2013 Razorback Regional

[CalTran]

Considering that the extra spots filled up in all of three minutes once opened, who all is ready for the new Arkansas Regional? For the amount of teams attending, I would consider it a "deep" top field. Previous World Champions, Regional Winners, Regional Finalists, and more will be in attendance.

Team 2410 is ready to attend. Are you?

[rachelholladay]

FRC 1912 Combustion will be there! We are pretty excited play especially since we have a whole Bayou Regional group going (465 Siege, 1421 Chaos, 1912 Combustion, 2080 Torobotics)

[rachelholladay]

Originally Posted by rachelholladay

FRC 1912 Combustion will be there! We are pretty excited play especially since we have a whole Bayou Regional group going (465 Siege, 1421 Chaos, 1912 Combustion, 2080 Torobotics)

*456. Gosh my typos!

[jeleser]

2080 cannot wait! We're always excited to make new friends, and as Rachel said it'll be fun to experience Razorback with some familiar faces. Hopefully we'll have a brand new stomp-routine in store for you guys!

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by jeleser

Hopefully we'll have a brand new stomp-routine in store for you guys!

Stomp routine? Having never attended Bayou regional, I'm unfamiliar with this term. I imagine it's self explanitory.

Sounds like the Bayou crowd is almost as spirited as those of us from the Midwest

[JohnSchneider]

3310 wanted to attend but alas there were no open spots.

Maybe next year!

Looks to be some great talent going to razorback, and if its as fun as the off-season was I'm sure all involved will have a blast

[Deepa]

Greetings from Team 2410!

At the upcoming Arkansas regional, we and team 3612, the Gearhogs, will be running a food drive for a local food pantry and would be very happy if your team would participate. If you could just bring five cans to the regional to take to our pit, it would be greatly appreciated. If everyone brings five cans, that's nearly three hundred cans! We will also be taking monetary donations.

Thanks for the assist! Looking Forward (Sorry, had to) to the regional!

[TheCrayButton]

Team 3528 UpNext is so excited!!! We had a few bad runs at the KC Regional but we did improve throughout the event. We did beat 1986 in one semi final match which was awesome.


We are looking forward to the great competition that will be there and we know it won't be easy.

Look out!!

[CalTran]

So, I got a little more in depth with my pre-event scouting. It's my last regional, so I figured why not. The link will take you to a google spreadsheet with previous regionals attended, team awards won, OPR/CCWM, seasonal/regional records, and average match score for both qualifications and eliminations. I'll be going back to update the spreadsheet after this weekend.

Facts and Trivia:
Razorback Regional is a first year regional. Thank you to Team 16 for making this happen!

At the time I'm writing this, there are 4 wild card possible teams. Those teams are 1730, 1912, 1939, and 3284. Interesting note, all 4 slots were earned in different ways. Engineering Inspiration, Regional Chairman's, the very FIRST wild card, and Regional winner, respectively.

The average OPR of teams attending is 24.32. Congratulations to Team 1939 for bringing the highest OPR of 58.6, and an honorable mention to Team 1421 for being just half a point behind The Kuh-Nig-Its at 58.1.

The average CCWM is 10.08. Interestingly enough, the top two OPR teams switch places for CCWM, with 1421 taking top spot with an CCWM of 44, and Team 1939 right behind them at 38.5.

Of teams that have previously competed, the average ranking at previous events is ~21. Low and behold, Team 1939 holds the title for highest previous ranking, at 2nd seed.

Seven previous regionals are represented here, with a majority of teams coming down from Greater Kansas City (eight teams), closely followed by coming over from the Bayou (six teams). Guess we just wanted to pay Team 16 back for coming to GKC so often! The other represented regionals are Hub City (one team), Lone Star (two teams), St. Louis (one team), Wisconsin (one team), and Oklahoma (two teams).

Speaking of attending previous regionals, 18 teams will be stepping foot on an official Ultimate Ascent field for the first time this season. That's 47.3% of the field having never played!

Of those 18 teams, 11 of them will be stepping on an official Ultimate Ascent field for the first time EVER. A little under a third of the field (28.9%) of the field are rookies. Let's show them they could not have pick a better FIRST regional.

For the remaining 20 teams, over half of them (11) have played in Eliminations somewhere, with 2 of them having played twice! Four teams out in Quarters, four out in Semis, a final four (16, 1421, 1929, and 3847), and one Regional Winner in 3284.


Finally, some congratulations:
Team 1912 on their Regional Chairman's Award at Bayou! You can bet we'll be sending a few students your way to take notes. I imagine your receiving of an RCA has something to do with your WFFA and Dean's List program...

Team 1730 on their 3RD(!) Engineering Inspiration Award Y'all certainly inspire us and drive us to do better.

There is a plethora of Safety Award winners in attendance, with titles being held by teams 456, 3284, and 3612.

Funnily enough, there is as much Entrepreneurship going around Arkansas as safety, with three Entrepreneurship awards, including one double winner (3847).

Congratulations to Team 1939 on receiving the very FIRST Wild card in FIRST History! I cannot think of a more deserving team than you guys, and I wish you luck at Champs!

I'll update this when Week 5 comes to an end. (Probably in a new post.)

[holygrail]

Thanks Calvin for your kind words about our wildcard win! Our team is super excited about Razorback, meeting new teams and seeing a lot of friends from KC as well!
Speaking of...I'd add that UpNext (3528) is another team to watch out for at Razorback. They improved every match in KC and were on our short-list for first pick in alliance selection. And wow, what an exciting match in their second semi-final!
For any teams that might need a helping hand at Razorback, stop by our pit (follow the Killer Rabbit) and we'll do our best to help!

P.S. Really have enjoyed reading your pre-regional posts Calvin! Awesome job!

[CalTran]

I've updated the spreadsheet with the data in after week 5. Nothing too game changing. Three teams competed in Oklahoma (2461 3160 3507). Of those three teams, both the Metal Skins and FROG robotics were outed in the Semi-Finals, and Ubotics was not selected. No new wild card slots were generated.

I added a second sheet to the spreadsheet; it simply has the FRC Spyder average winning/losing and win margin data for the 7 regionals previously attended.

A hair over a third (34.21%) of the teams attending have experienced Eliminations play this year.

Updated Averages:
Ranking: 19th (18.6 including 2nd regional for teams)
Qualification Score: 58.29
Elimination Score: 84.29

OPR: 23.54
CCWM: 9.23

If I get around to it, I might go and throw in the Qualification standard deviations. It'd be an interesting addition.

[AllenGregoryIV]

CalTran thanks for posting this data, this is a big help. Spectrum will be at Razorback this year. We're excited to represent Texas at this event. We're going to have a smaller team than usual but it'll still be a lot of fun. We know some of these teams from previous events but we can't wait to make more friends.

[CalTran]

Well, low and behold, for whatever reason, the Team List jumped up another 2 teams. Please welcome Teams 1810 and 4487. Both of these teams have previously attended a regional (Greater Kansas City and Oklahoma, respectively).

Updated Averages:
Ranking: 20.64
Qualification Score: 57.81
Elimination Score: 82.70

OPR: 22.44
CCWM: 7.65

[Joe Ross]

What's the story of qualifying match 82. Twitter data shows 90 climb points for 1421, 456, and 1939. However, it also shows 63 foul points. How many of the climb points are from climbing, and how many are from being interfered with?

[Zachary Collins]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

What's the story of qualifying match 82. Twitter data shows 90 climb points for 1421, 456, and 1939. However, it also shows 63 foul points. How many of the climb points are from climbing, and how many are from being interfered with?

Wellll I didn't see the match, but I know that 1421 is a 30 point climber and 456 and 1939 are both only 10 point climbers. So that would mean that, at a minimum, both 456 and 1939 were fouled, and the other 23 foul points came from other fouls, but 1421 may have been fouled as well. Disregarding fouls, the robots only should have had 50 climbing points, though.