildcard spot to Lone Star. And we intend to give it to someone.

-Danny

[Abhishek R]

I could not be more excited for a regional. This is going to be a great regional to end the season before CMP. I think it will be a good segue into the MAR and Michigan championships, serving as a preview of the competitiveness. Combined with how well the regional is run and the stellar venue as always, Lone Star is one for the books.

[Michael Blake]

Originally Posted by Danny Diaz

What, no love for 418? We won the Engineering Inspiration award at the Arkansas Regional, so we are also bringing a Wildcard spot to Lone Star. And we intend to give it to someone.

-Danny

Give it here, Danny!! lol ;-)

--Michael Blake

[Michael Blake]

Originally Posted by lynca

56 Teams - http://www.thebluealliance.com/event/2014txho

118 - Won Alamo & KC
148 - Won Dallas
457 - Won Dallas
624 - Won Alamo and RCA
1477 - RCA from Dallas & World Champion from 2013
2848 - Finalist from Dallas
3481 - Finalist from Dallas

3 Teams from Mexico
2 Teams form China

Wildcard spots: 118, 148, 457, 624, 1477, 2848

Looking at the teams generating available Wildcard Spots I can't help but speculate that most likely the Winners and Finalists will be 4 of the above Wildcard teams and therefore the only Wildcard pass-down would be the 3rd bot in the Finalist stack.

Who knows, anything is possible, especially if the old "Better to be lucky, than good" kicks in... BUT I sure do look forward to the District Model in Texas where the CHAMPS eligibility is spread out among more Tier 2 teams.

I have such respect and admiration for these Tier 1 teams and the performances they deliver year after year that as an FRC fan is awesome to consume.

--Michael Blake

[JimCash]

Originally Posted by lynca

Anyone know details on the webcast ? I would be happy to post it on the http://houston.txfirst.org website

Spent about 30 minutes searching and haven't found any info on the LSR webcast... Does anyone have an answer to Andrew's Question?

~Jim Cash
Jersey Voltage

[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by JimCash

Spent about 30 minutes searching and haven't found any info on the LSR webcast... Does anyone have an answer to Andrew's Question?

~Jim Cash
Jersey Voltage

Spectrum should be running the webcast on our youtube channel but that assumes the internet connection at the venue is reliable enough. I don't want to promise anything but we will for sure have all the matches recorded and uploaded each night at the minimum.

We are using the same setup they use in Michigan plus we are testing a way to add the FMS overlay and the ability to play recorded matches between matches.

I'm very hopeful it will all work out.

[lynca]

Originally Posted by JimCash

Spent about 30 minutes searching and haven't found any info on the LSR webcast... Does anyone have an answer to Andrew's Question?

I emailed a few people this morning. I'm told , the webcast will be on the robonauts page. https://ccisdrobonauts.org/

[Kris Verdeyen]

I'm prepping for the regional, and I haven't been able to find good data from before 2002. Since we're celebrating the regional's 15th anniversary, I'd like to have complete data.

Does anyone know (winners, finalists, chairman's, EI, #1 seed, etc) for 2001 and 2000?

Since 2002 inclusive, there have been 48 blue banners given out by the LSR.

29 of those are represented by teams at the event this year

I have no context for that statistic

[RaMoore]

Wish I could be there this weekend! Lone Star will always be my "home regional" at heart. I can't believe it's been so long since my first FIRST regional at Lone Star, back when it still smelled like rodeo!

Good Luck to all the teams!

[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by Kris Verdeyen

I'm prepping for the regional, and I haven't been able to find good data from before 2002. Since we're celebrating the regional's 15th anniversary, I'd like to have complete data.

Does anyone know (winners, finalists, chairman's, EI, #1 seed, etc) for 2001 and 2000?

According to 364 they were Finalist in 2001 and Champions & RAS in 2000.

The Cheesy Poofs also came to Lone Star in 2000 and they walked away Champions and with the Defensive Strategy Award

148 has some information for 2001. They were Champions and Innovation in Control winners.

After doing the google thing I remembered 358 has all the awards ever in an Excel file on this page. I cut out the 2000 and 2001 Lone Star awards and uploaded them below.