Iowa Regional 2016

[youngace89]

Originally Posted by jajabinx124

I was also surprised 1156 was picked so late by 4536- I seriously thought they would be picked earlier.

I had assumed that they would be picked by the time our turn rolled around, and I didn't realize that they hadn't been until very soon before we picked them. Looking back at it, though, this event was deep enough that every team picked before them had a higher OPR.

Many thanks to 1156 and 1825 for helping us play a very close quarterfinals against the number 3 alliance.

[runneals]

Just got all my photos finally up. Check them out here if you haven't already: https://www.flickr.com/photos/runnea...7666000174822/ I added a few more to the Saturday albums. I also got up a video of the Mentor's parade. Will be working on a few more videos and will upload those when I get back to our shop and can get on the fast university wifi Had a blast shooting them and hope to make it back again next year! #FIRSTinIowa

[sdhlucny]

I think it's safe to say that everyone who attended the Iowa regional had a blast and I'm so thankful for all of the judges and volunteers for all the hard work they put in to keep the event running smoothly.

With 2512 and 5442 scoring on that 4th seeded alliance, we really would have had a tough time beating them if it hadn't been for our awesome defensive bot (thank you 1208!)

Congrats to the finalists for playing a great tournament and earning spots to the championships! See you in St. Louis!

By the way runneals- thanks for the awesome photos!

[JeremyLansing]

Team 171 had a great time at the first Iowa Regional. Huge thanks to our partners 5442 and 2512. 5442, you guys sure didn't seem like a second year team. You had a phenomenal robot, and I think you did an excellent job choosing an alliance that just seemed to mesh from the minute we got out there. It was a blast working with 2512 to put the blocker on our robot, you guys did an awesome job getting those frame pieces ready on such short notice. A trip to the finals would have been great, but I knew the toughest test was definitely going to be that number 1 seed alliance.

I have to give a shout out to teams 5172, 525, and 1208. You guys played the game so well, it was just too tall a task to shut you guys down offensively.

I also want to thank everyone who made the Iowa regional happen, everyone who has worked so hard to spread FRC in Iowa to make an event like this possible, and everyone who volunteered their time to put on the event. It's amazing to think when I started Iowa only had 3 FRC teams, and now we have nearly a dozen teams, state support, and our own regional. I can't wait to come back next year.

[Alex Webber]

1810 had an amazing time in Cedar Falls.

Being a first year regional, we were really excited from the beginning. The venue (McLEOUD center and the UNI-dome) made for an awesome time. Fair warning for interested teams for next year, there are a number of stairs from the stands to the pits, but hey, it's a great regional.

Congrats to all of the amazing teams who moved on to championships, and every team at this regional. It was a highly competitive regional.

1810 would like to invite any team interested in our scouting system that attended Iowa to please email alexwebberdev@gmail.com or pm me. We are most likely going open source, be sure to include team number. Also, if you wish to see our data, email the above address or pm me.

I will try to get you information in a timely manner. Saturday morning I fell getting off our bus, and the ER Diagnosed it as an ACL tear. I have a doctor appointment later today to get an official diagnosis, but if you are interested in seeing our data, please contact me.

[EOC]

Team 1208 would like to thank teams 5172 and 525 for picking us, there were a lot of quality robots to choose from, we are proud and honored by the faith you placed in us.
On a separate note: After our last semi-final match Team 525 sustained significant damage. Watching their repair process I observed something that makes them a great team: the students, under the guidance of the mentors, performed the repairs in an efficient and timely fashion; it was clearly the student's robot, they built it and repaired. Of course, a quality robot like theirs does not happen in a vacuum, the team's mentors must have provided exceptional guidance and tutelage. This shows once again that The Swartdogs are a great role model and very deserving of their Chairman's Award.

[Golfer4646]

I'll also add that the Iowa Regional was a well run event, and that I had a blast attending and competing! Congratulations to 5172 (Gators) on a over-due and well deserved first regional victory! Congrats also to 525 (Swartdogs) for the victory, but even more so for the Chairman's Award! I had a great time competing with and opposite your team!

I also would like to say that the Iowa Regional must have had the deepest and most competitive field of teams that I have ever competed against. As an example of that here is video of qual match 89: (thanks once again to 525)
https://youtu.be/nnhHJRnsu8g?t=24m55s
This match was particularly impressive, (or maybe it was just particularly exciting because my team did especially well in this match ), because even though the blue alliance had both the 1st overall alliance selection (525), and the captain of the number 3 alliance (4818), and was against a red alliance that none of the teams were able to compete in elims, it was still an amazingly competitive match! The red alliance (of which none of the 3 teams were selected for eliminations) came within one boulder bouncing out of the tower, and having all three robots parked on the batter at the end of the match from achieving a capture!

[Alex Webber]

Like I posted earlier in the thread, 1810 has decided to release our scouting data! I have gone ahead, and posted the data, in raw .csv files, and in fancy charts and graphs (thank Tableau) on my website, at http://alexwebber.me/robotics/scouting/data/.

We were lucky enough to have 6 scouters scout the first 80 of 89 qualification matches, and had time to pack up and get our data printed off.

1810 also plans on releasing our scouting system over the summer. Please email me if you or your team would be interested in contributing to the (what will be) hopefully open source project. We will make an announcement when that time comes.

Please note- Our data is weighted, then we average it out to find how many times per match. If you have questions, please email me at alexwebberdev@gmail.com.

[Ivan Helmrich]

Alex, thanks for that data. It's really interesting to see how very different design and play styles compare. We, 1775 and Gator, 5172 couldn't have built robots much more different than they were. It's fun to see where each was really strong. One takeaway from this data is that we probably put more mileage on our low bar, low goal robot than anyone else. That was a lot of traveling back and forth.

Ivan

[sdhlucny]

Like I posted earlier in the thread, 1810 has decided to release our scouting data! I have gone ahead, and posted the data, in raw .csv files, and in fancy charts and graphs (thank Tableau) on my website, at http://alexwebber.me/robotics/scouting/data/.

Wow, thanks for sharing! These are the results of great efforts made by an even greater scouting team. I've shared this with the scouts on team 5172 so they can learn from it and see where we can improve! I'm hoping they'll contact you soon for more information!

[rmmitch]

Those scouting data visuals are awesome, thank you for sharing. This is something to learn from.

Thanks to everyone at Iowa for a great experience. Thank you Daredevils and Cheese Curd Herd for accepting our alliance invite and being so great to work with. This was only our 3rd regional event and first time as an alliance captain, it is such a cool experience to team up with people from across three states and work together so well.

Unfortunately our greatest strength, our shooting mechanism which had been great all season failed at the wrong time and was not repairable in the time we had. This was a lesson learned in designing for quick fixes. Add that to the long list of things we are still learning as a team.... Not sure if we would have been able to out shoot 5172 but it would have been fun to try.