2014 Las Vegas Regional

[brandon.cottrell]

The last time 1266 went to Las Vegas was in 2011. I wasn't even born yet.

Who are you excited to see most? I can't wait to see 399 and 60, but also a lot of teams that were great at San Diego. (Also we booked the Howard Johnson hotel which is right across from an IHOP and down the road from a Walmart soooo...)

[SenorZ]

Team 4276 is looking forward to seeing the 8 other teams from LA who are going to be there! (unless I miscounted!)

[Jeremy Germita]

Here's the team list with potential wildcard teams in bold.

10/51 teams are wildcard eligible. Should make for some interesting eliminations.

4
60
399 - Inland Empire Winners + Regional Chairman's
585
687
987 - San Diego Engineering Inspiration
988
1165
1197
1266 - San Diego Winners
1515
1538
1572
1631
1661
1717 - Los Angeles Winners
1726
2034
2102
2122 - Utah Winners
2403 - Arizona Winners + Engineering Inspiration
2429
2478
2485
2486 - Ariziona Winners + Regional Chairman's
2493
3009
3011
3019
3187
3245
3255
3288
3309 - Los Angeles Engineering Inspiration
3473
3476 - San Diego Regional Chairman's
3486
3501
3577
3598
3965
4146
4160
4276
4322
4470
4792
4800
4962
5012 - Inland Empire Rookie All Star
5049

Should be fun.

[MrForbes]

It's gonna be great! We'll be excited to be playing with 1717 again....we both started as rookies at the same regional, next to each other in the pits. And of course our friends the High Rollers...along with the many other teams we have competed with over the years in Arizona, California, Nevada, and championships, and the new ones we get to meet for the first time.

See you there!

[Shelbers2486]

Originally Posted by jeremypg399

Here's the team list with potential wildcard teams in bold.

10/51 teams are wildcard eligible. Should make for some interesting eliminations.

4
60
399 - Inland Empire Winners + Regional Chairman's
585
687
987 - San Diego Engineering Inspiration
988
1165
1197
1266 - San Diego Winners
1515
1538
1572
1631
1661
1717 - Los Angeles Winners
1726
2034
2102
2122 - Utah Winners
2403 - Arizona Winners
2429
2478
2485
2486 - Ariziona Winners + Regional Chairman's
2493
3009
3011
3019
3187
3245
3255
3288
3309 - Los Angeles Engineering Inspiration
3473
3476 - San Diego Regional Chairman's
3486
3501
3577
3598
3965
4146
4160
4276
4322
4470
4792
4800
4962
5012 - Inland Empire Rookie All Star
5049

Should be fun.

2403 also won Engineering Inspiration at AZ, not that it makes a difference in the wildcard count. We are super excited to compete again with several teams from this weekend's Arizona Regional and many teams we competed with at the 2013 Inland Empire Regional and 2012 Utah Regional!

[brandon.cottrell]

So it seems this year Las Vegas is Arizona, San Diego, and Los Angelos + teams who wanted to go to one of those 3 regionals but couldn't.

[Mason987]

Our entire team is stoked. We've been in the shop practicing every day since we returned from the SD Regional.

Disregard this - Also, I do believe that this will be the last year the Vegas regional will be located at Cashman Center. If I am recalling correctly, FirstNV came to an agreement with the people in charge of the Thomas & Mack Center (same place the regional was located at in 2011) so the Vegas regional will be returning there next year. The Thomas & Mack is an arena, and I always prefer arena's for all FIRST events. Plus it is in a much better area.

I also know that the FirstNV people have been working extremely hard to make sure this regional is one of the best. We've worked with them for years and they're just as excited as we are!

Excited to see a lot of the teams from SD, as well as some other CA teams we missed.

[JB987]

To be clear...there has been some discussion with UNLV regarding a return to the arena. Nothing concrete at this time. The cost associated with using T and M arena is significantly higher than use of Cashman Field CC and we are struggling to raise money now as it is

[yash101]

Gosh! I wish I could go! The Vegas regional will be quite a bit of challenge because there will be so many good and winning teams participating!

[Tmeziere]

Isn't team 1538, the holy cows, prequalified since they have won the championship chairman award?

[SM987]

Originally Posted by Tmeziere

Isn't team 1538, the holy cows, prequalified since they have won the championship chairman award?

Indeed. However, HoF teams do not generate a wildcard slot.

[JB987]

To add to Steve's comment...from FRC Championship Elligibility Criteria:

"Wild Card slots are passed to the next team in the order specified above only if the team occupying that Wild Card slot has already qualified for Championship at an earlier 2014 Regional. The number of potential Wild Card slots created at each Regional is equal to the number of teams on the Winning Alliance who had already qualified for Championship at an earlier Regional in 2014".