2014 Crossroads Regional

[Travis Hoffman]

Team list: https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index....014&event=inth

Who's excited about the event this year? From what I can tell, it promises to be one of the stronger and deepest early season competitions. I'm very much Looking Forward to competing there!

[avanboekel]

Crossroads is turning out to look like an amazing event this year. The team list is amazing. I can't wait to go watch!

My bold prediction: because of the depth of this regional, we'll see either a 7th or 8th seed win the whole thing. These 7 and 8 seed alliance, provided smart picks, will dominate eliminations with their strategic play, and complimentary bots.

[Drivencrazy]

I'm really excited to get to watch this event this year. It has a ton of great teams and we've already seen quite a few great robots revealed. I hope some of the suggestions after last year's competition have been implemented. I know that Rose is super excited to host this event again so hopefully they listened.

It will be interesting to see how this comp will shake out. It seems like there is going to be quite a deep field here which will definitely reward excellent and dynamic team play over excellent robot play. I'm sure we will see some epic elimination play.

[Orion.DeYoe]

I really can't wait!

[Ed Sparks]

FRC-3959 (Alabama) Is looking forward to hanging out with you guys this weekend ...... should be a great regional.

[Knufire]

5188 is definitely excited for their inaugural regional!

The 10 minute walk really cuts down on the travel costs though.

[efoote868]

Glad the webcast is working for practice matches. Will distract me from getting any work done today.

[JMenke]

Originally Posted by efoote868

Glad the webcast is working for practice matches. Will distract me from getting any work done today.

Where did you find the webcast? I don't see it on the blue alliance or watchfirstnow.

[BurkeHalderman]

http://client.stretchinternet.com/cl...itadmin.portal

Webcast

[JMenke]

Thanks!

[avanboekel]

Is the streaming site down for anyone else?

[GearsOfFury]

Originally Posted by ratdude747

One issue that at least one team brought to my attention today that I can comment on is tape durability. For some reason (looks to be lame adhesive) the gaff tape isn't sticking so well this year, at least on this field (which IIRC wasn't used in week 1). For quals, we've been somewhat conservative on tape repairs, mainly to keep the match to match times low and to save tape. Also, the only way the tape seems to be working is if it is applied in 3" strips.

This all being said, I'd imaging that during tomorrow's lunch break (and throughout elims) we will be more diligent on tape maintenance; However, I'm not the field supervisor so I can only guess from past experience.

I noticed this at week 1 at CIR, as well. The field crew was diligently repairing the tape after nearly every single match... never seen it so in need, before.

[dodar]

Did I hear it correctly that Semi-Final 2-1 had a fight between 2 drive teams?

[ghostmachine360]

Originally Posted by dodar

Did I hear it correctly that Semi-Final 2-2 had a fight between 2 drive teams?

........You're kidding me, right?

[dodar]

Originally Posted by ghostmachine360

........You're kidding me, right?

I caught the back end of it but I heard the announcer saying stuff like, "We dont like nor condone those kinds of actions and the alliance was given a penalty for uncivil actions."

That to me sounds like 2 or more drive teams got into it with each other.