Team 254 Presents: 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.

[Max Boord]

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.

Wow. I would have never called you guys where running a first year drive team. As a first year driver in the 2014 season, I am shocked that another drive team with similar experience was able to do so well at a nearly IRI level competition. Best of luck in 2015 and congratulations on doing so well at your first event.

[Lance5136]

What an awesome event! 5136 had a blast and enjoyed working with our alliance partners 2485 and 604. We can't wait to see some similar faces at CVR in March!

[NWChen]

Who were the award winners?

[Francis-134]

The GameSense crew has uploaded all the elimination matches from Chezy Champs to our youtube, including the pre and post-match commentary.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...jwYzkixkmI7rtH

[Tweedy399]

Will all of the Chaezy Champs matches be posted? Would like to watch them. Also I never saw skystalker at the event.

[Ty Tremblay]

Originally Posted by Tweedy399

Will all of the Chaezy Champs matches be posted? Would like to watch them. Also I never saw skystalker at the event.

Yes. They're on the casting computer on its way back to Washington FIRST. As soon as its back, we'll upload the rest of the matches as fast as we can.

[Nick Mercadante]

Side note, if anyone has pictures or vids of #EJRoomba before and after EJ heads were added along with screenshots of it being featured on FRC GameSense, could you post them? Looking to compile all of its media footage.

[Boe]

Originally Posted by Nick Mercadante

Side note, if anyone has pictures or vids of #EJRoomba before and after EJ heads were added along with screenshots of it being featured on FRC GameSense, could you post them? Looking to compile all of its media footage.

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by Nick Mercadante

Side note, if anyone has pictures or vids of #EJRoomba before and after EJ heads were added along with screenshots of it being featured on FRC GameSense, could you post them? Looking to compile all of its media footage.

Can confirm, we have the EJ footage. You can pull a copy off the switcher box, before it ships back to FIRST WA if you want. Otherwise, we'll work on it when we get back. If you don't need audio, you could also get it from the VOD on Twitch.

[icecube45]

I had a great time at Chezy Champs this year,
my only complaints (constrictive criticism) would be
a: Try to space out the matches a bit more (we had 2 sets of back to back matches, and each time, our robot broke in the first match, resulting in 2 matches with a dead robot).

b: The "get to the chopper" 30 second mark was a bit distracting as a driver

[DampRobot]

Originally Posted by icecube45

b: The "get to the chopper" 30 second mark was a bit distracting as a driver

Although I wasn't driving, I thought it was hilarious. That, and Karthik and Paul's back-and-forth.

[MrTechCenter]

Originally Posted by DampRobot

Although I wasn't driving, I thought it was hilarious. That, and Karthik and Paul's back-and-forth.

As a drive team coach, I honestly never even heard it once when we were on the field. I don't know if that's because we were focused on the match or because the sound didn't reach the floor well.

[icecube45]

Originally Posted by MrTechCenter

As a drive team coach, I honestly never even heard it once when we were on the field. I don't know if that's because we were focused on the match or because the sound didn't reach the floor well.

I can't expect it annoyed everyone, when I'm driving I typically tune everything out (except the yelling of the drive coach). The get to the chopper really jarred me out of that focused zone thing.

[Pat Fairbank]

Originally Posted by magnets

Team 254's FMS is far superior to FIRST's FMS system, and the graphics for scores, overlays, and rankings are beautiful and smoothly animated. The color displays above the driver stations with team names are awesome. Pedestal lighting and hot goal lights are correct. Scores update instantly, field lights respond instantly, and the assist counters appear instantly, which never happened before. There are no delays with anything here.

On top of all that, it was developed in months, vs. the years that FIRST has had to work on theirs.

Thanks. It was a fun project to work on and it was gratifying to see it work as intended, with no foghorned matches all weekend.

For those wondering about the couple of delays on Saturday, Cheesy Arena was picking up on sporadic dropped packets between all of the team's driver stations and robots after all the robots were connected prior to the match. We delayed starting the matches to investigate and looked at the switch logs to figure out if there was any abnormal traffic, but didn't find anything. The packet loss went away as soon as we started the matches, and all six robots remained connected throughout. We finally figured out the root cause during the quarter-finals on Sunday -- the wireless handheld camera from the PNW A/V setup transmits at 5GHz, and was causing packet loss while it was on and in certain positions relative to the field/robots. Since we would switch to the full-field camera at the start of the match and shut the handheld off, the problem was never manifesting during the match itself and so was more difficult to troubleshoot.

We'll be releasing the source and binaries to Cheesy Arena within the next couple of weeks, once I remove the CC branding and write some documentation.

The lights are custom -- the Phillips lights and DMX controllers are prohibitively expensive so we made our own, driven by an embedded processor which was controlled over the field network via UDP.