2012 Wisconsin Regional

[XaulZan11]

I believe we had you at 18 teleperated points per match.

Should be a great day tommorrow with the potential for several strong, evenly matched alliances.

[Donut]

Originally Posted by XaulZan11

Should be a great day tommorrow with the potential for several strong, evenly matched alliances.

Agreed, it's going to be difficult for any one alliance to run away with the competition tomorrow.

Really impressive showing today by a lot of teams. I was surprised to see a perfect 36 point autonomous mode in a qualification match (I believe match 47 with teams 3418, 2481, and 2062).

Good luck to everyone tomorrow.

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by Donut

Agreed, it's going to be difficult for any one alliance to run away with the competition tomorrow.

Really impressive showing today by a lot of teams. I was surprised to see a perfect 36 point autonomous mode in a qualification match (I believe match 47 with teams 3418, 2481, and 2062).

Good luck to everyone tomorrow.

Yup, Match 47 - we had a front row seat for it, as a member of the opposing alliance. Great job on accomplishing this during qualifying.

The elims here are going to be wild - we're Looking Forward to battling with and against a very solid field of competitors on Saturday. Good luck, all!

[efoote868]

Anyone know why SF2-3 is so slow to start?

[Grim Tuesday]

Watching this regional, I'm really impressed with the level of competition. There are lots of good robots, not just at the top end, but spread all through.

[Eagleeyedan]

Had a great time this year. Top-notch competition, extremely exiting matches and some really high scores. Congratulations to the winning alliance, had a great time competing in the semi-finals! See you in St. Louis.

[cire]

Congratulations to teams , 48, 2826, and 269 on winning the regional, your alliance did really good together scoring 98 points twice in a row for the win - amazing!

Team 1716 would also like to thank teams 1736 and 930 for being with us in eliminations. Also thanks to the event staff, and all the teams at the Wisconsin regional this year. Our team had a great time and the team is already pumped for next season!

[efoote868]

Really enjoyed watching on the webcast, thought the level of competition was insane.

[McGurky]

I as well as the rest of the students on Team 1716 had an amazing time at this years Wisconsin Regional. The team had the best performance that it has ever had in its 7 year history, and we are very thankful for all of the teams that we were able to work with.

Thank you for all of the volunteers for making such a remarkable event possible, the team is really inspired for next year!

There was such a great level of competition throughout the weekend, and it really made for some exciting finals.

Being honored to receive the judges award meant a lot to our growing team, and really invigorated the freshmen that make up over half of the team. I have never seen such bright smiles on all of their faces, it was truly priceless.

Again, thank you for everyone that made this event possible!

[snowmobiler9]

I have attended the Wisconsin Regional three years now, finally being a driver this year, and it is safe to say that we have become one of the toughest regionals in first. Even with loosing elite teams like Wildstang, teams like 1714, 1716, 2826, 2481 (Great Alliance Partners In 2010), 2056, etc. continue to improve. Pretty soon the State of Wisconsin will become one giant powerhouse! The competition is fierce, and I wish our problems with our bot had been a little less prevalent. We had a great run with 3418 and 4143.

3418- You guys were amazing captains. All I can say is the amount talent on that team far exceeds many that I have seen. Every time I walked past your pit, at least 6 students were running test, trouble shooting, and fixing problems. I don't remember a single time when a mentor touched your robot(which was an excellent bot at that).

4143- It didn't even cross my mind that your team were rookies until closing ceremonies. A well organized/active team, a competitive bot, and knowledge seen in veteran teams truly defined your team as contenders for years to come.

I hope that 706 can work with both of you guys in the future. (St.Louis might be an option )

Congrats to Wave, Delphi, and Cooney for a well deserved win.

As always 537 shined off the field as well as on. The Chairman's couldn't have been given to a better team.

p.s. Our triple balance with 2481 on the practice field may become a reality in a month

[barn34]

Echoing what many have already said, our experience at Wisconsin was absolutely amazing this year. We were able to fly through inspection with no issues on Thursday and only a mindbending software bug related to our autonomous caused any added Thursday stress. Once we got out on the field for the final practice match of Thursday (successfully coopertating with 706), everything clicked for our run through the competition. Our drive team put on an amazing performance (I still can't believe Luke managed to pull off that clutch coop balance with 4143 without half of our drivetrain working which kept our 1st place seeding alive), the quick fix work of our pit crew (fixing that chain/sprocket in record time and keeping up with all the regular maintenance inbetween matches), all the way down to our strategy and scout teams who allowed us to keep on pace with the other amazing teams such as:

48, 2826, 269 (congratulations on an perfectly cohesive winning alliance. you guys clicked from the start of elims and we knew we were in for one heck of a battle in the finals. back-to-back 98 point performances...that's absolutely surreal, guys. good luck to all of you at nationals!)

2169 (absolutely amazing alliance partners in every respect)
167 (you guys stepped up when we needed you as a replacement in elims and did awesome.)
4174 (great job in QF-1 and it was sad to see that we needed to go with a replacement afterwards. congrats on a great rookie season!)

868 (that human player shot was incredible)
2062/3418 (the perfect 36 point autonomous we collectively pulled off was EPIC!)
1714 (awesome pit neighbors and great coop/practice bridge partners)
4143 (amazing coop partners in the match I already mentioned and also on the practice field triple balancing with us and 706. great showing all around and we're all so proud of you guys!)
706 (great partners on the coop bridge [twice!] and on the practice bridge with some pro-level triple balancing skill which we were hoping to be able to bust out with you in elims, but you were off the board long before we had our 2nd pick).

I honestly feel I could continue on to include every team that competed this weekend. Absolutely stacked field of great robots and teams this year. Special shoutout to everyone who met us on the coopertition bridge: 706(twice), 1714, 1675, 1306, 4143, 167, 135, 171, 967, and 868/537/93...sorry, but I can't remember who was on the coop bridge with us during that match because of that crazy human player shot in the final seconds that won you the match...regardless, it doesn't matter because all three of you guys are awesome!

My personal favorite highlight of the weekend was the 3 point shot we hit from the coop bridge while balancing with 1306 in our final qualifier match. That put the perfect celebratory cap on an absolutely storybook run to the #1 seed. Hopefully we'll have some video of this moment to post links to and some other highlights from the weekend shortly, but I just wanted to make sure I expressed my thanks and congratulations to everyone that competed/volunteered/etc. in Wisconsin this weekend. Awesome job!

Finally, congrats again to the awesome winning alliance of 2826, 48, and 267, the chairman's winner of 537, and the awesome rookie (semi-sister) team of 4143! Tear it up at nationals, guys!

[i3randon]

Thanks for an amazing regional!

Going the first 10 matches unbeaten was fun but sadly we(3418) had to lose sometime.

Thanks to teams 706 and 4143 for joining us on our alliance.

Also, nice job 1716! Good to see my old team is still growing stronger.

Congratulations to the winners 48, 269, and 2826 and good luck at Nationals!

[RyanShoff]

As a rookie team 4143, we had a great time. I was a little surprised by our success, being in the top 10 all weekend before 48 and crew demolished us. They were great teams.

Thanks to 706 and 3418 for the great alliance.

Thanks to 2481 for asking us to practice the triple balance with them.
Here is a link to that feat. http://youtu.be/Fq7gH1k1MgY The video was the third attempt. All three were successful but got progressively worse looking. The first one just tipped over and stuck.

Our attempts with 706 and 3418 never quite worked. Anybody have video?

And finally, thanks to the FIRST community for making this rookie team's rookie event a great success.


Ryan Shoff
Mentor 4143 Mars Wars

[Donut]

I want to say thank you to all the teams and volunteers at Wisconsin this year for a great regional. This was my first time attending a regional outside of Arizona and wow what a regional it was. The competition level here was INSANE, making the accomplishments of the top seeded teams that much more impressive.

Thank you to the alliance of 2481, 2169, and 4174 for asking us to come in as a replacement after QF-1 (though I wish you wouldn't have had to have a replacement come in), getting to play with such a strong alliance was awesome. After a tough season last year the students on 167 were a little bummed to miss eliminations again despite a much better performance this year, and being able to come in and help you get to the Finals really pumped up the team's morale. It's been a long time since the team has brought any awards home and I was already getting questions during awards as to what we can do for next year. I think our team is really energized from the experience this year and I look forward to competing with and against you guys next year.

Congratulations to the alliance of 48, 2826, and 269 on the much deserved regional win, and thanks for one of the most intense elimination matches I've ever seen in the finals. I never expected to say our team would be part of a losing effort scoring 77 points! I was already anticipating a good 48 robot after their earlier undefeated performance, and 2826 just blew me away with how good they got as the regional progressed. 269 was phenomenal at feeding a supply of balls for the alliance to pump into the baskets and your whole alliance just seemed to get better with each passing match.


Congratulations to 537 for winning the Chairman's award against 24 ( ) other entries, and congratulations to all the teams on having half the regional enter for Chairman's!

4143, you guys had one of the most impressive rookie bots I've ever seen, and I also loved the light show on the back every time you played.

Thanks again to everyone, I'll be shocked if I don't see at least one of the top teams from this event on Einstein in a couple of weeks. Good luck with the rest of the season and we'll see you all again next year!

[~Cory~]

Teams from FWR going to CMP so far:

537 RCA
48 - Win
2826 - Win
269 -Win
1306 - EI
4143 RAS
706 (our second "regional")

Anyone else?