SBPLI Regional Discussion

[Sperkowsky]

Now my thoughts

Just so everyone knows I did not compete in this event but, was there all 3 days the entire time live streaming it.

To start I was very impressed with the turnaround times compared to NYC despite there only being 15 minutes for lunch on Friday. Elims especially went very quick. Waterloo started at the same time but, SBPLI was giving away awards before 2056 lost their streak.

I was also very impressed with how they treated me as the streamer. I was given as 1080i 60FPS feed of the field along with 100MBS internet. In the end I was able to stream it in native resolution at 60FPS without any studders (Except for the stream crashing during QF-1 although that was my fault as I tried installing an OBS video plugin and was going to play all the reveal videos the teams pre-match which ended up breaking OBS).

Overall I think it was a well run event. Still probably not enough to make it our home regional next year but, Ill gladly run the livestream again.

[jreneew2]

Will the streams be archived anwhere? I checked ustream and clicked on videos, but it didn't seem to do anything. Ill checm on my desktop when I get home.

[Vale]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

To start I was very impressed with the turnaround times compared to NYC despite there only being 15 minutes for lunch on Friday. Elims especially went very quick. Waterloo started at the same time but, SBPLI was giving away awards before 2056 lost their streak.

Yeah, definitely. If I remember correctly, on Saturday, by the time of the last quals, even with a field fault happening, we were still ahead of schedule by a few minutes.

I really enjoyed the atmosphere of SBPLI. Everyone involved made the event very fun. For some odd reason, some of our scouts and I noticed that we were feeling much less exhausted than during our first regional, despite similar sleeping schedules. Actually, we may have ended up with even less sleep on a couple of those days. I personally learned a lot to develop scouting even more in the future, as well. I've gotta give props to the musical performances that happened during the event, too. They all performed swimmingly!

Thank you to all of the volunteers and organizers who made this event what it was, and congratulations to all of the teams! This game was a very interesting one to design and build for, and I was very proud of all of the work teams put into their bots! To those of y'all going to champs, I wish y'all luck! I hope you find a great and similar success.

[Mark McLeod]

Here's a video clip of Don Qixote singing "The Impossible Dream"
https://youtu.be/KBzVAOxUs_8

[Brian C]

Originally Posted by Vale

Yeah, definitely. If I remember correctly, on Saturday, by the time of the last quals, even with a field fault happening, we were still ahead of schedule by a few minutes.

2 minutes ahead to be exact. At least according to the FMS.......

[Brian C]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

Overall I think it was a well run event. Still probably not enough to make it our home regional next year but, Ill gladly run the livestream again.

Sam

Thanks for running the livestream. It was excellent! We do hope to see the Regal Eagles at SBPLI again soon.