Yeah, I’ve noticed at past regionals they’ve some fairly ‘blue’ music. Even if they were playing the radio edits, people know what it represents.
On a different note, I think I’ve figured out why the NJ webcast kept dying yesterday. They’re running at twice the bandwidth that midwest is. Midwest is playing autodesk submissions right now, and is taking about 20k/s. New Jersey is running at about 40k/s. I’ll confirm for sure when midwest starts doing games.
We noticed that team 303 was DQ’d in a match for running into the other alliances wall during hybrid mode which caused one of the opposing alliances control system to fall off the shelf.
Was this the first time this happened for this team or were there earlier warnings for the same thing?
It seems a bit harsh if it was the first time. Plus, why didn’t the other team have their control system secured?
I’ve seen a few teams have to dive for their control systems, and I’ve also read here on CD that the velcro doesn’t cut it all the time.
Is anyone watching the NJ webcast and thinks the music is STILL pretty bad? This really doesn’t seem like FIRST music. Maybe it’s just me?
Yeah ive noticed the same thing…not sure whats up with that 
WoW, that regional almost got messed up thanks to shaniqua… WoW. congrats to team 103 and 25 for playing by the rules and not taking advantage to her mishap
Please fill me in?
Two years ago our control panel was knocked down and our joystick smashed during auto. There was no penalty for the other team, and we were given time to get another joystick and run the match. I’m not sure that should have been a DQ since 555 did get to play the match, just based on past personal experience and common sense.
after the 8th alliance made their first pick, she went to 103 and 25 to ask them for their second pick where someone from 103 reminded her it was a serpentine draft…
Ahh, ok. I missed that one.
Just tuning in again, anyone know the alliance pairings?
103, 25, and 381 (I think) are first alliance… they lost their first match, too!
The team whose control system fell was us (#449). We later found out that, during hybrid mode, you can cross the line to retrieve your OI if it’s falling, but we didn’t know that then. Fortunately, all the happened was that one of our joysticks broke. We couldn’t play in that match, but we had a spare and fixed it for the next match.
As for why our OI wasn’t secured, I’m not so sure. I know that Velco is available, but we had treads (or something with high-friction) on the bottom of our OI and thought that that would be enough. I think we now have Velcro, though.
Here are the different alliances…I’m not entirely sure of the seedings:
103,381,25
1676,1089,449
108,223,102
2016,694,1279
816,708,836
486,136,2180
1980,2590,11
555,303,41
103 / 25 / 381 **vs **1980 / 2590 / 11 In Finals
CONGRATULATIONS 25, 103 and 381
also 11, 1980 and 2590, good work teams!
NJ WAS AWESOME!
Congrats 25, 103 and 381! you guys played a great game!
(and thanks SOAP for Gameday)
feed died just before chairman’s announcement.
Who won?