2007 Colorado Regional

[LightWaves1636]

Originally Posted by Liz Smith

I think you mean 1583. Anyway, congrats to all of you! I am especially happy for my former team 555!!

oh darn!, sorry 1583!!! sorry, I'm the driver for 1636 and I'm still dehydrated from today, I'm so tired but still so excited!!!

I posted this in predicitons but I'll post it here too since it relates to the elims:

The final alliances were (RED)207-score bot(is a ramp too but it wasn't good enough), 1515-score bot, and 2083-score bot against (BLUE)555-score bot, 1583-Ramp bot(AWESOME DEFENSE-I LOVE YOU GUYS!), and 1636-Score bot(had a ramp but we got rid of it for finals to make our bot have more speed and it kept getting caught on the rack anyway).

Match 1 - Blue lost 14 to 4.207 got a keeper on.1583 broke down because their battery came loose. so 1636 was doing the best we could on defense and 555 was scoring as much as they could.

After effects-Blue used their time out.1583 fixed their battery problem, 555 was fixing their autonomous(plus I think their was something else but I was concentrated on getting our bot fixed first), and because of how rough 1636 got in the last match, their mast got slammed and it caused it to where the arm was stuck inside down in the chassis. Called the time out and all three teams were fixed and ready to go. also I want to thank 1515 for coming over to see if you guys could help, we appreciate it.
during the timeout, 1636's coach went out and spoke about 1636 and how this is the last year the team will be in operation, and a lot of other stuff but I was busy working the bot.

Match 2 - Blue won 32 to 34. 207 score the keeper, 555's autonomous got messed up.

After effects - 2083 was doing something, I don't know what because I was talking to our coach and something happened to 1515 and replacement had to come in. I don't remember the team number though. their time out was being used which I was defiantly happy about because our motors were really over heated and you were able to smell the wires.


Match 3 - "THE" match. blue won 36 to 70. 555 didn't have their autonomous work and 207 missed the leg. 1583, awesome defense, 1636 and 555 went into crazy scoring as much as possible. 1583 was able to get back to the home zone and 555 and 1636 climbed on top, 12" for both.

We got the GM Industrial Design and Regional winner.
555 - You guys had the most awesome autonomous I've seen. Hope you guys get it dialed in again at Championships.
1583 - You guys have the most awesome defense ever! and one the most efficient ramps there, good thing we had the ground clearance for any ramp. Good Luck at Championships.

Other stuff that happened:
Team 1636's dogtags dissappered within less than 2 hours of the practice day.(I told my team they were going to go fast, did they believe me? noooooooo. j/k guys)
Team 1636 dominated the entire morning of Thursday up until team began to realize what kind of defense they need to put on us, that dropped us to 15th overall. But luckily we got chosen. 555 couldn't get their first pick, so they chose 1583. 1583 wanted us because we had the ground clearance.(which was a problem with a lot of the bots at the regional, ground clearance compared to slope and height of the ramp). so they got 555 to choose us, we all realized what a better alliance this was.(Also, awesome job to the communication done between the drivers and strategists, simply amazing!).