Greater Kansas City Regional 2016

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by samfruth

Yes she still is. Her email is petersonj@kcstem.org

Guess I'll shoot an email over later. Woo 1 week hype.

[rich2202]

Originally Posted by CalTran

Anyone else still waiting for volunteer confirmation? Applied in January, never heard back...

I applied for Ref in Late January, when out team was able to register, and never heard back. A few weeks later, I added RI, and still did not hear back. A week or two later, I added Field Reset, and heard back within a few days.

[holygrail]

Is anyone planning to record the matches and post them to YouTube? It is a bummer when you can't go back and watch matches after the Regional is over.

Kansas City only has a few matches from last year posted on TBA.

[Joey1939]

This year, autonomous is really important for doing well. At the regional, I can help any teams that need help with Java programming. Just ask for Joey with team 1939. Is there someone else that could provide help with LabView or C++?

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by Joey1939

This year, autonomous is really important for doing well. At the regional, I can help any teams that need help with Java programming. Just ask for Joey with team 1939. Is there someone else that could provide help with LabView or C++?

Gregg Rupp is a CSA and pretty handy with C++

[hrench]

Originally Posted by holygrail

Is anyone planning to record the matches and post them to YouTube? It is a bummer when you can't go back and watch matches after the Regional is over.

Kansas City only has a few matches from last year posted on TBA.

1108 will record and post all of the matches that we participate in, but my videos are probably only going to be the side of the field that our robot is on, following our 'bot.

Also, I was a volunteer last year at KC, but was able to make three or four match videos, posted on my youtube account (also called 'hrench') www.youtube.com/hrench

Maybe you've seen these or maybe you'll see something new you've missed before.

[holygrail]

I am working on getting it set up so that we can film every KC match with a full-field view so we can have archives for TBA.

As this is our team's first effort at this, please be understanding if it doesn't go perfectly.

If your team has done this before and you have tips for us, please feel free to send them our way.

Can't wait to see all our friends from KC. Three more days!

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by holygrail

I am working on getting it set up so that we can film every KC match with a full-field view so we can have archives for TBA.

As this is our team's first effort at this, please be understanding if it doesn't go perfectly.

If your team has done this before and you have tips for us, please feel free to send them our way.

Can't wait to see all our friends from KC. Three more days!

Please please please either have the scoreboard in view or figure out how to get the official overlay on.

[holygrail]

Originally Posted by CalTran

Please please please either have the scoreboard in view or figure out how to get the official overlay on.

Working on it, but no promises. It might be tough to get the screen in the shot with it being off to the side like that.

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by holygrail

Working on it, but no promises. It might be tough to get the screen in the shot with it being off to the side like that.

Fair enough. The set up at MCC is kinda wonky, but don't go too far out of your way for that. It's just nice to see the score while the game is going.

[Woolly]

Originally Posted by holygrail

Working on it, but no promises. It might be tough to get the screen in the shot with it being off to the side like that.

Well, a quick and dirty solution would be to use Open Broadcaster Software to record the matches and have a secondary camera aimed at the scoreboard which you can then crop to only show the score and then overlay it above the field feed.

[KPSch]

Originally Posted by Joey1939

This year, autonomous is really important for doing well. At the regional, I can help any teams that need help with Java programming. Just ask for Joey with team 1939. Is there someone else that could provide help with LabView or C++?

Broncobots 1987 uses C++ and would be happy to help anyone.

[BariSaxGuy]

This year, autonomous is really important for doing well. At the regional, I can help any teams that need help with Java programming. Just ask for Joey with team 1939. Is there someone else that could provide help with LabView or C++?

Team 5013 uses LabView and can help if anyone needs it

[jspatz1]

Originally Posted by Joey1939

This year, autonomous is really important for doing well. At the regional, I can help any teams that need help with Java programming. Just ask for Joey with team 1939. Is there someone else that could provide help with LabView or C++?

As always Team Titanium is available to provide any help needed to teams using Labview. We have a pretty large bag of Labview tips and tricks to share.

[hookstyle]

Originally Posted by Alpha Beta

Kansas City has an amazing streak where one of the winners from the previous year always appears on the winning alliance the next year. That streak survived an inprobable continuation last year where only 1 winning team member returned to GKC for 2015 and had to square off against a juggernaut alliance in the finals which included perennial powerhouses 1730 and 1806. All I can say is congrats to 1723, and don't mess with the streak.

2007 Winners: 0935, 1775, 1997
2008 Winners: 0476, 1806, 1802
2009 Winners: 1806, 1208, 0931
2010 Winners: 2345, 0525, 0931
2011 Winners: 0525, 1730, 1984 (replaced by 3784)
2012 Winners: 1986, 0016, 3784
2013 Winners: 1986, 1806, 2389
2014 Winners: 0118, 1986, 1723
2015 Winners: 1785, 1723, 1710

1710 does not appear to be playing in GKC this year. Expect 1785 and 1723 to be hot commodities come alliance selection time.

No pressure I guess