2012 Mid-Atlantic Robotics FRC Region Championship

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Robotmmm

From the crowdsourced data here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...RnY 0E#gid=20

1. 1218 (skip 365, skip 222)
2. 1676
3. 2180
4. 2016 (skip 2590)
5. 486 (skip 272)
6. 357 (skip 11)
7. 56


Can someone explain to me what this means? Why are the teams in parentheses skipped?

Because they had already registered for Championship or qualified via winning the MAR Chairman's award.

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Because they had already registered for Championship or qualified via winning the MAR Chairman's award.

How did 11 already qualify?

[dodar]

Originally Posted by Jared341

How did 11 already qualify?

They aren't. The FIRST website doesnt have them registered for Champs yet.

[Robotmmm]

Exactly. As far as they know, they are not going. As I read the stats they have more points than 56. I am confused.

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Jared341

How did 11 already qualify?

I'm sorry, you are correct. Had them and 75 mixed up in my head for a moment (as the two Chairman's winners of MAR districts I didn't attend). I, too, am unsure of why they are being "skipped" in the crowdsourced data.

[Lil' Lavery]

Anywho, on behalf of myself and 1712 I'd love to congratulate many on an awesome weekend and season.

341- What a truly special season for you guys. Thanks for the help you have provided us over the years, and it's awesome to see you take your game to the next level. A single point away from an undefeated weekend! Can't wait to see what you can accomplish at Championship. Thanks for the words of encouragement members of your team gave us at Hatboro and Philadelphia.

25 - We're glad you were able to rebound from our disappointing finish in Lenape. Absolutely brilliant performance by you over the course of the weekend, and you were definitely deserving of that #1 selection. Good luck in St. Louis!

1640 - Congratulations! You were a blast to sit near on Saturday, and we were thrilled that you guys ended up on your ideal alliance. We knew how worried some of you were by the final selection, and how exhilarating it is to be picked there.

357 - Terrific season by some of our best friends in FRC, and we're bummed you won't be in St. Louis. We were shocked by where you were ranked, and a little upset we contributed to it by losing as your alliance partners all the way back in match 3 (sorry we didn't have our bridge manipulator working for that match). But, despite that, you were still proven as a terrific scoring machine and very deserving of your early 1st round selection.

1089 - Congratulations on a well deserved GP award. Your team is awesome. Wish we could have played in a match together this weekend.

365 - Great season guys. Thankfully, our streak of annual quarterfinal match-ups is over. Hopefully we can align on the same side in eliminations sometime soon!

816 - If only we could have matched the success we found as qualification partners this year in the eliminations in the past two seasons (92 points in Lenape and a great win this weekend).

272 - Wow did you guys improve over the season! We were rooting for you to pull off what would have been an incredible upset in the semis, especially with quite an unorthodox triple balancing method. Wish both of our teams had been competing at this level while we were at Hatboro together (though we lost to not one, but two members of the #2 alliance at the MAR Championship by only a single ball). Great team and great friends. Hopefully we can re-unite in the eliminations again in the future.

433 and 75 - Congratulations to two incredibly deserving MARCA winners! 433 has been an inspiration to Dawgma for a while. We haven't had much interaction with 75 in the past, but your video demonstrated a truly quality program that should be emulated.



What an incredible experience to play at a championship event like this. 22 QP would have put us as the third seed at Hatboro back in week one, but was only good enough for 44th place this time around. A few poorly timed mistakes and failures really cost us at an event of this high stakes, but that's the nature of the game. We do feel that Dawgma proved itself worthy of the event with our performance on the field, even if we only made it in from the wait list. Can't wait to give it another run next season.

[Mr MOE]

Thanks to a well done inaugural FIRST MAR District Championship Event!

Thank you to all participating teams, event organizers, volunteers, and sponsors. Although we played in the Liacouras Center at Temple for a number of years when the event was the Philadelphia Regional, this event was different. It was the MAR Championship and it showed.

FRC Teams 75 and 433 - I am proud to have you both represent our district for the Chairman's Award. Two great teams and programs.

Team 3142 - Congratulations on your Engineering Inspiration Award! Keep inspiring!

Don Rotolo, FRC Team 1676 - it was an honor to announce your Woodie Flowers Award on Friday afternoon. You are so deserving. Congratulations! Also, a big thanks for the "Dream Team" of WFFA winners in our region get together for this award. I want a copy of that photo!

MAR Deans List finalists
Alexandra Sorge - 102
Steven Donow - 223
Margaret Mary Rilling - 433
Elizabeth Skeele - 75

Wow! You guys have done some fantastic things already in your FIRST careers. I'm looking forward to even more in future years. Way to go!

FRC Teams 341, 25, 1640 - What a Championship Alliance! You guys were a force! While our alliance was hoping to be playing against you, it sure was fun (and less stressful) watching your matches against some great finalists: FRC Teams 1218, 1280, and 2016.

FRC Teams 222 and 1626 - Thanks for some terrific alliance partnership! We were only a double balance away from the finals! Tigertrons, I believe this was our first alliance pairing during an official FIRST event - nice to finally be on the same side!

To all teams qualifying for the Championship Event - congratulations. For those going, it will be a week or so of scrambling and planning. I am looking forward to seeing you all in St Louis. All the best as you represent our region.

Go FIRST! Go MAR Region!

[Akash Rastogi]

Went 3 for 3 on Rookie All-Star awards, the kids really impressed the judges and other teams, we've made a strong reputation for ourselves as a team to watch for, got a visit from a PA congressman, and qualified for World Championships. Not too bad of a weekend but still disappointed in robot performance and missing elims, being a long bot stinks .

Thanks for the kind words and emails from various teams.

A huge round of applause to 341's alliance for the most exciting eliminations matches I've had the chance to see. I am really hoping to see you guys in the same division as us at Champs.

Congrats to 11 as well for a great season so far, hopefully it is not over for you yet. I was sad to not see you walk away with the Chairman's award.

One more thing: It was a little ridiculous to still see teams losing comms and stop moving at this event. It seemed to even happen in eliminations, aside from the issues 1676 already mentioned with their robot. Were the lost comms for other teams determined to be field related or robot related?

Where was this field from? Was it NYC/CT? Internal MAR field? Rutgers field?

[techhelpbb]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

Went 3 for 3 on Rookie All-Star awards, the kids really impressed the judges and other teams, we've made a strong reputation for ourselves as a team to watch for, got a visit from a PA congressman, and qualified for World Championships. Not too bad of a weekend but still disappointed in robot performance and missing elims, being a long bot stinks .

Thanks for the kind words and emails from various teams.

A huge round of applause to 341's alliance for the most exciting eliminations matches I've had the chance to see. I am really hoping to see you guys in the same division as us at Champs.

Congrats to 11 as well for a great season so far, hopefully it is not over for you yet. I was sad to not see you walk away with the Chairman's award.

One more thing: It was a little ridiculous to still see teams losing comms and stop moving at this event. It seemed to even happen in eliminations, aside from the issues 1676 already mentioned with their robot. Were the lost comms for other teams determined to be field related or robot related?

Where was this field from? Was it NYC/CT? Internal MAR field? Rutgers field?

I think Team 11 did wonderfully despite the communications issues that effected them and other teams.

It's my understanding that the field teams worked quite hard with Team 11 to diagnose the underlying issues and my deepest thanks to everyone that helped everyone to deal with it.

It seems the communication issues are a mix of problems many of them pointing back to things that adversly effect the power to the D-Link APs.

Some teams report replacing the PDB adddressed it, for Team 11 it seems to be the DC-DC converter.

I'm not convinced that there isn't a field related aspect to what's going on, but I haven't seen anything offical and I can't dig further till I can get my hands on that DC-DC converter.

[Deetman]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

One more thing: It was a little ridiculous to still see teams losing comms and stop moving at this event. It seemed to even happen in eliminations, aside from the issues 1676 already mentioned with their robot. Were the lost comms for other teams determined to be field related or robot related?

Where was this field from? Was it NYC/CT? Internal MAR field? Rutgers field?

I was quite shocked to see the comms issues after seeing so few at Hatboro-Horsham, Chestnut Hill, and Lenape. They appeared to be pretty random throughout the event and didn't seem to plague any one team (1676 aside). 1712 had one issue where our driver station laptop wouldn't link up with the robot (FTA's classmate fixed that) but I'm 99% certain that it was on our side with the laptop. As I never spent any time troubleshooting an issue I'd be interested to hear from other teams that had issues and if they repeated or if it was just a one time occurrence.

I'm pretty sure that this was not the MAR field and was one of FIRST's. What other events the field was used at I do not know.

Also wanted to thank 869 for webcasting the event and recording it as well. It isn't broken up into easily digestible chunks yet, but if you missed any of the MAR Champs action it is available at http://www.twitch.tv/powercord869/vi...ast_broadcasts

[Lil' Lavery]

It was the FIRST field with sea green colored crates. Unsure of which events it was at previously.

[nlknauss]

My expectations for a District championship event have certainly been made after this event. Thank you to all of the teams who made the inaugural MAR Region Championship event one to remember. A huge thanks needs to be sent to the championship volunteers! You all are the best in supporting our teams and the event

Congrats to teams 433 and 75 on your Chairman's Award win. I am sure you all will represent the MAR region well in STL as you look to become the 4th team in our region to join the FIRST HoF.

Best of luck to team 3142 for the Engineering Excellence, 3929 for the Rookie All-star Award, and all of the other qualifying teams moving on to World Championships. Compete like crazy and have fun!

To Don R from 1676 and all of the Dean's List Finalists, thank you for being the role models to our students and mentors. You all certainly those we should be looking up to as leaders within the FIRST community.

Our championship volunteers of the year, Ed Petrillo and Frank Larkin, you both sincerely rock! Your dedication to the teams in our region and leadership in kicking off the District model was huge. THANK YOU

On behalf of the Storm Robotics Team, thank you to all teams for your support and enthusiasm. Our students and mentors greatly appreciate being a part of this FIRST community and look forward to everything the future brings in our region.

[No, I /animate/]

I have to say, I've never been to a more INTENSE regional. Between all the close matches, the triple balances, and the last minute scoring, I was on the edge of/out of my seat the entire time.

Mad props to the human player from 75 who won a qualifier by one point by throwing a basket from the feeder station.

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by Siri

(2016 as a 2nd pick!? Only at MAR)

Indeed.

Originally Posted by Jared341

Now that the first season of Mid-Atlantic Robotics is in the books I can come out and say it - from Week 1 at Hatboro-Horsham through Week 7 at the Region Championship, my expectations have been consistently surpassed.

Re-quoted for truth

Originally Posted by scottandme

In the event any of 1218, 1676, 2180, 2016, or 486 passing on their spot, it would go 357 (already passed), 11, 56, 1279, etc, etc.

1676 is definitely going.

[Carol]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

It was the FIRST field with sea green colored crates. Unsure of which events it was at previously.

The field used at Temple field was at Minnesota Week 5 and at Cincinnati Week 6.