2015 Lone star Regional

[jfox100]

The Blarglefish were quite happy with our performance at 2015 Alamo, but we're not satisfied just yet. More improvements will be ready for Lone Star and Champs: Coopertition Tote Delivery (1, 2 or 3 yellow totes), Autonomous Step Dual-Can Grabber, Faster Stacker (up to 4 totes), 2-Can+2-tote+Robot Auton Mode (we did this for every single Q match at Alamo).

BLARGLE.....fish!!!
BLARGLE.....fish!!!
BLARGLE.....fish!!!

[rlowe61]

I know official Competition starts tomorrow, but does anyone know if there is going to be a WEB broadcast of the regional. I have been to all the usual sites and No One list LoneStar.

Thanks

"A Mentor out of Town"

[MrTechCenter]

Anybody know what's up at Lone Star? According to TBA, it says that a few teams have only played 3 matches, including 624 who is currently ranked 3rd.

[Doug G]

Originally Posted by MrTechCenter

Anybody know what's up at Lone Star? According to TBA, it says that a few teams have only played 3 matches, including 624 who is currently ranked 3rd.

They did some replays at the end of the day and 624's average went up quite bit... 139 I think.. still 3rd but very close to our 140 average.

[Kris Verdeyen]

Originally Posted by MrTechCenter

Anybody know what's up at Lone Star? According to TBA, it says that a few teams have only played 3 matches, including 624 who is currently ranked 3rd.

There is a bug in FMS that causes the score to not be correct when a team is in a match with a field fault. Basically it ignores all matches after the one to be replayed when calculating the score.

[microbuns]

Are there any videos available of the playoff matches?

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by microbuns

Are there any videos available of the playoff matches?

Gods and little fishes but I hope so. It'll be tragic if no one else gets to see those last three matches

[Abhishek R]

624 has match video of our matches (which means we'll have the last three, in full field HD as well), we'll try to upload tonight.

[orangemoore]

Originally Posted by Abhishek R

624 has match video of our matches (which means we'll have the last three, in full field HD as well), we'll try to upload tonight.

Do the last three first!

[Doug G]

Wow! What an amazing regional! You know what they say about Texas... Everything is bigger, including the stacks and scores. It was really inspirational to get to know so many wonderful people and teams. 3467, Lambots won RCA and it was so deserved. Them and the Bears, 5415 - RAS winners, were a fun group to be around and had an all around great performance. We really appreciated all the help from the local teams, including 118, the Robonauts, who lent us a solenoid and fitting for our unused can grabber. We completely forgot to return it and the end of the event... We'll be sure to get it to you in St Louis. Congrats to them and 624 for pulling off the regional win hat trick this season. Finally i'd like to thank our alliance in playoffs, 4587, Jersey Voltage, and 57, the Leopards. To put up a couple of scores in the 200's was quite special and semis match 6, was unreal. Hopefully we will see you all again in St. Louis.

[Kevin Sevcik]

Abhishek has been woefully deficient in posting the links to the excellent video they uploaded, so I'll just leave these here:
Lone Star F1
Lone Star F2

I notice they don't have SF6 uploaded yet, which they actually lost. I smell a conspiracy... Or a really tired team.

[Abhishek R]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

Abhishek has been woefully deficient in posting the links to the excellent video they uploaded, so I'll just leave these here:
Lone Star F1
Lone Star F2

I notice they don't have SF6 uploaded yet, which they actually lost. I smell a conspiracy... Or a really tired team.

Sorry, I wasn't the one uploading them. On my WiFi, they'd probably get done in a week. I think Justin got the finals up then went to bed - I actually fell asleep right when I got home Thanks for posting the links, I didn't even know they were done!

SF6 is now up as well it seems.

[Abhishek R]

Wow, what a season for Team 624. We've always had an amazing experience at the Lone Star Regional, and we would like to thank all the volunteers, judges, and referees who make it possible.

After being finalists for several years at our home regional, we were ecstatic to be invited to the number one alliance led captained by Team 118, The Robonauts. Despite the similar architectures of our robots, they seemed to complement each other pretty well. We also appreciate all of 3728's hard work and collaboration in those playoffs matches - we couldn't have won our first ever Lone Star Regional without the help of the Iron Pandas.

A huge congratulations to the finalists. 701 is a mean green machine, and it's no mistake they've gone far in every regional. 4587 is probably one of the hardest working teams out there. Having gone through a complete rebuild, they're now looking to make claims for the top ranks of #TeamTether, along with their Dallas counterparts from 148 and 1296. And we are excited for Team 57, who has finally qualified for Champs, with a beautiful intake, that landfill will be gone in no time in St. Louis.

Congratulations to Team 3478, Lambot. The Texas teams appreciate your annual appearance at the Lone Star Regional, and the Chairman's Award was very well deserved. Your spirit and outreach efforts are second to none, with a beautifully made video to cap it off.

Congratulations to Arthur Purpich on his WFFA, from 3103 Iron Plaid, and Chris Hansen, on his Volunteer of the Year award.

Thank you to Team 1477, Texas Torque. If I ever had to declare a single team as a "class act," it would undoubtedly be 1477 every year. It's no surprise as to how strong their program is, and thank Mr. Rip for all his help each year (we won't forget that coopertition!).

Thanks to all the teams and volunteers for making Lone Star the best regional around, once again!

[ahartnet]

Pearadox had a great time at our first official event. The students all left the regional talking about what we can improve for next year, and seeing the level of excitement from them and them asking us if we can do this, this and that in the summer and fall is so great to hear as a coach. That would not happen if they didn't feel so welcomed and inspired by the teams that we get to see at Lone Star.

To that end, I wanted to thank a lot of teams - Get Smart helped us design a motor mount in the morning when we realized we didn't pack some versa gearbox mounts we thought we had. Invictus took the time to show the drivers their butterfly drive and how it worked, and they thought it was the coolest thing ever. And then later when we were preparing our pneumatics system just in case we were picked for playoffs they provided assistance in getting the relief valve calibrated and some general tips of pneumatics trade that they've learned. Robonauts have helped us since the summer time, providing us opportunities to practice on a field and providing us with various tools, parts, and insights depending on what they occasion called for. Screaming Chickens made us feel welcome by power walking to our pit Saturday morning to line it with pears - and it means a lot to me personally to know that we were being recognized/joked with by people on a good team that we had yet to really interact with. Also, our students told me that Leopards brought the football player to our pit because they thought we were doing a good job (assuming they didn't "pear"aphrase that to me incorrectly) which is another huge honor and I am thankful for. And while Spectrum wasn't there to compete, they helped us immensely throughout last offseason and this build season, and it was good to see some of their team members there helping out.

Congratulations to the Bears on winning RAS. We knew it was going to be a tough regional to try to win RAS at, the rookies at LSR were all so very impressive, and we were honored to be selected for the Rookie Inspiration.

Great final matches too by Robonauts, CRyptonite, Iron Pandas, RoboVikes, Jersey Voltage, and Leopards. They were exciting to watch and I think inspired our team to keep getting better.

[SonOfMrFrishman]

I know there are a few of you who definitely wanted to see Shadetree do better since our showing at Alamo. The truth is, is that we just don't have a robot that uses an elevator type mechanism that stacks 5-6. Or one that's even fast enough to get the stack of 5-6 without dropping the game piece.