2014 Crossroads Regional

[Dave Scheck]

Originally Posted by dodar

I caught the back end of it but I heard the announcer saying stuff like, "We dont like nor condone those kinds of actions and the alliance was given a penalty for uncivil actions."

That to me sounds like 2 or more drive teams got into it with each other.

The announcer said something about a fan coming down and physically accosting a ref. Unacceptable by any standards

[dodar]

Originally Posted by Dave Scheck

The announcer said something about a fan coming down and physically accosting a ref. Unacceptable by any standards

Oh ok, thanks for clearing that up.

[LLM]

Congrats to Team 1108 on the regional win and Chairman's Award. You all rock! Thanks to all of those who made this regional such a wonderful example of the spirit of FIRST. Your RPC and volunteers are to be commended. Loved watching all of the teams in action. An amazing array of young people who "get it"!

[Navid Shafa]

1024 is currently the best robot to not qualify for the Championship this year. Great elimination matches at Crossroads, regardless of all the problems that plagued teams. Real intense and fun to watch.

[Anupam Goli]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

1024 is currently the best robot to not qualify for the Championship this year. Great elimination matches at Crossroads, regardless of all the problems that plagued teams. Real intense and fun to watch.

+1
They had a great robot at palmetto and I really was hoping for their team to get the chance to move on. Their team was nice and their drive coach is great to work with. I hope they can get enough funds together to maybe go to a 3rd regional sometime later in the season to try and qualify.

[LLM]

Originally Posted by Anupam Goli

+1
They had a great robot at palmetto and I really was hoping for their team to get the chance to move on. Their team was nice and their drive coach is great to work with. I hope they can get enough funds together to maybe go to a 3rd regional sometime later in the season to try and qualify.

And, they are such a great example of living gracious professionalism. They don't just talk the talk. Excellent team.

[hrench]

Originally Posted by LLM

Congrats to Team 1108 on the regional win and Chairman's Award. You all rock! Thanks to all of those who made this regional such a wonderful example of the spirit of FIRST. Your RPC and volunteers are to be commended. Loved watching all of the teams in action. An amazing array of young people who "get it"!

On behalf of team 1108, Panther Robotics from Paola Kansas, I'd like to graciously thank the huge number of teams and people and judges that helped us to win four major awards at the Crossroads regional.

Our "Quadra-fecta" included a "Woodie Flowers" for our electrical mentor Gregg Rupp, then our alliance, with the exquisite help of three other teams, Team 135 the Black Knights, team 5188, "Area 5188" and team 4296, the Cardinalbots helped our underdog-alliance just squeak-by to beat a wonderful top-seed alliance of 1024, Kilobytes, 3147 and 234. Then our team leader Kate received the Dean's List award and to top all of that off, then we were awarded the regional Chairman's award. We're a team of 12 kids--we brought nine--from a small town in Kansas!

And I need to extend very special thanks to the Kilobytes in recognition of their very appreciated gracious professionalism, when after team 1108 had burned it's time-out and it's back-up robot card these gentlemen and ladies graciously used their own time-out to let us replace some burned PWM's and a digital side car and play the last match without a working catapult to win.

Because 1108 won both the competition and the Chairman's award, I'm pretty sure that the 'wildcard' rules will pass one of our eligibilities for Championships on to the Kilobytes. Also, our ally 5188 won both the competition and the rookie-all-star so I believe they created a wildcard to pass on to another team too.

I would also like to compliment 1024 on their incredibly simple-three-moving parts on the robot design. Both 1024 and 1108 were the only two robots at Crossroads to shoot fully pneumatically. No springs, no bungees, no ratchets. I wonder if there's been any other full-pneumatic robots that dominated so much. Please discuss.

Finally, we're so blessed and rewarded that we met so many new friends over the last three days and our 'underdog' status, with the 'home-team rookie (5188)" made the cheering for our alliance all the more enthusiastic! Over and again, the announcer made the point that the first seed was full of regional winners (eight in the last five years?) where the last one our squad had won was 1108 had won our rookie year, 2003.

I've put many pictures from this event on the team facebook site, including pictures of the Kilobytes receiving their awards, Galactech getting their rookie inspiration award, WD-40, my personal 'other' team aggressively playing a defense-only robot to 19th place. Sometimes when you're getting an award, there's no one to take your picture. Feel free to steal and use mine.

I'll be posting match videos on youtube account 'hrench' as soon as I can.

[ratdude747]

Originally Posted by hrench

Because 1108 won both the competition and the Chairman's award, I'm pretty sure that the 'wildcard' rules will pass one of our eligibilities for Championships on to the Kilobytes. Also, our ally 5188 won both the competition and the rookie-all-star so I believe they created a wildcard to pass on to another team too.

I wish it did, but as the rule stands, it only applies to a team making champs at a previous regional, not the same regional. I personally don't like that aspect of the rule, but I didn't write it nor can I change it.

BTW, congrats on the "sweep". I don't think I've personally seen a team pull that off. Good Job.

[hrench]

Originally Posted by ratdude747

I wish it did, but as the rule stands, it only applies to a team making champs at a previous regional, not the same regional. I personally don't like that aspect of the rule, but I didn't write it nor can I change it.


I'm very disappointed to hear that. I can't say enough what a nice group of kids the Kil-a-bytes are. And I'm sorry I've misspelled you above so many times..

BTW, congrats on the "sweep". I don't think I've personally seen a team pull that off. Good Job.

Thanks, thanks, thanks.

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by Dave Scheck

The announcer said something about a fan coming down and physically accosting a ref. Unacceptable by any standards

Wow. I hope the team responsible apologized to the refs, that's completely unacceptable. It's just a game guys, chill out.

[Skilletfan98]

Thank you everyone for a great regional! We had a great experience and loved working with all the teams. We are currently trying to get into a third regional. We are working on getting sponsorships in hopes to go. Thanks again

~1024

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by Skilletfan98

We are working on getting sponsorships in hopes to go. Thanks again
~1024

Please let us know if you are going to do a 'Gofundme' or some other online fundraiser. We'd love to spread the word for you!

[Anupam Goli]

Originally Posted by Skilletfan98

Thank you everyone for a great regional! We had a great experience and loved working with all the teams. We are currently trying to get into a third regional. We are working on getting sponsorships in hopes to go. Thanks again

~1024

Best of luck in your search for funding! I hope you guys can get another chance and end up qualifying for championships!

[mathking]

Congratulations to 1108 for the regional win, the Chairman's win, the Woodie Flowers award and the Dean's List award. What a regional and what a great team.

Congratulations to our friends from 4269 for subbing in and playing really well to help your alliance to a regional win. We are looking forward to seeing you at the World Championships.

1024 had a great bot and even more importantly you are a great group of engineers, young and old. I am glad our alumnus Dan Phelps has landed there. I hope you are able to get to the Championships.

5188 congratulations for the regional win the Rookie All Star award.

Thank you to Rose-Hulman for putting on a great event. I think you may have hooked a couple of my students.

[themagic8ball]

Thanks to all the teams and volunteers! It was a great event and 537 sure had a blast!