2007 Waterloo Regional

[Chris Sturrock]

Originally Posted by VEN

Darn, we should have copyrighted that strategy


But I bet they didn't use a 45lb dumbell

Actually, last year we stole that strategy from team 1241 who in 2005 literally took a sawzall to their arm and then strapped a 20 pound vice to the base of their robot to play some MEAN defence.

[DanDon]

Originally Posted by FreedomForce

is that on ICQ IGN ???, i wanna join

It's an AIM chat.

[Nawaid Ladak]

Originally Posted by dhoizner

It's an AIM chat.

my trillian isn't working properly, if u can, just add me to the chat, my sn is PimpPrince786

[Alex Cormier]

WOW!!

and i also thought that was you annoucing when Paul hit the field.

must just eb the canadian accent.

[Richard Wallace]

QF2-4 was one of the best matches I've seen this year. Nice balance of offense and defense, very strategic endgame. Well played by both sides.

Edit: Huh? I guess while those of us in webcast land were watching the sponsors, there must have been quite a discussion to reconcile the FMS to the actual final rack configuration. Anyone got a more complete explanation? It appears the refs spent some extra effort to get this right.

[Chris Sturrock]

WOW! after rescoring that match not once, but TWICE. The blue alliance advances to the semi's! Great job by 188 1592 and 1334. congrats to 1503 1680 and 2166 for pulling that off and moving on.

I just realized, this will be a great set of semi's, 1114, 2056, 1503, 1680, AND 2166 are all NiagaraFIRST teams!

[Rafi Ahmed]

Was there penelties?? i thought i saw a bot on 188's ramps at the end.

[Joel J]

Good lord, 1114 is fast!

[Chris Sturrock]

no. there were no penalties, but the robot was only lifted enough for the 15 point bonus, 1680, 1503, and 2166 had enough ringers to pull out the win by 1 point. the placing of that spoiler definitely made the winning decision

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Joel J.

Good lord, 1114 is fast!

Yeah! Might as well just paint that rack red right now.

[EricLeifermann]

The #1 alliance is unstoppable 2 matches in a row with a row of 5 and a row of 6! WOW!

[PatrickN]

Originally Posted by Richard

QF2-4 was one of the best matches I've seen this year. Nice balance of offense and defense, very strategic endgame. Well played by both sides.

Edit: Huh? I guess while those of us in webcast land were watching the sponsors, there must have been quite a discussion to reconcile the FMS to the actual final rack configuration. Anyone got a more complete explanation? It appears the refs spent some extra effort to get this right.

The red alliance "lost" two of their ringers in the dying seconds of the match. A ringer on the middle row was spoiled by 1503. 1592 was attempting to stop 1503 from placing that spoiler. While playing defence it appears as if they accidentally pushed a second red ringer over top of a red ringer they had already scored.

1334 was indeed ontop of 188 but apparently part of their robot was hanging off 188's platform since they only received 15 points. The initial scoring showed that red still had enough points to win. However, upon second/third/fourth look, the layout of the rack that the refs initially scored was deemed to be incorrect. The result was that blue won 28 to 27. I made a couple assumptions, but that seems to be roughly what happened.

Edit: The refs should be acknowledged for taking the time to make sure all the scoring was absolutely correct. No doubt they may have been tempted to just stick with the initial decision and keep everything going, but they took the time to ensure the correct result.

[Sam Cat]

The #1 alliance has put on the best show I've seen at a regional so far (I've attended NJ, Pittsburgh, and NYC and have watched a little of Boston and most of Waterloo on webcast). They built excellent bots and have defeated really good alliances (such as the twins' alliance). Congratulations to all of the Waterloo teams for putting on such an exciting and high-scoring regional. These elims have had it all - winning by tubes, winning by ramps, ties, spoilers, de-scoring, defense, penalties - very exciting! And the finals promises to be just as exciting with 2 such high-scoring alliances facing off!

[Freddy Schurr]

1 - 1114 2056 771 vs. 2 - 854 1305 1006

Winner of first final match.

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Freddy Schurr

1 - 1114 2056 771 vs. 2 - 854 1305 1006

Winner of first final match.

Yeah, 1114 got stuck on the rack for several seconds. First time in the eliminations that the #1 alliance failed to break 100.