2007 Davis Sacramento 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

[Otaku]

Originally Posted by 1359th Scalawag

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

xD

I was wondering if anybody else would remember that. I think that was one of the funniest parts of Davis, 'cause after the announcer said that, everybody on my team that was in the pit at the time yelled at Bryant (the person blowing the bubbles).

[1359th Scalawag]

Originally Posted by Otaku

xD

I was wondering if anybody else would remember that. I think that was one of the funniest parts of Davis, 'cause after the announcer said that, everybody on my team that was in the pit at the time yelled at Bryant (the person blowing the bubbles).

You know those awards we were giving out? (pirate hats) I wasn't too involved in that but I did suggest that we give you a "blowing bubbles" Award because the randomness of it all. Did we eventually give you that one?

[115inventorsam]

Originally Posted by 1359th Scalawag

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.

That alliance partner that ended up working was 115. I was scouting in the stands and had no info on the situation, so when that manipulator opened up, the whole team roared with excitement. Bumping you guys up and scoring 4 ringers made that match the highlight of that day for us. The only better match for us was the one where we faced 100 on Saturday morning.
By the way, we also had a column of 2 to go with that row, and it really did matter with that match being won by only 1 point.

Just another example of the awesome competition that was on display at this regional, very exciting, very action packed, and definitely a lot of fun for everybody.

And finally, congrats to 1359 on the awards, especially on the Chairman's Award.

[sarcasticmadnes]

Originally Posted by 1359th Scalawag

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.

That's the match I want a video for!!!! If anyone's got it, please please please email it to me at ch10151@gmail.com. PLEASE! anyone? Also if anyone needs videos of any elimination rounds and friday and saturday morning qualification rounds, feel free to email me asking for them too Thanks.

Great job to all the teams who were there at Davis. It was a FABULOUS competition.

[pakratt1991]

something I forgot yesterday,
1458 made the most awesome second pick when they got the tube off of 100's flag pole in the finals round... TWICE!
great job guys, the second time you did it in about 10 seconds

[Otaku]

Here are some pictures from Sacramento. I only chose to upload some of the better quality ones (I have plenty of others, about 160mb total of pictures + 2 short videos, which will be uploaded somewhere too)

Team 675 group picture, after finishing the Sacramento Davis Regional
Team 675's Engineering Inspiration award atop our team's flag (With the TH logo & 675 on it)
Me, throwing the goat while wearing the Engineering Award medal and holding the trophy
Team 675 with our Engineering Award, Team 100 with their Regional Winner award, and some Athenian Robotics Collective members
Team 675's Human Pyramid
Random sunset picture I got on the bus ride back from Davis

EDIT:

Quicktime Video of some insane Rubik's Cube action (Takes awhile to load)

[BHS_STopping]

On behalf of Team 1726, we would like to offer Teams 100, 997, and 1458 a huge congratulation for their victory at Davis. Those Quarter-Final matches were absolutely intense, and I don't think that there's ever been a closer match this year. After the loss, our team was rooting for you guys the whole way, just because you were absolutely awesome opponents and even greater teams. I honestly believed that all three teams deserved to win, especially 100. That display of GP at the end was astounding, and I was very surprised to hear that team 100 had not won a regional for many years.

By the way, Davis probably was, as the MC said, the most competitive of all of the regionals this year. It was definitely worth the 14 hour drive!

Edit: One more thing. Congrats to Team 1359 for winning the Chairman's award. As being part of the Chairman's award team for 1726, I can say that you guys deserved to win that as well. We came close, but hey, there's always next year. Good luck to all teams at Nationals. Hopefully I'll be there with our Vex team, Team 3495.

Another Edit: I almost forgot, thanks Team 100 for helping us with the high score during the regional qualifying rounds. I had no idea that we would be able to score 260 points like that!

Once again, awesome, awesome, regional. Thanks to all teams, sponsors, mentors, volunteers, and of course the UC Davis campus for holding such an awesome event!

[115inventorsam]

By the way, match results, standings, and awards list from this regional is now available.

http://www2.usfirst.org/2007comp/events/SAC/awards.html

[KrazyRoadster]

Originally Posted by Sam N.

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.

Thanks for noticing us. That match was really a high point for us, and though we didnt win, our team still went crazy. We were hopin to be paired with you guys in the eliminations, but I guess more teams noticed us than I thought. ( We were ranked in the 20's)

Also, I've said it once and I'll say it again, Thanks for the carrier plates. Without them our robot would not even be running. True Gracious Professionalism.

[bhsrobotics1671]

match videos anyone? well past match 12 at least?
it would be greatly appreciated
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