Archimedes 2014!

[Nathan Streeter]

Originally Posted by FIRST4296

Yes we will be filming all the matches.

Awesome! I see that you have most of the practice matches up and have begun uploading Thursday's matches... will you be continuing to upload Thursdays' matches? Is the process more tedious than you had been expecting?

I certainly appreciate the effort and I know that the FIRST community as a whole certainly will after the Championship, if not during the event!

[Grim Tuesday]

Originally Posted by PVCpirate

Looks like we have our first surprise of the event, Wisconsin rookies 5019 are sitting high up in the standings in the early going. Gotta love seeing yourselves ranked first, even if only for a couple matches.

I am thoroughly enjoying how the standings have played out so far.

[Cataclysmatic]

Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter

Awesome! I see that you have most of the practice matches up and have begun uploading Thursday's matches... will you be continuing to upload Thursdays' matches? Is the process more tedious than you had been expecting?

I certainly appreciate the effort and I know that the FIRST community as a whole certainly will after the Championship, if not during the event!

Sadly we had to leave and missed the last maybe 10 matches or so today, every other one should be recorded and in process of being uploaded... I know they are limited a lot by the rather slow internet of our hotel.

We also have go-pro footage of every match with our robot, and will upload those probably, but those are a bit more for the fun of it.

As for tedious and such, I will wait on our recorders and such to respond to that... I just drive the robot haha.

[Ed Sparks]

Wow ....... tough weekend for us. I never would have thought we would go 0 of 9 at the end of day 2. Good news is that our robot is working well, our drivers are playing well and the students are still excited to be here. Here's hoping for a win in our last match tomorrow.

[evanatch]

Originally Posted by Ed Sparks

Wow ....... tough weekend for us. I never would have thought we would go 0 of 9 at the end of day 2. Good news is that our robot is working well, our drivers are playing well and the students are still excited to be here. Here's hoping for a win in our last match tomorrow.

We're in the same boat - 0 of 9 but having a blast! As rookies, we're thrilled to have the chance to compete here and to expose our younger players to the greatest teams FRC has to offer. Good luck with your final match tomorrow!

[Peyton Yeung]

Originally Posted by evanatch

We're in the same boat - 0 of 9 but having a blast! As rookies, we're thrilled to have the chance to compete here and to expose our younger players to the greatest teams FRC has to offer. Good luck with your final match tomorrow!

And this is what FIRST is about, getting kids hooked on STEM and inspired to be like the best.

[David8696]

Does anyone have a link to the video of our first quarterfinal match with 51, 1918, and [781] against 2056, 399, 2175, and [2834]?

[Kevin Leonard]

Originally Posted by David8696

Does anyone have a link to the video of our first quarterfinal match with 51, 1918, and [781] against 2056, 399, 2175, and [2834]?

I will by tomorrow.

[GBK]

This is the video. So glad we could be part of this alliance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS_1...ature=youtu.be

[Wayne TenBrink]

Originally Posted by David8696

Does anyone have a link to the video of our first quarterfinal match with 51, 1918, and [781] against 2056, 399, 2175, and [2834]?

Here is a link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS_1...ature=youtu.be

It was the highest unpenalized alliance score (370 of the 390), the highest unpenalized total score (626 for both alliances combined), and the highest total score for matches where penalties were included (646). I'm not sure, but I suspect that 256 was the highest unpenalized losing score of the season, too. QF 1-3 was the second highest total score at 575. Those were some exciting matches.

(Edit: Greg beat me to it on the link)

[mom-bot]

Here is a shout out to team 27 RUSH: Congratulations on winning the Chairmen’s Award!

We know and have seen you work for years toward this and it’s great that all now recognize the tremendous program you have run for years. Great job & welcome to the HoF.

With this said, this is also a BIG THANK YOU for choosing us as your fourth alliance robot. You, along with team 33 Killer Bees and team 334 TechKnights, absolutely made our season. It was particularly fun since we were the only “Yellow Alliance” I remember ever seeing. It was also exciting sitting with all you folks because you enthusiasm is contagious.

We look forward to an opportunity to work again in the future. Hopefully we see you soon once inter-district play is allowed, and, there is always Championship!
(To Killer Bees, I am leaving my antennas on for the CT State Championship on May 17th, just for fun!)

[orangelight]

Can someone explain what happened with the score in the quarterfinal match with 2137, 548, 2067, 1477, 2590, 1625?

[Lightfoot26]

Originally Posted by orangelight

Can someone explain what happened with the score in the quarterfinal match with 2137, 548, 2067, 1477, 2590, 1625?

In the Game Manual Section 5.4.4 says:

In the Elimination MATCHES, Teams do not earn Qualification Points; they earn a Win, Loss or Tie. Within each series of the Elimination MATCH bracket, the first ALLIANCE to win two (2) MATCHES will advance.

In the case where the MATCH score of each ALLIANCE is equal, the tie is broken by awarding an extra point to the ALLIANCE with (in the following order):

highest number of FOUL points awarded (i.e. the ALLIANCE that played the cleaner MATCH)
if FOUL points are equal, highest number of ASSIST points
if ASSIST points are equal, highest number of AUTO points
if AUTO points are equal, highest sum of TRUSS and CATCH points

If the criteria above are equal, the MATCH is a Tie. Additional matches will be played if needed.

The score was 231-231 at the end of the match. So the refs looked at who played the "cleaner" match. There was a technical foul on the opposing alliance and the win was subsequently awarded to the 2590-1625-1477-3467 alliance.

[Kevin Leonard]

Originally Posted by David8696

Does anyone have a link to the video of our first quarterfinal match with 51, 1918, and [781] against 2056, 399, 2175, and [2834]?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvQybUEM0Jo
Here's 20's video of QF1-1.
We have the rest of Archimedes Eliminations, as well as all the Einstein matches up on our channel.
Enjoy!

[Charles Boehm]

Qurt 1-1,2,3 Were the best matches I have seen all season! For me they were even more exhilerating to watch than Einstien!
Congrats to the 8th seed on there win over us, you definitly deserved it, that strategy was AMAZING. Very well played you guys!