Florida Regional 2007

[Tom Bottiglieri]

79 and 1902 seem to be the power houses. Should be an exciting eliminations.

[KatiePendock]

Wow, that was fun to watch the competition today on the webcast! Which bot had it's arm taken out? I missed the number of it...

Looking great everyone! Tomorrow's gonna be awesome, and I think I'll actually wake up before noon because FIRST is just that exciting! ^_^

[Kristian Calhoun]

Congrats to the following teams on their award wins! :

1902 - Imagery
56 - Innovation in Control
386 - Creativity
69 - Delphi's Driving Tomorrow's Technology
342 - Entrepreneurship
1270 - Judges' Award
1065 - Website (Way to go Michelle and the rest of the webteam! )
Warren Boudreaux - WFA

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

79 and 1902 seem to be the power houses. Should be an exciting eliminations.

179 is also doing pretty well from the few matches I've been able to watch. They seem to be able to score 3-4 a match, then get back to deploy their ramps.
1902s biggest advantage is the keepers I think (they have had the most impressive autonomous I've seen at UCF), but they are getting harassed a lot during driver control. When left alone they are brutal.
I think 79 became the first team to remove a spoiler as well.

From what I heard about practice day, 233 seemed impressive when they took the field (granted, this is all second hand knowledge). I missed their matches today though, and they missed several this morning.

[PandaMan]

They did go out once today (around 3:00ish), but it looked like they were having some problems with their arm.

[BoyWithCape195]

I saw pink compete in two matches today. In one of them they scored about 2 to 3 tubes and in the second match I saw a tube got stuck on their flag in auto. and they could not get it off.

[akshar]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

From what I heard about practice day, 233 seemed impressive when they took the field (granted, this is all second hand knowledge). I missed their matches today though, and they missed several this morning.

the match i saw,right after lunch, 233 was pretty much shut down by 744, they were able to get one or two ringers on i think, and then were simply pushed around

[Ryan Albright]

Congratulations to all teams. I was there all day Saturday and I am saw some good robots. Good to see old friends to. Unfortunately being an adult is no fun and I had to work all day and couldn’t see any matches. Its sad to here about 233's robot, they always have a strong robot I hope they can get it working. 79 has an impressive robot, but they always do.

On a different note. The stuff I am hearing about next years regional is really exciting and I can’t wait to start volunteering again.

Good luck to all teams tomorrow hopefully I can stop by after I get off work.
I am the person wearing the "vintage" (as someone put it on Thursday) PAW 710 shirt.

[bjimster1]

This is the transcript of the matches that our scout was able to compile. It has a few matches missing around lunch and it dosn't have the first one. Also, if there are any inaccuracies, please post them. Enjoy.

[Swampdude]

Here's my update:
yes 79 is awesome. I haven't seen a lot of matches, but our scouting has them as best scorer. 1902, 179, 56, 1523 are all averaging 4+ per match. there are another 7 or so 2-3 cappers. Then you have about 6 good ramps - 312, 180, 179, 1345, 69, 86. But another 12 or so that don't work. We've tried to climb 2 ramps today that didn't work. Our I/R sensor we use for autonomous won't work in the halogen lights. We score every single time at the practice field. But it refuses to work on the playing field. So frustrating.... 386, and 1902 have great autonomous. It think there might be more, but I haven't seen them. Pinks arm was tearing itself apart, but they had somone rush new parts to them and got back up and running. I guarantee they will be in finals and do very well. They were just unlucky with 744 chasing them their 1 match today, and no other partners. We're still seeing repetitive match alliances. We've got quite a few w/ and against 665 and 435. But I've seen much worse, I think 1902 had 5 or 6 matches against 1 team (glad it wasn't us). We've had bad luck with pairings etc. but hopefully we can get in a good alliance in the end. It's going to be a rough set of finals in Florida, ramps and ringers everywhere, don't miss it!
As far as the 3 on 1's, I can tell you that our inspection took over an HOUR! I can't fathom how they planned to get 51 inspections done with that level of detail. It was brutal..... What they were doing measuring bots on the field and such, I don't know. Maybe they finaly backed off on the inspection requirements to get the bulk through and then followed up on the field. I know this morning they still had 28 inspections to go....

[Aeolus]

Yeah, our arm was experiencing some unexpected/unwanted problems right after our first qualifying match on thursday. Essentially, the outer tower was being crunched in from rotating it, due to the inertia of the manipulator once the tower stopped moving (its a bit heavier than we expected...). Finally, after lunch today, we were able to fix it so we should running well tomorrow. Drivers are starting to get the hang of it as well. As a side note, thanks to all the teams out there that offered to help throughout the morning while we were working to get our bot up and running! See y'all tomorrow and good luck!

[Winged Wonder]

Brenton (above) pretty much summed up everything about our little robot issues. Worry not, tomorrow we should be back in business, with legal bumpers and fitting within the 72 inch box or whatever and all of this other nonsense that occured. It might just be me, but it seems like the judges like to judge us hard because we're a veteran team.

On another note, whats up with the ref sometimes removing a keeper from a robot and sometimes not? In one match we got the keeper hung up on the flag from our robot after autonomous period had ended... I thought they had to remove it at the end of autonomous, because I had seen that at a webcast from last week. But I didn't see it happen at UCF so I figured the rule had changed... but no, because a few hours later, I saw a ref run onto the field after autonomous and remove a keeper from a robot. I'm not yelling at the refs or anything... I'd just like to know what's up?

Oh, and no more tinted safety glasses? I knew the reflective ones that are dark like sunglasses were illegal (someone on my team got yelled at for them on Thursday) but today a lot of us were yelled at because our lenses are tinted pink. If I recall correctly, the rule only states that the dark ones arent allowed, but the tinted ones are ok. So why the rule change? Its rather inconvenient, since our team already spent a ton of money to buy enough safety glasses so that everyone on the team would have some. If they were going to change things, this would have been nice to know at Kickoff. But thats just me.

Good luck to everyone tomorrow!

[lukevanoort]

Originally Posted by Winged Wonder

Oh, and no more tinted safety glasses? I knew the reflective ones that are dark like sunglasses were illegal (someone on my team got yelled at for them on Thursday) but today a lot of us were yelled at because our lenses are tinted pink. If I recall correctly, the rule only states that the dark ones arent allowed, but the tinted ones are ok. So why the rule change? Its rather inconvenient, since our team already spent a ton of money to buy enough safety glasses so that everyone on the team would have some. If they were going to change things, this would have been nice to know at Kickoff. But thats just me.

From Team update #5

Originally Posted by Team Update #5

FIRST requires all teams to bring and supply, for each competition, ANSI approved
non-shaded safety glasses for its team members, mentors, and guests.
For our purposes, amber lenses that allow for better/brighter vision are considered
tinted, not shaded, and their use is allowed at FIRST events. Sunglasses or deeply
shaded safety glasses used in our indoor event environment are not acceptable.

Depending on how you interpret this, specifically the last sentence, it can either make the pink safety glasses legal or illegal. The amber bit suggest that they'd be illegal due to them being neither clear nor amber, but the last sentence suggest they'd be legal because it is not a dark shading, unfortunately it is not clear which is the correct interpretation. Personally, I'd lean towards the illegal bit, since there is a very noticeable improvement in vision when using amber safety glasses esp. in low light condiditons, I can't imagine pink safety glasses offer the same benefits. (although I've never worn pink safety glasses)

[Duke_of_Hazard]

Originally Posted by akshar

the match i saw,right after lunch, 233 was pretty much shut down by 744, they were able to get one or two ringers on i think, and then were simply pushed around

i heard through the grapevine that 744 changed their wheels to face us. made me feel a little better

[IdyllsOfLife]

Depending on how you interpret this, specifically the last sentence, it can either make the pink safety glasses legal or illegal. The amber bit suggest that they'd be illegal due to them being neither clear nor amber, but the last sentence suggest they'd be legal because it is not a dark shading, unfortunately it is not clear which is the correct interpretation. Personally, I'd lean towards the illegal bit, since there is a very noticeable improvement in vision when using amber safety glasses esp. in low light condiditons, I can't imagine pink safety glasses offer the same benefits. (although I've never worn pink safety glasses)

You can see just fine. Your world just turns a different color. Seeing in pink is how it should be!