2012 Greater Kansas City Regional

[BrandonL]

To sum up the events that happened that lead to us getting pushed back up I can explain. I'm the coach for 1806 and it was all coordinated by me. When I saw us tip onto 3764 because of running over a ball, I quickly darted over to the drivers of 3764 and told them to push us. The driver then proceeded to say, "We don't have enough power." From there I went over to the drivers of 2410 and told them to push the back of 3764 because they don't have enough power to tip us back up. Well everyone knows the outcome. The robot just took one minor bend of our electronics cover. So good thing we had the cover because we probably would of had the corner of a robot sitting right in one of our Victors. I would like to thank the drivers of 3764 and 2410 for reacting so fast on what needed to be done to keep us in the match.

[rbrown1]

I would like to thank all those that attended the Greater Kansas City Regional. I believe it is one of the best. It may be that I'm partial as the Co-Chair of the planning committee. The planning committee would like to hear from those that attended to see if there is anything that you would like for the committee to look at for next year to keep it one of the best. Please keep comments pertinent to the regional and items that would be possible.

[W1NG$]

Well Brandon that’s interesting. I thought our entire alliance working to re-right SWAT was very entertaining. I guess i don’t remember Brandon saying anything to the 3764 drive team, and positive about nothing to the 2410 drive team. I talked to the other drivers on 2410 and.....they don’t remember anything either. SO I’m sorry to inform everyone that the 2410 Drive team must have been hit by a robot and gotten concussions. This is a very small detail but still this match was a highlight of the regional for me (probably because our robot had so many problems this year but that doesn’t change this "orchestrating" crap) So i guess i should still give a shout out to SWAT and their very nice robot.

[Woolly]

Yeah, that window screen electronics cover worked exactly as planned.
Anyway, I remember watching the rescue from the screen in the pits and walking right over to pit admin to thank 3764 and 2410.

[Alpha Beta]

For anyone wondering just how tough the KC regional was...

Regional winners 1986 and 16 each won their second regional (St. Louis and Midwest) as #1 seeds.

30th Ranked 2996 just won Colorado as the #1 seed.

1985 just won a regional as the top draft selection and claimed a Regional Chairman's award.

In addition each of the following KC regional attendees have won the engineering inspiration award this year!

• 1986 at KC
• 2949 at Midwest
• 1987 at St Louis
• 1764 at Colorado

And this is just after week 4. Many of the KC teams are still waiting to play their second regional in Oklahoma, Minnesota, Dallas, and Cincinatti.

Special congrats to 1710 for winning the Regional Chairman's Award in Chicago. We missed you this year at KC, but you are definetly a part of the KC robotics culture.

[rbrown1]

Add another KC team with the Engineering Inspiration award for this year.

Team 2164 Harrisonville, Mo won EI at Dallas West

[1986titans]

Adding on a few more:

• 2nd ranked at KC, 3528, won Oklahoma as a #1 seed with 2395, who was also at KC.
• 3rd ranked at KC, 935 won Dallas West as a #1 seed.
• 4th ranked at KC, 16, won Dallas East as a #1 seed for their third regional win of the year.

By my count, that's 13 teams from KC that have a ticket to St. Louis, and there's still another week of competitions left.

[Alpha Beta]

Teams for the Greater Kansas City Regional who have qualified for champs.

1986 (#1 seed in KC, regional winner and Engineering Inspiration. #1 seed in St. Louis and regional winner.)
3528 (#2 seed in KC and semifinalist. #1 seed in Oklahoma and regional winner.)
935(#3 seed in KC and finalist. #1 seed at Dallas West and regional winner)
16 (#4 seed in KC and regional winner. #1 seed at Midwest and regional winner, #1 seed at Dallas East and regional winner)
1208(#5 seed in KC and finalist. #2 seed in St. Louis and finalist. At large bid for Champs.)
2949 (#6 seed in KC and quarterfinalist. #3 seed at Midwest, quarterfinalist and Engineering Inspiration.)
1987 (#9 seed in KC and seminfalist. #5 seed in St. Louis, semifinalist and Engineering Inspiration.)
525(#16 seed in KC and semifinalist. #13 seed at 10,000 Lakes and regional winner)
1985 (#18 seed in KC and quarterfinalist, #6 seed in St. Louis, regional winner and Regional Chairman's Award.)
1108(#28 seed in KC and Regional Chairman's Award)7th Chairman's Award in last 9 years!
2996 (#30 seed in KC. #1 seed in Colorado and regional winner.)
3784 (#34 seed in KC and regional winner.)
3931 (#38 seed in KC and Rooke All Star. #41 seed in Oklahoma and Rookie All Star.)
2395 (#53 seed in KC. #21 seed in Oklahoma and regional winner.)
1764 (#54 seed in KC. #15 seed in Colorado, semifinalists and Engineering Inspiration.)
2164 (#58 seed in KC. #2 seed at Dallas West, semifinalist, and Engineering Inspiration)
2410 (#60 seed in KC. #19 seed in Oklahoma and quarterfinalist. At large bid for Champs.)

Over 1/4th of the field is heading to Champs! Let's make some noise when we get there!

PS. Teams who may yet qualify in week 6
1730 (#8 seed in KC. Playing at Queen City Regional. We'll be cheering for ya. )