Predictions Week 2: Scaling Up the Competition

[Ginger Power]

Originally Posted by Caleb Sykes

I think the team number on your account might be wrong.

And then you watch their Reveal Video...

[Caleb Sykes]

Originally Posted by Ginger Power

And then you watch their Reveal Video...

5817 is quite impressive. However, Csmarshall appears to be on 5917. What I meant by my previous post is that I assume, since he was replying to a comment about 5817 and that he has a bench grinder as his avatar, that he incorrectly set his team number when creating his account.

[george.tan]

Thanks for the 1817 compliment, but they did lost a few mentors this year. We'll see how they'll do this year.

I do think 3005 should be on teams radar. I'm really looking forward to the elims with 148, 624 and 2468

[Citrus Dad]

OK, a write up of the AZ North Regional, but neither of the CA regionals? 4 Einstein teams at LA and 3 WC teams from the last 2 years at CVR? Who's the odd team out at CVR when the alliances form? The intrigue there alone with worth a long post...

BTW, does 254 have a new drive coach?

[PayneTrain]

Five event predictions and could have done more!

Hopefully senpai notices you

[microbuns]

Thank you for the giant writeup! I always find myself "looking forward" to this post. GTRE will be crazy!

[Rangel(kf7fdb)]

Originally Posted by Citrus Dad

OK, a write up of the AZ North Regional, but neither of the CA regionals?

Hey...

[Looking Forward]

Originally Posted by Citrus Dad

OK, a write up of the AZ North Regional, but neither of the CA regionals? 4 Einstein teams at LA and 3 WC teams from the last 2 years at CVR? Who's the odd team out at CVR when the alliances form? The intrigue there alone with worth a long post...

BTW, does 254 have a new drive coach?

As was mentioned before in the prelude to the week 0.5 post, Looking Forward is using the same format we used last year (described in this post). Featured events will be varied geographically from week to week in order to get a good spread of events from around the country. Don't worry, California will have events featured this season. There are certainly compelling story lines at the CA events, however we chose other events to feature this weekend. We felt that the AZ North regional had some exceptional depth and variety of teams. It could very well be this years' surprise powerhouse event, similar to Utah last year.

[JABot67]

Originally Posted by Looking Forward

As was mentioned before in the prelude to the week 0.5 post, Looking Forward is using the same format we used last year (described in this post). Featured events will be varied geographically from week to week in order to get a good spread of events from around the country. Don't worry, California will have events featured this season. There are certainly compelling story lines at the CA events, however we chose other events to feature this weekend.

This post is a good enough explanation for why certain events were featured and certain events were not. LF does not necessarily choose to cover events based on stuff like the presumed "wow factor" of the robots debuting.

LF does what LF wants! If other CD commentors think they can add to the predictions, they can. That's what FIM Informer, PCH Informer, CHS Platter, NEForecast, INSight, and everyone else is for!

[TheBoulderite]

Originally Posted by Looking Forward

We felt that the AZ North regional had some exceptional depth and variety of teams. It could very well be this years' surprise powerhouse event, similar to Utah last year.

I feel like it was. Some of the quarters and semis at AZN got really intense.

[PayneTrain]

Originally Posted by Citrus Dad

As I noted, CVR was one of the 3 top line events this week. Likely only SVR will exceed it in quality in California this season.

As anyone else can note, that doesn't mean that it's worthy of an in-depth look. No one is offering a lot of analysis on Alabama playing an FCS team. There were x group of good teams that are the same x number of good teams there as last year. The best one was going to be picked by the highest ranked one, and they would be favored over other pairs.

If you are really offended that a faceless textbox did not do enough ego stroking, might I suggest wrapping yourself up in the comfort of 3 divisional banners and one world champion banner? Not a lot of us can.

[Floodie Wowerz]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

If you are really offended that a faceless textbox did not do enough ego stroking, might I suggest wrapping yourself up in the comfort of 3 divisional banners and one world champion banner? Not a lot of us can.

Wow!

[Michael Corsetto]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

As anyone else can note, that doesn't mean that it's worthy of an in-depth look. No one is offering a lot of analysis on Alabama playing an FCS team. There were x group of good teams that are the same x number of good teams there as last year. The best one was going to be picked by the highest ranked one, and they would be favored over other pairs.

If you are really offended that a faceless textbox did not do enough ego stroking, might I suggest wrapping yourself up in the comfort of 3 divisional banners and one world champion banner? Not a lot of us can.

Amen!

I enjoy reading what LF has to say about the events they choose to highlight each week, as well as the week-to-week strategic breakdowns.

Just because the best team in FRC (254) is at an event doesn't mean in needs a full write up.

Plenty of great teams at every event, I'm not even sure how LF has the energy to choose featured events and still give a nods to all the other events. Lets not forget that we set a record Week 2 for most FRC events happening simultaneously. That's a lot of events to cover!

-Mike

[Citrus Dad]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

If you are really offended that a faceless textbox did not do enough ego stroking, might I suggest wrapping yourself up in the comfort of 3 divisional banners and one world champion banner? Not a lot of us can.

I'll leave this point, but this attack is completely misses my point. The depth of CVR needed particular attention. Note that I also called attention to LA which had even more quality on the field--we were not there. I won't call attention to Sac (where we are playing) because it doesn't have the same depth. So do not take this as some self serving statement. I saw a missed opportunity to highlight CALIFORNIA teams and made a statement about this.

[GDB]

A lot of teams from the AZN regional had rocker bogie drive trains, including our own team Plasma Robotics.

It was a really interesting regional and one of the more exciting ones I have been actually a part of.