North Star Regional...

[toddhans]

Originally Posted by waialua359

Field was stuck at Customs coming from the Waterloo Event last week.

Thanks for the update. It made for an interesting night of waiting and team bonding for Nordic Storm 3018. Good luck to all those competing at both North Star and 10,000 Lakes. Hope to see a bunch of you in St. Louis!

[FRC3883FRC]

Well the the field was set and things went great on it for the two times we made it out. The robot is finally making the 10 point shots it should have been making at LSR. Here is the highlight video from day 1. Looks like it should be a great competition, cant wait to see the elims.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYxx...ature=youtu.be
Hope you enjoy!

[Ginger Power]

C.I.S. had an incredible time at North Star today! Our first few matches were plagued by a multitude of problems but we really figured things out by our 4th match. We must have replaced at least 35 pwm cables today! We ended up ranked 19th after day 1 and are really excited to see what day 2 will bring. Big shout out to 3883 Data Bits and 967 Iron Lions for letting us truss shot during match 53! Putting up 245 pts (without fouls) was definitely the highlight of my day!

[FRC3883FRC]

Originally Posted by Ginger Power

Big shout out to 3883 Data Bits and 967 Iron Lions for letting us truss shot during match 53! Putting up 245 pts (without fouls) was definitely the highlight of my day!

That was one great match! The tweeks we made to our shooter made all the differnce with our robot. Im glad we performed our roll in the alliance by getting those shots in the goal. (just a little bit of pressure on that ball with 3 assists waiting to be scored). Our robot has been just working great today not a single missed aton shot. If it was not for some fouls we would be 6-1, but what can you do. This should turn out to be a great competition! Its going to be a fun one. Here is our day 2 highlight video. (a lot of highlights in this one)
North Star 3883 Day 2 Highlights

[audietron]

Originally Posted by FRC3883FRC

That was one great match! The tweeks we made to our shooter made all the differnce with our robot. Im glad we performed our roll in the alliance by getting those shots in the goal. (just a little bit of pressure on that ball with 3 assists waiting to be scored). Our robot has been just working great today not a single missed aton shot. If it was not for some fouls we would be 6-1, but what can you do. This should turn out to be a great competition! Its going to be a fun one. Here is our day 2 highlight video. (a lot of highlights in this one)
North Star 3883 Day 2 Highlights

Great job to both 3883 and 4607 for that awesome match! We had just fixed our double auto a bit before that match and it hasn't missed since...knock on wood. Good luck to all teams tomorrow, there are going to be some awesome matches!

[JeremyLansing]

Well this is exciting, Teams 967, 2175, and 4607 are paired up on the number one alliance. For those who don't know those are the three teams who won North Star last year as the number 2 alliance. Looking forward to seeing if they can repeat. Should be some exciting elimination matches!

[BBnum3]

Alliance selections for anyone interested.

[gyroscopeRaptor]

And the former champions are eliminated by the 5th seed. Amazing defense today.

[Ginger Power]

Originally Posted by gyroscopeRaptor

And the former champions are eliminated by the 5th seed. Amazing defense today.

That call just didn't make sense.

[Trent B]

Is it just me or have there been a lot of connection issues at this regional? I've seen a lot of robots stopping suddenly in the middle of matches and coming back a time later.

I'm not sure if this is just a result of all the rough defense and has occurred at other regionals or not.

Admittedly I haven't kept up with other regionals very well.

[Trent B]

Congrats to 2177, 3042, and 4778 for their victory. Eliminations were very intense, well fought by all teams.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Trent B

Is it just me or have there been a lot of connection issues at this regional? Lots of robots have stopped mid match.

I'm not sure if this is just a result of all the rough defense and has occurred at other regionals or not.

Yes, lots of robots at all regional have had issues with loose wires due to the physical nature of this game.

[Trent B]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

Yes, lots of robots at all regional have had issues with loose wires due to the physical nature of this game.

That's what I suspected. There was definitely a lot of hard hits in most matches.

[Kingland093]

Originally Posted by Trent B

That's what I suspected. There was definitely a lot of hard hits in most matches.

Interesting. 10k had very little compared to what I've seen in previous weeks

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by Trent B

Is it just me or have there been a lot of connection issues at this regional? I've seen a lot of robots stopping suddenly in the middle of matches and coming back a time later.

I'm not sure if this is just a result of all the rough defense and has occurred at other regionals or not.

Admittedly I haven't kept up with other regionals very well.

I can tell you... We tracked down all connection issues on the field. This is a very rough game, and with teams using more motors than ever before, it's not uncommon to have battery issues or loose wire issues.