2006 Arizona Regional [Archive]

Scott Ritchie

17-01-2006, 07:37

Team 234 Cyber Blue will be there and if there is a plan for something to do we will try to participate. A couple of years ago I think Amanda tried to set something up at Castles and Coasters but we had a major thunder storm come through that night. Keep us informed.

Cactus_Robotics

17-01-2006, 12:47

I'm really looking forward to seeing so many familiar faces its been a few years in some cases.
Yea, Ill look into that, maybe it still wont rain till then were already at like 92 days with out it.

Donut

03-03-2006, 17:32

sanddrag

03-03-2006, 19:04

On some of the pics, I get a 404 error page whenever I click it to enlarge.

Donut

05-03-2006, 11:41

I'll try fixing that later today or tommorow. My guess is the picture didn't upload through the ftp correctly.

Donut

06-03-2006, 20:23

The pictures are fixed now, should all be working well.

3 days left!

David Kelly

06-03-2006, 20:40

234 is flying out of Indy tomorrow afternoon and arriving in Phoenix! We're flying out a day early so we can take a day trip on Wednesday to see the Grand Caynon! :cool:

sanddrag

06-03-2006, 20:41

234 is flying out of Indy tomorrow afternoon and arriving in Phoenix! We're flying out a day early so we can take a day trip on Wednesday to see the Grand Caynon! :cool:Sweet! We are leaving by bus at about 10:30 AM PST on Wednesday.

Donut

06-03-2006, 21:13

Hope you both have a good trip here! It's nice weather right now, they're still slightly thinking rain is possible this weekend, but considering it's been almost 140 days since the last measurable rain fall, I wouldn't believe them.

Team 498 will have glowsticks with us again, like last year.

EricRobodox

07-03-2006, 03:00

599!!!! woot. Yeah, so Sacramento, the second regional we usually go to, is the the same week as Arizona, and the team opted out of Vegas. So... 3pm wednesday afternoon, Arizona here we come. 8 hour bus ride :( . There is a social event at the Science Center i heard. see you guys at the competition.

Donut

07-03-2006, 07:50

There is a social at the Arizona Science Center, the entire place is rented out for just teams and volunteers at the Arizona Regional.

See you all there! I'll be the coach with the blue hair.

SizzelChest330

07-03-2006, 15:51

There is a social at the Arizona Science Center, the entire place is rented out for just teams and volunteers at the Arizona Regional.

See you all there! I'll be the coach with the blue hair.

And they always have really good food and whatnot to do

See you all there!

David55

07-03-2006, 17:50

For any teams attending the Arizona Regional that would like an early look at the competition, I've assembled pictures/videos of as many team's robots as I could on our website. Go to http://www.team498.org and look at the 2005-6 Scouting pictures in the Images section. If anyone has pictures of teams I don't have, they would be greatly appreciated.

I feel kind of stupid
But am I the only one that can't find the images section in the site???

All I see is the news in the middle, banner on top and sponsors on the left

Donut

07-03-2006, 19:19

I feel kind of stupid
But am I the only one that can't find the images section in the site???

All I see is the news in the middle, banner on top and sponsors on the left

There should be a navigation bar with the banner on the top. If it's not viewable, it might be getting blocked by your web browser (I know for some reason Internet Explorer blocks the navigation bar when I use it, and I have to allow access to it so the site can be navigated properly).

Here's a link directly to the scouting page, you won't really be able to navigate anywhere else on the site though because this page is supposed to be opened in one of the frames on the main page.
http://www.team498.org/images05-06opp.htm

And I've been able to add 3 more teams to the scouting section!

2 days left! We're somewhat disorganized, but I think ready enough.

sanddrag

07-03-2006, 20:00

EricRobodox

07-03-2006, 22:15

I personally dont have any pictures of the finished robot. sorry. just have to wait a couple of days to see it.

Donut

08-03-2006, 00:47

We have nothing to hide. You may view some more pics of ours on the home page of our website www.team696.com :)

BTW, can anyone who's not attending a regional this week/weekend record the Phoenix webcast for me and somehow get it to me later? I'll send you a free 25' serial cable :)

Do you want the webcast, or the actual matches from the regional? We'll be recording some there (I just verified this today), I just don't know how many of them or how long it could take to make available.

It's okay to wait now; less than 2 days left!

sanddrag

08-03-2006, 00:50

It's okay to wait now; less than 2 days left!Everybody tells me to wait. I am supposed to be building our practice robot tonight. We are leaving in the morning. Yeah. Um. I haven't yet decided if I'm going to do it or not. Starting to lean towards not.

EDIT: No practice robot for this event. :(

sanddrag

08-03-2006, 01:24

Do you know if team 60 (or anyone else) is doing the Castles and Coasters thing again like they tried to do in 2004? We missed out that year due to rain, but might be interested in going again.

Donut

08-03-2006, 08:01

Do you know if team 60 (or anyone else) is doing the Castles and Coasters thing again like they tried to do in 2004? We missed out that year due to rain, but might be interested in going again.

I don't know anything about Team 60 this year (I couldn't even find a picture of their robot, sad because they always have good ones).

I have not heard about anything going on at Castles and Coasters for this year, so don't count on anything being there for it. Currently the forecast is set to rain various days during the Regional, and if it finally does rain that would probably kill the thing anyway.

And it's okay; we've never had a practice robot, and we always seem to come out just fine.

neilsonster

10-03-2006, 16:30

Wow! I see on the rankings Canada's being represented quite well in Arizona by 1006 and 1241... 1006 is currently undefeated and in 1st place!!! 1241 is up there as well, awesome!

Nice job teams!!!!

Cory

10-03-2006, 18:30

Does anybody have any pictures of Team 60?

Ryan Dognaux

10-03-2006, 19:28

I just heard via word of mouth that Cyber Blue 234 received 4 of the 6 awards given out today - Website, Imagery, Entrepreneurship, and the Regional Woodie Flowers Award to Chris Fultz.

Congrats you guys!! Can't WAIT to watch tomorrow on NASA TV!!! :)

EDIT: It's confirmed, link here: http://www2.usfirst.org/2006comp/Events/AZ/awards.html

WOW. Great job and congratulations!!

sanddrag

10-03-2006, 23:49

330's alliance scored 99 in one match today.

I have pics of 60 but I can't get them online until Sunday. Cory, it has your wheels but gold. It has your same gearbox as last year. It is not dom9nating but is doing quite well.

EricH

11-03-2006, 01:33

1006 is currently undefeated and in 1st place!!!
Nice job teams!!!!Not quite. The word on my team is that 1006 lost their first match. I haven't seen the standings myself yet.

Corey Balint

11-03-2006, 12:51

I forgot i had NASA-TV so i'll start updating here soon.

Corey Balint

11-03-2006, 13:46

Alliances
1) 987-1241-1917
2) 330-599-498
3) 1006-60-1897
4) 39-234-698
5) 1158-1852-1717
6) 294-1527-1013
7) 1212-1070-1492
8) 1343-207-1726

Kristian Calhoun

11-03-2006, 15:59

Quarter Final 2.2 just had a tie! 44-44!
red
234
39
698

blue
1852
1717
1158

red won the 3rd match, 34-29, and now there's going to be a 4th one!!

EDIT: the blue alliance just won the fourth round 41-29!

andreagirl13

11-03-2006, 16:49

Does any one know what is happening now? NASA TV lost their connection :( . I'm trying to root on my former team. Go 987!

Corey Balint

11-03-2006, 16:51

Try checking here... http://www2.usfirst.org/2006comp/Events/AZ/matches.html ...periodically for updates.

andreagirl13

11-03-2006, 16:58

Thanx- I'll do that

vtrehan

11-03-2006, 19:09

neilsonster

11-03-2006, 19:22

Can someone please keep us posted. I cant get anything on NASA TV, and the usfirst website isnt being updated.

I could not go because of an exam I had on Friday, and now I am nervous as heck.

Your help will be truly appreciated.

Thanks.

WOW!! 1006, 60, and 1897 won!!! They beat 987, 1241, and 1917 in a tiebreaker. That's awesome! I know 1006 hasn't won a regional before, and to have two Canadian teams (1006 and 1241) in the final is awesome as well. Well done guys!

Vu2000

11-03-2006, 19:24

Any updates on the awards?

Vince lau

11-03-2006, 19:54

Congrats to 1006, 60, and 1897 alliance and 987, 1241, and 1917 alliance

vtrehan

11-03-2006, 20:37

Congrats to teams 1006, 60, and 1897 for winning the regional!
Also to 842 to for winning the Chairman's Award.

We won the Engineering Inspiration, so the first addition to the award list for this year. :D

The Donger

11-03-2006, 21:31

Congrats guys and gals. Good job.

Despite a few computer difficulties, we had a great time.

Thanks

sgsdragons

11-03-2006, 21:56

I REALLY WANTED TO WATCH IT!!!! NASA's feed quite out on me and i never saw the end :( :mad: Oh well, Congads to everyone and I'm sort of looking forward to playing 987 in two weeks in Vegas!!! Thier robot looks interesting to play against. We will see how they do agains our omni-drive robot :D :D :D

Josh
Team Driver/Designer

Donut

11-03-2006, 23:41

All of the awards are up on the FIRST site, and all of them are correct. The rankings are also up, they are official and are all correct.

It looks like the webcast failed for everything part way through the quarters; are team video taped all of the playoffs (I will confirm this), and hopefully I can post up the videos online so they can be viewed.

Most of the semi-final and final matches became autonomous mayhem; teams kept aiming robots to ram opponents, and opponents kept changing autonomous modes to try to dogde them and still score.

The only field errors that I saw occur at the competition happened during the finals, where the first time they ran a match the red goal did not light up in autonomous, and the second time the blue alliance did not initialize.

Thanks to team 330 and 599 for picking us; it was a great time in the playoffs. We lost in the semis to the later Regional Champions in 3 matches, where at first we thought we won the 3rd match but then the score was changed after reviewing the awarding of a bonus (from what I've heard they reviewed whether the ball fired from our robot that landed in the center goal was out of the robot before the buzzer, to determine who won the autonomous bonus). It was a great series, and the refs did a good job of calling all the matches out there.

Thanks everyone for a great AZ Regional, we'll see you all next year and hopefully we'll get enough money to see you somewhere else too!

Ken Loyd

11-03-2006, 23:54

Thank you to all the teams who helped make the Arizona Regional GREAT!

Thank you to the out of town teams who brought the rain. After 142 days without rain, we needed it. I suggest billing the state government for the cost of your trips.

To the Final six, great matches. I wish they were still going on.

Congrats to team 60 for another great regional. Seeing your pit is like going home for the holidays.

Thank you team 987 for helping us score 111 points in match 57.

Thank you to teams 234 and 698 for joining us.

To the crew...OUTSTANDING JOB. Thank you for helping Mike!

Even though we have a veteran number, we were a rookie team. Thank you everyone for helping our kids in the pits, on the field, and in the stands.

Each year there is a rumor that the Arizona Regional will be a Super Regional next year. I hope so.

Dave, thanks for a great speech!

Thank you to my wonderful wife. I'll be home early tonight (if I can remember the address.)

Ken

Theory6RobotiX

12-03-2006, 00:43

Congrats to teams 1006, 60 and 1897 on winnig the 2006 Arizona regional. You guys played great all throughout the competition and played an exciting match during the 3rd game of the finals.
Thanks to team 987 for choosing us to be in your alliance. It was a good alliance with team 1917 and we did the best we could in the finals and I know our team had fun.
Congrats also to team 842 for the Chairmans.
And a HUGE congratulations to team 1926 Navajo Heroes for the Judges Award. When the citation for the was being read for the award, the entire crowd was standing and cheering half way through the award citation. Their closest Home Depot is a 150 miles away!!! And their ONLY engineering mentor has to drive 2 hours to get to the place they work. They also dont have a good machine shop and built the ENTIRE robot using hand tools. Now theres a team that exemplifies the true sprit of FIRST.
And a huge thank you to all the volunteers, referees and judges for making this regional a HUGE success.

EricRobodox

12-03-2006, 21:04

hahah. Great regional. Most fun i have had in my two years until that third match of our. But still fun after the confusion. Thanks 330 for picking us and 498 for both being great alliance partners, we did great, but if we were to loose, at least it was a contraversial way. (I cant spell, i know). Had a great time and hope to see a lot of the same teams at LA regional. great fun though overall. Congrats to the winning alliance and also 842 for chairmans, 842, you guys were some of the nicest people i met, keep up the great work and that pit was ammazing.

ArmoredFairy698

14-03-2006, 01:22

The regional rocked! Thanks to teams 39 and 234 for an awesome alliance in the quarterfinals. I had a blast, and as a senior soon to be graduating, I couldn't have asked for a better performance from my team and the teams around us.

Unfortunately, my team, 698, doesn't have the funds to go to another regional, nor do we have the funds to attend nationals, so hopefully I'll see many of you again next year as a mentor! (Unless of course any of you would be willing to take me along and pay my way ;) Just kidding)

PS: Maybe you saw me at the AZ regional this past weekend...I was the short girl with pigtails that were usually dyed blue or pink and green and I was always wearing lime green gloves. (I do recognize many of you from your pictures!)

Ben Martin

14-03-2006, 16:41

Thanks to 39 for drafting us, and to 698 for their awesome robot performance! You guys were great! We couldn't have gotten as far as we did without either of you.

Congradulations to all the other teams as well!

NavajoCoach

14-03-2006, 23:07

Thank you so much for the comment and to all that were supporting us.
More Later......

Amos Chiarappa
1st year teacher and -
NavajoCoach

Congrats to teams 1006, 60 and 1897 on winnig the 2006 Arizona regional. You guys played great all throughout the competition and played an exciting match during the 3rd game of the finals.
Thanks to team 987 for choosing us to be in your alliance. It was a good alliance with team 1917 and we did the best we could in the finals and I know our team had fun.
Congrats also to team 842 for the Chairmans.
And a HUGE congratulations to team 1926 Navajo Heroes for the Judges Award. When the citation for the was being read for the award, the entire crowd was standing and cheering half way through the award citation. Their closest Home Depot is a 150 miles away!!! And their ONLY engineering mentor has to drive 2 hours to get to the place they work. They also dont have a good machine shop and built the ENTIRE robot using hand tools. Now theres a team that exemplifies the true sprit of FIRST.
And a huge thank you to all the volunteers, referees and judges for making this regional a HUGE success.

Lithium

15-03-2006, 23:23

Thanks for everyone who made the AZ regional so much fun. As a rookie team, we struggled a lot on Thursday and Friday to get our robot running well, and because of the great help many of the other teams gave us (60, 234, 207, 1006 and many more) we could not ask for better performance during the playoffs. 234, thanks again for all the parts and for the shelves, we will use them well.

I do feel bad because we borrowed a battery and charger from someone, and lost track of who, so if you loaned 1897 a battery and charger, I still have it. If you will be at Nationals, I can give it to you then, or I can mail it. Just let me know. They have no markings, and the only significant feature is that the battery cables are pulled to one side.

Finally, sorry to our alliance partners that we were not able to meet with you all after the finals, for most of the team had to catch a 7pm flight and because the finals ran so long, many of them were not even able to stay for the awards ceremony. Thanks again to 1006 and 60 for picking us and being such amazing partners, and helping keep our Bot together in the final games. Playing such a defensive role, our bot was taking a serious beating! I hope to see you all in Atlanta.

Finally, does anyone have video of the finals I can download somewhere? Thanks!

omutton

16-03-2006, 10:38

WOW! What a ride. The 2006 Arizona Regional was awesome. Thanks to the planning committee and all the volunteers for running such a smooth event.

On behalf of Team 1006, I would like to thank everyone who cheered us on and supported us throughout the finals. We could not have asked for a better robot performance or team performance. Also, a HUGE thank you to Team 60 and 1897 for such an amzing alliance, you guys were awesome!

The finals and semi finals were a nailbiter. For those of you who don't know what happened in the semis, I will attempt to explain. It went to a 3rd match and the score was posted and it said the match was won by the opposing alliance. However, there was a scoring error and after much deliberation by the refs and officials, the score was changed and we in fact won.

Going into the finals, both alliances were nervous. The first match was won by the first place alliance. Our 3rd place alliance (1006, 60 and 1897) won a very close second match and it went to a third. This match was very close and a nailbiter but we managed to come out on top.

THANK YOU SO MUCH TO TEAM 1013 FOR HOSTING US IN ARIZONA. WE HAD AN AMAZING TIME AND WERE BLOWN AWAY BY YOUR HOSPITALITY. THANKS AGAIN!

This regional was awesome and thank you to everyone involved and everyone who came. It was unforgetable!

falconmaster

01-05-2006, 01:25

Thank you so much for the comment and to all that were supporting us.
More Later......

Amos Chiarappa
1st year teacher and -
NavajoCoach

Amos, you are just at the begining! The FIRST world has much to offer and you and your team can definately reach it! We will do what ever we can to help. Just give us a jingle anytime!

NavajoCoach

01-05-2006, 11:34

There are not enough kind words that I can say about the relationships formed and the lessons learned. We had a great time at the Arizona Regionals, we learned so much about teamwork, caring about others and gained valuable technical skills.

The challenges were absolutely unbelievable, there are a few problems that we have a solution for; however there are more to come in the following years as the rules of the events change (which is normal).

My highest regard for the assistance from team 842 !! It was also great following you on each and every one of your Journeys, FIRST Robotics Regional/ Championships/Readers Digest etc.. You have a GREAT group of students!! Let me repeat that GREAT students!! Hope you all decide to come up to the canyon here, a little cultural exchange, go horseback riding, visit the school.

Your school administration must be very proud of your team

In summary, the Staff at the event should be commended, they were kind, professional and helpful, I thank FedEx for the courtesy shipping, believe me -it wasn't easy for them, finally "Team 60" from Kingman (our neighbors in the PIT)- you are AWESOME; and the Sporks of Camp Verde-who initially helped make the Navajo Nation transition into robotics almost seamless. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts and from the Center of the Navajo Nation.

Amos