2015 Ventura Regional

[spaghetti3925]

The social was canceled due to liability concerns

The lay out will use Ventura colleges two gyms the lower will be the pits and the upper will be the field. The practice field will be in the breezeway between the two gyms. we will also be using the college's machine shop golf carts will be running between the pits and the shop as it is a good distance away.

My team is hosing and I am on the board if you have any more questions i should be able to answer them.

[Boltman]

Woo Hoo...finally a week we are in it.

Iron Kodiaks 5137 in the house, can't wait to see all the fine bots/teams in Ventura next week....then back home to San Diego.

[seg9585]

Originally Posted by spaghetti3925

The social was canceled due to liability concerns

The lay out will use Ventura colleges two gyms the lower will be the pits and the upper will be the field. The practice field will be in the breezeway between the two gyms. we will also be using the college's machine shop golf carts will be running between the pits and the shop as it is a good distance away.

My team is hosing and I am on the board if you have any more questions i should be able to answer them.

Will teams be allowed to use equipment the machine shop, or staff/volunteers only?

[Boltman]

Anyone doing the webcast and have a link?

[Ali Ahmed]

From the very informative Ventura Regional Organizing Committee:

We are producing a great livestream for the entire regional, with highlights and other social interaction through our twitter account. Please direct your schools, your media, your sponsors, and your friends and family to the Architecture, Construction, and Engineering Charter High School website in order to view the livestream.

Hope that helps. Looking forward to it...we've been practicing.

[Boltman]

Originally Posted by ali_rockon22

From the very informative Ventura Regional Organizing Committee:

We are producing a great livestream for the entire regional, with highlights and other social interaction through our twitter account. Please direct your schools, your media, your sponsors, and your friends and family to the Architecture, Construction, and Engineering Charter High School website in order to view the livestream.

Hope that helps. Looking forward to it...we've been practicing.

"This webpage is not available" when will it be live?..and thanks.

[Ali Ahmed]

Originally Posted by Boltman

"This webpage is not available" when will it be live?..and thanks.

Fixed the link...my bad. I don't know when it'll be live though.

[Nick.kremer]

Other than the heat I had a great time at this regional, it was 3512's strongest showing ever, and my first time as drive coach.

Shoutout to the inaugural winning alliance of 330, 1717, and 2761 for throwing up a regional high score of 207 in the finals!

I'd like to say a huge thanks to our alliance partners, who we couldn't have made it to the finals without:

-4201 for being beasts at stacking from the human player station, working with them was a pleasure and a privilege. I was ecstatic when 1515 generated the wildcard allowing them to go to champs.

-3970 for working that landfill and getting that bin. We could not believe they hadn't been picked when it came time to choose our 2nd pick.

In all the event ran really well for a inaugural regional.

Edit: listed wrong 2nd pick for #1 alliance

[Boltman]

Originally Posted by Nick.kremer

Other than the heat I had a great time at this regional, it was 3512's strongest showing ever, and my first time as drive coach.

Shoutout to the inaugural winning alliance of 330, 1717, and 1836 for throwing up a regional high score of 207 in the finals!

I'd like to say a huge thanks to our alliance partners, who we couldn't have made it to the finals without:

-4201 for being beasts at stacking from the human player station, working with them was a pleasure and a privilege. I was ecstatic when 1515 generated the wildcard allowing them to go to champs.

-3970 for working that landfill and getting that bin. We could not believe they hadn't been picked when it came time to choose our 2nd pick.

In all the event ran really well for a inaugural regional.

Just correcting...

It was 330 1717 and 2761 on Winning alliance

It was 696, 1836 and 5137 on SF Alliance #3

[Nick.kremer]

Originally Posted by Boltman

Just correcting...

It was 330 1717 and 2761 on Winning alliance

It was 696, 1836 and 5137 on SF Alliance #3

Good catch...must still be tired after the event

[rsisk]

I would like to thank all the teams attending for being gentle on this rookie Lead Robot Inspector.

Had a great time, finished inspections by 6PM on Friday. No serious issues and all the teams were cooperative and worked with their inspectors.

Used the GMS (Game Management System) and hardware purchased for SoCal FRC events for inspecting and have to say I LOVED IT. Also received positive reviews from some teams about the system as well.

[seg9585]

Originally Posted by rsisk

Had a great time, finished inspections by 6PM on Friday. No serious issues and all the teams were cooperative and worked with their inspectors.

Used the GMS (Game Management System) and hardware purchased for SoCal FRC events for inspecting and have to say I LOVED IT. Also received positive reviews from some teams about the system as well.

I think we were the only holdouts here, as we spent well over 2 hours trying to hunt down and eliminate a 400 Kohm chassis ground "short" before inspection would let us pass.

By the way, I saw the electronic inspection system and thought it was really great -- especially handy for the elims reinspection to record weight deltas and associated notes.

[sanddrag]

We had the sane high resistance short issue at Long Beach. It was our Banebots 775 motors.

[David Brinza]

Originally Posted by seg9585

I think we were the only holdouts here, as we spent well over 2 hours trying to hunt down and eliminate a 400 Kohm chassis ground "short" before inspection would let us pass.

By the way, I saw the electronic inspection system and thought it was really great -- especially handy for the elims reinspection to record weight deltas and associated notes.

So sorry you wrestled with a 400 KOhm "short" for chassis isolation.

Chassis isolation criteria per R27 in 2015 is 10 kOhm. In previous years, the bar for chassis isolation was higher, so your inspector may not have been aware of the current spec.

Challenging the robot inspector's call was well within your rights and the Lead Robot Inspector should definitely have been consulted. The FRC inspection process is motivated by safety and fair play consideration. The intent is not to hinder teams from competing in top form.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by David Brinza

So sorry you wrestled with a 400 KOhm "short" for chassis isolation.

Chassis isolation criteria per R27 in 2015 is 10 kOhm. In previous years, the bar for chassis isolation was higher, so your inspector may not have been aware of the current spec.

It's been 10 kOhm since 2011, and 100 kOhm before then.