Re: 2007 Silicon Valley Regional
 

yea we're like the 25th seed and have the two highest scored matches at the regional (128-0 and 290-2).... we'll have to see if the top 8 evens itself out tomorrow.

as for who is solid i think 100, 114, and 668 stick out. well of course i say my own team but i seriously think we have been solid when our steering wheel wasnt borken haha. 254 is just gettign beat up out there. they're double teamed just about every match which is really hurting their scores. but they should still probabaly be chosen for the playoffs...

Re: 2007 Silicon Valley Regional
 

Does anyone know how Team 987 is doing? They're my alma mater and it's driving me crazy that the scores aren't available. :ahh: Any info would be appreaciated- Thanks!

Re: 2007 Silicon Valley Regional
 

They're currently seeded in the top 10 -- somewhere around 5 or 6, I think. We haven't run the data yet, but I imagine they're one of the best ringer-scoring machines at the event, alongside 100, 114 and 254.

Re: 2007 Silicon Valley Regional
 

how about team 368? I heard you folks went out to dinner with them.:D

Re: 2007 Silicon Valley Regional
 

We invited the two teams that traveled from Hawaii to our hotel for a party and dinner last night. We had a great time meeting everyone and have been cheering them on all day.

I don't recall their exact seed, but I think they're somewhere in the teens right now. They have a good machine, but the scheduling seems like it has been working against some folks more than it should have.

Re: 2007 Silicon Valley Regional
 

Thank you.
There are 4 Hawaii teams this year. The other two will be in Vegas, including us. We also just finished competing in NJ and our team is still feeling the jet lag and missed schoolwork after being gone for a week and a half.

Good luck to you folks! We actually travel to Seattle every year after competing in a national electric car race every year in Portland. There is a team from Seattle called team sealth that competes against us every year!
We watch the Mariners and shop in Tualip?? at the outlet mall yearly!!:D and go to the casino's next door of course.......hehe.....

Re: 2007 Silicon Valley Regional
 

Our robot is finally fully functional! We struggled today with programming but we had near final code for our last match today and our robot scored 4 tubes including one at the last second to tie the match. Tomorrow we should be scoring 5-6 a match now that the robot is fully functional.

The robots the stood out for me today were 488 and 190. Both teams have fantastic ramps and will be very important come elimination matches.

Good luck and have fun tomorrow!

Re: 2007 Silicon Valley Regional
 

Same as 766, we only finally now have a fully fucntional bot. We're looking to turn it on tomorrow and finally have it actually performing to its real level.

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1070 had the la regional to work out a majority of our kinks in the lift sytem but now, they are working next to perfect. also, we've been working on our defense...

im really looking forwards to tomorrow's matches...

Re: 2007 Silicon Valley Regional
 

We are an entirely defensive bot, we are currently ranked 5th. We seem to be pushin people around and makin it hard to score. But we can climb any ramp. Some good fun out there, playin defense. Come and stop by our pit.

Re: 2007 Silicon Valley Regional
 

It's been a great regional so far, and I look forward to tommorow as I head off to sleep. The one thing that really keeps our team running to the level we've achieved is our meetings. Other teams could learn from this: it eliminates just about all og the chaos. After every match, no matter the outcome, no matter what, all memebers but the key scouters in the stands go off to a quiet corner and meet. It really keeps everyone involved, and it allows us to highlight all that needs to happen, to schedule who's in the pit when, and to refocus onto what we need to do.


And designing the robot before touching tools made us able to work with one heck of a machine.

Good luck to all teams tommorow!

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Thank you!!! Hopefully the website will be working tomorrow. Wish I was there! Sounds like great fun! Believe me, you definitely miss this when you get to college. Good luck to all of the teams!

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They are actually in the top 5, I believe they are seeded 3rd.

Re: 2007 Silicon Valley Regional
 

What's the verdict on the competitiveness of this regional? Most competitive SVR yet? What about a run down on the current "all-stars." How is 488 doing? What kind of scores are being put up? Why haven't they uploaded the results to the website?

Re: 2007 Silicon Valley Regional
 

I can't speak to how more or less competitive things are this year than in years past, but so farm we feel as if things here are a bit less competitive than PNW was two weeks ago. In Portland, we saw none of the problems people reported in week two regarding robots missing matches and failing inspection and the like, but that sort of thing seems to be very prominent here in San Jose. As the day went on, things got better, naturally, but the ramp up took a lot longer than it did in Portland. Because our design requires some participating from other teams to be effective, today was a trying day for us.

We're doing okay. We are 3-2-1, I think, and have been pretty steadily improving our performance. I think we all underestimated how badly battered and bruised our machine was after PNW, so it took us a bit of time to get everything back in shape. Tomorrow, we expect to lift well in our remaining two qualifying matches and continue the trend we established this afternoon.