2014 Hub City Regional Discussion Thread

[lynca]

Random Facts about Hub City:

2nd year as a regional
New Regional Director this year
This will be the 1st event with Chinese visitors to Texas
1st Texas event without a 10+ year Texas Veteran

Predicitions
Contenders : 192, 245, 2439, 2468, 4587
Wild Cards : 1429, 1817, 3507, 3931, 4063
Dark Horses : 1801, 1164, 2461, 2773

The scores will be low and defense will be heavy.
It will be interesting to see how the Chinese rookies perform.
The Chinese teams have traveled a long way and paid a significant amount of money which usually translates to great robot preparation.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by lynca

Random Facts about Hub City:

2nd year as a regional
New Regional Director this year
This will be the 1st event with Chinese visitors to Texas
1st Texas event without a 10+ year Texas Veteran

Predicitions
Contenders : 192, 245, 2439, 2468, 4587
Wild Cards : 1429, 1817, 3507, 3931, 4063
Dark Horses : 1801, 1164, 2461, 2773

The scores will be low and defense will be heavy.
It will be interesting to see how the Chinese rookies perform.
The Chinese teams have traveled a long way and paid a significant amount of money which usually translates to great robot preparation.

This is really cool to see! In case people haven't seen 4587's robot, check it out - http://i.imgur.com/kDI2I3i.jpg

[Joe.Quirk]

Originally Posted by lynca

Random Facts about Hub City:

2nd year as a regional
New Regional Director this year
This will be the 1st event with Chinese visitors to Texas
1st Texas event without a 10+ year Texas Veteran

Predicitions
Contenders : 192, 245, 2439, 2468, 4587
Wild Cards : 1429, 1817, 3507, 3931, 4063
Dark Horses : 1801, 1164, 2461, 2773

The scores will be low and defense will be heavy.
It will be interesting to see how the Chinese rookies perform.
The Chinese teams have traveled a long way and paid a significant amount of money which usually translates to great robot preparation.

WILD CARD??!? ALRIGHT!
http://i.imgur.com/1coolA1.gif

[Wetzel]

2914 is here and enjoying making new friends out here in Texas. Spent the day getting mechanical things sorted, but our cameras are calibrated, drive train is locked in and we are ready to rock tomorrow morning.

Wetzel

[JoeWithTheSpecs]

Congratulations to the champions, 1817, 2468, and 5320! You all were a blast to watch and to compete with! It was fun being in Texas again, but we're headed out tomorrow morning to our Michigan weather. Supposed to be near freezing by the time we reach Rochester Hills.

[itsjustmrb]

Team 4063, TRikzR4kiDz, would like to thank Team 4153, Project Y, for picking us and Team 1801, The Dapper Dans to create a powerful #7 alliance. We had a great run, knocking of the #2 and #3 alliances before falling to the #1 alliance (1817, 2468, 5320). Congratulations to the Llano Estacado RoboRaiders, Team Appreciate and the Cyber Hornets for winning the Hub City Regional. Team 4063 would also like to thank the judges, we can home with a quite a bit of hardware...

Engineering Inspiration
FIRST Dean's List Finalist (Maricarmen Del Toro)
Regional Finalist
Imagery Award in honor of Jack Kamen

We look forward to seeing y'all again in Dallas.

Mr. B

[forbes]

Does anyone know if videos of the matches will be available?

[MrForbes]

I posted one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW3tSBgTXCg

I didn't bring a tripod, nor enough memory or battery to film very many. And it takes a while to upload them here at less than 1mb/s

[george.tan]

Originally Posted by forbes

Does anyone know if videos of the matches will be available?

Here are a few matches.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCru...mk1dYxWKHnn2sQ

[juchong]

Originally Posted by itsjustmrb

Team 4063, TRikzR4kiDz, would like to thank Team 4153, Project Y, for picking us and Team 1801, The Dapper Dans to create a powerful #7 alliance.
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We look forward to seeing y'all again in Dallas.

Mr. B

Thank you very much for helping us run the field! Also, you guys left your flag on the field, so I've given it to some of the members of 3005 to give back to you in Dallas!



-Juan, your FTAA

[Pjohn1959]

Joe, there were no declines.