2007 VCU Regional

[sporno]

OK BEING FROM 540 Id like to thank everyone, the finals was such a rush and I personally as human palyer wasent sure of we were gonna make it .. THANKS SOO MUCH CANADA AND TURTLES!!!!!!!!!!! and ya the red card was painfull , but ya know stuff happens we didnt mean too.

[Lil' Lavery]

What a regional, VCU once again proves that it is the best regional in FIRST. I can assure you that 116 had a total blast. I couldn't be more proud of my team, and all the other teams at VCU than I am right now. We might not have ended up on top, but there isn't any better way to go down than that!

Originally Posted by 1derboy

I am shocked that #1, #2 and #7 all were knocked out. I thought that #2 vs #7 was the match that would decide the winner.

We thought [hoped] that too. If 435's radio didn't have trouble during match 3, or if 612's wheel didn't break in the semis, who knows what could have happened. Regardless, the finalists did a terrific job.

[mrmummert]

Hello everyone..

It was a great day for Me...all during build and then during the qualification
matches things did'nt go well...and then we end up as finalist..Wow.
The important thing to Me this year was just helping get the team there
so the kids could be a part of it and be inspired by it...

I'd like to congradulate our partners 928 (for picking us) and 623.
Also congrats go out to 2108 (nice to see a rookie take it) 843 and 540.
Also congrats to 2068 for the rookie all star award and top rookie seed
as that was us in 2005. They were right next to us in the pits.

I'd also like to give Brandon Martus a big Thanks and well done for the work
He and the crew from IFI did...they were great at fixing bugs (there's our teams). I was a bit surprized He came to our regional.

I like how close it was at the end...see four weeks ago things were so bad
I did'nt even know if we would even be able to go...then things did'nt go well
during matches...and to end up as finalists...was so great...almost as
great as last year for us.

Well have fun guys and have a good year on and off the feild.

[VanMan]

Ya I think 540 and 843 were happy that we picked them and they probably thought they would never be picked because they were somewhat high up in the ranking but we picked them based on their skills. By the way I am the guy in the turtle costume. Thanks to everyone who was cheering us and thanks to our alliances.

[VanMan]

Originally Posted by Andrew Blair

Wow, tipping red card in the final finals match. That wouldn't have been called in 2006.

Man we were so mad. I thought it was over. Everyone knows that that one was really our win. Anyone know when the match archives will come out. I want to really see that match. I thought that 1610 had pushed against the Canadians and knocked them over. Anyways, we still won. Man this rookie years has been great.

[GAMO]

Mentor from Team 2108 here.

When looking from the stands, I knew that it was going to be a DQ instead of a 30 point penalty, but all it really meant is that we went 3-0 in the final round.

A funny thing happened at the team social, too, Team 2068 came to us asking to be their alliance member. It took them a minute to realize that we weren't Team 343. I said "no takebacks" but I guess they didn't take it seriously.

[Bomberofdoom]

Congratz 540, 2108 and 843. First time I heard the Awkward Turtles being announced as rookies I put my full attention on them. That was an amazing Finals, just absolutly amazing, couldn't keep my eyes of my comp' sreen(watching all the way from Israel).
I'd like to say to you guys that you've been an inspiration to me and my team and we're hoping that we'll win the regionals just like you guys did.
Congratulations blue alliance and I hope to be seeing you in the Championships

[VanMan]

Originally Posted by GAMO

Mentor from Team 2108 here.

When looking from the stands, I knew that it was going to be a DQ instead of a 30 point penalty, but all it really meant is that we went 3-0 in the final round.

A funny thing happened at the team social, too, Team 2068 came to us asking to be their alliance member. It took them a minute to realize that we weren't Team 343. I said "no takebacks" but I guess they didn't take it seriously.

I really thought that it was only going to be the Canadians robot to be DQed and they would just cancel their points. I would be fine with that. But making the whole alliance be DQed was not expected and I was very mad for about 6 minutes. The very last match was very close, because all of the same number of tubes were up for each alliance. Red alliance had 1 robot 1' off the ground (I think). Our alliance had 2 robots and from my view they looked like a foot off the ground but I was not too sure. Anyone remember which robots where 4" and which where 12? I was so happy that I barely looked.

[VanMan]

[blakwyte]

big ups to 2108 for sweeping the tournament as a rookie ... you guys had some amazing ramps and i was definitely putting up the awkward turtle sign when the final buzzer went off 540 and 843 were both scoring machines and excellent drivers ... congrats to all of you and we'll definitely be seeing you in atlanta

wondering: does anyone have any idea where i can find some footage of the final rounds?? kinda interested in seeing how it actually looked, it was all a blur to me from behind that darned plexiglass

[burkey_turkey]

from what i hear, 540 had volunteered to record the matches for soap, but with the commotion of the finals i hope it got done. id like to see not only some vids but some nice still pics of the finals. the last match was incredible, it was truley how the game was meant to be played.

[Rob2713g]

We recorded on Friday and Saturday. We had some issues at the beginning of Friday and missed matches between 11 and 1 (our tape popped out early). We got everything else including awards ceremonies. On Monday, a student is going to convert the footage from VHS to digital. We will then proceed to posting it. I hope it will be up soon.

[VanMan]

Originally Posted by blakwyte

big ups to 2108 for sweeping the tournament as a rookie ... you guys had some amazing ramps and i was definitely putting up the awkward turtle sign when the final buzzer went off 540 and 843 were both scoring machines and excellent drivers ... congrats to all of you and we'll definitely be seeing you in atlanta

wondering: does anyone have any idea where i can find some footage of the final rounds?? kinda interested in seeing how it actually looked, it was all a blur to me from behind that darned plexiglass

Ya I want to see the footage too. Especially the second final match.

[GAMO]

I think one of the reasons why we were able to take it to the win is because we had good team dynamics:

540: Excellent scoring
843: Average scoring, Average defense
2108: Excellent defense + ramps

I was worried in the semi-finals against the 2068 alliance, but after 540 pulled that awesome manoeuvre, I knew we were going to win. The problem with having only a ramp robot, is that if you deploy early in the game, you're pretty much unable to do anything else, so instead of having 3 robots on the field at once, you only have 2.

To be brutally honest, I think that this year's game is a disappointment. I think that during design, they didn't realize how difficult it would be to get ringers onto the rack. From day 1, I thought that going end-game for the 60 bonus points was the way to go, and our team tried to build ramps so that most robots could get onto them. I guess bonus points to us because we tried to design around other people's robots and that we "got" this year's message. Oh well, here's to next year hoping that we have flying game pieces again!

[Priyadarshy]

i hope you are kidding about the game being a disappointment sure the qualificatoin matches werent high scoring but in the tournament we lost to you (2108's alliance) by one ringer and we had an oppurtionity to put on those two but someone on ur alliance played intense defense that was an amazing game and in the finals we saw the best of both worlds ramps and rack

also we would have had a better chance in the 3rd match but our wheels broke in match 2 of the semis when the turtles pinned us to the side haha