2010 Colorado Regional

[AshWalker]

Originally Posted by 2275

Any idea on when the video will will come up?

It may be a while. I only got one channel of sound and have about 12+ gigs of raw video to split into matches and edit.

Also add a full time job (with launch preps for a launch in a month and a half!) and a trips to Atlanta and Dallas in there.

Busy? NEVER!

[brian.enke]

Congrats to all the teams competing in the Colorado 2010 regional! What an incredible experience. I saw many examples of gracious professionalism throughout, but I'm so glad team 1245 (Monarch) won the gracious professionalism award this year.

For those who don't know the backstory, winning team 2036 (Fairview Black Knights) nearly couldn't build a bot this season after losing the use of their workshop and sponsors. David Clark at Monarch High graciously offered to share their facilities with the Knights. Going farther back to 2005, my team 1584 (Nederland Pirates, also in the winning alliance) wouldn't have even started a robotics program if not for David's incredible assistance. Flash forward to the quarter finals this year, when team 1584's driver console battery just up & died for no reason... there was team 1245 again, loaning us a fully charged battery so our PirateBot could continue in the competition.

Monarch rules! And they even found time to build a great bot this year too.

As for teams 1592, 399, and 1977... yes, absolutely, next time let's meet on the same side of the glass. You guys were awesome, as were the # 2 alliance and so many others. You gave us everything we could handle... and it's too bad all three matches were affected by fluke circumstances (the stuck ball under our PirateBot in the first match, and 1977's mechanical problems the next two matches. T'would have been great playing three matches with both teams at full strength... what a shootout that would have been!

1977 (Loveland) - a word of advice - try to use this setback to your advantage next year. Two years ago, our PirateBot stalled on the field repeatedly because we kept tripping fuses - we didn't use the right gauge of wiring to our motors (bad Pirates, arrrrgh). We went through a lot of soul searching after that and worked hard over the summer, training our students in Autocad, electrical, programming, omnidrive, etc... and they built a very nice bot last year (4th place). Then disaster struck again - we had high hopes for doing well in the tourney but a gearhead seized up in the first match, knocking us out completely. We didn't even make it on the field the second match. In fact, prior to this year, we were 0-5 in tournament action because we were either paired right away against the PinkTeam and Robonauts (233, 118, yikes) or we suffered some sort of catastrophic robot meltdown at the Worst Possible Time. These things do happen... use the experience to drive your team's efforts to new heights next year.

1540 and 2036, our loyal alliance partners... you guys rule too. Couldn't ask for better teammates. Good luck with your fundraising... see you in Atlanta!!!

[lcoreyl]

A HUGE thanks goes out to Dawn Lutz, she is AMAZING. I can't believe how much she does with positivity and isn't she a volunteer? She hooked us up with Catherine Jones and JCPenney, who has been the best, most involved sponsor we have ever had! Big thanks to Boeing. Also once again the Graingers saved us hundreds by putting us up in their house and cooking us food. Without all this monetary support this season would not have happened!!

Additional thanks goes out to 2945 BANG for helping us troubleshoot multiple problems both last year and this year. In particular, we want to give a shout out to the sophomore programmer, Zeb(?). Also, a huge thanks for performing as we knew they could as an alliance teammate.

Additional thanks goes out to Coronado 2996 for showing fantastic GP, especially for a 2nd year team. They hosted a great fact sharing session after their first regional, and also showed some extreme GP during the quarterfinals allowing us a timeout to try and fix our issues even though we were both battling for the semifinals. In particular we want to give a shout out to their team captian (?) and their mentor, Bryce.

Additional thanks goes out to 1332 SWIFT for offering us a wireless bridge (which is more than I can say for some teams who had extras at competition but didn’t want to part with them), and performing well as alliance teammates. Our arm design, which we scrapped during thursday due to most the day being spent on STUPID BUMPERS!! would have saved a solid day during design if we had used their idea of climbing on the bump and taking advantage of the shorter depth of the tower. nice work!

Also, a big thanks to the team that removed their chain tensioner to give to us for the elimination round. unfortunately, I LOST the info of the team number and where to send replacements, so to whomever this was, please email me so I can send you them!!!
If anyone else can help me remember, they were the west side of the middle pit row closest to the inspection area (weight and dimension checks)...

[bobwrit]

Originally Posted by AshWalker

It may be a while. I only got one channel of sound and have about 12+ gigs of raw video to split into matches and edit.

Also add a full time job (with launch preps for a launch in a month and a half!) and a trips to Atlanta and Dallas in there.

Busy? NEVER!

Any updates on how the splitting is going? If needed, I'm sure there are people on the forums that would be willing to do it.

[viperred396]

Originally Posted by bobwrit

Any updates on how the splitting is going? If needed, I'm sure there are people on the forums that would be willing to do it.

Like Bobwrit said theres plenty of people that would help... saying that if you need it I would be glad to help!

[hg273]

Any movement on the videos?

[AshWalker]

Sorry guys. This full time job gig has to pay for trips to Atlanta and time off for regionals. Been rather busy since Championship.

They videos just need to be uploaded.


I'll let you know when they are up.

[bobwrit]

Originally Posted by AshWalker

Sorry guys. This full time job gig has to pay for trips to Atlanta and time off for regionals. Been rather busy since Championship.

They videos just need to be uploaded.


I'll let you know when they are up.

Any news on this?