2009 Arizona Regional

[Donut]

Thanks everyone for a great AZ Regional like every year, this game turned out to be alot more exciting than I was expecting!

Congratulations to teams 1726, 39, and 1165 on the Regional Victory and to team 2486 on the Chairman's award (for a 2nd year team!). Thank you to teams 69 and 2837 for picking us for eliminations and I hope we can make it all the way next year (maybe 69 will come back then?).

Also a thank you to team 842 for putting on the unofficial team social this year which was alot of fun. Without all the exhibits of the science center to distract students I think a lot more of the students got out there and talked with other teams (not to mention played huge games of hackey-sack and danced the night away).

Lastly, thank you to the teams who kept working all through Friday and even Saturday to make sure their robots made it out to at least one match. There were significantly more missed matches than I have ever seen at an event before and I'm glad to see teams who were having difficulty had at least one opportunity to compete with their robots this year. Hopefully next year we can get out to teams having trouble sooner in the Regional and make sure everyone has running robots come qualifying rounds on Friday.

Here's to hoping next year's regional is even better!

[falconmaster]

It started off slow for us, seemed like we could never get all three robots on our alliances. I love this regional, its home! With Karen's scouting system it helped us jump from 38th to 14th on sat and then ending up 8th while picking alliances shocked us. Karen's data gave us the best options to pick from out there and we showed how valuable it was when we gave our buddies 1726, NERDS a scare! But alas it was not meant to be. Eddie our Pit master held on to his 2008 UL safety award by winning again! Karen finally got recognition after three years of developing a scouting system that rocks! Judges award. I would like to thank our alliances Tempe 1633 and Cesar Chavez H.S. 2128 for fighting to the last against the number one alliance. Congrats to Betty Fair fax H.S. 2844 for making it to Nationals-Rookie all-star! That makes two Phoenix Unions High Schools in Atlanta! Congrats to The Coconuts 2486 for their well deserved Chairman's win! Keep working it, AZ needs another national winner in a few years!! To our comrades to the south way to go NERDS! See you in Atlanta and NURC!

[Frank Neuperger]

Thanks 1726 for picking us and 1165 for completing the alliance to allow us to 3 peat. Yes the first quarter final result had a lot of jaws dropping but it was a great wakeup call to do a major tweak on our strategy. In the next match it was surreal with us blocking 842 for a change. .

The narrow victory with team 60 sitting out a match had me as concerned as that first quarters loss.

Regrettable that the no shows pushed some good teams/bots way down in the rankings.

Phenomenal match play everyone. One of the most exciting regionals ever.

Thanks to all that contributed to getting our bot together (including connectors from Karen at 842) . It was a complex mechanism to undertake.

Frank

[rsisk]

Very impressive group of rookies this year. 7 rookie teams and look what they accomplished....


2837 Driving Tomorrow's Technology, Semi Finals
2839 Entrepreneurship Award, Semi Finals
2840 Rookie Inspiration, Rookie Highest Seed, Semi Finals
3014 Qtr Finals

and of course

2844 Rookie All Star

[falconmaster]

Originally Posted by Frank Neuperger

Thanks 1726 for picking us and 1165 for completing the alliance to allow us to 3 peat. Yes the first quarter final result had a lot of jaws dropping but it was a great wakeup call to do a major tweak on our strategy. In the next match it was surreal with us blocking 842 for a change. .

The narrow victory with team 60 sitting out a match had me as concerned as that first quarters loss.

Regrettable that the no shows pushed some good teams/bots way down in the rankings.

Phenomenal match play everyone. One of the most exciting regionals ever.

Thanks to all that contributed to getting our bot together (including connectors from Karen at 842) . It was a complex mechanism to undertake.

Frank

frank we thought we had no chance with 39 and 1726, but for moment we saw light at the end of the tunnel, but you soon closed that! Congrats to you guys as well. you guys are a very formidable team and paired with 39 made me very envious. One day I want to us three all on the same alliance!

[Chronicle_X]

Originally Posted by falconmaster

frank we thought we had no chance with 39 and 1726, but for moment we saw light at the end of the tunnel, but you soon closed that! Congrats to you guys as well. you guys are a very formidable team and paired with 39 made me very envious. One day I want to us three all on the same alliance!

To be honest, we were pretty worried ourselves. Out of all the robots there, none seemed to be able to hold us in place like 842. I am hoping that we are in the same division at nationals, so that we might be able to team up. I dunno if we can break out of many more Falcon Pins!!!

[Lafleur]

here are photo from the regional...

http://tlafleur.smugmug.com/gallery/...96041967_qziAu

thanks for all who attended, It was a lot of fun...


tom lafleur

Team 812
Preuss School at UCSD
The Midnight Mechanic

[AdamHeard]

Anyone have good pics of 39 and 60?

I saw 39 a bit on the webcast, but only saw part of one match. I could see they were a dumper, but couldn't tell any details.

[MrForbes]

yeah, here are your spy photos! I still intend to put pu the rest of the az robot photos one of these days

[JoScore60]

Originally Posted by squirrel

yeah, here are your spy photos! I still intend to put pu the rest of the az robot photos one of these days

haha. i like this picture of our team's robot. i wanted to see what it looked like in a picture. like if it was photogenic or not. nice pictures.

[drumfreak]

The regionals were awesome. Thanks to teams 1726 and 39. You guys were great to be allianced with.

Our robot had sooooooo many problems, but we pulled through. There was one point when we had mystery smoke coming out of it. We couldn't figure out where it was coming from, so we had to try to rewire part of it and see if that would help. It did. We realized later that the problem was that our jaguar had caught on fire!

Even with all of our problems we still pulled through and became regional champs for the second year in a row. We owe it all to 1726 and 39. You guys are awesome.

[Frank Neuperger]

Originally Posted by falconmaster

frank we thought we had no chance with 39 and 1726, but for moment we saw light at the end of the tunnel, but you soon closed that! Congrats to you guys as well. you guys are a very formidable team and paired with 39 made me very envious. One day I want to us three all on the same alliance!

Yeah, it sure would be fun and way better than being pinned by 842!! You guys are the best or at least tied for the best at that. hmm the legendary 842 pin.

[Moheeb698]

I have to say this year all the teams really showed gracious professionalism.

On behalf of team 698 I'd like to thank all the teams that helped us pull through this year. 39, 842, 2449, 1212, and our alliance 812. Without them we wouldn't have made it as far as we did. I love you guys and I hope to see you all next year and perhaps throughout the off-season.

All your help showed our rookie members what FIRST is really about, and I think that speaks for itself.

I have the utmost respect for all of you. You're all worthy of the chairmen's award to me.

Also a really special thanks to 39 and 842. We kidnapped your programmers for a good portion of the event. ^_^

[BornaE]

Originally Posted by Moheeb698

Also a really special thanks to 39 and 842. We kidnapped your programmers for a good portion of the event. ^_^

I'm Happy I was able to help!

[N7UJJ]

Originally Posted by Moheeb698

Also a really special thanks to 39 and 842. We kidnapped your programmers for a good portion of the event. ^_^

We will never know if the "if opponent=0842 then Left_Drive = stop" would really work.