Colorado Regional 2016

[pmallikarjun]

I can't believe how much havoc the blizzard has caused the regional this year, but seeing all the posts from teams offering help to those being delayed by the weather makes me so proud to be a Coloradoan!

Good luck to everyone competing this weekend. I'll definitely be watching the webcast and hopefully I'll be back as a volunteer again next year.

[HighlandersFRC]

Can you send me a picture of your robot luck up form asap??9703103612 we have approval to open your robot and start inspection. Thanks!

[Humberto fig]

Originally Posted by IronicDeadBird

Do you guys have a place to stay over night and warm clothes?

Yes thank you anyway! We arrive in about 2 hours. Just a few of us will get to the regional. The rest is going to do check in st the hotel and take a shower. Hopefully we can pass inspections right away. The good thing is that the team has not lost the spirit!! 51 hours of travel and FIRST is still moving us forward. This is crazy!!


See you in a few hours!

[dodar]

Congrats to 1619, 1011, and 4550 on winning the regional. Also, congratulations to 3288 for earning a Wildcard ticket to Worlds.

[TheBoulderite]

Originally Posted by dodar

Congrats to 1619, 1011, and 4550 on winning the regional. Also, congratulations to 3288 for earning a Wildcard ticket to Worlds.

1339 also got a wildcard. Congrats to them as well!

[blazingbronco18]

Originally Posted by TheBoulderite

1339 also got a wildcard. Congrats to them as well!

Im still a little confused as to where this wildcard came from. Can anyone explain? Congrats to 1619,1011,and 4550 on their regional win. Congrats to 2996 on the Engineering Inspiration award and to 4499 on the Chairmains. Good luck at nationals.

[mrnoble]

I want to thank Dawn Lutz and her whole team (including her husband and son) for their tremendous efforts to get this event to run in the midst of the blizzard. A shocking number of teams were on the field for practice on Thursday; a high number, even without considering the disaster of the roads and school closures. Colorado is run so well, year after year.

Congrats to 1619 for being consistently one of the best teams in the Western U.S., and for their win in Colorado and their Northern Arizona Chairman's. We are proud to know you. Congratulations to 4499, the nicest people to work with, we are so lucky to have a team like you in our state, and it was an honor to be your alliance partners. Congratulations to 2996, we so appreciate all you've done for us over the years, including raising up one of the best mentors we could ever ask for, Katie Hernandez. Thanks also to 3288 for believing in us and letting us play with you, please come back to our state anytime, you guys are a treat. 1011, look at you guys! Proud to see you win this regional for the first time, after all your outstanding performances over the years. 1410, once again, you have made Denver Public Schools proud, keep up the great work. 2240, we love you guys, so happy you got as far as you did, and won your first trophy! And Cherry Creek, well deserved. While our schools are rivals, it's always a pleasure to see you and work with you, and show how FRC is different than everything else. So glad you got everything you did, especially considering the snow cancellation for your team on Thursday.

All right, I'm done gushing.

[TheBoulderite]

Originally Posted by blazingbronco18

Im still a little confused as to where this wildcard came from. Can anyone explain? Congrats to 1619,1011,and 4550 on their regional win. Congrats to 2996 on the Engineering Inspiration award and to 4499 on the Chairmains. Good luck at nationals.

4499 won the Engineering Inspiration award at Arizona North, and with their Chairman's win they generated another wildcard.

[HighlandersFRC]

Congratulations to 1619, 1011 and 4550 on their amazing win! We had so much fun in the finals with you! Cant wait to see all of you at Championship. Congratulations to our alliance captain, 3288 , and alliance partner 1339. Along with that, we want to congratulate 2996 on winning EI. We had a great time and are so excited both of you earned a slot at Championship! Way to go! Thank you to all of the volunteers, judges and referees...what a great tournament!

[DanielHa]

I would like to give a personal shoutout to team 3230, PrototypeX. I think they had one of the most effective and best performing (and coolest) bots on the the field! While it's unfortunate that they were eliminated in the way they were, I think they can still consider this a very successful year, and they should be proud of what they built. Thanks for coming from Salt Lake city. I hope you all had fun, and I certainly hope we see you again at the Colorado regional next year!

[mrnoble]

Originally Posted by DanielHa

I would like to give a personal shoutout to team 3230, PrototypeX. I think they had one of the most effective and best performing (and coolest) bots on the the field! While it's unfortunate that they were eliminated in the way they were, I think they can still consider this a very successful year, and they should be proud of what they built. Thanks for coming from Salt Lake city. I hope you all had fun, and I certainly hope we see you again at the Colorado regional next year!

Seconded. This team has impressed every year. Their robot was the one that scared me on Thursday, with its consistent and powerful shooter and confident driving. Well done.

[IronicDeadBird]

Yeah with the exception of the ghost in our code that made our robot turn the wrong way far too often in auto I had a blast. Thanks to all teams participating for generating such hype and making it such a great event.
Special shout outs to
Shout out to the Volunteers and also especially to the FTA's for being so chill and working so hard despite the circumstances
Shout out to our alliance for those intense matches we ran
Shout out to 1619, 1011, and 4550 for that wickedly fun last match (and dat score doe!)

[NightTrain]

Wow what a weekend for 3288. We were not sure we could make it to Denver with all the roads being closed and barely had any time on Thursday after getting to the venue around 3:30. Then our qualification rounds went better than they ever have for us.
We were then able to select a great alliance for qualifications. 4499 was great to work with and I still can't believe we were able to pick 1339. You guys were both great and the matches Saturday afternoon were a blast. What a cool moment when The Highlanders won the Chairman's award and we realized 1339 also earned a wild card.
We would also like to congratulate 1619, 1011 and 4550 on a well deserved win. It was fun playing against you.
Thanks to everyone who helped make the Colorado regional such a great event. I sure hope it works out for us to keep coming back.

[clayng]

This was an incredibly challenging Regional due to the weather. I am amazed at how much the FIRST community pulled together to help where they could to support the event and the teams that were affected by it. Even though the Regional was comprised of teams from ten states and Mexico, it felt like family. Thank you to Dawn, Donald & Patrick for all of the sleepless, stressful hours you put in over the four-day stretch. Thank you to all of the volunteers who helped set up the field and 2996 for bringing the practice field. We owe another HUGE thank you to teams 1339, 4388 & 662 for all of the help they gave us on Thursday when our students and teachers were not allowed to attend the event due to school activities being cancelled. Congrats to 1619 & 1011 for winning the Regional. We were honored to be along side you completing your alliance. Congrats to our pit-mates 4499 for winning Chairman's. And to all of the teams that not only made it into finals, but made it onto the field. It is not a small feat to design, prototype, build, re-build, test, re-build, test again, and have a working robot in six weeks. We are looking forward to World's and looking forward to seeing familiar faces in the Dome. Safe Travels to everyone going.