Central Valley Regional 2016
 

Surprisingly, no one has made this thread yet, so here it is.
A list of teams:
This regional sure is stacked!

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All DARK GREEN... almost fell on the floor when I made the Excel Team list out.

Excited to see some of the best of the best in CVR only a 5.5 hour drive up at 2am who needs sleep anyhow?

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With four world champions and many more teams that have advanced deep into the eliminations at St. Louis, this year's CVR is looking to be even more stacked than last year's. We are looking forward to getting to interact with and see some amazing teams from all over, and hopefully play with some of them! Good luck to all teams attending!

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Very excited to be going! Can't wait to see some great designs from some amazing teams. Good luck to everyone!

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It's going to be a good event!

Just a reminder, if you are looking for hardware or help fixing/troubleshooting something on your robot that isn't code please come by 1678's pit and ask us if someone is free to help you. We may be too busy to do so at times, but we enjoy helping when we can.

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Or that is code! We don't have as many programmers as mechanical/electrical people, but if we're free, we're happy to help :)

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This is gonna be good.

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Let's not forget, 254 - 2014 Einstein Champions...

Not sure how many regionals have had three WC teams from the last 2 years in the field.

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973 was a WC with 254 in 2011, not 2014

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No, 973 was on Galileo in 2014. Still, they did make it to Einstein that year.

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My apologies. Thanks for setting me straight. But still, there are 4 wc in the field which is very impressive.

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Here is some REAL Field Damage. This is just a fraction of what we are seeing.



This piece of poly is one of the dividers on the Batter.

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More CVR shenanigans.

Turtle bots,


And tower wars.

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Any chance anyone has a picture of the view from 254's camera?

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I feel your pain. As field reset at GSD last weekend I collected at least 15 bent or broken pegboard pins, and that was just one field resetter on one end of the field.

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Looks like 1678 clinched the 1st seed spot.

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At CVR, We believe "Robots are not points"!

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This year's Central Valley Regional was awesome! The atmosphere and facilities were great, every volunteer was eager and kind, and the competition was intense. IMO it was the best CVR yet, and it will only get better. Thanks to 1323, 8, and 5677, you guys were so much fun to work with.

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That funny moment when you look up the results of this event more in depth and discover that the entire finalist alliance (including back up robot) is going to championship

1323 gets a wildcard via 1678 winning the regional and being last years world champion
5817 gets Rookie All Star
8 gets a wild card via 254 winning the regional and being a hall of fame team
5677 gets a wild card via 1671 winning engineering inspiration and being last years world champion

I love the wild card system so much for this very reason, but I am curious about why 8 was unable to play in elims.

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CVR was awesome to attend in person this year. 973 had a good time.

We are uploading our match video to this playlist. Eliminations are up, missing Finals 1 and 2.

Quals should be up sometime tomorrow, Q11 wasn't recorded but all other matches are there.

Enjoy! 973 will see everyone again soon at Ventura :)


Edit: All matches are up!

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And 5136 was on our alliance from Newton in 2014 as well.

We were wondering if so many WC teams had been present at any Regionals before, or so many Einstein qualifiers, or whether WC teams from 2 consecutive years had been allied at a Regional. This one was loaded and shouldn't be overlooked outside of California.

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Awesome thanks for posting the videos loved working with you guys! Good luck in Ventura.

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Can 254 scale? I've only watched a few of those matches, but I haven't seen 254 scale yet.

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They did not in CV from what I saw and I watched most of it... maybe they can? 1678 sure can. One of the coolest moments in CVR was 1678 was getting blocked by a cheesecake at back of courtyard.... then something totally unexpected happened...they raised their shooter about 6 inches or so and hit the HG... what was funny is they only did that once that I saw...very cool. I was shocked they could do that and it was a total surprise.

I thought they were at max height but after that I noticed they are shorter for that purpose. Amazing.

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We did not scale at the Central Valley Regional.

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Does anyone happen to have a photo of the one eliminations match where one blue robot ended up on top of one of their alliance partners on the batter at the end of the match?

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I believe that was QF4-2 (maybe QF4-3).

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4-2

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We did it 3 times in that match and I think twice in the next one. No one bothered to block us after that.

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Thanks to everyone that competed at cvr, it is always a fantastic event, and thanks to every team that gave us feedback or helped us out throughout the weekend, especially Kelly from 1678 for all the help with our cameras. Can't wait to improve and show everyone what we can do at svr week 4!

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Ah, missed your question. Team 8 was very bummed out about about missing the chance to play in eliminations. Unfortunately we had an issue with a fault because of an internal short in our RoboRio (not even the inspectors and control system advisors were sure exactly what was going on to the point where they were going to let it slide). We weren't able to replace our rio in time and so we switched out with 5677.

That said, we are very appreciative of how well our alliance played during eliminations and the fact we are going to St. Louis because of it! Best of luck to 1323, 5817, and 5677!

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Congrats to all the teams going...give them a taste of what CVR teams can do and win the last true Einstein Championship. CA did great last year lets do it again. We'll be rooting all the CA teams on from sunny CA (yea I'm in So cal not that rainy north)...good luck to all. Do it and have a blast.

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Beautiful regional. Not surprised at all with the quality of 254 and 1678, but a lot of teams really made this the best regional I've seen yet.

During Playoffs:

We captured the tower 5.02% more than the average.

We made 2.92 more high goals per match than the average.

We set the world high score.

Also, my prediction: 1678 wins worlds back-to-back.

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Seeing as this is the last "World" Championship for the foreseeable future, this is one of the reasons we have been working so hard this year. We would be elated to win again this year to hold the title of "The Last World Champions" alongside 3 other amazing teams. And none of it has been or will be possible without the help of all the teams we compete with at our events. I personally feel like I never have enough hours at our events to get to know and help enough teams.

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Ah, you're the 11-years in FRC fella I talked to. This game looks like its going to be incredibly competitive at the top level, go get California another win!

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A huge thank you to Alan Hollman and all the volunteers at CVR for putting on another stellar event. 1678 had a blast and thoroughly enjoyed competing with and against some of the best teams in California.

Thank you to our alliance partners, teams 254 and 3970 who both played at the highest level and helped us achieve the world high score of 210 in our second quarter final. Duncan, your team's driving and defense were a joy to watch (much to 5817's dismay) and 254, well you did what you always do and showed the world how the game is supposed to be played.

There were so many awesome teams at the event but I want to give a big shout out to the three rookie teams 5817, 5852 and 6059 for competing with the best of us and inspiring other rookies across the FIRST community.

Big congrats to team 812 for a thoroughly deserved Chairman's Award, team 1671 for EI, team 5817 for RAS and especially to Adam Heard for a well-deserved WFFA. Adam, you and your team have been an inspiration to us for our entire team's history and I'm so happy that you finally got the recognition you deserve.

Once again, thanks to everyone for making CVR such a fun and competitive event and we look forward to seeing some of you at SAC and SVR.

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Wow 812 won cool! Congrats 812. "What time is it?"

A: 8:04

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I've told both 3303 and 3970 that I'm not talking to either of them again after the defense they played on us during playoffs. :D Hopefully we have an easier time avoiding them when we have all four wheels working. :p

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I just wanted to post this here for anyone else that might want to find it. Here is the recordings from the Live Stream / Webcast for CVR: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...VRT93Xl1YR4wcB