2014 Waterloo Regional

[Kearse]

Originally Posted by Karthik

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

Mascot costumes in the form of pulled pork might be a little bit harder to find...

[Mark Sheridan]

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.

Very hungry, and there is no real poutine in So Cal, so sad.

[PayneTrain]

Originally Posted by Racer26

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?

Out of town: outside of a radius of 60 miles
International: Blue Banners won in the same province/state/country as the event
Native: Blue banners won within the province/state/country of the event.

[RallyJeff]

Originally Posted by tim-tim

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.

Barbecue purists might say "that's not barbecue!" but there's a Mongolian "barbecue" place right next to UW that's very tasty:

http://www.mongoliangrill.ca/

I used to go there all the time when I was a student at Waterloo.


BTW: those of you joining us in Windsor for the Windsor Essex Great Lakes Regional in Week 6, we have real barbecue:

http://www.smokenspice.com/

A bit far from the University of Windsor, but worth the trip.

[Duncan Macdonald]

Originally Posted by RallyJeff

Barbecue purists might say "that's not barbecue!" but there's a Mongolian "barbecue" place right next to UW that's very tasty:

http://www.mongoliangrill.ca/

Went there as a 45 person team 2 years ago. We fit easily and at one point a cook was running laps of the grill to the space jam theme high-fiving everyone in the circle. This restaurant's Edible Affordable Theatre (EAT) stat has to be one of the highest in the region. Definitely not real barbecue though. (I went back to San Diego just to go to Phil's)

[Navid Shafa]

My Waterloo match schedule is color-coded Check it out here.

Qualification matches are going to be really competitive tomorrow:

• 3 matches where 1114 & 2056 play against each other: [3,45,64]
• 2 matches where 254 plays against 2056: [25,60]
• 1 match where 254 plays with 1114: [17]
• 1 match where 254 plays with 2056: [53]
• Match [25] looks like an elimination line-up with: 2056,1334,771 vs. 254,1241,3161

There are some really strong teams here and the pairing in qualification matches will make a huge difference in seeding. Of the titans, I think 254 has subjectively the best match schedule. With that being said, since there is so much interplay between the titans, there is a definite possibility other teams seed above them.

To make things even more interesting, The Blue Alliance Insights page shows that 254 moved up to 33 total Blue Banners after CVR, which ties them for the most ever with 1114...

Since their rookie year in 2007, 2056 has yet to lose a Regional Event.

1114 and 2056 have 13 Regional wins and 1 World Division title together, they truly are:
"The greatest combination in the history of FIRST"

Will 1114 and 2056 get to play together?
Will 254 overthrow 1114's Blue Banner Count?
Will 2056 keep their 17 Regional Win streak alive?

Waterloo 2014: The most hyped Regional Event in the history of FIRST

[nrecino]

That Wrecking ball Move by Karthik. Priceless.

[Cullenwelch88]

Where do you see the match schedule?

Thanks

Cullen

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Never mind found it!

Sorry!

[Arefin Bari]

Anyone knows if the webcast is viewable through an ipad?

[Navid Shafa]

The match schedule has been up since yesterday here, but it looks like twitter data is not getting sent out.

So the Results and Rankings pages aren't working, anybody know when this will be fixed?

[Duncan Macdonald]

You need a flash enabled browser to watch on a mobile device.

FRCspy is working for match results (which I thought collected data from the twitter feed)

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by Duncan Macdonald

FRCspy is working for match results (which I thought collected data from the twitter feed)

Hmm, interesting. Wonder why the Waterloo Event pages aren't updating.

*Manual W/L Rankings are posted in my spreadsheet (No tiebreakers)*

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

Hmm, interesting. Wonder why the Waterloo Event pages aren't updating. Going to try parsing and manually post rankings in my spreadsheet.

As best as I can tell there are no event pages updating at any regional so far today.

[Cullenwelch88]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

Hmm, interesting. Wonder why the Waterloo Event pages aren't updating. Going to try parsing and manually post rankings in my spreadsheet.

Thanks a lot Navid!

Anyone experience lag in the webcast or is it just me?

Thanks

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by Cullenwelch88

Thanks a lot Navid!

Anyone experience lag in the webcast or is it just me?

Thanks

Webcast quality has been fine all morning for me.