Boilermaker Regional Webcast Online!

[BlackKnight135]

Originally Posted by Captain Rich

The webcasts weren't saved somewhere, were they? I would love to see what 71 created this year, and by the sounds of it, the regonal was very exciting.

I would love to have a copy of the regional I had so much fun there and I want to watch all of my teams rounds again. Congrads to all that was such an awsome finals see you all at Atlanta.

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by The Lucas

Unfortunately, now everyone is going to bug Wildstang to cut and post the videos of the Finals matches. As a children's book once said "If you give a mouse a cookie..."

Sorry guys, I tried to get it to save the stream as it was broadcast but couldn't get it to work. I didn't have a lot of time to mess with it so we didn't get the stream recorded. Maybe next time..

I'm glad the webcast worked out well. Thanks to Dr. Bot and NASA for hosting it on their servers and to the planning committee for setting up the Internet feed that we used!

[Masterfork]

check soap hq next week they should have it archived maybe

NASA was glad to help. I was watching from home and it was just amazing.

We had upto 160 people online simultanously during the finals.


FIRST is always about raising the bar for everyone. Well the darn 111 guys have set the bar pretty high for me, trying to webcast the SVR next week.
(I might be a bit distracted since I'll be insoecting and also routing for 254!) I hope we can do as good a job both webcasting and competition wise as you did in West Laffyette.


I just loved 16's corkscrew tetra grabber, and Cyber Blue, WildStang, and of course the 'Beast' put on quite a show. I'll gladly put an archive of the final four matches up if someone either sends my a tape or encodes them and puts them up for download to the NASA server. You guys may not now this, but I lived and worked in Fort Wayne, IN for 10 years, and am well familar with South Side, HS. It was like being back home again, in Indiana!


I'll look forward to seeing you at the NATs.

[Josh Hambright]

I know that Chris Noble from 1018 and also team 461 captured the whole event on hard drives, what will be done with those hard drives is anyones, guesse. So yah, i'll see if i cant get them to put them online.

[Amanda Morrison]

The event was captured by the regional digitally as it was broadcasted. We will have more information on the availablity of the material soon.

[BlackKnight135]

Originally Posted by Amanda Morrison

The event was captured by the regional digitally as it was broadcasted. We will have more information on the availablity of the material soon.

That would be great I want to show some of my family the regional.

[Masterfork]

Originally Posted by BlackKnight135

That would be great I want to show some of my family the regional.

hey what was the highest score of the regional

[dubious elise]

Originally Posted by T. Hoffman

What were the penalties for? I didn't get to watch the webcast, but I have a good idea what they were.......

The penalties were from a lot of shoving from (I believe) 93 and 135. I would love to be able to watch those matches again, you really see surprisingly little as a human player, even when you are within 3 feet of the field!

[roboticsguy1988]

Originally Posted by dubious elise

The penalties were from a lot of shoving from (I believe) 93 and 135. I would love to be able to watch those matches again, you really see surprisingly little as a human player, even when you are within 3 feet of the field!

963 was terrible at shoving robots..... they got a few penalties, but there were times when for some reason the teams the hit got the penalties instead.

Does anyone know why, i believe it was team 71, in the final matches, didn't get a penalty for going over the wall with the stack of two tetras? It hit one of our team members when it happened and barely missed our captain and a ref. I could tell the ref was mad, because he stuck his hands up and stuff. But i thought they should have been disabled there and then, and if not that the should have still got a penalty. I was surprised at that.

[AndyB]

hmm, i dont even know if there is anything in the rules that say you get a penalty for falling. Im sure it was frustrating though. Not to mention a bit scary. Im waiting for the archive to be posted myself. You know elise, if our team would have bought me a camera, lol, i could have recorded it all. Lol, jking, but anyways . . .

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by roboticsguy1988

Does anyone know why, i believe it was team 71, in the final matches, didn't get a penalty for going over the wall with the stack of two tetras? It hit one of our team members when it happened and barely missed our captain and a ref. I could tell the ref was mad, because he stuck his hands up and stuff. But i thought they should have been disabled there and then, and if not that the should have still got a penalty. I was surprised at that.

I questioned this as well. I was standing behind the blue player station, and I don't know if a team was pushing 71 or not, but their arm went over the wall with tetras in hand, and the tetras hit one of THURST's operators. The ref that was standing there didn't do much of anything, while we were yelling because we were concerned for that student's safety. If a team was pushing 71 and made them go up and over the wall, their power should have been cut. If it was just 71 going up and over, then their power should have been cut. Someone could have been seriously injured, luckily no one was.

[roboticsguy1988]

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux

I questioned this as well. I was standing behind the blue player station, and I don't know if a team was pushing 71 or not, but their arm went over the wall with tetras in hand, and the tetras hit one of THURST's operators. The ref that was standing there didn't do much of anything, while we were yelling because we were concerned for that student's safety. If a team was pushing 71 and made them go up and over the wall, their power should have been cut. If it was just 71 going up and over, then their power should have been cut. Someone could have been seriously injured, luckily no one was.

I agree, and as far as i know it was just 71. James, the person on our team who got hit by it is fine, no injury besides a bruse. I remember seeing our drivers captain step back when he seen them coming over the wall, and i also seen the ref step back and wave his arms and also wave to back up the robot. But yeah if those would have fell or even came over the wall a little differnt, someone could have got hurt a lot more. I was so surprised when they didn't get disable, nor get a penalty.

[Josh Hambright]

Originally Posted by roboticsguy1988

Does anyone know why, i believe it was team 71, in the final matches, didn't get a penalty for going over the wall with the stack of two tetras? It hit one of our team members when it happened and barely missed our captain and a ref. I could tell the ref was mad, because he stuck his hands up and stuff. But i thought they should have been disabled there and then, and if not that the should have still got a penalty. I was surprised at that.

Okay from what i heard from Paul the head ref when we asked about it, and from the general consensus from what i have heard as far as disabling robots goes this year. It is more dangerous to kill a robot over the drivers station or other people then it is to let them back out and then disable them. Due to the fact that cutting power to some robots could result in them releasing the tetras and thus possibly hurting more people. Plus in this case if i remeber correctly, the call was made off of the fact that 71 was trying to score tetras and was shoved in the process, because of the placement of field elements this year it increases the chance of teams crossing into otherwise forbidden territory because the goals are right there by the wall.
I wondered about the disabling of 71 as well, but i agree with the refs call on that one.

As a matter of fact, only 1 robot was disabled by the refs at boilermaker, and that was when 45 tipped right onto the scoring table, they were then pushed by another robot which almost resulted in amanda morrison getting an arm to the face, man the look on her face was pretty priceless We concluded it had to do with andy bakers resentment of being refered to as TechnoKittens.

[roboticsguy1988]

Originally Posted by oneangrydwarf

Okay from what i heard from Paul the head ref when we asked about it, and from the general consensus from what i have heard as far as disabling robots goes this year. It is more dangerous to kill a robot over the drivers station or other people then it is to let them back out and then disable them. Plus in this case if i remeber correctly, the call was made off of the fact that 71 was trying to score tetras and was shoved in the process, because of the placement of field elements this year it increases the chance of teams crossing into otherwise forbidden territory because the goals are right there by the wall.

As a matter of fact, only 1 robot was disabled by the refs at boilermaker, and that was when 45 tipped right onto the scoring table, they were then pushed by another robot which almost resulted in amanda morrison getting an arm to the face, man the look on her face was pretty priceless We concluded it had to do with andy bakers resentment of being refered to as TechnoKittens.

True, i can see your point. But my point is, even after they backed away they didn't get disable nor penalized. And i did not here about that other situation. I am glad to know that everyone is ok though. And yes i thought that was so hialrious when they got refeered to as the TechnoKittens