2012 Greater Toronto Regional West

[Azores]

Originally Posted by Leeland1126

3161 came amazingly close to taking the #1 seed at Greater Toronto East, and it's no coincidence that they took it this time.

Waterloo*

[LeelandS]

Originally Posted by Azores

Waterloo*

Oops, my bad Thanks for correcting me!

[PayneTrain]

I saw earlier someone said that Canada has the best robots. That's probably because there are two things to do 8 months of the year in Canada:
a)Hockey
b)Robots

amirite?

In all seriousness, everyone should try to figure out how to blow up their local region like GTR has. It would be sweet.

Also, congrats to the winners. I would like to live in a FIRST world where on-field communications issues aren't the biggest "what-ifs" in eliminations (why can't it just come down to strategy, skill, and power?), but I guess that's the hand we are dealt for now.

Alliance selections can be weird. Not that we're complaining, but we had a "better robot" than some of the first picks in VA. Turns out, our alliance captain's strategy was for us to reliably score in hybrid and get on the bridge. It worked unless one of the robots got tipped over...

[MidnightShades]

Thanks to our alliance 2056 and 2200. It was definitely a great learning experience for us as a rookie team to see how FRC really works for everyone and for a really excellent veteran team. It was certainly an exciting final and it was a really great match thanks to 1114, 3161 and 2634 in that we didn't even dream of facing as we are a rookie team.. especially in the finals!!!! We do look forward to see everyone in the championship. See you there! and more amazing matches to come!

[gr8dragon]

Congratulation to teams 2056,2200,4001 for the regional win. Congratulations also to team 1241 for the RCA great job. Congratulations to team 1305 as well for the EI.

I have been on 188 for 6 years, and its been an amazing journey. However this year at GTR-West I was totally amazed by all the teams. It was amazing to see the regional develop past just 1114/2056 to teams like 1241, 1310, 907 and many more. Great job all teams and lets see what kind of an impact this has on Candian regionals.

Great effort by teams 1114/3161/2634, for what it's worth you guys were pretty amazing.

[Walter Deitzler]

I am reading about the awesome matches but cannot seem to find the videos! Does anyone know where they are kept, if there are any. I could have sworn there was a YouTube channel, but could not find it.

Thanks!

[Alpha Beta]

They are on Ustream
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/21499201

[basicxman]

Originally Posted by LedLover96

I am reading about the awesome matches but cannot seem to find the videos! Does anyone know where they are kept, if there are any. I could have sworn there was a YouTube channel, but could not find it.

Thanks!

There is an official YouTube channel however due to the poor Internet at the venue we didn't upload them as we went. So for now they're on ustream as the above poster links.

[Walter Deitzler]

Originally Posted by Alpha Beta

They are on Ustream
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/21499201

There is an official YouTube channel however due to the poor Internet at the venue we didn't upload them as we went. So for now they're on ustream as the above poster links.

Thank you both!

[Koko Ed]

Man, I miss being at GTR.

[EagleEngineer]

Originally Posted by lemiant

While I respect team 1241, they were not the best alliance partner for 2056. Something you'd have a hard time disagreeing with, when 2056 stated it in the most meaningful way, by declining them.

So was the reason why 2056 and 188 declined 1241 because their robot was having issues?, because i believe that was the case. 1241 was playing defense in the quarters and semis, so i think they might have had an issue with their shooter. This is why these teams declined (I think), if they were working like how they worked at buckeye (nice shooting), i think both teams would have accepted.

[TEAMROCK2000]

is there any video of the finals matches they sound exciting?

[EagleEngineer]

Originally Posted by TEAMROCK2000

is there any video of the finals matches they sound exciting?

Finals 1.1
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/21501483

Finals 1.2
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/21501857

[akoscielski3]

Originally Posted by EagleEngineer

So was the reason why 2056 and 188 declined 1241 because their robot was having issues?, because i believe that was the case. 1241 was playing defense in the quarters and semis, so i think they might have had an issue with their shooter. This is why these teams declined (I think), if they were working like how they worked at buckeye (nice shooting), i think both teams would have accepted.

This may be true. However I believe and am almost 100% positive, that both teams knew they needed an alliance to triple balance. If you think about it both teams alliances are made for doing a triple balance. And 2056 did do triple against 1114 twice to win the finals.

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by EagleEngineer

So was the reason why 2056 and 188 declined 1241 because their robot was having issues?, because i believe that was the case. 1241 was playing defense in the quarters and semis, so i think they might have had an issue with their shooter. This is why these teams declined (I think), if they were working like how they worked at buckeye (nice shooting), i think both teams would have accepted.

I believe that both 2056 and 188 declined 1241 because they wanted to triple balance. 1241 became damaged in semi 1-1, when they were playing wicked defence on 2056.