Yeah, match 56 looks fun with 1625 and 1114 together, and 1625 has to play Wildstang 3 times in a row tomorrow. That should be fun!
Just got back to the hotel after a long day of watching practice, here is one guys opinion on the power-bots here this year:
1114 - Hands down, the best I have seen here so far. Can do a lap in auton, great speed, great ball aquisition, and can shoot the ball halfway down the field.
33 - The killer bees have a great bot again, cool break away arm which lets it keep going after releasing for a hurdle.
16 - Cool shooter, came out weak in the beginning but got strong as practice went on.
1024 - A cool shooter/arm hybrid, one to watch!
111 - WildStang came out of the gate a little slow, but got better. Can place on the rack and hurdle.
101 - A cool shooter arm - yes the arm shoots! Curious to see how they do tomorrow.
Other notables - 2358 and 1038. Very curious to see how this works out! I will have a ton of pics up Sunday, can’t upload them until I get home…
I am now more interested in seeing the prelims tomorrow then I was, if that is possible :eek: :yikes: lets hope its good!!
For all of you out there who are curious about 71: I talked to a friend of mine who was at Midwest today and he said that the Beast was some sort of surgical tubing-powered catapult launcher with swerve on the drive train side of things.
1114 is very very much like us, with a roller gripper and a puncher at the back of the gripper, amazingly fast.
As far as the beast goes, picture 118 but full size base with beasts swerve, very very similar launcher and pickup to 118 but no turret.
How could someone who can’t watch all day, like me for instance, set up a computer and an external hard drive to capture and save the live feed from Midwest for later viewing? I really want to watch a lot of the matches and get a feel for the game, along with the fact that a lot of teams at Midwest will be at both of our Regionals. If anyone knows how I can set a computer up to do this, I would greatly appreciate it.
If you already have the hard drive space, get something like VLC player (link). You can watch streams and save them at the same time in any file format or codec you like. At least, it kinda worked when I tried 
Disclaimer: I don’t know exactly what I’m doing. I’ve just tried this today and it worked…
It’s worth noting that the pickup feature of that robot was not actually demonstrated today.
Any clue about how much disk space per amount of time this used?
No idea… I recorded ~100 seconds and that equated to 10 mb (kinda large!..) You can, however, select the file type and codecs for video and audio, so you may be able to make that smaller (the one I tested was an .avi with mp4 encoding (I think, I’m no expert at this, believe me!))
Do you know of any players with that capability that don’t cost money? I like my money. 
Hmm… It appears I linked to the wrong site (possibly)
Here’s the actual free one: http://www.videolan.org/vlc
If that doesn’t work, Real Player has a record feature that allows you to do the same thing - record streams as they play live.
I recorded a 4m 26s clip today that was a little under 4MB. Same quality as the live stream. Unfortunately, Real Player is the only program which you will be able to watch the recording in, as it records in IVR format. (Internet Video Recording)
Another possible issue is setting up a stream to record for a long period of time. The live streams tend to freeze up, or cut out sometimes. Without being there to restart the stream, you might miss a large sum of things.
Maybe try having a friend record it for you.
so, you must have the scedule
i would love to see it, wanna watch some rivalry matches (111 v 71) any of those tomorrow?
Thanks In Advance
That’s actually not bad, actually sounds about right. That’s 360 MBs per hour, while a bit large for video of that quality, it isn’t all that outrageous.
There is actually a thread that has the match lists attached to it.
And it appears that 71 and 111 will have to wait for elimination to meet each other on the field.
I’m sorry if it has already been posted or if i missed something, but can someone please post a copy or link of the match schedule.
Thank-you
This event is going to be awesome.
So awesome that I just dragged myself out of bed so I can get to work by 7 AM my time so I can watch/record the webcast.