UPDATE: AZ Regional

[WakeZero]

First of all, I would like to give a BIG congrats to MIKE RUSH who won the Woodie Flowers award!!! Not only did he deserve it, as Eric B. said, "It took us seven years to realize just what he truly did for us". Thank you Mike!

Alright, here's the rest. Great day of competition folks, congrats to all those teams who won an award! I can't wait to see how tomorrow turns out

Imagery -- 991
Leadership in Control -- 1212
Creativity -- 190
Driving Tomorrow’s Technology -- 585
Team Spirit -- 294
Judges Award -- 1492
Rookie Inspiration -- 1456
Woodie Flowers -- MIKE RUSH

Current Rankings
980
234
1212
60
207
973
1324
190
991
1343
498
698
330
610
872
192
606
842
998
1223
1136
80
696
1011
898
585
1290
294
1492
64
861
1393
996
1165
1456
1401

[10intheCrunch]

Thanks much!

[Libby Ritchie]

Any word this morning on this regional?? My husband's team finished yesterday in 2nd...yeah! Hoping things are still going well for 234.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Libby Ritchie

Any word this morning on this regional?? My husband's team finished yesterday in 2nd...yeah! Hoping things are still going well for 234.

Well, seeding matches have only just started. I'm going to call over there lunch time.

[Joe Ross]

234 seeded first and picked 60
980 seeded second and picked 190
1212 picked 3rd and picked 330

one of the first two alliances should be the favorites.

[Brian C]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

234 seeded first and picked 60
980 seeded second and picked 190
1210 picked 3rd and picked 330

one of the first two alliances should be the favorites.

Joe!

Thanks very much for the updates as there doesn't seem to be ANY info coming out of Arizona. Please keep any and all 190 related info coming.

Thanks Again

[dez250]

rankings as of lunch on saturday (i think)

| rank | team_number | matches_won | matches_lost | matches_tied | points_ave |
+------+-------------+-------------+--------------+--------------+------------+
|    1 |         234 |           8 |            1 |            0 |    41.6667 |
|    2 |         980 |           8 |            1 |            0 |    37.7778 |
|    3 |          60 |           7 |            2 |            0 |    36.1111 |
|    4 |        1212 |           7 |            2 |            0 |    26.1111 |
|    5 |         498 |           6 |            2 |            1 |    30.5556 |
|    6 |         330 |           5 |            2 |            2 |    40.5556 |
|    7 |         207 |           6 |            3 |            0 |    34.4444 |
|    8 |         190 |           6 |            3 |            0 |    33.8889 |
|    9 |         973 |           5 |            2 |            2 |    31.1111 |
|   10 |        1324 |           6 |            3 |            0 |    23.3333 |
|   11 |        1343 |           5 |            3 |            1 |    22.7778 |
|   12 |         696 |           5 |            4 |            0 |    36.1111 |
|   13 |         610 |           5 |            4 |            0 |         30 |
|   14 |         585 |           5 |            4 |            0 |    21.1111 |
|   15 |         698 |           4 |            3 |            2 |    21.1111 |
|   16 |         991 |           5 |            4 |            0 |    21.1111 |
|   17 |        1136 |           4 |            4 |            1 |    28.8889 |
|   18 |         192 |           4 |            4 |            1 |    28.3333 |
|   19 |         872 |           3 |            4 |            2 |    36.6667 |
|   20 |          80 |           4 |            5 |            0 |    33.8889 |
|   21 |         842 |           3 |            4 |            2 |    33.3333 |
|   22 |        1011 |           3 |            4 |            2 |    25.5556 |
|   23 |         606 |           4 |            5 |            0 |    17.7778 |
|   24 |         294 |           3 |            5 |            1 |    26.6667 |
|   25 |         998 |           3 |            5 |            1 |    25.5556 |
|   26 |         898 |           3 |            5 |            1 |    25.5556 |
|   27 |        1223 |           3 |            5 |            1 |    19.4444 |
|   28 |          64 |           3 |            6 |            0 |         25 |
|   29 |        1492 |           3 |            6 |            0 |         25 |
|   30 |        1290 |           2 |            5 |            2 |    20.5556 |
|   31 |        1393 |           3 |            6 |            0 |    16.1111 |
|   32 |         996 |           2 |            6 |            1 |    29.4444 |
|   33 |        1456 |           2 |            6 |            1 |    18.8889 |
|   34 |        1165 |           2 |            7 |            0 |    33.3333 |
|   35 |         861 |           2 |            7 |            0 |    25.5556 |
|   36 |        1401 |           1 |            8 |            0 |    27.7778 |

[Jeremy]

I would like to keep seeing udates on: 60, 980, And 696
Thanks

[Joe Ross]

I heard that 60 designed a new hook that can hang even when 190 is blocking the bar, but they haven't been able to try it against 190 yet.

[Brian C]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

I heard that 60 designed a new hook that can hang even when 190 is blocking the bar, but they haven't been able to try it against 190 yet.

That should be an interesting matchup.

Is there a webcast if this event somewhere?

[Cory]

Ok, I talked to a member of 254 who is there helping out and this is what he told me:

190 has been able to get to the platform during auto mode, but theyve only ben able to hang 50% of the time.

190's shields, when deployed optimally, leave around 3" of the bar uncovered on either end, which allows someone with a good enough driver to get a hook on there, or to push up on the end of it to get their hook on under the shields.

60 made a new hook last night that allows them to deal with 190's shields (Im not sure what's going on with this)

330 can shimmy on the bar, but apparently 60 is fast enough to drive to the other end of the bar before 330 can traverse it.

234's 3rd pick (868 I think) has been doing nothing but disrupting teams from hanging, which theyre real good at.

60 is hitting the ball in auton, grabbing the goal, decapping it, and bringing it back to the player's station. Then they go to the opponents side of the field, herd all the balls back to their side, then do the same on their side. They get around 60% of the balls to their HP per match

I cant remember what else I heard, but it sounds like it's going to be 60+234+868 and 980+190+their partner in the finals.

Cory

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Cory

I cant remember what else I heard, but it sounds like it's going to be 60+234+868 and 980+190+their partner in the finals.

So much for everyone's picks for the finals. 1212 and 330 and their partner (585, I think) won. I'll get more details after the awards ceremony

[Joe Ross]

Both the 234 and 980 alliances lost in the semifinals. 60 broke in the semifinals. 330 had their robot controller die before the second match of the finals. Between the 6 minute timeout and scoring trouble, they had approximately 15 minutes to replace it and did. The Head Ref approached the opposing alliance and said that according to the rules 330 shouldn't be allowed to play, but asked them if they would like him to enforce that rule. The opposing alliance said that they would like 330 to compete.

selection of awards:

champion: 1212, 330, 585
finalist: 498, 696, 80

chairmans 330
sportsmanship: 498, 696, 80 for allowing 330 to compete
quality 60
industrial 980
entreprenurship, website 234
volunteer Don Knight
engineering inspiration 842
rookie allstar 1393
highest rookie seed 1324
judges 1401
anmation 192

[jamapor]

Originally Posted by Cory

Ok, I talked to a member of 254 who is there helping out and this is what he told me:

190 has been able to get to the platform during auto mode, but theyve only ben able to hang 50% of the time.

190's shields, when deployed optimally, leave around 3" of the bar uncovered on either end, which allows someone with a good enough driver to get a hook on there, or to push up on the end of it to get their hook on under the shields.

60 made a new hook last night that allows them to deal with 190's shields (Im not sure what's going on with this)

I cant remember what else I heard, but it sounds like it's going to be 60+234+868 and 980+190+their partner in the finals.

Cory

Yea, the SODS (lexan shields) were hinged, but the hinges were broken from the New Hampshire regional, so they were 3 inches shorter on each shield. We didn't have them fixed for a while, and had only one also, We then fixed them (I don't know if you saw it) so that they both leave 0.5-0 inches of space on either side. We got them working pretty well in the quarter-finals when we hung autonomousely perfectly centered in the middle of the bar. Good job to all teams that participated in the Arizona regional and we hope to see you at nationals

[Redhead Jokes]

Thank you again to Phoenix cuz...

the school rep who hadn't been involved with our team at all, who we convinced to go to Phoenix, can't stop talking about the FIRST program, Phoenix, and our team.

They had a teachers' meeting today and the Principal told our captain she had to almost get the hook out to end the teacher raving about everything.

He also spoke endlessly in all his english classes about the competition, and thus 3 new members are probably joining us at our next meeting and at So Cal Regional.

The teacher was saying, "all these teams with 40 kids and I'm thinking, why don't we have that many?" "it's not like other sports competitions. On one side of the wall they're competitors, on the other side of the wall they're all helping each other!!!"

The principal has asked our captain to give her a schedule from So Cal about when our team's competing so she can be there and we're going to try to get an educational advisor to join our team at nationals.