2014 Las Vegas Regional
 

The last time 1266 went to Las Vegas was in 2011. I wasn't even born yet.

Who are you excited to see most? I can't wait to see 399 and 60, but also a lot of teams that were great at San Diego. (Also we booked the Howard Johnson hotel which is right across from an IHOP and down the road from a Walmart soooo...)

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Team 4276 is looking forward to seeing the 8 other teams from LA who are going to be there! (unless I miscounted!)

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Here's the team list with potential wildcard teams in bold.

10/51 teams are wildcard eligible. Should make for some interesting eliminations.

4
60
399 - Inland Empire Winners + Regional Chairman's
585
687
987 - San Diego Engineering Inspiration
988
1165
1197
1266 - San Diego Winners
1515
1538
1572
1631
1661
1717 - Los Angeles Winners
1726
2034
2102
2122 - Utah Winners
2403 - Arizona Winners + Engineering Inspiration
2429
2478
2485
2486 - Ariziona Winners + Regional Chairman's
2493
3009
3011
3019
3187
3245
3255
3288
3309 - Los Angeles Engineering Inspiration
3473
3476 - San Diego Regional Chairman's
3486
3501
3577
3598
3965
4146
4160
4276
4322
4470
4792
4800
4962
5012 - Inland Empire Rookie All Star
5049

Should be fun.

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It's gonna be great! We'll be excited to be playing with 1717 again....we both started as rookies at the same regional, next to each other in the pits. And of course our friends the High Rollers...along with the many other teams we have competed with over the years in Arizona, California, Nevada, and championships, and the new ones we get to meet for the first time.

See you there!

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2403 also won Engineering Inspiration at AZ, not that it makes a difference in the wildcard count. We are super excited to compete again with several teams from this weekend's Arizona Regional and many teams we competed with at the 2013 Inland Empire Regional and 2012 Utah Regional!

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So it seems this year Las Vegas is Arizona, San Diego, and Los Angelos + teams who wanted to go to one of those 3 regionals but couldn't.

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Our entire team is stoked. We've been in the shop practicing every day since we returned from the SD Regional.

Disregard this - Also, I do believe that this will be the last year the Vegas regional will be located at Cashman Center. If I am recalling correctly, FirstNV came to an agreement with the people in charge of the Thomas & Mack Center (same place the regional was located at in 2011) so the Vegas regional will be returning there next year. The Thomas & Mack is an arena, and I always prefer arena's for all FIRST events. Plus it is in a much better area.

I also know that the FirstNV people have been working extremely hard to make sure this regional is one of the best. We've worked with them for years and they're just as excited as we are!

Excited to see a lot of the teams from SD, as well as some other CA teams we missed. :D

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To be clear...there has been some discussion with UNLV regarding a return to the arena. Nothing concrete at this time. The cost associated with using T and M arena is significantly higher than use of Cashman Field CC and we are struggling to raise money now as it is:(

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Gosh! I wish I could go! The Vegas regional will be quite a bit of challenge because there will be so many good and winning teams participating!

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Isn't team 1538, the holy cows, prequalified since they have won the championship chairman award?

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Indeed. However, HoF teams do not generate a wildcard slot.

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To add to Steve's comment...from FRC Championship Elligibility Criteria:

"Wild Card slots are passed to the next team in the order specified above only if the team occupying that Wild Card slot has already qualified for Championship at an earlier 2014 Regional. The number of potential Wild Card slots created at each Regional is equal to the number of teams on the Winning Alliance who had already qualified for Championship at an earlier Regional in 2014".

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I'm excited to see everyone, there is great and inspirational competition! I'm particularly excited to see 3245 Ravens, who were my old team (2403)'s winning 8th seed alliance partners in Utah 2012, as well as everyone we saw at Arizona last week. We've made a lot of improvements since then and I'm sure a lot of others have, as well.

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We are excited to return to Las Vegas and play with and against old friends and new. We were watching the AZ regional at last Saturday's team meeting and rooting Plasma along. Great program; congrats for winning EI and the Regional!

And always it is good to see the Holy Cows and High Rollers who generously helped mentor us out of the ineptitude of our rookie year(s).

Team987 always puts in a huge amount of volunteer effort in putting on the LV regional - we thank you in advance!

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1266 is especially happy to see 2486, our 2013 Inland Empire Alliance captain. Quite a bit of the teams that were in the elims there are going to Las Vegas, too.

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Robokong is hitching up the trailer and moving to Vegas Wednesday morning. There will be some Code Orange magic on board for the trip. Looking forward to our first out of state regional.

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We are looking forward to competing with all of the great teams at the Las Vegas Regional.

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I just wanted to extend the invitation here for teams to join us for The Chairman's Exchange (www.fusd1robotics.org/chex) on Thursday during lunch.

It will be another great opportunity for teams to practice their presentations and collaborate before the official presentations on Friday.

Let me know if your team is interested by PMing me or just visiting us in the pits Thursday morning!

2486 can't wait for the regional!!

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Van loaded. Leaving tomorrow at lunch.

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Trailer loaded, check, truck fueled up, check, alarm set, check. Team Tators will be up before the sun to get to Las Vegas and have some fun. We look forward to seeing some old friends and making some new friends. Good luck to all.

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Well, half the team's already there. Just can't wait to start competing, meeting, and helping all the teams there. Good luck every team!

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Team 4276 had a great time in Vegas. We'd like to thank all of our alliance partners (hope you like the badges) for helping us through what was a highly competitive an challenging weekend.

We'd especially like to thank the Friarbots (Team 3309) and the Clockwork Oranges (Team 4322) for choosing us as their alliance partners in the quarterfinals! I liked seeing an all Orange County alliance!

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How about all those delays and restarts in Semis 2 though? It felt like an hour just for that match alone...

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987 would like to thank our good friends on 2485 for inviting us to join the number one seed along with another great team, 2478. We had a blast working with our Warlord buddies and hope we are lucky enough to do the same in St. Louis. This win was especially sweet given the incredibly tough defense teams had to battle throughout the event. Haven't seen such brutal contact since 2007 and just glad our roller damage from our last qual was an easy fix. We are taking several replacement parts to Champs sure;)

Kudos to 1717, 3476 and 687 for putting up one heck of a tough fight both finals matches. Congrats to 1515 for the RCA, 1266 for the IE and all of the other teams that won awards and the rest of the teams that made this a great 10th year anniversary. Special thanks to teams like 585 manning the safety glasses posts and 4792 for helping to put up and taking down the field and any other teams that contributed any volunteers throughout the event. Thanks to 2122 for archiving the matches that will hopefully be shared soon:) Best of luck to all teams advancing to Champs!

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I believe it was close to an hour. I don't ever remember seeing 2 alliances play 6 matches back to back...:(

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I would like to personally thank all the Vegas crew and teams for making this an awesome event, the first non-CA regional I have attended and volunteered at. There was a lot of crazy matches and the finals were down to the wire.

2485 had an amazing time and a lot of fun, and big thanks to our partners 987 and 2478 for the big win and the #bloobanerz! The last matches against 1717, 3476 and 687 were intense. I also got a bunch of pictures from the event I will post here soon.

Hopefully see you all at champs!

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I didn't get a close look at the damage, but I'm glad you guys were able to get it repaired. Congratulations to 2485, 987, and 2478 on the win!

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I remember some hammering before those matches....

We broke a support on our catcher and had to patch that up real quick. There was brutal contact in these matches.

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I'd like to see a public report on what exactly was happening. I assume it was a field fault of some sort.

In the end, an alliance won 2 of 3 officially counted matches, and went on.

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Yes, someone from that semifinals matchup please do enlighten us about what happened. We noticed 1717's inactivity during a couple autonomous modes and then a field fault when multiple robots became disabled, but the field seemed to be working fine the entire rest of the weekend (I recall 2 makeup games Saturday)

This is what we were watching in the stand for about an hour:

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From BHP's post in other CD thread...

At the Las Vegas Regional, the Semi Finals 2 took 6 matches to decide the winner.

Match 1: A cameraman blocked a ball resulting in a "field fault"
Match 2: 1717 didn't move for 30 seconds blamed on field
Match 3: Good. 1717 still didn't move, but blamed on bot. 2122/399/1725 win.
Match 4: Good. 399 blew the 120A breaker, 1717/3476/687 win.
Match 5: 399 tips onto 2 balls, dead ball confusion ensued, match stops early.
Match 6: Good. 1717/3476/687 win.

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It was 1572 actually, not 1725

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Team 399 had a fantastic time at the Las Vegas Regional.

Congrats to the winning alliance of 987, 2485, and 2478. We were definitely excited to see our friends on 2485 qualify for champs, and we know they'll be a huge contender on whichever field they are on.

I loved getting the chance to alliance with 2122 and 1572. We have great friends on Team Tators, and getting the chance to work with them is always a pleasure. We have attended at least one regional with 1572 for the past few years, but this was the first time we had the opportunity to work with them, and we had a great experience.

Those 6 semi-final rounds were some rough ones! Our robot has the scratches and dents that show the tenacity of every team on that opposing alliance. We got a good chance to talk with everyone we were competing against, as we reset the field time after time. Knowing everyone had the best intentions in mind, the matches felt genuinely fun to be a part of.

399 is definitely looking to attend this event in the future.

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This was, hands down, my favorite regional competition in all my four years with FIRST. If it weren't for college getting in the way, I'd have been in Vegas all three days.

Cheers to our excellent alliance partners 987 and 2485 for the opportunity to compete in the elimination matches, and cheers again to every team who attended for the top-notch competition on the field. As for the 6-match semifinals, that was a rough set of circumstances, but all six teams involved weathered it admirably.

If anyone is interested, we've posted a recording of our elimination matches from the robot's perspective:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol6jfLFDs1I

On a separate note, was the livestream recorded, and if so will it be posted on YouTube or otherwise now that the regional is over? All I can find are handheld camera videos of a few of the matches. Also - does anyone know what the song playing halfway through Finals 1 was? I have no clue what it's called, and I really want to find it... :(

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Here's the photos i have from walking around: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1&l=ce7ac7bb40

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Wow! I knew you guys were driving good out there, but I didn't realize just how good until I watched the videos from the robot's perspective. You were playing great D and helping out with picks on offense with seamless transition. That 1 point goal in QF 1 was brilliant!

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2485 would like to thank our good friends on 987 for taking another crack at it with us in the elimination rounds. We thought that we had fixed our shooter before match F-2, but apparently we hadn't; they did all of the heavy lifting in those finals matches and they weathered the games like the champs that they are. We would also like to say thanks to Team 2478; we were thrilled and surprised that you were still available to round out the alliance. Your GoPro footage tells the story clearly: smart playing, powerful shooting, and amazing driving! We certainly hope that all three of us end up on the same field in St. Louis.

It was intense watching 1717, 3476, 678 and 2122, 399, 1572 duke it out over and over again in the semifinals. Both alliances ran the gauntlet on that one. Kudos to all teams involved!

Congratulations to 1266 for the Engineering Inspiration award and to 1515 on winning their 3rd Chairman's award!

2485 certainly felt fortunate and had a great time in Vegas. We look forward to returning in 2015!

Good luck to all of the teams that are playing in St. Louis!

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Las Vegas Regional Videos April 3-5, 2014 YouTube Links & Scores - Aerial Assist. The Regional was held at Cashman Center.
Most of these HD videos were shot by Gary Hedge, a mentor on Team 3476, Code Orange. The video follows the action with close-up zooms, tilts and pans. Scores are shown at the end of match.
A highlights video of Team 3476’s 2014 robot, Hanalei, for Championship pre-scouters is available on YouTube at: http://youtu.be/NRo1hbfD7Lk .

Team 3476, Code Orange, was the first pick by the #3 Alliance Captain, Team 1717, d’Penguineers. Team 687, The Nerd Herd, rounded out the alliance. The alliance beat the #2 alliance in the Semi-finals to move on to become Finalists, losing by a narrow margin to the #1 Alliance of Teams 2485, 987 and 2478. Code Orange received the 2014 San Diego Regional Chairman’s Award.

Other 2014 Las Vegas Regional videos have been posted by:
hlipoo7: (full field from a little right of center) https://www.youtube.com/user/hlipoo7/videos
Kevin Hjelstrom: (from left side) https://www.youtube.com/user/70PoundsOfDoom
Ben Nye: (Right of center from behind scoring table) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXx...-Ql09Vw/videos
Westwood Robotics: (GoPro on robot in Elims) (Code Orange at 11:45) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBE...LaP1c5FecXNGKg

FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Quarterfinal 1-1 http://youtu.be/7ceXPDoQDW0
Score: Red 241 points; Blue 106 points. Alliance #1 RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 2478, frc 2485, frc 987 vs. Alliance #8 BLUE Teams (on right) frc 3245, frc 988, frc 4.

FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Quarterfinal 1-2 http://youtu.be/Ib1DNQQhdP0
Score: Red 245 points; Blue 58 points. Alliance #1 RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 2478, frc 2485, frc 987 vs. Alliance #8 BLUE Teams (on right) frc 3245, frc 988, frc 4.

FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Quarterfinal 2-1 http://youtu.be/-egDRX0jR3k
Score: Red 146 points; Blue 102 points. Alliance #4 RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 3019, frc 1538, frc 3255 vs. Alliance #5 BLUE Teams (on right) frc 4322, frc 4276, frc 3309.

FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Quarterfinal 2-2 http://youtu.be/rCUawd94Zkk
Score: Red 170 points; Blue 112 points. Alliance #4 RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 3019, frc 1538, frc 3255 vs. Alliance #5 BLUE Teams (on right) frc 4322, frc 4276, frc 3309.

FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Quarterfinal 3-1 http://youtu.be/bBMD1PbhML4
Score: Red 177 points; Blue 131 points. Alliance #2 RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 2122, frc 1572, frc 399 vs. Alliance #7 BLUE Teams (on right) frc 3598, frc 2486, frc 2102.

FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Quarterfinal 3-2 http://youtu.be/GEglkvg9eyQ
Score: Red 181 points; Blue 57 points. Alliance #2 RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 2122, frc 1572, frc 399 vs. Alliance #7 BLUE Teams (on right) frc 3598, frc 2486, frc 2102.

FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Quarterfinal 4-1 http://youtu.be/H8Fa9PFbkts
Score: Red 195 points; Blue 61 points. Alliance #3 RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 1717, frc 3476, frc 687 vs. Alliance #6 BLUE Teams (on right) frc 1266, frc 1165, frc 60.

FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Quarterfinal 4-2 http://youtu.be/ccOwm0qFmjU
Score: Red 165 points; Blue 98 points. Alliance #3 RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 1717, frc 3476, frc 687 vs. Alliance #6 BLUE Teams (on right) frc 1266, frc 1165, frc 60.
FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Semifinal 1-1 http://youtu.be/GMeK0eKnxig
Score: Red 225 points; Blue 77 points. Alliance #1 RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 2478, frc 2485, frc 987 vs. Alliance #4 BLUE Teams (on right) frc 3019, frc 1538, frc 3255.

FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Semifinal 1-2 http://youtu.be/zoAxEnw9_bs
Score: Red 235 points; Blue 158 points. Alliance #1 RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 2478, frc 2485, frc 987 vs. Alliance #4 BLUE Teams (on right) frc 3019, frc 1538, frc 3255.

FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Semifinal 2-1 http://youtu.be/DHwXH4nyUnk
Score: Red 211 points; Blue 96 points. Alliance #2 RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 2122, frc 1572, frc 399 vs. Alliance #3 BLUE Teams (on right) frc 1717, frc 3476, frc 687

FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Semifinal 2-2 http://youtu.be/ngai8L37umY
Score: Red 152 points; Blue 165 points. Alliance #2 RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 2122, frc 1572, frc 399 vs. Alliance #3 BLUE Teams (on right) frc 1717, frc 3476, frc 687

FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Semifinal 2-3 http://youtu.be/gTJ_rEvVkEY
Score: Red 136 points; Blue 295 points. Alliance #2 RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 2122, frc 1572, frc 399 vs. Alliance #3 BLUE Teams (on right) frc 1717, frc 3476, frc 687

FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Final-1 http://youtu.be/xvxrYuNC4hk
Score: Red 166 points; Blue 145 points. Alliance #1 RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 2478, frc 2485, frc 987 vs. Alliance #3 BLUE Teams (on right) frc 1717, frc 3476, frc 687

FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Final-2 http://youtu.be/6n-XEj5Ege8
Score: Red 175 points; Blue 130 points. Alliance #1 RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 2478, frc 2485, frc 987 vs. Alliance #3 BLUE Teams (on right) frc 1717, frc 3476, frc 687

Qualification Matches:
FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Match #03
Link to video by Gary Hedge: http://youtu.be/wHD4PdSdclg
Score: Red 136 points; Blue 95 points. RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 1717, frc 3577, frc 988 vs. BLUE Teams (on right) frc 5049, frc 3476, frc 2403.

FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Match #16 http://youtu.be/in9Z2AQ9Jbc
Score: Red 111points; Blue 105 points. RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 1631, frc 1538, frc 2493 vs. BLUE Teams (on right) frc 585, frc 2486, frc 3476.

FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Match #24 http://youtu.be/qyTLU3yN4eo
Score: Red 185 points; Blue 160 points. RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 2485, frc 3476, frc 3187 vs. BLUE Teams (on right) frc 1661, frc 4146, frc 2102.

FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Match #33 http://youtu.be/fP1_hG7qT08
Score: Red 210 points; Blue 87 points. RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 1515, frc 1726, frc 3476 vs. BLUE Teams (on right) frc 5049, frc 4962, frc 3255.

FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Match #37 http://youtu.be/Tu7ObM3UT14
Score: Red 225 points; Blue 215 points. RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 3501, frc 987, frc 3476 vs. BLUE Teams (on right) frc 1726, frc 1572, frc 4800.

FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Match #43 http://youtu.be/b34D9qb8Pwc
Score: Red 121 points; Blue 117 points. RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 3476, frc 4470, frc 2478 vs. BLUE Teams (on right) frc 3501, frc 1197, frc 3598.

FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Match #55 http://youtu.be/C_0FJcJG37Q
Score: Red 155 points; Blue 145 points. RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 4322, frc 60, frc 987 vs. BLUE Teams (on right) frc 4146, frc 3476, frc 3598.

FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Match #59 http://youtu.be/lQV44F_kK-0
Score: Red 136 points; Blue 190 points. RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 3245, frc 3309, frc 3476 vs. BLUE Teams (on right) frc 2122, frc 1165, frc 4276.

FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Match #60 http://youtu.be/77lXtrdpehY
Score: Red 131 points; Blue 81 points. RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 1717, frc 1538, frc 687 vs. BLUE Teams (on right) frc 1266, frc 5012, frc 2034.

FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Match #74 by Ben Nye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS_0YADMEsc
Score: Red 36 points; Blue 230 points. RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 2034, frc 585, frc 4792 vs. BLUE Teams (on right) frc 3476, frc 1266, frc 4276.

FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Match #82 by Ben Nye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkSmayFNElU
Score: Red 115 points; Blue 166 points. RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 4, frc 687, frc 3965 vs. BLUE Teams (on right) frc 3476, frc 4160, frc 2429.

FRC 2014 Las Vegas Regional Match #86 http://youtu.be/bLsIWyOzX_k
Score: Red 190 points; Blue 147 points. RED Teams (drivers on left) frc 1631, frc 988, frc 3476 vs. BLUE Teams (on right) frc 3598, frc 5012, frc 3019.