Sacramento Results

[jgannon]

Originally Posted by MFS766

254, the cheesy poofs, had never lost the sacremento regional, until now.

The Cheesy Poofs have never lost at Silicon Valley, not Sacramento.

[Mike Hendricks]

Originally Posted by MFS766

I should point out that 254, the cheesy poofs, had never lost the sacremento regional, until now. They were finaly defeated by 245, 766 and 1072. We didn't have close matches in the finals, we dominated. The silicon valley regional will be very intreasting. 254 is still a tough team.

254 took some serious blows. I dont remember the exact team number (which is probally a good thing .. I dont want to start a flame fest) but they seemed to be driving into 254 non stop. They actually broke a few wheels off the poof's bot and we were ready to give up our wheels if they needed em in the finals - their custom wheels are basically the same as ours (except ours arent anodized and dont have a little design cut out).

The game was alot more agressive this year than I expected .. and its much easier to get a penality than I expected also. The refs were tossing down so many flags that on Saturday, the ref would explain to the human player on why they got the points docked. There were alot of matches that were X-0 or 0-0.

I cant wait for Atlanta

[whakojacko]

that was 753. Then they got dis qualified the first match of their quarters for knocking over 2 bots

[phrozen solyd]

Originally Posted by PhatMike

254 took some serious blows. I dont remember the exact team number (which is probally a good thing .. I dont want to start a flame fest) but they seemed to be driving into 254 non stop. They actually broke a few wheels off the poof's bot and we were ready to give up our wheels if they needed em in the finals - their custom wheels are basically the same as ours (except ours arent anodized and dont have a little design cut out).

Yeah, we thank 1388 for the offer. Although we never had to fall back on using their wheels, it was an incredibly classy move by the team. They definitely impressed me with their GP.

[jgannon]

Originally Posted by whakojacko

that was 753. Then they got dis qualified the first match of their quarters for knocking over 2 bots

I think that 753 was disabled and DQed not for knocking over two bots, which I thought they did quite nicely and within the rules, but for trying to knock over the third. See this post:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...8&postcount=14

[Michael Corsetto]

A big thanks to teams 254 and 1097 for picking us as the third member of the #1 seed alliance. 114 has never made it to the finals of a competion before so this was a great experience.

By the way team 114 won the Delphi award due to James Fry's amazing job designing and building our teams swivel drive train. The award was well deserved.

[Rod]

Originally Posted by whakojacko

you heard correctly. other awards (if i mess up forgive me and i dont remember them all) engineering 1388 industrial design 56 website 254 control system 973....um spirit 692. 1097 won something, i forgot what . Also forgot the name, but the coach from 330 won woodie flowers. Ill try to think of more, but my brain is kinda fried

692, Go Fembots!!

[Anthony Kesich]

We (1097) were also the #1 seed that the end of qualifying matches, a big first for us. Now the pressure's on at SVR....

-Tony K

[Alekat]

Originally Posted by RbtGal1351

i went to watch and one time all the goals were owned by red, it was awesome, but they only got 78 pts for it all. (it was strange tho, it said 0 penalty pts, so im missing some key info somehow)
it was sometime during final rounds, the alliance w/ 766, 1072, and 245

~Stephanie
Team 1351

I saw that match too. But your eyes must have mislead you. Every goal was owned by red EXCEPT one goal in blue's home zone. One red bot was towering over that goal with a red tetra as the time ran out. I laughed as I realized I was sitting on the edge of my seat over a match that was clearly won a minute in.

[Mike Hendricks]

Originally Posted by phrozen solyd

Yeah, we thank 1388 for the offer. Although we never had to fall back on using their wheels, it was an incredibly classy move by the team. They definitely impressed me with their GP.

Well .. if you need some more parts for the wheels in Atlanta, feel free to stop by our pits. We (1388) thank 254 for their machine shop, and the wheel offer is just a small token of our appreciation for the work you guys do. It seems like you guys got some screws for the wheels and some treads that we already cut to fit the wheels. Its the least we can do .. after all, we havent been able to complete the Sac Regional without a few stops by the 254 trailer

[Doug G]

Rookie Inspiration Award went to team 1678 from Davis High School - They had to start two weeks late (due to a late payment and finals) but still were able to get it together and were stacking 1 to 2 tetras a match and even got some auto moves down. Not bad for a such a small team with limited engineering support. Many of us were worried there were going to be no rookies coming to the Sac/Davis competition, so it was nice to see some rooks there and they all were very successful and seem to have had positive experiences.

[Mike Hendricks]

Originally Posted by Doug G

Rookie Inspiration Award went to team 1678 from Davis High School - They had to start two weeks late (due to a late payment and finals) but still were able to get it together and were stacking 1 to 2 tetras a match and even got some auto moves down. Not bad for a such a small team with limited engineering support.

Yeah, that was a good team. We were next to them in the pits. For those who didnt have a chance to get a close look at their bot .. it was basically the kit-bot frame, with a aluminum stepladder bolted on, and tupperware containers for the side sheilds. Quite resourceful for a rookie team if you ask me .. those 2 parts, I would of never thought of putting on a robot.

[Yan Wang]

Congrats to 1072 (and the rest of the alliance). I met one of your (1072) team members at Olin College during Candidates' Weekend. He seemed to feel the robot wasn't too functional after seeing a video of 639's, but I guess he was COMPLETELY wrong.

[whakojacko]

yes this bot was significantly better than our other bots. And olin? i dont anyone at olin. Is he from cornell?

Edit: and congrats on your finger lakes win

[Bill Gold]

I wanted to second Adrian’s thanking of 1388 on behalf of 254. Thank you guys so much for immediately coming over to us after those rough matches and offering the usage of your wheels; talk about sportsmanship and gracious professionalism. We count ourselves lucky to have friends such as 1388 in FIRST. Thank you all again.

I’d also like to thank the team on the other side of those matches for coming over to us after those matches and congratulating us and asking if we were alright, and if there was anything they could do. That was very big of them, and we appreciate it.

I had a great time at the Sacramento Regional. Thanks to Raul Olivera and Dan Green for coming taking time away from their team and work to come out west and help out at the event. Thanks to Cory McBride for doing the same, except replace “team and work” with “school.” Thanks to Glenn Thoroughman and his daughter Krystine for helping out our team so much this year. Thanks to all the teams from out of state who came to compete.

Finally, congratulations to the winning alliance of 245, 766, and 1072. You guys blew through a great alliance of 330, 56, and 1422 in the semis and then gave us a whooping in the finals. You guys were great. See you all in San Jose.

-Bill