Silicon Valley Regional 2008

[Woody1458]

I just got home from the competition and just wanted to congradulate all award winners

List from top of my head

Woodie Flowers - Mentor of Apes of Wrath
Xerox creativity - WPI 190 with the ever-debated rotator (obvious)
Design - 1280 (awsome pit)
Website - MVRT 115 http://www.mvrt.com/2008/clear.php

Theese teams won awards but I forgot which one got which

Alaska team (forgot name/number Sorry!)
Funky Monkies
TKO
GRT 192 (The award for cool robot gizmos that you can explain in conciese terms)

I forgot who won volunteer (Sorry!)

Great competitions out there. Alliance selections are going to be very interesting, as a lot of great robot teams are in the lower rankings (254 is 35th, 114 is 38th etc). Oh and just my callouts to interesting things I saw...

I liked 973's method of ball removal
2144 pulled of the counterfacing omnis (looks like <> from underside) spectacularly
254 didn't show up to some of matches today! Why Cory?
1280's pit was awsome, being right next to it was..... humbling
Apparently there was a fire on the field while I was in the pits! I always miss the good stuff... (Sorry to the team who it happend to)
Not much as far as hybrid, I didn't see much as far as knoking balls off.

BTW - As pit captain I'm sure there was a lot of cool stuff that happend that I didn't see, so don't hate If I missed you!