Re: 2012 Oklahoma Regional
 

Hey, it's Cal back. For all the teams wondering, here's a break down of the teams coming to Oklahoma this season:

31 Prime Movers
Jenks, OK USA

476 Wildcats
Ponca City, OK USA

932 Circuit Chargers (Colorado, Regional Chairman’s Award, Ranked 33)
Tulsa, OK USA

1209 Robo Hornets
Tulsa, OK USA

1540 Flaming Chickens (Autodesk Oregon, Quarters, Imagery Award, Woodie Flowers Award, FIRST Dean’s List, Ranked 28)
Portland, OR USA

1561 ROBODUCKS
Oklahoma City, OK USA

1742 Shockwave
Norman, OK USA

1750 ThunderStorm Robotics
Stillwater, OK USA

1806 S.W.A.T. (Greater Kansas City, Quarters, Ranked 15)
SMITHVILLE, MO USA

1939 The Kuh-nig-its (Greater Kansas City, Ranked 20)
Kansas City, MO USA

2004 Thunderducks (Greater Kansas City, Ranked 36)
Tulsa, OK USA

2165 Trailblazers
Bartlesville, OK USA

2333 Sapulpa Chieftain Robotics
Sapulpa, OK USA

2341 Sprockets (Colorado, Quarters, Industrial Safety Award, Quality Award, Ranked 14)
Shawnee, OK USA

2343 Technohorns
Inola, OK USA

2345 K.A.R.S. (Greater Kansas City, Ranked 40)
Kearney, MO USA

2352 Metal Mayhem (Colorado, Quarters, Ranked 11)
Ada, OK USA

2354 Wheeliebots
Duncan, OK USA

2359 RoboLobos
Edmond, OK USA

2369 Maximus Roboticus
Stillwater, OK USA

2372 Robo-Hooters
Elgin, OK USA

2373 The Crickets
Fort Cobb, OK USA

2382 Colbert Gears Of Radiation
Colbert, OK USA

2388 Robot Pirates
Sperry, OK USA

2389 Oklahoma STORM
Drumright, OK USA

2395 OKC 4-H Robotics - Ninja Monkees (Greater Kansas City, Ranked 53)
Oklahoma City, OK USA

2398 A.I.'s
Tahlequah, OK USA

2410 Metal Mustang Robotics (Greater Kansas City, Ranked 60)
Overland Park, KS USA

2424 Robot Mafia
Bixby, OK USA

2435 Soldiers of Technology
Lawton, OK USA

2461 METAL-SKINS (Alamo, Ranked 32)
OKC, OK USA

2723 Atomic Shock
Oklahoma City, OK USA

2765 4-H STARs
Norman, OK USA

2773 IRONDOGZ
Edmond, OK USA

2795 GOTTAGO
Broken Arrow, OK USA

2986 Mortal ComBot
Oklahoma City, OK USA

3144 KRYPTO-KNIGHTS
2801 N.W. 27TH, OK USA

3152 KTC-Monsters
Idabel, OK USA

3160 FROG: FIRST Robotics Organization of Grove
Grove, OK USA

3163 S.W.A.T.
Henryetta, OK USA

3169 Saints
Edmond, OK USA

3179 The A.N.T.
Adair, OK USA

3247 Robopack
Shawnee, OK USA

3457 MacBotics
Lawton, OK USA

3463 Red Neck Robotics
Salina, OK USA

3465 Omega Factor
Mustang, OK USA

3498 Jankopotamus
Edmond, OK USA

3507 Ubotics (Greater Kansas City, Quarters, Ranked 22)
Tulsa, OK USA

3528 Up Next! (Greater Kansas City, Semis, Engineering Excellence, Ranked 2)
Kansas City, MO USA

3593 INVICTUS
Tulsa, OK USA

3660 Lightsabers
Oklahoma city, OK USA

3931 Cockadoodle Dominators (Greater Kansas City, Rookie All Star, Ranked 38)
Chickasha, OK USA

3937 Breakaway (Bayou, Quarters, Highest Rookie Seed, Rookie All Star, Ranked 5)
Searcy, AR USA

4005 Tigers
Fort Gibson, OK USA

4349 Vikings Robotics
Oklahoma City, OK USA


55 Teams are attending; 16 teams are going to their second regional, 39 teams will be playing for the first time.
Of those 16, nearly half of them (seven) have made it to Eliminations. Six of those seven made it to Quarter Finals, the seventh (3528) got out in the GKC Semi Finals.
Congratulations to the following:
Team 932, Circuit Chargers on their Regional Chairman’s Award at Colorado.
Team 1540 for their Woodie Flowers Award Finalist and Dean’s List at Autodesk Oregon.
Teams 3931 and 3937 on their Rookie All Star awards at Greater Kansas City and Bayou, respectively

Those awards recognized above are just a fraction of the total awards won by the teams who are attending and you should take the time on when you're down there to talk to all the teams about their FIRST experiences.

Re: 2012 Oklahoma Regional
 

I'm super excited for Oklahoma! The team list is looking to be pretty amazing, and the competition is going to be pretty darned competitive.

Re: 2012 Oklahoma Regional
 

Liking the scouting. I noticed a few teams that competed at Colorado. If you have any questions, I am very familiar with all of those robots from CO regional. HMU on facebook/text.

Rock on 2410!

Re: 2012 Oklahoma Regional
 

Just a note to eveyone in attendance, Team 2410 will be teaming up with team 2004 the Thuderducks to host "Build OKC" a food drive to benefit the local community in Oklahoma City. For those of you who attended the Greater Kansas City Regional this year, you may remember the Build KC announcements in the pits, and off of the twitter feed. Due to the great results, we decided to do it again in OKC. Please help spread the word and let your sister teams that may be in attendance know.

Can't wait to see everyone there!

Facebook and Twitter
 

Please tell everyone on your teams to be sure and “like” the OKC Regional Facebook Page – http://www.facebook.com/pages/Oklaho...11881829155and follow them on Twitter – www.twitter.com/#!OklahomaFIRST

There will be a lot of pictures and posts being made. In KC, they had some pretty funny tweets being sent out!

Re: 2012 Oklahoma Regional
 

It was a busy day in the Cox center today! Not surprisingly, things started off a bit slow, but most of the practice matches were full by the end of the day.

The video archiving tests went well today, so I am optimistic that I will have all of the matches on YouTube (accessible from the webcast site) within ~30 minutes of each match being played. Hopefully this will be an extra plus for teams trying to replay matches and do scouting.

Re: 2012 Oklahoma Regional
 

A huge thanks for putting together the feed and live archiving. As an 1540 alum in college, it's been really nice being able to keep up with the matches!

Re: 2012 Oklahoma Regional
 

All of the awards from tonight are on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/botsnlinux

Congratulations to all of the teams who won an award tonight, and a special shout-out to my sister's team (#2359) for the KPCB Entrepreneurship award and my brother's team (#3937) for the Rookie Inspiration award!

I think the "Play of the day" award goes to the teams in match 35: Not only was this the only match of the day with two robots on an alliance bridge, it had the most wild coopertition balance I've seen yet!

Re: 2012 Oklahoma Regional
 

From all of us at FIRST team 1540, the Flaming Chickens, we just wanted to say that we had a fantastic time in Oklahoma! We flew in from Oregon on Wednesday, and have enjoyed incredible weather and hospitality for our entire stay!

At the competition, we were fortunate enough to win the regional competition and the Chairman's Award! This is a huge honor for us and we feel incredibly honored to have been chosen. We would like to thank our alliance partners, 3528 "Up Next" and 2395 "Ninja Monkeys." You guys were awesome and we had a lot of fun!

Re: 2012 Oklahoma Regional
 

From all the members of FIRST team 2395 "Ninja Munkees" we just want to thank our alliance partners: FIRST team 1540 "Flaming Chickens" and FIRST team 3528 "Up Next" for picking us to be apart of the winning alliance "Ninja Chickens are Up Next" at the Oklahoma regional! It was so much fun competing with your guys and we can't wait to see you at worlds in St. Louis! :)

Re: 2012 Oklahoma Regional
 

On behalf of FRC Team 3528, Up Next!, I would like to thank our alliance partners: team 1540, Flaming Chickens, and team 2395, The Ninja Monkees. You guys were awesome alliance partners and we look forward to seeing you again in St. Louis!!

Rachel Davis
Co-Captain for FIRST Robotics Team 3528, Up Next!

Re: 2012 Oklahoma Regional
 

Representing Team 3507: It was a wild ride! We finally got all our electrical and mechanical issues fixed, and even had an effective arm (built in between KC and here), and it paid off. 8-2 isn't shabby at all. In any case, thanks to everyone who came for an awesome experience (OKC is amazing, I love the setup), and congrats to 3528, 1540, and 2395 on the win - though I wish we'd have been in your place. 5 seconds between us and a tiebreaker match... It would have been fantastic if we'd solved the range-finding programming problem so we could shoot from the key more effectively, but you can't argue with the most teleoperated points (According to FRC Spyder), I guess. (I'm really proud of our robot this year, can you tell?)

We've had an amazing second year, and we've gained a lot of valuable experience building such a competitive robot - including what we did wrong (practice field for autonomous and other programming jobs - necessary). I'm just a little sad that we couldn't give the seniors who joined this year a chance to go to St. Louis like we did last year - especially our drivers, who were also mechanical leads and really deserve some props. I'm thinking about seeing if some of us can go and just watch, though it'll be hard to get off school for that.

Finally, it looks like I'll probably be attending Tulsa University, so I'll be glad to see everyone next year - this time as a college mentor!


Go |_|botics!


P.S. I was the one with the N7 hoody with the red and white stripes yelling my lungs hoarse. Spent all my time in the stands because I usually only go down when there's a problem with the robot - a welcome change.

Re: 2012 Oklahoma Regional
 

Oklahoma Regional...wow what an amazing 5 days. (Went down on Wednesday, came back today.) Where to begin about it...first off, thanks to all of the teams and volunteers that made this regional everything that it is. So far, out the the 7 regionals I've been to, (3 Greater Kansas City, 2 Oklahoma, 1 Midwest, and 1 Atlanta Champs) Oklahoma is most definitely the most memorable regional places. From maintaining the pit order [I think? That's what I heard from 1742 (Shock what? ShockWAVE)] to 3507 being across from our pit and just chilling with them when both robots are out, it was amazing. The fact that it consistently ran ~10mins fast was both a blessing and a curse. Yay we got out of the arena early, but boy did it severely limit our prep time in between matches. The human vs. robot stuff was really interesting, and was something new I've never seen done, only though about. Oh, and the MC's were amazing. The way they worked in tandem made this regional into something special.
Speaking of special...a huge thank you to the Regional team for allowing me to ask my girlfriend to Prom on the field. To quote her, "that was the absolute best way to ask me to prom."

Finally, congratulations to all of the teams who won awards here, especially to 1540, the Flaming Chickens for a well done competition. Flying all the way down from Oregon, sweeping the awards, and being all around friendly. We were in the running for Chairmans as well, but you absolutely smoked us with your program. (See what I did there? Flaming chickens...smoke...hehehe...)

I can't wait to decide where we go next year, but I'm sure that we will remember all the great times we had in Oklahoma, both from 2010 when we won it all to 2012 when we rebounded from Greater Kansas City.

Re: 2012 Oklahoma Regional
 

All of the matches and awards are on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/botsnlinux. The wrap video is also online. PM me if you would like the original files recorded from the video screen (mp4/avi).

Re: 2012 Oklahoma Regional
 

The original version of the wrap video is here, thanks to Andrew and Adam Smith.