Good luck to all competitors at this year’s Wisconsin Regional! Pleased to see the addition of seven new rookie teams this year, including three from Turkey so on behalf of last year’s Rookie All-Stars we wish you all the best of luck and if you have any questions on what it takes to receive the Rookie All-Star award feel free to head over to team 5586’s pit!
Now down to the facts:
This year’s Wisconsin Regional has the most diverse make up of all time including four international teams, and 12 other non-Wisconsin teams
One team already qualified for World’s: Team 1675 (Ultimate Protection Squad)
One team was a championship finalist at World’s last year: Team 2826 (Wave Robotics)
Team 1732 would like to offer our scouting data to any team attending in exchange for your team’s scouting section wristbands. We have been doing this for a couple years now and it has worked out pretty well each year. On Friday after the end of qualifications we will send out our data to you in the form of an excel file. If you wish to see any of the data at any time during the event on Friday or Saturday we will be available.
I’m excited to see debuts from 2826, 2062, 2194, 1306, and 2506. Wisconsin usually has good depth, and it’ll be nice to welcome so many young teams to Milwaukee.
As a college freshman it will feel very awkward watching on line as this event has been a part of my life for the last 6 years. Good luck to all competitors and especially 706!
I believe it was a G25 (B) - coordinating a blockade of the FIELD with ALLIANCE members. It looked like the 3 red robots blockaded 537 from leaving the courtyard. Definitely a close call and surprised as everyone else with the outcome. Curious to see the match footage once it becomes available.
Congrats to 3102, 2202, and 5855 for winning the Wisconsin regional- especially to fellow MN team 3102 TNT, I’m glad you guys are going to worlds.
I want to give a shout to the finalist alliance as well, especially Team 706 who for the past couple of years have been coming nail bitingly close to winning their 1st regional.
Thank you for the kind words. I’ve had my fair share of competing with and against you guys, and its always been a pleasure to see what awesome mechanisms you make.
This will be the first time our team is going to worlds, and its all thanks to our students that have put in the time and effort, and the mentors that have given them the possibility to achieve it, along with our fellow Alliance teams 5855 and 2202. Thank you to all the teams that attended. I wasn’t there, but from what I saw on the stream (which was actually pretty good quality) there were some good matches. It took us 6 years to get a 1, so if you didn’t win this year, don’t be discouraged.
Reflecting on our robot, Bob Ross, many didn’t have high expectations due to its simplicity and how much we changed around ideas and mechanisms. It turned out that for this competition being fast and reliable against defenses and ball scoring was atleast 1/3 of what you needed in a team.
To give some details to others out there, our robot runs a standard 6 wheel Pneumatic tire andymark chassis, with a basic limit-switched arm and a rotating wheel of surgical tubing… otherwise known as "Spaghetti’.
At the end of the event the emcee, Tyler Olds, said this was his last time at the Wisconsin Regional. It sounded like he might be moving from our area. He will be missed and we wish him well in the future.
Congrats to the winners and semi finalists. Great matches with great teams in the hunt. So many friends involved it was hard to cheer for just one alliance. The defenses certainly came out to play. It was unfortunate that advancement was delayed by a 10 minute referee meeting of the minds. I’m still personally bewildered on the ruling. But I do not want to take anything away from the winners. Congrats to IE and Chairman recipients.
In my opinion this regional had the best overall talent for any regional so far. And definitely one if not the best hard fought wisconsin regions we ever had.
A special shoutout to the Rookies of the Year. We were delighted to have a small part in your season preperation.
For me, I need to go back to team updates and the rule book to truly understand this game better. Thought I had a good handle on it until eliminations started. The pinning rules and the 20 second rule are now confusing to me. I also need insight to G22, G24.
I think this is the perfect example of how silly FIRST’s philosophy of “if you break or tip an opponent, it’s a penalty. If you don’t, it’s fine”. The play in eliminations was some of the most intense I’ve seen (robots driving onto other robots, robots using arms to get under other robots and then lifting arms in what appeared to be an attempt to tip them) and this foul would not have made the top 20 in most egregious robot to robot interactions. But since the red alliance hit a blue alliance robot (which lost communication three other times in eliminations including 35 seconds earlier that match) and that blue alliance robot lost communication, red gets a match deciding penalty. It has gotten to the point where many teams would be better off building extremely tippable, breakable robots than trying to tackle the game’s challenge.
All that being said, my issue isn’t with the refs at this event (I appreciate them letting teams play), but the rule books insistence on calling some penalties if and only if the opposing robot breaks or tips.
