Cow Town ThrowDown - Oct 28-29

[Treadus]

Yes, the event will be streamed again this year.
We'll post the stream details here once we have them.
Thanks!

[Alpha Beta]

Here's a list of the teams. I've included which official events they played, followed by their draft position (captain shares same position as their 1st pick) and how far that alliance went in the playoffs. Teams who saw action in the championship elimination rounds are in bold.

Some teams have new drivers, have made significant improvements to their robot, or perhaps have completely built a new one. Looking forward to what surprises everyone has in store.

525	iacf (1W)	mnmi (1W)	cars (7SF)
648	iacf (---)		
1094	mosl (2F)	ilpe (8QF)	
1108	mokc (11QF)	code (5QF)	
1444	mosl (8QF)		
1710	tnkn (3QF)	new (---)	
1723	mokc (---)	iacf (15F)	carv (---)
1730	mokc (5QF)	iacf (2F)	hop (11QF)
1763	mokc (---)		
1764	mokc (---)	iacf (---)	new (---)
1769	mokc (10SF)	hop (---)	
1775	mokc (1W)	iacf (2F)	carv (17SF)
1777	mokc (---)		
1785	mokc (4SF)	tnkn (7QF)	
1802	mokc (---)		
1806	mokc (3F)	okok (1W)	tes (2SF)
1810	mokc (15QF)	iacf (---)	
1847	mokc (---)		
1939	mokc (2QF)	ohci (---)	cars (---)
1982	mokc (---)		
1984	mokc (---)		
1985	mosl (5QF)	ohci (10QF)	
1986	mokc (1W)	tnkn (1F)	arc (1W)
1987	mokc (3F)	txlu (2QF)	cars (---)
1994	mokc (---)		
1997	mokc (7SF)		
2001	mokc (---)		
2335	mokc (---)		
2357	mokc (---)		
2410	mokc (---)	iacf (14SF)	
2560	mokc (---)		
3284	mosl (10QF)	iacf (3SF)	new (---)
3485	mokc (---)		
3528	mokc (5QF)	ilpe (4SF)	
3928	iacf (10QF)	mnmi2 (4SF)	
3937	arli (2F)	tnkn (3QF)	new (13SF)
4329	mosl (15F)	ilch (6SF)	cur (14QF)
432b	2nd Bot		
4388	azfl (---)	code (8QF)	
4455	mokc (16W)	cur (---)	
4646	ilpe (5QF)	iacf (---)	cur (---)
5006	arli (5SF)	alhu (4QF)	gal (---)
5013	mokc (---)		
5119	mokc (2QF)		
5801	mokc (9QF)	hop (---)	
5809	mokc (---)	ohci (---)	tes (---)
5918	mokc (---)		
5968	mokc (---)		
6419	ROOKIE		
6424	ROOKIE

[PopeRyanI]

The Metal Mustangs can hardly wait for the competition just two days away. We are be trying out our state of the art system for aligning our robot:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/pY...6-h638-rw?.jpg

[Alpha Beta]

Originally Posted by PopeRyanI

The Metal Mustangs can hardly wait for the competition just two days away. We are be trying out our state of the art system for aligning our robot:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/pY...6-h638-rw?.jpg

I got a 403 error when I tried to follow this link.

[PopeRyanI]

Originally Posted by Alpha Beta

I got a 403 error when I tried to follow this link.

Okay. Apparently that link only works for my Google Drive because I also got a 403 when I logged out of it. This should work:



Our camera feed appears behind the tape when driving. Lining up that reticle with the high goals is more consistent than we expected.

[Alpha Beta]

Originally Posted by PopeRyanI

Our camera feed appears behind the tape when driving. Lining up that reticle with the high goals is more consistent than we expected.

Fantastic. In 2012 we taped a piece of carpet fiber to our screen to aim the basketballs. It was meant to be a temporary fix, but it ended up sticking around for 2 regional wins before we finally switched to a digitally drawn line for champs that year.

Can't wait to see the improved shooting accuracy. Good luck this weekend.

[bstew]

I am really excited for CowTown! Over the past month or so an couple of teammates and I did a bit* of prescouting. I am excited to show some of that data here.

For each team, we watched match video (around 5-15 matches per team) and recoded notes, their defense capabilities and tortugas, autonomous capabilty, goal capability, endgame capability as well as their drivetrain, shooter and other notes. We also recorded statistics such as season WLT, OPR, CCWM and rank at their last regional.

Graphs of the data are available below.











(Part 1 of 2)

[bstew]

Pictures are also available here if you cannot view them in post.

Of course, we were only able to see what was shown on video in matches, so what was never recorded or has been changed since a team's last recorded event is not possible to tell.

If you have any graph that you would like to see or any questions, please ask or stop by 3928's pit on Friday or Saturday. We would be glad to help.

A big thanks to thebluealliance.com, frctracker.com, chiefdelphi.com, and 2834's Database.

Hope to see you all on Friday and Saturday!

*"a bit" would not be accurate to the amount of time and energy I spent on this project. I would not reccomend it to anyone. On the plus side, I know pretty much every robot pretty well.

(Part 2 of 2)

[PopeRyanI]

Originally Posted by Alpha Beta

Fantastic. In 2012 we taped a piece of carpet fiber to our screen to aim the basketballs. It was meant to be a temporary fix, but it ended up sticking around for 2 regional wins before we finally switched to a digitally drawn line for champs that year.

Can't wait to see the improved shooting accuracy. Good luck this weekend.

Wow! This fix was also meant to be temporary, but it worked well enough that we just decided to keep it. We hope it will work well in competition as things don't always transfer perfectly from practice to competition though.

Good luck to you too, although Team Titanium definitely does not need any luck.

[pts211]

LIVE STREAM DETAILS

Hey all,
I'm one of the guys running the live media at the event and am getting the live stream ready to go. Here' the link:

2016 CTTD Live Stream

If all of our setup goes well then the stream will start at 4:30pm for practice matches, otherwise hang in there and we'll have it going as soon as we can

[Bkeeneykid]

Originally Posted by pts211

LIVE STREAM DETAILS

Hey all,
I'm one of the guys running the live media at the event and am getting the live stream ready to go. Here' the link:

2016 CTTD Live Stream

If all of our setup goes well then the stream will start at 4:30pm for practice matches, otherwise hang in there and we'll have it going as soon as we can

Great! Will it be the same stream for both days? I know many like to change the URL for the second day of the competition.

[Alpha Beta]

Originally Posted by pts211

LIVE STREAM DETAILS

Hey all,
I'm one of the guys running the live media at the event and am getting the live stream ready to go. Here' the link:

2016 CTTD Live Stream

If all of our setup goes well then the stream will start at 4:30pm for practice matches, otherwise hang in there and we'll have it going as soon as we can

Thank you so much for streaming this event. Are there any plans to upload individual matches to YouTube?

[pts211]

Hey - yes, currently it will be the same stream both days. If that changes I'll post an update.

I'm going to try to get individual matches recorded but I can't promise anything just yet!

Also as an update, the stream will be up a little bit later for qualification matches but might not be until then. I'll update once it's going.

[pts211]

The stream's live! (link a few posts above)

[mott]

Originally Posted by pts211

The stream's live! (link a few posts above)

Paul, The stream is looking good here in Colorado! Could probably be zoomed in just a bit more (seeing some dead space on the right side of the field but quality and consistency is great so far.


Wish we could have made it out there this year but things didn't work out for us.

Good Luck to all the competitors!