VEX Robotics World Championship Webcast

[Alex Dinsmoor]

Haha, why didn't I think of you guys when I saw that. Being one of the only Michigan teams there I will back you guys 100%!

[ManicMechanic]

Does anyone have a schedule? In particular, does anyone know when the elimination rounds will be?

[fredliu168]

I believe its 2pm on Saturday

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by ManicMechanic

Does anyone have a schedule? In particular, does anyone know when the elimination rounds will be?

There's an agenda link at the Championship page:
http://www.vexrobotics.com/championship/

[lynca]

This is the most international Robotics competition I've ever seen. Props to IFI for going around the world to bring countries to a very diverse robotics competition.

Here is a team list of Championship
http://www.vexrobotics.com/champions..._Team_List.pdf

[Rick TYler]

I'm watching the opening ceremonies on the Webcast. Very professional looking so far. The flags of all those countries are an impressive display -- sort of like looking at the FLL world festival.

The Webcast quality is excellent. I wish all the FIRST Webcasts looked this good.

[bellpride]

Originally Posted by Rick TYler

The Webcast quality is excellent. I wish all the FIRST Webcasts looked this good.

Thanks NASA (Mark Leon especially)!

[fredliu168]

Wow great day of competition. IFI ran the event extremely well!

So far my prediction is doing well. The top 3 seeded teams are Canada, China, China. Canucks, the number one seed have excellent driving (I think I spot Brandon the lead driver of FRC1114 coaching) and a very good robot. However, I think if they select 1114 as their number one pick, they will fall to the very dangerous chinese 11 and 13 alliance. 11 can descore as well as score mass balls, while 13 can pick up 20 balls in autonomous. If Canucks want any chance of winning, I think they should break up this alliance.

[NoahTheBoa]

11 is amazing. I'd also like top point out that team 24 is pretty impressive as well. They can score and descore very quickly, we were playing against them in our 3rd match when we scored all three black balls and almost filled up the rest of the bridge section with balls, we went to pick up a few more balls and when we got back all three black balls and about half the other balls were gone!


Also, is anyone archiving the webcast, I would like to watch some of our matches...

[Andrew Bates]

Ok so someone mentioned that they liked the fields being up high. The general consensus among drivers at the competition is that it is not helpful. We find it annoying that we have to duck and weave in order to get a slightly better view. Even then I still can't see what is going on in front of the robot. I'm almost 6' tall and I have trouble, now imagine how much trouble that people who are only 5' or 4' tall are having...

[ManicMechanic]

Is anyone besides me attempting to capture some of this video for posterity? We tried to record the FTC finals 2 weeks ago -- found that we could successfully capture what we were viewing, and set up for timer because the time difference meant than no one could be physically home to start the recording. Disappointingly, it didn't work, and was frustrating because we could have recorded it if we were only 1 time zone earlier and could have been at the computer during the finals.

Gone again yesterday, will return mid-late afternoon today. If we get to our home computer in time, we'll try to record the finals and will try to work with NASA on the legalities of showing the recording on YouTube.

Big IF, though. I'd hate to lose yet another fantastic opportunity due to heavy traffic or other unexpected mishaps.

If you've never recorded live feed before and want to give it a try, there's some helpful stuff at this link:

http://all-streaming-media.com/recor...dows-media.htm

Don't ask me to explain it -- my son works the video magic.

[Lowfategg]

Originally Posted by ManicMechanic

Is anyone besides me attempting to capture some of this video for posterity? We tried to record the FTC finals 2 weeks ago -- found that we could successfully capture what we were viewing, and set up for timer because the time difference meant than no one could be physically home to start the recording. Disappointingly, it didn't work, and was frustrating because we could have recorded it if we were only 1 time zone earlier and could have been at the computer during the finals.

Gone again yesterday, will return mid-late afternoon today. If we get to our home computer in time, we'll try to record the finals and will try to work with NASA on the legalities of showing the recording on YouTube.

Big IF, though. I'd hate to lose yet another fantastic opportunity due to heavy traffic or other unexpected mishaps.

If you've never recorded live feed before and want to give it a try, there's some helpful stuff at this link:

http://all-streaming-media.com/recor...dows-media.htm

Don't ask me to explain it -- my son works the video magic.

Use VLC and tell it to save the network stream as an .asf.

[RoboMom]

Originally Posted by fredliu168

However, I think if they select 1114 as their number one pick, they will fall to the very dangerous chinese 11 and 13 alliance. 11 can descore as well as score mass balls, while 13 can pick up 20 balls in autonomous. If Canucks want any chance of winning, I think they should break up this alliance.

Oops, the Chinese teams 11 and 13 did not understand the declining part of alliance selection. There goes their plan.

[popnbrown]

woww..im watching alliance selections and they are talking in chinese...wow chinese TEAMS!!

[yongkimleng]

Hey im view from webcast, need some quick help since google failed me.. where do I find the list of all team names and their corresponding numbers? Having a hard time figuring out whos who

edit: whoops my bad, found it!

http://www.vexrobotics.com/champions..._Team_List.pdf