2011 Arizona Regional

[SamC]

Originally Posted by Cascade

Will there be a web cast?

http://www.tecbot.com.mx/site/24-hrs/

[Cascade]

Love it! Thank you

[Donut]

I hope the practice day was exciting for everyone! It looks like most teams got inspected though there wasn't too much practicing going on. I spent most of the day helping solve programming issues so I didn't get to see too much of other teams but there were definitely a few that looked intimidating.

And nice to meet everyone on CD who stopped by! I hope I can run into a few more of you over the next 2 days.

[rsisk]

The regional is looking pretty good in its new facility, Hamilton High is a very nice campus, plenty of free parking, the pits in the hallway is working pretty good, the gym looks like it is going to be big enough to handle the crowds, and the food is decent and reasonably price. Just try and find an arena out here that can say the same thing.

Teams have been wonderful with the inspectors. Lots of cooperation and eagerness to make things work. Kudos to Karen from 842 for building us a 5V power supply to run the radios at the WPA kiosk.

Knocked out a lot of issues with radios and software versions. Some teams are trying to use last year's radios. Can't do it, and its tough to tell them they have to find a DLINK and a converter in order to compete, especially when their school is several hours away.

Be sure to have memory sticks with 2.27.11 version of the DS and v28 of the cRIO image available. Had to update many teams' DS software and a few cRIO images.

It was good to meet Andrew, nice to see CA represented by 330, always fun to see the NERDS again and 842 is always impressive to watch. Bienvenidos and buena suerte to the two teams from Mexico, you know this is going to be a loud and FUN regional when you have Fervot (3462), Tecbot (3158), and Orange Crush (1011) in the same room, going to have to dust off my earplugs

Well, suns coming up, time to head to Chandler.

[yodameister]

What's going on in the regional...I can't see any of the results

[SamC]

Does anyone at the event have a schedule they could upload?

[JABot67]

Originally Posted by SamC

Does anyone at the event have a schedule they could upload?

http://www2.usfirst.org/2011comp/eve...edulequal.html
The match schedule's online, but the match results and standings links on that page don't seem to be working.

[Coach Tom]

The Event site does not have current standings. Can someone upload the data?

[Dr Fritz]

To everyone there today ... great job

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Coach Tom

The Event site does not have current standings. Can someone upload the data?

They're up on the FIRST site. http://www2.usfirst.org/2011comp/eve.../rankings.html

60, 330, 842, and 2449 are on the top with 7-1 records. 1011 (5-0-3), 498, 2840, and 1492 (6-2-0) round out the top 8 for now.

Now if the awards page was up...

[XaulZan11]

Just curious, is 3785 (Gila Monsters) related to the now defunct 64?

[MrForbes]

WFFA: Fredi (842)

Control: 842

Delphi, web Page: 2449

Creativity: 1726

Imagery: 1011

Entrepreneurship: 3019

Animation: 3158

Volunteer: Melody

I think these are accurate, please accept my apology if not

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by XaulZan11

Just curious, is 3785 (Gila Monsters) related to the now defunct 64?

Their team info lists #64 Gila Monsters as a sponsor, so there appears to be a connection (I would presume in the form of their sponsor, GM)

[Joe Schornak]

Whee, what a day! I like the new venue and the pit layout. At times the robot queuing area can get a bit crowded, but it all works out in the end.

After sorting out some issues in the early matches, partly due to the rather...large logo pieces, 2840 has made what I like to think is a pretty decent robot. Once we get our minibot to deploy properly tomorrow morning, all should be most excellent.

Props to Fervot and Tecbot for being absurdly spirited; it's like a soccer game in there!

See you all tomorrow morning, bright 'n early!

[Donut]

3785 is sponsored by the GM proving grounds, the largest sponsor of team 64. The grounds moved down to Yuma, AZ and since the teams which split from 64 after it folded don't use the gila monster theme most of it went with the sponsor it appears. Anyone at competition or that sees their logo will notice the gila monster now has a prison cap since Yuma is home to the state prison.

Lots of good matches today, I'm excited to see what the eliminations look like tomorrow when some of the top teams get together. We have a few teams with minibot deployments (330, 60, 1492, 1726, I think 842 or one other as well) and a few that have been trying or are working on it (I know we got our deployment on at the end of the day, get to test it in the morning).

Good luck tomorrow everyone!