Strongest Regionals/District 2016?

[page2067]

Actually BETA: 2836 was captain - not 2067 in the Gallileo division. Beta ranked 1, 2067 ranked 4th.

And 230 is not at Hartford (at least yet) nor are other CT standouts of 228 and 2836. Wish they were also..

[bkahl]

Originally Posted by page2067

Actually BETA: 2836 was captain - not 2067 in the Gallileo division. Beta ranked 1, 2067 ranked 4th.

And 230 is not at Hartford (at least yet) nor are other CT standouts of 228 and 2836. Wish they were also..

I mixed up my 2015 and 2016 team lists

[MamaSpoldi]

Originally Posted by page2067

Actually BETA: 2836 was captain - not 2067 in the Gallileo division. Beta ranked 1, 2067 ranked 4th.

And 230 is not at Hartford (at least yet) nor are other CT standouts of 228 and 2836. Wish they were also..

230 is on the waiting list...

[XaulZan11]

Originally Posted by Karthik

That would explain a larger number of teams who attended Championship in the previous year, but it wouldn't explain why the teams were so successful at Championship.

Agreed, but when over 40% of teams make eliminations at the championship, the more teams you send, the more will make eliminations.


As an aside, I think it would be intersting to compare the percent of teams making championship eliminations based on region. I'm not sure that's been done before.

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by cadandcookies

What I'm saying is that pretty much every regional 2056 is at has a whole bunch of competitive teams at it.

Looks like another Texas team is bringing the rodeo up to Canada - 118 is now registered for Greater Toronto East.

[Brian Maher]

MAR Events, # in champs elims, # at event:

• Hatboro-Horsham: 6 / 36 (203, 1218, 1640, 2016, 2590, 2607)
• Mount Olive: 6 / 38 (11, 193, 303, 1403, 1676, 1923*)
• Seneca: 5 / 33 (1089*, 1640, 2016, 2590, 4954)
• Springside-Chestnut Hill: 6 / 27 (103, 203, 225, 365, 1218, 3974)
• Bridgewater-Raritan: 4 / 39 (11, 193, 1403, 1676)
• Westtown: 8 / 33 (103, 225, 365, 1218, 1640, 2607, 3974, 4954)
• Montgomery: 5 / 36 (103, 303, 1089*, 1923*, 3974)

*Played on Einstein

[Bob Steele]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

You're forgetting that the Skunks were there last year too. I think they won it or something...

Actually.... we didn't win it... our ALLIANCE won it.
We could not have done it without 955 and 847. They were great partners and we look forward to working with them again this year!!!

[Deke]

Originally Posted by tr6scott

Meanwhile down the street at Waterford has nine top 20 finishers... with 32 total top 20 finishes between them...

33 Killer Bees
51 Wings of Fire
67 The HOT Team
245 Adambots
1023 Bedford Express
1189 The Gearheads
1718 The Fighting Pi
2137 TORC
3098 The Captains

And still seven open spots...

I know where I will be watching week 1...

Waterford is definitely FiM's strongest district this year. Per Karthik's metric:

1/34 einstein appearance, 12/34 champ elims, 11/34 MSC elims.

With open spots in Ann Arbor, it will be interesting to see which teams shift. However, I don't think many will want to trade a week 1 spot for a week 6 spot.

Most other FiM districts have many new faces with the surge of new teams. It's hard to tell which ones will pull out from the crowd.

[Sohaib]

With 118 joining GTRE it may well be the most "competitive" regional.

[Citrus Dad]

Originally Posted by BL0X3R

For the PNW, Auburn Mountainview has been a competitive event in its existence, but Philomath this year seems to be the strongest for 2016.

Usual Contenders:
CV Robotics [955]
Wildcats [1510]
Spartan Robotics [997]
Hotwire [2990]
Skynet [2550]

Joining this year: (This is where it gets really scary)
Shockwave [4488]
Skunkworks [1983]
IRS [1318]
Bear Metal [2046]
Lion Robotics [2907]

And still only 28 spots filled

We briefly discussed traveling to Corvallis for this (it's the same distance as Las Vegas) as we're looking for a third regional, but the PNW Districts don't have a provision (yet) for outside teams.

[Bob Steele]

We would have loved to see you there!!! That would be loads of fun.
FIRST actually is the issue. You can only play in a District event if you come from a different District.

Last year 190 came all the way out from WPI and New Hampshire to compete at Philomath. They were from a District though...

Hope to see you guys in St. Louis!!
Same field again would be nice...... it seems to work out that way for some reason..... In the last 5 years we have been in the same division 4 out of 5 years.....last three in a row.... Only missed you guys in 2012 when we were on Newton and you were on Curie.

It is interesting that our two teams have been on either Curie or Newton for all of that time.

Now if we could just figure out how to be on the same Alliance for elims it would be even nicer

[Brian C]

Originally Posted by Bob Steele

Actually.... we didn't win it... our ALLIANCE won it.

Now there's a great example of the basic concept of FIRST right there!!

[alextried]

Originally Posted by page2067

And 230 is not at Hartford (at least yet) nor are other CT standouts of 228 and 2836. Wish they were also..

All three of these teams are competing at the Waterbury Event this year!

[Giantwalker]

Originally Posted by alextried

All three of these teams are competing at the Waterbury Event this year!

Unfortunately 2067 is not going to be there. Also missing 175, 195, and 2168 (all four of which made champs elims this year).

[kyle_hamblett]

Originally Posted by Sohaib

With 118 joining GTRE it may well be the most "competitive" regional.

I didn't know about this until a few days ago, but I would have to say GTR-E and Waterloo are going to be pretty neck and neck with the addition of the Texas powerhouses paying them a visit.