VEX Robotics World Championship Webcast

[Brandon Martus]

For those of you not attending the Inaugural VEX Robotics World Championship
in Northridge, CA this weekend, you can view the webcast online courtesy of NASA.

http://robotics.nasa.gov/

You can also view up to date scoring and ranking and other event information linked
from the event page on robotevents.com or the event page on vexrobotics.com.

[Alex Dinsmoor]

Thanks for the link I will be sure to watch! Any teams that I should look for?

[Andrew Bates]

Watch for 38 VEXellent! We can't wait to compete.

[Alex Dinsmoor]

Haha, why didn't I think of you guys when I saw that. Being one of the only Michigan teams there I will back you guys 100%!

[ManicMechanic]

Does anyone have a schedule? In particular, does anyone know when the elimination rounds will be?

[fredliu168]

I believe its 2pm on Saturday

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by ManicMechanic

Does anyone have a schedule? In particular, does anyone know when the elimination rounds will be?

There's an agenda link at the Championship page:
http://www.vexrobotics.com/championship/

[lynca]

This is the most international Robotics competition I've ever seen. Props to IFI for going around the world to bring countries to a very diverse robotics competition.

Here is a team list of Championship
http://www.vexrobotics.com/champions..._Team_List.pdf

[Rick TYler]

I'm watching the opening ceremonies on the Webcast. Very professional looking so far. The flags of all those countries are an impressive display -- sort of like looking at the FLL world festival.

The Webcast quality is excellent. I wish all the FIRST Webcasts looked this good.

[bellpride]

Originally Posted by Rick TYler

The Webcast quality is excellent. I wish all the FIRST Webcasts looked this good.

Thanks NASA (Mark Leon especially)!

[fredliu168]

Wow great day of competition. IFI ran the event extremely well!

So far my prediction is doing well. The top 3 seeded teams are Canada, China, China. Canucks, the number one seed have excellent driving (I think I spot Brandon the lead driver of FRC1114 coaching) and a very good robot. However, I think if they select 1114 as their number one pick, they will fall to the very dangerous chinese 11 and 13 alliance. 11 can descore as well as score mass balls, while 13 can pick up 20 balls in autonomous. If Canucks want any chance of winning, I think they should break up this alliance.

[NoahTheBoa]

11 is amazing. I'd also like top point out that team 24 is pretty impressive as well. They can score and descore very quickly, we were playing against them in our 3rd match when we scored all three black balls and almost filled up the rest of the bridge section with balls, we went to pick up a few more balls and when we got back all three black balls and about half the other balls were gone!


Also, is anyone archiving the webcast, I would like to watch some of our matches...

[RoboMom]

Originally Posted by fredliu168

However, I think if they select 1114 as their number one pick, they will fall to the very dangerous chinese 11 and 13 alliance. 11 can descore as well as score mass balls, while 13 can pick up 20 balls in autonomous. If Canucks want any chance of winning, I think they should break up this alliance.

Oops, the Chinese teams 11 and 13 did not understand the declining part of alliance selection. There goes their plan.

[popnbrown]

woww..im watching alliance selections and they are talking in chinese...wow chinese TEAMS!!

[yongkimleng]

Hey im view from webcast, need some quick help since google failed me.. where do I find the list of all team names and their corresponding numbers? Having a hard time figuring out whos who

edit: whoops my bad, found it!

http://www.vexrobotics.com/champions..._Team_List.pdf