Re: 2009 SAC Regional
 

One of my favorite moments at this year;s competition was when I was sitting next to an older woman (grandma, or teacher) from 2122 (replacement team for 692) during the finals. When the second game's finals were displayed on the screen showing that they had lost she started cheering and clapping and hollering. This confused me, so I tapped her on the shoulder her and tried to explain that her team was on the blue alliance, which lost. She repsonded "I know, but it sure was a great run!" Maybe I do have a lot to learn after all.......

Re: 2009 SAC Regional
 

Another great Sacramento Regional! Some congrats and thank yous are in order:

Congrats to 1323 on winning Chairman's. We made a run at it, but you guys earned it!

Congrats to 1717, 668, and 2473 on winning the regional. You guys were definitely the best alliance in the eliminations, and I was just satisfied with nearly winning a match against you guys. And this was the first ever regional win for 668 and 2473, big congrats to them!

Thank you to our alliance, it was a great run.
-2144: I was initially disappointed when you invited us to join you, but looking back, you guys were great. Thanks for sending empty cells to our payload specialist, those super cells really pushed us through the quarterfinals.
-692: Thanks for being a great alliance partner. It was so unfortunate that you guys encountered those problems that forced the substitution.
-2122: Thanks for being an awesome backup robot. My heart sank when I heard that there would be a substitution, but you guys turned out to be a great replacement for 692. You picked us up last year and we won together, too bad we couldn't pull it off again this year.

Thank you to the Sacramento Regional Planning Committee for putting on this great regional year after year!

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Amir! Oh man we both were the only ones to go on undefeated at each of our regionals! :ahh: I can't wait to see you guys in Atlanta!!! Congrats on the big win and we hope to see you in our division!

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Thank you so much! I was the team 2085 guy who did the moon walk challenge! :D The 2009 Sac regional was one of the best weekends of my life, I had so much fun dancing with you guys and everything! Hope to see you all as mentors and students next year!

I would like to congratulate all the competitors! Everyone did a fantastic job and showed great gracious professionalism conduct... You all made my senior year and last shot a great one. The FIRST program has changed me by giving me this opportunity to have this experience. The most fantastic part of the competition was seeing all the different designs. Team 2085 is in its 3rd year, and we are bringing home the Xerox Creativity Award for our disc brake system... This is our FIRST award to bring back, and as team captain I feel very grateful that we went further in this competition than any other before, plus setting the record of 119 points was very awesome too with team 115 and the spacecookies!!! That super cell throw was AMAZING!!!!

I don't want to go into too much detail because I would end up writing a page in thank yous to the teams that made it happen. I hope to see you seniors in many other challenges we will hopefully be able to face together in the future. As Dean Kamman says... Our generation faces the biggest challenge almost ever seen in this country. And after seeing how well we worked together while we were competing against each other, I'm looking forward to it. GO ENGINEERING!!!!
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I think I speak for all of 1717 when I say that we had an awesome time at this regional. I thought it was relaxed and cheerful, and I had a great time talking to new teams. The 9-hour bus ride was absolutely worth it.

Thank you to the countless people who complimented our robot. I hardly ever found our pit without somebody asking smart questions. EricH posted a link to some picture of our robot if you are curious.

A special thank you to the teams on our final alliance. 668, we could not have won without your fearsome dumps and nimble collection. 2473, your outstanding human player and defense kept other robots at bay.

115, 2144, and 2122 you guys made us very nervous on that second match. Well done on winning engineering inspiration 115. Props to Madtown's chairman's award win.

And a shoutout to 399, for being the other undefeated team this weekend! Bravo! See you in Atlanta.

Re: 2009 SAC Regional
 

Did anyone catch Tim Goodmans email? For the Abbot Diabetes Care internship?

I'd like to apply for the internship, but I kind of missed his email. Let me know.

Re: 2009 SAC Regional
 

Congratulations to the winning 1717,668,2473 alliance. Your run through the finals was amazing.

Congrats to 1323 on winning the chairman's award

Also congrats to 2761 for winning the rookie all star award

I'm really proud that 2/3 Central Valley teams are going to Atlanta.

Re: 2009 SAC Regional
 

Hi everybody, I'm the guy the proposed out on the field. I've been trying to find footage of the proposal on the web and haven't found any yet. I do have video of it, but would like to know if anyone else has video of it or has seen video of it somewhere and if so where can I find it.

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I would like to ask if anyone has ANY footage of the competition, interviews or anything, I am looking to put together a little documentary of some sort on all the events that took place on this weekend!

Re: 2009 SAC Regional
 

article about 2085, 3013, and 701 representing Solano at Davis.

http://www.thereporter.com/ci_12022906

I also believe our mentor saved all the video directly from the equipment, so maybe we could get you that sometime as well. (if not also get it onto thebluealliance.net)

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Anyone have any info on that internship? I would like to apply also... PM or reply please =)

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Everyone would love footage, any idea when? Thanks in advance.

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We're converting the footage from mp4 to wmv, then we'll seperate it into each match and have it up as soon possible. It takes a long time to convert all the footage. I'll post back once it's completed.

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Thanks a lot on converting the videos and yes they take forever to convert. Take to TBA to see if you can upload it there.

Thanks a ton,

RC

Re: 2009 SAC Regional
 

Sorry it took so long, the videos were forgotten about after they were uploaded, but after a quick reminder......

We have videos! :D

http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/event/2009sac