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Re: Cowtown Throwdown 2014

Team Driven would like to thank all of those that attended today for being here and hope everyone had a good time. We enjoyed hosting the teams and wish to extend our congratulations to the winners and all teams who tried to achieve that goal. I hear there were some issues, but that is one of the reasons for this event This gives us a chance to introduce the new students to what a competition is like, while learning that we have to overcome obstacles when they happen. I met some new friends and enjoyed seeing old friends. That is one part of FIRST that I appreciate. I get to broaden my network of friends and learn new ideas from those I meet. Hope the trip home was safe and uneventful. And to those traveling tomorrow, have a safe trip home.
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Team 4329 - The Lutheran Roboteers would like to thank the CTTD event organizers for another great experience! You were the inspiration for the Gateway Robotics Challenge (GRC) off-season event in STL earlier this year, and with the 50 team attendance this weekend and the level of competition you enabled, will continue to be our inspiration in the future!

We would also like to thank our alliance partners, Team 1986, Team 525, and Team 2410 for allowing us to be part of a great set of elimination matches. We certainly learned a lot from you and look forward to seeing you all again in the 2015 season!

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Unread 03-11-2014, 08:59
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Re: Cowtown Throwdown 2014

Video Montage of the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6RDPRZPsCc

Alliance Selection: (No Picking within the top 8)
1. 1619, 3284, 1810, 3792 (QF)
2. 1986, 525, 4329, 2410 (Winner)
3. 967, 1985, 1939, 1825 (SF)
4. 1775, 1108, 3528, 3160 (Finalist)
5. 1730, 3612, 1987, 4646 (QF)
6. 1806, 1723, 6001, 5013 (QF)
7. 4522, 1094, 1802, 1769 (QF)
8. 16, 3928, 2346, 1982 (SF)

Elimination Rounds were captured on USTREAM.
Alliance Selections, with Matches starting about 1 hour in. http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/54780199
Finals http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/54786376

Team Titanium was honored to receive the imagery award and thrilled to work with 525, 4329, and 2410 in winning the event. All 8 alliance captains were incredibly strong, and as the video will prove, there were no easy paths to victory. Clutch plays decided many close matches. Case in point: Finals match #2 - Blue Alliance takes 4 auto balls, making 3 and clears the 4th in the low goal at the start of teleop. Margin of victory??? They win by that 1 point with both alliances making a 2 assist low goal in the last 6 seconds.

Thank you Cerner, Team Driven, and HERMES for running a fantastic tournament that continues to attract top talent from Missouri, Kansas, and their surrounding states.
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Re: Cowtown Throwdown 2014

Team 967, The Iron Lions would like to thank 1730 for putting on a great event! This was the first time we have been able to go but had a great time and learning experience. Thanks to team 1986 and 16 We learned a lot from strategy and what we can work on to do better. Special thanks to teams 1985, the robohawks, They were our top choice and they did exactly what we were planing and more. 1939, Kaniggets They were great at in bounding the ball and playing great defense. It was a shame that they lost communications in the semis. This did give 1825 Their time to shine, They were incredible at what they did. Being able to get the ball over the truss quickly and making auto while still playing defense. Great event to keep coming back to.
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Unread 03-11-2014, 18:03
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Re: Cowtown Throwdown 2014

Just had a chance to rewatch some of these matches. Quarterfinals against 4522, 1094, and 1802 were intense, with some clutch shooting on both sides. Absolutely could have gone either way.

One of my favorite moves happened at 2:15:30 here in the semifinals. Blue alliance is playing stellar defense when 1986 lays a fake so hard that the two defending robots (1939 and 1985) crash into each other. The hit intended for 1986 was hard enough to reset the radio on 1939. The sound from that hit did not translate to video, but it was impressive. 967 did an outstanding job trying to handle the offense down an alliance mate.
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Unread 03-11-2014, 19:44
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Re: Cowtown Throwdown 2014

All the elimination matches were great fun to watch - any of the alliances could have come out on top. I really liked 16's shot while moving sideways. I don't remember seeing that before.

It was a real treat (no Halloween pun intended) to be able to make it to such a competitive off season event. Our driver, co-driver and coach all graduated so we had no one left with experience for 2015. Our new drive team got a little better each qualifying match and with the help of great coaching from our alliance partners they looked pretty good in the elimination rounds.

Definitely an outstanding event - we had an awesome time.
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Unread 03-11-2014, 19:49
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Re: Cowtown Throwdown 2014

Team SCREAM wants to say thanks again to Team Driven and to all of those who once again put on this wonderful event.

We absolutely love this event. It is the highlight of our fall because it gives us an opportunity to bring our new team members, parents, and supporters to a competition so that they can experience what robotics is about before they dive in to the build season in January.

Our new students and families are always blown away about how much fun this event is.

We had a blast and are looking forward to competing with everyone again this upcoming season!
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Re: Cowtown Throwdown 2014

Bomb Squad had a blast at Cow Town. Glad to be back after our we-have-no-robot-left absence last year. Congratulations to the winners and thanks to the hosts. Great to hang out with so many of our friends with robots.

We had a crazy couple of days with only 6 students and 2 mentors! And did anyone notice that Nighthawk didn't play in our last qualification match? There is an explanation on our team Facebook page if you are interested in what happened.
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Re: Cowtown Throwdown 2014

First off, Huge thanks to teams 1730 and 2001 for hosting the event, and all the teams in attendance for making this a great event year after year.
Also it was a pleasure to work with teams 1723 and pre-rookies 6001 in eliminations. I think it can't be stated enough how impressed I am with the Rocky Balboabots who seem to have knowledge and experience well beyond their months. I expect great things from them in 2015.

Considering this is the last Aerial Assist event for many teams, congratulations to everyone on a successful 2014 season!
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Re: Cowtown Throwdown 2014

Photos (and a few video clips) are posted on my flickr page. I tried to capture a photo of every team. Feel free to use in promo materials/etc. Please credit me (David Runneals) if possible.

Enjoy!
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Re: Cowtown Throwdown 2014

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Photos (and a few video clips) are posted on my flickr page. I tried to capture a photo of every team. Feel free to use in promo materials/etc. Please credit me (David Runneals) if possible.

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David,
I tried downloading some of the awesome photos you took of 3528. I get the message: "The owner has disabled downloading of their photos". Can you change the permissions?
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Re: Cowtown Throwdown 2014 videos

Videos of all of the matches 1108 participated in ('cept one that I missed) are out on youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/hrench now. Including all of the finals where we came so close to winning it all...

Thanks to a great alliance of Tigerbytes, UpNext and Frog. Had a great time.

Also many photos on our facebook site. https://www.facebook.com/pages/FIRST...0315492?ref=hl
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Re: Cowtown Throwdown 2014

Thank you all for posting pictures and videos. 1775 had a terrific time at Cow Town.

We'd like to thank our hosts Driven and Hermes, Cerner for sponsoring, Jerry from AndyMark, and the host of volunteers who put this together. We'd especially like to thank our alliance partners Panther, UpNext and Frog. It was a real pleasure playing the game with you guys.
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Everything I've heard about the event makes me want to go in person next year. I certainly enjoyed the webcast. It seems like our team got some great experience and had a chance to interact with lots of great people last weekend. Thanks for putting on this event - I know it takes a ton of effort to make something like that happen.
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Re: Cowtown Throwdown 2014

Hey, I'm wondering if anyone has qualifier & elimination match results? I want to submit them to thebluealliance.com and get the word out about this awesome event. Thanks!
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