Re: 2011 Sacramento Regional
 

That alliance sounds good to me! haha. All three teams are going to be there too!

I am really starting to get excited about SAC, only a few days now!!


This slinky intrigues me...
haha

Re: 2011 Sacramento Regional
 

Three more days until D-Day!

Re: 2011 Sacramento Regional
 

the one problem with this is i have to get up at 5 AM tomorrow morning which is going to be oh so fun....

Re: 2011 Sacramento Regional
 

it's should be the only downside of tomorrow. I'm so excited because this is my first regional competition. (I went to calgames, but that doesn't count as a regional).

Re: 2011 Sacramento Regional
 

Best of luck to the boys from MadTown, 1323!

Re: 2011 Sacramento Regional
 

well if this is your first regional you will definitely have a great time just remember to get some sleep at night. and i wish you guys luck tomorrow

Re: 2011 Sacramento Regional
 

Haha I will, thank you. Good luck to you too!

Are you with 1323? or just cheering them on?

Re: 2011 Sacramento Regional
 

Did no one submit an animation?

Re: 2011 Sacramento Regional
 

Very good friends, and it looks like they are third seed! :D :D :D :D :D

Re: 2011 Sacramento Regional
 

Team 701 as well as 1323 made animations.
But team 1671 won the Autodesk Excellence in Design award for their animation, which can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETuh0XEkjk0

Re: 2011 Sacramento Regional
 

Are there any archived videos or photos from Sacramento?

Re: 2011 Sacramento Regional
 

Congrats to 1678, 1868, and 766 on the win (and EI for 1868, too) and congrats to 604 on winning Chairman's.

668 had a good time at Sacramento despite all the trouble we were having. We had an interesting weekend to say the least. We came in Thursday we a pretty good robot and an almost complete minibot and deployment system. Late Thursday, though, we decided to swap our chain tensioning method to turnbuckles, and ended up failing one of them, causing us to devote a lot of our resources to getting our arm back up, which didn't happen till our 4th match (which is why we ended up playing defense our first 3 matches). Ultimately, we didn't get picked for eliminations (a big downer to our seniors, who hadn't experienced this in all our 4 years on the team). We ended on a good note, though; we weren't allowed to bag up since we were still on the backup list, so we spent all our time finishing up our minibot. Right before finals ended, we actually got our minibot successfully deploying at 1.6s :D.

We look forward to seeing most of you at SVR.

I'll try to post a picture later of the hex shaft we twisted 60 degrees when the arm failed.

Re: 2011 Sacramento Regional
 

Would anyone be able to help me out with the team numbers for one of the Dean's List winners, Torgeir Lindborg?

Re: 2011 Sacramento Regional
 

Please do, that was an impressive feat to say the least, I could hardly believe it when I saw it!

Big thank you to 1868 and 766 for partnering up with us Saturday afternoon. Thank you 1868 for working with us on getting your second minibot to work with our deployment system, I think both teams got a kick out of seeing it work so smoothly in such a short period of time.

I'm really proud of the students on 1678. The team has never made it past the quarter finals, never won any awards (except the rookie inspiration, since rookie all star was won by the only other rookie at the event), and only ever attended the sacramento regional in it's 7 year history. This year we "finished" the bot early, spent a week and a half programming auto and doing driver practice, and ended up only loosing one match the whole regional! Now the team is headed to St. Louis, and considering the team has never been to a competition farther than they can bike to, this is going to be a fun time :)

Re: 2011 Sacramento Regional
 

You guys really deserved it. Your robot was impressive from the get go and you had a really great minibot; when you teamed up with 1868 and started using theirs, you guys were impossible to contain in eliminations. Congrats and have fun in St. Louis :D