Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs

[PayneTrain]

Originally Posted by NickE

Rule Changes
Thanks to everyone for the feedback on rule changes. We will be adding one additional change: Yelling of 'robot' in the pits will not be permitted.

Is there going to be an opportunity to give feedback on the consequence of violating this rule?

[Travis Covington]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

Is there going to be an opportunity to give feedback on the consequence of violating this rule?

What do you mean? We don't like people yelling robot when a simple and quieter "excuse me" works just as well. There won't be any consequences other than us telling those people/teams who are yelling it to kindly refrain from doing so.

[PayneTrain]

Originally Posted by Travis Covington

What do you mean? We don't like people yelling robot when a simple and quieter "excuse me" works just as well. There won't be any consequences other than us telling those people/teams who are yelling it to kindly refrain from doing so.

It wasn't meant to be taken seriously.

[ThunderChief]

Andrew Lawrence asked: How many qualification matches would you estimate are planned per team?

With 8 hours of Qualification Matches scheduled, and estimating 6 minutes per match, you could squeeze in 82 matches which would mean 14 matches for each of 35 teams plus 2 teams playing a dummy match. (82 matches * 6 team slots = 492 divided by 35 teams = 14 matches per team with a remainder of 2 dummies.) The more matches, the less luck in finding the Alliance Captains.

How many matches per team do you plan?

When do you think you will you post a Match Schedule List?

We are excited to be making our first trip up to a Bay Area competition.

[Pat Fairbank]

We're planning on running a more relaxed cycle time than six minutes, to allow time for GameSense commentary. Count on 10-12 matches per team.

We probably won't be able to post a match schedule in advance of the event, as we are still waiting for a couple of teams to confirm their attendance and send payment.

[NickE]

We're excited to see everyone tomorrow. Here's a bit more information about the event.

Load-In
Load in will be on Friday from 6pm-9pm and on Saturday morning from 8am onward. See the map below for the load-in location.

Pit Map
A pit map is available here.

Awards
We will be giving out the following awards:
- Winner (3x)
- Finalist (3x)
- Quality Award
- Professionalism Award
- Most Improved Team
- Programming Award
- Judges Award
- Golden Corndog

Due to a generous sponsorship from NASA, the winners of the Quality and Professionalism awards will each be awarded $1000 towards their 2015 FRC Registration.

Parking
Parking is available in any of the on-campus lots except for the marked Jesuit community parking. Do not park in the Jesuit community parking.
A map of parking is provided below.

Access to the main parking lots is from 960 West Hedding Street, San Jose.

For spectators, we recommend the arena parking lot.
Arena parking is located at 799 Emory Street, San Jose. Arena parking is not accessible from the Bellarmine main entrance.

Campus Map
The event is at 960 W. Hedding St, San Jose.

A map of the campus is below with the load-in location marked is below.
There will be signs on campus with arrows towards the event.

A PDF of the map is available here.

[DampRobot]

Will there be any videos from, say, GameSense, posted before tomorrow AM?

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by DampRobot

Will there be any videos from, say, GameSense, posted before tomorrow AM?

Nope, definitely not by tomorrow morning, but I do have a few Cool Graphics to share from tonight's post show.

P.S. Roger, If you're there tomorrow, stop by and say hi!

[Jay O'Donnell]

Somebody please tell me that there is a video of F1-1 that I can watch again. One of the best matches of the year.

[Ty Tremblay]

Originally Posted by Jay O'Donnell

Somebody please tell me that there is a video of F1-1 that I can watch again. One of the best matches of the year.

We have all the matches recorded in high def. We'll get them up as soon as we can.

In the mean time, it's probably on our Twitch VOD until its muted due to the music.

[MrTechCenter]

I said this at the end of the tournament, and I'll say it again here. Not only was that the best offseason competition that I've been to, that was the best competition I've ever been to PERIOD. Really well put together and very fun. 2073 had a blast. I wish our own offseason could be as cool. The matches were more exciting than most of the matches on Curie this year and every match was very intense. Just plain awesome.

[MARS_James]

From what I saw it looked like a blast, and seems like this may be a very nice alternative to IRI for west coast teams. In fact there were some things about this competition that IRI may want to look at adding for next year

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by Jay O'Donnell

Somebody please tell me that there is a video of F1-1 that I can watch again. One of the best matches of the year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzED...W2mCMGYac3xC9A

[owenli10]

Originally Posted by Jared Russell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzED...W2mCMGYac3xC9A

You beat me to posting our own video . First off, I'd like to thank Teh Chezy Pofs for putting on such a fabulous event. Like everyone's been saying, it really has been one of, if not the, best event, off-season or regular-season, that I've been a part of. Having this many high-caliber teams so early in the season was a great way for our brand new 2014-2015 drive-team (myself included) to get their feet wet and prepare for more off-season competitions and the 2015 regular-season. I'd like to thank our incredible alliance partners, Teams 971 and 2135, for an amazing run through the elimination rounds. You guys were a joy to work with and we played great as an alliance. Congrats to the winners, Teams 1678, 254, and 973; you guys are truly phenomenal and it was a great pleasure to be able to play against you guys in the finals. See y'all at the 2015 Chezy Champs!

[Cory]

Originally Posted by owenli10

Having this many high-caliber teams so early in the season was a great way for our brand new 2014-2015 drive-team (myself included) to get their feet wet and prepare for more off-season competitions and the 2015 regular-season.

You had a brand new drive team? It didn't show. You guys were awesome.