2008 Las Vegas Regional
 

Altough this year there are 44 teams, there are only a few dominant robots.
I am ready for it. Hopefully we can see some interesting matches.

60, we are counting on you, please finish your shooter :cool:
987, Can't wait to play with or against you guys. (hopefully with)

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I'm excited to return to Vegas. The competition last year was great!

Only a couple more days of work in the way..

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987 is looking forward to seeing and competing with/against our Arizona friends! We have made good use of a couple hours of fix it time...

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Joe, does this mean you guys will be even better than what we saw in San Diego? Now there's a scary thought.

Here's hoping we get to play more with you than against you ;)

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I can't wait! Only two more days!

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good luck to all of you. Its unfortunate that our regional is the same week as yours.
Hawaii people love Vegas and look for every excuse to be there.
Heck, I own a townhome there too!:D
I think this is the first time that we haven't seen the High Rollers in a competition. I'm sure your the hometown favorite there.:P

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im super excited for vegas hometown!!! good luck to all the teams!!!:)

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Glenn,
We will miss you guys and pass along our best wishes for a great first regional in my favorite state! Sure hope the timing of our regionals changes next year so we might be able to visit your regional...

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We really wanted to go to Hawaii this year....it's too bad that the regionals conflict. Good luck at your regional 359!

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Guy,
Always a pleasure to see your team...our improvement works well on our backup bot and we hope will translate into more hurdles per match to help compensate some for the increase in defense we have seen from great teams like yours!

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It may be possible for a couple of NERDS (as in me and squirrel) to make it up on Saturday, but we will have to wait and see. It looks like it will be a fun competition, even though there aren't as many famous teams attending as there were last year. Good luck 842! I hope 60 can get their shooter working, too. Then add in 39 and you have a nice fleet of shooter/rear-knockoff robots!

By the way, I hope for the sake of everyone else competing that 39 and 987 don't pair up for the finals... yikes!

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Team 2061 would love to be alliance partners with 987 high rollers. I saw the final matches from the san diego regional and I have to say I was amazed, if only there were two more seconds left. I saw the knocker device improvement and thought that was a great idea. I remember from the practice at Cimmeron, before ship date and you guys were having trouble taking the ball off the overpass in hybrid. so I bet the improved device is better. Well Good luck to all teams.

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Looks like a shooterfest: 8, 39, 60, 473, 1425... and those are just bots I've seen/read about in the last ten seconds.

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Joe,

We love coming down. Great hospitality and lot's of fun. Vegas is always a blast.

We're working on fixing our hurdling device, so hopefully we'll be too busy hurdling to play some D. Regardless of whether or not it works, we hope to be playing D or scoring for you rather than against you :P

Can't wait! Only a few more days.

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That would be a great alliance... :rolleyes:

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I like the idea :D

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Only 2 days left:yikes: :D .................................................. .................
1 more school day:rolleyes:

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We are going to be there! Can't wait! We have a three line autonomous, We have a shooter and ball remover, have greatly improved the performance. We really want to be with 60 and 39. With us three, I don't think that we will be easy to beat at all. Both these teams have inspired us to make modifications that are working well.

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973 used the fixit window's nicely, made some vast improvements.

Also, anyone running sundial?

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It seems that FIRST has been requesting people to not run Sundial due to concerns about field interruption. See: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...7&postcount=77

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Some of the team members and i will be heading down to the Thomas & Mack soon to help set up the event. FIRST only provided a 27ft roll of carpet for the practice field so we are bring a 50ft roll down for all of the teams to use, unfortunatley it is not the same material as the playing field... we figured it would help teams out more to have a 50ft run instead of a 27ft run...
See you all tomorrow!
Good luck to all
-Keaton

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If you can get some walls up around that carpet and a center divider, I'm sure many teams will thank you! Sure would have helped us do hybrid programming if we had had it at AZ or LA

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The good news is that we were able to find a piece of competition carpet longer than 27ft for practice... but there is not center divider. We just got home from setting up the field... man that's a chore... when we left the FTA guys were doing a systems check on the scoring program and driver station walls. Everything is set up and ready to go tomorrow! This will be an awsome regional...

Oo the competiton carpet is brand new as well we pulled it right out of the plastic...

-Keaton

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Awesome, we get to brake in some new carpet :)

Maybe we can set something up as somewhat of a center divider? Two poles with some tape between them or something similar could give a similar effect and help us out.

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There is only a stretch of carpet leading up to an overpass and about six feet of carpet after the overpass. The carpet is only as wide as the half of the overpass, so a robot could only cross the first line while testing hyrbrid.

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Ahh. Thanks, good to know.

Can't wait to see everyone tomorrow! Vegas is gonna be awesome.

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Hm, I am interested in this one.

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Actually that isn't quite true. Sundial can run connected to the Field Management System, in which case it automatically picks up the start of a match. It can also run without being connected, but the match starts and team pairings have to be input manually.

FTAs were asked not to allow Sundial to be connected to the network that runs the FMS. If some team wants to set up their own wireless network for other teams to use and input the match schedules themselves, that is OK.

The concern was for potential interference between Sundial and the FMS and lack of time/resources to verify compatibility. FMS is hard wired so wireless networks nearby should not be an issue.

In Los Angeles Team 1138 was running Sundial on a local wireless network. I had Sundial displayed on an isolated laptop on the Scoring table to help with time management. It helped the Announcer to see how far off we were and to predict an end time to help with other festivities, alliance picking, etc.

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same here :)

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Thank's 39 and 1013 for being great alliance members! We couldnt have done it with out you!
Great job to 842, 973, and 1724 as well.
Hope to see you all in Atlanta.

-Keaton

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Yea our alliance worked really well together. Thanks 39 and 1013! You were great!

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Congrats!!! And congrats on Chairmans. I was hoping for you guys to win San Diego and when that didn't happen I wished you the best for LV. You guys did it!!!

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Congrats to my alma mater 987 for Championship, Chairmans, and Woody Flowers for Mr. Rogers!! All were well deserved! Also congrats to 39 and 1013, and 973, 1724, and 842 for great matches! I'm so glad I was there to see al of it :D

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Congrats to the High Rollers. Very, very impressive considering you folks are one of the most generous, humble teams out there. :p

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Congrats to 987 and company on winning the event.

Even more congratulations to 987 on winning Chairman's. 987 is one of the fastest rising teams in FIRST. I am extremely happy my team has had the good fortune to get to know them. You can't find a nicer, friendly group of people.

We look forward to seeing you guys in Atlanta (and hopefully playing together for once!).

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i guess it worked=]

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190 would like to extend a huge congrats to our friends on 987. We're all really proud of you guys, and can't wait to see you in Atlanta!

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Thanks for the kind words, Glenn, Cory and Evan. Team 987 is so proud to consider all of you personally and your teams 359, 254 and 190 as our friends. Glenn, congratulations to your team for your well deserved Chairman's
and your hard fought finalist status and for pulling off your first home regional. Cory, congratulations to you guys for winning another regional. Evan, we have kept close tabs on your team's bold design effort and are pulling for you guys to work things out in a successful way. We can't wait to see you guys in Atlanta...looks like a few of us are now staying at the Marquis and we will be sure to look you guys up. All of you, thanks for providing the models of success for us to emulate!

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A special thanks to our friends on team 39 and 1013 for helping us all win the LVR. We made a great alliance again and we look forward to seeing you guys in Atlanta. Maybe the rest of the FIRST community will start to realize good things can grow in the desert! On a side note, our team would like to congratulate a great rookie team we mentored (2520, Valley H.S. here in Las Vegas) for their Highest Seeded Rookie Award...what a great group of kids and mentors...watch out for these guys!

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973 had a great time! I've never been to a more entertaining and well planned/run event.

Thanks to 842 for selectings us and to 4 for lending us fresh batteries for the elims.

I'm really proud of the students on 973 as they really stepped up and worked as a team better. They were so excited to even get the chance to compete against such high calliber teams in the finals.

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It definitely did :D


Las Vegas was AWESOME.

987 and 1013, you were great, can't wait to see you in Atlanta.

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I know team 2520 had won Highest Rookie Seed Award, but I didn't know they also won Rookie All Star Award. Doesnt that qualify them to go to Atlanta? Are they going to go to Atlanta?

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thanks to the las vegas regional planning commitee for an awesome regional! 1070 had a lot of fun and we hope everyone else did too!!

big congrats to 987, 1013, and our friends on 39 as regional winners! ben and jerry we love you!

by the way, does anyone know if that reverse bias flux capacitor surfaced?

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I had so much fun in Vegas. For it being 973's first time at Vegas, I felt incredibly welcomed.

Thank you to 842 and 1724 for being such good alliance partners.

Congratulations to 987, 39, and 1013 for your win! You guys were great to play against!

Also thanks to team 4 for their batteries, and 1070 for their lovely tiaras during the finals.

I hope that 973 will be able to come again next year!

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Vegas was great. Congrats to all of the students on the 987, 39, 1013 alliance and to all the other students and Mentors that worked hard and got a bot to the competition as well.

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Squirrel and I had the chance to spectate at Las Vegas on Friday, and it was great! It was a very exciting regional with lots of great robots, and the number of shooting bots was overwhelming. I think there were only 3 alliances in the eliminations that didn't have a shooter flinging balls over the overpass.

Congrats to 987 for the undefeated win and the chairmans! Also, major congrats to 39 for your amazingness. You have the most efficient and simple machine this year by far! The match where you hurdled the flat trackball for the whole match was the most awesome thing I've ever seen. You'll do a good job representing AZ in Atlanta.

Also, thanks to 842 for your hospitality! It was fun hanging out with you guys and cheering on your bot. I'm glad you guys finally got it firing consistently enough to become the captain of the 3rd alliance and carry it on to the finals. Fantastic work!

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I have contacted Team 2520's mentors and am waiting to hear what they will try to do...Team 987 will try to help them with their efforts should they decide to go to Atlanta...we are proud to have provided some mentorship this rookie season, Gilberto. Keep up the good work and thanks for thinking of others (that's what FIRST is all about, right?).

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Thanks for coming down and seeing us S_FOrbes :D

Grats to everyone who was Vegas, great meeting you all

(I'll tell Jerry ya said "hi" royal_robotix ;) )

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It was a blast! We hope to see you again soon and maybe we can win that elusive regional title! Take care!

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Your welcome! See you next year!

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Thanks and see you soon! NURC!

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Congratulations to 987, 39, and 1013! You guys were tough! We knew going in we did not ave a chance playing you the way we did every one else. Defense was our only option.
39 you are great! We learned a lot from you! Hope we get the chance to play with you instead of against you in Atlanta! Take care!
Any chance of talking you into the water?
NURC is in June, you still have time.
www.h2orobots.org

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Las Vegas regional was great!! It was great meeting all the teams and getting to see a few of my old friends. I hope to see all of next year!!

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Las Vegas was great this year. well run and the robots that were there were great!alot of shooters!!
Thanks to teams 39 and 1013:)
hope to see everyone again next year.
see you guys in atlanta!!!!

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Does any one know if there is a way to get a copy of the videos from the regional? :confused:

Thanks a ton..

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Yeah, that would have been amazing, I could only imagine how awesome that would be... </sarcasm>, But seriously though, they did deserve to win. BTW, who else went to the show on thursday night?

Also, i think team 987 had their entire school there on Friday...

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Thanks to all who came to Vegas, I had a great time this year just like the last!

Thanks to 987 and 1013, I'm glad I got to drive with you guys again, always enjoy it! :D

I hope so too! We always seem to end up playing against you guys. :( Maybe it'll change in atlanta. :)

Who knows. I like the water. :p

~ Austin

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Not sure what will be available.

But I do know that we had a parent who recorded most of the matches. The practice matches are in SD and the qualifying and finals are in HD. I'll see what he wants to do with them.

Also since he is a part of our team he naturally focused on us more during our matches, but they are still pretty good videos if you want me to pursue getting them released. ;)

~ Austin

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Once again, congrats to 987, 39, and 1013! That was a very impressive alliance and made for a monumental challenge for us in the finals.
I had so much fun during this regional. The show we were invited to was incredible too! Now that it's all over I want to go back!