2012 Greater Toronto Regional West

[lorem3k]

Great regional this year! Karthik's introduction speech was amazing. The second final was kind of anti-climactic, though.

I was surprised that nobody thought to block 2200 while they were driving over the bump. For a moment as they were crossing it, their robot was also at an angle that would have made it easily knocked over if it were hit. 2200's great defensive playing was key in their alliance's victory, and I think the finals might've turned out differently if they weren't able to make it over.

[Mr_P]

Originally Posted by Gregor01

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.

I wish to congratulate 2056, 4001 and 2200 on their GTRW win and in turn 3161, 1114 and 2634 for their efforts as finalists. I wish to congratulate 1241 for their RCA. Well done.

I do not want to speak for our alliance captain but I believe 1241 was pursuing the same strategy of a triple balance. 907 and 771 are wide bots.

Originally Posted by Kaushal.K

To address some of the issues I quickly read.

1) In semi finals match where #2 alliance (1241 & co) faced the #7 alliance (2056 & co), 1241 took a hard hit and our drop-down mechanism was stuck in the extended position. We were able to drive to block the opposing alliance (not in their lane) from getting onto the bridge WHILE not touching it, therefore no penalty/DQ.

2) In semi's matches 2 & 3, we had connection problems. I do not know the reasoning behind what caused the issue/what the exact issue was, but there was a problem.

3) Team 1114's robot "dying" in the 2nd Finals match occurred at the start of the Tele-Operated period, they were at the same alliance station as Team 1241 was at for Semi's match 3 against 2056.

I would like to thank & congratulate Teams 2056, 4001 and 2200 on their Regional Victory.

Teams 3161, 1114 and 2643 for putting on the most amazing Finals that I have seen since I began in FIRST in '07. It was truly a weekend I (and many others on my team) will never forget!

& Lastly congratulations to Team 1305 on their Engineering Inspiration award and to 907 and 771 for being our amazing alliance partners!

The comm problem Kaushal.K describes caused their bot to careen into us in SF1-2. In the collision, one of our PWMs came loose at the sidecar causing a failure on our ball sensors. We didn't catch it between matches, we had little time between match 2 and 3. We had limited ball intake capability in SF1-3. We designed wide knowing it would come down to triple balancing in the end.

Best of luck to 1241, 2056, 4001 and 2200 and 1305 in St. Louis. We will celebrate from afar.

Go Canada!

[Gaurav27]

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.

While we may not have been the best alliance partner for 2056 and given the state of our shooter and robot at that stage of GTRW, we would've played a similar role to that of ours at 2011 Curie Division eliminations last year. However, it would've been hard to coordinate and execute a triple balance with two long bots and a wide.

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.

Yes, those issues were becoming quite clear in the GTRW eliminations and unfortunately we were unable to perform a 100%.

Originally Posted by Mr_P

I wish to congratulate 2056, 4001 and 2200 on their GTRW win and in turn 3161, 1114 and 2634 for their efforts as finalists. I wish to congratulate 1241 for their RCA. Well done.

I do not want to speak for our alliance captain but I believe 1241 was pursuing the same strategy of a triple balance. 907 and 771 are wide bots.

The comm problem Kaushal.K describes caused their bot to careen into us in SF1-2. In the collision, one of our PWMs came loose at the sidecar causing a failure on our ball sensors. We didn't catch it between matches, we had little time between match 2 and 3. We had limited ball intake capability in SF1-3. We designed wide knowing it would come down to triple balancing in the end.

Best of luck to 1241, 2056, 4001 and 2200 and 1305 in St. Louis. We will celebrate from afar.

Go Canada!

Thanks Mr. P for the clarification and congrats. We had an amazing time partnering with 907. Your robot was a definite stand-out amongst the scorers this year. By further picking 771, we had an intention of triple balancing but had a doubt of accomplishing so, due to the lack of practice we had together.

We hope to improve and perform up to par or even better than some of the top Canadian bots who are unable to attend Championships this year.

[tsangc]

Hi guys,

Here are some photos from GTR West:

https://picasaweb.google.com/1067936...gionalWest2012

Calum

[Matthx]

Originally Posted by tsangc

Hi guys,

Here are some photos from GTR West:

https://picasaweb.google.com/1067936...gionalWest2012

Calum

There are some beautiful shots there, thanks for posting

[Gregor]

http://youtu.be/fQzyydRiek4

Semi Match 2-1

Red: 1241, 907, 771

Blue: 2056, 4001, 2200

Red - 62
Blue - 51

We noticed there was no full video of this match online and thought it would be a great idea to have all of them published.

[Mr. Lim]

Originally Posted by Gregor01

http://youtu.be/fQzyydRiek4

Semi Match 2-1

Red: 1241, 907, 771

Blue: 2056, 4001, 2200

Red - 62
Blue - 51

We noticed there was no full video of this match online and thought it would be a great idea to have all of them published.

I have been waiting for video of this match since the end of GTR-W. I thought it would be lost forever.

907 has built amazing robots these past two years in particular. They really deserve to be at CMP. I don't believe they have ever attended. One of the absolute best key shooters at GTR-W, and that's saying a lot.

You can't see much of it from this video, but 1241 put on an absolute defensive clinic during this match.

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by Mr. Lim

907 has built amazing robots these past two years in particular. They really deserve to be at CMP. I don't believe they have ever attended. One of the absolute best key shooters at GTR-W, and that's saying a lot.

Thanks a lot. I've not yet had a chance to congratulate 610 on your impeccable shooting and balancing in both of your regionals. We are all rooting for you at championships.

[swwrobotics]

Anybody notice that ball scored by an inbounder on the bottom hoop around 6:30?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIQ85...feature=relmfu

[Racer26]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odH3v...ure=plpp_video

You can't see the hail mary shot at T-0sec on this match, but it was easily the most impressive conclusion to a match I saw all year.

One of the inbounders fired a ball from the driver station with 1 sec left in the match, buzzer went as the ball sunk into the bottom basket to tie that match up.