2016 Central Illinois Regional

[Tim Koch]

It is almost here! Looking forward to seeing all our friends at the Central Illinois Regional at Bradley University Renaissance Coliseum. There are 40 teams representing 7 states.

For more information:

http://www.bradley.edu/FRC
http://www.ilfirst.org/frc/events/ce...nois-regional/

[Arevan]

This is by far my favorite regional to volunteer at! The venue is incredible, the teams are all pretty dang competitive, and the planning committee does an awesome job organizing it every year! I'm super excited to be back, Thursday can't come soon enough.

See you all there!

[neshera]

Webcast?
Or am I just too early, wanting to see practice matches?

[jajabinx124]

This looks like a competitive event with a bunch of competitive teams. (111, 876, 1625, 1732, 1756, 2169, 2481, 4143) I'll definitely be watching the stream for this event.

[northstardon]

Originally Posted by neshera

Webcast?
Or am I just too early, wanting to see practice matches?

I think that practice matches start at noon. The CIR live stream is up (just not showing much at the moment): http://www.ilfirst.org/frc/events/central-illinois-regional/central-webstream.htm

[jalozinski]

Is there anyone at the event using CANTalons with PID that'd be willing to help us? Given that LiveWindow isn't compatible with CANTalons, I can't think of an efficient way to tune these things.

[neshera]

Thanks, northstardon!
Can't install Flash on my work computer!

[ElvisMom]

Originally Posted by neshera

Webcast?
Or am I just too early, wanting to see practice matches?

Way too early to see 1625 in practice matches.

But I'm quite enjoying the medieval background music while I work. Will post a note to Twitter and FB if the feed gets more interesting.

[Alpha Beta]

Nice quality on the webcast. Good full field view without any fish-eye distortion. What's the set-up here?

[barn34]

Originally Posted by Alpha Beta

Nice quality on the webcast. Good full field view without any fish-eye distortion. What's the set-up here?

Thanks, Aaron. Good to know its looking good. I will see if I can get some details or you.

[Tim Koch]

Thanks for noticing and commenting on the video. Improving the web feed was a point of emphasis this year. The video feed at CIR is from the HD event camera that our A/V crew is using. We use a StarTek USB 3.0 Video Capture Device - HDMI / DVI / VGA / Component HD Video Recorder - 1080p 60fps (about $250) for the broadcast.

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by Tim Koch

Thanks for noticing and commenting on the video. Improving the web feed was a point of emphasis this year. The video feed at CIR is from the HD event camera that our A/V crew is using. We use a StarTek USB 3.0 Video Capture Device - HDMI / DVI / VGA / Component HD Video Recorder - 1080p 60fps (about $250) for the broadcast.

This is great information, thank you! Are you guys using multiple of these devices - one for the real time score display and one for your high definition camera? Also curious how you're combining the video streams together to output them onto UStream. Always interested in other setups so we can improve ours The home viewer experience for CIL is fantastic right now.

[CalTran]

What happened to the wide view from practice day?

[jajabinx124]

Congrats to 2481, 876, and 2220 for winning the regional! Another congrats to 2220 for winning the chairman's award.

[Chief Hedgehog]

Did they accidentally tip their caps to 2220 when they announced them for Winners? The announcer stated that their winning CIR opened a wild card spot - but they had yet to announce CA.

Anyone else catch that - and I am understanding that wrong? 2220 is going to Iowa, but they didn't compete prior to this.