2016 Finger Lakes Regional

[Angeliukm]

I'd like to comment on the difficulty of the event this year. Finger Lakes had a very deep middle tier with several phenomenal robots at the very top. You can get a decent understanding of the depth of this event by looking at the "Insights" tab for the event on The Blue Alliance. One telling metric is the qualifications capture success percentage, which was about 6% for week three, 12% for GTRE, and an incredible 25% for FLR this weekend. Things only got harder in playoffs.

With this in mind, I'd like to thank our alliance partners 639 and 1405 for our hard-won banner this weekend. 639 was a scoring machine at the low goal with a highly consistent climb, and congratulations are also due to them for winning EI. 1405 played some of the best shut-down defense I've seen all year, with a consistent scale as well; we were incredibly lucky to pick you up in the second round. Having the two scales and heavy defense on our side are what tipped those critical playoff matches in our favor.

Congratulations to the finalists, the 4930-3044-340 alliance! I'm glad that 3044 and 4930 were able to qualify for championships via wildcards, and we're looking forward to seeing you again in St. Louis.

Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard

I also want to say thanks to 2791 for being amazing partners. This is the best machine you've ever built, and you were an amazing alliance partner. The fact that your robot isn't currently attending champs is a downright shame, and I hope you get in off the waitlist because you deserve it so much.

Quoted for truth; 2791's robot this year was had the highest scoring potential of the event with the capability to fully weaken the tower by themselves by scoring only high goals. I just wish that we had faced the 5254-2791-2383 alliance in finals rather than semifinals so that Shaker could have qualified on a wildcard. Watching your first quarterfinal where you nearly broke the world high score with 194 points (no fouls) certainly made our strategy team nervous, even as we were glad to see our friends and alliance partners from last weekend doing so well.

There were so many other good teams at this event that I won't list them all, but I'd like to thank everyone for a great competition. We'll see at least 15 of you at Championships!

[artK]

Originally Posted by Angeliukm

I'd like to comment on the difficulty of the event this year. Finger Lakes had a very deep middle tier with several phenomenal robots at the very top. You can get a decent understanding of the depth of this event by looking at the "Insights" tab for the event on The Blue Alliance. One telling metric is the qualifications capture success percentage, which was about 6% for week three, 12% for GTRE, and an incredible 25% for FLR this weekend. Things only got harder in playoffs.

Just to tack on with the week 4 stats: The average qualification capture success was almost 12%, and eliminations had an average of almost 34% (Elims at had a rate of 46.66...%).

It was a great eliminations bracket to watch in person.