to second Alex, i want to thank everyone who helped us get so far. thanks to 176 and 1124 who did an awesome job!
Go UTC teams!
I’d like to second that and congratulate team 177, team 176 (our sister team, go Hamilton SundStrand), and team 1124 on their win.
Also team 236 on Chairmans award and team 178 on Engineering Inspiration 
Good job teams 176, 177, and 1024, hope to see you at Nationals.
Congrats to teams 176, 177, and 1124, awesome matches today!
What was everyones favourite match? I really like that time Team 20 was on its side and scored as the third bot on the ramp for Blue, and the match where all six got onto the ramps.
I liked the convention center a lot… and I know we had people walking in off the streets to watch (Had someone ask me to explain the game to them).
Noticed the lights above the field were off today, was that to help with the camera? If so, thanks… it helped.
I have just found an instance where the live scoring / crew counters / score keepers had an incorrect score at UTC. In this round, there was an obvious 10 Pt’s scored in the lower goal, and the live scoring agreed. The alliance that scored these 10 Pt’s received the 10 point bonus, giving them 20 points. At the end of the match in discussion, there were 2 robots from this alliance clearly on the ramp. There were NO penalties, yet the alliance received a score of 26 points which is physically impossible (with what was scored). Also, balls where scored in the one point goals throughout the match with at least one shot in the center goal, yet in the end the alliance received a score of 26 instead of what they actually got.
I looked it over again and it seems as if the other alliance was given the score that rightfully belonged to the alliance in question…
Did anyone get video of the QF’s at UTC?
Considering we got knocked out on that match, I didn’t really care for it 
Great job 177, 176, and 1124! You were an amazing alliance and you worked extremely well together - congratulations on a fantastic win. Thanks to 126 and 20 for picking us - we were thrilled to be with you and look forward to working with you in future competitions.
Thanks to everyone who made the regional possible - I know my team had a blast and I’m pretty sure most other teams did too.
Yeah, I had to feel for your alliance, you guys got ‘pwnt’ there, but it was an exellent peice of, I guess you could call it ‘strategy’ by blue.
That was my first regional, and I must say, I had a load of fun!
After seeing this regional, I think that the higher-ups at FIRST over estimated how much banging around the bumpers would compensate for when making and enforcing the rules. After that last match we spent about half an hour banging on our robot trying to return it to something close to its original shape, and we’re a team with 15 years of FIRST experience and a very solid chassis. There are rookie teams that given that 2 on 1 type of abuse would have been left as a pile of bolts on the field, and that really isn’t what the game is about.
On a side note I don’t think playing “Na-Na-Nahh-Na, Na-Na-Nahh-Na, Hey, Hey, Hey…Goodbye” with a large portion of the audience singing along and waving their hands after a team is eliminated from the competition is really part of what FIRST is all about either, and that happened multiple times today.
-Brendan
While “Na-Na-Nahh-Na, Na-Na-Nahh-Na, Hey, Hey, Hey…Goodbye” was not played when we lost in the final match, I definately felt for teams who had just been elimated when it was played. It is not a “gracious” choice of songs at that particular moment. I’m not sure who chooses the music, but this should definately not happen.
On a more postitive note, we had a great time in our first visit to UTC. Very nice venue and very good teams.
Congrats to 177, 176, & 1124, and especially the Ticks for Chairmans!!!
Thanks to 181 for picking us!!!
We hope to see many of you in Atlanta.
Thanks a lot Scott. I have to say that enjoyed UTC as well. I think one of the funnier parts was the mascot dance.
Kudos to the winning allience of Ace’s High, Bobcats, and the Uberbots. You guys had some pretty amazing chemistry working.
The 230 alliance was with the Ticks I belive, that was an awesome dance!
Funny, because I just heard a very, very similar story about a match… Nothing can be done about it now, so I’m not about to worry about it
I have noticed the same thing with the scoring in the instance stated above…I have also heard something about a scoring mix up. In the second qualifying match of the Alliance #3 vs Alliance #6 round the scores were switched…giving alliance 6 a win instead of the second loss which they recieved. I do not know whether this is tru or not. I would really like a ref who might know anything about this to please post because the scoring needs to be fixed. they have done a very poor job of the scoring (from what I have seen at UTC) and I want to make sure that it is fixed for the rest of the regionals so that this doesnt happen to anyone else…please if anyone has anything on this say something!!
I was talking about QF match 4-2.
181, 358, and 558 vs 195, 236, and 230
181’s alliance was given the 35 and 195’s alliance was given the 26.
UTC Scorekeeper here, the scores that were entered were verified by the refs and myself. In fact, during the finals, the real timer scorers and the automatic sensors were dead on a majority of the time. There wasn’t a finals match that people were given the wrong points and having the wrong alliance lose.
That confuses me then, because in QF 4.2, it was not possible to get a 26 with what our alliance had done. Win autonomous with 10 balls entered in the corner goal, and two robots on the ramp. That would give our alliance a minimum of 30 points, and more points where scored during the match in the corner and center goal. I don’t know exactly what happened, but something did.
During the finals, it seemed to me that there were a large number of scores that made no sense. In general, the teams who won were the teams who should have won, but the scores seemed very off from what they should have been. I think that the live scoring needs to be fixed, because as a driver, I know that I use it to try and tell who is winning to plan what I should do.
I agree…I know there is nothing that anyone can do about it now but I would like to see the confusion cleared up so that people arent looking at the scores saying “how is that possible”
In QF match 4-2 there was a penalty that was not recorded on the screen when the score was shown
The score was:
181’s 35 and 195’s 36 with a 10 point penalty making it 26
The penalty was on 236 for “excessive ramming in user control mode”
in the match before
236 got an almost identical pentaly they got 5 point penalty for ramming in auto mode.
The first penalty showed on the score board, but the second one didn’t. 195 alliance would have won both matches had there been no penalties. Guess we need to be a little more gentle
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