2009 Silicon Valley Regional
 

Who's going?! :)

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254 will be there and is looking forward to seeing (and finally playing with) our friends from Vegas again.

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sounds good to me;)

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Team 1323 signed up for Davis, but we are planning to come down to Silicon. See you guys there.

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Team 100 will be there as always.

Welcome back 987, 359, 2024, and 2283! I look forward to hearing the Mexican anthem again, it was quite an impressive performance. :yikes:


Will Gompei be in attendance this year? Tickets are a bit pricey I hear...

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I was kinda hoping to see Team 100 at Davis, We were missing you guys last year.

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Hey, cool, looks like Team 766 will be there as we have been for the last seven years... We look forward to seeing you all!

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Price notwithstanding, 190 has to attend Week 2 and 4 regionals this year to do a shifted school schedule, so we will not be making the trek out to California.

I, personally, will be at SVR with my other team, 971.

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Team 115 will be there as we have been ever since the regional was created.:)
Great to hear about the out-of-state teams that are coming, especially 987 and 2024, I'm really looking forward to build season and the competition season now.

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359 is looking forward to attending after a 6 year hiatus.
Who wants mac nut chocolates? :D

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Ooooh!!! Ooooh!!! Me Me!! :p

Come to think of it, 2009 will be the 10th anniversary of SVR, the first regional on the west coast (although I believe it used to be called The Western Regional).

In 1999 team 100 picked a small struggling rookie team for our second pick. A team some of you might of heard of... ;) trivia points to whoever gets this

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I'll be there, hopefully refereeing this year.

My alma mater team 114 will be there.

SVR is definitely my favorite regional, can't wait to see you all there!

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Beach Bots???????

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Nope, they beat us in the semis.

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I think 852 will be going

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254

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I recall a certain human player touching the robot while loading floppies and getting us DQd ;) or something like that. :D It may have only been a penalty?

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We would like to be a "small struggling" team and win 9 of 10 regionals. ;)

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As posted it was 254, but there were no second picks in 1999.

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Team 692 will be there!! :)

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How come you remember that DQ, and not the DQ that knocked the #1 seed out? :p

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No reason... :P

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Nut uh...

If I recall correctly, there were 3 or 4 weekends of Regionals. During the last weekend, FIRST made the announcement that each alliance could pick another round of alliance selection, therefore having 3 teams in each alliance.

We had a 2 team alliance in Chicago at the Midwest Regional.

Our alliance at Great Lakes was 292, 45, 235.

Our alliance at Championships was 45, 111, 84.

People talk about "changing the rules" being a bad thing. This was not. 1999 was brutal, and FIRST decided to give each alliance a backup robot.

Andy B.

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I stand corrected. That's interesting that such a massive rule change would take place mid season.

I do believe the alliances were only 2 teams at the NASA Ames Regional in 99 though.

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Team 2024 shall be back again for the 2009 season. We look foward to atteding and are really glad to see all the familiar faces there again :D

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I thought it was called the NASA Ames Regional???

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Not that this really matters, but in 1999 / 2000 it was officially the NASA Ames Regional. However, many people in this area of the FIRST community referred to it as the NASA Ames Western Regional or just Western Regional since it was the only event anywhere near the west coast. Also, at least in 2000, since the event wasn't held at NASA Ames Research Center it could have been seen by many not to have been "their" Regional, despite their massive funding of it.

2001 was the first official naming of the "Silicon Valley Regional," and the beginning of FIRST's event expansion to other cities on the west coast... or just anywhere west of Texas, really.

This nuance doesn't really matter, though. It's the same event, just different names at different points.

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Yeah... you can look on teams' histories on the FIRST site, and it's listed as CA (or CA1 in 2001). L.A. apparently now gets that designation... Same event, though. Who cares what the name was, as long as the event is the same?

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I'm sure the sponsors care.

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I can't think of too many regionals anymore that have sponsors in the name. 3, to be exact, though I might be missing one. (Hmm... You're still sponsored by NASA/Ames, right, Cory? I'd think 254 gets their name out better than a regional would:).)

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I didn't mean this regional in particular. Any regional. No different than people getting upset about everyone calling "The Championship Event" "Nationals" in my opinion. If it's got a specific official name, that's what ought to be used.

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He was speaking from a straight-up competitor's standpoint ("I don't care what the event is called, I just want to play!"), and you're speaking from a sponsor's standpoint ("I dished out $100,000... this event better have my name!").

The real names have been posted.

Just build a robot, go to the 10 year old event, and try to have fun? Sound like a plan?

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Yes, it does sound like a plan.

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I believe that sponsorship does matter to an extent no matter which point of view.
Receiving a NASA grant for example and having the requirements of putting NASA "meatball" stickers and in our team name means it does from a competitor's standpoint.
The Hawaii regional is heavily sponsored by BAE and is on our CA banner for 2008.:D

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I recall a time about 6 years ago where I just went to a four year old event, got a pineapple, and had a lot of fun. It was a great plan!

Wetzel

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We are definitely most likely going to be attending Davis this year because many families don't feel they can afford to travel further.

That's a good thing for me, since I was planning to go anyway :)

Maybe you should like start a thread or something...

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I was going to wish 840 luck and express my odd feelings at not going, but... umm... apparently they didn't sign up? What is going on with that? I suspect no one from my old team reads these forums, but if anyone does, what is going on?

That same site says there are only 38 teams signed up for SVR and no more spots... weren't there more spots last year? In fact, I remember 48...

EDIT: Checking my scouting sheets, there were indeed 48 teams last year. Have 10 teams really been cut, or is the FIRST site mistaken?

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The listed capacity is always less, and we always end up with more teams. FIRST holds back spots for local rookie teams that are not shown publicly. I would expect that as usual SVR ends up with 45-48 teams or so.

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Well, 840 has now signed up, so good luck to them! And to everyone else... it'll be weird watching the webcast from home...

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675 is going to be there as always:D Looking very much to competing with the High Rollers once again. I thoroughly enjoyed their presence in 2007, looking forward to seeing all the usual's hopefully with some new ones

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OMGOMGOMGOMG We are next =D I'm so excited Sacramento will be brilliant this year. After 968's fantastic display at San Diego I am truly scared of 254 :). Anyone know if Mark Leon is MCing or if he is going to LA? After loving NERDS Youtube video's I can't wait to see their robot in-action! Go Shooters! Silicon is always exciting and intense. Also I can't wait to see what happens between 100 and 254, who between the two of them have been on the winning Silicon team EVERY year IIRC. Maybe we can get seed 1 last pick again like 2007 :]. Good Luck all teams!!! Im so EXCITED!!!!!!!

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Mark will be MCing SVR as always.

100 and 254 have not been the winners of SVR every year-in 2007 (The only year 254 has lost), 190, 1280, and 1516(?) won. 254 lost in the quarters and 100 in the semis

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Thats right 100 won Davis (with us :D) that year, I always mix em up.

And you got the teams right, 1516 was the third member they are a local team of ours.

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Can't wait to head on over to the Event Center! We're really looking forward to finally join in on the competition this year, I've gotten tired of waiting while other teams had fun these last two weeks. We're certainly hoping we can win SVR for the second year in a row, preferably not in the same fashion as last year(the hold-your-breath last pick and the controversy in the finals). But of course, the most important thing is for us all to have a good time. See you guys Thursday!

Oh, and I noticed 2024 completely disappeared at some point, anyone know what happened to them?

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I remember talking to them a little while after the Hawaii Regional last year. From what I can remember, I believe they have a lack of resources to be able to full on compete in an FRC event. I think they're still involved with FIRST somehow though.

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1351 will be going.

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2024 asked us to take their place....................nah, just kidding.
There were several reasons for which they could explain to you folks later, but in a nutshell, resources was one of them.
They are not doing FRC this year, but still are involved with other Robotics programs as much as they have been the last several years.

I personally have not been to the SVR since 2001, but our team last attended in 2003. We are looking forward to attending and seeing new and old friends. We just had a blast with 192 being next to us in the pit all weekend in Oregon. What a class act team.
Here comes the Hawaiian Kids!

-Glenn

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I just came across a picture from the 1999 Regional, held in 1999:

Funny, that team 255 that no one picked, WON the National Championship the very next year as alliance captain!

Just setting the record straight - the Wiki lists team 25 as the winner and doesn't even mention 255.

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Hey guys stoppin by to give some SVR Alumnis love! :)

so as things would have it the dancing crazy guy from 2024 with the blue fro misses you all and wishes the best of luck to all the teams! :cool:

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Does anyone know of a web cast of the SVR finals today? Thanks, team 701

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mms://sargasso-3.arc.nasa.gov/svr2009 (Windows Media Stream)

For future webcasts, here's a link listing them:

http://www.firstwiki.net/index.php/2009_Webcasts

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Cant wait for Semis to begin!


predictions anyone?

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254 vs 192 in finals

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Agreed

254 has pretty much owned in their last 2 matches and 192 wont quit.
finals should be a spectacle :D

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Team 987 would like to thank the amazing company of 100 and we are honored to have been picked by such a great team, you guys did truely amazing.

And who could forget about our double dump in the practice matches on thursday;)

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Man, you guys are going way back, as part of the drive team that got DQed alot at that regional, I miss those times... everyone fighting for the puck was fun and entertaining... it was also before kit bots and a wood was still a common building material...

Alvin

Arm Driver, GRT, Team 192, 1999

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Hell no we won't quit, Agyei.
Guess who?