2009 Colorado Regional
 

Who else is going?




Looking forward to seeing you guys there...

Re: 2009 Colorado Regional
 

Team 1777 from Overland Park Kansas will be there. We went to the Colorado regional in 2006 before they had the KC regional. This year we are going to the greater KC Regional and Colorado.

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Team 159 Alpine Robotics from Fort Collins will be there. It is our only regional. I also found this list under events on the US FIRST Website, along with the other events. We were a little surprised to see some of the teams listed, and we think this will be a very interesting year. It looks like the Pink Team will be visiting Denver.

Kevin

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The PINK team can't wait to come to Denver. We were there several years ago, met up with one of the local teams and climbed a mountain/hill and had a snowball fight. Last time there, the Floridians used the tops of rubber maid containers for makeshift snowboards outside the arena! We're all hoping for some snow once again, to see the teams we met last time, meet some new teams and, of course, have a great competition.

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Team 2240 from Denver, CO will be there!

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Team 399 will be there :D

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I hope for snow too( I realy like snow...), but you never know about the weather in colorado.

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Team 974 from Loveland, CO will be there!

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Team 2996 from Colorado Springs will be there. Don't know if I'll be hitting the slopes though, if there's any snow anyway. :(

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1245 will be there. Go Shazbots!

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2410 Metal Mustangs from Overland Park will be there too

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team 1939 will be there. it is our first time in denver. we went to KC regional in week 1

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Just as a note to you guy's, Don't expect snow. It's been unreasonably dry here. It's only snowed about 7 times this entire year... But colorado might prove me wrong. It wouldn't be the first time.

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Team 4 will be coming. (we hopeing to see some snow)

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In one week we'll be there..


And we're ready to compete.


:rolleyes:

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All 34 of us, from Team 4 Element, are VERY excited to come to Denver, CO, for our FIRST time ever! See you there!

P.S. If you are a local team and going to the social, on Friday night, PLEASE PM me because I have a very important question that desperately needs an answer.

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Team 207 MetalCrafters are going, can't wait to see all of you there...Cant wait to meet all of you...Our team has previously been to colorado in 2007, but this will personally be my first time going to the colorado regional...

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At least 2 regional winners I think going so far, maybe 3?

PINK team from florida
207 metalcrafters from LA
and I think a colorado team from San Diego may be there, I didn't check (sorry!)


fsnekjmnf should be fun.

8 days.


Also! I think at least 4 teams are staying at the same hotel as us! I know PINK, 207, 1515, and us are in the same hotel. If anyone else is there, we totally should hang out thursday night or wednesday if you all will be there. Would be sweet! =)

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Looking to be a top notch regional! We are really looking forward to compete at this level and hanging out with teams there.

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Team 1339 from Denver will be there!
We're hoping to actually be somewhat of a factor this year, rather than having something major break every round like last year.
See you all there, only 6 days!

2009 Colorado Regional Contests
 

Hey, you are invited... Watch the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kLOC...e=channel_page

Re: 2009 Colorado Regional Contests
 

the attitudes and actions of those do girls do not reflect our entire team.



wait.... ugh. yes they do :rolleyes:

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Team 399's flight leaves in... 4 hours?! ah!

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TEAM 1625 will not be making the trip to Colorado this year, but wish all the teams attending the best of luck! We had a blast last year and hope to return again sometime!:cool:

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Team 1339 from Denver East High School will be there. Follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/angelbot

http://angelbot.thinkphysics.com

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2083 will be there, and it's good to know that 207 and 1515 will be coming back, maybe we can go all the way this time!:D

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I cannot seem to find a link to the webcast. Is there a link? Our school, and our parents are interested in watching.

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Snow is forecast for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm watch for Thursday.
All the teams that were wishing for snow, looks like you will get you wish.

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We're pretty excited, coming from a desert in California. :rolleyes:

We all packed some pretty warm clothes, and todays weather was pretty nice (disappointing for us)! It's nice to be in Denver though, today we rocked out Dave and Busters, and tomorrow we're going on a Mint Tour, and then some of us are going to a hockey game or another tour...

Then thursday the fun begins!

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yay for snow! the pink team is leaving in about 5 hours.....

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go to sleep
mike d

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I had bets going on that it would snow at least on Thursday of regional, it always does every year so far...at least we had a warm weekend.:cool:

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Wow, looks like I should have flown in earlier. I fly in tomorrow and arrive at 11 AM :P

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The current prediction is that 1-2 ft of snow in denver on thursday & friday. This system is going to the spot that makes it so that the front range get's a blizzard.(low over amarillo + upslope winds = Blizzard)




And yes, I gladfuly eat my words from earlier.

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Team 1245 from Lousiville will be there, we're hopin for some more snow...

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Wooooooooo. Bed time... See you all tomorrow morning. Haha. Being on chiefdelphi on a hotel computer is hilarious.

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What Hotel are you in, We are staying in the Courtyard Marriott.

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Team 2240 from Denver will be there. It looks to be a great regional. See every body there.

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Team 399 is staying at the Fairfield Inn&Suites Marriot on South Colorado...Pink Team and Team 207 are at the same hotel. Hmmmmm?????

Looking forward to this weekend... GOOD LUCK TO ALL!

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Looks like it will be a fun night on Friday with scouting :P

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how many teams DIDN'T go because of the snow?

Our team meet up early in the morning on spring break with just a small ammount of snow on the ground. we were all thinking that we were going since the roads were not bad. by the time the bus arrived, there was several inches and we decided not to go... :(

have no worries, team 1245 plans to be there tomorrow! ;)

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Team 1245 from Louisville Colorado will be there for sure. It's our only regional, but we couldn't make it today since the weather has trapped us with 8 inches of snow in just a couple of hours.

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Just to give everyone that wasn't there today some information, because of the snow all FIRST teams were asked to leave the building at 10:30 AM and we were told to check the official FIRST website for important details about tomorrow.

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Snowed out at 10:30....


if tomorrow gets cancelled i'm gonna cry!

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thank you for saying this.

Snow is great, but only at the right times.... This is not one of those times.....

but hey, you know your in colorado when the majority of the snow come during spring break, and not in winter... Can't say this is weird.

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This is what the FIRST site has said:
"To ensure the safety of our teams, mentors, volunteers, and Denver University staff and contractors, FIRST will delay the Colorado Regional event until weather conditions improve. It is our intention to continue with the competition under a new schedule which will be posted here early tomorrow morning (Friday, March 27)."

If i am reading this correctly the regional will be postponed untill the weather clears up.

I guess this could turn out to be a very interesting regional if the teams end up having not time to practice on the field.

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So to all the team members that were wishing for snow,
be careful what you wish for......

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Never heard of a Regional being snowed out before. It puts a lot of pressure on teams to get scouting info. Let's up the ante with twitter. Use hashtag #frcden and follow http://twitter.com/angelbot

You can get some scouting info on our bot at http://angelbot.thinkphysics.org

Have a cup of hot chocolate and enjoy!

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Well good luck getting to compete this year teams. 1986 isn't attending, but a sister school, 1987, is and we have been communicating back and forth.

Anyway, apparently the governor has issued a disaster declaration, activating the National Guard. Flight canceled, schools closed, and highways shut down. Have fun staying in your hotel rooms! Maybe this will give you guys a chance to do some swimming if you have an indoor pool lol.

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It's pretty snowy here! Here are some pictures.
http://www.teambroncobots.com/wordpress

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Do any teams have any back-up plans in case something happens tomorrow?

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New Info


from www.usfirst.org

Match Results Data
 

Working on the match score data... will post it soon.

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Big Congrats to team 399 for winning the regional and Engineering Inspiration!



...So when can I buy my RoboProm ticket for Atlanta?

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Don't forget 1987! Big congrats from 1986 on winning the Woodie Flowers (Kevin actually won, not the team). Hmmm, seems like I'm forgetting something...




OH YEA, CHAIRMAN'S! Congrats again you guys.

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My list of congradulations:
399,2996,1332: For winning the finals. You guy;s were an amazing alliance to watch
1158,207,2083: For putting up a realy amazing fight during the finals.
1357: For getting your robot to work, after everything that went wrong.
1987: For winning chaimans.
My list of thanks:
399: For all your compliments on our robot and your considering of having us on your elimination alliance.
1515: For being a great neiboring pit team & allowing to fire some ball's into your pit when we were testing our shooter. Being overall freindly.
1410: For letting us borrow various documents(control system diagrams)
1583: For letting us use your DS power adapter in our pits.
Judges & Engineers: For your compliments on our design simplicity and programming features.

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thats exactly what we did last year....copy cats lol

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Congratulations to our San Diego partners Team 1332 and our old friends from the Philly 06 regional Team 399.

Best wishes to both of you in Atlanta!

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Glad to see someone remembers! I was talking to a few of your members in San Diego, and it seems I couldn't find any seniors - or something. Philly was I think my -favorite- regional, no joke. It was awesome, even though we lost due to a broken banebots gearbox =( that sucked! But I loved the energy, and if you can remember, we're a pretty energetic team =)


And Barry, we'll be hosting a RoboProm now that we qualified.. More details will be posted soon..ish! =)


Oh! One more thing. HUGE congrats to team 2996 considering you guys had what, 8 trophies sitting on your table at the end of the day? it was a regional to remember! your team is awesome. Compliments to your student coach, I really like him. I'm not sure I ever got to compliment him after we were done, but... yeah. Your drive team was great to work with! =p Your team will go far, I can't wait to see you guys in a few years. Keep up the good work.

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We actually have a lot of seniors that remember you guys. 399 brought massive energy to the event! Best of luck in Atlanta.

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Thanks a lot for the comment! We were really happy about our performance and particularly our alliance. BIG thanks to our alliance partners 1332 and 2996, we couldn't have done it without you. The communication between the coaches throughout the matches was amazing and we were definitely in-sync.

As for Roboprom... it is definitely in the works and we should have a post up in a week or so regarding tickets.

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On behalf of all of the organizers and volunteers of the 2009 Colorado Regional, I want to thank all of the teams that attended our Regional. We were all impressed with how well the teams dealt with the weather and scheduling issues. There was an abundance of gracious professionalism throughout the Regional and we had a great competition! Thanks again and we hope to see you again next year. Let's have fewer snow wishes next year though ;)

Dawn Lutz
Colorado Regional Planning Committee Chairperson
Team 1410 Mentor

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I'll pass on the message to our coach.

But HUGE thanks to Team 399 and Team 1332. We couldn't have won if we weren't chosen in the alliance, and considering our bad luck and low standing at the end of the qualifying rounds, I didn't think we would be chosen. But we ended up being chosen by the #1 seeded alliance! We could not have done it without you! You made our rookie year that much more amazing!

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Hey, thanks Bob and Brad! It was a really great experience being there, and, in my opinion, possibly the best way to start off a rookie year :). It was AMAZING competing with 399 and 1332. Both were excellent teams, and it was an honor competing with you. My only complaints about the entire experience are that I'm STILL subconsciously afraid of meeting new people and that I somehow managed to get sick just in time for Thursday.

Oh, quick question. What in the world is this RoboProm I keep hearing about?


EDIT: Interesting tidbit I just remembered about the snow this last weekend. My dad's on El Paso county search and rescue, and early Thursday morning, EPCSAR sent out an email saying that if you were going into Denver that day, don't plan on coming back out that day. And it would seem they were quite right.

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Congratulations to the BroncoBots on there winning of the Chairmans's award and to Kevin for the Woodie Flowers Award.

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Dawn,
I just want to say what an outstanding job the organizers and volunteers did during a somewhat rough start on the first day. It was a little white out there. The regional was very well done and our team had a great time. Very few delays and we all managed to get quite a few matches in during our shortened time. Derek and the field crew did a great job, I was really please not to have so many problems that plagued other regionals. Thank you all for the "warm" welcome. IT was great!

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congrats to 399-1332-2996,
great job this weekend.
mike d

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1361 the nightmares from c springs co baybee! (ive watched too many videos on marvel vs capcom...)

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Good Job 399.
Thanks for all of the build season help and good luck in Atlanta:)

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Anyone who is interested CSM Robotics captured all of the Colorado Regioan is is hosting it at:

http://csmrobo.mines.edu

enjoy