It is now 11:33 and no field yet.
I am wondering where the field originally came from since last week; I assume that 10,000 lakes has the Wisconsin field. Hopefully we actually have a field to play on.
I think we’ll have to put something special together for the volunteers after this field debacle.
EDIT: It sounds like the field arrived just before midnight. Everyone make sure to thank the incredible volunteers!
It arrived at 11:50pm and Field set up is underway!
Its about time. All the volunteers deserve their own award for this one. Wish we could be there to help. See you guys there tomorrow.
Thank you to all the volunteers that stayed to help out. We had members from 3018 Nordic Storm, 525 Swartdogs, 2052 KnightKrawler, 2470 The Blitz Team and 2175 the Fighting Calculators there until 1:30am. The field was mechanically setup and we were finishing up the electronics at that time. Please bring your FTAs coffee tomorrow morning!
Field was stuck at Customs coming from the Waterloo Event last week.
This would explain a lot.
Great job to all the hard working volunteers, you guys are awesome!
This can’t be the first time (this season, let alone in the entire history of FIRST) that a field has had to clear customs. What happened this time?
Thanks for the update. It made for an interesting night of waiting and team bonding for Nordic Storm 3018. Good luck to all those competing at both North Star and 10,000 Lakes. Hope to see a bunch of you in St. Louis!
Well the the field was set and things went great on it for the two times we made it out. The robot is finally making the 10 point shots it should have been making at LSR. Here is the highlight video from day 1. Looks like it should be a great competition, cant wait to see the elims.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYxxjg80aQs&feature=youtu.be
Hope you enjoy!
C.I.S. had an incredible time at North Star today! Our first few matches were plagued by a multitude of problems but we really figured things out by our 4th match. We must have replaced at least 35 pwm cables today! We ended up ranked 19th after day 1 and are really excited to see what day 2 will bring. Big shout out to 3883 Data Bits and 967 Iron Lions for letting us truss shot during match 53! Putting up 245 pts (without fouls) was definitely the highlight of my day!
That was one great match! The tweeks we made to our shooter made all the differnce with our robot. Im glad we performed our roll in the alliance by getting those shots in the goal. (just a little bit of pressure on that ball with 3 assists waiting to be scored). Our robot has been just working great today not a single missed aton shot. If it was not for some fouls we would be 6-1, but what can you do. This should turn out to be a great competition! Its going to be a fun one. Here is our day 2 highlight video. (a lot of highlights in this one)
North Star 3883 Day 2 Highlights
Great job to both 3883 and 4607 for that awesome match! We had just fixed our double auto a bit before that match and it hasn’t missed since…knock on wood. Good luck to all teams tomorrow, there are going to be some awesome matches!
Well this is exciting, Teams 967, 2175, and 4607 are paired up on the number one alliance. For those who don’t know those are the three teams who won North Star last year as the number 2 alliance. Looking forward to seeing if they can repeat. Should be some exciting elimination matches!
Alliance selections for anyone interested.
And the former champions are eliminated by the 5th seed. Amazing defense today.
That call just didn’t make sense.
Is it just me or have there been a lot of connection issues at this regional? I’ve seen a lot of robots stopping suddenly in the middle of matches and coming back a time later.
I’m not sure if this is just a result of all the rough defense and has occurred at other regionals or not.
Admittedly I haven’t kept up with other regionals very well.
Congrats to 2177, 3042, and 4778 for their victory. Eliminations were very intense, well fought by all teams.