2015 Utah Regional

[legogeek24]

Though LiveWire's robot won't be there, be on the lookout for an appearance of OneByte!

Should be a fun regional to watch, good luck and we can't wait to see what all the teams have in store!

[Undertones]

4334 is on the road!

[Abhishek R]

624 is at the airport, the team is excited to be flying for the first time in a while!

[Mr. Tatorscout]

Originally Posted by legogeek24

Though LiveWire's robot won't be there...

Which is too bad. Congratulations on your win at Inland Empire!

[Abhishek R]

624 wanted to thank everyone for the great experience we had at Utah. Being on spring break, it was nice to be able to enjoy the regional. I can't speak enough about how on point the referees were, and the queuers and other volunteers were very good at keeping the event running smoothly.

We would like to thank our alliance partners 1619, Up-A-Creek Robotics, and 4334 the Alberta Tech Alliance for the great run we had through the playoffs. 178 average and almost reaching the world record by one fallen can was quite exciting. We wouldn't mind playing with either of these teams any day, and are especially appreciative of 4334 working with us to install the can grabber - the mechanism they had to right the totes was just perfect for the system. I heard afterwards that 1619 has not won a blue banner/been to CMP (one of the two, I believe?), and were absolutely blown away. This team builds stellar robots and is going to surprise a lot of people in St. Louis. We would also like to congratulate Team Tators, PrototypeX, and the Eaglebots for a great competition in the finals - We'll see 2122 in STL as well (we never thought we would ever be the source of a wildcard...), absolutely phenomenal machine, and the team is very friendly.

Congratulations to 2486 the CocoNuts on their Regional Chairman's Win! Very well deserved!

EDIT: 5 of the top 25 averages in the world as of week 3 from Utah? Not bad

[Mr. Tatorscout]

Congrats to the 624, 1619, 4334 Alliance. Looking forward to seeing you in St. Louis. You earned your victory with a terrific alliance. There were a lot of nicely performing robots this year. Stacks abounded in Utah. Eliminations were hard fought with alliances whose scores would have advanced them to finals at some other regionals. Special thanks from the Tators to 3230 Prototype X and 3405 Eagle Bots whose efforts helped us get to wildcard status. Also thanks to 2486 Coconuts and 4550 Somethin's Bruin for helping us advance in Qualies even though we were busy in the pit chasing electrons like the Wile E Coyote chasing the Roadrunner. Great competition in Utah.

[mwmac]

Well the Tator Trailer made it back to the spud shed after a fun-filled weekend in SLC! Thank you to the volunteers, organizers & judges for another amazing event! It was a special treat getting to meet Dean Kamen and having him autograph our robot.

Congrats to 624, 1619 and 4334 for a well-deserved win! 624, your robot's performance is matched only by the friendliness and drive of your students and mentors. 1619, your robot's abilities were incredible (love the claw) and your victory long overdue. To 4334, thanks for taking the time to visit and discuss your robot's performance attributes long after all other teams had left the building. I hope the Tators get an opportunity to share the same field at Champs with at least one of you!

Good luck in your remaining events and see you in St. Louis...

To our partner, 3230, thank you for your hard-fought efforts and we will see you in Phoenix. To 3405, without your hard work throughout the weekend and your successful modifications to your robot we would not have made it to the final round.

[CaptainKirby]

Up-A-Creek Robotics is psyched to be going to CMP for the first time. It might've taken us 11 years... but we finally did it!

We wanted to give a huge thank-you to 624 and 4334 for being amazing alliance partners. We really enjoyed working you both on and off the field.

We also want to give a big shout out to 2122, 3230, and 3405 for an exciting set of finals matches. You are all great teams with great students and mentors. Mark, you receiving the Woodie Flowers Finalist Award was well-deserved!

So, until we meet again...

Chute door.

[OWilliamson]

The Naskcorpions had a blast in Utah!

First of all, major congratulations goes to 624, 1619, and 4334! You guys were an amazing alliance and deserved the win. The finalist alliance of 2122, 3230, and 3405 also put up a very good fight, so congratulations on that as well!

I also wanted to give a shoutout to our elimination alliance of 3374 and 4158. We unfortunately died in the first match, which was a huge bummer because that was the first time all weekend, and then we weren't able to rally back hard enough to advance. 4158 was great at getting up a lot of short quick stacks, and 3374 used their awesome arm to cap our stacks with the containers from the step.

We were the team grabbing 2 totes at a time from the landfill. We had some consistency issues the first day, but after adding some new alignment devices we never dropped a tote on Saturday. And I have to give a huge shoutout to our driver, he was able to get 14 totes from the landfill during our last elimination match, something I didn't think our team was capable of!

Even though we didn't make it out of the quarterfinals, this was the best year our team has ever had! I was so proud of how hard my team worked this year to build an identical practice robot, it definitely payed off big time. I can't wait to see how they do in the tears to come.

I also wanted to mention 4792, Desert Storm. While they had some programing issues early on, they worked really hard and we were able to get them up and running in no time. I loved their "seesaw" robot, and I wish you guys the best of luck in Vegas!

Utah was an amazing way to cap off my 4 years as a student in FRC. This was my favorite event that I have ever been too, and I know a big part was because of all of the great teams there. It was awesome to see just how competitive it was this year, and I'm glad I could interact with so many teams as the coach this year. Thanks to everyone for making it so great

[mrnoble]

AngelBotics had a great time! We enjoyed winning the Imagery award, and sharing our hippie ways with all of you.

It isn't overstating things to say that we love 1619 and 2996, thank you both for all your help and friendship over the past several years. You have both deeply impacted our team's growth.

The Colorado contingent of 1410, 662, 1332, 3200, 4550, and of course 1619 and 2996 have made quite a showing in Utah these last few years, and this year was especially strong. Thank you to 1410 for organizing the shared transportation of our robots and tools, and to 4550 and 3200 for sharing the load.

The organizing of Utah was excellent this year. Thank you to all who made it go so smoothly! What a great regional.

[blazingbronco18]

Raptacon had a great time participating in the Utah regional for the first time. Congratulations to team 624,1619, and 4334. We look forward to competing with many of you again at the Colorado regional. Does anyone have video of the Friday qualifiers?