Sacramento Regionals

[David Kelly]

Originally posted by Anthony Kesich

Chairman's Award:
Cheesy Poofs (234)


-Kesich

doh! i wish that was us who won a chairmans

[Winged Globe]

Finalists:
599 (top seed)
254
256?

Engineering Inspiration:
481

Website:
114
115

Creativity:
1151

It was so very, very loud...

Finals ended up being battles for the hill, and the winning alliance pulled off some great last-second pushes to get the hill.

Now... need... sleep...

[activemx]

We won the Website award along with 114.

We also won the GM Industrial Design Award.



Congrats to 1072 , 254, 599, 672, 114, 376, 295 and everyone else who was at the Sacramento Regionals!!!

- Akshay

[activemx]

Sacramento Regional Pictures!!

we took over 200 pictures at sacramento and they are online on our award winning website!!
http://www.mvrt.com/gallery/categories.php?cat_id=25

Ill upload some videos after i compress them!

[mootmom]

Originally posted by Anthony Kesich
all star rookie award:
two were given
Jesuit Robotics and
team 1072 (i can remember their name)

I can remember

Team 1072 = Harker Robotics Team, San Jose

You'll see them again at the Silicon Valley Regional later this month.

[Cory]

Sacramento was so awesome. I wasnt too sure about how good it was going to be, being a new regional and all, but all I can say is that was the smoothest running, and very very fun FIRST event I have been too. Anyone who went to Sacramento and is going to another regional will have a huge advantage. 8 practice matches with 2 rounds each, and 14 qualifying matches. We all have 2 regionals worth under our belt. Did anyone see theose rookie teams? wow... they were good. Congratulations to 692,662, and 1147. good job you guys. I was so happy to see someone beat the Cheesy Poofs and 599. It was especially cool that one team was made up of all girls.

Cory

[FotoPlasma]

I had such a fun time, at Sacramento. I was queueing for the Red Alliance side of the field, which was very fun, despite not being able to specifically watch too many matches, and having to stand up for two entire days... heh.

I got some good video of the dancing (YMCA and Cha Cha Slide). If anyone's interested, I'll host them somewhere, and post links.

Congratulations to every team who attended and participated. Many thanks go out to the awesomely cool FIRST staff, Innovation First, and everyone else at the event. Thanks to team 481 for taking it upon themselves (afaik) to digitize the entire regional event, team 22, Chattsworth, who was not competing at the event, but had a huge amount of volunteer supprt for running the event, and even more thanks to everyone else who had anything to do with it, including everyone cheering in the crowd.

The event was just so much fun, I'm sorry it had to end so soon.

Sacramento was AWESOME! I seriously have never lost my voice cheering for anything...not even school rallies or sports teams. I guess FIRST really can bring out the inner loudness of the most composed guy at Jesuit High School.

Anyways, thank you to our alliance team members and congratulations to all the winners!

[fuubar]

We at team 295 were happy with our results and our ability to overcome so much hardware failures and last minute system changes. (had to switch a 5' pnu cylinder witht he 8' kit cylinter, burned out both drill motors, burned out both drill gearboxes, bent a front axle at ~30 degrees, and our robot controller got jarred loose during a match). Despite everything we managed not to miss a match.

The fembots were awesome we are glad to have been beaten by the best. It was such a close round but your strategy of jarring us loose from the ramp at the last second worked. Congrats on the win, I hope to see ya in nationals.

The regionals were really fun (and loud!). I had a great time despite breaking my finger on the last day.

P.S. I never would have thought spirit sticks could be so entertaining.

[Anthony Kesich]

Originally posted by mootmom
I can remeber

Team 1072 = Harker Robotics Team, San Jose

You'll see them again at the Silicon Valley Regional later this month.

How could i have forgotten? I talked to you guys all the time and i even have a button which i was wearing yeaterday as i typed up my post. Ahh the sleep deprivation must have been catching up with me. Anyways, you can contribute all of the noise polution mainly to St. Francis and Jesuit. Everyone there knew of our (Jesuit's) spelling chant and the one where some guy gets half naked and is hoisted up while screeming about his mojo (i did that twice). And, out most infamous one, "You can't stop us....."

-Kesich

[hacksaw692]

Oh man! Sacramento was indeed one of the best. I have never screamed so much in my life. And I thought St. Francis's homecoming week was loud with 800+ girls jam packed in a gym. There were only 26 for this. Sheesh... Most of us lost our voices and I'm in choir!

Speaking of choir... I had a choir competition in Sac State (Golden Empire). The rest of my team made me miss it so that I could stay and drive for the final rounds. It was well worth it, I must say.

My team is insane. Chicken dance... YMCA... the Cha Cha Slide... My gosh... lol.

Thank you to all the teams that attended. I was almost afraid that this regional would go down the hole because only 27 teams attended. But those 27 made it a complete BLAST! It was great! And thank you to teams 662 and 1147 (we're their mentors) for an awesome alliance.

Next event: Silicon Valley here we come!

[THEDooduanawhat]

Originally posted by hacksaw692
Oh man! Sacramento was indeed one of the best. I have never screamed so much in my life. And I thought St. Francis's homecoming week was loud with 800+ girls jam packed in a gym. There were only 26 for this. Sheesh... Most of us lost our voices and I'm in choir!

Speaking of choir... I had a choir competition in Sac State (Golden Empire). The rest of my team made me miss it so that I could stay and drive for the final rounds. It was well worth it, I must say.

My team is insane. Chicken dance... YMCA... the Cha Cha Slide... My gosh... lol.

Now, now, Frodo, you know you would've stayed ANYWAY. Told me so yerself! Said something along the lines of "I wish I didn't have to miss finals for choir"...and ya didn't! Feel special! And I still can't speak...it sucks...ah wells...screaming is FUN! *grins goofily* And hacksaw...if we weren't insane, imagine how dull it'd get! *twitches at the thought* Sane people *shudder*...okies, the more insane of us is out! Gotta go take a 2.5 hour calc test soon *sigh*...

Gollum

Oh yeah! HIHI to our alliance peoples! You guys rock! EEEEEEEEEEE!!! *bounces around screaming again...despite having no voice* I am not a freak of nature! Really...ah, shaddup! *wanders off*

[Ken Leung]

Awards for Sacramento Regional

Friday Awards:

Imagery Award

295 Grizzly Robotics

Synergex & Granite Bay High School


Leadership in Control Award

814 New Tech Robotics

Gilmore Foundation & New Technology High School


Xerox Creativity Award

1151 The Hitchhikers

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers/Contra Costa College & Middle College High School


Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technology" Award

Team 100 The Wildcats

SLAC/Lockheed Martin & Woodside High School


DaimlerChrysler Team Spirit Award

692 Fembots

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers & St. Francis High School


Judges Award Friday

480 Hybrid

Lawerence Berkeley Lab & Castlemont and Arroyo


Friday Rookie All Star Award

1072 Harker Robotics Team

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers/Apogee Software, Inc./Sandhill Challenge & The Harker School


Saturday Awards:

#1 Seed

599 csusGHHS
California State University, Northridge/NASA/Raytheon/Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers/Medtronic MiniMed/Delta Tau Data Systems & Granada Hills High School


Highest Rookie Seed

Missing. Does anyone have the ranking by the end of qualifying rounds?


GM Industrial Design Award

115 Monta Vista Robotics

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers/Intel/Hitachi Data Systems & Monta Vista High School


Motorola Quality Award

692 Fembots

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers & St. Francis High School


Johnson & Johnson Sportsmanship Award

559 Robo-Dox

California State University, Northridge/NASA/Raytheon/Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers/Medtronic MiniMed/Delta Tau Data Systems & Granada Hills High School


Judges Award Saturday

953 Cyber Monkeys

NASA /Nevada Space Grant Consortium & Reno High School


Website Award

114 Los Altos High Eagle Strike

SONY/Qualcomm/Los Altos Rotary/Stanford Univ./Empirical Engineering & Los Altos HS

115 Monta Vista Robotics

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers/Intel/Hitachi Data Systems & Monta Vista High School


Autodesk Visualization award

3 animations will advance to the next phase of judging in Houston at the Championships

114 Eagle Strike

SONY/Qualcomm/Los Altos Rotary/Stanford Univ./Empirical Engineering & Los Altos HS

100 Woodside High

SLAC/Lockheed Martin & Woodside High School

And the top scoring Animation video is by

192 GRT Gunn Robotics

Gunn High School & PARC


Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship

662 Highlanders

Academy School District 20


Rookie all-star saturday

1097 Site 3 Engineering

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers & Jesuit High School


Regional Finalist

Team 599 csunGHHS

California State University, Northridge/NASA/Raytheon/Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers/Medtronic MiniMed/Delta Tau Data Systems & Granada Hills High School

Team 254 Cheesy Poofs

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers/NASA Ames Research Center/Unity Care Group & Bellarmine College Preparatory

Team 256 Rams

Willow Glen High School


Regional Winner

692 Fembots

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers & St. Francis High School

662 Rocky Mtn. Robotics

Academy School District 20

1147 herd robotics

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers & Elk Grove High School


Engineering Inspiration Award

481 De Anza Robotics Team DART

Chevron Richmond Refinery/Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers/Ofoto/Mechanics Bank/De Anza PTSA & De Anza High School


Regional Chairman’s Award

254 Cheesy Poofs

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers/NASA Ames Research Center/Unity Care Group & Bellarmine College Preparatory

[Halon]

Sacramento Regionals were a blast! Thanks to the Fembots for choosing us for an alliance partner! 1147, you guys were awesome. Hopefully we can be allied with you all at nats.

[BionicAlumni]

It is great to see 254 win a chairmans. They have done SOOOO much for FIRST.

Also no huge suprise to see chatsworth doing something amazing for first. EVERYONE at that school is soooo totally amazing.

Last but not least, Ken L your an amazing contributor to first. Give yourself a huge pat on the back.