2013 Sacramento Regional
 

Well, this had to get started sooner or later. 2073 is registered to attend. There are only 15 total teams, including us that are registered with an open capacity of 29. Anybody planning on registering as a second regional? I think it'll fill quickly for second regional registration considering how fast SVR filled.

Teams currently registered:
568
2204
1671
2141
1678
2073
3554
701
3495
3189
2156
3598
4498
2085
3013

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If everything goes well you should see 4159 there again. Maybe even a few new San Francisco teams this year too!

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256 is planning on attending Sacramento for the first time (We hear it's a party down there).

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If you like conga lines literally stretching the length of the building, you'll love Sac. :D

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Didn't 692 sign up?

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692 registered for the Silicon Valley Regional.

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No doubt in my mind they'll be there. Sacramento without the fembots is like Silicon Valley without the poofs

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Right, right. See you guys for the next regional registration. ♥

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It's good to be back. :D

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We're planning on it for a second regional pick. Hopefully see you all there! Was an absolute blast last year.

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701 has got to crush it this year at Sac. build season almost over, GO ROBOVIKES!

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Team 100 wouldn't miss the defensive play and Murder Burger (excuse me, Redrum Burger). See you all there!

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T-minus 6 days till Davis!

What are teams looking like going into this event? Will 971 be able to grab another blue banner? Can 1678 continue to win off its momentum from CVR? Who's going to be the dark house that dominates the regional? I'm eager to hear what the CD community has to say about this typically defense dominated regional.

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I think Davis is going to kick it up a notch this year, with several teams already having competed at CVR including the #2 seed, #1 overall pick and finalist 3970, in addition to the champion1678. We also have 399 joining us from SoCal, coming off an undefeated 2nd seed performance at San Diego. A lot of others will be looking to improve on their CVR performances. Several perennial NorCal contenders will also be flexing their bot muscles for the first time. Should be another great event.

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Does anyone know if there will be a webcast of this event?

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

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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?

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

Ready to...ascend? Ultimately?

256'll be there!

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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.
;)

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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!

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

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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.

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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.

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

See you all in a few days!

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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My favorite part of this event was getting to see one of my best friends win their first event, and captain their alliance. Way to go 2489, 3189, and 701!

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Had a blast at Sacramento this year!

We're hoping for better luck at SVR in two weeks. Lesson learned: You may have the best robot, but it takes an alliance to win a regional!

Huge congrats to the three winning teams, you had a stacked alliance. I called you guys going far (also, how the heck was 701 still available in the 2nd round???)

Also, to the #8 Seeded Alliance, you had an incredible strategy! You pretty much had a lock on 104 points every match with 54 in Auto and 50 in Climb. That's hard to come back from, way to go!

For those interested, this is what we were hoping finals would look like: http://www.thebluealliance.com/match/2013casa_qm82

See you all next year!

-Mike

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We would love to see some davis video to help prescout svr. We already posted all the cvr video, between these two events almost all svr teams are represented.

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All of the qualification matches are on The Blue Alliance, the elimination rounds are not yet posted.

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Once agan CONGRATS to the Green Alliance, if we had to lose at least it was to a bunch of teams who sure earned it :D

and to 701 CONGRATS!!!! for EI and to do both the same day must have felt pretty good.

Thank you for your kind words about the Space Cookies we are thrilled with how the weekend went we are looking forward to St. Louis, and while yes we do a lot we are always looking for ways to do more so if anyone ever needs help please don't think twice about asking us for help.

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This past regional has been the best regional ever :D

First off, congrats to our head mentor Mark Edelman (Mr. E) for winning Woodie Flowers award. We would like to thank everyone who gave us input on our essay and helped make it better. It was really awesome to see Mr. E finally win the award, he's been deserving of it for quite a bit now.

Congrats to 1868 for another RCA! Definitely well deserved.

A huge thanks to our alliance members 3189 and 701 for giving us a great experience. It was our teams first time being in eliminations at a Regional, and the combined experience from both 701 and 3189 really helped. Both 3189 and 701 were near the top of our pick list, so I was pleasantly surprised when I was able to pick up both teams.


When we saw that match was on our schedule we hoped to go down looking good. Unfortunately we had shooter jam issues on Saturday morning and fouls that match definitely didnt help.

604 has videos on their YouTube channel.

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It was a fun and well run regional that I and my teammates on 399 won't soon forget.

Thanks to our alliance partners for eliminations, teams 1868 Space Cookies and 1388 Eagle Robotics. It was a great run during eliminations and we could not be more thrilled with how well we executed the strategy. 1868 and 1388 are two very professional teams and we wish both teams the best of luck at SVR. 1868's smooth driving and 1388's level 3 climb should be great assets to any alliance.

Thanks to 1662 Raptor Force Engineering, 1678 Citrus Circuits, and 3256 WarriorBorgs for a very exciting set of quarterfinal matches. All 3 of you had great robots and it was probably the most thrilling set of matches I've ever been involved in.

Good luck to everyone else at future competitions, it was great to work with/against you all.

Inland Empire, here we come.

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Congratulations to the green alliance for a well-deserved win at the Sacramento Regional this year. The alliance of 2489, 701 and 3189 had a great balance of firepower and defensive ability but you won the regional with teamwork and consistency.

I was personally very excited to see Circuit Breakers (our second pick for last year's regional win and a huge asset to the alliance) performing at such a high level. Your team has come a long way from last year. Work on getting that drive-train a little faster and you will be a serious threat at nationals.

I was also ecstatic to see team 701 win their first regional. It does not seem that long ago that Doug Green and team 701 ushered our team into the FIRST program. They were the epitome of Gracious Professionalism and helped us build our robot that first year when we were struggling to even put together a drive train. Since that time, our team has grown and achieved success beyond what I had ever imagined but we are eternally grateful to Doug and his team for giving us the inspiration and this win has been a long time coming for them.

Citrus Circuits would like to extend a huge thank you to all of the organizers of this year's event. We had a blast and it was a major roller-coaster for us. In case anyone is interested in our story, here is a quick re-cap of what happened with our team.

On Thursday, our new shooter ( redesigned from Madera) was not performing the way it had in the shop. By the end of the day, we had decided that the custom gearbox was geared too low and did not provide the necessary speed for a good shot. Two of our team members built a new gearbox overnight (they had it finished by around 3:00 a.m.). We did not have enough time to mount the gearbox Friday morning so we waited until there was a good hour an a half between matches which happened between our 4th and 5th matches. We did not have time to test it in the pit before our 5th match so we went out on the field anyway. Unfortunately the motors had been wired in opposition so the shooter didn't work in that match either. A quick trip to the practice field and we had it working like a charm so finally in our 6th match we were shooting well.

Things continued to go well for us throughout the remaining qualification matches and it was especially exciting to team up with 1662 in match 82 and post the high score of 162. We were thrilled to be selected by 1662 for the finals but, unfortunately, things did not continue to go well for us. Right before our first quarter-final match, we decided to grease the shooter gearbox. This caused our shooter to run slower and resulted in missing all of our autonomous shots. Then, in the second quarter-final, an ethernet cable (left on the robot after removing our camera) became lodged in the drivetrain and prevented us from driving effectively.

We were disappointed that we couldn't support 1662 as we would have liked but that's the way it goes sometimes. We learn from our mistakes.

Again, thanks to all the participants in this year's Sacramento regional. 1678 had a blast and we are very excited about nationals.

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Anyone have pictures of teams from the event? It'd be great for SVR.

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Hey, did ANYONE get a pic of the final score on the scoreboard?? If so, I'd sure like a copy for our website!!
Thanks!!

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Here you go...
https://picasaweb.google.com/1061686...31355053270658

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We had the Green Alliance as the 2nd strongest on paper, so we weren't surprised to see them win it. Some great pics from the #6 slot.

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Does anyone have pictures from this event?

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I know you're looking for robot pictures, and this album doesn't have every robot, but it has quite a few of them including almost all of those that made it into eliminations.