Colorado Regional

[evanatch]

Agreed that the Colorado regional was excellent this year - kudos to everyone involved! That was an extremely enjoyable regional for our entire team. Much thanks to our alliance partners 2945 and 4499 - you guys were great to work with and we were very glad to have you on board. Shout out to team 4928, The Arabian Knights, who we were lucky enough to have next to us in the pits - it was great to be able to hang out with you guys and we hope you'll be back in Colorado next year. Looking forward to seeing all the qualifying teams again in St Louis!

[nicolelin]

Great job to all the teams that competed this past weekend. You guys made a California team feel right at home (except the snow part).

Congratulations to all the teams moving on to championships and good luck!

[climbhigher]

A few videos have been posted. He started with the last finals match and is working his way backward.
F 1-2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HziU2qZZF78
F 1-1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BRuP5RbLeQ
SF 2-2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKetpYldI0Q

Here's the general link to our channel if you just want to watch that for new ones: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOD...ERQVyCn5ctsmDw

Mark is putting them up at a higher resolution than we've used before, so each one is taking longer.

[Kyler Hagler]

Oh my! The quality is great! Thank you so much guys! It is greatly appreciated.

[climbhigher]

You are welcome. Mark got 6 videos up tonight. It will take us longer using the higher resolution to get them all up, but I think it will be worth it.

[LukeBronx]

To the awesome and incredible teams and volunteers of the Colorado Regional:

For the second year in row CRUSH 1011 had a blast at the Colorado Regional! The regional continues to be one of the most inspiring and friendly we have ever been to. The teams are always so welcoming and we look forward to attending in the future. We'd like to thank 2972-RC Dawon and 3200-Raptacon for an awesome eliminations experience! Huge congratulations to the winning alliance 1138, 3310, 2543 on an well deserved regional win, it was a honor playing against you in the semi-finals. Chairmans winners, 3562-LiveWire, you guys are so inspiring! Last but not least, another huge thank you to all of the volunteers who helped put the event on, you were amazing!

We cant wait to see some of you guys again at the Championship event in a few weeks!

[Scott Morgan]

First off I'd like to thank our wonderful alliance partners 3310 and 2543, you guys had great bots and we worked really well as a team. Also, it was lots of fun hanging out with 2543 cheering section during eliminations.

Secondly I'd like to thank 4499 for helping us out by providing lunch, for lending us extra batteries for eliminations, cheering us on, and probably for helping us out with plenty of other things that I don't even know about.

I'd also like to thank team 1011 for presenting us with the "Best Carpet" award, and being awesome pit neighbors. I spoke with one of you guys regarding collaborating on some drive-system development. After giving it some thought it has become very apparent to me that the improvements you proposed would be a valuable addition to our future bots, and I look forwards to working with you to implement it.

I look forwards to seeing all of you again in St Louis.

Finally I'd like to echo the thoughts that the venue was great. Having a full practice field was huge for us, we spent every possible minute on there.

Overall Colorado was tons of fun for us, and we look forwards to coming back next year.

[lcoreyl]

I was looking at Ether's cumulative twitter data, and I have to give a shout out to 1619, Up-A-Creek, and the great robot they put out this year; it's too bad they won't get to represent Colorado at the World Championship. 1619 had some very impressive stats this year. While I'm sure they would trade qualification stats for banners, they are still amazing:

22-1 in quals
26th in the world for max OPR
20th in the world for average OPR unpenalized*
8th in the world for average CCWM unpenalized*

That last stat ranks them higher than a who's who of powerhouse teams including this year's favorite, The Cheesy Poofs.

*without counting foul points, i.e. only points you earned from auto/assists/truss/catch/goals

[AnonymousMarvin]

Have to agree, one of the best run regionals. I would also like to give a shout out to 1619, if not for a few tough breaks, who knows. Great robot, great job this year. Shout out to all the teams going to St. Louis good luck and have fun.

[Mastonevich]

I nominated 1619 on the who should going to be champs but is not thread. It is great to see some numbers backing that up. I was amazed the #1 seed didn't pick them in alliance selections to be honest, but turns out they knew what they were doing and won the regional.

[Pretzel]

Thank you for the kind words from other teams. Our team had been hoping to come away with our first blue banner this year, but we were overall happy with how the season turned out. It was a lot of fun getting to go to two regional competitions for the first time this, and it was the teams we competed both with and against that made it special.

Broncobots and Project Y did an excellent job in the eliminations with us in Colorado, keeping it fun by coming up with different moves on the spot for when they introduced us by team. Eagle Robotics and NASKCO Robotics from Utah were also a blast to team up with, and I still have joystick envy from the fancy controller that NASKCO's drive team used. Angelbots, Team 1339, also deserves huge recognition in the professional manner that they handled the damage to their robot. They rebuilt between competitions and came back with not only an awesome machine, but also a drive team that I look forward to having milkshakes with soon. Overall we enjoyed both competitions thoroughly and are looking forward to next year. We wish the best of luck to all in Championships and beyond.

[HighlandersFRC]

Originally Posted by evanatch

Agreed that the Colorado regional was excellent this year - kudos to everyone involved! That was an extremely enjoyable regional for our entire team. Much thanks to our alliance partners 2945 and 4499 - you guys were great to work with and we were very glad to have you on board. Shout out to team 4928, The Arabian Knights, who we were lucky enough to have next to us in the pits - it was great to be able to hang out with you guys and we hope you'll be back in Colorado next year. Looking forward to seeing all the qualifying teams again in St Louis!

4944...you guys were great! We had a great time, wish we could have won the quarter final though.
I have been trying to get in touch with your team. Wanted to see what we could do to help get funding for your team to go to worlds. I sent your coach an email this morning, I have a few ideas. Contact me at Debbie@highlandersfrc.com