Is it true that there’s not currently a live feed planned for the event? If there isn’t, 4329 is willing to provide the equipment and arrangements.
There is a live feed that will go out as well, not sure of the website location just yet. But we will post things once we know for sure. 
The Operation: Code Clash team will be attending Cowtown with team 1619. We would love to have some of the teams participating in the competition (you know who you are) to stop by. For those of you who aren’t competing there’s more info here.
The competition is going to be great this year. I can’t wait!
Here is the link to uStream live feed video for all of the Cow Town Throwdown matches. Hope that anyone and everyone watching enjoys!!
Hope everybody has a great weekend,
Wyatt
30 of the 50 teams attending this weekend saw elimination play during the regular season.
15 of the 50 teams attended the world championship, with 6 of those being selected in the elimination draft.
Thought it would be interesting to let the draft position from previous events create a pre-ranking list for Cow-Town. Points were accrued as follows.
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30 - your average regional draft position.
*Undrafted teams were given a draft position of 25.
*Pre-rookies were given an average draft position of 30.
*Captains were given the same draft positions as their 1st pick. -
Championship bonus of 10% of 30-draft position.
*Teams attending champs, but not selected in the draft were given a 0.5 point boost. (10% of 30-25)
*Teams not attending champs were given a 0.0 point boost (10% of 30-30) -
Ties are listed in order of team number.
Rank Ranking Champs
1 16 31.8 N
2 1986 31.6 N
3 1730 30.2 G
4 1806 28.7 N
6 1108 28.5 G
5 1619 28.5
7 4522 28.2 C
8 1985 28.0
9 3528 28.0 N
10 3284 27.6 N
11 967 27.5
12 1775 27.5 G
13 3928 27.0 N
14 1987 26.5
15 1825 26.0
16 1810 24.5
18 525 24.0 N
17 3612 24.0
19 2410 22.5
20 1802 22.0
21 3792 22.0
22 1939 20.5 A
23 1094 20.0
24 1982 20.0
25 5013 17.5
26 1723 16.0 C
27 2346 15.0
28 3160 14.0
29 4329 14.0
30 4646 11.5
31 1710 5.5 N
32 5006 5.5 A
33 938 5.0
34 1444 5.0
35 1764 5.0
36 1769 5.0
37 1777 5.0
38 1785 5.0
39 1847 5.0
40 1984 5.0
41 1997 5.0
42 2001 5.0
43 2335 5.0
44 2345 5.0
45 2874 5.0
46 3397 5.0
47 3485 5.0
48 3931 5.0
49 4455 5.0
50 5437 0.0
Some teams have made significant improvements to their machines over the offseason. Can’t wait to see everyone again. Have fun scouting.
Excited to be headed out in the morning to help represent Arkansas with 4 teams and new members of a couple more along to learn! Next to CMP and IRI, this event looks to be the most competitive of our season.
Team 1108 is excited to be attending and competing with the roboRIO for the entire competition. The first match today will be a roboRIO match. There are 6 2015 Beta test teams competing at the Cowtown Throwdown (16, 525, 1108, 1730, 1764 and 1777). Visit any of the beta teams to see the new control system for 2015 and learn what is new for next year.
Very Cool. I’m excited to see the new control system in battle. See you tonight.
On a different subject, are any teams planning to have match videos uploaded to YouTube or TBA??? Livestreaming is fantastic, but I find myself watching a lot of matches after the fact and it would be cool to have for Cowtown since it is getting to be such a big/competitive event.
What was the order and teams of alliance selections.
Did the live stream get archived to be able to be watched? It would be nice to show people a few matches. (And learn what happened in some).
Team Driven would like to thank all of those that attended today for being here and hope everyone had a good time. We enjoyed hosting the teams and wish to extend our congratulations to the winners and all teams who tried to achieve that goal. I hear there were some issues, but that is one of the reasons for this event This gives us a chance to introduce the new students to what a competition is like, while learning that we have to overcome obstacles when they happen. I met some new friends and enjoyed seeing old friends. That is one part of FIRST that I appreciate. I get to broaden my network of friends and learn new ideas from those I meet. Hope the trip home was safe and uneventful. And to those traveling tomorrow, have a safe trip home.
Team 4329 - The Lutheran Roboteers would like to thank the CTTD event organizers for another great experience! You were the inspiration for the Gateway Robotics Challenge (GRC) off-season event in STL earlier this year, and with the 50 team attendance this weekend and the level of competition you enabled, will continue to be our inspiration in the future!
We would also like to thank our alliance partners, Team 1986, Team 525, and Team 2410 for allowing us to be part of a great set of elimination matches. We certainly learned a lot from you and look forward to seeing you all again in the 2015 season!
Dave Zilz
Video Montage of the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6RDPRZPsCc
Alliance Selection: (No Picking within the top 8)
- 1619, 3284, 1810, 3792 (QF)
- 1986, 525, 4329, 2410 (Winner)
- 967, 1985, 1939, 1825 (SF)
- 1775, 1108, 3528, 3160 (Finalist)
- 1730, 3612, 1987, 4646 (QF)
- 1806, 1723, 6001, 5013 (QF)
- 4522, 1094, 1802, 1769 (QF)
- 16, 3928, 2346, 1982 (SF)
Elimination Rounds were captured on USTREAM.
Alliance Selections, with Matches starting about 1 hour in. http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/54780199
Finals http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/54786376
Team Titanium was honored to receive the imagery award and thrilled to work with 525, 4329, and 2410 in winning the event. All 8 alliance captains were incredibly strong, and as the video will prove, there were no easy paths to victory. Clutch plays decided many close matches. Case in point: Finals match #2 - Blue Alliance takes 4 auto balls, making 3 and clears the 4th in the low goal at the start of teleop. Margin of victory??? They win by that 1 point with both alliances making a 2 assist low goal in the last 6 seconds.
Thank you Cerner, Team Driven, and HERMES for running a fantastic tournament that continues to attract top talent from Missouri, Kansas, and their surrounding states.
Team 967, The Iron Lions would like to thank 1730 for putting on a great event! This was the first time we have been able to go but had a great time and learning experience. Thanks to team 1986 and 16 We learned a lot from strategy and what we can work on to do better. Special thanks to teams 1985, the robohawks, They were our top choice and they did exactly what we were planing and more. 1939, Kaniggets They were great at in bounding the ball and playing great defense. It was a shame that they lost communications in the semis. This did give 1825 Their time to shine, They were incredible at what they did. Being able to get the ball over the truss quickly and making auto while still playing defense. Great event to keep coming back to.
Just had a chance to rewatch some of these matches. Quarterfinals against 4522, 1094, and 1802 were intense, with some clutch shooting on both sides. Absolutely could have gone either way.
One of my favorite moves happened at 2:15:30 here in the semifinals. Blue alliance is playing stellar defense when 1986 lays a fake so hard that the two defending robots (1939 and 1985) crash into each other. The hit intended for 1986 was hard enough to reset the radio on 1939. The sound from that hit did not translate to video, but it was impressive. 967 did an outstanding job trying to handle the offense down an alliance mate.
All the elimination matches were great fun to watch - any of the alliances could have come out on top. I really liked 16’s shot while moving sideways. I don’t remember seeing that before.
It was a real treat (no Halloween pun intended) to be able to make it to such a competitive off season event. Our driver, co-driver and coach all graduated so we had no one left with experience for 2015. Our new drive team got a little better each qualifying match and with the help of great coaching from our alliance partners they looked pretty good in the elimination rounds.
Definitely an outstanding event - we had an awesome time.
Team SCREAM wants to say thanks again to Team Driven and to all of those who once again put on this wonderful event.
We absolutely love this event. It is the highlight of our fall because it gives us an opportunity to bring our new team members, parents, and supporters to a competition so that they can experience what robotics is about before they dive in to the build season in January.
Our new students and families are always blown away about how much fun this event is.
We had a blast and are looking forward to competing with everyone again this upcoming season!
Bomb Squad had a blast at Cow Town. Glad to be back after our we-have-no-robot-left absence last year. Congratulations to the winners and thanks to the hosts. Great to hang out with so many of our friends with robots.
We had a crazy couple of days with only 6 students and 2 mentors! And did anyone notice that Nighthawk didn’t play in our last qualification match? There is an explanation on our team Facebook page if you are interested in what happened.
First off, Huge thanks to teams 1730 and 2001 for hosting the event, and all the teams in attendance for making this a great event year after year.
Also it was a pleasure to work with teams 1723 and pre-rookies 6001 in eliminations. I think it can’t be stated enough how impressed I am with the Rocky Balboabots who seem to have knowledge and experience well beyond their months. I expect great things from them in 2015.
Considering this is the last Aerial Assist event for many teams, congratulations to everyone on a successful 2014 season!
Photos (and a few video clips) are posted on my flickr page. I tried to capture a photo of every team. Feel free to use in promo materials/etc. Please credit me (David Runneals) if possible.
Enjoy!