New Central Illinois Regional Looking Good!

[Tim Koch]

Here is a picture of the playing field taken from the top of the bleachers, when we left the Central Illinois Regional tonight after a long day of set up

[RyanShoff]

Thanks for all the hard work, Tim. Looking forward to an great rookie regional.

Remember, don't open both doors to an air lock everybody.

[kgargiulo]

Tim, Vera, and everyone else on the organizing crew - thank you for all the hard work you've done leading up to the regional.

[neshera]

Originally Posted by Tim Koch

Here is a picture of the playing field taken from the top of the bleachers, when we left the Central Illinois Regional tonight after a long day of set up

Looking good!
See you this weekend (a bunch of folks from Winnovation are coming down observe/volunteer)!

[indubitably]

Thanks for streaming on the practice day, gave me something to do haha

[Mastonevich]

The practice day live stream is really nice, YES!

[smart1]

It's nice seeing full alliances for practice matches. That's impressive.

[pwnageNick]

Where are the pits located? How is that setup looking? Can't wait to see the matches.

-Nick

[BoilerMentor]

Not sure if FIRST regional or battlebots competition...

[vhcook]

Can anyone tell me what happened in the last match/Finals-3? Ustream went belly-up toward the end of the timeout and all I know is the score.

[avanboekel]

Originally Posted by vhcook

Can anyone tell me what happened in the last match/Finals-3? Ustream went belly-up toward the end of the timeout and all I know is the score.

Alliance 1 won by 20. I think it was 112-92. 3 or 4 flipped bots in the last 2 matches.

[BoilerMentor]

Red won.

[Ryan Dognaux]

From the stands it looked like one of the referees called intentional tipping on 4296, but it must have been reversed after the match.

Incredibley rough finals matches, I haven't seen so much defense since 2007.

[BoilerMentor]

I'd mirror Ryan's comments. The play in the elimination matches was the roughest I've ever seen allowed by a head referee in my 9 years of FIRST. Some calls were definitely not being made correctly. The whole event contact inside the frame perimeter wasn't being called even with several instances of obvious damage to our bot. CIR was otherwise a strong event with great teams. I'll be curious to see how things change as we move into district play.

[1975Flyers]

So, was it rough or dirty? There is a difference.