Minne Mini-Regional 2016

[Chief Hedgehog]

Big Lake (9607) and Becker (4607) will be there. However, due to early dismissal today, we will not have the much needed time to help Big Lake put the final touches on GreenHorns Rivvet. So tomorrow we will need some help straight away when we get there.

Safe travels everyone - it is already getting messy out here by St Cloud!

[Jon Stratis]

If anyone from Prior Lake is looking at this thread, an FYI - the person that's in charge of managing the waitlist for the event has a full voicemail box. It's hard to get in touch with our status when we can't leave her a message!

[Doug Frisk]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

If anyone from Prior Lake is looking at this thread, an FYI - the person that's in charge of managing the waitlist for the event has a full voicemail box. It's hard to get in touch with our status when we can't leave her a message!

I'm assuming the event is still on. I'm leaving Duluth right now so I can make it to set up the field.

[BumblingBuilder]

Originally Posted by Chief Hedgehog

Big Lake (9607) and Becker (4607) will be there. However, due to early dismissal today, we will not have the much needed time to help Big Lake put the final touches on GreenHorns Rivvet. So tomorrow we will need some help straight away when we get there.

Safe travels everyone - it is already getting messy out here by St Cloud!

If there is enough KING TeC people available who can help with whatever you will need (unloading, robot work, etc), I will make sure you guys are helped. Some kids (me included) will be busy with practicing/playing in the KING TeC band at the FLL competition on the other side of the school, but there is great deal of people on our team that are not assigned a job between 7-8 am that should be able to aid you.

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

If anyone from Prior Lake is looking at this thread, an FYI - the person that's in charge of managing the waitlist for the event has a full voicemail box. It's hard to get in touch with our status when we can't leave her a message!

I have sent an email to our coaches regarding the problem. I'm hoping we can rectify this justifiably aggravating problem as soon as possible.

[Zach101]

The Daredevils will be making the trip to Prior Lake despite weather conditions. If anything develops overnight I will keep you guys informed.

[jajabinx124]

Time to make my predictions for this off-season event. (don't take these seriously, I just do them for fun)

Alliance Selection and Elims results:

1) 3883, 2052, 3184
2) 2175, 2512, 2169 F
3) 3102, 1816, 3042
4) 4536, 4607, 2509 W

[Ginger Power]

Where can I find the livestream for the event? The link posted earlier in this thread didn't seem to have it.

[BumblingBuilder]

Originally Posted by Ginger Power

Where can I find the livestream for the event? The link posted earlier in this thread didn't seem to have it.

It should be on our youtube now

[jajabinx124]

Alliance Selection:

1) 2052, 2512, 2509
2) 4198, 4536, 2823
3) 1816, 3042, 4607
4) 2667, 2169, 3633

[Golfer4646]

Originally Posted by jajabinx124

Alliance Selection:

1) 2052, 2512, 2509
2) 4198, 4536, 2823
3) 1816, 3042, 4607
4) 2667, 2169, 3633

Finals:
1) 2052, 2512, 2509 Winners
2) 4198, 4536, 2823 Finalists
3) 1816, 3042, 4607
4) 2667, 2169, 3633

[BumblingBuilder]

Thanks everyone who came!
It was a flipping success

[Chief Hedgehog]

Thanks to all that made this possible - especially 2169; you guys put on one heck of a show today!

Thanks to the NDSU Bison Robotics team for allowing Big Lake to use the 2016 GreenHorns Ri3d robot, Rivvet. With out a doubt the Big Lake team walked out of the school today fired up with their new hardware and a great appreciation for how FRC is supposed to run! They were beaming from ear to ear and could not stop talking about how they will adopt/adapt a lot of the team strategies that they learned today.

A special thank you to all of the teams in attendance for helping out this young team. There were times I walked over to Big Lake's pit and there were 4-5 teams helping them out! The students were in doubt heading into the competition, but as they found more and more success, you could see their confidence build. I have never been more proud of MN FRC teams than I am today. All around, this was one of the greatest things I have seen at a FRC competition.

Thank you all again.

[nickbrickmaster]

Thanks to all the volunteers, as well as 2169, for putting on this event. Team 3184 had a great time and got tons of drive practice in for our new members.

I think this is the first year that we've actually used our competition bot- in 2013, 14, and 15, we made an entirely new robot for the event. Due to circumstance, not preference, I assure you.

[Caleb Sykes]

4536 had a really great time at Minne Mini. I wish our alliance could have put up a better fight in the finals, but 2052, 2512, and 2509 were all very deserving of their win. Thank you to 2169 for hosting. Events like these are really important for the community.

For future reference, I believe 9 qualification matches per team to be a bit too high for a one-day, 32 team off-season event. I'm usually the one wishing that we got more matches, but 9 was a little excessive. There is really just no room for unexpected delays when that many matches are packed in. I did really appreciate the static defenses during quals though as this allowed for shorter cycle times and more matches.