2008 Boston Regional

[Brandon Holley]

Originally Posted by raceteen48

ok, I don't like that they put the and/or in there, they should have made it one of the others, because the way i read it, the "or" was meant for when they are stopped next to the rack putting it over and are above the rack.

but either way it doesn't make a difference, I saw the match, and 69 was coming around the turn, and 125 backed in front of them, and hyper hit them, they then were sitting still i believe, and if hyper were to have backed up they would have broken a plane and gotten a ten point penalty, they really had to keep pushing or else they would have gotten penalized for something else, idk, i guess it was just a bad call all around. it was in QF4 match 1 btw can be found here http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv...p?matchid=9738

and Congrats rosie on the award

Honestly I thought it was a legitimate call. We have a strong relationship with HYPER so right after the match we exchanged thoughts and were both fine with the way that call went. That alliance went on to win the QF anyway so no harm done, HYPER is alright in our books.

I talked to benge and he reiterated to me that a shooter has the same protection if we are moving toward the overpass. We were moving toward the overpass until HYPER hit us. Thats the way I see it.

Originally Posted by commodoredl

With shooter robots it is sometimes difficult to tell and sometimes annoying with calling the "Impeding Hurdling" penalty. I know that 578 ran into tons of problems with not getting that called on their opponents. In one match we were trying to launch and actually rammed from behind as our arm lowered to kick the ball. We only kicked it about 4 feet high because of that and no penalty was called, but we still won the match.
On a team like 125, their shooter device was located on the robot and "loaded" very slowly (I think), so a ref would have a hard time knowing if it was trying to hurdle. Some liberties would have to be taken to be fair to the shooter team, especially if they actually are in the act of hurdling without raising any sort of arm.

It takes around 4-5 seconds for us to load, but for 90% of the match we are loaded anyway. We were making sure we had a clear lane to the overpass as well as making sure we were straight on, however we were still attempting to move toward the overpass and were prohibited at doing that.


Congrats to everyone at Boston...it was an awesome event.

[raceteen48]

well, I realize that it didn't affect the outcome, but i know that in between matches our whole alliance was questioning it, I understand it now, but i would have liked a better explanation from the ref i asked rather than just "the ball has to be above the ground, that was the main problem I had

[Roger]

I want to extend a personal thank you to Rosie Robotics (team 839) for giving me a nice lunch in the garage on Friday! Roger.

[peace]

I would just like to say the Boston Regional was a wonderful experience. The venue is just great for this event and the volunteers did such a wonderful job.

The teams really came with their best stuff. Congratulations to all.

I am posting pictures of the event. I have been doing a few events for FIRST as part of my VISTA service and have learned a lot on how to photograph these events specifically, unfortunately do to the sheer amount of data collected and to provide these images in at least a minimally timely fashion, you will see the good and the bad together. I collected about 20gigs of image data total. Download time from cards to computers was about 7 hours. Anyone with high speed cpu's or motherboards to donate, we will graciously accept.

Image Gallery and Slideshow:

http://www.beaverbots.com/boston_frc/index.htm

More images later in the week.
peace

[raceteen48]

does anyone have pictures or vidoes of Team 1100 hanging from the bar? the Webcast shot is not very good.

Thanks!

[AmoryG]

Originally Posted by Daniel Brim

Also, some other thank yous to send out. Thank you to 2043 and 1699 for picking us for the elimination rounds. It's too bad that our arm broke during the third match, otherwise we could have put up more of a fight. And a thank you to the judges as well for the Delphi Driving Tomorrow's Technology award. This is the first time in the 11 year history of the NUTRONS that they have been given an award other than finalist/winner.

Yea, I was a bit disappointed when your arm broke, I loved seeing it in action, always wondering if the ball would fly out of the arena .

[Outlaw]

Hello, my name is Luke.

I was the Robocoach for Team 1995 Fatal Error at the 2008 Boston Regional.

If anyone has any pictures or videos that include my team, please send me an email at jammasta42@gmail.com. My team is trying to compile media to put into a team DVD. Please include information to be used in the video's credits.

It's not too hard to spot our team. We had black shirts with green barcodes on the front and 1995 in big letters on the back.

Thank you very much.

Luke Trombley
Team 1995
Fatal Error
2008 Drive Team
Robocoach

[David55]

Originally Posted by Outlaw

If anyone has any pictures or videos that include my team, please send me an email at jammasta42@gmail.com.

All of the matches from the Boston regional can be found on www.thebluealliance.net. Your videos can be found here.

[Roger]

Panoramic photo of the Boston regional, with the Mayor talking and the Judges ready for Blue Man Group.
(Sorry, had to brag about it here - it fell off the photos page so quickly!)

[RoboMom]

Read about the event here:
http://www.xconomy.com/2008/03/31/fi...d-really-loud/
And in the interesting trivia department, Colin Angle entertained the judges with stories about his experiences having a small role in the new movie "21". Colin plays a MIT professor who is based on our own Woodie.
http://www.xconomy.com/2008/03/28/ir...ackjack-movie/

[ZZII 527]

more cool pics courtesy of Ed Moriarty and Teams 97 / 1757 / 1916 / 2043 / 2124 / 2349:

http://web.mit.edu/first/www/BOS08/BOS08Ed.html

Scroll down for BMG / Woodie pics.

[DanTod97]

I still want a re-do.

[DanTod97]

but in more of a joking manner

[Rosiebotboss]

I'm looking for video of the award ceremony on Saturday......Specifically the Chairman's. I don't remember anything Woodie read after "....sumer camp and fun"

Thanks

[David55]

Originally Posted by Rosiebotboss

I'm looking for video of the award ceremony on Saturday......Specifically the Chairman's. I don't remember anything Woodie read after "....sumer camp and fun"

Thanks

TBA has the awards and they will be posted here.