Minnesota Regional Invitational 2017

FIRST General Forum
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So it’s only 7 days until MRI and amazingly I can’t find a CD thread about it yet… so here you go.

Here is a link to the website for the event.

Here is a list of teams that will be attending the event:

The Green Machine	                                          1816
KnightKrawlers	                                                  2052
The Fighting Calculators	                                  2175
The Robettes	                                                  2177
NoMythic	                                                  2491
Herobotics	                                                  2500
Talon Robotics	                                                  2502
Inconceivable	                                                  2530
FLASHPower	                                                  2532
RoboHuskies	                                                  2574
Automatons	                                                  2823
FireBears	                                                  2846
BEASTBot	                                                  2855
Rogue Robotics	                                                  2987
Stark Industries	                                          3023
Orange Crush	                                                  3026
RoboEagles	                                                  3081
Chicken Bot Pie	                                                  3082
The ERRORS	                                                  3130
Blaze Robotics	                                                  3184
Granite City Gearheads	                                          3244
Backwoods Engineers	                                          3294
Mustybots                                                         3407
Data Bits	                                                  3883
MPArors	                                                          3926
Waconia RoboCats                                                  4198
Trinity Tritons	                                                  4215
UC-Botics	                                                  4480
Power Amplified	                                                  4511
MinuteBots	                                                  4536
The Coalition of Independent Students (C.I.S.)	                  4607
Stormbots	                                                  4778
Cybears	                                                          4859
Gators	                                                          5172
Charger Robotics	                                          5348
Kamikaze Krew	                                                  6663

I will be there along with 22 volunteers from Bison Robotics. We’re all excited and ready to go! We have many new faces that will be training in on some technical roles.

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Oh right, I have to do a presentation on scorekeeping.

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Will there be a livestream?

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The live stream can be found here:
http://mnfirst.org/off-season-events/off-season/minnesota-regional-invitational-mri-roseville-mn/

We’re trying to get all of the MN live streams linked or embedded from the regional website, so check it out before any event!

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FTFY: http://mnfirst.org/off-season-events/off-season/minnesota-robotics-invitational-mri-roseville-mn/

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Thanks… the link changed yesterday. The correct name for the event is Minnesota *Robotics *Invitational. Oops!

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That’s what I’ve always thought it was… I was surprised to see the name get changed but I went with it anyways! Oh well!

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I For one am really excited for this event! This is my largest rookie team year, and I have but only a few vets returning… so this will be a fun Eye Opening event for them to witness! Thank you also for the Live Stream link! I have some extra kiddos who can’t make it but would like to watch as well!

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Seeing as you have such a large number of newbies, please look at attending JUMPSTART Training Event at SCSU. The event is free for all students and mentors - and lunch is provided (thanks to SCSU and CMMA)! There will be upwards of 40 different sessions over the course of the day - we hope that your team can make it!

If you have any questions, please search me out at MRI - I will be there all day.

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Bison Robotics is awake and ready for MRI! We’re looking forward to volunteering and training in to many new roles!

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3082 is headed there now, ready but not yet awake :P. We are excited for another great offseason event!

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Predicted rankings:

team	1 seed	top 4	top 6
5172	44%	74%	83%
3130	11%	41%	53%
3883	10%	38%	53%
4536	10%	29%	41%
2502	3%	18%	28%
3082	3%	15%	24%
2500	3%	18%	28%
2052	2%	17%	27%
4215	2%	10%	16%
4859	2%	15%	25%
2491	1%	15%	22%
2574	1%	13%	21%
3184	1%	11%	18%
2855	1%	5%	9%
4198	1%	8%	13%
3023	1%	8%	15%
2987	1%	6%	10%
2530	1%	4%	8%
4480	1%	5%	10%
2175	0%	3%	5%
2220	0%	3%	5%
3081	0%	6%	9%
3926	0%	8%	14%
2823	0%	6%	14%
2846	0%	3%	6%
3026	0%	2%	5%
1816	0%	3%	6%
3294	0%	1%	2%
4511	0%	1%	2%
2177	0%	2%	4%
2532	0%	1%	2%
3244	0%	4%	8%
3407	0%	1%	1%
4607	0%	5%	10%
4778	0%	1%	3%
5348	0%	0%	1%
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View the stream here.

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Lunchtime update, predictions as of match 24:

team	1 seed	top 4
4215	27%	67%
2846	16%	50%
4536	14%	45%
3082	13%	48%
3130	8%	27%
2177	7%	35%
5172	6%	28%
4778	3%	30%
3026	3%	19%
3184	1%	14%
2502	1%	9%
1816	1%	12%
2491	0%	9%
2532	0%	3%
4859	0%	1%
2500	0%	1%
4480	0%	2%
3081	0%	1%
3883	0%	1%
2175	0%	1%
2987	0%	0%
2530	0%	0%
3244	0%	0%
2574	0%	0%
2823	0%	0%
3294	0%	0%
2052	0%	0%
2220	0%	0%
2855	0%	0%
3023	0%	0%
3407	0%	0%
3926	0%	0%
4198	0%	0%
4511	0%	0%
4607	0%	0%
5348	0%	0%

I cut the top 6 prediction since I realized that there is no inter-picking in the top 4.

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Alliance Selection:

Selection Rules:

  • Alliance selection picking order is 1-4, 1-4, 4-1.
  • Alliance captains cannot choose among themselves.

1) 2846, 3244, 4859, 3026
2) 2177, 4607, 2491, 3883
3) 2500, 5172, 4536, 1816
4) 3130, 2175, 4215, 2052
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Are the TBA details going to be fixed for MRI? It is pretty wonky right now, with round robin semifinals and lots of repeated matches (Q14, Q20, and Q23 are identical to Q29, Q35, Q38 respectively, among others).

TBA aside, thanks to 2846 for a really fun and well-organized event! Congrats to 2500, 5172, 4536, and 1816 on the win.

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I’ll email Eugene, or maybe just drop a note in moardata, I was going to send them the results from the third place match anyway. I’m not sure about the duplications earlier, but the finals were 4 alliances with champs style 4 teams per alliance. It’s not surprising that it caused the tools at TBA to have a fit, I don’t think that’s ever been done before.

The data at FIRST is correct though.

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Makes sense, thanks for the links to valid data.

We had a couple of nice pics of other teams’ robots, specifically 2491, 3026, 3244, 3294, and 5172. Decent pictures of others too. Please PM me if you are interested as they are too large for CD.

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Thank you Firebears for Hosting this event! It was a great first time for us, I had a good amount of Rookies now “hooked” onto FIRST Because of it.

Also had a lot of fun with the Mentor match! Again Good times all around!

Thanks again!