2013 Greater Kansas City Regional

[Mongai]

Team 935 once again gives our congratulations to all the teams at Kansas City. We always find GKC to be a blast with its upbeat competition that has always keeps us on our toes.

Although our robot's performance wasn't at the anticipated level, we did solve many problems throughout the course of GKC. With OKC in a couple weeks, we promise to bring challenge to the table in a non "Disc-picable" way.

[jspatz1]

Originally Posted by CalTran

Cal here with an update from Hale arena: the number four seed managed top topple team titanium's win streak, but the number one seed came back with a vengeance. The arena is thirsty for the number two to upset the number one, but 3928 had to sub out.

Unfortunately our partner 1806 experienced a joystick failure in this semifinal match and was out for the entire teleop period, after contributing 18 in autonomous. We managed to score 101 on our own, but it was not enough against a very talented offensive alliance. It was a disappointing way to end our win streak, but in an FRC match there is simply a lot of technology outside of one's control. The up side is that it added some thrilling moments to the 2013 GKC Regional. We are happy with the win, and are delighted we were able to create an additional CMP berth for our friends 1939.

[billylo]

Anyone has the video for the 13-disc auton performance? That gotta be on the highlight reel of Ultimate Ascent! Amazing.

[Jaxom]

Originally Posted by billylo

Anyone has the video for the 13-disc auton performance? That gotta be on the highlight reel of Ultimate Ascent! Amazing.

Videos are on MOREnet: http://www.more.net/first-robotics

[alschnelle]

I would have to say that this was the most exciting match in my opinion and it also happened to be the same match that brought and end to our 31 game win streak!

http://150.199.24.201/WMSDownloads/r...lmatch_015.asf

[holygrail]

For those of you that are interested in watching the Metro Sports special about the K.C. Regional, it looks like it is scheduled to air from 7pm to 10pm on Friday, March 22nd according to the Metro Sports Website.

http://www.kcmetrosports.com/MetroSp...Schedules.aspx

[jspatz1]

Originally Posted by holygrail

For those of you that are interested in watching the Metro Sports special about the K.C. Regional, it looks like it is scheduled to air from 7pm to 10pm on Friday, March 22nd according to the Metro Sports Website.

http://www.kcmetrosports.com/MetroSp...Schedules.aspx

And again at these times:

Saturday 3/23 at 12 noon
Sunday 3/24 at 8:30 pm
Monday 3/25 at 7:00 pm
Wednesday 3/27 at 2:00 pm

Metro Sports is TWC channel 30, 310, and 1310

[Alpha Beta]

Originally Posted by CalTran

A well deserved congratulations to Mr. Aaron Bailey of 1986 for a long overdue Woodie Flowers Award

Thank you Cal. With all the wonderful mentors I get to work with it was an honor just being nominated by my team. To receive the WFFA in front of our home crowd in Kansas City was truly an awesome moment. (My wife's response was "Man, now you'll never stop doing robotics!" She is a very patient woman. )

Kansas City saw several firsts this weekend. The first time a team has captained the winning alliance twice (1986). The first time a team has won KC three times (1806). The first wildcard awarded in FRC history (1939).

The quality of robot construction was the highest I've ever seen in KC. Of the 17 elimination rounds played 11 of them had winning scores over 100 points including losing scores of 117 and 119 points. 2 robots successfully pulled off the 7 disc autonomous (3928 and 1986) and 1 team had a successful 5 disc auto (3528). Several robots came prepared for full court shooting, but only one pulled it off consistently (1806). While there were multiple robots capable of floor loading, slot loading was the preferred method with 2996 being among the fastest at it. We did have a few robots specialize in climbing, some of which even included a disc dumper for the pyramid goal (1806, 1810, 1723). Defense was clearly the focus of several designs, but no one came more prepared for it than 1982 who could elevate to 84" when needed and had a fan to boot. 1939 and 1775 were 2 of the most consistent performers all weekend and should garner a lot of attention in Arkansas and Oklahoma as they prepare for their 2nd regionals.

Congrats to Team Driven (1730) for winning Engineering Inspiration for the 3rd time in 5 years at Kansas City. Your team is always a pleasure to work with and it was a blast setting the regional (penalty free) high score with you.

Our team has some side bets on who will win Chairman's each year. We'll have to start betting 1710 versus the field pretty soon. Congrats on your 3rd Chairman's in 5 years.

All 3 rookies won awards at the tournament. Special congrats to 4522 on Rookie All Star. It was a thrill seeing your robot hit the autonomous shots and shoot the colored discs into the pyramid goal by the end of the weekend.

A big thanks to our alliance partners (1806 and 2457) We proved in semifinal 1-2 that we can't win without you. The drivers all said that 1806 was the one robot they didn't want to play against. It was nice to find in our 3rd pick a robot who could hit a couple shots in autonomous and had a fast drivetrain to boot.

Stats for the team this weekend:

• OPR (according to Tracker) = 80.8
• Average alliance score in qualifications = 121.4
• Win-Loss record 16-1 (33-1 for the season)

For a robot POV video check-out this thread.

[holygrail]

Originally Posted by billylo

Anyone has the video for the 13-disc auton performance? That gotta be on the highlight reel of Ultimate Ascent! Amazing.

It is "finals match 7" on the morenet link, our second quarterfinal (quarterfinal 3-2). However, it may not be worth your time since the camera was trained on the blue alliance the whole time and we were on red. If anyone got video, it would be awesome if it got posted. Maybe Neutrinos got some video, they were the ones with the fantastic autonomous mode. Titanium and and Team Up Next had great auto modes too.

[Jaxom]

Originally Posted by jspatz1

And again at these times:

Saturday 3/23 at 12 noon
Sunday 3/24 at 8:30 pm
Monday 3/25 at 7:00 pm
Wednesday 3/27 at 2:00 pm

Metro Sports is TWC channel 30, 310, and 1310

And on Comcast Digital 44 & 258

[zachmartin1806]

A huge congratulations to 1710 for winning Chairman's. Its the most esteemed award in FIRST and their isn't a team more deserving. Also congratulations to team 1730 on winning engineering inspiration.

Thanks goes out to two great alliance partners in 1986 and 2457. We thank Titanium for picking us over the other powerful shooters that were at GKC and The LAW for playing great defense and protecting us from the flood of "pool noodle bots" that went north so we could use our full court shooting.

Also congrats to 1939 for a great performance and earning every bit of the wild card spot.

[runneals]

Originally Posted by holygrail

It is "finals match 7" on the morenet link, our second quarterfinal (quarterfinal 3-2). However, it may not be worth your time since the camera was trained on the blue alliance the whole time and we were on red. If anyone got video, it would be awesome if it got posted. Maybe Neutrinos got some video, they were the ones with the fantastic autonomous mode. Titanium and and Team Up Next had great auto modes too.

I'll check with our parents, as we had a mentor and a parent shooting video on their video cameras that should have captured it, as I was just shooting photos. Hopefully it Metro Sports caught it too I'll post it up if I do manage to find it

[runneals]

Photos from the regional can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/runneal...7632947405295/ (Most of them should be up, but I still have a few more to upload.) Please read the set comments to get the link to download the photos.

[danielled]

The regional was great! Team 1939 left with the quality award and qualification for championships. Here is a recap video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=_4Zx7vQIgP4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=_4Zx7vQIgP4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=_4Zx7vQIgP4

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Danielle (Video Manager for Team 1939)
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facebook: http://facebook.com/firstteam1939
website: http://firstteam1939.com

[runneals]

Hi Guys,
I was just wondering if any of you noticed issues with scoring at KC Regionals. I was just review footage shot by one of our mentors friends on 1625 of our team and their is a 20 point discrepancy in the scores for Semi Finals 2 Match 1. Video (153 v 89) compared to the FMS score @ TBA & the 'official' score @ FIRST: (133 v 89).
How would a scoring issue this big happen? If it happened this time, has it happened before? I'm just worried about something potentially happening like this at this weekend's regionals and hurting the teams when it does. Luckily it didn't hurt either alliance this time.
Thanks for your thoughts & comments on this matter. I'm going to be sharing this with FIRST and will let you know what they say.