2014 Utah Regional

[MoosingIn3space]

Shout-out to Team 2993: Intech Megabots! Their "Mega Helpers" were outstanding in helping out many teams.

[raptaconehs]

Or just switch the stream to U-stream.tv instead of justin.tv

[Coach Norm]

Originally Posted by sastoller

Justin.tv account has been banned for unknown reasons. Working on this right now and will update as more info becomes available

Scott,

Ask the AV guys to give you the audio feed of the announcers and field only. It will get around the music issue if that is it.

Coach

[sastoller]

We're planning to stream on a ustream channel now.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/17481876

[hammerhead_399]

Congratulations to the winning alliance of 2122, 2996, and 3191. We were extremely happy to see 2996 earn a well deserved Chairman's award. We have a notable history with the Cougars and Tators, so we were pleased to see them in their success.

Thank you to all of the volunteers for the time you dedicated to help run this event. 399 was excited to attend this event for the third time in the last four years.

Thank you to the head ref and the reffing crew. As I watched the tension build up in elimination rounds, I saw continued patience and composure as they discussed and dealt with the issues. During QF 1-2, we were hit with a field fault issue. After a long discussion among refs and both alliances, the decision was to contact a higher-up. Thank you to the opposing alliance for respecting the call that was made, as we would have if it had gone in the other direction.

During the replay of QF 1-2, it was incredibly upsetting to see the damaged state that 1339's robot was left in. Though we couldn't tell which collision caused the damage, I, along with our manufacturing lead, were immediately in their pit with our tools and hardware to see what could be done to get them into the next match. One of their members better assessed the damages and said it would take much more time to fix it than was available. It was tough to see the frustration on the students' faces as they had to make the decision to call in a back up. I hope the best for 1339 as they head to Colorado.

Technical fouls caused the loss of 3 of our matches during the elimination rounds. While frustrating, we understand that it is simply a product of this game and its many detailed rules. Our loss in the semi-finals was tough to deal with, as we don't have a complete comprehension on what happened or the reasoning behind it.

We were told that our third alliance partner trapped the opposing alliance's ball(a form of possession). After careful review of the match video, we could still not perfectly pinpoint the moment the infraction occurred.

Here is the video: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/dfjmny25g...ll-final-7.mp4

We believe the call was made at 2:04, though we can clearly see the ref actively pointing our partner towards the end of the match. We understand we couldn't show the refs any videos, so we held back, and moved on.

Thank you to our alliance partners 1619 and 2594. You were fantastic to associate with, and all kept gracious and professional as we went fell into tough times. It was a pleasure meeting you all.

Again, thank you to all of the volunteers for helping make this event happen.

Now, we prepare for Vegas.

[joelg236]

Will archives be uploaded / is there an archive available?

[mrnoble]

There was a lot of fantastic professional and friendly stuff to "shout out" for at Utah among the teams we competed with (2996, 1410 and many others) but I especially want to single out 4334 for, among other things, providing one of their student leaders as a "member" for another team that was made up of ONE student. 4334 was inspirational in a new way. Well done! I also want to point out that I was very much starstruck by their terrific robot.

By the way everyone, thank you for your sympathy and concern for our team and robot. 399, 2594 and 1619, our on field competitors for QF matches, have been really kind. Just wanted to let you all know we finished rebuilding and strengthening our drive base and shooter today, and will have everything ready to put back together with our bagged components on the 3rd! See you all in Denver.