2015 Ventura Regional

[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.

[spaghetti3925]

Originally Posted by seg9585

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

Only staff/volunteers will be allowed to run equipment.

[Boltman]

Here's all the info for those watching from afar and present:

Another webcast link

http://new.livestream.com/accounts/12224997/frcventura

They say it goes live 2PM today. They will also be updating Twitter during the event.
https://twitter.com/frcventura

#frcventura to post to twitter about the event

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/venregional

Official site:
http://www.frcventuraregional.com/

Its here!





The new Battle of California....42 teams


US CA Van Nuys Team 4 ELEMENT 4
US CA Hawthorne METALCRAFTERS 207 [Regional Chairman's Award LA]
US CA Hermosa Beach The Beach Bots 330 [Regional Winner LA ]
US CA Lancaster Eagle Robotics 399
US CA La Crescenta Falkon Robotics 589
US CA Granada Hills Robodox 599
US CA Santa Clarita Project 691 691
US CA La Crescenta Circuit Breakers 696
US CA Sylmar ThunderBots 980
US CA Lebec Snobotics 981
US CA Alhambra Ramona Rampage 1159
US CA San Diego The Devil Duckies 1266
US CA Madera MadTown Robotics 1323 [Regional Winner CV]
US CA Arroyo Grande Eagle Robotics 1388
US CA Danville Red Tie Robotics 1458
US CA Beverly Hills MorTorq 1515 [Regional Winner LA]
US CA Goleta D'Penguineers 1717
US CA El Segundo Potatoes 1759
US CA Los Angeles The MilkenKnights 1836
US CA Lancaster Robolopes 2339
US CA La Cañada La Canada Engneerng Cub 2429
US CA Fresno IronHorse Robotics 2761
US CA Ventura Seraphim Systems 3027
US CA Sherman Oaks RoboKnights 3120
US CA Sunnyvale Firebots 3501
US CA Orcutt Spartatroniks 3512
US CA Newbury Park Pantherbotics 3863
US CA Ventura Circuit of Life 3925 (Hosting)
US CA Eastvale LORE of the ROBATS 3953
US CA Fresno Duncan Dynamics 3970
US CA Newhall SCV Coaster Bots 3993
US CA Hawthorne Vitruvian Bots 4201
US CA Huntington Beach Viking Robotics 4276
US CA Studio City Golden Gears Robotics 4413
US CA Huntington Beach HawkBots 4619
US CA Camarillo The Flying Aces 4711
US CA Los Angeles LA Streetbots 4964
US CA Santa Ynez Mechapirates 5136 [Finals WC entry IE]
US CA San Marcos Iron Kodiaks 5137
US CA Visalia Visalia Vanquishers 5529 [Rookie All-Star Award CV]
US CA Long Beach Jaguars Robotics & ROVs 5500
US CA Sherman Oaks Knightrise 5678

2015 VENTURA REGIONAL SCHEDULE

Thursday, March 26, 2015
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm ..........................5 Team Reps to Load In

Friday, March 27, 2015
7:45 am ...........................................5 Team Reps to Load In
8:30 am ...........................................Pits, Machine Shop, Registration, and Inspection Open
9:00 am - 11:00 am..........................Driver’s Meeting, Field open for Measurement and Calibration
11:00 am - 12:00 pm .......................Lunch
12:00 pm - 6:30 pm .........................Practice Matches
8:00 pm...........................................Pits and Machine Shop Close

Saturday, March 28, 2015
8:00 am ...........................................Pits and Machine Shop Open
8:30 am - 9:00 am............................Opening Ceremonies
9:00 am - 12:00 pm .........................Qualification Matches
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm .........................Lunch
1:00 pm - 5:45 pm...........................Qualification Matches
5:45 pm - 6:30 pm...........................Awards Ceremony
7:00 pm** .......................................Pits and Machine Shop Close immediately following
Closing Ceremonies

Sunday, March 29, 2015
8:00 am ..........................................Pits and Machine shop Open
8:30 am - 9:00 am............................Opening Ceremonies
9:00 am - 12:15 pm .........................Qualification Matches
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm ......................Alliance Selections
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm ........................Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm .........................Final Rounds
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm...........................Awards Ceremony
6:30 pm ..........................................Pits close

[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.

[seg9585]

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.

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.

We pointed the 10 kOhm rule but the inspector denied the validity in this case "until we found the source of the short". In hindsight we should have spoken with the lead inspector. I'm over it by now, but it was a shame that we lost 2 valuable hours of time the students could have spent practicing their driving on the field. In the end it was a different inspector who actually approved the chassis isolation check (we were completely open anyway, although I was never 100% certain on root cause)

[MichaelBick]

1836 had a great time. The entire regional was extremely competitive, and we were pretty surprised by the depth of the field.

We'd like to thank 696 for picking us. You guys build beautiful machines, and it was a pleasure working with one of the best teams in California. We'd love to work with you again.

The alliance would not have been complete without 5137. You guys were a pleasure to work with to cheesecake your robot, and I'm glad you guys get to use the can grabber for SD(gotta thank GB for that too). You guys were on top of our list for capping(just what we needed) and I expect to see good things from you guys in the future.

Congrats to both the winning and finalist alliances. Eliminations were really tight and the finalist alliance was just as stacked(pun not intended) as the powerhouse alliance of 330, 1717, and 2791. I'm glad that we will see 3512 and 4201 at worlds too.