Kansas City Regional - 2010

[rbrown1]

Team Driven is looking forward to a great competition next week at the Kansas City Regional. The weather is to be in th 40's with possibilty of ran on Friday. Much better than the snow last year. Good Luck to everyone and safe travel to all those coming to the KC.

[cnepo]

Team 868 (TechHOUNDS) from Indiana is extremely excited to go to the Kansas City Regional for the first time! Looks like a fun group of people and a great time! See you all there!!!

[Mr. Lim]

Does anyone know if this regional will be webcast?

[Vikesrock]

Originally Posted by Mr. Lim

Does anyone know if this regional will be webcast?

Yes it will:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...69&postcount=9

[funggiss]

This will be a great event I can't wait to see all the robots in person some of these things look beast on youtube.

[Austin Jones]

Me either, I can't wait for Kansas !!!!!!!!!

[Ivan Helmrich]

I can't wait for Bomb Squad !!!!!!!!!

You guys always bring a great robot and team to school the locals.

Don't go to Kansas though, you'll be in the wrong state. You really want to be in Missouri. Granted, Hale Arena is only about a mile and a half from the state line and there is also a Kansas, City Kansas just to make it more confusing.

See ya there.

[Chris Fultz]

Originally Posted by Ivan Helmrich

Don't go to Kansas though, you'll be in the wrong state.

Bummer, I was so looking forward to seeing Dorothy.

[Chris is me]

(With lots of help from thefro526) This Kansas City regional's looking pretty deep. Mind if I do a bit of prediction?

135, 1208, 525, and 868 are all solid teams that have shown flashes of greatness while staying a bit under the radar. They could tip an already solid alliance.

1730 is a very professional team that's always been solid both on field and "on Chairman's". They should be in contention for both at Kansas City, and while they haven't shown their 2010 hand, they've built a swerve before, and a surgical tubing trackball shooter before... Perhaps these are the pieces they put together? Maybe they'll look to repeat their alliance with 1625?

1986 has always built ridiculous and cool machines, and this year they've got an interesting wide robot that should be more of a factor than either of their previous endeavors.

Any other year, 1806 would be the absolute favorite. They've never seen less than the Regional Finals in Kansas City, and the last time they didn't win the event was their rookie year. But this year, there's a lot of out of town talent coming to town. As for their machine, 1806’s machine looks to be really strong this year. They’ve got a kicker with a HUGE cam that’s got some range to it. Pair them with a decent striker and they’ll be tough to beat.

Bomb Squad has been kicking butt the last two years, and 16's bringing back their now-trademark three wheel swerve for this year. In a year where many teams will be going with omni directional drives for the first time, 16’s experience with them will show greatly, especially in an event not known for them (until this year).

234 is a powerhouse year in and year out. This year is no different. They have more experience with the Wild Swerve than the tons of teams using the modules this year, which could prove advantageous. Expect their swerving kicking machine to play well into the afternoon.

They've won 5 regionals in 5 years, earned the #1 seed at the Championship twice, and came out on top of half of the IRIs they've ever attended. 1625 shows no signs of slowing after their 2009 season, pulling the best parts of their previous robots all together into their 2010 endeavor. Their 6 wheel swerve drive is completely unprecedented in FRC. 1625 in the finals is a safe bet.

[Aren_Hill]

Could you make the target on our backs even bigger Chris?

[Chris is me]

I figure it's the best I can do to get revenge for Wisconsin, Newton, and IRI all at once. Besides, I had gone a few hundred posts without sucking up to you guys.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

I figure it's the best I can do to get revenge for Wisconsin, Newton, and IRI all at once. Besides, I had gone a few hundred posts without sucking up to you guys.

Chris, while I agree with your predictions for the most part about the mentioned teams being big threats, out of all mentioned, 1625 is consistently the best driven robot on the field and the same strength will easily earn them top honors.
+.02

*knock on wood* Yep, this is what you get Aren.

[Aren_Hill]

This is all cause i kept the 6wd swerve development secret from both of you isnt it. Your making the target bigger than bot, its far too tiny to be that scary lol

(and Dillons at the sticks again, only this time the drivetrain has traction and then some)

[XaulZan11]

Although Chris did a good job, I have two additions/adjustments:

I would watch out for 1208. They won this event last year and is comming of a strong preformance in Atlanta, making it to the elminations.

1625 is awful. Yeah, the may have been decent in past years, this will not be their year. If you are against them, I wouldn't even worry about them. They will be lucky to score 1 goal the entire regional!. Thier lifter mechanism is soo slow; they need to start lifting with over 45 seconds left in the match.

(That should shrink the target on 1625's back...hopefully they won't forget it come alliance selections in midwest...)

[Kyler]

Originally Posted by XaulZan11

Although Chris did a good job, I have two additions/adjustments:

I would watch out for 1208. They won this event last year and is comming of a strong preformance in Atlanta, making it to the elminations.

1625 is awful. Yeah, the may have been decent in past years, this will not be their year. If you are against them, I wouldn't even worry about them. They will be lucky to score 1 goal the entire regional!. Thier lifter mechanism is soo slow; they need to start lifting with over 45 seconds left in the match.

(That should shrink the target on 1625's back...hopefully they won't forget it come alliance selections in midwest...)

hana thanks . I'm pretty excited to break in a new custom scouting program this year now that I finally finished writing it.