2014 Championship live thoughts & reactions

[DampRobot]

Go 1678!

By the way, anyone archiving Einstein and the divisions?

[RC3]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

Video quality = HD Potato
Poor switching often leaves the stream with this:

NASA, please bring on some high school students from FiM or PNW to help you with streaming...

While they're at it they should bring in the video equipment from the PNW as well

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For those who don't know, this is what the PNW streams all looked like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPTl...9QNx&index=140

[dodar]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

Video quality = HD Potato
Poor switching often leaves the stream with this:

NASA, please bring on some high school students from FiM or PNW to help you with streaming...

Why cant they just use the broadcasting equipment the Rams use?

[arizonafoxx]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

Video quality = HD Potato
Poor switching often leaves the stream with this:

NASA, please bring on some high school students from FiM or PNW to help you with streaming...

I second this motion. I have been spoiled this season with great Streaming from many different FRC teams hosting the stream during regionals. Now it comes to Champs and we are given choppy video, bad camera view choices, and over all, in my opinion, bad coverage of the most important event.

Note to FRC. Please step up your game when it comes to streaming or let high school students take care of it.

[cgmv123]

DOWN GOES THE CURSE!

[Mike dennis]

The curse is broken!!

[orangemoore]

Originally Posted by DampRobot

Go 1678!

By the way, anyone archiving Einstein and the divisions?

FIRST Records and posts all matches from each division, Einstein and all of the ceremonies shortly after the event.

[plasma_54]

It's just live stream quality but here are the final matches:

F1-1: http://youtu.be/jdJutaggCMk
F1-2: http://youtu.be/Mf816DZU__Q
F1-3: http://youtu.be/xvEq4IMirZ4

[Marc S.]

254 wins Einstein for the second time in 4 years, their 6th time being on Einstein and their 36th Blue banner ever!

469, after a close loss in the finals in 2013, 2010 and 2004, finally takes home their second Championship win! Their 24th Blue banner in FIRST!

2848 makes their first ever appearance on Einstein with an intense fury, earning them a Championship Win, and their 3rd ever Blue Banner.

74 Becomes the first team to win Champs as a backup (in the new system), earning them their 4th blue banner and a spot in history!


1678 takes the number one seed and a ticket to Einstein for a second year in a row. 69-7-0 is one of the most impressive and respectable win-loss ratios I have ever seen.

1114 proves that reverse engineering doesn't always work, for a design to be reused properly it must be evolved.

1640 also makes their second trip to Einstein in a row, with more vengeance than last year! I'll be keeping my eye on them in the future to go all the way.

And our friends, 5136 become dangerously close to being the first rookie team to ever win Einstein! We knew they were a strong team after competing with them at CVR, but now we know that they truly mean business!

[AlexD744]

Originally Posted by Marc S.

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1114 proves that reverse engineering doesn't always work, for a design to be reused properly it must be evolved.

I don't think it didn't work. Championship finalist is not too shabby in my opinion. This robot was only one match away from matching it's predecessor.

[Answer42]

So. After being almost completely ignored all season, the goalie zone suddenly became very important during champs eliminations. Surprising. Did 469 or 1114 have blockers before champs? Also shout out to 973 for playing goalie before it was cool.

[Marc S.]

Originally Posted by AlexD744

I don't think it didn't work. Championship finalist is not too shabby in my opinion. This robot was only one match away from matching it's predecessor.

This was a play on words relating to the name of 1114's robot, Simbot Evolution.

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by Answer42

So. After being almost completely ignored all season, the goalie zone suddenly became very important during champs eliminations. Surprising. Did 469 or 1114 have blockers before champs? Also shout out to 973 for playing goalie before it was cool.

1114 debuted their blocker on Newton. With a lot of teams implementing cheesy vision or some form of vision-based commands, it became easier and certainly more viable in play if you can block a 2 or 3 ball auto.

[Don Wright]

Originally Posted by Answer42

So. After being almost completely ignored all season, the goalie zone suddenly became very important during champs eliminations. Surprising. Did 469 or 1114 have blockers before champs? Also shout out to 973 for playing goalie before it was cool.

Cheezyvision made blockers MUCH more effective.

[AlexD744]

Originally Posted by Marc S.

This was a play on words relating to the name of 1114's robot, Simbot Evolution.

got it. Sorry!