2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Week 3 is already over, and is it just me, or is there still no thread for this Week 5 regional? Because I've searched a few times, never saw one.

Anyways, 115 will be ready to make huge improvements on the performance we had at SVR. 42nd out of 48 teams was not what we had hoped for, but we always fare better at later regionals, and assuming we got rid of the bugs we had, El Toro X will be something worth watching on the field.

Well? Who else will be there? You guys excited or what?

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Oh yeah.....the team is getting prepared to defend their title :)

should be fun! we leave a week from tomorrow, two day drive.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

FRC 100 is working on improving our scouting system.

Its been years since we actually had to chose an alliance and we are a bit rusty. It was fun playing with 114 and 973, but it was a poorly chosen alliance. 973 had a great ramp system that lifted many robots... but they were unable to lift neither 114 nor 100...

I have to say, that both 114 and ourselves underestimated the power of ramps. We thought that an alliance of two powerful tube-scorers would make for an easy victory.

However 60 points is hard to beat when you're constantly being battered by defensive lifters (like 488):o

Anyone know the ratio of ramps to tubers at Davis?

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

I'll be at Davis, volunteering. Reffing or inspecting or both, dunno yet.

Davis will be a very tough regional, because most of the teams going there had their first regional at SVR, and will have worked out the bugs in their robots. There will be some serious competition, it'll be a great regional.

All you people from my old teams, come say hi, I'll be wearing my trademark straw hat. And if you just wanna say hi, feel free :P. See you there!

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

I can't wait for the Davis regional, especially when all of these good robots and teams from SVR are going to be there. 1726 should be even stronger this year than last (although last year was more luck...). We almost took the Arizona regional, and I'm sure we can get a working autonomous and well built claw when we get there.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Yeah, definitely need to improve your scouting system. I remember Andrew standing there with a pile of papers with random scouting data, where as I had a nice half sheet of paper with two columns for ramp and scoring bots.

I've been watching matches off of TBA (which rocks by the way!) and I've noticed a couple methods that hardcore scoring alliances have pulled through victories versus ramp bot alliance that we did not do at SVR. One hint: Aim High :p

Can't wait for Davis, its gonna rock. My personal goal is to average over 4 ringers scored per match throughout the weekend, and maybe even get a keeper or two on ;)

See you all in a week and a half!

Mike C.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

I know 701 is going to rock the house!

Seriously though, this is my first year as an alum and I can't wait to see ya'lls bots this year.

P.S. I get to wake up later than anyone because I live on campus:]

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

701 is one of the teams I'm really interested in seeing this regional. I saw one of your practice videos and my jaw dropped. You guys looked incredibly smooth. Have you guys got any ramps on yet?

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

This will be team 997s first show at Davis/Sacramento and we cant wait.
we were at PNW week 1 and waiting 4 weeks is just killing the entire team,
Best of luck to you all at the competition

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

753 will be showing up again.
After making Finals last year (in a close loss) were hoping to reclaim-some fame.
We love UC Davis, looking forward to meeting you other teams.

(Edit. Glad to see 997 showing up)

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

we do have two ramps, but we will only be using one of them.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Huh? What happened/why?

Were using a grabber with Suction Cups

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

During the Bayou Regional we had problems with one side not lifting so we just took them off. For Davis we are adding sides and a "stopper" on our single ramp so a robot wont have to worry about rolling off the ramp.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

1351 will be there. Like 115, 38/48 at SVR was not so satisfying, so we will see what can be improved (Namely, our arm which we only got working for our final qualifier and didn't even use then). Our chassis is still goin strong though, so look for us with the best defense you've ever seen. :D

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

1671 will be there for sure!!
we have came a long way since last year
working off a very tight budget and using plywood to construct most of the bot to getting a major sponsor, PELCO, to step in and help us out this year. Thanks to them i dont think we would have made it any further than last year. Our programmers are doing excellent, so many things programmed it is pretty much idiot proof to the point when ur driving it, its very hard to screw something up.

we are also proud to announce we will be hosting sundial at this event. it is very possible that we may need 2-3 extra people to help run the system and keeping it up to date since as of now its me, and our head programmer who are both going to be extremely busy. so if you are interested in helping come stop by at comp! i have been talking to pat all night, a few bugs in the program but they should be fixed shortly.

p.s. does anyone know if they have released match schedules yet? it would help us severely in inputing it all into sundial before the comp.

thanks!

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

973 will be there with a better ramp and scoring arm. We're always willing to run defense and our improved ramps should make it so that we are climbable by everyone.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

701 will be there... rockin the house! I'm very impressed with what our team has come up with this year.

And I will finally get to see our matches from the stands this year! It's been like 4 years since i did that!

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

This looks to be one of the most competitive and exciting regionals of the year, I'm really disappointed that I can't go. :( With all of the fast scoring robots competing, I expect there to be many near full racks. Someone be sure to document everything so those of us who are less fortunate can see some of the action!



Go 1726!

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

After a tough year, I'll be happy seeing our robot move and our students enjoy our only event. Good luck to everyone!

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

I take it Sundial is a scouting program?

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Sundial isn't a scouting program, but it is useful. It is a program that hosts the schedule and tells you when your next match is, and what your alliance is.

We actually revised our scouting system greatly this year in hopes of picking. While that didn't happen (43/48 :X) we still have some decent to high quality data from SVR. If any of the teams competing at Davis would like to see it, just ask. We can also share the program we used (768's program with some modifications) and the sheets we used.

-Guy

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

yes, sumadin is right. Its not really a scouting program, its more like the FIRST scoring program, but some what personalized for individual teams. If you would like to get a preview of what its about and how it works here is a link to this years version set up for last years game.

http://sundial.patfair.net/

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

675 will for the first time in our teams history be making it to davis. I'm quite proud of how they've done this year, both in fundraising and building.

Pre-SVR picture

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Hey, who's all entering Chairman's at this competition? Just out of curiosity ^^

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Since I wasn't able to make Silicon Valley Regional last weekend, I will be returning to the Davis Regional volunteering as a referee again.

I really look forward to this because so many Cal Games Teams are showing up! (100, 114, 115, 766, 1280, 1351...)

See you next weekend!

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

I hear at the Sacramento Regional, they've declared that the pit size is smaller than usual. (9' by 9')
This is going to make so much trouble! Not only are we going to have to find a new way to fit all our stuff into the pit but we're going to have to cut large sections off the frame and remake it. *frustration*

*now for the positive stuff*
Our pit is going to be right beside 997's! (PNW Champs) :D
Gonna be great! Good luck everybody!

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

yeah it's going to be awesome to by some real neighbors :P :P

and I cant believe that, we just had a banner made to put up sponsors and other places.
>.> dang it, that's like a multi hundred dollar investment.
to bad about your frames that stinks

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Could you please tell us where you heard that?

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

I believe that the main contacts were sent an e-mail be the local regional director (I got one today)

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

I 2nd this, I got mine today too.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

I can't wait for Davis, especially with our buddies over at Team 100 going as well.

Also, we get to meet some teams we've not seen before. This'll be 675's first year at Davis, and we hope to do really good.

Heh, I thought you had disappeared, Jefferies. (And yes, I'm aware you're going to RIT).

Yeah, we've been doing pretty good. We made it to the semifinal rounds with the #3 Alliance at SVR. Gloria had her arm taken off -- it was useless anyways and now we make weight. If you want more information, feel free to PM me.


Anywho, 675 is hoping for a Regional win or Regional Runner-up (Preferrably the first, but we'll have to see). We're really glad to be doing as good as we are and we want to go to Nationals.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

I sent that out. With 39 teams, and the 15' x 30' Practice Field, it was felt there wasn't room for 10x10 pits so it got reduced to 9'x9'. Not my decision - just the bearer of bad news. I do apologize for not getting that info out earlier, it was dicussed 3 weeks ago, but I didn't realize the finality of it until I got the pit layout this Wednesday. Our team has gone ahead and reduced our PVC Structure to 9'x9' (easy for PVC). If you have a 10' banner, maybe the sides can wrap around 6" on each side? A metal pit structure? I'll pm you. Sorry folks, if we continue to expand this regional, we may very well end up on the 3rd floor. It could be worse.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Better to get this information now than show up in Davis expecting a bigger one. At least teams have time to adjust their pit. Thanks for the heads up.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Thanks for understanding. After seeing some of the pits at Bayou and last year at PNW, we've toyed with making a pit out of 80/20 or BOSCH extrusion. Luckily we keep taking the cheap way out and continue using PVC.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

It's Jeffries, but no matter. I'll be out in June to take a better look at the bot and take a look at all the new stuff you guys got. Good luck at Davis!

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Davis is two days away, who else is stoked?

Tomorrow, I get to bring my luggage to school so that it can be driven over to Sacramento to our hotel, then Thursday morning I get to wake up at like 5AM (I'm going down before the rest of my team, who are leaving at 8:15AM from our school) so I can go get Gloria and our pit ready.

Good luck to everybody and I hope to have a great time!

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

114 is ready and eager to be there in full force. We're correcting all the mistakes we made at SVR, and are ready to bring it out in full force.

Watch for the Lab Coats!

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

YAY! DAVIS! W00t W00t!

I can't wait. Its gonna be awesome! There are going to be a lot of out-of-state teams there too.
Teams I want to meet:
-753
-1359 (I want more pirate pins:] )
-1072
-997

We'll definitely be breaking out the ramps at Davis ;)




ROFL! I kid. We don't have any ramps! But I scared you there didn't I?!:D

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

When I read the ramp part, yeah, I was thinking "100's gonna be the best team there, no doubt".

You'll still be pretty high up, I speculate. But speculation is worthless, it's performance that counts.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Gah, I was gonna say, WHERE WERE THEY AT SVR?!? :yikes:

I can't wait to see everyone there, and eat dinner with 100 on Thursday night, that should be fun! I'll be sporting my honorary 100 hat as usual :p

Less than 2 days left!

Mike C.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

You really had me going there. I was thinking, "Now who's gonna be able to stand up against 100?" :yikes:

But anyways, I'm looking forward to Davis, but like SVR, I won't be showing up til Friday morning with most of the guys. MVRT will be there in full force, and I mean in numbers too, you'll see quite a lot of purple, at least I hope you do.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Speaking of which, Marvin, would there be any way for me to get a Team 100 hat? Those things are awesome (plus I like showing support for other teams).

I get to go on Thursday, again (I did for SVR, too. Nothing like working all 6 weeks of build season).

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Team 1280 will be at Davis ready and excited for a very fun regional! It will be intresting to compare the amount of teams strategys who decide whats more important hanging or lifting or a mix so near to the championship. Good luck to everyone attending!! :)

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

we are..haha
:X

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

we are having some serious transmission problems, banebots has been out of stock for 2+ weeks. they are definatly killing us. we got an email back from them today, they said they have a shipment enroute but they are having delays with customs. so 1671 maybe in need of a spare to start us off..one broke during practice before we shipped...(it was the spur gear getting stuck on the shaft issue). we had the gear meachined again and it fits on..still havnt put it all back together, we will be doing that tomorrow to see if it will run at least. so if any of you have spares, we may need to buy it off you!!

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

I'm not certain, but there is a chance that 1726 brought the kit transmissions with them to the competition. We don't use them on our robot, so if you stop by I'm sure someone in the pit would be glad to help!

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

We'll be bringing 2 banebots trannys (we didn't use them). Feel free to help yourself.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Nothing like prepping for a regional by packing clothes while listening to some Finnish Industrial music. Aw yeah.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

How about procrastinating packing while listening to English Folk Rock? Almost as good right? :rolleyes:

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Yeah! I can dig folk rock/metal.

Would it happen to be Skyclad, perchance?

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

We may not have ramps, but we WILL have an autonomous mode (if I get it working...:rolleyes: )

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Nope, Steeleye Span, which I class as Folk Rock. It's got electric guitar... it counts. :p

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

We promise to try not to break/hurt you guys this time ;)
Alot of OutbackMFG teams will be in UC Davis...Prepare for lots of Tracks!

By the way, does anyone know what there doing about Mascots this year? I'm the Mascot (again) and want to make sure I have the same dancing area along w/ the other mascots (The Macarana last yeat was so fun!). Will we be on the floor, or in the stands!?!?!)

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

we got here, Vacaville that is :)

we have a pair of kit BB drive transmisions in the van with the rest of the spare parts.

see y'alls tomorrow!

(btw, nice weather)

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Im TOTALLY READY for this competition,
The only team left I want to see who i have not already sen is 100, so the feeling is mutual :-P

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

That's exciting ^^. Good luck!! It's going to be our first year doing it...yikes lol. Me and my buddy who's doing the interview with me have been working on it for quite some time so hopefully everything will go well...Hopefully lol.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

yeah were just a third year team
i dont see us winning it
but it gives us a look at what its like
and what to prepare for
when we do actually think we have a shot

i do want to give credit though to the people
on our team who put so much effort into
our essay and board...and everything else


GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!


p.s.
Thank you to all the teams volunteering their banebots transmissions, that will be the first thing we do when we get there!!
[[=

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

While 675 has no spares (we designed our bot so we wouldn't need them if a motor failed), I'll gladly help any and all teams out who need it. I plan on walking around with a large cresent wrench, too, so if you see me, feel free to stop and ask for help.

I mean, if I can't be on the Pit Maintenance crew for my team, doesn't mean I can't help others with their bots (and I offered at SVR, too).

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

We (114) will also have spare BaneBots transmissions. We don't use them so if there's a need, drop by our pit. Look for the white lab coats if you ever need any help!

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

you guys are amazing

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

I hear our team is going to keep updates on our website during the competition, so if you are interested then check in on http://www.project1726.org/ every now and then. We should have a list of teams and pictures of their robots up Thursday evening, we did this last year at Davis and some people said it helped quite a bit with their scouting.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Ok, so can anyone give me some sort of update? the FIRST website is still not displaying any rankings or match results

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Yeah... Why is it that the regionals I'm actually interested in don't have match results posted in a timely manner? I think it's a conspiracy...

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Oh oh question! What's the sundial address? I can connect I just can't seem to find the web address.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Well, I've figured out that 1351 is 3rd so far.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Hey, here are the rankings as of the end of Friday for you all who need it.

1. 100
2. 997
3. 1351
4. 2063
5. 1678
6. 766
7. 852
8. 701
9. 1359
10. 1960
11. 1031
12. 2085
13. 675
14. 1280
15. 115
16. 1289
17. 115
18. 2156
19. 1560
20. 481
21. 1662
22. 295
23. 955
24. 2159
25. 841
26. 1726
27. 1671
28. 2035
29. 753
30. 670
31. 2073
32. 1147
33. 973
34. 1458
35. 692
36. 2204
37. 1323
38. 751
39. 1072

Hope this helps or is in time for you all who need it :)

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

115 is listed twice and I don't see 114. I'm assuming one of the 115's is them, but which one?

Congrats to 100 for making #1 seed despite their formidable reputation going in. best of luck to all teams!

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

oh. sorry about that 114 is ranked 15th. 115 is ranked 17th.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

sorry. i just noticed another mistake. ranked 16th is 2189 not 1289

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Thanks for the list.

And congrats 115....TWO awards friday!!!!

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Alliances as they come
1 100, 997, 1458

2 751, 852, 2035

3 1351, 1280, 692

4 2063, 1960, 1323

5 675, 114, 2159

6 1678, 766, 1358

7 1560, 1031, 115

8 1662, 295, 1726

Should be accurate. feel free to correct.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

the last alliance has to be 1652, 295 and 1726.

and alliance 2 looks like it should be 852, not 652

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Last alliance is 1662, 295 and 1726. Two teams from the winning alliance last year, should be fun!

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Woo! Pushing it to a fifth match! The first and eighth alliances are putting on the best show I have ever seen!!!!

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Any more updates from Davis? Since there's no updated match status from FIRST and no streaming vids, all of us Davis veterans who couldn't make it are left in the dark. :(

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

There is a web cast - check the robotics.nasa.gov page.

Semi finals going on now. #1 alliance advanced after 5 matches with # 8 alliance (2 ties)!

Mrs. squirrel :) (He shouldn't have left his automatic log in activated)

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Hey,
just wondering but does anyone have a video of qualifying match #43? We want to put it on our website. Thanks. If you have it please email me at ch10151@gmail.com. :)

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Can somebody please tell me who won the folowing at Davis

Regional Champions
Chairmans
EI
Rookie-All-Star

Thanks in advance

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Winners = 100, 997, 1458
#1 seed alliance, we seeded second and got picked by 100
Chairmans = 1359

don't know the others right off the top of my head
but yeah
that's 2 regionals we won this year :-) :-)
It was SUCH a tough competition

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Yeah, the master of ceremonies said is was the hardest competition he'd seen of the past weeks.

I was really impressed by 701s performance. They are made up of almost entirely freshman, but they placed second and took home the Driving Tomorrow's Technology award for their work with carbon fiber.

Look out next year, this carbon fiber stuff is only going to get bigger with the Robovikes.

Congrats to everyone to make this regional so intense, and special thanks to the Chairman winners.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Congratulations to all teams!!!

If anyone has videos or picture of 1458 or any of the quarterfinals/semifinals/finals

please email them to me at ramones.rock@gmail.com

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Thank you to everyone that was there, that was an intense competition. And a huge thanks to alliance 8, 1662, 295, 1726, for that 5 round streak. awesome job to all of you. and of course, our alliance. 100, awesome scoring bot as well as awesome, nice, fun people. 997, your elevators are incredible, as well as being a great D bot, on top of having a cool, professional team. thanks again to everyone who was with and against us in qualifyings, as well as everyone in the finals.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Yes, I would like to say some of the same things as Alekat:

Team 701 was awesome out there today, Great job! I was very impressed that a team built almost entirely out of new members could continue building the same quality of robot that we (the alumni) spent 3-4 years learning how to make!
Props to our Allies 852 and 2035 as well!
and congrats to 100, 1458 and 997 -- you guys were a very good opponent and definitely deserved the title... it was a good clean game, fair and square and most importantly INTENSE -- it could have gone either way ... making it very suspenseful for us poor audience members

So this is our teams 2nd straight silver @ Davis
We'll be back next year ... 3rd times the charm as they say.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

What an amazing regional that was! I would have to say that was a lot more intense than SVR for sure.

Like I figured, 115 really did improve at this regional, we still had some bad luck, but we had some awesome matches, and the team had a lot of fun. And winning two awards on Friday, that was just amazing.:)

And Alliance 8 really surprised me there, especially in their first match against Alliance 1, seeing both 100 and 997 knocked over really caught me off guard, the whole place just went crazy when that happened.:eek:

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

People also went nuts when the yellow cad was given for flipping both 997 and 100 with an arm...

In this regional alone there were 2 yellow cards given, all today! :ahh:

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Congrats to all the teams at this regional for all their hard work.

We at Team 115 are really happy with our team's improvement from SVR to Davis, going from a bottom 10 team to getting picked for eliminations. ( In the last qualification match we scored 4 ringers and a spoiler, which was the highlight of the day for us).

A special thanks goes out to team 1351, TKO for supplying us with not one but two carrier plates for the banebots transmission, once in SVR, and once in Davis. (Banebots "new and improved" carrier plates seemed to fail as well) Thanks guys, you really saved us.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

The yellow card wasn't even given then. the next match they rammed 100 again so our alliance leader talked to the referees about it.

What was the second yellow card?

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Last match there was a second yellow card given to the team that tipped 100. I saw the ref throw it, as well as a blue flag.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

outstanding event
really intense. had to be one of the best. really dissapointed we didnt get picked for the finaly matches. our first round on friday we lost due to a penalty by another team on our alliance, another round we lost 4-5, our team contributing the only points there. i thought we were a very well rounded team, but thats the way things work. i am really impressed with all the teams and their support for each other. Big thanks to all the teams that helped us out in giving us replacement banebot transmissions:100(great job this year guys), 753, 1726, and 114.

well there is much more to talk about im sure, ill be back on here tomorrow most likely, right now its time to get some much needed sleep!


p.s.--
how about that pit announcer? "Hurry up and leave, im hungry and want to eat!" what is that all about, common now!


-Andrew Nabors
Team 1671
Head Driver

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Haha, she's a friend of mine. You just have to take those comments with a sense of humor :)

I think she was also tired of having to announce the UL safety excerpts every once in a while.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

haha yeah she was kind of funny at times
but sidetracked, and went "crazy" a lot
ha

but yeah i was getting tired of hearing "no running in the pits" over and over or "stop blowing bubbles" ha.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Always a bridesmaid, but never a bride...
1351 makes a habit of losing in the semifinals. It's starting to irritate me. So close, yet so far...

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

For us the real finals were quarter-finals.

omg... How we made it through I shall never know...

If there was ever a match with two perfectly even alliances... That was it.

-1662 - Played AMAZING defense. Our bumpers are literaly in tatters thanks to them. The sheer pushing force of that 6-wheeler is amazing.

-295 - Very effective ramps. We had no idea this robot would be such an effective lifter. Truely a unique ramp system.

-1726 - Powerful offensive bot that easily matched us when it came to tubing. They really packed a punch in the defense department too.

It was a real slap in the face that first match - total catastroohic failure for our alliance. Two robots fliped in the first minute, tube on our flag (penalty:(), and a massive score for blue alliance.

But CONGRATS to alliance #1!

997 is an amazing lifter. They literaly lifted our robot after the bell, giving us maximum time to score tubes.

Don't underestimate 1458. They played offense for our alliance, not defense... And got at least 1 tube a match - which is a lot considering the defense being played out there. They also rescued us repeatedly when a tube landed on our flag.

First regional victory in 8 years for FRC 100. First regional victory in 4 weeks for FRC 997:D

Nice job to everyone who made Davis awsome!

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Congratulations to all teams (Especially Team 100 and their winning alliance! Good job), and we hope to see at least a few of you in Atlanta (we know we'll see 100 at least).

675, much to all of our amazement, won the Engineering Inspiration award. Honestly, nobody expected that, and I'll be honest, I was crying for like an hour afterwords knowing that after 7 years, 675 would be going to Atlanta.

Many thanks to Team 114 (Eaglestrike, you guys were AWESOME!) and 2159 (Robopirates, thanks for the help, I'll be sure to visit sometime) for their help in the elimination rounds. We played well, guys.

I have to admit, Davis was awesome. I got about 200mb worth of pictures and video, so I'll probably put those in a .rar and upload them (even the Team 675 pictures, I'm sure somebody else wants those).


Hope to see you all in Atlanta,
Otaku

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

We finally stopped driving for the night, and the motel has free wifi, so here's a picture from the first quarterfinal match...997 and 100 stayed up for the remaining 4 takes on the first quarterfinal, and with 1458 took the quarter, and hung in there win the finals...great job!

Congrats to all the award winners, and a big THANKS to all the officials, judges, and other volunteers who put on this event! Everything went just fine from where I sat, and I sure enjoyed the pit announcements...

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Let me start by staying we were SO exited to be picked by 100, and 1458 made an awesome second pick :yikes:

well that quarterfinal was the most freaked out I have EVER been!
now we hve had some close calls before, like loosing out first match in both the quarter and semi finals at PNW, but 5 ROUNDS!... DANG!
Our compressor was on fire! :ahh: :ahh:

I looked at our video from those matches and as we pointed out to the refs, it should hav only been 4. That does not matter, the only thing that matters was that we all had a great time and build GREAT robots :) :)

I hope to see the award winners and the other winners at nationals
and as in every competition there are teams that deserve to be going to nationals who are not. Davis was a gea competition and for our first time going we thought that the place was very inviting and we might just come back some other year :-)

ALSO
I have our video from Friday and Saturday where we just shot an overview of the field, when I get it put up I will make sur to get up a link.

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

I'll be posting all the Qualifying Match rounds in WMV this morning; I live-encoded everything on friday/saturday short of the finals as NASA apparently webcast that part of it. Had literally no bandwidth at either the competition or at the hotel heh, sorry for delay.

http://www.xdtech.net/webcast/

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

can somebody please post the awards. Thanks

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Can someone please explain to me why there is no information from this regional on the FIRST website?

Re: 2007 Davis Sacramento Regional
 

Lets see what I can remember:

Website Award: 115
Autodesk Visualization Award: 670
Highest Rookie Seed: 2036
Kleiner, Perkins, Caufields & Byers Entreprenuership Award: 115
Woodie Flowers Finalist Award: I don't remember the name, but the mentor was from 1359
Imagery Award: 1359
Motorola Quality Award: 100
DaimlerChrylser Team Spirit Award: 997
Regional Finalists: 701, 852, 2035
Regional Winners: 100, 997, 1458
Engineering Inspiration Award: 675
Regional Chairman's Award: 1359

The others I either don't remember or I'm just not sure.

A great regional and thanks to all for such a wonderful regional, great job teams!