2016 Los Angeles Regional
 

Just one week away from the Los Angeles Regional!

66 teams (62 from California, 1 from Hawaii, 1 from Nevada, 2 from Chile)
5 2015 Regional Winners
12 2015 Championships participants
4 2015 Championships Division Winners!
1 2015 Einstein Finalist (welcome back to L.A. 987)
1 2015 Championship Winner (sorry for missing that the first time around Gryffingear)
5 Rookie Teams

Should be awesome.

http://www.thebluealliance.com/event/2016calb

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and....

1 2015 Championship Winner

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Anyone know if load-in will include an opportunity to set up our pits as allowed per new FRC policy this year (choice is up to individual Regional PC's)?

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I believe our team is planning on the new pit set-up time, but I don't have anything that definitively states that LA is upholding the new policy.

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No official statement either way from the regional folks in emails. And the site just says "load in" for Wed night. I've emailed them for clarification.

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Just got word back: pit set up is a GO!

Official letter is being sent out to teams on Monday.

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Does anyone know if we expect to have 8 matches per team, given that there are 66 teams at this regional? I recall having 9 in past years.

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I remember reading somewhere that there's going to be 9 per team.

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Congratulation to team 3309, Friarbots on their well deserved Regional Chairman's Award!

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Can someone explain how 294 earned a wildcard? I am just curious because it wasn't clear after looking at the awards list on TBA for this regional. (it never specifies how, but usually it's obvious after say for example a team double qualifies by winning EI and the regional or the team is a HOF team and they won, but it wasn't clear here)

We won wildcard due to 5012 being prequalified as 2015 world champions

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Oh right, congrats on the wildcard! I forgot about 5012 being world champions.

Speaking of 5012, how in the world did they fall all the way down to the last overall pick!?

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Search me. Gotta admit, they've got a pretty decent record as a last-round pick in the draft--only a World Championship and now a Regional Winner.

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Looks like after the webcast (graciously hosted by 702) got taken down, the stream got moved to YouTube. Here's the archive (SF and F matches only)

Congrats/good job to all teams.

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They won a regional in this fashion last year too...

Good scouting pays off ;)

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Wow! Very impressive regional.

Team 4276 had their best performance to date: 7th place at the end of Quals and 5th alliance captain for elimination rounds.

A big thank you to all the teams who played with us, especially Team 3476 (Code Orange) and Team 1138 (Eagle Engineering) for joining our alliance. We had a blast.

Week 5 in Las Vegas will be here before we know it!

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Thanks to everyone who put this year's regional together. Another well run event...sorry to hear this is it for this venue:( Thank you 1197 for seeing through the mechanical and programming bugs we had in qualifications and asking us to join you. Good second pick of 5012 as a strong defensive addition to our alliance... obviously. Hats off to the number one alliance for taking the finals to 3 with awesome game play. Hope you all get a chance to go to Champs along with 294 via a wild card.

Kudo's to 3309 on your Chairman's win against a strong field of contenders.

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Thank you to everyone for another great event! LA is always a very well run event.

Thanks to 1197 and 987 for selecting us to join you in playoffs. 987 is always great to play with, glad we could do it again this year! 1197 is a rising CA team, I can't wait to see how they do at AZ West and Championships!

Thank you to teams 294, 330, 1452, 5510, 696, 207, 4763, 5851, and 6000 for some awesome playoffs matches!

See you at Las Vegas and Championships!

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Where did you hear this??

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I heard it from someone on the planning committee. A pro hockey team will be using the venue.

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Interesting. Did they happen to say where they would be going next?

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Great competition! Does anyone have a video of that final match? 330 managed to flip itself over there!

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We do, but it is full field and might not give the best view of that. I'll see if one of the students can upload it to Youtube at school today. Seeing 330 do that was pretty impressive- I know I would like to see it again :)! The best part is, they still had a boulder and scored it after they righted the bot.

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The committee is actively looking for a new home.

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Valencia High School? :cool:

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Final match is at https://youtu.be/IulNn2whPXw?t=5406

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We were shocked to see them available! All of you Southland teams out there: They have an amazingly run team that brings an X factor to your alliance!

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LA was a lot of fun. We had a great time showing off what our robot can do, from scoring autonomously, to climbing, slam dunking, getting up, and even falling from the tower.

Thanks to 294 for picking us, and 1452 for growing the green 'fro. Congratulations to 1197, 987, and 5012 for forming an awesome alliance. I hope we'll get a chance to see you guys at Championships

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I definitely agree! I never would have expected to be picked by 294 and 330, and it was great (albeit stressful) driving with you guys. Once our robot was renovated and I figured out how to play defense, it was a lot of fun and a great way to end my FRC career!

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Okay, I gotta ask. Was the noodle-blocker your team's addition or 330/294's cheesecake?

Either way, it was super interesting to see it come out in finals.

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The noodle blocker was 294/330's. Our robot was designed to breach defenses, not play defense. However, 294 chose us to play defense for them so we had to make some major modifications.

Feel free to check out what our robot originally looked like here (drag the CAD at the bottom, it's 3D!). We didn't need to see the far end of the field, go over the cheval de frise / portcullis, or intake balls in the finals, so we took a bunch of stuff off to make room for the pool noodles and minimize ramming damage.

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We were wondering when the noodles would show up:) And they did block a couple of shots( auto target/shooting was slower on those occasions and probably should have switched to manual shot:)) revisions ready by LVR will give us better options...

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Thank you for picking us. We had a blast playing with you and 1138.

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A special thanks needs to be given to 696 for their incredible display of GP. Both our comp bot and our backup worm gearbox steel shafts were twisted and they saved the day by bringing us some replacement shaft that Bill in the Cows Machine shop lathed for us. Kudos to all who helped out. You made a lifetime BFFRC for sure:)

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Sorry its been a couple of days.

Team 294 wanted to say that once again we had an amazing time at the Los Angeles regional. This year we rebounded after having a sub-par year in 2015. With a much larger team full of rookies, we are very proud of our students. We didn't know what to expect of our robot this year and once we got our match schedule... (we likened it to murder's row) we thought we stood no chance beating 330 or 987 in the Qual matches. However whether it be luck or some amazing gameplay, we managed to go undefeated in the Qual matches. Though we truly wish we would have had the chance to play with 987... that would have been a great pairing.

We would like to congratulate 1197 987 and 5012 in the amazing finals matches and pulling out the victory. We would like to thank our partners team 330 and 1452. For those of you who don't know team 294 has not been in an alliance with 330 since 2001.. so it was so awesome to play with our friends (instead against them... ) And 1452 thanks for letting us put on the key lime cheesecake. It was a lot of fun.

Finally congrats to 3309 (my alma-mater) for winning Chairmans, you guys have come such a long way and its amazing to see where you will go next.

See you all in the Orange County Regional!

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Thanks Ken! This is an awesome milestone for us. Look forward to seeing 294 again at OCR.