2008 New Jersey Regional

[DUCKIE]

Just tuning in again, anyone know the alliance pairings?

[TheOtherGuy]

103, 25, and 381 (I think) are first alliance... they lost their first match, too!

[Kevin Sevcik]

Just started a thread on that totally weird alliance wide yellow card. Discussion starts here.

[jacobhurwitz]

Originally Posted by Brian C

We noticed that team 303 was DQ'd in a match for running into the other alliances wall during hybrid mode which caused one of the opposing alliances control system to fall off the shelf.

Was this the first time this happened for this team or were there earlier warnings for the same thing?

It seems a bit harsh if it was the first time. Plus, why didn't the other team have their control system secured?

The team whose control system fell was us (#449). We later found out that, during hybrid mode, you can cross the line to retrieve your OI if it's falling, but we didn't know that then. Fortunately, all the happened was that one of our joysticks broke. We couldn't play in that match, but we had a spare and fixed it for the next match.

As for why our OI wasn't secured, I'm not so sure. I know that Velco is available, but we had treads (or something with high-friction) on the bottom of our OI and thought that that would be enough. I think we now have Velcro, though.

[pentau]

Here are the different alliances...I'm not entirely sure of the seedings:

103,381,25
1676,1089,449
108,223,102
2016,694,1279
816,708,836
486,136,2180
1980,2590,11
555,303,41

[PandaMan]

103 / 25 / 381 vs 1980 / 2590 / 11 In Finals

[Tottanka]

CONGRATULATIONS 25, 103 and 381
also 11, 1980 and 2590, good work teams!

NJ WAS AWESOME!

[SPurekar]

Congrats 25, 103 and 381! you guys played a great game!

(and thanks SOAP for Gameday)

[Tottanka]

feed died just before chairman's announcement.
Who won?

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Tottanka

feed died just before chairman's announcement.
Who won?

1676: http://www2.usfirst.org/2008comp/events/NJ/awards.html

[Billfred]

I've been watching the webcast all day, and I've been pretty impressed--props to 108 for making it happen. I'll further the congratulations to 25, 103, and 381--it takes a lot to execute as well as they did, and they delivered.

Also, congratulations are in order to 1676 on winning Chairman's. I've always had nothing but good things to say about the Pi-oneers, and it's great to see them reach the top of the mountain.

Lastly, I've got to congratulate 2458 on winning the Rookie Inspiration Award. Their kids competed with 1618's robot at Brunswick Eruption last November, and I could tell they were on to something. While things didn't quite pan out on the field for them in New Jersey, it makes me glad to see they've gotten out of the gates strong as a team.

Considering the overlap between New Jersey and Chesapeake, I guess I should be afraid. Very afraid.

[mtaman02]

I would like to thank all you teams that competed today... All of your robots were awesome. Congrats to all those who made it to the eliminations, won awards.

On behalf of the Team Queuing Team I would like to thank all the teams for cooperating with us. Your cooperation was completely appreciated. We stayed ahead of schedule all day b/c of your cooperation !

'08 This is the best Jersey Regional I have ever volunteered at and spectated since I started helping at this particular event... I can't wait for '09.

And lastly I like to thank my queuing team for getting me through this I thought for sure I was gonna mess up w/ the match flow but they were such a big help and everything

Good work to all those who Participated (In every way shape and form) & Volunteered this year and I hope to see you all at an upcoming event off-season most likely.

Good luck at Champs

P.S. I will have the elimination brackets up in a bit cause I'm bored already

[mtaman02]

Originally Posted by BRAVESaj25bd8

Is anyone watching the NJ webcast and thinks the music is STILL pretty bad? This really doesn't seem like FIRST music. Maybe it's just me?

The DJ was playing awesome music he was playing all different genres, most if not all songs were those that were recently put out. His custom mixing skills need work nevertheless played great music...

I guess you guys hear differently on the webcast compared to in person He played nothing but up beat stuff

Velcro doesn't help unless you have the strong stuff!!! There was only really one team that had velcro and it still didn't make much of a difference. I know that opponents had to dive for their controllers counteless times in 3 days whether it was caused by one team or select teams I can't tell you... The ruling isn't harsh but you have all the time and place to test your auton mode even if its just in the pit on chocks hooked up to a tether... Thats why some if not all regionals are getting practice fields so that you can test everything before getting on the field. To prevent causing un-neccessary damage. It's the teams responsibility to test everything. Thats also why we run 2 practice matches per match on thursday so that you can find the bugs and fix them. If the ref's see and note your bugs on thursday and watch for them on competition day and still see them then the team should be penalized b/c that just means the team did nothing to correct it since it was first noticed and when they were first warned. Yea there's alot going on but whats more important, losing a match over penalty points b/c you decided to just go with what you have anyway or note your bugs and find a way to correct them in the time you have to build, ship, test, practice and compete with your robot. It's as even simple as just taking the auton code completely out for reviewing and let the robot sit there for 15 secs rather then attempting an untested auton mode and risking a team / alliance dq.

[robots for life]

NJ was my first regional I ever been to it was so exciting! I saw some inconsistencies in some of the final matches. It seems like there should have been some penalties called against the alliance of 103, 25, and 381. Possibly I misunderstood the rules but it seemed as if 25 crossed and line and then backed back over it to avoid another robot, also I saw similar missed penalties throughout the finals in some of the other matches but there seemed to be more in the finals. Also I do not understand the reason for yellow carding 816's entire alliance, I believe it was alliance 2 or 3. Perhaps someone can correct me if I'm wrong or show me a link to some videos.

[Akash Rastogi]

Congrats to 103, 25, and 381.You guys obviously had the stuff to do it once again.
Also I would love to congratulate the rookie team 2590, Nemesis, who is an incredible team and moreover and incredible group of people. I know that they have a bright future ahead of them. I loved our alliance with 1980 as well, the Brigade. Good luck to all teams and we will see you in Chesapeake and Atlanta!

Thanks to 2590 for calling us up as alliance partners. We just needed a shot to prove our robot and that was all we needed. We went from 45th seed to the regional finalists!!! Just goes to show what teamwork can do.

Red, Black, and Yellow...Fear it