2011 Sacramento Regional

[rahilm]

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 .

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.