2014 Chairman's Submission Stats

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Hi all,

I was interested in seeing this data as well, so I took Karthik’s reccomendation and made a Google Doc for us to crowdsource interesting data about 2014 regional/district submissions.

I have already placed each regional and district. If you have accurate information on a regional or district, please fill in:

  • The number of teams that attended the event
  • The number of teams that submitted for Chairman’s Award at the event
  • The winner for Chairman’s at the event
  • The number of submissions that team made in 2014 before winning, including the current one (ex. All week 1 winners made 1 submission. Teams who won on their 2nd try made 2 submissions).

Most of this data is freely available on TBA, the main unknowns are # of teams submitting at each event, and the number of submissions each winner did. So if you or anyone you know knows that information, it would be awesome.

EDIT: Fixed the permissions, sorry!

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I know that this year we had 3 teams who won the Chairman’s Award present at the Virginia Regional, and all won on their second submission. 1086, 1629, and 422. 422 had submitted at Alamo, while 1086 submitted at VA and won at Queen City and Chesapeake respectively.

I’ll see if I can get through a mutual contact with the RD for the number of teams submitting, but I guess it had to be around 20. For now, I’ll just add this to my list of “statistics that FRC could easily provide for interesting edification of its teams.” :confused:

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I’ll update most (or all) of the winners/amount of regionals attended before the win, not sure about the submitting counts though.

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Obviously all week one attendees were at their first regional, so I will just skip to week two.

Week Two

781- 1st Event
1939- 1st Event
1939- 1st Event
3476- 1st Event
1108- 1st Event
1816- 1st Event
27- 1st Event
1671- 1st Event
2468- 2nd Event

Week Three

3158- 1st Event
1477- 1st Event
340- 1st Event
2642- 1st Event
3528- 1st Event
4013- 1st Event
2996- 1st Event
3256- 2nd Event
3284- 2nd Event

Week Four

1334- 1st Event
2486- 1st Event
2576- 1st Event
217- 1st Event
3386- 2nd Event
2655- 2nd Event
422- 2nd Event
1714- 2nd Event

Week Five

1885- 1st Event
11- 1st Event
1710- 1st Event
3313- 2nd Event
2169- 2nd Event
527- 2nd Event
1511- 2nd Event
1086- 2nd Event
2974- 2nd Event
1305- 2nd Event
771- 2nd Event
2614- 2nd Event

Week Six

4334- 2nd Event
604- 2nd Event
3562- 2nd Event
3354- 2nd Event
1732- 2nd Event
2080- 2nd Event
1629- 2nd Event
1515- 2nd Event
772- 3rd Event
353- 2nd Event
3847- 2nd Event

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11 did win it at their first regional, but they competed at two districts earlier in the season.

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District teams have to choose whether they are doing Chairman’s in or out of Districts iff I understand the rulebook correctly – they didn’t present at any Districts if they won it at a regional.

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As far as I know, there is no rule that a district team must choose to present exclusively at either districts or regionals, only that they can’t present at any event after they’ve already won it.

That being said, 11 did not present chairman’s at either of our district events this year.

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Yep, definitely misunderstood the rule. I was looking up how it was handled in a number of years past this year so that’s what I may have been thinking of.

My bad! (God I can’t wait until we’re all in districts)

9

I could have swore that on FRC Gamesense, Jim Zondag said that 27 submitted Chairman’s at the Minnesota regional they went to and that didnt allow them to submit Chairman’s in district. If I am misremembering him I am sorry.

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27 won at the regional and was therefore ineligible to present at future events in general, including districts or any other regionals they went to. Had they not won at the regional, I’m pretty sure they could still submit in districts afterwards until they did win.

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Oh ok. I didnt know they had won.

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They also did not submit it in MAR.

Source: MORT = NUTRONs Beta

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We don’t even have half of the slots filled in for submitter estimates, but one thing I’m finding CRAZY is that noone has a number or estimate above 20 except for the WI regional which had 40,

(proof https://twitter.com/EvanHochstein/status/446784050737324032/photo/1)

Though, I remember one year WI had 25 submitters when you could only pick one regional, so…’

I also want to thank everyone that has contributed information so far.

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I am curious, has anyone compiled data of the teams who submitted at multiple events and have won Chairmans in the past? I am curious to see if submitting at multiple regionals made a difference… Like if they won this year at the same event they won last year?

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The following teams currently hold at least a 2 year RCA win streak.

**Kell Robotics, 1311 **won at Palmetto (event 1/2) this year, and won at Smokey Mountains last year. They had not won RCA at Palmetto until this year in their 6 years of RCA.

The Y Team, 3211, won at Israel (event 1/1) this year and in 2013.

Kinetic Knights, 781, won at Greater Toronto East (event 1/3) this year and in 2013.

Rush, 27, won at Northern Lights (event 1/4). Traditionally, they win RCA and DCA within Michigan, where they won in 2013. They also competed in District Events this year, but Northern Lights occurred before this.

Team Appreciate, 2468, won at Hub City (event 2/3) this year and in 2013.

Cougars Gone Wired, 2996, won at Utah (event 1/2) this year, and at Colorado in 2013. They also won their other RCA at Colorado in 2011.

CocoNuts, 2486, won at Arizona (event 1/2) this year, and has won all previous RCAs at the Arizona Regional.

ILITE Robotics, 1885, won at Greater DC (event 1/2) this year and in 2013. Their other RCA was at Virginia in 2012. They have pretty consistently attended the DC and Virginia Regionals in the past.

Walton Robotics, 2974, won at Peachtree (event 2/2) this year and in 2013. They have attended Peachtree every year in their team history.

Blue Cheese, 1086, won at Queen City (event 2/2) this year and at North Carolina in 2013. All of their other RCA’s are from Virginia, which was their first regional of 2014.

Ravonics Revolution, 1710, won at Oklahoma (event 1/1) this year and at Kansas City in 2013.

Ice Cubed, 1305, won at North Bay (event 2/3) this year and at Waterloo in 2013. All their previous RCA’s came from Waterloo, which was their first regional of 2014.

SWAT, 771, won at Greater Pittsburgh (event 2/2) this year and at Greater Toronto West in 2013. Their other RCA’s have come from Greater Toronto.

Quixilver, 604, won at Silicon Valley (event 2/2) this year, in 2013, and 2012. The remainder of their RCA’s came from Sacramento or Silicon Valley.

TecDroid, 3354, won at South Florida (event 2/2) this year and at Western Canadian in 2013.

Torbotics, 2080, won at Bayou (event 2/2) this year and at Razorback in 2013. They have attended the Bayou Regional every year in their team history, but only attended Razorback the one year in 2013.

MorTorq, 1515, won at Las Vegas (event 2/2) this year and at Los Angeles in 2013, where they also won in 2010. They attended Los Angeles this year as their first regional.

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WOW thank you so much for putting it together!! :slight_smile:

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Alright all,

Thanks for your contributions so far. We’ve now filled out all the “easy” data (# of teams, winner) and half the “hard” data (how many submissions each winner made).

We are still missing most of the data on how many teams at each event submitted for Chairman’s. If you or anyone you know might know the number for your event, please point them to the spreadsheet. At this point, even an estimate helps. I will go through and shade the estimate cells a different color (“Light Yellow 3” on Google Docs) to show they are estimates.

We also have zero data or estimates on submitter numbers at any district event. If anyone knows any of that data, please fill it in!

I also added a new column (2014 Regional/District Events for Winner). This is another “easy” column that can be found. I assume that most RCA teams (and all DCA teams?) are multiple-event teams, but I thought it would be interesting to see actual numbers on it. This inculdes ALL R/D events the team attended, not just up to winning the RCA/DCA.

Thanks!

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We wrote up a quick survey and sent it out to all the RDs (well all of them that had contact information on the FIRST website.)

So far only two have responded. Frank has approved this, so hopefully we will get more feedback soon.

The data can be viewed here.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgvyTH6hACHhdDhGN25WbV93bENYU25NUUtwcXBKNFE&usp=drive_web#gid=0

If we missed a Regional Director and you want the form link, PM me and I can send it to you.

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Awesome!

Do you mind if I transfer (some of) the columns that I don;t already have to the sheet in the OP?

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Sure take what ever you can find useful. We’re just trying to get more information so we can see how well this new system is working.

Also we didn’t send it out to the districts because we didn’t have contacts for all of them. If anyone wants to take on getting the form out to people running the districts please PM me.