That was easily the most stressful and the most intense 20 minutes of my life.
648 et al: You play hard. You earned our spot as much as we did.
Wildstang et al: Many thanks. Couldn’t have done it without you.
(If you look in the webcast, I’m the skinny white kid in the blue labcoat in 904’s station.)
EDIT:
And thank you to a very important team: 71 for lending us a battery at the end.
FRC 648 was awesome in autonomous mode! Well done!
The only robot I saw score in autonomous mode during 2 regionals.
This happened during the opening autonomous mode in the 3rd Match of a marathon, 5 match Midwest Regional Final.
Team Roboto 447 would like to thank 1000 and 648 for an awesome runner-up alliance.
Congrats to 111 and the remainder of the Winning Midwest Alliance.
Congrats to 71 on your Chairmans award.
Does anyone have video of the rest of the finals from the Mid-West regional? Particularity looking for the semi-final matches with 501 and 71.
Thanks,
Justin
It’s coming. It takes a decent amount of work to parse up the video of the matches and recompress them for download, though. I would have liked to get it all done yesterday but I had to spend most of the day catching up on all the other stuff that I’ve been ignoring to do FIRST 
I’m hoping that by the end of the week I’ll have all of my video footage downloaded to my computer and then I can upload anything that pertains to 71 or 501 to the internet somewhere. I don’t have much, though, only the semifinals.
we were getting pushed around so much that we need to make johnny pull some starcraft awsomeness on teh feild. but congrats to everyone and thank you for everything! i had a blast at midwest and ya’ll are craaaazy when it copmes to cheering!
and adrian, if i make teh dress your wearing it to natin… i mean championships!
and wowza :ahh: will we need to do repairs on Lola come atlanta… some teams were vicious. … yep there be my 2 cents
now off to fundraise like crazy
Hope to see ya down there in Atlanta. (Maybe our pits will be next to eachother again!) Weren’t you guys like in at least 4 of our matches, either with or against us, in addition to the ones up at the Wisconsin Regional? You guys had a solid machine, no doubt about it, especially that holonomic drive. It was a pleasure playing with y’all through all those matches.
MWR was a ton of fun. 1243 and 1781 were great partners, although we lost in the semifinals. If only 1243’s arm didn’t break in the 2nd semi final match, because we had a great plan to beat Wildstang. Anyway, next stop is Atlanta!
Yeah, sorry about the failure. What happened was that the master link came out of the 1st reduction drive chain for the arm. It was fine all through GLR and MWR up to that point! It did allow us to play some pretty effective D against Wildstang at the rack which we were happy with, but they had one more option up their sleeve than we did with their dual ramp. Guess it just wasn’t our time. The elims were still a ton of fun and we thank you guys for picking us!
If it wasn’t for your scoring and lifting abilities, we wouldn’t have made it past the first round, so don’t feel bad about it. We had a good run. It also reminded us of the Wisconsin Regional where 1816’s transmission broke in the semi-finals. If I was another team, I wouldn’t want to be our alliance partner becauase it seems that we are bad luck…
Yep! It was quite a beast you guys had, we all agreed that we’d rather play WITH you than AGAINST you 
Our holonomic drive got us the speed and maneuverability, but we underestimated how much of a role defense was going to play in the competitions~
We’ll see you in Atlanta! Hmmm… is it peach season?
You guys didn’t have much luck getting up ramps, did you? That’s probably the worst part of having a holomonic drive this year, once you attempt an incline you start sliding right back down.
If anyone is still looking for video of 71 and 501 I can probably post some of our matches (I’m from 1739 their 3rd alliance partner).
I was about to download my footage to my computer but my mom apparently left my cord at her work or in someone else’s car… I might as well go blow the $40 on a new one… I’ll never get it.
Our ramp dilemma had two key problems:
Our omni wheels had little to no traction. Two of them were also bent slightly, but we’re fixing that now as well.
Due to the mechanical reality of the robot, our normal program designed to drive ‘straight’ usually made Lola veer to the side or spin a little, if you noticed during some of our earlier autonomous modes. You might have noticed the paper ‘hubcaps’ with black and white slices of color on our wheels. Those, in combination with sensors which read the rate at which the wheel rotated via the rate at which the black and white slices went past the sensor. We added a program that would cause the motors to ‘auto adjust’ to the rate of rotation of the other wheels to allow Lola to drive straight.
It didn’t work out as well as we wished, since we had to ship the robot before we could finalize the testing.
We’re fixing the program right now, and we’re keeping skateboard tape for any ramp bots that may alliance with us, so hopefully that’ll aid us a bit!
FYI, I finished the rest of the Midwest match videos and uploaded them to our site (http://media.wildstang.org/MWR07/). I imagine they’ll be on TBA as soon as the guys there get a chance to grab them and convert to FLVs.
I’m working on the remaining St. Louis videos now as well.
Thanks Dave!!! I’ve been looking forward to checking this out.
-Justin
I just posted a spreadsheet in white papers that gives a strength of schedule measure and RPI for the teams in qualifying at the 07 MWR–3 toughest schedules were 107, 2112, 1761–3 easiest were 111, 74, 1000. 14 of the top 15 ranked teams had schedules that were easier than neutral.