2007 Davis Sacramento Regional

[bhsrobotics1671]

haha yeah she was kind of funny at times
but sidetracked, and went "crazy" a lot
ha

but yeah i was getting tired of hearing "no running in the pits" over and over or "stop blowing bubbles" ha.

[sciguy125]

Always a bridesmaid, but never a bride...
1351 makes a habit of losing in the semifinals. It's starting to irritate me. So close, yet so far...

[=Martin=Taylor=]

For us the real finals were quarter-finals.

omg... How we made it through I shall never know...

If there was ever a match with two perfectly even alliances... That was it.

-1662 - Played AMAZING defense. Our bumpers are literaly in tatters thanks to them. The sheer pushing force of that 6-wheeler is amazing.

-295 - Very effective ramps. We had no idea this robot would be such an effective lifter. Truely a unique ramp system.

-1726 - Powerful offensive bot that easily matched us when it came to tubing. They really packed a punch in the defense department too.

It was a real slap in the face that first match - total catastroohic failure for our alliance. Two robots fliped in the first minute, tube on our flag (penalty), and a massive score for blue alliance.

But CONGRATS to alliance #1!

997 is an amazing lifter. They literaly lifted our robot after the bell, giving us maximum time to score tubes.

Don't underestimate 1458. They played offense for our alliance, not defense... And got at least 1 tube a match - which is a lot considering the defense being played out there. They also rescued us repeatedly when a tube landed on our flag.

First regional victory in 8 years for FRC 100. First regional victory in 4 weeks for FRC 997

Nice job to everyone who made Davis awsome!

[Otaku]

Congratulations to all teams (Especially Team 100 and their winning alliance! Good job), and we hope to see at least a few of you in Atlanta (we know we'll see 100 at least).

675, much to all of our amazement, won the Engineering Inspiration award. Honestly, nobody expected that, and I'll be honest, I was crying for like an hour afterwords knowing that after 7 years, 675 would be going to Atlanta.

Many thanks to Team 114 (Eaglestrike, you guys were AWESOME!) and 2159 (Robopirates, thanks for the help, I'll be sure to visit sometime) for their help in the elimination rounds. We played well, guys.

I have to admit, Davis was awesome. I got about 200mb worth of pictures and video, so I'll probably put those in a .rar and upload them (even the Team 675 pictures, I'm sure somebody else wants those).


Hope to see you all in Atlanta,
Otaku

[MrForbes]

We finally stopped driving for the night, and the motel has free wifi, so here's a picture from the first quarterfinal match...997 and 100 stayed up for the remaining 4 takes on the first quarterfinal, and with 1458 took the quarter, and hung in there win the finals...great job!

Congrats to all the award winners, and a big THANKS to all the officials, judges, and other volunteers who put on this event! Everything went just fine from where I sat, and I sure enjoyed the pit announcements...

[pakratt1991]

Let me start by staying we were SO exited to be picked by 100, and 1458 made an awesome second pick

well that quarterfinal was the most freaked out I have EVER been!
now we hve had some close calls before, like loosing out first match in both the quarter and semi finals at PNW, but 5 ROUNDS!... DANG!
Our compressor was on fire!

I looked at our video from those matches and as we pointed out to the refs, it should hav only been 4. That does not matter, the only thing that matters was that we all had a great time and build GREAT robots

I hope to see the award winners and the other winners at nationals
and as in every competition there are teams that deserve to be going to nationals who are not. Davis was a gea competition and for our first time going we thought that the place was very inviting and we might just come back some other year :-)

ALSO
I have our video from Friday and Saturday where we just shot an overview of the field, when I get it put up I will make sur to get up a link.

[WindTech]

I'll be posting all the Qualifying Match rounds in WMV this morning; I live-encoded everything on friday/saturday short of the finals as NASA apparently webcast that part of it. Had literally no bandwidth at either the competition or at the hotel heh, sorry for delay.

http://www.xdtech.net/webcast/

[Nawaid Ladak]

can somebody please post the awards. Thanks

[Koko Ed]

Can someone please explain to me why there is no information from this regional on the FIRST website?

[115inventorsam]

Originally Posted by FreedomForce

can somebody please post the awards. Thanks

Lets see what I can remember:

Website Award: 115
Autodesk Visualization Award: 670
Highest Rookie Seed: 2036
Kleiner, Perkins, Caufields & Byers Entreprenuership Award: 115
Woodie Flowers Finalist Award: I don't remember the name, but the mentor was from 1359
Imagery Award: 1359
Motorola Quality Award: 100
DaimlerChrylser Team Spirit Award: 997
Regional Finalists: 701, 852, 2035
Regional Winners: 100, 997, 1458
Engineering Inspiration Award: 675
Regional Chairman's Award: 1359

The others I either don't remember or I'm just not sure.

A great regional and thanks to all for such a wonderful regional, great job teams!

[Doug G]

Just to tease everyone about the fierce competition at Davis/Sac - I've uploaded QF1.1 to SOAP. I know the file is very big and once I re-do the video sizes I'll get them up over the next few days.

Props to 100/997/1458 - they're an awesome alliance.

[Otaku]

Thanks for uploading QF Match 1.1. I really wish you could hear the crowd better though, because when Team 100 got knocked over, it was almost deafening.

I mean, talk about a very, very brutal match. Two bots knocked over, tons of ringers on the rack for the blue alliance, and bonus points for the blue alliance.

When the emcee said that Week 5 (more specifically, Davis) was probably the fiercest regionals, He was not kidding. It was an utterly amazing regional.

[Sam N.]

1351 took home the Johnson & Johnson Sportsmanship award. Special thanks to team 1280 for giving us a lift and the FemBots, team 692, for playing some awesome defense and eating pizza with us.

Team 1280's rachet system popped out after one heavy match and our robots didn't stay elevated. It's because they were too awesome in their defense against 852 and 701. Congrats to that alliance as well.

Also, thanks to team 115 for being awesome. Their robot was great to admire and their last qualification match with us against team 100 was also a real blast. That last second spoiler was certainly something to cheer about.

[701Driver-Mike]

Originally Posted by Sam N.

Team 1280's rachet system popped out after one heavy match and our robots didn't stay elevated. It's because they were too awesome in their defense against 852 and 701. Congrats to that alliance as well.

when we saw your bot and 692 going up i thought our day was over. then I could not believe my eyes when I saw two bots slowly falling down after the buzzer had gone off. we had a time fun playing you guys and hope to see next year.

[1359th Scalawag]

Congrats to the winning alliance! 977,100,1458 you guys were awesome.

That was a feirce regional. It was so much harder than the Portland regional (week one) By the end, my brain was hurting. It was tough.

We won the Imagery Award (4th year in a row)
Our mentor, Bill (Buzzy) Buskirk won the Woodie Flowers Award!
And we won the Chairmans Award!


One match i'd like to point out was our match against 2063 and 766 in qualifying. The second I found that we were against you, I thought we were doomed. As we were cued up, one of our allliance partners told us they wouldn't make it so I changed our strategy from a balance of defence and offence to 100% offence in hopes of getting enough tubes on to counter your inevitable 60 point ramp. Right before the game started, our alliance partner arrived and announced that thier robot would work fine. We still went with the offence strategy but it was a CLOSE game. we got a row of 5 whereas you got a row of 4 and a couple singletons. Halfway through the match, one of our trannies failed and we could hardly move so our driver somehow crawled our way around the feild and tried to get up our partner's ramp. We couldn't. Our other alliance partner cam and bumped us real hard and we only got the 15 extra points whereas our opponents got 30. We won that match 51-50.Good game guys, it was amazing.


oh yea, "Team 675, stop blowing bubbles in the pit" ~pit announcer