2014 Waterloo Regional

[Gregor]

This may be a little early, but since no teams registered for Waterloo are competing at a week 3 event, we already know everything we're going to know about the Waterloo teams.

254-Central Valley Winners
771
781-GTRE Chairman's Award Winners
865
1114
1241-GTRW Chairman's Award Winners
1285-GTRE Winners
1305
1334
2056
2609
2702
3161-GTRE Engineering Inspiration Winners
3683
3756
4039
4069
4519
4525
4678
4732
4777
4907
4917
4943
4992
5032
5033
5039

What's interesting is that neither 1114 nor 2056 will create a wildcard if they win, due to 1114's semifinal exit at GTRE, and the fact that this is 2056's first regional. There's a very high chance that 1114 or 2056 (or both) will actually earn a wildcard at this regional, seeing the amount of other top tier robots that already can create wildcards.

I expect everyone from the finalist alliance to qualify for champs, just like last year.

Expect another insane Waterloo regional. I just mentioned the very top tier.

[joelg236]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQqwG_rQx7A

[Agentarrow]

I'm making the nearly 4 hour drive out to Waterloo to visit this regional, and I may or may not be bringing an alumnus of team 67 with me. Of the events outside of Michigan that I have visited, this is one of my favorites. I'm really looking forward to an awesome event.

[Jonathan Norris]

Gregor, of the teams you didn't mention, both 1334 and 4039 had some of the best robots in the WORLD last year, both incredibly talented teams. 3683 was selected first by 1114 at GTRE, 865 was a defensive beast at GTRW, 2609 and 2702 both have been good teams for years, and two of our awesome chairman's award winning teams in 771 and 1305. The alliances that are going to be created at this small regional are almost going to be of Championship quality. I'm sad i'll be missing Waterloo this year, looks like its going to be a blast.

[Racer26]

What else do we know?

3161 is the oldest team in attendance without a blue banner.

Blue Banners in Attendance:

1x 25-time Regional Winner (254) [16 since 2005]
1x 22-time Regional Winner (1114) [21 since 2005]
1x 17-time Regional Winner (2056)
1x 3-time Regional Winner (781) [2 since 2005]
3x 2-time Regional Winner (771, 865, 1305) [865 only has 1 since 2005]
7x 1-time Regional Winner (1241, 1285, 1334, 2609, 2702, 3756, 4069)
1x 4-time Championship Division Winner (254) [3 since 2005]
1x 3-time Championship Division Winner (1114)
1x 2-time Championship Division Winner (2056)
2x 1-time Championship Division Winner (781, 1241)
3x 1-time Championship Winner (254, 1114, 1241)
2x Championship Chairman's Award Winner (254, 1114) [254 was in 2004]
1x 6-time RCA Winner (1114)
1x 4-time RCA Winner (1305)
2x 3-time RCA Winner (771, 1241)
2x 2-time RCA Winner (254, 781) [0 for 254 since 2005]
1x 1-time RCA Winner (2056)

A total 117 Blue Banners, at a 30 team regional (101 since 2005).
Waterloo's BBQ = 3.9
Waterloo's SAUCE = 3.3667

[Yipyapper]

Originally Posted by Racer26

What else do we know?

3161 is the oldest team in attendance without a blue banner.

Blue Banners in Attendance:

1x 25-time Regional Winner (254) [16 since 2005]
1x 22-time Regional Winner (1114) [21 since 2005]
1x 17-time Regional Winner (2056)
1x 3-time Regional Winner (781) [2 since 2005]
3x 2-time Regional Winner (771, 865, 1305) [865 only has 1 since 2005]
7x 1-time Regional Winner (1241, 1285, 1334, 2609, 2702, 3756, 4069)
1x 4-time Championship Division Winner (254) [3 since 2005]
1x 2-time Championship Division Winner (2056)
2x 1-time Championship Division Winner (781, 1241)
3x 1-time Championship Winner (254, 1114, 1241)
2x Championship Chairman's Award Winner (254, 1114) [254 was in 2004]
1x 6-time RCA Winner (1114)
1x 4-time RCA Winner (1305)
2x 3-time RCA Winner (771, 1241)
2x 2-time RCA Winner (254, 781) [0 for 254 since 2005]
1x 1-time RCA Winner (2056)

A total 114 Blue Banners, at a 30 team regional (98 since 2005).
Waterloo's BBQ = 3.8
Waterloo's SAUCE = 3.2667

Those two would sound cooler if you said "since 2011"

Great stats.

[Racer26]

For what it's worth: I think this is the highest BBQ/SAUCE any event has ever had, primarily thanks to 254 bringing their collection to join 1114 and 2056's.

In all the BBQ/SAUCE threads in the past, I haven't noticed any BBQs >= 2.

[Sebastian V]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris

865 was a defensive beast at GTRW.

Well, when we had a robot running (Silly RSL light!)
Thanks for the compliment!

[Jash_J]

Originally Posted by Racer26

What else do we know?

3161 is the oldest team in attendance without a blue banner.

Blue Banners in Attendance:

1x 25-time Regional Winner (254) [16 since 2005]
1x 22-time Regional Winner (1114) [21 since 2005]
1x 17-time Regional Winner (2056)
1x 3-time Regional Winner (781) [2 since 2005]
3x 2-time Regional Winner (771, 865, 1305) [865 only has 1 since 2005]
7x 1-time Regional Winner (1241, 1285, 1334, 2609, 2702, 3756, 4069)
1x 4-time Championship Division Winner (254) [3 since 2005]
1x 2-time Championship Division Winner (2056)
2x 1-time Championship Division Winner (781, 1241)
3x 1-time Championship Winner (254, 1114, 1241)
2x Championship Chairman's Award Winner (254, 1114) [254 was in 2004]
1x 6-time RCA Winner (1114)
1x 4-time RCA Winner (1305)
2x 3-time RCA Winner (771, 1241)
2x 2-time RCA Winner (254, 781) [0 for 254 since 2005]
1x 1-time RCA Winner (2056)

A total 114 Blue Banners, at a 30 team regional (98 since 2005).
Waterloo's BBQ = 3.8
Waterloo's SAUCE = 3.2667

Just a small correction, which I am sure you already know but just forgot to mention. 1114 Has won their championship division a total of 3 times ('08, '10, '12). I guess they are due in 2014 then huh?

[JohnSchneider]

Originally Posted by Racer26

Waterloo's BBQ = 3.8
Waterloo's SAUCE = 3.2667

I wish everyone would give BBQ analysis when they post things like this.

[Racer26]

Originally Posted by Jash_J

Just a small correction, which I am sure you already know but just forgot to mention. 1114 Has won their championship division a total of 3 times ('08, '10, '12). I guess they are due in 2014 then huh?

Huh. It seems I did miss that. I wrote that post three times due to accidentally leaving the page while collecting the stats. One second while I fix it.

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by Racer26

A total 117 Blue Banners, at a 30 team regional (101 since 2005).
Waterloo's BBQ = 3.9
Waterloo's SAUCE = 3.3667

With this much BBQ/SAUCE, teams better bring their A-game

Here on Team 254, we have developed the Basic Robot Information, Strengths, and Kryptonite Evaluation Toolkit (BRISKET) to help scout a robot's capabilities and exploitable weaknesses among this distinguished field of teams. Because quantitative metrics aren't the be-all and end-all this year, we also utilize Polled Pool Of Robot Kids (Polled PORK) to combine all of our scouts' qualitative observations after all of the matches are finished.

As we all know, at the end of the day you need to come up with the strongest possible pick list in order to pull out the "W". This is where we turn to our patent-pending Typecasted Robots we Intend To Immediately Pick (TRITIP) list, where each class of robot is stack-ranked against all the others at the competition.

We firmly believe that our BRISKET, Polled PORK, and TRITIP will form an unbeatable combination. Top that all off with the awesome BBQ/SAUCE at this event, and I think we have the recipe for something special.

[Racer26]

For what its worth:

The formula for the BBQ and SAUCE of a fixed event with the same set of 1-regional teams is:

BBQ = (4*N)/T
SAUCE = (4*[N-N_pre-2005])/T

Where N = the number of years the event has run and T = number of teams.

For Waterloo, this would result in a BBQ and SAUCE of 1.333 (as its a 30 team event, started in 2005).

In other words, there are roughly 3 times as many blue banners in attendance at Waterloo 2014 as Waterloo has ever generated.

[ErvinI]

Originally Posted by Racer26

For what its worth:

The formula for the BBQ and SAUCE of a fixed event with the same set of 1-regional teams is:

BBQ = (4*N)/T
SAUCE = (4*[N-N_pre-2005])/T

Where N = the number of years the event has run and T = number of teams.

For Waterloo, this would result in a BBQ and SAUCE of 1.333 (as its a 30 team event, started in 2005).

In other words, there are roughly 3 times as many blue banners in attendance at Waterloo 2014 as Waterloo has ever generated.

Not the best place to discuss statistics, but since the intention of the SAUCE statistic is to gauge recent success of the teams at a regional using blue banners, shouldn't Npre-2005 actually be Npre-2011 or 2010 by now? We could call it the Regional Iota Banner, or RIB for short.

Just saying this to make 781 sound more awesome.

[JohnFogarty]

Billfred get in here and teach these boys about some sauce.

Edit: I'm excited to see my pre-season prediction come to fruition.