Re: 2006 NASA/VCU Regional!
 

ok NOW itd officalley over!

Re: 2006 NASA/VCU Regional!
 

That was a pretty cool tournement. The stream wasnt working for me, and then i realized that i it was on Nasa TV, so i turned on the TV. ahahaha. That semi-finals match between 1 and 4 seeds that was one point difference, woh, that was pretty close.

Re: 2006 NASA/VCU Regional!
 

CONGRATS 384! I can't belive you guys won again for Chairmans! I'm so happy for everyone! Can't wait to see you at Champs!

Re: 2006 NASA/VCU Regional!
 

Congratulations to all the teams--it was a heck of a time, from what I saw on the webcast. (Did anyone else get bumped from the server around semis for the server being busy?)

Further metaphorical green dots to Dave for both channeling Dean's ability to ask folks to do things at events, and for managing to slip in a Heidi Foster reference. (The Jeff Seaton photo gallery, anyone?)

Man, now I really can't wait to see 343 in action at Palmetto!

Re: 2006 NASA/VCU Regional!
 

Definately! We thought the picks were after lunch! Our team got rushed and confused and held up the wrong team number for me to pick! (Thought 1095 was 539), so we spent the whole break trying to improve 539 so it could work with our strategy. Needless to say our performance was pretty bad, our hopper broke (but we fixed it), 975 flipped, and 539 lost a wheel). Also, the funniest part for me is that we were picked twice when we were ineligable, it was funny, and it made us feel good. :-). Catch everyone at Championships! Peace!

Re: 2006 NASA/VCU Regional!
 

Thanks to all for the congrats from team 1610....also thanks to teams 343 and 1598 as great alliance partners and to sparky and thier alliance and all the other great teams....you'll see sparky and some of the others (team 401 being one) again in atlanta. once again thanks folks

Re: 2006 NASA/VCU Regional!
 

A special thank you to teams 1610 and 343 for noticing us and bringing us into a GREAT alliance. Thanks to all our partners and opponents for a great weekend. We hope to be in Atlanta !!

Re: 2006 NASA/VCU Regional!
 

/i come out of my closet and make first post

I just wanted to thank teams 540 and 510 for choosing us to be in your sweet alliance. we did our best and we're proud of ourselves, y'all(510, 540), and all other teams at the regional. unfortunately, we won't be going to nationals, but luck goes out to those who are going, notably 1610, 1598, 343, 435, 384. Great job!

Re: 2006 NASA/VCU Regional!
 

First of all, congrats to everyone for making this year fun. All teams did a good job

1610 - I don't know how you guys pulled it off but good job.
343 - That robot was awesome; hope the turret works out better in Atlanta
1598 - Awesome job. You fill in the holes for the others.

384, 435 and 1522 - You guys had awesome robots and performed very well. 384, good shooter and range; you guys have something good every year. 435, good shooting and nice bot; you guys always think of something that works well. 1522, you guys had one of the best performing autons out on the field; good job.

After seeding was done, I looked at the list and match-ups with a few other people and made my picks based on what I saw from my job as real time scorer:

Quarter-Finals

1731,414,401 vs 928,1908,1793: They had the shooters and dumpers.
384,435,1522 vs 1137,222,122: All had autonomous modes and high shooters.
1222,1086,1002 vs 510,540,587: 1222 alliance did not have the shooters but still good match.
1541,975,539 vs 1610,343,1598: 1610 alliance had the shooters and Autons, the ace that won matches

Semi-Finals (Best semi-finals that I have seen)

1731,414,401 vs 384,435,1522: Tight Match but 384 had the shoot/auton needed
510,540,587 vs 1610,343,1598: Tight match but shooters won. One of the good matches.

Final Match


384,435,1522 vs 1610,343,1598: To be honest, I predicted 384's crew to win until about twenty seconds into the 2nd period of the first match. It was a good match that made me proud. Both teams fought to the end and to my surprise, 1610 pulled the win with their partners from 343 and 1598.

Excelleny job too all on and off the field. One of the smoothest years to memory and fun. Good luck to all in Atlanta and secondary regionals.

Re: 2006 NASA/VCU Regional!
 

The head ref in NJ did enforce the speed limit, calling for speed checks on all the top shooters. 25 and 103 were consistently at 11.7 m/s (103 got called twice, probably because they were scoring from mid-field, but were legal). Three teams were over the limit on the first check (15.5 m/s was the highest), but we let them dial in using the time-of-flight device.

Obviously, we have to rely on the teams policing themselves to some degree, since they could sandbag at the speed test, but I think everyone at the NJ event was very close to 12 m/s on Saturday - they knew the head ref was watching closely!

Re: 2006 NASA/VCU Regional!
 

Thanks. We worked hard on our robot and on our image as a team to get to this place. Congrats to all teams who participated in VCU Regionals. It was an AWESOME experience working with you guys, and getting to knwo your team. Looking forward to Chesapeake Regionals, (and may be Chairmans over there ;) )

Re: 2006 NASA/VCU Regional!
 

Congrats to 1610,343,1598 on the win. We'll see you guys in Atlanta.

401 wasn't expecting to be picked (especially by the 1st seed), because of our unfortunate seating during qualifications. Our robot was ready, but most of us were wondering where we were going to go for lunch. Thanks to 1731 and 414 for picking us. Pity the DQ cost us the tournament. No hard feelings though, 414.

It was a good regional by all teams, in spite of having probably the most oddities of any regional every year.

Re: 2006 NASA/VCU Regional!
 

Was it only me that was very surprised that 414 (placed second) accepted and joined 1731 (placed first) and gave up there chance of being the winners and going to atlanta???




(On the other hand, by joining team 1731 they were on the paper the strongest alliance....)

Re: 2006 NASA/VCU Regional!
 

Did anyone notice that most of the rookie teams were more prepared than veteran teams? 1731 was shocking most of all, they were a perfect candidate for the rookie allstar award. I expected so much more from a couple of teams and I was shocked when they didn't perform as well as they usually do.

Re: 2006 NASA/VCU Regional!
 

Congratulations to 1610,343,1598 on winning the VCU! U guys did awesome..and so did the other teams too!

-Court-