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It still is.. I'm wondering if they are on lunch break or something.. I mean it is like 1 or 2 there isn't it?? (I have no idea just so you know)

Edit: hahaha it just started when I finished this

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Did the webcast just skip for anyone? I was watching the end of 254's match, and waiting for the score, and then it jumped to the end of 190's match, which ended in a tie..

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Yes.. That happened for me too. I think that 254's alliance won (because of my own calculating). But I don't know about penalties so I don't know for sure who the winner was.

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WOW! I was able to tune into the webcast just now, and I still can't believe it. The Cheesy Poofs just got knocked out of the finals! History has just been made in the Silicon Valley Regional!

They still did a wonderful job though.

All I can say is, Wow!

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The laws of probability have been (somewhat) restored in California. Congrats to the eventual champions, and also to 254 for sustaining such an incredible run.

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Who won?

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It's not over until the fat lady sings. :Puts hand to ear: I don't hear anything yet..
Oh, sorry.

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Well he's commenting on the quarter final match where the alliance with 1070, 692 and 254 was defeated. So the regional isn't over yet but it was surprising after so many years of winning the regional that the Poofs lost so early in the elimination matches.

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I just tuned in and I am really impressed by 488's ramps, they work really well. 100 was a great scoring machine, but it was 488's ramps that beat them. I have a feeling the 488's ramps are going to be successful in the finals.

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Yah Xbot (488) is great with their ramps. What worked when we faced them was to play defense on them and the people trying to get up their ramp till the 15 second mark. If nobody plays defense on them though its huge points.

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well I must say wings (not ramps) seem to do much better than ramps themselves, don't worry not trying to start another thread like that, but they are wings lol. In my personal opionion they work much better than ramps

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The finals are tied 1-1
Red team 488,766,852
Blue team 1516,1280,190

First match blue got more rings on but only one robot was able to get up the ramp. The other one was disabled or not functioning I'm not sure which. Red team got ramp points to win.

Second match one the red robots(852?) has a ring thrown onto its flag and its partner (766?) had to grab it off. While it was cool teamwork it slowed them down and the blue team has 32 rack points to only 4 from the red team. Both teams got ramp points, but red could not overcome the rack points by blue.

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190 has a pretty sick machine!

Looks and functionality!

The ramps are what got me :D

Great job everyone!

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Go Team 190!!
Congrads everyone.

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By my count, the Cheesy Poofs have won 13 of the 17 FRC regional competitions that they have entered. By any standard, that is an absolutely amazing record! No one else even comes close. There are two records in FIRST that may never be broken - the mightly Team Hamond's unbelievable run of four National Championships, and the Cheesy Poofs incredible record of winning 76% of the regional competitions they entered over a nine-year period. Congratulations to Team 254 for continuing to be a class act, and congratulations to whoever actually is winning the Silicon Valley Regional (since the FIRST web site hasn't been updated in a while, and the webcast appears to be stuck, I can't tell what is going on with the competition right now).

-dave

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Team 488 didnt win...team 970, 1516, and one other that i cant remember...at least i think that was the numbers. team 970's ramps were great, and their claw was the one that made the most scores....so all in all 970 won the match for the team....at least that is what i think.

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By my count they are 13 for 17, with the only losses being Cleveland in 2002, Sacramento in 2003 & 2005, and now SVR in 2007. Either way, their record is phenomenal. I don't think we'll ever see a streak of the same magnitude as their streak at SVR.

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Wow, I still can't believe they were finally defeated! They were so good at LA, I was sure they would wipe out SVR again...

Congrats to everyone. And props to 190/488's ramps, they were the coolest I've seen this season ;)

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Yup, let's not let the history of team 254 slip through the crack. Let's take a look at their history on their website: http://team254.bcp.org/history.php

10 Regional Champions from 1999 to 2007 (so far) plus 3 Off-Season Cal Games Champions

2004 Regional and National Chairman's Award

Numerous awards at various competition.

And most importantly, through out the years they've let Bay Area teams use their playing field for practice and off-season events, they've volunteered to help us transport the field, setup the field, sent volunteers for the events, and NASA Ames has also setup their mobile machine shop at SVR as well as other regionals.

Oh, they took me to LA with them for the 2001 Fall Classic too.

Their leadership in the Bay Area is undeniable. Hat's off to the Cheesy Poofs for raising the bar and maintaining such a successful program since their rookie year, 1999.

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I only have a few words about the regional: That was fun.

I can honestly say that that was the best regional I have ever been to. After going undefeated during the qualifiers, we lost to an amazing alliance. If we're gonna be beat by anyone, I sure am glad it was someone better.

Thanks for a great competition! See you in Davis!

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Anyone hear about SOAP putting the videos up? I really want to rewatch a few of the matches

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Congratulations to 604 (Leland) for winning Chairman's Award! :)

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I agree, that was totaly awsome!:D Our alliance may not have won; but when it came to tubes we just couldn't be beat:D

Looking forward to Davis!

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Since the servers at FIRST never got the updates on Saturday, (even though the event server said it got sent):

AWARDS:

General Motors Industrial Design 100
Motorola Quality 190
Johnson @ Johnson Sportsmanship 649
DaimlerChrysler Team Spirit 1700
Judges Award 568
Rookie Inspiration 2135
Rookie All-Star 2024
Highest Rookie Seed 2144
Underwriters Lab Safety 840
Regional Finalists 766 852 488
Regional Winners 1280 1516 190
Chariman's 604

Teams in rounds: Elimination

973 114 100
192 2144 581
1070 254 692
846 675 987
624 668 604
1700 971 378


Yes it is true 254 lost a Silicon Valley regional. Qtr final went to three matches - they became disabled in the third and final when they took a hard hit and the main circuit breaker popped. In a true act of gracious professionalism, the entire alliance went over and shook the hands of their victorious competitors.


Hope I got it right. FIRST should be able to get the results off the server when it gets to San Diego.

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The funny thing about 254 losing is that half the teams were celebrating over it. Other than that, it was a great regional. We had some phenomonal tube scorers on our team, but 60 ramp points is hard to beat.:)

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I can't wait for Davis either. You guys were a solid scorer and it was a lot of fun filling up that rack every match.

If anyone wants to see an incredibly heavy offensive match watch our first match of saturday. Us versus 100, with 987 on our side. We used up all 9 of our human player ringers, and the other alliance used 7-8 of theirs, and then us and 987 each grabbed a spoiler and essentially flanked the rack and while we attracted the defense, 987 placed their spoiler. By the end of the match the rack was full. It was quite a sight to behold.

Congratulations to teams 190, 1280 and 1516, you guys were awesome!

Mike C.

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From what I saw, that looked like an awesome regional! Lots of unique scoring robots there. I especially liked team 114's design; it was very innovative and effective. Team 100 had a nice quick machine, but they had some stability issues (low tire pressure?) which led to some interesting matches! I loved 488's lifter, and it was nice to see our old alliance partners 852 get so far in the elliminations. Definately a cool regional!

We shall see... ;) Davis is going to be one awesome regional, I really wish I could go to cheer my team on. I predict that there will be many high scoring and exciting matches.

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Also, team 488 won the Engineering Inspiration Award, great job 488! Your lifters were incredible! I remember on thursday when we climbed your ramps in a practice match, even though we were on the other alliance, that was fun :D

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i believe that the first match of the regional was the best for me. We were in that match and i think it was the highest scoring match of the entire regional (but i was in the pits alot of the time) The score was 290 to 2 we were on the alliance that scored 290. I'm also looking for a video of that match so please PM me with any info on that.

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Thanks, you guys were tough, but it was a boatload of fun.

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Does any have Jason Morella's video, played during the eliminations?

Does anyone have any videos of the competition? I want to see some cause i was in the pit. Especially the match of 114 vs. 100 Saturday morning where the spoiler was used. I heard it was an amazing match!

On behave of team 115 (MVRT) I just wanted to say congratulations to 604 for winning the chairmen award! :) Also, congratulations to team 488 for engineering inspiration. Congratulations to the regional champions 1280 ,1516 190! (190 was an amazing robot) Also, while on that note, congratulations to the Regional Finalists 766, 852, 488. (488 also had great ramps) (several out of state teams doing really well at SVR this year!)

Robots that I think stood out at this competition were 100, 114, 1700, 368, 488, 852 and 190. (but i did not watch that many matches because I was in the pit most of the time... so I know there are a lot more teams the were really good.)

It is true, the poofs did not win. SVR history has indeed been made! They had an amazing record!

Congratulations to all the teams that won awards!
See you all at Davis!
115 will be ready, we hope we have taken out all the bugs in our robot at SVR and will do well at Davis!

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Some Congratulations and Thanks:

First: A hearty thank you to all of our alliance partners, especially our finalist alliance, teams 488(XBot) and 766 (MA Bears). To XBot: We could not have done what we did without your help, especially on defense, and in the area of bonus points. Thank you so much for providing that extra "boost" that put us over the competition. (Also, Congratulations on the engineering award) MA Bears, you guys are great. Your robot was a great all-around support, scorer and defense 'bot, and we thank you.

Thanks also to the officials, Judges, Regional administrators, Pit Admins, and everyone else that helped make this Silicon Valley Regional something to remember. FIRST would not be there without you, and all of your effort shows, whether it's cleaning up the field long after people have left, or using their lunch break to make sure we can see out the lexan of the alliance station, you all are the most hard-core group of people I have ever met. Thank you for all that you do.

Congratulations to the winning alliance, 190, 1280 and 1516. You all just "gelled" out on the playing field, and it showed. 190: Your ramp was an amazing piece of work. From talking to some of you, it was so apparent that you realized all of the possible design flaws with a ramp and went to correct them. It turned out great. Your claw design was also just amazing. 1280: Whether it was acting as a secondary ramp, hanging ringers like crazy, or just getting in the way, you went the "extra mile" and really contributed a lot. 1516: You were the clinchers, the clutch hitters, who may not get as much recognition, but believe me, you were a force to be reckoned with out on the field. And to all of you: I cannot think of a better, more coherent alliance to lose to, and thank you for that.

And last, but most certainly not least, a hearty congratulations to team 604 for their Regional Chairman's Award Win, and likewise, a whopping congrats to all of the other award winners who have been mentioned previously.

I can't wait to see most of you at davis!
-Blair

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I'm trying to improve upon the FIRSTWiki SVR page. It started out as "The Silicon Valley Regional in ________ is usually held at ________." I've improved upon it, but if anyone has some spare time, please add some more information to it.

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it was indeed a good weekend/thursday
thought the cold early mornings, the never ending repeat of the same 10 songs and the unforseen problems, it was a weekend. As this being my first true robotics competiton, it was deffinitely a once in a lifetime experience. I smell a slideshow somewhere...
852 is ready for davis!

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MVRT (Team 115) would like to give a shout out to team 488 XBOT for providing us with a banebots transmission for out drivetrain after one of ours broke. Not only do these guys have a great robot (and my favorite lifter) but they are a shining example of gracious professionalism.

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The matches against the 1070, 254, 962 alliance were some of the toughest I've ever played in the years I've been doing this. Competing against the Poofs anywhere is intimidating, but doing it in their hometown is terrifying. All three teams fielded fantastic robots -- but better than that, they were a fantastic group of people. I'm really happy to have had the chance to play against them again.

Thanks! We are so proud of our lifts. They've proven themselves, time and again, to be reliable and easy to use. Building an armless robot was risky, but we're extraordinarily happy with how well it's worked for us so far.

We recorded the event and will be making it available via SOAP as soon as we can get things split up into matches and compressed. We're still working

Running down to the field to receive our Finalist medals and trophies was fun, but winning the Engineering Inspiration Award took my breath away. We were not expecting anything else and this award means so much to our team. We can't wait for the Championship!!

Thanks, everyone, for a great time. Particularly, all of us on 488 want to extend our sincerest thanks to our alliance partners, teams 766 and 852. You each played some of the smartest matches I've ever seen in FIRST. You all played with amazing, dynamic strategy that made sure we were able to adapt to almost anything that came our way. 852 -- we'll be cheering for you from Seattle while you're competing at UC Davis.

Congratulations to teams 190, 1280 and 1516!

Also, we want to congratulate team 2024! We invited them to join our team for pizza and fun on Thursday night alongside 368 and so we were thrilled when they won an award that qualified them for the Championship.

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I was talking to Jason field-side before and during the playoffs and he mentioned that he'd like to put both videos on YouTube eventually. So stay tuned for possible links.

Congrats to all of the teams who competed in another great Silicon Valley Regional.

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what an exciting regional. the poofs outcome has everyone commenting on what happened and even bringing up the past.
We sure remember the past alright!
We played in San Jose 4 times from 2000-2003 and made the finals all 4 years with the help of our fellow Hawaii teammate 368, 254, and by ourselves.
It involved the Poofs all 4 times! Twice as teammates and twice as an opponent.:D :o

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Yeah I can't wait, I knew we were going to have some problems, but at some points it just felt a bit too ugly for me. Congrats to the winning alliance of 190, 1516, and 1280! Every one of you guys made this year's SVR a really fun first ever regional for me!:)

So that's how we managed to get back on the field? Amazingly I never knew that, but anyways, thank you 488! You made the team pretty darn happy when El Toro X came back on the field.

See you all in Davis!

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Team 766 would like to give a big thanks to 488 and 852. The fact that both these teams were around for us to oick as the fifth alliance captain amazes me. 488 was the best ramp bot and 852 was the second or third best scorer according to our scouts. Both were amazing in the eliminations and were the two most friendly and cooperative teams I have allied with. It was a pleasure working with 488 and 852 and I just hope that us and 852 can ally again in Davis.

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id like to thank the cheesy poofs and the fembots for being alliance partners with the robotrons. we gave our opponents a run for their money. also, congrats the to the regional finalists, also... good luck at nationals!!!

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1070 would like to extend a special congratulations to Team 254 and Team 692. You guys were a great alliance!

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Team 973 had a lot of fun at Silicon Valley. We look forwards to seeing you all at Davis.

Special Thank You to teams 100 and 114. Thank you for picking us.

We are trying to improve our ramp system if anyone is interested.

Also, my scouts took a lot of pictures of other robots, PM me if you want a picture of yours. Pictures are always good for sponsors and the like.

See you all at Davis!

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As a part of the drive team from 1070, I would like to give a VERY BIG thanks to our alliances 254 and 692 for making this an awesome regional for us. We really gave them a run for their money!

Also especially hats off to 254 for encouraging our entire alliance to shake hands with the other alliance. If that wasn't gracious professionalism, I don't know what is! And also good luck to 254 in Nationals. Show them what you're made of!

And congratulations to 190, 1280, and 1516 for winning SVR. You all had great bots!

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On behalf of Team 675, Thanks to Team 987 (High Rollers) and Team 846 (Funky Monkeys) for choosing us into the Elimination rounds and getting to the semifinals.

Team 448, once again, congratulations on your awards.

Team 190 & your alliance, congratulations on your Regional win.

Team 100, on behalf of 675, we can't wait to see you at Davis. Also, I like your Saftey Captain's hat.



I think that 675 did pretty good. Our bot displayed amazing torque and traction (we pushed Team 668, the Apes of Wrath and the Rack at the same time), and the ability to score 60 bonus points with our monster of a ramp.


I'd say that the really notable bots were:

488's bot, for their innovative ramp design (and engineering award!)
254's bot, for their amazingly quick robot and their very effective grabber/scoring mechanism
100's bot, for their grabber mechanism with automatic stop, plus their bot's speed
190's bot, for it's ramp mechanism (you'd have to see it to get it, but it's amazing)
675's bot (I am a bit biased, however), for our amazing display of torque, defensive capabilities, and large ramp

Thanks to all the teams that attended for a lot of good matches, and sorry to any teams whose bots we messed up.

Hope to see at least some of you at Davis or the Nationals!

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Team 692 would like to thank our alliance partners, teams 1070 and 254, for choosing us and making this regional absolutely splendid!

And I agree with RoyalRobo1070. Thanks to 254 for encouraging us to shake hands with the other alliance!

And big congrats to 190, 1516, and 1280!

I especially loved 190 and 488's bots. Those final rounds were VERY intense.

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That hat was a media magnet. The team member wearing it was interviewed by four or five newspaper reporters. It also made the front of the Chronicle. For some reason, a hammer sticking out of a hardhat strikes people as funny.

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Though we were never given the chance to lift you, it was great being allianced with another all girls team. I know some people were hoping for an all girls alliance at Eliminations but we were the closest thing to it.

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Silicon Valley was an extremely rewarding (fun/awesome) experience! once again 254 has amazed us all by their awesomeness. I would like to also congratulate our alliance 692, it was awesome having two all girls team in one alliance.

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I think you did lift us once...second match of quarter-finals, I think? I remember driving onto your ramp with only 3/4 of our robot on your ramp and you still managed to lift us at least 4". =)

Oooh, I was meaning to ask team 488 how their ramps were able to keep lifting even after they cut the power. I never had a chance to ask, though. =[

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They were actuated with gas springs.

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I don't think we got the points for that. I was pretty sure that you guys acted as a counter balance to lift 254 up all the way even if they were on the blue (unsupported) side. Lol, everything was kind of a daze when we saw Raptor lifted.

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Really? I think that was in the first match when we were the counter balance. And then in the second match Raptor was pinned against the rack, so we got on the ramp...

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we did get the points for lifting both bots but i dont think we got the full 60 pts

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Team 987 would like to congratulate the winning alliance (and all of the other great teams that made this regional such an awesome experience for us). We were especially impressed with the friendliness of the folks at the regional and look forward to a return visit! We can't wait to see some of you again, at our regional and/or at Atlanta...

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Team 8 would like to thank and congratulate:
The winning alliance, teams 190, 1280, and 1516 for their victory.
The finalists, teams 488, 766, and 852 for making it to the finals.
All teams that made eliminations, becuase it's something.
Everyone who fielded a robot, because that's what we were there to do.
Everyone who had fun, because what's the point if we didn't have fun?
Everyone who learned something, because learning is awesome.

For those of you we'll see again at Vegas, we can't wait. We plan to actually have an operational bot for Vegas, and hopefully put together a more impressive show. For everyone else, good luck in whatever regionals you go to, and at Championships if you go.

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It was our pleasure. We didn't use those gearboxes, but we knew they'd come in handy for other teams, so we brought them along with us to Portland and San Jose. We started with two; now we have none. :)

As others have mentioned, we use two 125 lbf., closed-loop gas springs per side to lift robots. The gas springs are held closed by some steel hooks that are pulled loose by the Fisher Price motors coupled with a 256:1 Banebots transmission. We need only a fraction of a second of power to spin the FP motors and pull the hooks, then it's up, up and away.

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Any video footage avalable yet?

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Thank you for the hospitality 488! Our Hawaii kids had fun with you and 368 on Thursday. We were real bummed about getting as high as 12th, being one away from alliance captain and then not getting picked up for the quarters. Can't be blamed since our arm showed nothing in our last match because we tied the tie-strap on backwards when we changed out our grips which made tubes fall out....Ouch! To get the all-star rookie award was a total shock! We are so thankful for the recognition and are going to try hard over the next two weeks to get enough money together to make it from Hilo to Atlanta. Our kids want to bring the "haka" there. Thank you to all the teams in regionals...especially McKinley (368) who helped us so much. I"ll return the electrical tape next year..... Aloha all...hope to see some of you in Atlanta if we make it.

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AUGH! Being without an internet connection since the end of the SVR has delayed our being able to make proper thank you's.

Thank you first to Teams 1700 and 971 for picking us for the Eliminations. It was a valiant effort.

We would like to thank especially Team 488 for inviting ourselves and Team 2024 to get together on Thursday night. It was a blast - Line Charades is always a winner! We knew that we were in the company of an Engineering Inspiration as well as some All Stars even before Saturday's awards ceremony. It really broke our hearts when we found ourselves playing against you folks MULTIPLE TIMES and never together. Thanks for the memories you folks and best of luck to you in the Nationals!!

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All of 568 had a great time, just being able to get out of the freezing temps and into the perfect CA weather was one of the best parts for us. This was my third FIRST event, second regional, and favorite regional yet. Ran much more smoothly than the Richmond-VCU regional IMO.

We had a fantastic time hanging out with 1351 on saturday and hope to see you all again next year. At the HI regional hopefully! :D Thanks as well for doing the whole light-swap with us. I still think it's stupid to go to that whole new light set-up... I mean what was the point? A pain to figure out how to wire, and tells you less info than last year's light...

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hey everyone, i was wondering where i can find jason morrella's awesome "silicon valley regional 2007 movie". had lots of cool footage and was just a blast!

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does anyone have any footage? is SOAP ever going to make an SVR section? i need video of SVR...

Re: 2007 Silicon Valley Regional
 

We recorded the raw stream of the event. One of our mentor volunteers is currently cutting up, compressing and uploading the footage from PNW and SVR. It takes hours and hours of work as he is doing it mostly via a portable usb drive (many gigs of raw footage). Be patient, we will get it to soap or somewhere else soon!