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For those of you not attending the Inaugural VEX Robotics World Championship
in Northridge, CA this weekend, you can view the webcast online courtesy of NASA.
You can also view up to date scoring and ranking and other event information linked
from the event page on robotevents.com or the event page on vexrobotics.com.
Thanks for the link I will be sure to watch! Any teams that I should look for?
Watch for 38 VEXellent! We can’t wait to compete.
Haha, why didn’t I think of you guys when I saw that. Being one of the only Michigan teams there I will back you guys 100%!
Does anyone have a schedule? In particular, does anyone know when the elimination rounds will be?
I believe its 2pm on Saturday
There’s an agenda link at the Championship page:
http://www.vexrobotics.com/championship/
This is the most international Robotics competition I’ve ever seen. Props to IFI for going around the world to bring countries to a very diverse robotics competition.
Here is a team list of Championship
http://www.vexrobotics.com/championship/Vex_Robotics_World_Championship_Team_List.pdf
I’m watching the opening ceremonies on the Webcast. Very professional looking so far. The flags of all those countries are an impressive display – sort of like looking at the FLL world festival.
The Webcast quality is excellent. I wish all the FIRST Webcasts looked this good.
I’m watching right now–looks pretty awesome. Only kink thus far was a bit of a sound misfire on Karthik’s announcing (in that the music was cranked up to the point of drowning him out).
Keep it hot out there in California!
I love the way they put the fields up at waist-level. It would be much easier to see than floor-level fields. Let’s steal it for FTC next year…
I’m really impressed by how professional this event looks, with the raised platforms and changing colors beneath, and how fast they’re moving from match to match. Very little downtime - that really keeps the viewer’s interest.
I thought so too and text messaged someone.
They answered.
Is it any better?
I’m watching Q23 right now (which should be on Karthik’s field unless I missed something), and it’s only a hair better than it was; Eiffel 65 is still dominating my speakers.
Thanks NASA (Mark Leon especially)!
Wow great day of competition. IFI ran the event extremely well!
So far my prediction is doing well. The top 3 seeded teams are Canada, China, China. Canucks, the number one seed have excellent driving (I think I spot Brandon the lead driver of FRC1114 coaching) and a very good robot. However, I think if they select 1114 as their number one pick, they will fall to the very dangerous chinese 11 and 13 alliance. 11 can descore as well as score mass balls, while 13 can pick up 20 balls in autonomous. If Canucks want any chance of winning, I think they should break up this alliance.
11 is amazing. I’d also like top point out that team 24 is pretty impressive as well. They can score and descore very quickly, we were playing against them in our 3rd match when we scored all three black balls and almost filled up the rest of the bridge section with balls, we went to pick up a few more balls and when we got back all three black balls and about half the other balls were gone!:ahh:
Also, is anyone archiving the webcast, I would like to watch some of our matches…
Ok so someone mentioned that they liked the fields being up high. The general consensus among drivers at the competition is that it is not helpful. We find it annoying that we have to duck and weave in order to get a slightly better view. Even then I still can’t see what is going on in front of the robot. I’m almost 6’ tall and I have trouble, now imagine how much trouble that people who are only 5’ or 4’ tall are having…
Is anyone besides me attempting to capture some of this video for posterity? We tried to record the FTC finals 2 weeks ago – found that we could successfully capture what we were viewing, and set up for timer because the time difference meant than no one could be physically home to start the recording. Disappointingly, it didn’t work, and was frustrating because we could have recorded it if we were only 1 time zone earlier and could have been at the computer during the finals.
Gone again yesterday, will return mid-late afternoon today. If we get to our home computer in time, we’ll try to record the finals and will try to work with NASA on the legalities of showing the recording on YouTube.
Big IF, though. I’d hate to lose yet another fantastic opportunity due to heavy traffic or other unexpected mishaps.
If you’ve never recorded live feed before and want to give it a try, there’s some helpful stuff at this link:
http://all-streaming-media.com/record-video-stream/record-streaming-video-windows-media.htm
Don’t ask me to explain it – my son works the video magic.
Use VLC and tell it to save the network stream as an .asf.