Minneapolis Regional Discussion 2016

[Kingland093]

4215 had a pretty crazy weekend. we were dead at some point in 3 of our 8 matches. Still somehow ended up in the top 20. We still can say that we scored 8 goals by ourselves in a match.

Thanks to all our quals alliance partners and thank you 5826 and 2239 for picking us and working on 5826's blocker. Huge thank you to whoever the inspector was that cleared the blocker before QF1!!!

Congrats to our friends 3130, 2175, and 3042 on your regional win. all of you will do extremely well at Champs. No hard feelings after QF

This was my last competition as a driver and it wasn't the way I wanted to go out but it still has been a great ride.

[jjja380]

2175 had a really fun time this weekend! Huge shout out to our alliance partners 3130 and 3042!

[Ginger Power]

I'm speechless and amazed as I'm on my way back to Fargo from the FIRST Robotics Minnesota North Star Regional. CIS 4607, the Becker Robotics team has been honored with the most prestigious award in competitive robotics, the Chairman's Award.

CIS has been striving to achieve the culture change outlined by FIRST since our inception in 2012. The Chairman's Award is so much more than just another award. It is a validation for the countless hours of work done by a special collection of people in an effort to change the world. I think I speak for everybody on the team when I say that we're humbled to have been honored with the Chairman's Award.

There are so many people deserving of thanks, and so many people who deserve recognition for this achievement. I'll leave all of that for a different form of communication. There is, however, somebody that needs to be recognized here.

Alex Jurek (Chief Hedgehog), you won the Woodie Flowers award. There isn't anything I can say that isn't summarized by that award. I will say simply this, I wouldn't be interested in STEM education, or robotics if it weren't for you. Any/all of the successes that I have had and will hopefully have in the future can be attributed to your success as a mentor, a teacher, and a friend. 4607 doesn't have a FRC team without you, we certainly don't win any awards. Many people have put in many hours, but you've been the guiding force. Without your vision for the future, 4607 is nothing, and all of the work we do doesn't get done. This award should serve as a validation for all the time you've given up with your family. It should serve as validation for the sleepless nights, worrying about one thing or another for the team. It should certainly validate the blood sweat and tears you have put into this program.

I'd also love to thank Laurie Shimizu, Jon Stratis, Mark Lawrence, and Ken Rosen. They're all incredible people who have helped show 4607 how to become the team that we are today.

Interestingly, I was told today at the event that 4607 has a reputation. At the time I wasn't sure what this meant, was it good? I suppose after this, I can believe that we have a good reputation.

4607 knows that the work doesn't stop here. CIS isn't going to sit back and relax knowing that we've accomplished what we've always dreamed of accomplishing. The work is just beginning. We won't ever stop trying to improve our community, spread STEM education, and change the world.

[team-4480]

Congrats to 4607 for the Chairman's Award(beautiful video) and the #1 alliance on winning the regional!!

We, on the other hand, received the very short straw.

On average we scored:

11.25 Auto points per match

53.3875% of the our alliance's points

We are quite proud of those statistics until we see that we ranked 60/60 teams. It was devasting to our team spirit to do so well for us but be ranked the lowest team there.

We submitted Chairman's for the first time and it was a great experience. We were pretty sure we wouldn't win, but the judges and volunteers helped encourage us to do our best!

Good luck to those teams going onto State and Worlds! Hopefully we can draw a longer straw next time!

[mjc49]

Congratulations to CIS. You folks have done an amazing job to growing your team and STEM in your area. You have inspired me with what you have accomplished in such as short amount of time.

A thank you and congratulations to the students and mentors of 2715 & 3130. I was very impressed by the way the teams handled the adversity of robots loosing functionality and finding ways to get the robots back on the field and develop strategies to get past three outstanding alliances (5826, 2239, 4215) (2225, 3928, 3026 missing 4778) & (2826, 2194, 2574).

Safe travel to those of you headed to St. Louis and good luck.

[Mark Holschuh]

Fondy Fire really enjoyed coming to the North Star Regional. We would like to thank Mark Lawrence, Jon Stratis, the rest of the Regional Planning Committee, and the all of the volunteers who make this such a great event.

We would also like to give a huge shout-out to 2826 Wave Robotics, who always helps and keeps pushing us to improve. Thanks for picking us for eliminations. Also thanks to our other alliance partner 2574, who was also great to play with.

Congratulations to 4607 for winning RCA. Their video is worth checking out. Also, check out their unique pit banners at the Championship.

Congratulations also to the Regional Champions, 2175, 3130 and 3042. We fought you as hard as we could!

The rookie teams there were all really good! Congrats to 5194 for winning Rookie All Star, and to 5826 for winning Rookie Inspiration and being the 8th Alliance Captain.

Good luck to all the teams going to the FIRST Championship and to the teams going to the Minnesota State Championship.

[cpapplefamily]

Originally Posted by maxnz

Team 2855 had a great time this weekend with us ending up rank 12 and making it to the quarterfinals. This was our best year so far, with us winning one of the quarterfinal matches forcing it to go to a tiebreaker that we lost by 8 points. Can't wait for next year.

Thank you to 4549 for picking us, 3244 for being a great part of our alliance, and 4207 for saving the day when 4549's robot broke.

Was a lot of fun We thank 4549 and 2855 for selecting 3244 to come defend the stronghold along side you. We couldn't sleep all night reflecting on what could have been a great first round upset. With no code change our Autonomous failed to execute the last round. would a been a different result even with a defense breach. Our week started with failed autonomousCommand.start() and seemed to end there too. We battled together and fought every challenge together. Thank to 4207 for helping an ally stand up to he supper powers and show we will not fall over easily.

[jkoletar]

I'll like to extend a big thanks from 3042 to our alliance partners 2175 and 3130. Thanks for the opportunity join your alliance at the North Star Regional. We especially appreciate your confidence in us as we worked to repair the broken driven train chain as as the timeout ticked down to the start of the finals. When the ref asks if you are going to be able to take the field, that is not a good thing. Your trust in us means a great deal. You were a pleasure to work with and an all around class act.

As a parent of a Trinity alum (4215) it was bittersweet to have to compete against your fine alliance (5826, 2239, 4215) in the quarters. Best of luck to those Trinity seniors.

Hats off to 3928, 2225, 3026, and 4778 for a bruising semifinal. While we somehow squeaked through with a 1 point win, you fought hard and fair, leaving us with many battle scars (such as a non working intake/shooter).

What a thrilling final. Teams 2926. 2194, and 2574 you made an outstanding alliance and it was a pleasure competing against you.

Also it was wonderful to see CIS (4607) win Chairman's. I'm especially pleased to see how many females you are pulling into robotics. Way to go!

[Caleb Sykes]

4536 had a ton of fun at 10K. I'll probably post more soon, but I thought I would just leave this video here. It is a double autonomous tortuga by our alliance in qual 58.

[TheMilkman01]

Originally Posted by Ginger Power

I'm speechless and amazed as I'm on my way back to Fargo from the FIRST Robotics Minnesota North Star Regional. CIS 4607, the Becker Robotics team has been honored with the most prestigious award in competitive robotics, the Chairman's Award.

So glad to here you guys earned it after all your hard work! All of us on 2052 are amazed and thrilled, as well, that we were honored with the Chairman's Award at 10,000 Lakes. It looks like both of us had a great time at competitions As you can hear, our team completely erupted when we won!

[Doug Frisk]

North Star's playoffs may have been one for the record books. 5 of a possible 7 tiebreaker matches were played. 4 timeout (5 were presented) coupons were used and 2 substitute robots were pulled in.

That was quite a production.

[ChickenCoupe]

A huge shout out to our alliance partners 3042 and 2175, our teams worked amazingly well together and I know my team had a great time. 2175 and my team share a shop at East Ridge High School and have always had grand dreams of winning a regional together. I'm ecstatic that we have finally pulled it off, especially since I am a graduating senior on 3130 and my brother is a freshmen on 2175, the timing couldn't have been better. 3042 played amazing defense and was a joy to work with, thank you guys so much.

We share a practice field with 4215 so playing with them in quarters was a lot of fun, I'm sorry we won't see you at worlds but I hope you'll be in the field soon!

Semifinals were terrifying. 2225, 3928, and 2226 played a terrific game, and with the final tie breaker coming down to one point, it couldn't have been a better show.

Our intake died in the first match, leaving 2175 to put in all the boulders. Luckily our robots performed well in the last two finals matches. But it was a bittersweet victory, knowing that 2826 had not yet qualified for champs. The opposing alliance, 2826, 2194, and 2574 played a great game, and as always it was a lot of fun to compete with you guys.

Thank you so much again to our alliance, and the rest of my drive team as well as Bradley Cho, our Deans List Finalist.

...still shaking from the last match.

[FWinter]

Originally Posted by BumblingBuilder

2169 would love to thank 967 and 4239 for accepting to be in our alliance. We had a wonderful time competing. Soo close in match 2.

Thanks for the opportunity to join you! As you said, it was a great time.

Originally Posted by BumblingBuilder

Pew pew to infinity and beyond

Indeed! I saw this and couldn't help but laugh

[jlangaas77]

On behalf of team 5172, congrats to both winning alliances! We had the chance to work with 525, 3130, and 2175 at Iowa and we hope to have the chance to work with 2052 at state! Good luck at champs!