2015 Saint Louis Regional

[EOC]

Team 1208 has put together an unofficial guide to the St. Louis Regional. It seems that most teams attending the regional are from the St. Louis area, still some may fine it useful.

[I_AM_Clayton]

The Robolions will be attenting and looking forward to having a good time. Im ready for an awesome second year at human player!

[flatflo]

Is there a social at SLU again this year? I have not seen anything, but as a rookie team we may not be on all the lists out there!

Can't wait 'til next week - working on flag & signs & all the spirit stuff!

[catacon]

Just a few more days! The Lightning Lancers will be there as usual. If anyone needs any mechanical or C++ help, don't be afraid to ask us!

Looks like there is going to be some great weather Friday and Saturday!

[1094Jacob]

There will be team social at the Simon Rec Center on the SLU campus on Friday, March 20 from 7-9pm. A consent form (HERE) is required to attend.

[Boltman]

Any webcast guys?????

[Ryan Dognaux]

Webcast should be available here: http://www.twitch.tv/rdognaux

[CalTran]

Greater KC represent. Two alum from 2410 are down today. Look out for the silver hats!

[Ryan Dognaux]

Congratulations to 1986, 1658 & 4356 for winning the St. Louis regional! Also a huge congrats to finalists 2783, 1208 & 4154 for putting up one heck of a fight. If not for a very strategically placed piece of litter, I think they could have taken Finals match 2 and the regional. Litter defense is real!

I wanted to say thank you to 3284 and 5326 for working so well with us and helping us advance to the semi-finals. This is the farthest 4329 has ever advanced and the whole team was absolutely ecstatic.

We were again incredibly honored to receive the engineering inspiration award. There are so many great teams in the St. Louis area who are equally deserving.

We realized that since we had already qualified for champs via our Arkansas Regional EI, I believe we created a wild card spot. Since 2783 won Chairman's Award and was the captain of the finalist alliance, I believe this means that 1208 will receive a wild card spot for champs. They have a great robot and drive team this year and I hope to see them attend!

Lastly, thanks to all the volunteers who make the St. Louis regional possible. There are a lot of great people working behind the scenes to make everything go as smoothly as it did.

We hope to keep adding more functionality to our robot for champs. Becoming a part of #TeamTether doubled our tote stacking capability and we're hoping to add a step can grabber for worlds so we can compliment any alliance. If anyone is interested, we recorded most of our matches with a GoPro and those videos can be seen here: Link

[1094Jacob]

The Channel Cats have uploaded all the match videos from the STL regional to YouTube. View them here

[IBdrummer]

Team 5492 had an amazing experience at the St. Louis Regional and we'd like to thank all of the volunteers, referees, and judges for making this the best first regional experience a rookie team could have! Congrats to 1986, 1658, and 4356 on taking the regional, your alliance was amazing and it was a hard fought and deserving victory. I especially would like to congratulate 2783 on their first regional Chairman's award! They have been around helping our team get off the ground and I'm excited to see them make it to worlds to share Kentucky FIRST with the rest of our community. I hope we get a chance to come back in the future and try to help make this regional as special for other teams as everyone in St. Louis did for us!

Also I'd like to give a special shout out to 4931 and 1444 for lending us some parts when we needed them. I know that sort of thing is what FIRST is all about, but they didn't hesitate to help us out when we need it the most and for that our team is very grateful.

[jspatz1]

Originally Posted by 1094Jacob

The Channel Cats have uploaded all the match videos from the STL regional to YouTube. View them here

Thank you Cats!

[sanelss]

Originally Posted by jspatz1

Thank you Cats!

x2 Was waiting for someone to upload vids!

our 3 full stack run can be seen in QM84 for those interested!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGrJ...5T0vhHDq1OtBYz

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by sanelss

x2 Was waiting for someone to upload vids!

our 3 full stack run can be seen in QM84 for those interested!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGrJ...5T0vhHDq1OtBYz

Just incredible. A stark contrast to our 1st match where we put up all of 4 points together Glad to see you guys really get it going, you clearly nailed the human loading aspect of this year's game. Good luck at champs!

Thanks to 1094 for taking the time to capture & upload all of these matches. I constantly find myself going back and watching your uploaded videos!

[Alpha Beta]

Thank you St. Louis for hosting a fantastic regional. The venue, volunteers, and level of competition were all outstanding. Special thanks to 4329 for providing the webcast. Our supporters back home really appreciate the ability to keep up with the team. (By the way, 2 EI's in the same year is a most impressive feat. Well done.)

1658, you absolutely lived up to your release video. You were a great team to work with, and built the most impressive offensive juggernaut at the tournament. It was also fun to reunite with 4356 (regional champs in 2012) and see the progress your team has made. I've got a hunch that the unused pneumatic system on your robot just might find a purpose by the World Championship.

It seems like we keep seeing 1208 in elimination matches year after year. Always a contender, and a fitting recipient of the wild card berth to Champs. Congratulations to 2783 on the Chairman's award. Really enjoyed watching your video at the end of the tournament.

4256, you are absolutely one of our favorite teams to work with. We had a blast setting the regional high score (204 pts) together. I wish we could have seen the 4 can stealer you were cheesecakeing on your alliance partner in action.

Team Titanium (FRC 1986) had an 8 regional win streak coming into this season. After being finalists in Arkansas earlier this season that streak is over. Hopefully this is the start of a new one. Either way we are thankful to be representing the state of Missouri at the World Championships once again. This is an opportunity that we are very familiar with, but trust me when I say we don't take it for granted.