Texas Robotics Invitational June 25th

[AllenGregoryIV]

Here is the final list of teams that signed on or before May 6th. We are going to try to include all of these teams at the event. We are still expecting to get 7 matches per team as well. Rules will be coming out this week and teams can decline attendance at that time.

TRI 2016 Roster

Spoiler for Roster:

57
148
231
418
456
457
624
1296
1477
1710
1912
2158
2582
2585
2587
2721
2789
2881
3005
3335
3366
3481
3735
3743
3847
3991
3999
4192
4295
4335
4587
4639
5052
5261
5414
5431
5566
5829
5892
5908
5986
6171

[TheBoulderite]

For those who want a summary of the elims:

1. 118-148-5414-57 SF
2. 3005-1296-5986-4335 W
3. 624-4587-457-5052 SF
4. 3481-3847-2585-5829 F
5. 456-1477-2158-2881 QF
6. 5427-5431-3735-3103 QF
7. 1710-231-3999-3335 QF
8. 2582-4639-2587-3991 QF

3481 declined 3005.

Congrats to the winning alliance, and great job to all teams that participated in this event that was very fun to watch!

[lynca]

Great event ! Congrats to Team Spectrum and Allen Gregory for putting together a top-notch summer event.

When will the elimination matches be posted on youtube ? I see the qualification matches but not eliminations. https://www.youtube.com/user/Spectrum3847/videos

[AllenGregoryIV]

The clipped matches will be up sometime next week.
Most of elems can be watched here.
https://youtu.be/J2-H_NtRbYA

Thanks to everyone that made this an awesome event, hope to see everyone back again next year.

[ahartnet]

The event ran great. Just curious - Did anyone end up using the instant replay?

The students I convinced to go to workshops also said they learned some good stuff too. I'll keep an eye out on the spectrum facebook/here for when they get posted.

[AllenGregoryIV]

Yes there was one replay it upheld the ruling that was called on the field, so nothing changed.

[wireties]

TRI 2016 was, as usual, a very well-run event. We had a blast! I think Allen and his team should put together a training manual for groups looking to host off-season events and/or districts. They are very thorough, professional and really get the hospitality side of the effort.

Thanks again and we'll be back!

[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by wireties

TRI 2016 was, as usual, a very well-run event. We had a blast! I think Allen and his team should put together a training manual for groups looking to host off-season events and/or districts. They are very thorough, professional and really get the hospitality side of the effort.

Thanks again and we'll be back!

Thank you for the compliments. We are so thrilled that teams keep coming back. We'll keep working to put on a great event and it will be even better next year.

[lynca]

Thanks for posting the youtube videos of the elimination matches !
Awesome to see 148 and 118 pair up !

https://www.youtube.com/user/Spectrum3847/videos

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

Yes there was one replay it upheld the ruling that was called on the field, so nothing changed.

Would be curious to hear more on the challenge - who asked for it, what was the call & did the team that asked for it feel better about being able to do it? We're going to run the same pilot at GRC so just curious about the details Sounds like it went well with hopefully a minor impact to the event schedule.

[AllenGregoryIV]

Working on TBA data, and getting the presentations posted, sometime tonight hopefully.

Also surveys will be going out to teams, as well as photos, etc.

If anyone lost anything or has notes about the event please get in touch with me.

[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux

Would be curious to hear more on the challenge - who asked for it, what was the call & did the team that asked for it feel better about being able to do it? We're going to run the same pilot at GRC so just curious about the details Sounds like it went well with hopefully a minor impact to the event schedule.

It wasn't fully as official as I would like and the process was odd, so I'm not going to post the full details. Mostly cause our hardware wasn't perfect. Basically a team thought they breached and weren't given the defense crossings to reflect that. We were already behind schedule so we didn't really publicize any part of it to keep the schedule moving. The breach wouldn't have changed the out come of the match anyway had the referees missed a cross so we actually shouldn't have even done the replay. (the team had lost by more than 25). I just pulled up the match videos and let the referees count the crossing as we watched. There was some confusion in letting teams know the outcome of the review as well. In the end there was one crossing missed but it wouldn't have given them the breach or the win.

I still think video replay is a needed item, had the score been different and the referees made a mistake in missing multiple crosses that cost a team an advancement to the next round, I would have felt awful if that was the way any teams left our event (or any event). The goal should always be to get the call right and in this case the refs got it mostly right on the field.

The process wasn't perfect but it helped ensure the refs made the right call and that the game was played fairly.

[ChuckDickerson]

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux

... & did the team that asked for it feel better about being able to do it? ...

Yes. (We were the team that asked for the video challenge.)

Another aspect of TRI that seemed to help was extra refs. I think there were twice as many as a regular FIRST event and the extra eyes really seemed to help.

Allen and everyone with Spectrum and all the other volunteers ran a first class event. 456 had a great time and are looking forward to next year. The event couldn't have gone any more smoothly as far as we could tell. Thanks again Allen and everyone involved for giving us such a fun weekend!

[AllenGregoryIV]

A couple people have asked about the video setup we used at TRI. I'll post a quick overview.

The basics

3 hikvision IP security cameras.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

3 Clamps
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Gopro...v&dp= 0&af=cc

1 Power over Ethernet gigabit switch
http://www.netgear.com/support/produ...gwmng#download
POE switch that I use, got it off ebay for about $100

A PC with gigabit Ethernet card, and a fast hard drive (Very fast SSD)

We open the live stream from each of the cameras in VLC then use xSplit to capture the video player windows, crop, and resize them and then stream that to YouTube. xSplits RTSP stream players is really processor inefficient for some reason, so we had to move to VLC.

[AllenGregoryIV]

Final TRI 2016 Team Update
Thank you to everyone that came out to TRI 2016. It's always fun to have so many great teams come and play robots for the day. I hope everyone had a good time and I hope to have you all back next year. Please take a moment to go through the links below to find the post event team survey, photos, videos, and more from the event.

Post TRI Survey (Help make this event even better)
http://goo.gl/forms/fAoNfNmsPfxZ21EG3

Free FRC Mentor Workshop July 8th and 9th
hosted by Scott Rippetoe(FRC#1477) and myself
please come out and join us.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16-u...-Bpjo/viewform

TRI 2016 Photos
https://goo.gl/photos/9R9JTLupE5HYCLqa7

If your team took photos you would like everyone to have you can even join the album and upload them for others to use as well.

TRI 2016 Match Video
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...ff6pk35HJXrr9n

TRI 2016 Offical Results
http://www.thebluealliance.com/event/2016txri

TRI 2016 Workshop Videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...A46UWsYp9xAj2I

TRI 2016 Team Interview Videos (More will be going up in the next week or so)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...i2TLbQUvZfIuDF
Thank you to all the teams that participated in this project.

Volunteers Needed for Texas Robot Roundup July 29th & 30th
Just a reminder that TRR needs volunteers
Sign Up Here: http://firstintexas.org/uil/volunteers/

Thank You,
Allen Gregory