2014 Crossroads Regional

[avanboekel]

Is the streaming site down for anyone else?

[BurkeHalderman]

Originally Posted by avanboekel

Is the streaming site down for anyone else?

Yeah it won't load for me either. It's just been loading for the past 20min.

[dodar]

Did anyone ever look into fixing the stream?

[Carolyn_Grace]

Originally Posted by dodar

Did anyone ever look into fixing the stream?

It's been working for me all day, but I know other people haven't been able to access it. I've also been told that the 3D live feed is pretty good.

[dodar]

Originally Posted by Carolyn_Grace

It's been working for me all day, but I know other people haven't been able to access it. I've also been told that the 3D live feed is pretty good.

The page just loads into a black screen.

[Carolyn_Grace]

Originally Posted by dodar

The page just loads into a black screen.

hahaha, oh geez. So, in an attempt to figure out why it wasn't working for others, I closed the page and tried to open it again, and now it won't load at all. It was working beautifully before then. Now I feel your pain.

[Vaude]

Currently, match 60 is playing. My teams robot was just playing, 2 robots (including my team's) died at the exact same time.

The referees are not calling out red team bots for slamming blue team bots. However, the referees call penalties on blue team bots for lightly pushing other bots.

This Crossroads seems unfair, and since when do FRC challenges allow battlebot type tactics?

[EricWilliams]

Originally Posted by Vaude

This Crossroads seems unfair, and since when do FRC challenges allow battlebot type tactics?

We need to start tracking outbreaks of this on each thread like the CDC tracks epidemics. Ground zero for Crossroads is Q60. Will it turn into a full CIR pandemic?

[Vaude]

After further diagnosis, one bot was disabled after the bumpers fell off, and ours tripped the breaker, which had not happened all day long.

[bduddy]

Originally Posted by Vaude

After further diagnosis, one bot was disabled after the bumpers fell off, and ours tripped the breaker, which had not happened all day long.

See? It's not all a conspiracy against your team. Also note that "slamming" another robot is not by itself illegal.

[Team3266Spencer]

Crossroads match scores seem to be averaging 30 or 50 points above other regionals Lord of competition here

[ayeckley]

It seems like there was little "ramp up" time today, unlike the Michigan districts that we scouted last week. Match scores got pretty high early on, and not just due to penalties.

[ratdude747]

One thing I've noticed is there have been quite a few foul-heavy matches. However, from what I can remember (being on the field reset crew), the highest score (not counting penalties) was 245... there also was a 285 but IIRC there was 150 or so in penalties. I have noticed some-ramp up in the case of a few teams; however, it seemed that quite a few teams were already playing well by their first qual match. There have been lots of high scores and pretty intense gameplay (and it isn't even Saturday yet!). If this keeps up, it will be a very exiting Saturday afternoon.

One issue that at least one team brought to my attention today that I can comment on is tape durability. For some reason (looks to be lame adhesive) the gaff tape isn't sticking so well this year, at least on this field (which IIRC wasn't used in week 1). For quals, we've been somewhat conservative on tape repairs, mainly to keep the match to match times low and to save tape. Also, the only way the tape seems to be working is if it is applied in 3" strips.

This all being said, I'd imaging that during tomorrow's lunch break (and throughout elims) we will be more diligent on tape maintenance; However, I'm not the field supervisor so I can only guess from past experience.

On a lighter note, this whole tape issue kinda reminds me of the "pothole incident" that plagued the 2010 Daytona 500... but just like that race, patch the hole, keep on trucking on.

Good luck to everybody tomorrow, see y'all on the field.

Edit: this is my opinion, and my opinion alone. Nothing less, nothing more.