2012 Queen City FRC Regional

[tacobelldog52]

Just as a clarification to the "incident" with 3301, 829, and 2481.


There was no foul called on blue for the bridge the 3 foul points awarded for something else unrelated to the bridge.


When the question was asked after the match by the students the orginal thing the referees said was that it didn't matter since 829 was pushing them onto the bridge.

After the referees huddled they said that there was no foul since all contact was initiated by 829.

.............. If this is/was the correct call you really can't balance 3 robots. You can block the 3rd robot and claimed you were "pushed" into the others.

[Grim Tuesday]

Originally Posted by tacobelldog52

Just as a clarification to the "incident" with 3301, 829, and 2481.


There was no foul called on blue for the bridge the 3 foul points awarded for something else unrelated to the bridge.


When the question was asked after the match by the students the orginal thing the referees said was that it didn't matter since 829 was pushing them onto the bridge.

After the referees huddled they said that there was no foul since all contact was initiated by 829.

.............. If this is/was the correct call you really can't balance 3 robots. You can block the 3rd robot and claimed you were "pushed" into the others.

If you approach the bridge from the other side, the opposing alliance can't deploy such a strategy.

[Team3266Spencer]

Thanks to all the finalist for an extremely entertaining series of matches, and for making the Queen City Regional amazing. =)

[Chris Fultz]

This was a great 2 days of competition. The finals were incredible and I think any and all of the 8 alliances had a shot at winning it all.

It was cool to just watch matches, talk to teams and friends, and enjoy!

Well run event, organized, fantastic venue, great volunteers and FIRST staff.

I hope to be there with 234 in 2013

[mathking]

It was a great event. Very well organized, great staff. The venue was nice. Plus on Friday I got a chance to order from LaRosa's for the first time since 2001. Thank you Jimmy for the updates all along, keeping all of the registered teams in the loop. That was a great touch. Having a practice field with a tethered and wireless side was an excellent touch. Lots of great robots and even more great people. I ran in the first Flying Pig Marathon, and now I can say my team played in the first Queen City Regional.

Congrats to 3940, 781 and 45 on the win. Great game play. (To team 45, are you going to try to launch one full court in the dome?) And seriously, the full court two pointer by the human player providing the margin of victory was just cool.

Thank you to 772 for picking us and 1270 for playing with us. I wish the autonomous teamwork had worked as well on the competition field as it had on the playing field, but it was a good plan. And I think the picture we have of the "double flip" will have to end up in our season highlights.

Congrats to our friends from Granville, 4283, for finishing in style with a last second solo balance for a win. You guys have the talent coming back to be grizzled veterans next year. Or maybe even at the Connect A Million Minds Invitational in June.

[Kyle Love]

Overall, this was a decent event. Obviously, it was a rookie regional so everything wasn't perfect. It was a very strong rookie regional though.

The venue was superb. It's nice to see newer regional's using the "classic" style of FIRST venue. There's just a few easy tweaks to make it run a bit smoother from that aspect.

The inspections for this event were, by far, the most thorough of inspections that I have ever seen. This is both good and bad. I am glad to see all teams passing inspection. This will be a great attribute for those competing in St. Louis.

As for field staff, it was ran well every match that we had on the field. The flow patterns were well thought out, and actually made sense.

Aside from the obvious match (SF 2-3) that I could debate all night/day about, the on the field crew was pretty good. It was nice to have zero issues with the field and when things needed repaired it got done quickly.

I would like to thank 829 and 2481 for choosing us to work with them. We had a great chemistry and had a great time competing in the tournament. Just wish we could have played a little longer