2007 Davis Sacramento Regional

Competition Regional Competitions
#132

The ranking screen did have a problem, especially if you were #1 seed. There was no real results screen except the “ticker” at the bottom. You never knew if the team above you in rank had a better W/T/L record or just more QPs. On earlier versions you could adjust the speed of the display, but that disappeared in the version used this past weekend. The other list was the upcoming matches.

It was definitely not your eyes, at least mine had the same trouble.

Did anyone else notice that they added the match # and a real time clock to the main scoring display on the big screen? They really are listening at FIRST and 4FX and we often don’t give them enough credit for what has been achieved to date in our efforts to “correct” percieved problems.

#133

Yeah it was weird. The ring scores and bonus on the screen did not add up to be the total scores at the bottom of the screen. But didn’t know what they add to it. So they added the match number?

#134

Sounds like us, 1960! Thursday was a little blurry as we had some “minor” last minute repairs to make! (they took all day).

I would like to thank all the teams that provided us with support. I constantly sent kids out begging for parts, pieces, programmers, mechanical advice and more. They NEVER came up short thanks to all the great teams at Davis! :slight_smile:

#135

Question, about the “We’ve got spirt, yes we do, we’ve got spirt, how bout you.” Chant. Is there a history / tradition behind it? I’ve never heard it before. This was also my first time in Davis though.

#136

Hehe, I dont know exactly where it came from but, if I remember correctly, my team and 955 were having those spirit fights at PNW also.:cool:

#137

I think the Fembots started it a few years back. We do it a lot at school for homecoming rallies, so I guess some of our alums decided to bring it to FIRST some years ago…

#138

Our team came up with a new one this year:

“We’ve got hats, yes we do, we’ve got hats, how bout you!” [Point at a team w/o hats] :smiley:

We totaly stumped 1359 and 995 with that one!

#139

I don’t mean to burst your bubble, well OK, yes I do. It is not new.
We did that exact chant back when I was in High School. I graduated in 1979. You do the math.:ahh:

#140

the math says…you’re as old as me!

#141

Ah yes, I remember that, I almost laughed out loud when you guys did that, I was right in the middle of that exchange.

We had our own chants, took them from the rallies back at school too:

MVRT! How do you feel!?(one asks)
We feel good! Oh we feel so good, OH!

We were more spirited than usual at this regional:D

#142

Heres my favorite:

“There aignt no flys on us,
There aint no flys on us,
there might be fly on some of you guys,
but
THERE AINT NO FLYS ON US”

… maybe thats just me

#143

We have hats! We have a hat of the same design as your’s but it’s black and has a jolly roger on it. We also gave out pirate hats as our awards.

-to team 100- message me with your mailing info and we could send you one of those awards, we tried to give it to you at the regional, but we must have forgotten. :stuck_out_tongue:

#144

No love for a “Blowing Bubbles” award? :wink:

I have to admit, most of my other team didn’t find Davis as fun as SVR, I thought it was better. Especially with 1351 and 1072 (and me) joining in on the spirit chant then switching sides randomly, plus all the dancing.

#145

It’s been in use in summer camps since the inception of summer camps.

#146

I liked Davis a lot better than SVR it was a lot friendlier and more fun environment (and we won… that helps)

#147

Ha. I do agree. Davis is more of a goofy regional therefore it’s much more fun. SVR is a bit more competitive. The dancing was incredibly fun, such as the kickline. And we randomly switched sides for the spirit chanting because we realized we were chanting against our alliance partners for the finals. Still good fun.

#148

The bar at the bottom of the screen may or may not be for the same match as the Final Score. They are independent of each other. Once the scoring table figured this out we tried to make sure they stayed the same, but sometimes we goofed or we had to go ahead and change the lower bar to get set up for the next match.

The lower bar has a “tab” on the top that indicates the match number. The number on the right of the tab indicates how many seconds are left in that portion of the match. It starts at 15 for automode and counts down to zero, when telemode starts it goes to 120 and counts down from there.

The Final Score screen reflects what went into the database for that match. It also says what match the score is for. If the scores on the bar and the Final screen are different, then check the match numbers, they should be different as well. Be sure to include the effects of any penalties as these are not included in the scoring bar but are in the Final Score.

It makes perfect sense once you understand it all.

#149

Anybody find high quality video of the finals+quater finals? The one on robotics.nasa.com is the low quality webcast feed.

#150

I’m slowly working on getting our video going, not sure of the quality (my son is new at videotaping), but should be an interesting perspective at least. I think we have all five qf1 matches, and the finals.

#151

SOAP 108 has the quarter and semi finals up there now, they are pretty good.
WE should have ours up by Friday? maybe Saturday… but those are higher quality than the ones on SOAP.