2015 Las Vegas Regional

[Jared Russell]

The Las Vegas Regional is one of the best run competitions in FIRST, and I really enjoyed the venue, volunteers, and teams. Next time your team is thinking about going to a travel regional, you should strongly consider Las Vegas.

Thanks to 341 for re-adopting me for the weekend! It was fun to be back.

Thanks to 1251 for picking 341 and having the foresight to choose 4800 as well. This was a pretty cool alliance: Two pure stackers and one pure capper playing the "game" about as collaboratively as possible this year, and they put up some very respectable scores in the process. The autonomous mode was really cool - 4800 uses a very effective fusion of sensors, including a gyro, ultrasonic sensor (for detecting distance off the wall), and encoders to ensure that the robot stays on track in all three degrees of freedom (yaw, lateral, longitudinal). I'm glad 341 was able to assist with getting the cans out of your way, too.

Congrats to 148 and 987 on their dominating win - I'm Looking Forward to seeing how divisions shake out! Congrats to 5012 on their first regional win as well, to 60 and 597 for their awards, and to the entire 60/3309/4322 alliance for punching their much deserved tickets to the Championship.