2008 San Diego Regional

[JB987]

Team 987 would like to congratulate team 968, 1717 and 294 for their hard fought victory. What an awesome set of Finals matches! We knew we would have our hands full with your alliance. A special thanks too for our alliance partners, 330 and 2034...we are proud to say we went into battle with you two and feel fortunate to have stood side by side with you guys. I haven't seen any matches yet this year that rivaled our Finals...2 of the 3 matches decided by only 2 and 4 points with last second action made for the best suspense we have been involved in (on par with our Einstein action last year).

A very special thanks to Team 1527 for their gracious help supplying a few extra batteries for our alliance...you truly represent the best that FIRST has to offer. And thanks to the San Diego Regional Committee for putting on a fantastic regional (great venue and smoothly run event). Looking forward to seeing some of the other teams at our Vegas regional in a couple of weeks and also seeing many of you in Atlanta...

[CzarValvador]

Thank you team 330 and 987 for your kind words. We hope to see 987 in the Nationals, and 330 in the LA Regional. The sheer Epicness of the competitions would have been impossible without you guys!

And again, thanks to our Allies for playing with us!

[chaoticprout]

Anyone happen to have Qualifying match 45 and Semi Final 2-1? Thanks.

[robotguru1717]

Amazing. I wish I had been there. From the several videos that are up on YouTube, I barely got a taste and it sent my heart racing. Luckily I am ditching class and going to LA Regional. I hope to see the good competition there again! And hopefully some familiar faces from last year.

Great job everyone!

[Nica F.]

Here's a video of Finals Match 1

SD Regional Finals Match 1
Blue 968 1717 294
Red 987 330 2034
Final Score
Blue 108 Red 106

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by Nica F.

Here's a video of Finals Match 1

SD Regional Finals Match 1
Blue 968 1717 294
Red 987 330 2034
Final Score
Blue 108 Red 106

That finals match was amazing!!! thank you for posting it up. Also thank you to anyone who posted up videos of SD

[CzarValvador]

Any Possibility that someone has the Finals Matches 2 and 3? And the Ability to post them?

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by CzarValvador

Any Possibility that someone has the Finals Matches 2 and 3? And the Ability to post them?

The same person has them, from what i've heard, they'll be up soonish.

Also, Ay2b on 980 recorded the official feed and will have that up at some point as well.

[Nica F.]

Originally Posted by CzarValvador

Any Possibility that someone has the Finals Matches 2 and 3? And the Ability to post them?

I have Match 2 and will upload it asap. They originally are huge files so I have to compress them first.. etc. And as for match 3, yeah.. in excitement I knocked my camera all over the place while cheering and footage isn't exactly in tip top shape.

But yeah, AJ will definitely get you guys the official footage, just wait up for it !

[akeisic]

WOW! Finals #1 was amazing. The blue alliance netted a 32 point swing in the last 3 seconds!

12 pts - 1717 placing a trackball!
8 pts - 968 hurdling a trackball!
12 pts - 294 knocking out a placed trackball!

What teamwork!

[mark johnson]

The best finals matches i have seen this year.CONGRATS to 968,1717 ,294 on your victory.But a great effort put up by 987,330,2034.

[Doug G]

Originally Posted by Nica F.

I have Match 2 and will upload it asap. They originally are huge files so I have to compress them first.. etc. And as for match 3, yeah.. in excitement I knocked my camera all over the place while cheering and footage isn't exactly in tip top shape.

But yeah, AJ will definitely get you guys the official footage, just wait up for it !

We have some match videos up on our website at the bottom of the following page including the three finals matches....

http://www.travisusd.k12.ca.us/vande...eoGallery.html

[rsilverstein]

Great quality videos of the finals. Thanks for that.

[Jonathan Norris]

the videos should be up on SOAP and TBA before the end of the week (hopefully).

[Doug G]

Originally Posted by rsilverstein

Great quality videos of the finals. Thanks for that.

Great quality of robots!! That was an amazing finals. To be honest either of the finals alliances could have won. We were so bummed not to get into the 2nd seed - for the 2,3,4 seed to be separted by just 0.4 ranking points and in the case of 968, to go to Highest match score to get the #2 rank was the closest I've ever seen.

1388 - can't wait to see you "boot" the ball again at Davis

I've updated the link in the previous post to go right to the videos from San Diego.