2009 Wisconsin Regional

[JakeC]

This is also the first time team 1535 will be going to the Wisconsin regional, and we are very excited as we will be the only team representing Canada there ! Hope to see everybody there, and GOOD LUCK!

[Joe_Widen]

I'll do my best for predictions.

Lets see, 93, 269, and 537 have been repping the Wisconsin teams very well for longer then I've been here. This year should be no different

In the past few years, we've seen the emergence of a few new contenders. 2062 CORE Robotics has had an impressive showing in 2008 and there's no doubt in my mind they will be good this year. 2194, the Fondy Fire is also a contender. They have been impressive ever since they were rookies.

Now you can't forget to mention the good ol home teams of 1732 and 1714. 1714 was regional chairman winners last year and they are sure to impress. 1732 has a competitive bot and looks to make a run into the elims like they did at MWR.

2/3 of the MWR finalists team are here. 2338 and 2039. 2338 is one tough robot and can hold their own with anyone

2/3 of the champs from MWR are here too, 1625 and 1675. Everyone's heard the hype about 1625 and they probably have the biggest bullseye on their back coming in.

2022 is coming off a great MWR too. They made it to the semi's off their solid defense and fantastic human player. No robot is safe with 20 seconds left in the game and their hp has a supercell.

1024 looks to rebound from MWR. If they are the kilobytes of the past, we know they will improve tenfold and show their form from 2008.

I'm glad to see 1816 is back too. They were part of the 2006(I think) winning alliance in Wisco, look out.

1736 Robot Casserole consistently have cool bots. Glad to see theyre making the trip too. They are definately near the top my scouting list from previous years expieriences

And everyone remember to give the 2437 Lancer Robotics a warm welcome. They are making the trip from Hawaii. They'll need all the warmth they can get getting used to the brutal Wisco winters.

I'm sure I could go on and on but here are my real predictions. After qualification matches, the seeding will look like this

1.1625
2.93
3.2062
4.1024
5.2338
6.269
7.1732
8.1259

WI should be interesting.
Good luck all teams.

//edit Bigboom beat me to some of it =]
I'm going to guess the finals will be won by the 3rd seed.

[big1boom]

I think that Winnovation will do well at this regional as well, unless something breaks.

They made it to the semi's off their solid defense and fantastic human player. No robot is safe with 20 seconds left in the game and their hp has a supercell.

Thanks for the comment.

[XaulZan11]

While Joe did a very good job providing teams to look out for, I think there are two teams that also should be mentioned: 141 and 171.

141 was a quarterfinalist at Traverse city, and was a semifinalist at Wisconsin last year. I have no idea what goes on in thier gray box, but it should be effective.

171 is the defending champ and looks to have a robot capible of doing it again.



I think Wisconsin should be very exciting. After 1625 there will be a drop off, but then there will be plenty of teams right at the next level. Should make scouting and alliance selection even more crucial, I think.

[A-train]

Originally Posted by XaulZan11

I think Wisconsin should be very exciting. After 1625 there will be a drop off, but then there will be plenty of teams right at the next level. Should make scouting and alliance selection even more crucial, I think.

I wouldn't necessarily say there will be a drop off between 1625(us) and the rest of the bots, but more of a different level of strategy. The whole entire game this year relies more on the strategy of the alliance/team. From what i hear 1732 played defense practically the whole day Thursday at MW and for the most part shut down 1114 in those practice matches. Also from what i gathered in the quarterfinals of MW the #8 alliance changed their strategy after the first match. They effectively changed it because they caused the big upset of beating 71, 1114, and 1000. Our strategy played out very well for us at MW and hopefully it will do the same at Wisconsin. I think its fair to say that every robot has its own weakness.

I also want to say look out for 2039. They improved greatly over MW and should be considered a threat. 1732, 2022, 2338 are good bots and should be watched. My opinion for the top 8:

1) 1625
2) 2039
3) 1732
4) 93
5) 171
6) 141
7) 1024
8) 2022

[XaulZan11]

Yes, that is true we played mostly defense on Thursday, but that was due to some mechancial problems (which we fixed). I would be suprised to see us play that much defense at Wisconsin, but we can if needed.

I still think you guys (1625) are a step ahead of everyone in scoring ability. I know that our robot can't compete against you guys on pure scoring speed and effectiveness. From the teams I've seen (not counting teams like 93, 171, 1736...), I don't think anyone at Wiscosin can (while midwest teams like 1114, 217, 111, 71 and maybe 135 could keep it close enough). You are correct that strategy is crucial. Knowing that we can't keep up moonrock for moonrock against you, we will need to come up with some different strategy, possibly super cells or defense.

[big1boom]

If we get the opportunity, we can hold 40+ balls, and dump in 2 seconds. Winnovation has a more accurate, and cooler looking mechanism though.

[McGurky]

1716 Will be there, and we are looking forward to seeing everyone there, and Most of all, making sure that Our robot will work!!!!!

[prometheoid]

Woooh!
Wisconsin regional was awesome last year!
Gotta say, we seeded 56th outta sixty last year, so we can go almost no place but up. Good luck to everyone, and hopefully you'll see us in the top 24!

And... at least we won't have to remove 19 lbs in three hours this year.

[Vikesrock]

I don't see anyone down in the archiving thread to record this regional. Does anyone have the capability to do this? I would be more than happy to do all the parsing if someone could record it and upload the videos somewhere I can get to them.

This would be a huge help to me as many of the teams from WI will be coming over to Northstar in Week 6.

[XaulZan11]

Originally Posted by Vikesrock

I don't see anyone down in the archiving thread to record this regional. Does anyone have the capability to do this? I would be more than happy to do all the parsing if someone could record it and upload the videos somewhere I can get to them.

I'm not sure the regional is set up to be recordable. I contacted them to see if we could record the matches for scouting purposes (and later for achiving if no one else did it) and I was told we weren't able to. I was told that there is a new set up and they couldn't even do a webcast. I wouldn't take this as gospel, though.

[McGurky]

I will be there, and I have a few parents that are willing to do some taping. We for sure wont get all of them, but It could help, We will be taping anyway for scouting purposes!! This is all obviously just if it turns out that they allow videotaping

If you need to see me, I will be in the Team 1716 Pit most of the time on thursday!!

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Team 167 is excited to attend! On behalf of the whole team, we wish everyone a fun, safe, and exciting regional, and knowing Milwaukee, I'm sure it will be. We think we'll be able to improve from previous years. I'm really looking forward to seeing all the robots!

[Kevin Kolodziej]

Originally Posted by Vikesrock

I don't see anyone down in the archiving thread to record this regional. Does anyone have the capability to do this? I would be more than happy to do all the parsing if someone could record it and upload the videos somewhere I can get to them.

This would be a huge help to me as many of the teams from WI will be coming over to Northstar in Week 6.

I will be taping the matches tomorrow for archiving, just as I've done the last two years. I wasn't sure if I would be able to, but I have to go old school with the VCR to do it this year since my computers are out of commission. Parsing may take some time, it sounds like I have some people willing to help.

[Vikesrock]

Great! Thank you!

If you do need help with parsing I will gladly do it if you can get the video digitized and put up somewhere.