good game…good moves by the robot that tipped and picked itself up
A few observations from the hour I watched.
-Filler line worked great, a lot of full matches.
-3 Hurdles Per ALLIANCE is good, much less per Robot.
-Laps make HUGE difference because of the few hurdles
Granted its practice day and a lot of team arent going all out but the scores were in the 20’s. High thiry’s and forty’s is a great score.
Who was the robot that got caught on the overpass?
Joey
Which bot was that? I just got home from school and my first impression of Overdrive is a bot righting itself 15 times…oy vey.
I think they kept tipping because their arm wasn’t made to be on that side. When trying to lift themselves up, the arm was on the opposite side they use it on. They would right themselves and then try to pass the arm over the top to the other side, it was to heavy and caused them to fall…again…
That was Mort, team 11. They did excellent in other matches
We are not inserting the music in the webcast. The DJs are outsourced, usually from local companies and hired by the production crew, not directly by FIRST. From what I understand, they are given a thick binder with songs approved by FIRST. I thought FIRST also might have supplied the music to avoid uncensored music, but I must be wrong. At FL and LV last season, the SOAP table was right next to the DJs, and they were quite restricted to what they were allowed to play and when. (we talked a bit)
Someone is getting yelled at tonight…
Practice days may not be the FIRST playlist, it may be people’s CDs being played. I’ve read that from past threads in previous years. But I could very well be wrong. Either way, it is bad.
DaveF, I’m sorry you had to apologize to a group that you sent the URL to. That’s really bad.
Jane
Thanks for the great service provided by 108!
Was working earlier with great quality but periodic drops… but now I can’t connect at all 
I’m assuming they shut off the feed. Practice is over for the day for both webcasted regionals.
Practice matches are over for the day, I’m sure they disconnected the stream 
Ah, thanks.
I only got to see 3 sets of matches. I noticed that teams were not really hurdling. If they did 2, it seemed like a lot.
Bots making laps made a difference in the score, but only because hurdling wasn’t really taking place.
Was it really that hard to do with traffic?
I didn’t get to see team 25. How’d they do?
There was a post earlier that if an alliance can do 3 hurdles in a match, that’s good.
I find it hard to believe that only 3 can win a match.
Comments from teams that competed today??
At the regionals I was at last year, I am pretty confident they did not have DJs on Thursdays. However, it simply doesn’t make much sense to hire a DJ for a day when not everyone is there and the event has not ‘officially’ started (referring to opening ceremonies / competition play, I know they’ve started). Most likely, some member of the production crew set up his laptop without thinking just so there would be music. If I recall correctly, this is exactly what they did last year at NJ, as a team member and I were running the webcast next to an empty DJ table, which was filled the next two days (even if they refused to play the FIRST theme songs…)
Sounds like us in 2001 in Hartford!! Oh what bad memories. :ahh:
Be the music situation as it may - the robots were awesome.
It is wonderful to finally see 6 robots take the field…just wonderful!
Kudos to all the teams!
You mean they didn’t take those songs out back and shoot them?
uuughhh shivers remembering the horrible song
Wow, the first real look at the new game. it was impressive! Congrats! to all the teams who have taken the field. I was surprised how difficult it was to hurdle. I think the highest score i saw was 58 with 3 hurdles for the winning team.
My biggest impression so far: hybrid is going to be HUGE this year.
Well after practice day and as a queuer I can honestly say today was confusing… partly b/c of something new that FIRST is trying out. If there was a no show team another team that was fully & passed inspection could take that spot. Nevertheless everyone by the end of the day had been on the field at least once :)…
Alot of good hurldlers, racers… not many IR users though:confused:
Aside from that I can’t wait to queue up you guys this year…
Good Luck to all the teams and Don’t forget
- MAKE SURE ALL BATTERIES ARE SECURED & CONNECTED
- ROBOT IS ON
- YOUR CONTROLS ARE PLUGGED IN
- and most important of all
BE GRACIOUS PROFESSIONALISTS & BE SAFE!!!
CYA alll bright and early tomorrow