2008 NASA/VCU Regional

[sporno]

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

remember that we can see a lot of these teams again in September at the Robot Rumble.
Let's get enough teams this year to run 3v3 rather than 2v2

i believe the Robot Rumble is in October

[JesseK]

Originally Posted by waialua359

personally, i think the 80" rule was not cool at all to be enforced on a robot that flips over and falls. Its not like they had any control of it once it fell other than pressing the stop button.

We had a ground loose in our last qual match. We hit the e-stop almost immediately in teleoperated mode. Blue alliance was assessed 2 penalties that match and it looked like one was for us impeding. It was pretty frustrating but at that point it didn't seem worth it to argue for 10 points that wouldn't have made a difference in the outcome.

[codye91]

Well, I would like to thank teams 1598 and 1137 for the great time in elimination rounds. Guys, we were so close to those finals and pulling off the huge upset of beating the number 1 seed. Those darn penalties though, but Team 1262 has never made it as far as we did this year, and being it was my first competition, I really enjoyed it. Good luck to those teams in nationals and hope to see everyone next year. =]

[GeneralJB]

Originally Posted by VanMan

1793 actually did a good job with their alliance picks. I thought it was funny when they picked 1086 and they declined, then they picked 384 and they declined. They knew that if they were both together, they would be a tough alliance to beat. So they prevented them from being together.

Penalties were definitely playing a major role in the game. The game was great except the annoying penalties.

Oh yeah! we had quite a few teams ask us to even things out, and to seperate "the twins". they would have dominated. too bad that ONE penalty kept us from Atlanta. better luck next year guys.

[codye91]

Originally Posted by GeneralJB

Oh yeah! we had quite a few teams ask us to even things out, and to seperate "the twins". they would have dominated. too bad that ONE penalty kept us from Atlanta. better luck next year guys.

yea... you guys probably remember me... im the red head who drove the stags arm... you guys really did a good job when you broke those two up... they would have killed

[GeneralJB]

Originally Posted by codye91

yea... you guys probably remember me... im the red head who drove the stags arm... you guys really did a good job when you broke those two up... they would have killed

yeah i remember you. you guys did really good too. nice pit area too...

it was a tough choice for our pick this year. my little "list" was cleaned out by the time we had our 2nd pick, so me and the rep from 1731 had to make our best choice with info we had.

[redtide]

congrats to all the teams that made the turnament and to those who didn't. all in all it was a very exciting regional and thanks to 359 for making the trip out here and good luck to anyone who is going to any other regionals and Worlds

[Koko Ed]

Can someone post the awards given out on day 2?

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Can someone post the awards given out on day 2?

GM Industrial Design: 384
Motorola Quality: 359
Team Spirit: 612
J&J GP: 2106
Judge's: 122
Finalists: 1793, 1731, 2108
Champs: 1086, 435, 1522
EI: 1885
RCA: 1086

I don't recall the rest.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

GM Industrial Design: 384
Motorola Quality: 359
Team Spirit: 612
J&J GP: 2106
Judge's: 122
Finalists: 1793, 1731, 2108
Champs: 1086, 435, 1522
EI: 1885
RCA: 1086

I don't recall the rest.

It's a start.
Thanks Sean.

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Can someone post the awards given out on day 2?

Unfortunately, we lost the building internet connection before we uploaded the awards due to high winds outside.

So, here are all the awards.
Xerox Creativity Award 1086
Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technology" Award 401
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award 359
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award 1123
Autodesk Visualization Award 116
Imagery Award 1262
General Motors Industrial Design Award 384
Motorola Quality Award 359
Johnson & Johnson Gracious Professionalism 2106
Outstanding Volunteer Awards Dr. John Speich, Jeff Wetzel, and Sam Trumbull
Friday Judges Award 1731
Website Award 359
Woodie Flowers Award Mr James Lehman, Team 540

Regional Finalist #1 1793
Regional Finalist #2 1731
Regional Finalist #3 2108
Regional Winner #1 1086
Regional Winner #2 435
Regional Winner #3 1522
Saturday Judges Award 122
Chrysler Team Spirit Award 612
Highest Rookie Seed Award 2421
Underwriters Laboratory Industrial Safety Award 1541
Rookie Inspiration Award 2363
Rookie All Star Award 2483
Regional Engineering Inspiration Award 1885
Regional Chairman's Award 1086

Wetzel

[waialua359]

we are very grateful to have won 3 awards. In fact, we never won those before in 7 previous seasons for us.
We changed some things this year, especially during interviews which we felt helped tremendously. We were actually told of winning the awards prior to the awards ceremony both days.

[Nate Laverdure]

NASA/VCU Regional got mentioned on the MAKE Magazine blog yesterday. Some great pictures in the linked Flickr set, too.

[wilsonmw04]

NASA/VCU was mentioned on a NSBA (National School Boards Association) Blog as well. It's a great write up on FIRST btw...

http://boardbuzz.nsba.org/archives/025375.php

[gblake]

Folks - FYI - For those of you who liked the 6-player Overdrive Simulation we (Lockheed Martin) put together for the NASA/VCU Tech Row exhibits (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/30906), there are some other FRC game simulations brewing out there. A friend sent me a link to this pertinent CD thread:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=65695

Blake