NEforecast: New England District Championship

[NEforecast]

Originally Posted by Dan Petrovic

I'd like to know more about how the Chairman's predictions are made.

Hello Dan,

Thank you for bringing this question to light. While it is our goal to know as much information as possible, you are correct in that we cannot get every team's essay, or every team's video, or know about every outreach event that a team hosts. However, we do know quite a bit - several of NEforecast's team members have experience writing Chairman's Awards for their own FRC teams and in that process, they learn more about their competitors' submissions. We also get small bits of data from other sources - the judges' speeches at events about winning teams, the winning teams' videos (if presented), on team websites, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and more.

We hope this answered your question. If not, please do not hesitate to contact us again!

-NEforecast

Like they say on GameSense, we don't take ourselves too seriously, and we hope you don't either. We do it for the fun and we hope you enjoy our predictions.

[Dan Petrovic]

Thank you for the quick and detailed response. You have definitely done more research than I have on what the competing Chairman's teams have done.

Perhaps that bevy of knowledge should be shared with the rest of us so that we can all weigh in on which four teams we believe will be recognized?

[wjd13]

Ahhhh! When I first saw this post I jumped up and down shouting I was so excited, my family thinks I'm a little weird now... Great analysis, looking forward to competing for Chairmans and on the field. Good luck to everyone!

[page2067]

Originally Posted by CTbiker105

Both of these brackets would result in some of the most competitive elimination rounds New England has ever seen (although I can't imagine 2067 being left for the 24th pick in the second bracket). The hype for Saturday is real.

Yeah that what we thought last year! We would love to play again with Mayhem.

By the way - people discussing CT teams keep leaving 230 out - they are right there after 195 and 558 imo.

[PayneTrain]

Originally Posted by page2067

Yeah that what we thought last year! We would love to play again with Mayhem.

By the way - people discussing CT teams keep leaving 230 out - they are right there after 195 and 558 imo.

I don't imagine they will ever leave 1/8'' 2''x1'' out of their cart ever again (:

[prensing]

Originally Posted by Jay O'Donnell

Finals:

(1) 558-195-2877 vs (6) 319-1768-166

The alliances are fairly evenly matched, and 2877 ends up being the difference maker with some great defense and clutch shots at the end of the matches.

Boy, that would be terrific! We have the top auto scores in N.E. and have been working on improving it. Our tank tread would be good at defense.

We will see this weekend. Can't wait!

[jwfoss]

Originally Posted by Aidan Cox

This is true. For logistics reasons, 131 has decided not to attend this year's NEDCMP. As a team with more-limited resources, we simply did not perform as well as we would have liked to in our district events to warrant the use of those resources for District Champs. We had a great official season nonetheless, and very much look forward to playing with everyone at the various off-seasons.

I personally will be down there Saturday to check things out. Looking forward to some wicked crazy matches, New England style. Congrats and good luck to those competing this weekend.

-Aidan

This is a crying shame, we thought you guys had an excellent design and strategy and personally I was really hoping to get a picture of the robots that inspired our redesign next to our robot.

[who716]

My prediction:

1.195,558,3461
2.1519,133,2168
3.78,125,2877
4.230,4564,2648
5.1058,1768,228
6.177,2067,4905
7.4048,166,4909
8.319,5813,176

[Hitchhiker 42]

Originally Posted by who716

My prediction:

1.195,558,3461
2.1519,133,2168
3.78,125,2877
4.230,4564,2648
5.1058,1768,228
6.177,2067,4905
7.4048,166,4909
8.319,5813,176

I spy the winning alliance from Hartford.

[who716]

Originally Posted by Hitchhiker 42

I spy the winning alliance from Hartford.

Not just that but 195 and 3461 have two blue banners together this year

[Chris is me]

228 has a new trick or two up its sleeves for NE Champs this weekend, hopefully! I'm hoping we can build on our performance at RIDE and continue to seed high, but the level of competition here is just sky high.

One team not to overlook in this crowded field of competitors is rookie team 6153. They were instrumental to our alliance's success at RIDE and are a very reliable breaching, low goal, and defense robot.

4761 also quietly built one of their best robots ever, and are a very good team to work with. Somehow at Rhode Island they managed to fall to the second pick of the #3 alliance, but they were a top 10 robot at that event easily. They should only get better and better.

[EmileH]

I'll post my own bracket, why not.

1. 1519, 1058, 3467 W
2. 195, 133, 839 SF
3. 558, 4564, 2648 F
4. 125, 166, 4761
5. 319, 155, 2168 SF
6. 238, 228, 176
7. 177, 5687, 4909
8. 5813, 2067, 4905

3467 and 2648 are the two big steals of the draft, both with good breaching and accurate shooting that brings both alliances to the finals, but 1519's autonomous shot and 1058's climb carve out the win for #1.

/NHbias

[Skragnoth]

Originally Posted by EmileH

I'll post my own bracket, why not.

1. 1519, 1058, 3467 W
2. 195, 133, 839 SF
3. 558, 4564, 2648 F
4. 125, 166, 4761
5. 319, 133, 2168 SF
6. 238, 228, 176
7. 177, 5687, 4909
8. 5813, 2067, 4905

3467 and 2648 are the two big steals of the draft, both with good breaching and accurate shooting that brings both alliances to the finals, but 1519's autonomous shot and 1058's climb carve out the win for #1.

/NHbias

Team 133 got picked by 195 and 319? They must be really good.

[Nathan Streeter]

Originally Posted by EmileH

I'll post my own bracket, why not.

1. 1519, 1058, 3467 W
2. 195, 133, 839 SF
3. 558, 4564, 2648 F
4. 125, 166, 4761
5. 319, 133, 2168 SF
6. 238, 228, 176
7. 177, 5687, 4909
8. 5813, 2067, 4905

3467 and 2648 are the two big steals of the draft, both with good breaching and accurate shooting that brings both alliances to the finals, but 1519's autonomous shot and 1058's climb carve out the win for #1.

/NHbias

I can't say I mind the results! ;-)

You do have 133 competing on both sides of the bracket though... losing in the semi's both times. Too bad their alliances didn't both make it to the Finals for a "win-win" situation for BERT!

Edit: Skragnoth beat me to it.

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by EmileH

1. 1519, 1058, 3467

Now this an alliance I would love to see!