Re: 2013 Sacramento Regional
 

I believe that 604 usually does the webcast for Sacramento, but I have no idea if they will be doing it this time.

Re: 2013 Sacramento Regional
 

568
2204
1388
766
2144
2035
1671
2141
115
2473
852
1458
1678
2073
3554
3859
2102
701
4185
2489
3495
399
1662
114
253
1868
971
2367
2551
4643
8
3189
3257
4666
692
2156
3250
3598
3615
4698
4669
256
604
1072
1351
2854
3256
3045
2085
3013
100
3008

Who's ready?

Re: 2013 Sacramento Regional
 

I'd say we're ready to rumble, but we'd be off by a year.

Ready to...ascend? Ultimately?

256'll be there!

Re: 2013 Sacramento Regional
 

Oh we are soooo ready for our home competition.
701 coming to Davis to compete hard and fast with our alliance partners.

I suggest everyone bring their A game.
;)

Re: 2013 Sacramento Regional
 

701 just finished tuning in the pyramid goal shot with our practice bot today. Hopefully that will help us squeek out a few more points in each scoring cycle. Davis is going to be an awesome regional this year, we are really looking forward to it!

Re: 2013 Sacramento Regional
 

Hmmm...I think I saw a rather familiar sticker on 701's robot at CVR.....

Re: 2013 Sacramento Regional
 

1671 has been making a lot of modifications to the practice Bot with increasing our shooter potential and our code. Going to hit Davis hard, can't wait to compete with a lot of great teams.

Re: 2013 Sacramento Regional
 

100 is ready! We've been perfecting our scoring time on our practice bot... 23 seconds a cycle on a half court field is our current best. We'll spend Thursday perfecting our 30 point climb as well as giving our drivers shooting practice and developing our autonomous. I'm very excited about this years bot.

We're looking event where any of five or so teams has a very good shot of seeding first... this one should be exciting folks.

Re: 2013 Sacramento Regional
 

Unfortunately 3970 won't be joining us at Davis this year.

See you all in a few days!

Re: 2013 Sacramento Regional
 

Bummer. Serves me right for going off the TBA list instead of the official FIRST website.

Re: 2013 Sacramento Regional
 

Congrats again to Team 2489, the Insomniacs, and Team 3189, the Circuit Breakers and thank you for selecting us to join your alliance. This was the first trip to the eliminations for 2489 and to lead the alliance to a regional win was spectacular. After the alliance picking was complete, our team began looking at our scouting data through 90 qualification matches. The alliance of 2489, 3189, and 701 all had average offensive scores in the top 5 of the regional! 3 of the top 5 offensive robots, end up on the same alliance? We ran predictions of all the possible elimination rounds, and the only alliance that had odds of beating us was the number one seed 1662, 1678, and 3256. Of course these odds are based off of averages during qualification, so understand that some of the teams got off to a slow start, but finished strong. There were some tough breaks for some serious contenders as well. 1678's shooter stopped working during quarterfinals, 971 had an issue during the semi's that left it disabled on the field (sorry we ran over your intake while trying to get back across the field - it wasn't intentional), 3256 getting a technical in the quarters. But luckily the consistency of our alliance prevailed. The alliance of 2489, 3189, and 701 was the smoothest operating alliance we have been a part of in my 13 years. They communicated so well with each other both on and off the field and impressed the heck out of me.

Congrats to Mark Edelman for the WFFA and for his team 2489 winning the regional. It is well deserved and long over due. You do so much for the FIRST community and we all thank you.

Congrats once again to 1868, the Space Cookies, for another well deserved RCA win.

Congrats to 4666, the RoboWolves, for winning the Rookie All Star. It is well deserved and I have no doubts that your team is on its way to becoming another Sacramento region powerhouse.

For my Team 701, thank you for a wonderful and memorable regional, to be a part of the winning alliance and winning Engineering Inspiration is incredible. You worked hard to get to this point and I am very proud of you.

Re: 2013 Sacramento Regional
 

Congratulations to all the teams that competed this weekend and especially those in the eliminations; usually the eliminations at Davis fall into a defensive showdown but I remember seeing scores of 80+ for each alliance in certain elimination matches as teams simply tried to overpower each other with offense. It made for some of the most interesting matches I've ever seen.

Additionally congratulations to the Space Cookies for winning the Regional Chairman's Award. They do so much and deserve to go all the way through to Championship, and I hope they do walk away with it. Good luck in St Louis!

Finally thank you to our GREEN ALLIANCE! I've never seen teams cheering for an alliance other than red or blue in the final. 2489, 3189, and 701 all bonded so well we were cheering together from the first quarterfinals matches and it just felt so special. Myself and many of the other alumni of team 701 were impressed by how our alliance handled itself and complemented itself. If one of us was missing shots or being blocked the others would step it up and put points on the board so we could succeed. It was a hard fought regional and I'm blessed to have been there to see our team win our first and second ever blue banners. It's been a long time coming for this team and was a really special day for those who've been involved for so long.

Re: 2013 Sacramento Regional
 

I have been rooting for 701 to get a Regioanl for 5 years now. I am estatic at having being able to participate in it when it finally came.

You are right Doug this was the most awesome alliance the any of my teams have been part of. Thank 701 and 2489. It was good.

Go Green Alliance.

Re: 2013 Sacramento Regional
 

2073 didn't have an especially terrific season. But, we are very happy for the regional winners!!! A HUGE congratulations to our friends on 701, taking home not one, but TWO blue banners for winning and Engineering Inspiration, you guys really deserved it. Our rookie team, 4666 got Rookie All Star which we are very proud of. They did a lot with the little they have and we are glad to have been able to help them. That was one of the greatest set of elimination rounds i've ever seen. 8th vs. 6th??? But good luck everyone, and see you guys at champs!

Re: 2013 Sacramento Regional
 

Thanks for the kind words Tom. Being part of your's and Mark's alliance was very special.

In the next few days, I will try to post some interesting data we collected from scouting the event. While not finishing high enough in the rankings meant we couldn't do the picking, however, if you go by the statistics, we would have thought 2489 or 3189 would have rolled up to one of the higher seeds. They were ranked really high on our scouting reports. I think teams should start paying close attention to how they scout. Our system isn't perfect, but it predicted the winner of every elimination match, except for the 8 seed upset of the 1 seed.