2008 New Jersey Regional

Competition Regional Competitions
#481

A few people posted earlier (last night) that they were hoping to see 102 in action today… hopefully you were able to catch it :stuck_out_tongue: and thanks to waialua359 for commenting on 102… I will pass the word on to them. And to Mike, the queing was easy :stuck_out_tongue: hahaha. Hoepfully it goes well tomorrow.

I wish all the teams the best of luck tomorrow. About 20 matches remain so we’ll see what can happen :slight_smile: I hope yall at home get a great show to watch :smiley:

And I must say, your team should never leave until the end of the day (aka after EVERYTHING is done) or else you end up like 102 and having 1 mentor and 1 student there to accept the =/ haha.

#482

I disagree while i think Wayne is a very good MC, Chaniqua shows a level of excitement and energy on par with Mark Leon.

#483

Thanks for the kind words. Overall our experience this competition has been inconsistent at best and knocking the track ball down has been an unanticipated challenge. We think we have that beat.

103 is certainly the hottest team on the floor this week. Ive watched them catch and settle a bouncing trackball and then quickly pop it off. They did a great job. And we owe them a lot for advice on repairing our ball knocker as well as giving us the key to solving the IR riddle yesterday. They are good friends.
Another team to watch is the rookie Robbinsville. They have been on fire with their auto mode and knocking the balls down. Great job for a first year team.

And congrats to 1089 (my family’s team) for winning the web page award. They have worked incredibly hard against some ridiculous odds against them this past year. They deserve the recognition.

WC:cool:

#484

They are BOTH wonderful emcees and I think the field staff should buy them both Evil Sundaes tomorrow when it is all over.

WC

#485

Another video from our onboard camera.

#486

Nice video. How are you recording it, are you using the cmucam, what recording media, etc.

:smiley: :smiley:

#487

Our robot has an on board webcam and an embedded PC (mini-itx board). it isn’t the cmucam. we use it to track the ball in autonomous. we record on a compact flash drive.

#488

Totally agree. Those guys are a sure bet for Rookie All-Star. Very impressive performance for a rookie team…heck, any team for that matter. Way to go 2590!!!:cool:

#489

So I’m enjoying the NJ regional so far. There are glitches, sure, but that often happens at a week 1 regional. What’s upsetting is that some teams are still having trouble driving around the track, which makes it harder to enjoy the game. I am sure it’s incredibly frustrating for those teams.

Obviously I was expecting 103 and 25 to be the two big “Contenders” at NJ, but some teams have really shown their stuff!!

The Panthers (816) have been wrecking house and hurdling quite consistently.
The Gearheads (102) are quite a blur at times… I don’t know how they packed all that speed into that itty-bitty box, but man, does it move!
Another good hurdler was 449, and another was the yellow one with the big silver claws (I’m sorry I don’t remember your number).
Cold Fusion (1279) was also hurdling exceptionally well, and had pretty good control.

Some teams are doing rather well without the ball, and one team I saw that I think really does that well is Killer Kardinals (136). Just like the Tornadoes (381), they’ve got a smart boat-like bumper design which helps them push and squeeze in between obstacles, but I noticed that 136 really realizes that they just need to ignore everything and keep driving, and their drive system is holding up and functioning rather well.

I’ve seen some great hybrid drives out there too. I haven’t had the chance to see a lot of them, but the ones I noted the best were Raider Robotix (25) and rookie team Nemesis (2590). Nemesis crossed 3 lines and knocked 2 balls off for a 28-point start during at least one of their hybrid attempts. From what I was told, 25 scored 40 points in hybrid mode in one match.

Good hybrids are now starting to hit the 3-line mark, and some even all 4.

Oh, and I had a lot of fun subbing in for Georga A. on game announcing today. My apologies to Iron Devils, Mid Knight Inventors, and Blair Wrench Project for butchering your names or just plan getting them wrong. That’s what I get for not knowing you all.

#490

Also, a little tip for teams in upcoming regionals: If the elevator or end effector of your alliance partners’ robot gets stuck on the overpass and the robot tilts, please help them out to get the robot back on the ground if you are close enough to help right away. I saw some robots helping their alliance partners with this and some that didn’t. Overall, its a principle of gracious professionalism and I would like to see it happen more often at upcoming and even tomorrow’s competitions. :slight_smile:

Just something that may help out.

#491

Galewind is the advisor for Team 1089, so I’m guessing it wasn’t us he was talking about!

#492

Oh, wow, i totally overlooked that.:o I guess too many hours of scouting can mess with your head:p Sorry.

#493

Absolutely excellent job everyone! NJ is an awesome place to compete not only because of the teams in and around our state but because of the teams that come in from far beyond.

Don’t sweat it Chris! You did an excellent job stepping in just as you did at Garden State Rumble!

Good luck everyone, looking forward to an exciting last day!

#494

I’ll be down at Trenton tommorrow with a few other SciBorgs. Anybody have any buttons left to gve out?

#495

I think thanks to my other thread, he deserves to speak at the Championship event…

103 looks really good, and whats up with 25

#496

just keeping it exciting… (pulls pins out of voodoo doll)

WC :smiley:

#497

Lol I thought we went totally unnoticed this weekend!!!

#498

it’s hard to be unnoticed when you’re currently seed #2 :).

#499

The new spot for the NJ GameDay is http://gameday.soap108.com/?evnet=nj.

Enjoy!

#500

Bill Miller from FIRST asked me to post this on behalf of FIRST:

TO: The FIRST Community
**FROM: Bill Miller, Director FIRST Robotics Competition **
**RE: FIRST Principles **

**At FIRST we aspire to some important goals. One of the most important is to change our culture. We try to achieve our goals by operating according to a different set of principles and imbedding them in everything about FIRST - including what we celebrate and what it’s like to attend our events. **

**Yesterday, music that violated those principles was played at one of our events. The music reflected things in our culture we want to change, not celebrate. It had no place at a FIRST event. **

**I apologize to the members of the FIRST community who had to hear it. I also want to assure you it won’t be played again at one of our events. **

Thank you for your understanding and best of luck in the season.