2015 Arizona West Regional

[Nathan Rossi]

We got teams coming from California, Colorado, Idaho, Texas, Utah, and Mexico. Should be a fun regional!

The teams:
498 Cobra Commanders Glendale, AZ, USA
991 BroncoBotics Phoenix, AZ, USA
1165 Team Paradise Phoenix, AZ, USA
1212 Sentinels Chandler, AZ, USA
1290 Robowolves Chandler, AZ, USA
1492 Team CAUTION Tempe, AZ, USA
1726 N.E.R.D.S. Sierra Vista, AZ, USA
2122 Team Tators Boise, ID, USA
2375 Dragon Robotics Phoenix, AZ, USA
2403 Plasma Robotics Mesa, AZ, USA
2493 Robokong Riverside, CA, USA
2844 Stampede Robotics Laveen, AZ, USA
3133 Coronado Robotics Scottsdale, AZ, USA
3187 Titans Phoenix, AZ, USA
3230 PrototypeX Salt Lake City, UT, USA
3309 Friarbots Anaheim, CA, USA
3321 Superior Robotics Superior, AZ, USA
3577 Saint's Robotics Scottsdale, AZ, USA
3669 RoboKnights Ripon, CA, USA
3785 Gila Monsters Yuma, AZ, USA
4146 Sabercats Scottsdale, AZ, USA
4565 Coyotes Mesa, AZ, USA
4629 Dorado Bots Tucson, AZ, USA
4696 RoboAzTechs el paso, TX, USA
4735 DEROF Torreon, COA, Mexico
4841 Optimal Robotics Tucson, AZ, USA
4944 The Hi Fives Grand Junction, CO, USA
4962 Knight Tech Robotics Phoenix, AZ, USA
4985 elkSPLOSION Eagar, AZ, USA
5059 TigeRobotics Globe, AZ, USA
5075 RoboJackets Tombstone, AZ, USA
5101 Braves Peridot, AZ, USA
5200 Alchesay Falcon Whiteriver, AZ, USA
5218 System Overload Yuma, AZ, USA

[Jacob Bendicksen]

34 teams - that's smaller than some district events! Good luck to everyone (especially the pit crews).

[RoboAlum]

Means only 10 teams not in elims..... i think there is like only 5 teams doing Chairmans currently right now too

[5reided]

Is anyone planning to run a live video stream of the event?

[RoboAlum]

Im pretty sure purple plasma will do it they did it for Arizona East.

[plasma_54]

Im pretty sure purple plasma will do it they did it for Arizona East.

We will not be live streaming this event.

I hope another team is able to step up and do it.

[mwmac]

The Tator trailer is being loaded today for a zero dark thirty departure to the Valley of the Sun! Looking forward to some warm temperatures and some friendly competition. See you on the field...:)

[MrForbes]

Warm temperatures....check!

Friendly competition....check!

See you soon!

[Gweiss96]

Means only 10 teams not in elims..... i think there is like only 5 teams doing Chairmans currently right now too

Well, there are going to be 8 backup robots so there will only be 2 teams not in elims for sure.

[RoboAlum]

Not to mention you gotta account for a few teams not being able to make the competition i know there were a few east. hopefully we get alot of matches and run with every team at least once.

[cglrcng]

It seems so really odd not to see our # up near the top of that list. We are going to miss being in AZ's 1st ~ Second Regional in the same year ever. Oh, to have an extra 6K or so laying around doing absolutely nothing (though my poor education mentor wife would certainly give me the look if she saw that I just typed that as over her Spring Vacation she worked with the team at 2 different Regionals in 12 days w/ a few pack/go/return/unpack/wash laundry/pack/go/unpack cycles thrown in for good measure).

Sokay, that tall bagged baby is working well (and being designed currently for a lil sweet cheesecaking in a nice gently toasted graham cracker crust), and there is a crate to build, packing to accomplish, and travel plans to be tended to anyway.

Good Luck to ALL competing this week in the Valley of the Sun. Just remember no matter what, to bag it back up at the end if from AZ and qualify as...There will also be the AIA AZ High School Championships in mid-May too!

Which brings up another subject. Since that is a single day event in actuality (and since we go by District Rules this year)...Does that actually mean we all get a lil' unbagged at home shop time each after The Championships? Has anyone yet asked that important question?

Though personally, I would rather see them toss that bagged robot rule for all immediately after the Championships are completed, and allow us all to help others down the list a bit by flat out spreading the cheesecake around their robots, and actually allow teams to practice w/ other teams (w/ the comp bots), and help them out some more....So that the 1st AIA AZ High School Championships event, is the best it can possibly be!

Good luck to all in qualifying for that 1st ever event in Prescott also.

Here's to praying that someone is really nice enough to stream the event...PLEASE?!
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Edited to add;

Ooooop's, I just counted and there are only 26 bots from AZ on the AZ West list currently, to be there...And, if they do what was originally discussed here on CD & reportedly intended (don't count on my word, I'm not the rulemakers or Judge and jury. Ask for yourselves, then pass on the info though please), as 30 qualifyiers from each of the 2 AZ regionals were originally to be invited as the 60 qualifiers, I had previously heard.

If so, then all would have to bag it back up again if planning on attending in May. (And there still would be at least 4 slots or more to fill to even get to 60).

[cglrcng]

It seems so really odd not to see our # up near the top of that list. We are going to miss being in AZ's 1st ~ Second Regional in the same year ever. Oh, to have an extra 6K or so laying around doing absolutely nothing (though my poor education mentor wife would certainly give me the look if she saw that I just typed that as over her Spring Vacation she worked with the team at 2 different Regionals in 12 days w/ a few pack/go/return/unpack/wash laundry/pack/go/unpack cycles thrown in for good measure).

Sokay, that tall bagged baby is working well (and being designed currently for a lil sweet cheesecaking in a nice gently toasted graham cracker crust), and there is a crate to build, packing to accomplish, and travel plans to be tended to anyway.

Good Luck to ALL competing this week in the Valley of the Sun. Just remember no matter what, to bag it back up at the end if from AZ and qualify as...There will also be the AIA AZ High School Championships in mid-May too!

Which brings up another subject. Since that is a single day event in actuality (and since we go by District Rules this year)...Does that actually mean we all get a lil' unbagged at home shop time each after The Championships? Has anyone yet asked that important question?

Though personally, I would rather see them toss that bagged robot rule for all immediately after the Championships are completed, and allow us all to help others down the list a bit by flat out spreading the cheesecake around their robots, and actually allow teams to practice w/ other teams (w/ the comp bots), and help them out some more....So that the 1st AIA AZ High School Championships event, is the best it can possibly be!

Good luck to all in qualifying for that 1st ever event in Prescott also.

Here's to praying that someone is really nice enough to stream the event...PLEASE?!

[MStump]

Should be a fun regional can't wait to head out there tomorrow and compete this weekend!

[itsjustjon]

Means only 10 teams not in elims..... i think there is like only 5 teams doing Chairmans currently right now too

Do you know which teams by any chance?

[rsisk]

Robokong is submitting Chairman's at AZ West

[RoboAlum]

Do you know which teams by any chance?
1165
1492
2403
4841
Robokong
Thats all i know of now

[itsjustjon]

1165
1492
2403
4841
Robokong
Thats all i know of now

Okay, thanks. Make sure to add 3309 to that list. We will be presenting there as well.

[scca229]

It seems so really odd not to see our # up near the top of that list. We are going to miss being in AZ's 1st ~ Second Regional in the same year ever. Oh, to have an extra 6K or so laying around doing absolutely nothing (though my poor education mentor wife would certainly give me the look if she saw that I just typed that as over her Spring Vacation she worked with the team at 2 different Regionals in 12 days w/ a few pack/go/return/unpack/wash laundry/pack/go/unpack cycles thrown in for good measure).

It is going to be really strange not having a team affiliation at this event for the first time working as the FTAA too.

Which brings up another subject. Since that is a single day event in actuality (and since we go by District Rules this year)...Does that actually mean we all get a lil' unbagged at home shop time each after The Championships? Has anyone yet asked that important question?

I believe that the unbag time for districts is only before 2-day events and not single day one. However, this doc says that for this event there is a total unbag of 6 hours, minimum of 30 minute increments, max of 3 times unbagged. All unbag time MUST be documented fully.

Note: Below file is a PDF with a DOCX extension on it. If downloading, change the extension to PDF before opening. It opened in Chrome directly for me so I did not realize it until Mr Forbes pointed it out.
http://aiaonline.org/files/14680/aia-robotics-state-championship-tournament-guide-2014-15.docx


Though personally, I would rather see them toss that bagged robot rule for all immediately after the Championships are completed, and allow us all to help others down the list a bit by flat out spreading the cheesecake around their robots, and actually allow teams to practice w/ other teams (w/ the comp bots), and help them out some more....So that the 1st AIA AZ High School Championships event, is the best it can possibly be!

Good luck to all in qualifying for that 1st ever event in Prescott also.

AGREED!


Edited to add;

Ooooop's, I just counted and there are only 26 bots from AZ on the AZ West list currently, to be there...And, if they do what was originally discussed here on CD & reportedly intended (don't count on my word, I'm not the rulemakers or Judge and jury. Ask for yourselves, then pass on the info though please), as 30 qualifyiers from each of the 2 AZ regionals were originally to be invited as the 60 qualifiers, I had previously heard.

If so, then all would have to bag it back up again if planning on attending in May. (And there still would be at least 4 slots or more to fill to even get to 60).

Looks like according to that same doc above, 30 teams total, qualifying based on points earned using the District model (points table in the doc) in the 1st Regional an AZ bot competed in regardless of the location. Winning a Chairman's at that 1st event is automatic entry.

[MattRain]

The bag in tag for the AIA AZ Championship just doesn't make since. Myself, along with another person I work with, were shown the requirements for the AIA AZ Championships before they went out to the public, as I work for one of the companies that sponsors the regionals in AZ. We fought to try and remove the bag n tag requirement, but were not successful. To make it even more interesting, since this is a one day event, there are no awards handed out, so teams are pretty much just traveling to play with their robot. Plus, they have dropped the FIRST name off of the title of the event.... its not an actual FIRST event.... its an off-season event.

My team barely pays the registration fee each year to compete, and have been lucky enough this year to be granted the money to be able to compete in both AZ regionals. We don't even know how we would be able to pay for Worlds if we get there.

I agree that there should not be a bag n tag requirement, but its not going to change, we have already tried... I wish we could get practice with our bot as well...... we need it.... haha. (That, and some modifications....)

[MrForbes]

http://aiaonline.org/files/14680/aia-robotics-state-championship-tournament-guide-2014-15.docx

Looks like according to that same doc above,

I can't open the document....hmmm.....Word says it's corrupt.

edit: oh...it's a .pdf with a .docx extension. Needed to change the extension to .pdf and it magically opens. Interesting.

[Tmeziere]

Good luck to team 1165. It was fun working with you at the Arizona East regional.

[scca229]

I can't open the document....hmmm.....Word says it's corrupt.

edit: oh...it's a .pdf with a .docx extension. Needed to change the extension to .pdf and it magically opens. Interesting.

Interesting. I didn't realize that it opened directly in Chrome until you said that. Adding that info to the original link for awareness.

Thanks!

[sergioCorral842]

Good luck to all the teams attending the Arizona West Regional! It is kind of weird not seeing 842 on a list for an Arizona Regional.

[Nathan Rossi]

Quick question, will teams be provided new driver buttons at their second regional? Or do you have to re-use the ones given to you at the first regional?

[dcarr]

Quick question, will teams be provided new driver buttons at their second regional? Or do you have to re-use the ones given to you at the first regional?

You'll get new ones.

[DeeTaffy2486]

Team 2486, The CocoNuts will be volunteering! We wish you all the best of luck.

[Donut]

Looking forward to this event, it will be fun sitting on the other side of the glass at an FRC event for a change (I'll be reffing).

Here's a shot from the end of field setup today in GCU's arena. The seating setup is awesome, even in the upper sections it didn't seem like there was a bad seat to be found and I expect this place to be rocking in the elimination rounds on Saturday.

I'll update my State Championship projection sheet I posted in the AZ East thread after the regional ends this weekend. Good luck to all the teams competing!

[rsisk]

Team 2486, The CocoNuts will be volunteering! We wish you all the best of luck.

Awesome, always love hangin with the CocoNuts!

[dcarr]

Any indication that there will be a live stream for this event?

[MrTechCenter]

We will be cheering on our friends from Idaho and SoCal from our couches!

[gcgeobuff]

We are working on getting a stream going. If it works out, it should be up this afternoon or tomorrow morning.

Edit: There is still a chance we will not be able to. I am hoping that won't be the case, but it is possible.

[dcarr]

We are working on getting a stream going. If it works out, it should be up this afternoon or tomorrow morning.

Awesome!

[MrForbes]

I didn't get into the stands today, but watching from the field several teams are looking great....2122, 3309, 3230 among others. Should be fun tomorrow!

[5reided]

Team Tators has set up the webcast of the Arizona West Regional! You can access the webcast at https://new.livestream.com/accounts/12908881/events/3940862.

Note that logging in with a Livestream.com account may be required.

You'll notice that the quality isn't top-notch. We are hoping to get a different converter sometime today in order to stream at a higher quality.

[sastoller]

Seems that there is a webcast, but it looks like you are required to log in with a livestream account to access (although you can check bugmenot for a login if you don't want to give livestream your email):

https://new.livestream.com/accounts/12908881/events/3940862

[BleakRNS]

Stream's been down for a while. Anyone know what's going on?

[dcarr]

Stream's been down for a while. Anyone know what's going on?

I'm hearing that they're trying to switch to a higher quality source, that was about an hour ago. Hopefully it'll come back up sometime soon.

[tcjinaz]

It appears to me that Team Tators 2122 sponsored today's streaming. Thank you very much! I was able to spend a good part of the afternoon at GCU today, and enjoyed watching the rest at home.

[tcjinaz]

1212 came up with a new one to me: two equivalent robots tethered to each other, configured to operate at first as canburglars. Great idea, maybe they will have the nitty gritty details worked out tomorrow.
Be careful about your setup times, folks.

[azcalg]

1212 came up with a new one to me: two equivalent robots tethered to each other, configured to operate at first as canburglars. Great idea, maybe they will have the nitty gritty details worked out tomorrow.
Be careful about your setup times, folks.

We certainly tried our darnedest. That first match we had it in a minute and thirty seconds, that with the help of our alliance members, who were wonderful about it. The second match we didn't have time to set it up properly in our pits and everything seemed to fall apart once we got it on the field. It was a bit disappointing to see all our hard work fail at the moment when it counted though; it would have been nice to see it work at least once, it was a really cool system and it may have taken away a bit of the stress associated with our setup and take down.
We certainly learned a lot from this design though. We had to get incredibly creative to keep our weight down. We also learned to maybe not do something so ridiculously complex with so many points where something could go wrong; we tried to do everything like we always do and it rarely works out well for us. I doubt it will change though, we have a rich history of hubris.
That said, sorry to the refs and everyone for consistently delaying matches, we did our best but it wasn't quite enough.
Also congats to all the other teams, you put on an amazing regional, the matches were certainly exciting to watch.

[Donut]

That was a great event! Thank you to all the teams for moving things along quickly and helping to keep us running a smooth event this weekend. Even with match replays we still finished on time or ahead of schedule each day.

Congratulations to the winning alliance of 2122, 3309, and 5059. A special thank you to 2122 for making this ref's job easy, despite all those totes flying through the chute your human player always made it obvious that he was not going to get a penalty with them. It was also great to chat with all of your mentors and parents who volunteered at the event.

Congrats to the Finalists including 3785 and 1726 who qualified for the World Championship with Wild Card slots.

And congratulations to 2375 on a well deserved Chairman's Award. Your video was well done and was a great way to package up the dragon theme running through your team.


For all the Arizona teams, attached is my final Arizona State Championship projections based on the data I have. Teams highlighted in green won the Chairman's Award at an event and receive an automatic bid to the State Championship. All teams submitting for the Chairman's Award at any event receive a 10 performance point bonus but this data is not published so I have entered this for teams that have been mentioned as having submitted on ChiefDelphi. My sheet does not handle all tiebreakers for teams with identical performance point totals, as written it does not look at Best Elimination Round Finish (2nd order sort) or the match score sorts (5th-9th order sort). Take this as a close estimation, if you are in the top 20 teams I would count on an invitation but everyone below that is a question mark. Having submitted for the Chairman's Award is a huge factor for those with lower point totals as it can change your ranking by almost 15 places. The current cutoff sits at 19 points.

If you see any corrections needed or know of teams that submitted for Chairman's but aren't listed as doing so please let me know.

[JPopham]

Congrats to all of the teams! We had a lot of fun at the first ever AZ West Regional. Dragon Robotics is humbled and grateful for winning the Regional Chairman's Award, and earning our first ever blue banner! I am so very proud to be your mentor/coach.

See you all in St. Louis!

[cglrcng]

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For all the Arizona teams, attached is my final Arizona State Championship projections based on the data I have. Teams highlighted in green won the

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If you see any corrections needed or know of teams that submitted for Chairman's but aren't listed as doing so please let me know.
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Hey Donut,

Not like it will matter much given the current sheet position...But Team 60 "Did Submit for Chairman's" at both events (AZ East Reg.~Chandler), & (NV Las Vegas Reg.) (Confirmed w/ my Education Mentor Wife Celeste tonight), albeit sadly did not win either, but Did Win the following Judged Awards: And other performance data avail.

(Pasted from www.thebluealliance.com ,Team 60 sheet / & Ed Laws Team 2834_2015 Scouting Database_v6.0 "OPR/CCWM World Rankings" added data).
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Arizona East Regional ~Team 60 Submitted for Chairmans~
in Chandler, AZ, USA
Mar 18th - Mar 21st, 2015

Team 60 was Rank 2 with an average qual score of 81.42 and an average playoff score of 120.43 and won the following awards: (1st seeded Alliance Pick#1). Seeded 2 of 41

Other Notables:
Event Highest Q Score~ 155/60 (in Q79 w/ 60/3048/1165 against 1492/1011/5207). Total combined score 215.
*Finally Played again w/ 1538 The Holy Cows after a too long layoff.* Highest Combined 2 Alliance Event Playoff Score in F1 & F2 in 2 straight (3944/4183/4146 Def. 60/1538/4496~ 168/146=Total combined score of 314 & 3944/4183/4146 Def. 60/1538/4496~ 132/117=Total combined score of 249).

(1st Event attended this year) Awards:

Woodie Flowers Finalist Award (George Williams) Congrat's George, well deserved after 19 never ending & very hard earned years! Good Luck!

FIRST Dean's List Finalist Award (Rebecca Leggett) Congrat's Rebecca. Good Luck!

Regional Finalists

Excellence in Engineering Award sponsored by Delphi
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and after Week 4~ Regional 1: (Avg. Winning Margin Per Match 13.0, OPR 49.21~CCWM 39.2, Reg. Rank 2, Avg. Score Per Match 27.1, Offensive Power 49.2,OPR Reg. Rank 2, World Ranked OPR 74th after Week 4).
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Las Vegas Regional~Team 60 Submitted for Chairmans~

in Las Vegas, NV, USA
Mar 25th - Mar 28th, 2015

Team 60 was Rank 3 with an average qual score of 108.17 and an average playoff score of 140.71 and won the following awards: (2nd Seeded Alliance Team Captain). Seeded 3 of 42

(2nd Event attended this year) Awards:

Regional Engineering Inspiration Award (Wooohooo Team! FIRST FRC Championships here we come! Our Sincere Thanks to all the Judges).

Regional Finalists

Other Notables:
Event Highest Q score 208/114=Total Combined 322 (in Q36 w/60/991/148 against 3577/2478/1828).

Highest Combined Reg. 2 Alliance Playoff Score(s) (F1 & F2~ 987/148/5012 Def. 3309/60/4322 in 2 straight 233/112=Total combined 345 & 232/122=Total combined 354, and SF 5~3309/60/4322 Def. 987/148/5012 147/122=Total combined 269) **148/987 are 2 of the highest rated OPR Robots in the World Rankings).
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And after Week 5~ Regional 2: (Avg. Winning Margin Per Match 18.3, OPR 68.37~CCWM 58.0, CCWM Reg. Rank 2, Avg. Score Per Match 36.1, Offensive Power 68.4, OPR Reg. Rank 3, World Ranked OPR 74th after Week 4).

OPR World Ranked after Week 5~ 51st. And after Week 6 (Did not Compete), World Rankings OPR 64th of 2872, OPR Value 56.1, after Week 6 /CCW is
32nd. of 2872, CCWM Value 48.4).

For NV, LV Event comparison only:
(Highest combined Playoff Score of the Event~ Was QF8~ 987/148/5012 def. 4415/842/3495~ 228/128=Total combined of score of 356). Missed by 2 points, or 1 stacked Grey Tote in F2.
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Sry about all the convoluted stats, it just gives us real true Champs hope & Alliance contribution accounting in 2015 Recycle rush is all!

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You asked for the data, you got it...Toyota! Hope it helps. (And thanks for the hard work too young man, it is certainly is appreciated).
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3rd & 4th Events to attend this year, NEXT UP...2 Championships ("FIRST FRC Championships in St Louis, MO," and "The First Ever ALL AZ, AIA High School Robotics Championships" in Prescott, AZ).

Here's to praying & playing for great results.

Thanks Again Donut!

[scca229]

All teams submitting for the Chairman's Award at any event receive a 10 performance point bonus

Real quick point on this. The 10 pt bonus is awarded only once. It does differ in that the team's qualifying points do not necessarily have to come from the same event that the Chairman's bonus comes from. If a team did not submit at their first event but did at their second, their Qualifying Points are from the first event but with the 10pt bonus added for the submission at the second.


From the AIA doc:

State Competition Qualification:
Teams qualify based on their performance point total at their initial FIRST Regional competition. Qualifying points are based on the District Model except points are applied from only one regional event.

The exception to these point valuations is for a Chairman’s Award submission:
o By submitting at any Regional competition, the team will be awarded 10 points.
o If teams present for Chairman’s at multiple events, they will only receive 10 points.
o A team winning a Chairman’s Award at any Regional competition automatically goes to the AIA Robotics State Championship.

Awards
Chairman’s Award Submission (any regional event)
10 (awarded once)
* Rookie teams are not eligible for Chairman’s Award points

[Mr. Tatorscout]

We will be cheering on our friends from Idaho and SoCal from our couches!

Boy are you good luck! Promise you'll cheer for us the same way in St. Louis so we can have some success there, too :D

[Navid Shafa]

http://i.imgur.com/29MLmX1.gif

[Mr. Tatorscout]

That was one of our cheers at the regional!:yikes:

[Donut]

I forgot to mention in my earlier post that I make use of Danny Diaz's excel macro for calculating the Qualification points earned in the spreadsheet. If you'd like to download the macro for your own editing or to look at the code you can find it here:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/3117

Thank you all for pointing out some of the specifics on the AIA document. That information is how I have modeled the spreadsheet. Only robot judged awards add 5 points to a team's score, so in the case of team 60 of the 4 awards they won at Arizona East they only receive 5 points for the Excellence in Engineering Award (Regional Finalist is not a judged award, and George and Rebecca's Woodie Flowers Finalist and Dean's List Finalist Awards are not robot awards, though the individual awards won by them are indicative of how strong a team 60 is). In the case of Chairman's submission you only get the bonus once which is why the column is a True/False selection rather than counting how many times it was submitted for. Similarly the Chairman's award is an auto-bid regardless of which event it was won at; the only team this effects is 2375 who won Chairman's at their third event this past weekend at Arizona West.

[BitTwiddler]

All teams submitting for the Chairman's Award at any event receive a 10 performance point bonus but this data is not published so I have entered this for teams that have been mentioned as having submitted on ChiefDelphi. .

If you see any corrections needed or know of teams that submitted for Chairman's but aren't listed as doing so please let me know.

Team 1726 did submit for the Chairman's Award.

[tcjinaz]

I forgot to mention in my earlier post that I make use of Danny Diaz's excel macro for calculating the Qualification points earned in the spreadsheet. If you'd like to download the macro for your own editing or to look at the code you can find it here:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/3117

Thank you all for pointing out some of the specifics on the AIA document. That information is how I have modeled the spreadsheet. Only robot judged awards add 5 points to a team's score, so in the case of team 60 of the 4 awards they won at Arizona East they only receive 5 points for the Excellence in Engineering Award (Regional Finalist is not a judged award, and George and Rebecca's Woodie Flowers Finalist and Dean's List Finalist Awards are not robot awards, though the individual awards won by them are indicative of how strong a team 60 is). In the case of Chairman's submission you only get the bonus once which is why the column is a True/False selection rather than counting how many times it was submitted for. Similarly the Chairman's award is an auto-bid regardless of which event it was won at; the only team this effects is 2375 who won Chairman's at their third event this past weekend at Arizona West.


http://aiaonline.org/activities/robotics

Donut was close, I think Chairman's and tie-breakers bit him.

I had a theory that going to the later (West) regional would be an advantage. I was wrong. 19 teams qualified from Arizona East, 4 from Arizona West, 3 on chairman's wins (though 1 would have made it otherwise, from AZ East), 4 from out of state first regional's.

See ya in Prescott

[z_beeblebrox]

Great to see we qualified after a mediocre 1st regional. Looking forward to seeing everyone at Championships and State Championships...

[Delta V]

4985 is excited to qualify!

On the AIA tournament guide it says we have the 6 hours of unbag time between the last competition and the AIA tourney; whereas the Admin manual for districts can only use those 6 hours in the week before the district event. I assume we go by the AZ AIA guidelines and can unbag whenever we want [with the 6 hour rules] until the tournament?

[JPopham]

Looking for teams who are planning to attend BOTH Championships and AIA AZ State Championships...


It seems robots will not be back for 4-8 weeks. This looks to me to affect 13 teams...

Is there a way that we can work out a "robot-pool" or something? Our team is not having any drivers (all flying), and are excited for our first ever trip to Championships. However, saddened by the idea that many of the teams would not get to go to the State Championships to compete, since we won't have our robot back. This seems ridiculous, and paying private freight does not seem viable. Is any Arizona teams (1011, 1726, 842, 2486, 4183, 4841, 4146, 60, 5465, 5059, 3785, 3944...) having any drivers and might have extra space? Or could we rent a uhaul and have someone drive it back, or a uhaul trailer attached to an already traveling vehicle?

[GilaMonsterAlex]

Looking for teams who are planning to attend BOTH Championships and AIA AZ State Championships...


It seems robots will not be back for 4-8 weeks. This looks to me to affect 13 teams...

Is there a way that we can work out a "robot-pool" or something? Our team is not having any drivers (all flying), and are excited for our first ever trip to Championships. However, saddened by the idea that many of the teams would not get to go to the State Championships to compete, since we won't have our robot back. This seems ridiculous, and paying private freight does not seem viable. Is any Arizona teams (1011, 1726, 842, 2486, 4183, 4841, 4146, 60, 5465, 5059, 3785, 3944...) having any drivers and might have extra space? Or could we rent a uhaul and have someone drive it back, or a uhaul trailer attached to an already traveling vehicle?

Have you confirmed the return time? I know they say it may take 6-8 weeks but I believe that might be more for international shipments. I can't see it taking more than 2 weeks, as I don't know who'll want to hold on to that many crates for longer than that.

[tcjinaz]

Great to see we qualified after a mediocre 1st regional. Looking forward to seeing everyone at Championships and State Championships...

They wanted the guy with two heads...

[MrForbes]

It's hard to say how long it will take to get our robots back. We will have about a month...and the last time I was involved with the robot shipping several years ago, we were warned it would take a long time to get our robot back, and it showed up in less than a week.

I'm still not sure how I'm getting to Champs, but I don't really want to drive, since I have a trip planned to go drag racing in Indiana in June, and another to St Louis for more racing in September.