2005 Waterloo Regional - Feedback!

[neilsonster]

Originally Posted by Yan Wang

Does anyone have any videos of Waterloo that are online? I really want to see what's been going on north of the border. Congrats on what sounded like an awesome FIRST competition.

I have just uploaded a video I took to our website's server. Get it here (41 MB). It's from our (772/188/1503 vs 758/1114/843) second quarter final match. Okay, first of all I took the video with a digital camera so the quality isn't great, and secondly I was really excited! My hands were shaking and there are a few times where I start cheering and jumping around . I'll try to get all of my pictures from the regional on the website (edit) soon as well.

Edit: Instead of updating the media gallery I got two more videos on there from Waterloo
One is the final match between the first and second alliance:
http://qetuodesigns.com/sr/media/vid...erloo_F1-2.wmv (11 MB)

This is a qualifying match where you see some defensive play from 781:
http://qetuodesigns.com/sr/media/vid...terloo_Q17.wmv (7 MB). Edit again: I just realized that in this match 781 gets disqualified and has a 10 point penalty for high-speed ramming us at the end. So... maybe it isnt defensive play that you want to model .

-Regarding the regional, what struck me the most was how well organized it was. The regional planning committee, judges, and referees did a fantastic job.

-I totally agree that the defensive strategies were huge at this regional. 781, 1084, and 1558 were the consistent and (mostly) law-abiding defenders. But in the elimination rounds 1241 stole the show when they removed their arm and went into low-CG/high-torque mode. I can honestly say the winners of the regional would have been different had 1241 not defended so well throughout all four of their matches.

-The music I liked mainly because it isn't the same as every other regional!!! It was actually different! That's right! The only complaint I had was that the songs were looped during the awards ceremony .