2014 Autodesk PNW District Championship

[Mr V]

Originally Posted by alectronic

If you prefer, you can also see the list specifically at this link:
http://district.firstwa.org/PNW/2014/PNCMP (or by using the event results tab).

Since it is public information now, I can say that we invited 40 teams yesterday. All have accepted except for 2411, 4450 and 4918. We will release the rest of the invitations after the results of the final event are final. (We should be showing the numbers at the end of the awards ceremony at OSU, but I don't guarantee it)

How did you sort the list of teams that have been invited? I'm not asking how you determined who was invited but the order they are listed on the DCMP page as it does not seem to follow any reasoning, it is not by team number, alphabetical order, or current points total.

[Thad House]

Originally Posted by Mr V

How did you sort the list of teams that have been invited? I'm not asking how you determined who was invited but the order they are listed on the DCMP page as it does not seem to follow any reasoning, it is not by team number, alphabetical order, or current points total.

It looks like every team down to rank 38, with 69 points. The 2 below that are both chairman's award winners.

[alectronic]

Originally Posted by Thad House

It looks like every team down to rank 38, with 69 points. The 2 below that are both chairman's award winners.

I think he is asking specifically about within that page, what order are they sorted by. The answer is random. Normally, the event detail pages will sort by performance from that event. This means that a team playing a third event will still show what they *would* have received from that event (even though it doesn't count in the total rankings). However, unlike the main rankings, we do not use the tie-breaker criteria within the event detail pages. There is no particular reason other then that it doesn't matter what order they finish on that page, since the tie breakers only apply to the overall rankings. So it will default to the 10th sorting level, random sort. Until teams start to accumulate points from that event, it will just be a big pile of team numbers.

We will be releasing some changes on Thursday that will improve the overall readability of certain things, like "upcoming" events, but for now we aren't planning on any changes to that sorting order for "upcoming" events.

As you identified in an earlier post, the teams will only show on that page when FIRST HQ confirms they have completed the registration process for the event.

[Mr V]

Originally Posted by alectronic

I think he is asking specifically about within that page, what order are they sorted by. The answer is random.

Yes that was what I was wondering about and now that you put it that way it makes perfect sense that they are random to avoid more coding that would sort them in a manner other than the sorts used in ranking.

Thanks again for all your hard work putting this together, entering the data and keeping us up to date with the changes.

[zinthorne]

I can't wait! We are super excited to be going!

[Madison]

What is the overall capacity for this event? I've been under the impression that it'd be ~60 teams, but I could be making that up. If so, are the remaining 20 teams expected to come from teams competing this weekend?

[alectronic]

Originally Posted by Madison

What is the overall capacity for this event? I've been under the impression that it'd be ~60 teams, but I could be making that up. If so, are the remaining 20 teams expected to come from teams competing this weekend?

We have a full slate of 64 teams that we will be invited to the District Championship. The first 40 invitations were released to teams that were mathematically guaranteed (have scored high enough) that, regardless of results of week 6, they would have still been invited. The District Chairman's teams were also invited, since they are guaranteed. It doesn't necessarily mean that the remaining ~20 are all coming from the OSU event, but rather that the results of OSU *could* change the rankings enough that it would change which teams would qualify for those remaining invitations. In all likelihood, a team (or teams) who don't play at OSU (and aren't already invited) could still be invited, but we can't invite them until they are guaranteed the position.

[Navid Shafa]

Just shown at OSU, the list of teams qualified for PNW DCMP:

[alectronic]

Here is the text version:

Rank Points Team
1 154 4488 - ShockWave
2 138 2522 - Royal Robotics
3 130 4061 - SciBorgs
4 125 1425 - Error Code Xero
5 121 3238 - Cyborg Ferrets
6 121 2046 - Bear Metal
7 119 2557 - SOTAbots
8 117 4911 - CyberKnights
9 115 4915 - Spartronics
10 113 4125 - Confidential
11 112 2471 - Team Mean Machine
12 110 4077 - M*A*S*H
13 109 2907 - Lion Robotics
14 107 1983 - Skunk Works Robotics
15 106 3588 - the Talon
16 105 1318 - Issaquah Robotics Society
17 99 955 - CV Robotics
18 97 997 - Spartan Robotics
19 95 2928 - Viking Robotics
20 95 2521 - SERT
21 95 360 - The Revolution
22 95 3393 - Horns of Havoc
23 94 2550 - Skynet
24 91 3070 - Team Pronto
25 91 4918 - The Roboctopi
26 89 1595 - Dragons
27 88 4450 - Olympia Robotics Federation
28 87 488 - Team XBot
29 87 948 - NRG (Newport Robotics Group)
30 82 3663 - CPR - Cedar Park Robotics
31 80 4559 - FIRST DRaFT
32 80 492 - Titan Robotics Club
33 79 2412 - Robototes
34 73 4038 - Binary Robotics
35 73 2411 - Rebel @lliance
36 73 5111 - SaxonBots
37 71 2923 - Aggies
38 71 3789 - On Track Academy
39 71 3812 - Bits & Bots
40 70 3674 - 4-H Clover Bots
41 70 1540 - Flaming Chickens
42 70 5085 - LakerBots
43 69 2903 - NeoBots
44 69 2927 - Pi Rho Techs
45 68 2002 - Tualatin Robotics
46 67 4131 - Iron Patriots
47 67 2149 - CV Bearbots
48 66 4542 - Titanium Talons
49 63 1294 - Top Gun
50 63 3574 - HIGH-TEKERZ
51 62 2147 - CHUCK
52 62 956 - Eagle Cybertechnology
53 62 3711 - Iron Mustang
54 62 4980 - Canine Crusaders
55 61 2635 - Lake Monsters
56 60 4513 - Circuit Breakers
57 59 4457 - ACE
58 59 2976 - Spartabots
59 59 4120 - Jagwires
60 59 2811 - StormBots
61 58 3131 - Gladiators
62 58 4127 - LoggerBots
65 56 3219 - TREAD
69 54 4057 - KB Bots

[Dunngeon]

All of us at CV Robotics are excited for next week, the beginning of competition next week can't come soon enough. But first, 6wd

[MitchellNelke]

Congratulations to all the teams that made it! Can't wait for next week!

[SoftwareBug2.0]

Originally Posted by SuperCat

I am excited!! It will be so much fun!!

Also, this program is so cool (I didn't quote the whole thing, it got rather long). It's seemingly quite accurate!! What language did you use?

Now that we know how many points everyone got I can speak on the accuracy of the program. Here's how it did:

March 26 Predictions: (In the thread about the district championship website)
Predicted       Actual In       Actual Out
bubble          19              23
in              10              0
out             0               19
~in             33              0
~out            2               47

March 31 Predictions: (The ones in this thread)
Predicted       Actual In       Actual Out
bubble          2               10
in              39              0
out             0               65
~in             21              2
~out            2               12

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by SoftwareBug2.0

Here's how it did:

Impressively accurate. Definitely something to share again next year.

[JagCode]

Have fun you guys, from 2929 we'll be sure to watch the stream and cheer all of you on.

It's a shame for 3237 and 2980 that they still got in the Top 64 yet weren't qualified. Those Chairman Awards can really scramble the 60's.

Good luck to all of you!

[Navid Shafa]

Looks like 2550 and 4513 declined today.

Invitations were extended to 3237 and 2980.