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Re: 2012 Northeast Utilities Connecticut Regional
Congratulations to teams 195, 181 and 20 on your win. Good luck to all of you at Championship.
A huge thank you to our alliance partners 228 and 236. It's unfortunate 2 of us were not working in our last match, for whatever reason anyone wants to believe. I wish we could have shown what our alliance was capable one more time. 228: You have a great machine and team. We had a lot of fun practicing and competing with you this season. The 3 robot balance was great to see in competition and went way smoother than I expected. 236: You guys had a great machine and played smart as always. We were lucky that you were still around that late in the draft. Good luck at Championship. I would also like to thank 118 for making the trip to CT. I am sorry things ended for you the way they did. You guys are a great team and always build an amazing machine. Thank you for giving me the tour of your machine. Good luck next weekend. It would be a shame if your team was not at championship. The Bobcats now have a bit more free time this April, but our students are excited to bring our machine to to some offseason comps. -Eric |
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What an exciting weekend! Team 20 would like to thank our awesome alliance partners 195 and 181 for picking us. We know it was a crap shot to get picked after our sub-par performance on Friday (never using CAN again!), and we are grateful you noticed us on Saturday. Congrats to 558, 1071, and 2067. Those were great matches against you, and I got nervous when I saw you try for the triple balance.
It is unfortunate that there were so many issues with robots towards the end. We had to reboot out robot mid-match several times. We were lucky that we were able to come back up from it; others were not so lucky. 118, your robot was the most beautiful I have ever laid eyes on, and the variety of ways it could accomplish game goals was daunting. 177, 228, and 236, I wish we got to play in matches with no robot issues. I think if they allowed that, we would still be playing today! Finally, huge thanks to 1665. Our driverstation is not a classmate (we have had problems with their durability), so we couldn't charge it on the field. After all our matches our drive coach would run back to the pit to charge it, but the battery was slowly losing its strength. Reconfiguring and lending us your driverstation was a huge help, and we ended up needing it for our final matches. |
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2168 wishes 118 the best of luck next week. You've built a beautiful robot, and were a pleasure to work with. 2791, we couldn't have had a better bot on the field with us. Those triples were amazing to watch. 195, I'm glad you guys took the win, you've got a great group, and it was awesome seeing you guys get your machine tuned up to full potential through NYC and CT. |
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I would also like to thank team 20. You were always there when we needed help. Your expertise has been a tremendous asset to us. I would also like to congratulate teams 195,181, and 20 on their regional win. I would also like to congratulate regional finalist teams 1071, 558, and 2067. We had some really fun matches and I enjoyed playing against you. |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-Bas...e_gdata_player Or here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAKBX...e_gdata_player ![]() Last edited by katiyeh07 : 01-04-2012 at 18:25. |
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What a crazy weekend! In no particular order:
-181: you guys' autonomous program is the big reason we picked you, on top of your excellent ability to balance and your tele-op scoring capabilities. It was fantastic getting to work with you guys, and that 36-point autonomous was incredible. Great work! -20: at our strategy/scouting meeting Friday night I kind of came up with and talked a lot about the idea of "alliance composition." Essentially, my idea was that at this regional the winning alliance was going to be one of two major alliance composition types: an alliance that attempted to win games by triple balancing, and an alliance that attempted to win by dominating hybrid and teleop. Because our (195's) robot was very good in hybrid and teleop but lacked a stinger or some other mechanism to help balance a bridge, we knew that our best bet was to dominate hybrid and teleop, thereby offsetting the 20 points lost in a triple balance. Our pit scouting uncovered that you guys would be great at feeding balls both in hybrid AND in teleop, so we watched you guys very closely on Saturday morning. Obviously, even with the issues you guys suffered in the elims (I'm going to elaborate on this a little more later), we were incredibly glad we picked you guys. When you guys were working you balanced the bridge every time and our side of the field was always absolutely packed with balls because you fed us so well. Fantastic job both to your drivers and pit crew for working through all the difficulties you had this weekend. -2067 / 1071: fantastic job guys! I talked with you guys a lot before and after the finals and again, I am thrilled to have played with and against you guys and to see you achieve this success here. You guys definitely earned it! -558: I'll be honest here; when I first saw your robot at Suffield this year I was skeptical. Since then though my opinion on your robot has changed drastically. I don't think I ever saw you guys miss a ball in Hybrid, and your tele-op scoring was always dead on. It was just awesome how consistent that arm was. You guys definitely earned your spot in the finals there. -228: I talked a lot with you guys, but for everyone else, I can't say enough good things about GUS. Their robot was a true feat of engineering, and it looked absolutely incredible. That, and it was so ridiculously fast on the field! Very fun to watch. -118: The most professional FRC robot I've ever seen, hands down. If 228 was a feat of engineering, your robot was a wonder of engineering. At one point my programmer posed the question "I wonder which is a more impressive feat of engineering - 118's robot or the convention center where this is being held," and neither of us could agree which was more impressive. Ever since you released your video our entire team has been unable to stop talking about your robot, and after seeing it in action I don't think that's about to change. The way you guys conducted yourselves was also incredibly professional - even with the...uhhh, circumstances you guys were handed in the semis you guys still kept calm and even, something i was very impressed by. Oh, and I want to say, the fact that you replaced virtually every system on your robot and still managed to get out and score baskets on Thursday was incredible. If our team tried something like that we probably wouldn't have been running 100% until our last Qual match. When I saw you guys replacing your whole drivetrain I could only think to myself "how in the world would these guys finish this in time for tomorrow," but you guys more than found a way. Good luck at Lone Star next week - you guys absolutely deserve the win! -2168: Another robot I was very impressed by. There needs to be more engineering awards at these 60-robot regionals, because you guys (along with 228 and 118 of course) definitely deserved something. Oh, and I remember a mentor on your team saying something along the lines of "I can't believe we were the first seed in both regionals but still couldn't win, what did we do wrong?" You know, winning a regional is impressive, but there are THREE regional winners. There is only one first seed. I'd say that getting first seed TWO REGIONALS IN A ROW is about as impressive as winning both regionals in a row. You guys didn't do much wrong; in fact, I'd say you did something seriously, seriously right to end up at the top of both regionals. -1124: I'd like thank to these guys for their support and encouragement. I'd also like to give a shout out to Phil Lopreiato, who a few weeks ago helped us fix the control loops on our swerve modules. Without him I don't know if we ever would have gotten it driving! -Queueing/Field Reset crew: I was very impressed that you guys always managed to meet that 6-minute turnaround time, while still being friendly and considerate. When I saw our match schedule Thursday night I was shocked to see that we would be playing 10 qual matches this weekend, and you guys made it happen! (and, that goes without saying, a big thank you to the other volunteers and the judges!) I'm sure there's some other things I'm forgetting here, I'll post more if I remember it. ____________________________________________ I want to talk a little bit about the field issues and such. There's a lot of information here, so it might take a while to read. The TL;DR version is basically "we had the issue in NYC and CT and we're as confused as everybody else." The rest is just the details. If you'd like to read the entire story just click on the spoiler button below. Spoiler for Field Issue Observations:
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This is my 4th year as a volunteer & FTAA at the CT Regional. I can't say there weren't bumps to jump over, but I do have to say that this was the most intense & rewarding Regionals I've been to. I saw it in the predictions & it all came true. The teams that came to Hartford from home & all over were by far the elite!. Everybody had that wish to advance to the Championships, my team included. This is part of life & not everybody can advance. We are going past this & planning for the off-season events. We did have an issue with an unruly spectator, who did not show Gracious Professionalism. He was removed so those who were there didn't have to be subject to the negative attitude. Enough about that. There were quite a few robots that stood out significantly from the the crowd. I hope that all teams look ahead & strive to be even better next year.
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.I'd also like to extend thanks to teams 195 and 181 for asking Team 20 to be a member of their alliance. Our hybrid scoring was incredible and really made a difference in our success! Both 195's deadly accuracy from the key and 181's awesome autonomous were impressive. I really enjoyed strategizing with both of you; it's really cool to align with teams who take scouting as seriously as we do and take that all the way to a regional championship! Hope to see you guys in St. Louis and Washington DC! 2067, 1071, and 558; those were some intense finals matches! Coming from behind after a loss in the first finals match is never easy, but with matches as close as those, it was a real nail biter, especially with all three of you going for the bridge at the end. 177, 228, and 236; WOW! That was the easiest triple balance I've ever seen! You're strategy made it indefensible too, couldn't figure out how our alliance was going to beat you guys if you balanced that quickly every match . It's really a shame the season and 177's amazing Einstein streak had to end with robots not moving on the field. Many people who attend the FIRST Championship this year will have never seen an Einstein Field without Bobcat Robotics.Congratulations to StuyPulse on their Chairman's Award! Well deserved recognition for making an impact in the FIRST community and the rest of the community. Also, congrats to 1511 on their Engineering Inspiration Award! Congrats to team 250 on their safety award as well! It was great to see so many capital region and New York teams well represented at the award ceremonies! Shout out to 1493, our collaborative scouting effort was awesome! The kids on your team really made a difference for us, and the scouting went really smoothly! That information we collected helped us get picked with our new strategy Saturday morning, and then to strategize with our eliminations alliance. Hope the information was useful for your team as well, we'll have to consider continuing this in future seasons! As some of you may have noticed, our robot was having some intermittent issues where we would stop moving during parts of eliminations matches. I can't say if these issues were in some way similar to the issues other teams were experiencing, but we did find that if we rebooted our cRio mid match via the driver station, we would restore operation for the duration of the match. This did mean we would be non-operational for 20-30 seconds in some of the matches, but at least we could come back. Last edited by KrazyCarl92 : 02-04-2012 at 00:36. |
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Team 869 would like to congratulate the winning alliance of teams 195, 20, and 181 as well as thank team 175 and team 126 for seeing some value in our scrappy defensive robot, and inviting us to shake it up in the elims! Although we didn't go as far as we would have liked, we had a great time and it was an amazing experience working with some very classy and professional teams! Would've been great to unveil that triple on the competition field haha we were that close.
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the tavern was pretty good if you wanted a burger and it is just across the street from the parking garage exit of the convention center
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Thank you to everyone (staff, volunteers, mentors & students of both allied and opposing teams, crowds of spectators and SPONSORS) who made this an unforgettable weekend for team 195. See you all in St. Louis.
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What a crazy weekend! In no particular order:
-181: you guys' autonomous program is the big reason we picked you, on top of your excellent ability to balance and your tele-op scoring capabilities. It was fantastic getting to work with you guys, and that 36-point autonomous was incredible. Great work! -20: at our strategy/scouting meeting Friday night I kind of came up with and talked a lot about the idea of "alliance composition." Essentially, my idea was that at this regional the winning alliance was going to be one of two major alliance composition types: an alliance that attempted to win games by triple balancing, and an alliance that attempted to win by dominating hybrid and teleop. Because our (195's) robot was very good in hybrid and teleop but lacked a stinger or some other mechanism to help balance a bridge, we knew that our best bet was to dominate hybrid and teleop, thereby offsetting the 20 points lost in a triple balance. Our pit scouting uncovered that you guys would be great at feeding balls both in hybrid AND in teleop, so we watched you guys very closely on Saturday morning. Obviously, even with the issues you guys suffered in the elims (I'm going to elaborate on this a little more later), we were incredibly glad we picked you guys. When you guys were working you balanced the bridge every time and our side of the field was always absolutely packed with balls because you fed us so well. Fantastic job both to your drivers and pit crew for working through all the difficulties you had this weekend. -2067 / 1071: fantastic job guys! I talked with you guys a lot before and after the finals and again, I am thrilled to have played with and against you guys and to see you achieve this success here. You guys definitely earned it! -558: I'll be honest here; when I first saw your robot at Suffield this year I was skeptical. Since then though my opinion on your robot has changed drastically. I don't think I ever saw you guys miss a ball in Hybrid, and your tele-op scoring was always dead on. It was just awesome how consistent that arm was. You guys definitely earned your spot in the finals there. -228: I talked a lot with you guys, but for everyone else, I can't say enough good things about GUS. Their robot was a true feat of engineering, and it looked absolutely incredible. That, and it was so ridiculously fast on the field! Very fun to watch. Oh, and a huge congrats to Dave on the Dean's List! -118: The most professional FRC robot I've ever seen, hands down. If 228 was a feat of engineering, your robot was a wonder of engineering. At one point my programmer posed the question "I wonder which is a more impressive feat of engineering - 118's robot or the convention center where this is being held," and neither of us could agree which was more impressive. Ever since you released your video we were unable to stop talking about your robot. The way you guys conducted yourselves was also incredibly professional - even with the...uhhh, circumstances you guys were handed in the semis you guys still kept calm and even, something i was very impressed by. Oh, and I want to say, the fact that you replaced virtually every system on your robot and still managed to get out and score baskets on Thursday was incredible. If our team tried something like that we probably wouldn't have been running 100% until our last Qual match. When I saw you guys replacing your whole drivetrain I could only think to myself "how in the world would these guys finish this in time for tomorrow," but you guys more than found a way. -2168: Another robot I was very impressed by. There needs to be more engineering awards at these 60-robot regionals, because you guys (along with 228 and 118 of course) definitely deserved something. -1124: I'd like thank to these guys for their support and encouragement. I'd also like to give a shout out to Phil Lopreiato, who a few weeks ago helped us fix the control loops on our swerve modules. Without him I don't know if we ever would have gotten it driving! -4055: Congrats on the rookie all-star award! We're glad we were able to lend a hand to you guys. -3467: Wanted to congratulate you guys on the quality award - I don't know what it is, but something about you guys impressed me all weekend. In particular I liked your gatherer (and how it models some of the ones the world's top teams are using) and I took note of a last-second balance your robot completed in a qual match on Friday. -Queueing/Field Reset crew: I was very impressed that you guys always managed to meet that 6-minute turnaround time, while still being friendly and considerate. When I saw our match schedule Thursday night I was shocked to see that we would be playing 10 qual matches this weekend, and you guys made it happen! (and, that goes without saying, a big thank you to the other volunteers and the judges!) I'm sure there's some other things I'm forgetting here, I'll post here when I remember it. |
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