2015 Arizona West Regional

[gcgeobuff]

We are working on getting a stream going. If it works out, it should be up this afternoon or tomorrow morning.

Edit: There is still a chance we will not be able to. I am hoping that won't be the case, but it is possible.

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by gcgeobuff

We are working on getting a stream going. If it works out, it should be up this afternoon or tomorrow morning.

Awesome!

[MrForbes]

I didn't get into the stands today, but watching from the field several teams are looking great....2122, 3309, 3230 among others. Should be fun tomorrow!

[5reided]

Team Tators has set up the webcast of the Arizona West Regional! You can access the webcast at https://new.livestream.com/accounts/...events/3940862.

Note that logging in with a Livestream.com account may be required.

You'll notice that the quality isn't top-notch. We are hoping to get a different converter sometime today in order to stream at a higher quality.

[sastoller]

Seems that there is a webcast, but it looks like you are required to log in with a livestream account to access (although you can check bugmenot for a login if you don't want to give livestream your email):

https://new.livestream.com/accounts/...events/3940862

[BleakRNS]

Stream's been down for a while. Anyone know what's going on?

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by BleakRNS

Stream's been down for a while. Anyone know what's going on?

I'm hearing that they're trying to switch to a higher quality source, that was about an hour ago. Hopefully it'll come back up sometime soon.

[tcjinaz]

It appears to me that Team Tators 2122 sponsored today's streaming. Thank you very much! I was able to spend a good part of the afternoon at GCU today, and enjoyed watching the rest at home.

[tcjinaz]

1212 came up with a new one to me: two equivalent robots tethered to each other, configured to operate at first as canburglars. Great idea, maybe they will have the nitty gritty details worked out tomorrow.
Be careful about your setup times, folks.

[azcalg]

Originally Posted by tcjinaz

1212 came up with a new one to me: two equivalent robots tethered to each other, configured to operate at first as canburglars. Great idea, maybe they will have the nitty gritty details worked out tomorrow.
Be careful about your setup times, folks.

We certainly tried our darnedest. That first match we had it in a minute and thirty seconds, that with the help of our alliance members, who were wonderful about it. The second match we didn't have time to set it up properly in our pits and everything seemed to fall apart once we got it on the field. It was a bit disappointing to see all our hard work fail at the moment when it counted though; it would have been nice to see it work at least once, it was a really cool system and it may have taken away a bit of the stress associated with our setup and take down.
We certainly learned a lot from this design though. We had to get incredibly creative to keep our weight down. We also learned to maybe not do something so ridiculously complex with so many points where something could go wrong; we tried to do everything like we always do and it rarely works out well for us. I doubt it will change though, we have a rich history of hubris.
That said, sorry to the refs and everyone for consistently delaying matches, we did our best but it wasn't quite enough.
Also congats to all the other teams, you put on an amazing regional, the matches were certainly exciting to watch.

[Donut]

That was a great event! Thank you to all the teams for moving things along quickly and helping to keep us running a smooth event this weekend. Even with match replays we still finished on time or ahead of schedule each day.

Congratulations to the winning alliance of 2122, 3309, and 5059. A special thank you to 2122 for making this ref's job easy, despite all those totes flying through the chute your human player always made it obvious that he was not going to get a penalty with them. It was also great to chat with all of your mentors and parents who volunteered at the event.

Congrats to the Finalists including 3785 and 1726 who qualified for the World Championship with Wild Card slots.

And congratulations to 2375 on a well deserved Chairman's Award. Your video was well done and was a great way to package up the dragon theme running through your team.


For all the Arizona teams, attached is my final Arizona State Championship projections based on the data I have. Teams highlighted in green won the Chairman's Award at an event and receive an automatic bid to the State Championship. All teams submitting for the Chairman's Award at any event receive a 10 performance point bonus but this data is not published so I have entered this for teams that have been mentioned as having submitted on ChiefDelphi. My sheet does not handle all tiebreakers for teams with identical performance point totals, as written it does not look at Best Elimination Round Finish (2nd order sort) or the match score sorts (5th-9th order sort). Take this as a close estimation, if you are in the top 20 teams I would count on an invitation but everyone below that is a question mark. Having submitted for the Chairman's Award is a huge factor for those with lower point totals as it can change your ranking by almost 15 places. The current cutoff sits at 19 points.

If you see any corrections needed or know of teams that submitted for Chairman's but aren't listed as doing so please let me know.

[JPopham]

Congrats to all of the teams! We had a lot of fun at the first ever AZ West Regional. Dragon Robotics is humbled and grateful for winning the Regional Chairman's Award, and earning our first ever blue banner! I am so very proud to be your mentor/coach.

See you all in St. Louis!

[cglrcng]

Originally Posted by Donut

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For all the Arizona teams, attached is my final Arizona State Championship projections based on the data I have. Teams highlighted in green won the

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If you see any corrections needed or know of teams that submitted for Chairman's but aren't listed as doing so please let me know.

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Hey Donut,

Not like it will matter much given the current sheet position...But Team 60 "Did Submit for Chairman's" at both events (AZ East Reg.~Chandler), & (NV Las Vegas Reg.) (Confirmed w/ my Education Mentor Wife Celeste tonight), albeit sadly did not win either, but Did Win the following Judged Awards: And other performance data avail.

(Pasted from www.thebluealliance.com ,Team 60 sheet / & Ed Laws Team 2834_2015 Scouting Database_v6.0 "OPR/CCWM World Rankings" added data).
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Arizona East Regional ~Team 60 Submitted for Chairmans~
in Chandler, AZ, USA
Mar 18th - Mar 21st, 2015

Team 60 was Rank 2 with an average qual score of 81.42 and an average playoff score of 120.43 and won the following awards: (1st seeded Alliance Pick#1). Seeded 2 of 41

Other Notables:
Event Highest Q Score~ 155/60 (in Q79 w/ 60/3048/1165 against 1492/1011/5207). Total combined score 215.
*Finally Played again w/ 1538 The Holy Cows after a too long layoff.* Highest Combined 2 Alliance Event Playoff Score in F1 & F2 in 2 straight (3944/4183/4146 Def. 60/1538/4496~ 168/146=Total combined score of 314 & 3944/4183/4146 Def. 60/1538/4496~ 132/117=Total combined score of 249).

(1st Event attended this year) Awards:

Woodie Flowers Finalist Award (George Williams) Congrat's George, well deserved after 19 never ending & very hard earned years! Good Luck!

FIRST Dean's List Finalist Award (Rebecca Leggett) Congrat's Rebecca. Good Luck!

Regional Finalists

Excellence in Engineering Award sponsored by Delphi
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and after Week 4~ Regional 1: (Avg. Winning Margin Per Match 13.0, OPR 49.21~CCWM 39.2, Reg. Rank 2, Avg. Score Per Match 27.1, Offensive Power 49.2,OPR Reg. Rank 2, World Ranked OPR 74th after Week 4).
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Las Vegas Regional~Team 60 Submitted for Chairmans~

in Las Vegas, NV, USA
Mar 25th - Mar 28th, 2015

Team 60 was Rank 3 with an average qual score of 108.17 and an average playoff score of 140.71 and won the following awards: (2nd Seeded Alliance Team Captain). Seeded 3 of 42

(2nd Event attended this year) Awards:

Regional Engineering Inspiration Award (Wooohooo Team! FIRST FRC Championships here we come! Our Sincere Thanks to all the Judges).

Regional Finalists

Other Notables:
Event Highest Q score 208/114=Total Combined 322 (in Q36 w/60/991/148 against 3577/2478/1828).

Highest Combined Reg. 2 Alliance Playoff Score(s) (F1 & F2~ 987/148/5012 Def. 3309/60/4322 in 2 straight 233/112=Total combined 345 & 232/122=Total combined 354, and SF 5~3309/60/4322 Def. 987/148/5012 147/122=Total combined 269) **148/987 are 2 of the highest rated OPR Robots in the World Rankings).
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And after Week 5~ Regional 2: (Avg. Winning Margin Per Match 18.3, OPR 68.37~CCWM 58.0, CCWM Reg. Rank 2, Avg. Score Per Match 36.1, Offensive Power 68.4, OPR Reg. Rank 3, World Ranked OPR 74th after Week 4).

OPR World Ranked after Week 5~ 51st. And after Week 6 (Did not Compete), World Rankings OPR 64th of 2872, OPR Value 56.1, after Week 6 /CCW is
32nd. of 2872, CCWM Value 48.4).

For NV, LV Event comparison only:
(Highest combined Playoff Score of the Event~ Was QF8~ 987/148/5012 def. 4415/842/3495~ 228/128=Total combined of score of 356). Missed by 2 points, or 1 stacked Grey Tote in F2.
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Sry about all the convoluted stats, it just gives us real true Champs hope & Alliance contribution accounting in 2015 Recycle rush is all!

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You asked for the data, you got it...Toyota! Hope it helps. (And thanks for the hard work too young man, it is certainly is appreciated).
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3rd & 4th Events to attend this year, NEXT UP...2 Championships ("FIRST FRC Championships in St Louis, MO," and "The First Ever ALL AZ, AIA High School Robotics Championships" in Prescott, AZ).

Here's to praying & playing for great results.

Thanks Again Donut!

[scca229]

Originally Posted by Donut

All teams submitting for the Chairman's Award at any event receive a 10 performance point bonus

Real quick point on this. The 10 pt bonus is awarded only once. It does differ in that the team's qualifying points do not necessarily have to come from the same event that the Chairman's bonus comes from. If a team did not submit at their first event but did at their second, their Qualifying Points are from the first event but with the 10pt bonus added for the submission at the second.


From the AIA doc:

State Competition Qualification:
Teams qualify based on their performance point total at their initial FIRST Regional competition. Qualifying points are based on the District Model except points are applied from only one regional event.

The exception to these point valuations is for a Chairman’s Award submission:
o By submitting at any Regional competition, the team will be awarded 10 points.
o If teams present for Chairman’s at multiple events, they will only receive 10 points.
o A team winning a Chairman’s Award at any Regional competition automatically goes to the AIA Robotics State Championship.

Awards
Chairman’s Award Submission (any regional event)
10 (awarded once)
* Rookie teams are not eligible for Chairman’s Award points

[Mr. Tatorscout]

Originally Posted by MrTechCenter

We will be cheering on our friends from Idaho and SoCal from our couches!

Boy are you good luck! Promise you'll cheer for us the same way in St. Louis so we can have some success there, too