This may be a little early, but since no teams registered for Waterloo are competing at a week 3 event, we already know everything we’re going to know about the Waterloo teams.
What’s interesting is that neither 1114 nor 2056 will create a wildcard if they win, due to 1114’s semifinal exit at GTRE, and the fact that this is 2056’s first regional. There’s a very high chance that 1114 or 2056 (or both) will actually earn a wildcard at this regional, seeing the amount of other top tier robots that already can create wildcards.
I expect everyone from the finalist alliance to qualify for champs, just like last year.
Expect another insane Waterloo regional. I just mentioned the very top tier.
I’m making the nearly 4 hour drive out to Waterloo to visit this regional, and I may or may not be bringing an alumnus of team 67 with me. Of the events outside of Michigan that I have visited, this is one of my favorites. I’m really looking forward to an awesome event.
Gregor, of the teams you didn’t mention, both 1334 and 4039 had some of the best robots in the WORLD last year, both incredibly talented teams. 3683 was selected first by 1114 at GTRE, 865 was a defensive beast at GTRW, 2609 and 2702 both have been good teams for years, and two of our awesome chairman’s award winning teams in 771 and 1305. The alliances that are going to be created at this small regional are almost going to be of Championship quality. I’m sad i’ll be missing Waterloo this year, looks like its going to be a blast.
For what it’s worth: I think this is the highest BBQ/SAUCE any event has ever had, primarily thanks to 254 bringing their collection to join 1114 and 2056’s.
In all the BBQ/SAUCE threads in the past, I haven’t noticed any BBQs >= 2.
Just a small correction, which I am sure you already know but just forgot to mention. 1114 Has won their championship division a total of 3 times ('08, '10, '12). I guess they are due in 2014 then huh?
Huh. It seems I did miss that. I wrote that post three times due to accidentally leaving the page while collecting the stats. One second while I fix it.
With this much BBQ/SAUCE, teams better bring their A-game
Here on Team 254, we have developed the Basic Robot Information, Strengths, and Kryptonite Evaluation Toolkit (BRISKET) to help scout a robot’s capabilities and exploitable weaknesses among this distinguished field of teams. Because quantitative metrics aren’t the be-all and end-all this year, we also utilize Polled Pool Of Robot Kids (Polled PORK) to combine all of our scouts’ qualitative observations after all of the matches are finished.
As we all know, at the end of the day you need to come up with the strongest possible pick list in order to pull out the “W”. This is where we turn to our patent-pending Typecasted Robots we Intend To Immediately Pick (TRITIP) list, where each class of robot is stack-ranked against all the others at the competition.
We firmly believe that our BRISKET, Polled PORK, and TRITIP will form an unbeatable combination. Top that all off with the awesome BBQ/SAUCE at this event, and I think we have the recipe for something special.
Not the best place to discuss statistics, but since the intention of the SAUCE statistic is to gauge recent success of the teams at a regional using blue banners, shouldn’t Npre-2005 actually be Npre-2011 or 2010 by now? We could call it the Regional Iota Banner, or RIB for short.
Additionally, 86 of the 117 Banners coming to Waterloo are held by 3 teams (1114, 254, 2056). Together, the three of them account for 73.5% of Waterloo’s BBQ.
Without them, the BBQ of the rest of the event is: 1.148
Would you prefer the Finalist Uniform Difficulty Gauging Evaluation (FUDGE)? I propose FUDGE gives 6pts to Championship Winner, 5pts to Championship Finalist, 4pts to Division Winner, 3pts to Division Finalist 2pts to Regional Winner, and 1pt to Regional Finalist, sum and divide by teams.
I think the proper metric to use here would be Performance Of Upper-quartile in Tournament Intervals of Near Equality (POUTINE). Each team receives a point for each event they were in the #1 or #2 seeded alliances in eliminations.
