Silicon Valley regional 2012

[Quijas]

10 more days.

Team 597 cant wait.

[TeamSpyder1622]

You forgot something. The winning alliance usually consists of 971 as well.
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Unfortunately the winning alliance didn't consist of 971 last year I feel like that loss was due to 254's insanely good robot and all the problem's we had with our Banebots gearboxes last year. At least 1622 is able to say the only team that ever eliminated us last year was 254!

[tzjin]

Originally Posted by James Kuszmaul

The winning alliance also usually consists of 254

Change that to a has always been, unless you count the controversy of 2008.

[Eugene Fang]

Originally Posted by tzjin

Change that to a has always been, unless you count the controversy of 2008.

254 didn't win in 2007.

[tzjin]

Sorry I just found out. But they do build a fantastic bot every year, including this. It will be fun competing against them.

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by rsisk

Dona and I will be there for our first time. Looking forward to visiting San Jose and checking out this wonderful regional we have been hearing about.

Me too, Richard! I will be helping with inspections, and I'm looking forward to being at this great regional for the first time.

Andy B.

[roystur44]

Hi Andy, Richard

If you guys haven't made plans the 971 Team would love to show you around. We can arrange tours of Google, NASA , local manufacturing facilities.

Dinner at Santana Row???

Feel free to email me

Roy

Anyone know if the matches are going to be recorded this year, and who's doing it? I know there were some problems last year with some regionals not getting recorded.

4 days!

[KevinGoneNuts]

Originally Posted by SuperNerd256

Anyone know if the matches are going to be recorded this year, and who's doing it? I know there were some problems last year with some regionals not getting recorded.

I believe Madstream will be taking care of the recordings this year.

On another note I'm really looking forward to coming down to SVR on Saturday! Should be a blast!

[aditya29]

Originally Posted by KevinGoneNuts

I believe Madstream will be taking care of the recordings this year.

Are they really? I know Eugene posted in another thread about how to set up a cheap way to record matches, but I'm not sure if the MadStream crew will post recordings of the stream later on themselves...

Either way, I'm looking forward to watching SVR through MadStream since I can't be at the event itself. Should be an extremely competitive regional as usual, looking forward to it!

[KevinGoneNuts]

Originally Posted by aditya29

Are they really? I know Eugene posted in another thread about how to set up a cheap way to record matches, but I'm not sure if the MadStream crew will post recordings of the stream later on themselves...

I'm pretty sure. I read the list of teams recording events and 604 was listed as covering SVR.

[kmehta]

Originally Posted by SuperNerd256

Anyone know if the matches are going to be recorded this year, and who's doing it?

604 will be webcasting and recording. We recommend you use MadStream to watch it.

Originally Posted by KevinGoneNuts

I believe Madstream will be taking care of the recordings this year.

MadStream is just a webcast aggregator and viewer. They don't provide the streams nor record them.


And for this event (and others), you can directly link to the stream by using this url: http://madstream.team1323.com/?sj.

[ablatner]

My biggest hope for this year is that the alliance selections don't turn into crap like last year's. It was very un-graciously un-professional.

[Randomness]

Originally Posted by ablatner

My biggest hope for this year is that the alliance selections don't turn into crap like last year's. It was very un-graciously un-professional.

You mean that you want an exciting, but fun and professional alliance selection?

In addition to high scores, close matches and a great performance by all?

[ablatner]

Originally Posted by Randomness

You mean that you want an exciting, but fun and professional alliance selection?

Of course. It's not that I mind how our team did, it's just that 4 declines and then us cheering so we would get picked when one captain was absolutely stuck was a little unsettling, to say the least. I don't know who on our team started that cheering, but it sure was embarrassing.