Video Request: 2002 Einstein Finals

[Billfred]

Alright, so I keep hearing about the mythical finals matches of Einstein Field. Does anybody have video of it that they can post through their choice of means (personal host/Google Video/YouTube)? I searched, but all of the links ever posted for just about anything from 2002 are now 404.

[Gary Dillard]

OK bro - I'm still working on that, and trust me noone wants it more than me. I spoke directly with the SOAP crew at the Florida Regional begging for it, and Kenny e-mailed me shortly afterwards saying they had been unable to find it. Our driver from that year (Kurt) had a copy of everything but I haven't been able to get it from him yet either. I haven't given up hope.

If you just want to see Fluffy in action, try this website for the 2002 Florida Regional finals in RealPlayer format (match 2 is the best).

[Brian C]

[quote=Gary Dillard]OK bro - I'm still working on that, and trust me noone wants it more than me. I spoke directly with the SOAP crew at the Florida Regional begging for it, and Kenny e-mailed me shortly afterwards saying they had been unable to find it. Our driver from that year (Kurt) had a copy of everything but I haven't been able to get it from him yet either. [quote]

I too would like to get a copy of ANYTHING from the Finals of '02. I had a few back and forth E-mails with SOAP last year and they had said that all of their video for that year was gone......

Gary,

As far as noone wanting it more than you, we're probably a close second

BTW your driver that year did an EXCELLENT job. I still have a picture in my head of him winning a pushing match with our opponents while having BOTH his hands on the driver station glass! The look on the drivers face from the other side of the field was priceless.

[Kevin Kolodziej]

OK, I have the following videos from the official feeds. I cut out the intros and the results (those are easy enough to find), so they are just matches. The Newton matches are a static camera from overhead for the entire match and Einstein matches are multiple cameras.

Newton QF1-1
Newton QF1-2
Newton QF1-3
Newton SF1-1
Newton SF1-2
Newton F-1
Newton F-2
Einstein SF2-1
Einstein SF2-2
Einstein F-1
Einstein F-2
Einstein F-3

The Newton files are about 25mb and the Einstein files are about 55mb (don't know why they are bigger..they aren't longer). As soon as I find someone willing to host, they are free to the world. If you only want one, PM me and I'll either yousendit or I can temporarily host a file.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Kevin Kolodziej

As soon as I find someone willing to host, they are free to the world.

Youtube?

[Kevin Kolodziej]

Alright, here we go. Files can be found at the following locations:

Newton QF1-1, Newton QF1-3, Newton SF1-1, and Newton SF1-2:
http://www.4shared.com/dir/1378291/e...7/sharing.html

Einstein SF2-1, Einstein SF2-2, and Einstein F-3:
http://people.msoe.edu/~kolodzik/2002/

Newtwon QF1-2, Newton F-1, Newton F-2, Einstein F-1, and Einstein F-2 are being hosted by Jeff and he will post his links in the morning.

If someone could host them all in one place, that'd be great (also so I can free up my webspace again!).

Enjoy!

[Jeff Rodriguez]

Einstein Finals Match 1: http://www.students.ccsu.edu/~rodriguezjel/2002/

Still waiting on the rest.

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Ogre

Einstein Finals Match 1: http://www.students.ccsu.edu/~rodriguezjel/2002/

Still waiting on the rest.

F1 has a really nice shot of 71's shuffling mechanism from that year. Very neat to see up-close and in moderately good resolution. (Hey, you never know when you'll need to drive in a really straight line.)

[Jeff Rodriguez]

All the rest are posted. Same link as above.
http://www.students.ccsu.edu/~rodriguezjel/2002/

[Karthik]

Newton SF1-1 is simply the most dominant match I have ever witnessed in my 9 years of FIRST. Download the video and prepared to be awed.

In this match Beatty goes for their typical three goal move, but they're only able to grab two of the goals, as Team 67 gets in the way of their left arm. Unfortunately for HOT, Beatty latched on to the HOTbot with their gripper. So now HOT is attached to Beatty. 68, 67's partner, grabs the 3rd goal. Using their second gripper, they latch on to one of the goals that Beatty has.

So what we have, is 3 goals and 2 robots which are attached to Beatty somehow. This is 800 lbs. of weight. (3*180 + 2*130). 260 lbs. of this weight is fighting against Beatty. It doesn't matter. Team 71 proceeds to drag all 800 pounds with them as they move into their goalzone.

800 pounds!!!

It's almost been 5 years, and I'm still in awe.

[Dan Petrovic]

Originally Posted by Karthik

Newton SF1-1 is simply the most dominant match I have ever witnessed in my 9 years of FIRST. Download the video and prepared to be awed.

Where can I download it? The videos that Ogre provided doesn't include SF1-1.

Or at least I don't see it.

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by Kevin Kolodziej

If someone could host them all in one place, that'd be great (also so I can free up my webspace again!).

I can get them hosted permanently in downloadable WMV format; hopefully later tonight I can get all of the existing videos uploaded.

[Brian C]

Thanks to all of you for your effort to recover these from the depths.

I realize that this may be asking too much but does anyone have the Einstein Division finals for 2002 as well?

I know it's probably a stretch but, then again I never thought I'd see the videos posted here either.

[JoeXIII'007]

wow!!!
I never thought I would ever see these clips. Just out of curiousity, would anyone have any more footage (by accident or otherwise) of Team 66's bot from back then??? Being webmaster, this would be a real nice thing to put up on the website (on every team's from that alliance website for that matter), even though it has been 4+ years (5 years as of April 2007). Yet again, my sister was on the team back in that day, and I got a phone call from her that day that made me really happy. For some current Team 66 members, it is still an unforgetable moment. To this day I still see some of the members from then, and we still talk, and Frostbite 2 is still in running condition (minibot and all...).

Thank you for posting these clips!!!

[Jon K.]

Originally Posted by JoeXIII'007

wow!!!
I never thought I would ever see these clips. Just out of curiousity, would anyone have any more footage (by accident or otherwise) of Team 66's bot from back then??? Being webmaster, this would be a real nice thing to put up on the website (on every team's from that alliance website for that matter), even though it has been 4+ years (5 years as of April 2007). Yet again, my sister was on the team back in that day, and I got a phone call from her that day that made me really happy. For some current Team 66 members, it is still an unforgetable moment. To this day I still see some of the members from then, and we still talk, and Frostbite 2 is still in running condition (minibot and all...).

Thank you for posting these clips!!!

I loved that little bot, it was so much fun to watch the penguin go down the field.