2013 BAE Systems Granite State Regional

[Ken Streeter]

Congratulations to the incredible high-scoring alliance of 610 - 4124 - 3609 for going through elimination rounds undefeated at today's Granite State Regional! Your alliance was definitely the one to beat due to the great offense of 610 and 4124, coupled with excellent defense from 3609.

We thought we'd have a shot at matching your best efforts when our 885 - 1519 - 133 alliance came up against you in the semifinals. Those two semifinal matches were exceptionally exciting! We really thought we might have outscored you in SemiFinal 1-2 since we knew we had put a whole bunch of frisbees into the goals, but when the match was over and I looked up over my head into the high goal for the red alliance, I saw an incredible mountain of frisbees and knew we'd been beat despite giving it our best effort! There were well over thirty frisbees in that goal! Congratulations!

At least we knew we had been beaten in a match where we really gave it our best -- the alliance of 885 - 1519 - 133 was able to stand proud with our losing score of 123 points -- we were simply bested by a great alliance! (I've since learned that our losing score of 123 points was the highest losing score at any of the Week 1 Regionals!)

Congratulations are also due to the Regional Chairman's Award Winners, 131 CHAOS, of Manchester's Central High School. With all that CHAOS has done for the Manchester robotics scene, the award is extremely well deserved!

We were also glad for 172 Northern Force to receive the Engineering Inspiration Award! With your graciousness to us in loaning us a broaching set during the event being a clear example of your classy organization, your presence in St. Louis will definitely contribute to making the Championship an awesome place to compete!

Thanks so much to 885, The Green Team, for asking us to be on your alliance. The capabilities of our robots were a fantastic complement to one another, enabling our alliance with 133 to come very close to topping the offensive juggernaut of the #1 alliance. The excellent teamwork and complementary abilities were reminiscent of our 2006 GSR alliance with 1276 and 133, where three good but not exceptional robots with the right set of capabilities were able to stun the favorites in an upset from the bottom half of the seeding bracket. It sure felt like we were oh-so-close to making a similar upset today!

We very much enjoyed seeing many teams we've allied with at GSR before take home well-deserved judged awards -- 885, 1073, 1153, and 2791 all definitely earned the accolades bestowed upon them in New Hampshire this afternoon.

It's hard to believe that the 2013 Granite State Regional is over already! 1519 had a wonderful time and was glad to have competed at the event.

A final thanks is due to the event sponsors and organizers at BAE Systems -- the event went 100% smoothly and was a great pleasure to attend. Thanks to all the volunteers who gave of their time!

[Nathan Streeter]

Started to upload video from GSR... 8 of the 9 quarter-final matches are up already, because I have them. Hopefully more video to follow...

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...5BrWEbRxhDpuK3

[jimwick]

Many thanks to all who made this a wonderful year for us.

Thanks to 610 and their alliance partners for showing us how it's done. 610 was an amazing robot - approached the job in a simple way and did it SO well.

Thanks to our alliance partners 1519 and 133 for giving them a good fight in the semi. When the losing score is 123 you can't feel too bad about it.

For us this year was a real high. Never in the seven years that I've been with the team have we made the top 8. Just being there made it all worth it!

[jamierose]

I've (only) been to 5 regionals, but BAE this year was definitely my favourite.
The level of competition was amazing. Eliminations were extremely competitive. I really felt that every alliance had a shot at winning. There was never a match where I could predict the outcome before it happened. Those semi finals were especially intense!

I want to thank our alliance members, 4124 and 3609. There's no way we could have won the regional without such an awesome alliance.

Even more importantly, I want to thank every single person there for making BAE the awesome regional it was. The spirit, atmosphere, and level of competition were just incredible!

[Mike Norton]

Team 61 would like to thank team 175 and 172 for being great partners. They gave us their all even when things looked grim. Great run.

You will be seeing both these team do even better in he future. Great job and great robots.

[Chris Fultz]

this was a great event. thanks to BAE for sponsoring and for providing so many volunteers.

610 was a dominating machine and had several strategies for dealing with defense. the elimination matches were excellent and very competitive.

i think there was just one floor pickup robot at the event so there were usually a lot of discs on the floor at the end of the matches. it will be interesting to see how that stat changes with other events.

congrats to 131 for the Chairman's win. awesome!

[Jay O'Donnell]

Originally Posted by Chris Fultz

i think there was just one floor pickup robot at the event so there were usually a lot of discs on the floor at the end of the matches. it will be interesting to see how that stat changes with other events.

There were a total of four teams who had designed a floor intake, and the only two I saw implemented were team 885 the green team, and my own team, 1058. My team was very surprised by the lack of floor intakes.

[jamierose]

Originally Posted by Jay Money 1058

There were a total of four teams who had designed a floor intake, and the only two I saw implemented were team 885 the green team, and my own team, 1058. My team was very surprised by the lack of floor intakes.

I remember 175 using a floor intake at least once, but their main strategy seemed to use the feeder station.

[Jay O'Donnell]

Originally Posted by jamierose

I remember 175 using a floor intake at least once, but their main strategy seemed to use the feeder station.

You are correct, both 175 and 58 had floor intakes (58 actually had a plunger) but neither used it very much that I saw.

[mom-bot]

Originally Posted by Mike Norton

Team 61 would like to thank team 175 and 172 for being great partners. They gave us their all even when things looked grim. Great run.

You will be seeing both these team do even better in he future. Great job and great robots.

We love GSR and have attended most years of it’s existence – it is always a great group of teams who are not only there to work hard & compete, but to have fun doing it.

Buzz 175 would like to thank team 61 for choosing us and having team 172 Northern Force play with us. It was a fun, anxious and hard work with two great teams. Thanks for a great regional. (Wow, 61, first time I watched your ‘bot climb I paid no attention to the rest of the other bots in the match!) Best of luck the rest of the season and we hope to see you again soon.

Congratulations to 610, 4124 & 3609 on a game well played. We look forward to seeing how you do the rest of the season and at Championship and, best of luck to all of you.

[Skragnoth]

Team 3609 would like to give a huge thanks to our alliance partners 610 and 4124 for a great competition. You both had very impressive machines and it was a pleasure being part of our alliance.

See you in St. Louis!

[MooreteP]

I have posted some videos online of some of the Robots and matches:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...hreadid=114589

It was an excellent week one Regional.

Many classic teams, upsets, Robots falling, one face shot by 610 on 2342, A robot with no wheels.

A big congratulations to 131 C.H.A.O.S. for the Chairman's Award.

610 picking 4124 and 3609 showed great scouting. Duct Tape Dragons and Integration by Parts are heading to St. Louis!

[ThaDeanesta]

Does anybody have any videos of the Semi-Finals and Finals?

[Jonathan Norris]

Originally Posted by ThaDeanesta

Does anybody have any videos of the Semi-Finals and Finals?

I have them recorded from the webcast and our team, I'll try and get something up today.

[Brandon Zalinsky]

Great work to CHAOS 131 on your RCA. You deserved it!

1058's ground intake will be making an appearance again at Pine Tree, I know we will see a lot of you guys there- good luck and have fun!

By the way, does anyone have a video of Qualification Match 67 (1058, 175, 1247 vs. 1831, 2432, 3566)? It's the first match that we really got our act together in. Thanks!