Lonestar Regional 2010

[gibbyrawr]

Hey everyone,

Who is going to Lonestar this year? and is anyone submitting Chairman's here? or at Dallas?

[rsegrest]

Team 2582 Lufkin PantherBots will be at LoneStar again in 2010!

[Pjohn1959]

Team KAOS will be at Lone Star and Dallas. Haven't decided yet where we will present.

[EgROS]

Team 624 will be at Lonestar and St. Louis and is planning to enter a Chairman's submission at Lonestar.

[vansivallab]

Team 2583 will be going.

[TubaMorg]

We will be there, of course, because it is only 5 minutes away from the school. This is the week people, let's get ready to compete!

[Kris Verdeyen]

Lone star this year will have 66 teams, all but one from Texas. The lone exception is Team Combustion, 1912 from Louisiana, winners of this year's Bayou regional chairman's award, and top seed at that regional.

[TubaMorg]

We look forward to your excellent MC work as usual again this year Kris!

[lynca]

Originally Posted by Kris Verdeyen

Lone star this year will have 66 teams, all but one from Texas. The lone exception is Team Combustion, 1912 from Louisiana, winners of this year's Bayou regional chairman's award, and top seed at that regional.

Only two years ago,
Texas had 46 teams
1 regional

in 2010 ,
Texas has 104 teams,
2 regionals

in 2011
Most likely >130 teams ,
3 regionals (Central Texas ? )

Everything is getting bigger in Texas. Looking forward to Lone Star !
We have had some great history ! http://houston.txfirst.org/node/9

[Andrew Schuetze]

Just to avoid wild speculation regarding the proposed 3rd FRC event in Texas in the Central Texas Region let me inform everyone about the following.

UT - San Antonio has announced that they have put in a bid for hosting this event. I suspect that FIRST will announce this as a site at the World Championship event as they typically announce new tournament sites during that time. UTSA staff attended the Dallas Regional tournament and will also attend the Lone Star tournament this week.

To add to Andrew L's post let me include the following FTC numbers:
2007 17 teams one Championship tournament
2008 53 teams two Championship tournaments
2009 84 teams two Championship tournaments

The potential of the Texas Workforce Commission grants of adding many more FTC teams, we are going to need to develop a system of qualifier events to feed into the Championship tournaments. Please contact myself or the UT-Arlington based affiliate partner if you are interested in creating a FTC team or possibly hosting a FTC qualifier event.

Somebody else will have to post regarding the growth of FLL. Currently 4 championship tournaments with xxx number of teams in each.

[James Tonthat]

Team 1477, Texas Torque, is excited and looking forward to being at the Lone Star Regional.

[lynca]

Here is an unofficial scouting list based of videos & scoring. Some of these rankings are based on team history. Teams that have not played yet are obviously at a disadvantage on this list.

2010 LSR - Predicted Rankings
1. 148 - Robwranglers - undefeated at Dallas
2. 704 - Warriors - finalist at Dallas
3. 1912 - Combustion - # 1 seed at Bayou
4. 118 - Robonauts - Semi finalist at Florida
5. 624 - CRyptonite - Semi finalist at St. Louis
6. 1429 - Kaos - Finalist at Dallas, 2 point autonomous
7. 2587 - DiscoBots - #3 Seed at Bayou
8. 1477 - Texas Torque - Semi Finalist at Bayou
9. 231 - High Voltage - 1st pick at Bayou
10. 57 - Leopards - Semi Finalist at Dallas
11. 418 - Purple Haze - QF at Dallas
12. 2936 - Gatorzillas - Dallas Regional
13. 2158 - AusTin Cans - Blackout - Good hanger
14. 2468 - Appreciate - Huge group of top-notch mentors
15. 2881 - Lady Cans - Kicker
16. 441 - DevilDogs - Hanger with good drivetrain
17. 1865 - YES - Good Drivetrain
18. 1480 - Robatos Locos - previous year experiences with mecanum
19. 1801 - Dapper Dans - Strong robot in previous years
20. 647 - CyberWolves
21. 2789 - Titans
22. 2585 - scitobors
23. 2276 - Cypress STARS
24. 3103 - Iron Plaid
25. 2582 - Pantherbots
26. 2072 - Cybernauts
27. 2745 - Metrobotics
28. 2880 - Finger Puppet Mafia
29. 2956 - E-steam Eagles
30. 1484 - Hoggzilla

Please offer suggestions or comments to the LSR Scouting predictions.

[TubaMorg]

Pretty good estimations I think Andrew. Of course that just rounds out the top 50%, but it's a good start. It's going to be fun the next few days!

[lynca]

I would love to see how the other 36 teams rank but I don't know enough information to rank those teams yet.

We will just have to wait until tomorrow !

Here is another list with no particular order ,

Top 10 Chairman's Teams:
(that will be submitting)
118 - Robonauts
418 - LASA
441 - Reagan Robotics
624 - CRyptonite
922 - ULTIMATE
1429 - Kaos
1477 - Texas Torque
2158 - AusTin Cans
2468 - Appreciate
2587 - DiscoBots

[TubaMorg]

Originally Posted by lynca

I would love to see how the other 36 teams rank but I don't know enough information to rank those teams yet.

We will just have to wait until tomorrow !

Here is another list with no particular order ,

Top 10 Chairman's Teams:
(that will be submitting)
118 - Robonauts
418 - LASA
441 - Reagan Robotics
624 - CRyptonite
922 - ULTIMATE
1429 - Kaos
1477 - Texas Torque
2158 - AusTin Cans
2468 - Appreciate
2587 - DiscoBots

I dunno Andrew...don't you think ascending by team number is an order?