2009 Arizona Regional
 

Hey, who's excited for the Arizona Regional?

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I am! :D

Bring it on! :cool:

:p

- Austin

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I'm so stoked.
Missing so much work is going to be painful, but I always have so much fun at regionals

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It's the only FIRST event I'll get to attend this year, so I'm hoping it will be good! The NERDS are aiming for a win this year, but I'm guessing it'll be difficult if 39 and 60 manage to pair up again... It's hard to stop an alliance with such great teams on it! :)

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Everyone should post pics of their robots to see what we have coming...

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Adam, you just have to do a little searching for them!

Here's links to the thread/picture for each team that I could find stuff for:
60 - http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/32871
498 - http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/32809
698 - http://picasaweb.google.com/team698/...58745300815570
842 - http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/32813
1164 - http://www.projectneo.net/first2009/...%20Rob ot.jpg (CAD from earlier)
1165 - http://teamparadise1165.com/dotnetnu...bid=54&mid=447
1492 - http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/32596 (from around week 4)
1726 - http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/32851
2486 - http://gallery.fusd1robotics.org/ind...e=P2170956.JPG

CRUSH is not attending AZ this year but they are a team from Arizona so they will be mentioned anyway:
1011 - http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/32987

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We are very excited about AZ. It is the only regional we can afford this year, or for many years to come. We are going to Atlanta as well, but it may be a skeleton team. $@#$@#$@#$@# that economy thingy!

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I love this regional so much, I'm coming out from New York to attend!

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:ahh:

That's a long ways away! It'll be great to have ya down here! :D

- Austin

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Alright Yodameister!

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Fredi I heard your team is hosting the social friday night. Anything myself and my team can do to help out just let us know.

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team 69 from Quincy, MA, USA is coming out this year also

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Alright! The more the merrier, glad to have em! :P


Also, has anyone heard if Don Knight will be announcing again? I don't know if it would be the same without him. :p

- Austin

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Steve and I went into town to run some errands (mostly having to do with the NURC robot), and he kept saying "Robots tomorrow!!!"

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I can't believe its tomorrow! ... It feels like it it crept up so quickly..

Ahh! I still have to put together a drivers station board! :ahh:

- Austin

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498 has just finished packing and loading everything up for tomorrow morning.

Lets start the countdown \o/

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Team 69 flew in Tuesday evening (42 degrees in Boston) and have been enjoying the MUCH warmer weather today. We're looking forward to meeting teams tomorrow and enjoying a great competition. See you tomorrow.

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See you tomorrow!

Glad you're enjoying the weather! It's already a bit too warm for my tastes, but then again I'll be sweating through it for the next 6 months. :P

- Austin

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If you need help with any electrical feel free to ask team 69 =) I can help you if you need it.

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I looked in my shop, I had some thinwall 1" square steel tubing...so I made a couple trailer hitch spacers, I'll bring them and leave them in 1726s pit if anyone needs them. We'll have some C bot channel too.

Is anyone bringing spare flag holders? :P

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Hey NERDS great job in LA by the way.. I was there Saturday to cheer you guys on! You guys have a awesome robot cant wait to compete with it this weekend.

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Alot of cool looking robots at the Regional this year, not many teams out in the practice matches so hopefully we can look forward to more gameplay and scoring tomorrow. Looks like we've got Don announcing and Ian as head ref as usual, and I do believe I saw Mark Leon lurking around today...

Good luck to all the teams tomorrow, and if you need help for anything just come find us (look near the blue and orange hair! :) ).

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I can confirm this. :)

Dan, Ian and Mark...
Ahh.. Good old Arizona regional! :p


And I'm looking forward to tomorrow as well. We got our bot assembled and its up and running, so we'll be on the field! ... Along with all the other great looking bot there! :cool:

- Austin

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Fun practice day, we were performing better than I think any of us expected to! It looks like a lot of teams that were behind today managed to finish up this evening and will be ready for qualifiers tomorrow.

And yeah, Mark Leon is definitely here... we had the privilege of eating dinner with him at I-HOP and learning math!



EDIT: oh yeah, the qualifying match list can be found here.

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You guys always run into people randomly, I'm not surprised Steven lol. See you all on Saturday with Vicky brownies and hopefully a sweet flag once I'm done ^^

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Some (low-ish quality) match videos are going up on our youtube site: http://www.youtube.com/frc1726 Sorry, they're a little 1726 centric...

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Nice vids, would have been interesting if we were allied in a match today!
looking forward to tomorrow.

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Man, Mark sure puts on a lot of miles.
We saw him during week 2 in Oregon, then week 3 in San Jose, he's there in Arizona, and then we see him during week 5 in Hawaii.
As was mentioned, its not like he just goes back to the hotel and sleep all evening. He's always out entertaining teams or vise versa.

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Link to live stream!

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/first-az-regional-2009

Lots of Chat going on!

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Thank you so much to all of the teams who came to the Arizona Regional! Our team had such a great time, and felt honored to be among so many other outstanding people! Thanks to 842 for all their support in our Chairman's Award pursuits! We hope to see you in Atlanta!

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Again I'm wondering if anyone has footage of the Awards ceremony in Arizona, if you do could you please post the link, Thanks!!

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Which one? Yesterday or today? (Though I rather suspect today's...)

Note: I do not have footage, but Youtube user frc1726 might... That's the N.E.R.D.S. team's account.

Edit: Not up yet.

BTW, if anyone knows what team the WFFA winner was on, could you post it here?

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Enrique is with Sahuarita High School, team 2570. Great job, Enrique!

We did not tape the awards ceremony, unfortunately...I had enough tape to get all the qual matches we were in, plus all the elimination matches, but that was about it. I don't know if anyone captured the ustream webcast?

Anyways, it was fun, and we enjoyed working with all the teams there, and playing in the eliminations with our friends on39, and our new friends on 1165, thanks for the help! We continue to admire 842 for all they do (including being on the alliance with 1633 and 2128 that gave us our only loss). Thanks also to 69 for coming all that way from Massachusets, and the San Diego teams for showing so much spirit.

And a big Congrats! to the Coconuts for the Regional win! I'll have to find that picture of the bird...

We'll try to get some HQ video of the elimination matches up on our youtube some time today.

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ABC15 ran a story on the regional; the link is here
The video is in the upper left.

Team 498 is once again doing our Regional DVDs, and I’m sure our super man Mr. Molnar recorded each days opening and closing ceremonies like before, but I’m not sure how soon we can get them uploaded. (We’ll find a list of who we all got contact info for these soon)

Congratulations to the winning Alliance and our Arizona Chairman’s Winner!

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The students of rookie team 2840 thank everyone at the Arizona Regional for providing such a great learning experience. You have generously given us lots of great ideas to build a robotics program at our school, as well as plenty of great robot ideas for coming years. Thanks to everyone who lent us batteries for the elimination rounds, and to 1726 for some very exciting matches. Also a special thanks to 842 for inspiring us to enter in the first place. We look forward to participating next year.

Team 2840
PCDS Robotics

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The Arizona Regional was great this year, just like every year! As usual I had a great time!

Congrats to 1726, 39 and 1165 on the regional win! I hope to see you guys at nationals! Thanks to 69 and 468 for being our alliance partners! And thank you to everyone who attended the regional for making it so great! Every team there was a great team with a great robot and I can't wait to come back next year.

- Austin

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Here are our pics courtesty of Norma Irigoyen

http://picasaweb.google.com/irigoyennorma/AZRegional09#

I am still recovering and will respond more here later

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A lot of great pictures in there, thanks for everything your team does for Arizona.

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I am praying to the random no. gen. gods to please let us play one time on the same alliance.......... Congrats 1726! You guys Rock! We need to come visit you and talk about you guys taking over FTC and us helping you push for chairman's

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You guys are awesome and will me major contender in anything you do! Keep up the good works! See you at NURC!

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This was by far my favorite regional that I've ever attended. Lots of competitive teams, tons of spirit, and lots of great people. Having a robot that finally functioned properly for the entire regional was a big plus for us, too! Our team members put so much work into this years robot, and qualifying for Atlanta made it all worthwhile.

Eliminations were very exciting... losing our first quarterfinal match made the rest of our matches very nerve wracking! Congrats to 842, 1633, and 2128 for putting up such an amazing fight. Also, congrats to the number 3 alliance of 2102, 1828, and 991 for pulling off such an amazing win in the semis. When 69 and 2837 paired up and put on such a good show in the quarterfinals, I thought we would be dead in the finals. Seeing such a great alliance beaten in the semifinals made us even more worried!

Major thanks to 39 and 1165 for making a great alliance! It certainly was nice not having to play against 39 in the eliminations this time. :P

I can't wait for next year, Arizona seems to keep getting more competitive.

We have some pictures of the event up in our gallery: http://photos.project1726.org/thumbnails.php?album=36

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Regionals were amazing this year. It seemed to be a repeat of last year for us. We were picked last for an alliance yet again. Plus, we were allianced with team 39 for the second year in a row.

Teams 1726 and 39 were awesome teams to be allianced with.

I can't wait until next year. Hopefully it will be a three-peat.

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Team 60 thanks Team 2840 (PCDS) and Team 2839 (Team Daedelus) for having such faith in our team. Thank you so very much. We hope to see you next year.
We would like to congratulate our alliance partners from last year, teams 39 and 1165 for winning again with team 1726. Thank you for such great competition.

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Team 2102 had a fantastic time being really loud!

Huge thanks to 1828 and 991 for being great alliance partners. Additional thanks to 812, 2839, 2486, 1013, and 1726 for joining us in the noise-making, as of Friday, I thought it was going to be a quiet regional, luckily you all proved me wrong. Congratulations to 1726, 39, and 1165, you guys deserved it! Last but definitely not least, congrats to 2486 for the well-deserved RCA!

We hope to see you all again next year (providing we can make it out to Phoenix again) and have a great time in Atlanta and the off-season!

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The CocoNuts team 2486 LOVED cheering with 2102 and 812 at both the Arizona Regional and the San Diego Regional! We also hope to see you around next year!!!

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Thanks everyone for a great AZ Regional like every year, this game turned out to be alot more exciting than I was expecting!

Congratulations to teams 1726, 39, and 1165 on the Regional Victory and to team 2486 on the Chairman's award (for a 2nd year team!). Thank you to teams 69 and 2837 for picking us for eliminations and I hope we can make it all the way next year (maybe 69 will come back then?).

Also a thank you to team 842 for putting on the unofficial team social this year which was alot of fun. Without all the exhibits of the science center to distract students I think a lot more of the students got out there and talked with other teams (not to mention played huge games of hackey-sack and danced the night away).

Lastly, thank you to the teams who kept working all through Friday and even Saturday to make sure their robots made it out to at least one match. There were significantly more missed matches than I have ever seen at an event before and I'm glad to see teams who were having difficulty had at least one opportunity to compete with their robots this year. Hopefully next year we can get out to teams having trouble sooner in the Regional and make sure everyone has running robots come qualifying rounds on Friday.

Here's to hoping next year's regional is even better!

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It started off slow for us, seemed like we could never get all three robots on our alliances. I love this regional, its home! With Karen's scouting system it helped us jump from 38th to 14th on sat and then ending up 8th while picking alliances shocked us. Karen's data gave us the best options to pick from out there and we showed how valuable it was when we gave our buddies 1726, NERDS a scare! But alas it was not meant to be. Eddie our Pit master held on to his 2008 UL safety award by winning again! Karen finally got recognition after three years of developing a scouting system that rocks! Judges award. I would like to thank our alliances Tempe 1633 and Cesar Chavez H.S. 2128 for fighting to the last against the number one alliance. Congrats to Betty Fair fax H.S. 2844 for making it to Nationals-Rookie all-star! That makes two Phoenix Unions High Schools in Atlanta! Congrats to The Coconuts 2486 for their well deserved Chairman's win! Keep working it, AZ needs another national winner in a few years!! To our comrades to the south way to go NERDS! See you in Atlanta and NURC!

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Thanks 1726 for picking us and 1165 for completing the alliance to allow us to 3 peat. Yes the first quarter final result had a lot of jaws dropping but it was a great wakeup call to do a major tweak on our strategy. In the next match it was surreal with us blocking 842 for a change. .

The narrow victory with team 60 sitting out a match had me as concerned as that first quarters loss.

Regrettable that the no shows pushed some good teams/bots way down in the rankings.

Phenomenal match play everyone. One of the most exciting regionals ever.

Thanks to all that contributed to getting our bot together (including connectors from Karen at 842) . It was a complex mechanism to undertake.

Frank

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Very impressive group of rookies this year. 7 rookie teams and look what they accomplished....


2837 Driving Tomorrow's Technology, Semi Finals
2839 Entrepreneurship Award, Semi Finals
2840 Rookie Inspiration, Rookie Highest Seed, Semi Finals
3014 Qtr Finals

and of course

2844 Rookie All Star

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frank we thought we had no chance with 39 and 1726, but for moment we saw light at the end of the tunnel, but you soon closed that! Congrats to you guys as well. you guys are a very formidable team and paired with 39 made me very envious. One day I want to us three all on the same alliance!

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To be honest, we were pretty worried ourselves. Out of all the robots there, none seemed to be able to hold us in place like 842. I am hoping that we are in the same division at nationals, so that we might be able to team up. I dunno if we can break out of many more Falcon Pins!!!:D

2009 Arizona Regional Photos
 

here are photo from the regional...

http://tlafleur.smugmug.com/gallery/...96041967_qziAu

thanks for all who attended, It was a lot of fun...


tom lafleur

Team 812
Preuss School at UCSD
The Midnight Mechanic

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Anyone have good pics of 39 and 60?

I saw 39 a bit on the webcast, but only saw part of one match. I could see they were a dumper, but couldn't tell any details.

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yeah, here are your spy photos! I still intend to put pu the rest of the az robot photos one of these days

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haha. i like this picture of our team's robot. i wanted to see what it looked like in a picture. like if it was photogenic or not. nice pictures.

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The regionals were awesome. Thanks to teams 1726 and 39. You guys were great to be allianced with.

Our robot had sooooooo many problems, but we pulled through. There was one point when we had mystery smoke coming out of it. We couldn't figure out where it was coming from, so we had to try to rewire part of it and see if that would help. It did. We realized later that the problem was that our jaguar had caught on fire!

Even with all of our problems we still pulled through and became regional champs for the second year in a row. We owe it all to 1726 and 39. You guys are awesome.

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Yeah, it sure would be fun and way better than being pinned by 842!! You guys are the best or at least tied for the best at that. hmm the legendary 842 pin.

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I have to say this year all the teams really showed gracious professionalism.

On behalf of team 698 I'd like to thank all the teams that helped us pull through this year. 39, 842, 2449, 1212, and our alliance 812. Without them we wouldn't have made it as far as we did. I love you guys and I hope to see you all next year and perhaps throughout the off-season.

All your help showed our rookie members what FIRST is really about, and I think that speaks for itself.

I have the utmost respect for all of you. You're all worthy of the chairmen's award to me.

Also a really special thanks to 39 and 842. We kidnapped your programmers for a good portion of the event. ^_^

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I'm Happy I was able to help!

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We will never know if the "if opponent=0842 then Left_Drive = stop" would really work.

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Something to do in the off-season I suppose. :rolleyes:

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It will take at least a month or so to build the DVD's of the regional, but the matches have been uploaded to www.thebluealliance.net and can be viewed online or downloaded. The Bluealliance only hosts the matches and not the other ceremonies or awards.

If anyone has a need for any clips before the DVD's are ready, just ask and I can send you the clip(s) in .mpg, .wmv or .mp4 format on a CD or data DVD.

...charlie

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Thanks! can't wait to get the dvd in the mail :)

but the matches on TBA will tide me over I'm sure

Re: 2009 Arizona Regional (Pictures)
 

I was asked to take the photos at the Arizona Regional.

I have added them to a part of my site. So far, I only have the award winners online... but will add TONS more photos within the next week. So, check out what we have and come back soon to see the rest. :)

Hope you find yourself, robot and team in the tons of pics I took.
Feel free to use what you need. Please give credit back to Di's Creative Edge, we would appreciate it. http://www.discreativeedge.com

View pics here: (keep in mind if you download pics they are HIGH Resolution- they are big)
http://discreativeedgearizonaregional09.shutterfly.com/

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Thanks Diane!

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Wow, thanks for the pictures Diane! I really look forward to seeing all of the other pictures from the regional. Thanks again!

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Great job. Looks like a great representation of teams. Can't wait to see all of them.

Jim