2005 Lonestar Regional Awards, Congratulations all teams!

[Kevin Sevcik]

Autodesk Visualization was won by 364, Team Fusion

Regional WFA was the incomparable Lucien Junkin from Team 118, also known as Natchez around these parts.

[tkwetzel]

The alliance selections:

1 - 118, 231, 499
2 - 418, 456, 1621
3 - 57, 364, 660
4 - 1628, 1205, 1421
5 - 624, 695, 1477
6 - 1083, 647, 1255
7 - 1480, 457, 148
8 - 1561, 476, 1326

[dez250]

Here are the alliances (alliance captain in bold) from the webcast, if someone else wants to keep up with the bracket that i set up below feel free to.

#1) 118, 231, 499
#2) 418, 456, 1621
#3) 57, 364, 660
#4) 1628, 1205, 1421
#5) 624, 695, 1477
#6) 1083, 647, 1255
#7) 1480, 457, 148
#8) 1561, 476, 1326

Top 8 undrafted teams (as replacements):
922, 1429, 441, 1484, 1214, 434, 1460, 1296

[jgannon]

I said this in another thread, but I might as well put it here, too. If there's an alliance that can upset the top seed, it will be the fifth-seeded aliiance. 624 is going to cap the center goal in autonomous... I can see it coming. How horrible would it be if, on the last week of regionals, a team finally caps the center goal in autonomous, and then doesn't get a seat in Atlanta? Here comes the bracket buster.

[dez250]

**All this information is from the webcast so it is not offical until it is from FIRST**

Quarterfinals

Quarterfinal 1
Alliance 1 (118, 231, 499 ) vs. Alliance 8 (1561, 476, 1326)
Match 1: 42 to 34
Match 2: 85 to 0
Alliance 1 (118, 231, 499 ) Advances to Semifinals
Alliance 8 (1561, 476, 1326) Eliminated

Quarterfinal 2
Alliance 4 (1628, 1205, 1421) vs. Allaince 5 (624, 695, 1477)
Match 1: 43 to 11
Match 2: 24 to 37
Match 3: 22 to 24
Allaince 5 (624, 695, 1477) Advances to Semifinals
Alliance 4 (1628, 1205, 1421) Eliminated

Quarterfinal 3
Alliance 2 (418, 456, 1621) vs. Alliance 7 (1480, 457, 148)
Match 1: 32 to 31
Match 2: 38 to 25
Alliance 2 (418, 456, 1621) Advances to Semifinals
Alliance 7 (1480, 457, 148) Eliminated

Quarterfinal 4
Alliance 3 (57, 364, 660) vs. Alliance 6 (1083, 647, 1255)
Match 1: 13 to 31 *see note 1*
Match 2: 26 to 29
Alliance 6 (1083, 647, 1255) Advances to Semifinals
Alliance 3 (57, 364, 660) Eliminated


Semifinals

Semifinal 1 [QF1 v QF 2]
Alliance 1 (118, 231, 499 ) vs. Allaince 5 (624, 695, 1477)
Match 1: 46 to 30
Match 2: 66 to 36
Alliance 1 (118, 231, 499 ) Advances to Finals
Allaince 5 (624, 695, 1477) Eliminated

Semifinal 2 [QF3 v QF4]
Alliance 2 (418, 456, 1621) vs. Alliance 6 (1083, 647, 1255)
Match 1:44 to 13
Match 2:87 to 7
Alliance 2 (418, 456, 1621) Advances to Finals
Alliance 6 (1083, 647, 1255) Eliminated


Finals

Finals
Alliance 1 (118, 231, 499 ) vs. Alliance 2 (418, 456, 1621)
Match 1:75 to 18
Match 2:38 to 0 **See Note 2
Alliance 1 (118, 231, 499 ) are the 2005 Lonestar Regional Champions
Alliance 2 (418, 456, 1621) are Regional Finalists


Note 1: In Match QF4.1 Team 1255 was assessed a 10 point penalty for excessive ramming to Team 57 which lead to Team 57 tipping over.

Note 2: In Match Final 2, The Blue alliance had a score of 28 points but also recieved two 30 point penalties for interferance in the loading zones.

[Goobergunch]

Congratulations to teams 118, 231, and 499 on being the Lone Star Regional Champions!

Attached is the JPG bracket I generated for the regional based on the webcast and the above text bracket.

[GB330033]

Note 1: In Match QF4.1 Team 1255 was assessed a 10 point penalty for excessive ramming to Team 57 which lead to Team 57 tipping over.

Personally, I wouldn't have called it excessive, but that's just me. They were trying to cap the center, and we decided to take advantage of the casters on their front and try to spin them. They just so happened to fall over...

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In any case, congrats to 118. I'm disappointed that we never got to play a proper match against you (We lost battery power in the one that was scheduled) because it would have been fun. We wanted to see if we could trap you and your drive system with our strength, but never got the chance. Nevertheless, congratulations, and good luck at nationals.

Edit: Also, tons of thanks to team 1083 and 647 for allowing us the chance to compete with yall. Might not have made it all the way, but hey, semifinals aren't too bad!

Arms are overrated!

[FusionDude364]

Originally Posted by GB330033

Personally, I wouldn't have called it excessive, but that's just me. They were trying to cap the center, and we decided to take advantage of the casters on their front and try to spin them. They just so happened to fall over...

Personally, I would call it excessive because when they fell over it broke their arm, leaving us as the only effective capper on our alliance. 660 was able to deliver a few (1 or 2) tetras after 57 broke, but it was a definate blow to our alliance.

[Andrew Rudolph]

Thanks to 364 and 1255 We had a great time with you guys, I hope to see you next year at Houston...maybe?

[Barry Bonzack]

Congrats to all teams that attended. Thanks to team 1083 for having me along for the ride and treating me like one of the team. It was an awesome regional and I had a great time in Houston.

[Dan Richardson]

Personally, I would call it excessive because when they fell over it broke their arm, leaving us as the only effective capper on our alliance. 660 was able to deliver a few (1 or 2) tetras after 57 broke, but it was a definate blow to our alliance.

I wouldn't have called it excessive because all they did was push, not ram or anything of the sorts. Although I might be a bit biased, 1255 just tried to spin 57 away from the goal because of their casters upfront and they did fall over, they did not push high, its just the way things go.

We are sorry they broke, this never was our intention we did not mean for them to tip. But as far as being disabled in the second matchif I remember correctly 57 drove straight into a goal during the autonomous mode, and was stuck there for the rest of the match. We broke once and had a dead battery the second match ( an accidental flip flop ) in semi-finals so I can understand your pain.

They were both hard matches that could have gone either way I would like to personally thank 364, 57, and 660 for the great matches. And of course thanks to our alliance partners 647 and 1255 for being such great allies.

Great Regional

Dan

[bhweezer]

Congratulations to all of the teams that went to Lone Star, especially 118. You guys definitely had one of the most original robots I have seen and it was quite an experience competing with and against you. Overall Lone Star was great! The only thing that stuck out to me was it seemed as if the judges didn't call many of the penalties regarding the loading zones. I saw quite a few teams getting bumped around while getting tetras in the loading zones and were never penalized.

One more thanks to 660 and 57 for an awesome alliance!

[Argoth]

Originally Posted by bhweezer

Congratulations to all of the teams that went to Lone Star, especially 118. You guys definitely had one of the most original robots I have seen and it was quite an experience competing with and against you. Overall Lone Star was great! The only thing that stuck out to me was it seemed as if the judges didn't call many of the penalties regarding the loading zones. I saw quite a few teams getting bumped around while getting tetras in the loading zones and were never penalized.

One more thanks to 660 and 57 for an awesome alliance!

There should have actually been fourty points deducted from purple haze alliance in our first semi-final against them because they repeatedly rammed our bot four times when it was in the human player loading zone. The refs said it was because our human player didn't run to the robot, but with our design that would have been completly unsafe and not in accordance with the spirit of First. But, oh well. I don't think our right track could have lasted another match. The motor gave me burns on my hand because the belt that was inside the robot was far to tight and was overloading the motor. Great game ya'll though and sorry to team 57, we truly did not wish you to fall. Thanks to all our alliance members and see ya'll next year!

[Jverdon]

Originally Posted by Stud Man Dan

We are sorry they broke, this never was our intention we did not mean for them to tip. But as far as being disabled in the second matchif I remember correctly 57 drove straight into a goal during the autonomous mode, and was stuck there for the rest of the match.

They were not stuck and got out and were able to try to play defense. Unfortunitly it was not enough and we were not able to win the match with only one capper.

On the note of penalties there were not many called I think it was 118 that knocked over some tetras off the loading zone and did not get the penalty called.

Thanks to all the teams at Lone Star and we hope to see you in Atlanta.

[MasonMM]

118 did knock some tetras off the auto loader, but we were always touching the HDPE triangle making it legal to interact with the tetras on the auto loader... except for one case when a tetra we were holding bumped into another tetra that was on the auto loader while we were trying to get into a capping position, which meant we were not touching the HDPE, and the tetra we were holding was considered part of our robot, so we got the 10 point penalty that we deserved. That was our first and only penalty this season. A rule clarification our drivers had to learn the hard way.