Denver Regional anyone?
 

so who all is going to denver? :cool:

Re: Denver anyone
 

I fear for their souls after the FL regional and your alliance... :ahh:

Re: Denver anyone
 

lol thanks i guess but we had some tough times so don't think it was easy :D

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will there be a webcast for the colorado regional becuase i did not see any and if any one knows where a webcast is please post the link

Re: Denver anyone
 

No web cast, at least not from the usual source (NASA). Silicon Valley is the only webcast scheduled for week four.

Re: Denver anyone
 

Team 118 will be there going to a non-texas regional for the first time, uh, ever, I think. We're psyched. We're making our drivers hold their breath while practicing.

The tricks to adjusting to the altitude:

1. Get lots of sleep.
2. Drink lots of water.
3. Don't drink lots of other stuff (alcohol or caffiene).
4. Don't worry about it too much (Denver's only at like 5000 feet, isn't it?)

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Thats funny, I never think about the altitude when I go DOWN to Denver!

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.... the Mile High city is really high compared to Sea Level.. which is what we Floridians are used to...

not to mention its going to be really cold (40-50 degrees F) in comparison to our usual temperature down here (70-80 degrees F)... our uniforms consist of board shorts and T-shirts! plus i heard theres a chance of a snowstorm on Saturday... i checked the weather channel, and it seems that the longer we're staying in CO, the colder its getting... :( i hate being cold, but i'm so excited! i've never seen snow the last time i saw snow i was 2 (so i obviously dont remember) and i've never seen real mountains! :) now hopefully i'll get better (somehow i got sick after UCF :( ) before we fly up. ^^;

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checking the thermostat, it's a comfortable 75 degrees here in houston. i can only imagine the kind of shock i'm going to put my body through going up to colorado and suffering the chilly temps for only 3 days then coming right back to the warm weather. I know i'll be sick for sure.... but it's all worth it, the Robonauts are very excited about being represented at Denver next week.

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I think that accuweather.com has a more accurate forcast for this part of the country. The temperature forcast is usually accurate, however, no one seems to be able to forcast when it will snow. Currently the forcast High for Friday will be 36 degrees. The lows will be in the 20's. Take a look at what they say the 'Real Feel' temp is going to be (their take on wind chill). I would not pay attention to the forcast until the day before you leave, it seems to change a lot from day to day. Just be sure and bring a lot of clothes that you can layer like a long sleeve T-shirt that you can wear under you team shirt and a sweat shirt and a coat.

Re: Denver anyone
 

well i have been in the mountains and i love the cold so i shouldn't have to much of problems unless my sinus's act up and i ill get bad headaches from the altitude but i got sinus meds for that so i should be fine but i love that cold lol :rolleyes:

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and also i love flying in airplanes and jets so altitude shouldn't be a prob :)

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Webcast ? Would someone be interested in starting a webcast at Denver. We can do a simple webcam PC setup, if someone at the regional has a decent server to host the event. If not archiving video might also be an option. It will only take a laptop/desktop, webcam and a big harddrive.

Re: Denver anyone
 

You are so young. Flying in a Piper Archer is fun. Flying on an airliner is just hours stolen from your life.

53 and sunny in Redmond today. People are wearing shorts and playing outdoors.

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Well practice is over and we got snow today. Expecting more snow tommorrow and tapering off on Saturday. Expecting a low overnight of 22 degrees. With a high tomorrow of 38.

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After a long and pretty sucessful practice day of working on the bot, i got to play in the snow and have a snowball fight. We sure got some stares from the Denver kids, but hey, we're from texas, we never get to do this :)

Re: Denver anyone
 

So whats happening who are the strong teams and who are the sleeper teams.

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Just got back from awards. was going to post who got what but FIRST (the website anways) got it up real fast.

http://www2.usfirst.org/2005comp/Events/CO/awards.html

I'll be posting a really long post about my thoughts on the regional soon. Every regional has it's own individual issues, challenges and rewards, and this one has it's own flavor. It's been a lot of work. I've only had 4 hours of sleep in the last two days. But it's been worth it.

Good luck to all the teams in the finals tomarow!

Re: Denver anyone
 

The standings and match results are not coming up for the Colorado Regional. Does anyone know why this might be?

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Im having this problem too, it seems as though every other Regional Standings comes up fine. Can someone post the standings or something just to give us an over view of whats going on. Thanks

Re: Denver anyone
 

At the end of day1 the top seeded teams in order are
1619
233
118
1636
1361
443
1516
938
64
159

hope this helps clue you in.

Re: Denver anyone
 

The problem has come back, if someone could quickly fill in the Denver stats before finals that would be great !

thanks

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So who won and what did the allainces look like. Also what were the final standings at the end of the competion. Also who was your favorite team other than your team.

Re: Denver anyone
 

Final Results on Qualifying Standings

Match Results including Elimination Rounds

Regional Awards

Congratulations on all teams that participated! I wish I was able to go, but I had responsibilities to attain to at school and work. But I will be going to Nationals. :p

Re: Denver anyone
 

The link is not working can somone please post the final resaults.

Re: Denver anyone
 

233 has the rare perspective on this argument being that they won both the regional championship and the regional Chairman's award.
So which one excites you guys more?
And congratulations on winning both.

Re: Denver anyone
 

Well the link works for me. But I will post them anyways since I am such a nice guy. ;)

Rank - Team - WLT - Average
1 - 233 - 10-1-0 - 13.36
2 - 118 - 10-1-0 - 13.27
3 - 1636 - 9-2-0 - 17.54
4 - 1515 - 8-3-0 - 10.18
5 - 159 - 7-4-0 - 17.00
6 - 1619 - 7-4-0 - 16.90
7 - 662 - 7-4-0 - 15.36
8 - 1361 - 7-4-0 - 14.18
9 - 1552 - 7-4-0 - 11.81
10 - 1303 - 7-4-0 - 10.09
11 - 1448 - 7-4-0 - 10.00
12 - 1584 - 6-5-0 - 17.00
13 - 64 - 6-5-0 - 15.90
14 - 935 - 6-5-0 - 14.00
15 - 1666 - 6-5-0 - 13.63
16 - 443 - 6-5-0 - 10.36
17 - 1245 - 6-5-0 - 8.09
18 - 938 - 6-5-0 - 6.81
19 - 1410 - 6-5-0 - 5.63
20 - 1667 - 5-6-0 - 16.90
21 - 1653 - 5-6-0 - 14.09
22 - 1705 - 5-6-0 - 12.36
23 - 1332 - 5-6-0 - 10.63
24 - 833 - 5-6-0 - 10.54
25 - 1357 - 5-6-0 - 9.90
26 - 1583 - 5-6-0 - 9.54
27 - 1158 - 5-6-0 - 9.27
28 - 1691 - 5-6-0 - 9.18
29 - 874 - 5-6-0 - 8.90
30 - 1408 - 5-6-0 - 7.36
31 - 1157 - 4-7-0 - 15.72
32 - 1375 - 3-8-0 - 12.00
33 - 1348 - 3-8-0 - 10.72
34 - 1377 - 3-8-0 - 10.72
35 - 1190 - 2-9-0 - 12.18
36 - 1670 - 2-9-0 - 4.90
37 - 1695 - 1-10-0 - 9.90
38 - 1562 - 1-10-0 - 6.63
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Alliances (in order)

233 - 118 - 935
1636 - 1515 - 1357
159 - 64 - 1158
1619 - 1583 - 1667
662 - 1448 - 938
1361 - 443 - 1410
1552 - 1303 - 1408
1584 - 874 - 1157
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Awards - Team

Imagery - 233
Radio Shack Innovation in Control - 118
Xerox Creativity - 1619
Delphi Drive Tommorrows Technology - 159
Kleiner, Perkins, caufield and Byers - 1448
Judge's Award - 1695
Website - 233
Autodesk Visualization - 64
Regional Woodie Flowers Award - Jesse Johnson
General Motors Industrial Design - 64
Motorola Quality - 1636
Johnson and Johnson Sportsmanship - 1332
DaimlerChrysler Team Spirit - 159
Judges Award - 1562
Rookie Inspiration - 1515
Rookie All Star - 1653
Highest Rookie Seed - 1636
Safety - 1448
Regional Finalist #1 - 159
Regional Finalist #2 - 64
Regional Finalist #3 - 1558
Regional Winner #1 - 233
Regional Winner #2 - 118
Regional Winner #3 - 935
Engineering Inspiration - 1619
Regional Chairmans Winner - 233
_______________

If there are any typos in team numbers and such, sorry about it. And do please correct me.

Re: Denver anyone
 

Thanks Koko. I think this argument depends on the individual. On the team, I have always worked on the robot. I also helped out with fundraising and volunteering. But I was not involved with organizing a presentation and such for the Chairman's Award (that is my sister's job this year). So personally, I would like to have the team win an engineering or design award (or win an event), so everybody who worked on the robot, can receive some recognition. But since this is our team's first time winning Chairmans, I think the team (as a whole) liked winning Chairman's for the time being. :)

Re: Denver anyone
 

Congrats to all the teams at the Colorado Regional. It was a lot of fun to watch from the DU stands. If your regional grows next year itll probably need a place other than a hockey stadium(a tad bit small, but definately a great view and a lot of fun.). I hope it stays in the Ritchie Center though, the VIP room is great (isnt it fun to be Dave Lavery's son?) :yikes:
FIRST, the only place where the VIPs wear safety goggles. ;)

That #1 alliance was amazing. No offense to the rest of the teams, but with 233 and 118 on the same alliance, nobody really stood a chance.

Re: Denver anyone
 

It was an amazing alliance, but can't leave out 935, they were awesome. But we (118) had a speed controller blow out during the semi's so we lost control of turret, which slowed down our capping speed a bit, but the alliance still prevailed in the end. I've gotta say the last finals match was extremely excited though. I loved it. :D

Re: Denver anyone
 

While i sit in my dorm room studying for Calculus III and Thermo... both next week.

I miss robotics!!!

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yeah that was a some great times om the snow and good job 118 and 935 see u guys in atlanta but there was one thing i really did not like and that was the lack of calling loading zone penalties we had that happen 5 times during the course of the competition to us and one time we even had one called on us instead of the team that did it to us but it was cool the staff was volunteers so they were nice to participaite but good job to the rest of the teams and some very interesting designs :yikes:

Re: Denver anyone
 

Were you working on the speed controller while 1448 was working on their chain between the first and second semi match? And what was deal with your human player? I never quite figured that one out.

Re: Denver anyone
 

yeah, we had to drop the Control's box in the middle of the field to trouble shoot why it wouldn't work. We thought we had fixed it when we found a skeptical PWM cable and replaced... but we had no luck after putting the box back in... although it's a nice feature to have all of our controls in a box that is very organized, it turned out to be a tad of a pain when rushed to fix something in the middle of the field. But right after we were able to take our robot back to the pits after the finals ended, we replaced the speed controller, and everything worked like normal.So we are ready for houston. Even without our turret, our drivers did a great job adjusting during the semi and final matches to the new strategy.

As for the human player delima... we were only able to send 3 students to the competition in denver... something about school distric policy and out of state trips and some other issues... so every match we had to "rent a kid" to stand in as our human player and keep the robot enabled, even though we never used the human player during any of the matches. It went fine until the elimanation matches when the adminstration told us we had to have them in robonaut's attire. Giving up the shirt on a mentor's back we were able to solve that and have a legal stand in for the remaining competition.

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Okay, I’m a little biased because i was the Student Project Manager for Chairman's Award for two years in a row, but for this instance, initially the entire team was psyched out at being the FIRST (no pun intended) seeded team at TWO regional event and to bring home the gold at both. that’s not very common, and its the first time our team has ever pulled off something like that.

When it comes to our Chairman's Award submission... I was extremely nervous before they announced the winner. This was two years in the making. When I picked up the project my freshman year, I didn’t really have all the data I needed so I had to do a little research on my own team (it didn’t help that it was also my first year on the team) and last year I ended up scrapping the entire submission together in a hasty 7 straight hours... I’m so glad it didn’t come to that again this year, but it was a good lesson to learn: DON'T PROCRASTINATE!! This year we got started early, and I got some friends on the team to help me out with research and actually writing the essay segment... there is no way our submission could have come together without them! (thank you chairman's award group~) the new format of the submission made things a little interesting.. easier in some aspects, a little harder in others (i.e. creating collages with tons of PINK in them without making them too large of a JPEG... good thing I am the unofficial Graphics Manager too) but all-in-all, despite how much time and effort everyone has put into the team itself over the past 7 or 8 years total, I still had that little knot in my stomach, because I knew there are teams more deserving, and if we didn’t win, I’d be the first so stand and congratulate them personally. But seeing as while they were describing the winner all of our criteria was being met, I kept squeezing the hand of one of my friends (in all honesty I don’t know who it was ^^; I think it was Danielle but I might be wrong) harder and harder until it came up to the part with the body paint, in which everyone knew it was us and I ended up sobbing on the way up to thank the judges. (yea, the little brunette with the light pink beanie on with a constant stream of tears running down her cheeks… that was me ^^; ) When we presented on Friday I had just finished becoming pinkedified and we were actually a bit late for our presentation because we had just had a match, so when we finally walked in, I couldn’t exactly shake anyone’s hands unless they wanted pink on their hands… (I still haven’t gotten all of the body paint off) So obviously in my eyes, winning Chairman’s Award was more rewarding, considering that I not only helped put together our entire submission, I had worked on almost every aspect of the team to try and help spread the teachings of FIRST.

However, if I had made a driver position this year (I’m basically a back-up arm operator, since I spend a great deal of the 6-week build period driving our practice bot) I don’t know what I’d be more excited about, since I had actually helped drive us to victory and I had also worked my butt off with the Chairman’s Award.

As my brother said, I really believe it depends on the individual. Winning the actual FIRST Robotics competition is awesome, because it exemplifies your excellence in different fields of engineering, programming, and mechanics, and awards the skills of your pit crew and drivers. But winning the most prestigious award in FIRST, the Chairman’s Award, that honor is bestowed upon your entire team, members new and old, for they all have contributed to the great success in your team in exemplifying first-hand the true meaning of what it is to be a member of FIRST.

This is a little more than my usual two cents, so thanks for reading. And excuse any stupidity in my sentence structure… I just woke up (our flight didn’t leave at midnight like they promised, but rather at 2am) and after being awake for about 30 hours straight (I barely slept on the plane… turbulence was bad…and I didn’t even take a nap before going to church on Easter Sunday) I totally crashed. I’m still not 100% awake, but I must say this: I miss Colorado! the snow was so much fun, and I love the weather there! I was in board shorts and a t-shirt most of the time, and it felt really nice. (those of you there might remember us making a make-shift ghetto sled and “sledding” down a hill outside of the Richie Center) heehee.. now I’m seriously considering going to college there… :) Thank you everyone there for an awesome time. :D

(and btw… I walked right past Dave Lavery while giving out team awards and was too scared to even say “hi.” ^^; but really.. how would it sound to come up to someone like Dave and say, “hi, I’m Leslie but you probably know me better as Winged Wonder. Anyways, I just wanted to say I’m so excited to actually meet you and I wanted to thank you for helping pave the road for people like me who wish to become astronauts when they get older and go to Mars!” lol yea.. I’ve gotta stop being shy like that… something similar to that happened at UCF with Woody Flowers…)

Re: Denver anyone
 

It's better winning the chairman's award...more prestigious...not that I would complain about the championship or anything...

Re: Denver anyone
 

yeah lesl it was a very good competition for driver and operator and if i worked on the chairmans award and made driver i would have definatly been pshyced but i am very happy we won the award and even more that you helped make it happen even if i wasn't the operator, i would have still been psyched

Re: Denver anyone
 

I spent alot of time working on this year's robot and even though I am excited to see our team succeed on the field, I am definitely more proud of our team winning the Chairman's award. I think that shows the efforts our team has made and the potential it has to keep growing in the FIRST community.

-Kelly