2014 Waterloo Regional

[Racer26]

Additionally, 86 of the 117 Banners coming to Waterloo are held by 3 teams (1114, 254, 2056). Together, the three of them account for 73.5% of Waterloo's BBQ.

Without them, the BBQ of the rest of the event is: 1.148

[Pat Fairbank]

Originally Posted by Jared Russell

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.

Jared, stop making me hungry. Waterloo isn't exactly in a region known for delicious barbecue...

[Racer26]

Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

Jared, stop making me hungry. Waterloo isn't exactly in a region known for delicious barbecue...

Would you prefer the Finalist Uniform Difficulty Gauging Evaluation (FUDGE)? I propose FUDGE gives 6pts to Championship Winner, 5pts to Championship Finalist, 4pts to Division Winner, 3pts to Division Finalist 2pts to Regional Winner, and 1pt to Regional Finalist, sum and divide by teams.

[BigJ]

I think the proper metric to use here would be Performance Of Upper-quartile in Tournament Intervals of Near Equality (POUTINE). Each team receives a point for each event they were in the #1 or #2 seeded alliances in eliminations.

[mman1506]

Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

Jared, stop making me hungry. Waterloo isn't exactly in a region known for delicious barbecue...

Our machine shop actually got in trouble (deservedly) last year for barbecuing at Waterloo...

[BASE]

Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

Jared, stop making me hungry. Waterloo isn't exactly in a region known for delicious barbecue...

Hey there, not all hope is lost. I would love to get a barbecue going the days of the Regional. There are a couple in residence that I know of.

[tim-tim]

Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

Jared, stop making me hungry. Waterloo isn't exactly in a region known for delicious barbecue...

I thought Jared was letting us in on a little secret about the Waterloo region, I almost booked my flight just to get some Canadian BBQ; oh, and to watch robots of course.

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by BASE

Hey there, not all hope is lost. I would love to get a barbecue going the days of the Regional. There are a couple in residence that I know of.

Sounds like fun. Can I come?

[lynca]

I'm not really into this number analysis stuff,

but I do know good BBQ. I would have to say the Dallas Regional will have the best BBQ of Week 3.

[EricLeifermann]

The BBQ/SAUCE stated is a little bit inflated. If you look at Billfred's original post he states he uses 2005 era as a starting point in 2008 because 2008 was the last year of high school members who were around in 2005. I say update the BBQ/SAUCE for this competition with 2011-2013 as seniors this year were freshmen in 2011.

Though the BBQ/SAUCE mentioned is incredibly amazing and definitely shows how hard this competition, and competition in Canada as a whole, is going to be this year.

[Racer26]

Originally Posted by EricLeifermann

The BBQ/SAUCE stated is a little bit inflated. If you look at Billfred's original post he states he uses 2005 era as a starting point in 2008 because 2008 was the last year of high school members who were around in 2005. I say update the BBQ/SAUCE for this competition with 2011-2013 as seniors this year were freshmen in 2011.

Though the BBQ/SAUCE mentioned is incredibly amazing and definitely shows how hard this competition, and competition in Canada as a whole, is going to be this year.

BBQ is independent of the year.

SAUCE is the only one that would change.

Billfred's post defines SAUCE as starting from 2005, because that's the year we switched to 3v3, hence, Sextuple Advancement Uniform Counting Era. When he coined the term in 2008, it happened to coincide with being the year that Seniors (Gr12) would have been freshmen (Gr9).

I can see an argument though, that a four-year rolling version of SAUCE could be of value. Perhaps BRIQUETTE, the Banner Ratio Indexed to Quadrenniums of Unified Education Total Talent Estimation.

1x 25-time Regional Winner (254) [16 since 2005] [6 since 2011]
1x 22-time Regional Winner (1114) [21 since 2005] [8 since 2011]
1x 17-time Regional Winner (2056) [17 since 2005] [9 since 2011]
1x 3-time Regional Winner (781) [2 since 2005] [2 since 2011]
3x 2-time Regional Winner (771, 865, 1305) [865 only has 1 since 2005] [0 since 2011]
7x 1-time Regional Winner (1241, 1285, 1334, 2609, 2702, 3756, 4069) [1285, 1334, 2702, 3756, 4069 since 2011]
1x 4-time Championship Division Winner (254) [3 since 2005] [1 since 2011]
1x 3-time Championship Division Winner (1114) [3 since 2005] [1 since 2011]
1x 2-time Championship Division Winner (2056) [2 since 2005] [1 since 2011]
2x 1-time Championship Division Winner (781, 1241) [both since 2011]
3x 1-time Championship Winner (254, 1114, 1241) [254, 1241 since 2011]
2x Championship Chairman's Award Winner (254, 1114) [254 was in 2004] [1114 in 2012]
1x 6-time RCA Winner (1114) [6 since 2005] [2 since 2011]
1x 4-time RCA Winner (1305) [4 since 2005] [2 since 2011]
2x 3-time RCA Winner (771, 1241) [3 each since 2005] [2 each since 2011]
2x 2-time RCA Winner (254, 781) [254:0, 781:2 since 2005] [254:0, 781:2 since 2011]
1x 1-time RCA Winner (2056) [1 since 2005] [1 since 2011]

49 Blue Banners since 2011

BRIQUETTE = 1.6333

That means that in the last 4 years, the teams going to Waterloo have earned more than 3 times the Banners generated at Waterloo in that time.

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by mman1506

Our machine shop actually got in trouble (deservedly) last year for barbecuing at Waterloo...

Don't worry, according to some reports one team actually had a barbeque in their pits, and promised hot dogs to all visitors.

[PayneTrain]

You know I'm really surprised there isn't a lot of talk about using Potential Out-of-town Upset Threat and International vs Native Experience, or the POUTINE rating system to predict match outcomes.

[cpeister]

Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

Jared, stop making me hungry. Waterloo isn't exactly in a region known for delicious barbecue...

Hogtails at Erbsville and Laurelwood is really good (to my standards anyways).

[Racer26]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

You know I'm really surprised there isn't a lot of talk about using Potential Out-of-town Upset Threat and International vs Native Experience, or the POUTINE rating system to predict match outcomes.

but how would you define that?

Is out-of-town defined by a radius? or a state/province? something else?

Additionally, how to quantify 'native' experience?