2014 Greater Kansas City Regional

[holygrail]

Just saw in the KC FIRST newsletter that Team Neutrino (3928) from Ames, IA will be joining us at the Kansas City Regional again this year!

Welcome back! So glad you are going to be able to attend a second regional this year! Yet another really high caliber team added to the GKC roster. With so many amazing robots, it is going to be quite a thing to be a part of.

Team List:
Team Number Team Name
118 Robonauts
932 Circuit Chargers
935 RaileRobotics
937 North Stars
938 Team Botman
1723 The FBI - FIRST Bots of Independence
1730 Team Driven
1737 Project X
1763 Paseliens
1764 Liberty Robotics
1769 Digital Hawks
1775 Tigerbytes
1777 Viking Robotics
1785 United Robocats
1802 Team Stealth
1806 S.W.A.T.
1810 Jaguar Robotics
1825 The Cyborgs
1827 Robo-Jackets
1847 Ladder 1847
1939 The Kuh-nig-its
1982 Cougar Robotics
1984 Raider Revolution Robotics
1986 Team Titanium
1987 Broncobots
1994 Horse Power!
1997 Stag Robotics
2001 HERMES
2164 Team 2164 The Corps
2167 Radical Tech
2335 Sargon
2345 Animal Control
2346 Cel-Techs
2353 The Legion
2357 Panthers
2410 Blue Valley CAPS Metal Mustang Robotics
2457 The Law
2560 RoboDog
2874 Eagles
3172 HorsePOWER
3485 Cyclone Robotics
3528 Up Next!
3612 GearHogs
3928 Team Neutrino
3973 Pirate Robotics
4455 The Burger Bots
4522 Team SCREAM
4646 Team ASAP
4809 Black Knight Robotics
4959 Millennium Falcons
5013 Trobots
5082 Northmen Robotics
5098 STING - R
5119 Firebirds
5126 Park Hill South Robotics
5141 PRIDE Robotics
5189 5189 Dead Bolt
5268 The Bio-Mech Falcons

[runneals]

Agreed! I think KC is becoming one of THE premiere regionals to be at with all of these amazing teams!
See you in a few weeks

Originally Posted by runneals

Agreed! I think KC is becoming one of THE premiere regionals to be at with all of these amazing teams!
See you in a few weeks

Thanks, not like that puts any pressure on me or anything!

[DampRobot]

I thought 118 was at Alamo?

[Abhishek R]

Originally Posted by DampRobot

I thought 118 was at Alamo?

GKC is a different week from Alamo.

[Woolly]

So, we're sure to have at least 2 2014 Regional Winners attending, and a Regional Chairman's winner. Though, there's a pretty good chance we could add more in Arkansas.
Here's to hoping there are plenty of wild cards up for grabs!

[Mastonevich]

Looks like another wildcard possibility with 1939 winning chairmans at Arkansas. Congratulations to them.

Also congrats to 1108 on a very impressive showing at crossroads. You will be missed at GKC.

[eli2410]

Originally Posted by runneals

Agreed! I think KC is becoming one of THE premiere regionals to be at with all of these amazing teams!
See you in a few weeks

I think KC might be one of the more underrated regionals. Most of the robots are extremely well built and there are so many great teams. You never know beforehand who is going to win it, and so many of ours go on to do really well in other regionals.

This year, it will definitely be a premiere regional, considering we will have three teams that are already in the Top 25 on FRC Top 25, with 118 being #2, 1986 being #4, and 1806 being #22. And that is just from week one results.

[Kuh-Nig-ItsEML]

Hey guys, during the Arkansas Regional this year we came up with a new tradition, swaying whenever Mike (who MCs both the Greater Kansas City Regional and the Arkansas Regional) talks to the crowd. We would like other teams to join in with us during the KC regional this year.
With thanks,
Ethan Lopez

[Blackphantom91]

Originally Posted by eli2410

I think KC might be one of the more underrated regionals. Most of the robots are extremely well built and there are so many great teams. You never know beforehand who is going to win it, and so many of ours go on to do really well in other regionals.

This year, it will definitely be a premiere regional, considering we will have three teams that are already in the Top 25 on FRC Top 25, with 118 being #2, 1986 being #4, and 1806 being #22. And that is just from week one results.

It always is unrightfuly so, if you look at the depth of teams KC is always hard. This is because we all started around the same time and have learned a lot of lessons though the years which makes it super competitive. Look at the last two weeks alone in team accomplishments.

1939 Chairman's award
4522 Regional Finalist, Quality Award
1986 Chairman's and Regional winners
1108 Chairman's, Regional win, and WFFA (even though they are not coming)

Kansas city teams clean up were ever they go.

With great teams like 1806,1730,1987,1723,935,118,1775,3528,1764 and so on the competition is really hard. I always love KC because I never know the outcome before it happens. Many of these teams its the first competition, I know that many teams will end up doing very well at their first and second competition this year.

[Alpha Beta]

8 of the 58 teams gathering for the KC regional this weekend have already played.

Team# -- OPR
1986 --- 82.0
-118 --- 79.9
4522 --- 70.8
1806 --- 66.5
1810 --- 48.4
1939 --- 28.2
1764 --- 25.3
2164 --- 23.9

3 opportunities for a wildcard this weekend too.

1986 Regional Winner and RCA (Central Illinois)
118 Regional Winner (Alamo)
1939 RCA (Arkansas)
(4522 narrowly missed a 4th opportunity for KC, captaining the finalist alliance in Arkansas to near victory.)

[Culvan Van Li]

On a completely different subject, my wife was looking for information about the regional. She found a site with a link to a map. When she followed it, it came up with the wrong MCC location in Kansas. When I followed it, I got a location in Omaha. It looks like it is searching by name rather than a hard coded address.

I'd hate to have anyone go to the wrong location. Since that is a usfirst.org website, is there a way that it could be fixed?

Andy

It seems to be working fine for me. I plug in either my work or home address, and it gives me directions to the correct place. Don't click on any of the recommendations when Google Maps opens up, type in the starting point address, and it should work fine.

But I agree, I think the actual address should be there instead.

[eli2410]

Originally Posted by tanmaker

It seems to be working fine for me.

Same here

[hrench]

Originally Posted by Mastonevich

Also congrats to 1108 on a very impressive showing at crossroads. You will be missed at GKC.

Thanks, its nice to be noticed. Most of us will be there--as volunteers.