2011 Finger Lakes Regional!

[Racer26]

I would hazard a guess that this is true, given a lack of FMS posting to:

http://twitter.com/search?q=%23FRCROC

FMS is happily posting away with hashtags #FRCNJ (New Jersey Regional), #FRCNH (BAE Systems Granite State Regional), and #FRCSTX (Alamo Regional)

[commodoredl]

I'm not exactly an insider here, but from what I understand we still haven't been able to connect any robots to the field yet. Not sure why that is. No update announcements have been made since lunchtime.

[SarahB]

I can confirm that FLR is having significant field issues. On the plus side the lack of matches has given people plenty of time to get their robots inspected.

[Racer26]

Any update on FLR's field issues? The day is now basically over according to the agenda.

No @FRCFMS #FRCROC tweets... did any FLR teams get to practice?

I'm headed for Rochester after finishing work tomorrow, to cheer my team on for Saturday. Hope everything gets worked out.

EDIT: Looks like FLR field is finally up: http://twitter.com/leedrake

Upon further inspection of that twitter feed, it seems like RIT's IT department had been jamming adhoc Wifi (which the field depends on)

[brianc217]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

It's all about location location location. Because we are positioned to the north and west of the lakes we get dumped on while New England is east of the ocean so they don't get as much snow from it (but they do get those nasty Nor'easterners a few times a season).

Are you referring to the finger lakes or the great lakes? I know you're north west of the finger lakes but I didn't know they had much of an effect on weather. Also New England unfortunately is not east of the ocean (that would be England!)

I think in general it snows more in Rochester by snowing a little bit everyday, whereas in New England, a lot of snow falls during each storm, but storms occur less often.

FLR seems like a great regional though with good competition. It's unfortunate the field was down today.

[Racer26]

WOW! Look at our FLR teams go!

2 Matches played today:

http://twitter.com/search?q=%23frcroc

frcfms #FRCROC TY P MC 1 RF 18 BF 82 RE 1153 156 639 BL 340 2056 1518 RB 0 BB 30 RP 0 BP 0 15 minutes ago via FMS

Practice Match 1 (15 Minutes ago)

Red Alliance(1153,156,639) v Blue Alliance(340,2056,1518)
Final score 18-82
Blue bonus: 30

frcfms #FRCROC TY P MC 2 RF 73 BF 48 RE 191 1511 1559 BL 217 578 1640 RB 50 BB 0 RP 0 BP 0 2 minutes ago via FMS

Practice Match 2 (2 minutes ago)
Red Alliance(191, 1511, 1559) v Blue Alliance (217, 578, 1640)
Final score: 73 - 48
Red bonus: 50.

Off to a late start, but are they ever playing. Compare these scores to #FRCNJ, #FRCNH, or #FRCSTX. Seems like FLR is the regional to watch so far.

[Justin Montois]

Field issues appear resolved and practice matches are underway. I was blown away by the first few matches. Didn't expect those scores at all. At alllllllll.

2056 and 217 just missed putting up 4 logos.217 with a quick minibot, 2056 scoring theirs as well. Well over 100 points.

[Jonathan Norris]

What teams are looking good out there?? How are the chickens (217) doing?

I'm especially interested in fellow Canadian teams 2056, 188, and the others competing there.

[Chris is me]

Anyone got a photo of the ThunderChickens?

[DarkFlame145]

Anyone get a pic of 145 for me please =)

[dmoody92]

Hmmm, my team left around 5 and I don't think we have got on the field. When did they stop doing practice matches?

[commodoredl]

Phew! That was a long day.
It turned out that the root cause of our field issues was RIT's wireless network interfering with the FRC network. Once we got the okay to disable their network in the building at about 4pm, we were able to finally get going with our matches, and we extended practice time until 9pm.
I wasn't able to take many pictures, but I have pics of 217 and 2056 that I'll link for you guys:

http://i.imgur.com/3lRd1.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/RcHIV.jpg

Best robots at the competition so far: Easily 217 and 2056. Both are scoring machines with incredibly fast minibots. 217 has a bit of a tendency to get caught up on field elements during autonomous, but it's clear these teams are the best ones that have played so far.
In the time I was at FLR (until about 7) I didn't see 188 play.
The traditional local powerhouses 1126 and 191 were also playing well today.
One last note: In practice match 2, the only robot that was playing on the blue alliance was 217, scoring 48 points but missing out on the minibot right at the end (I think that was the match where the minibot fell off the deployment mechanism). So yeah, I'd say the Thunderchickens are at their usual level of awesome this year.

[Valkyrie133]

Very long day!!

There were some impressive robots out there today. I suspect that we'll see some other robots improve significantly during Friday, with all the pit time and practice field time that they got today to work the kinks out. The qualifying matches should be fun!

[Koko Ed]

Due to unforeseen Circumstances and having to work overtime to be able to get some practice matches the Laser Tag had to be postponed but we can try again tonight.

[Racer26]

Originally Posted by commodoredl

I wasn't able to take many pictures, but I have pics of 217 and 2056 that I'll link for you guys:

http://i.imgur.com/3lRd1.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/RcHIV.jpg

Interesting to see 2056 for the first time this year. Its surprisingly VERY different to their bot from 2007 which was easily the most dominating rookie bot I've seen in 8 years of FRC. They were brand new, coming in under 1114's wing as part of the NiagaraFIRST alliance, and won Waterloo, GTR, and IRI in their rookie year.

Best pic I can find of their 2007 bot: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/28599