2008 detroit regional

[Herodotus]

I was very much impressed by all the teams competing at this Regional. In my opinion you couldn't have asked for better alliance pairings. Congrats to 217, 469, and 440 on the win, and congrats to everyone who won an award.

I'd also like to say that I was incredibly impressed by two other teams in particular, 27, and 2337. As always you guys at team Rush have put together a remarkably well designed robot, and you did some amazing pitwork getting it fixed up for the finals. The last second hurdle was also incredible.

And 2337, I have to say you're design impressed me a great deal. Aside from hitting it over the driver's station, an impressive feat in itself, the fact you guys have such a creative design just blows my mind.

I'm glad I finally got to see overdrive in person, it's certainly much better than I think I gave it credit for. Now I just can't wait till our first regional this year at Western, we'll be seeing some of you guys there.

P.S. Thanks also to iPirates for some interesting lunch time conversation. And I think you guys also had one well designed robot. I hope we'll see you guys at either the Championship (we can only hope) or at MARC.

[65_Xero_Huskie]

Ha,
I called a 217-469 alliance a week ago winning it
Congrats to all the teams.

[Josh Fox]

Once again congrats to 469, 217, and 440 on their win it was a great time playing against you guys and definitely the most fun I have ever had in a match with the competitiveness

hopefully a video will be posted to youtube soon or the blue alliance of our hurdle I'll see what I can do to help the process

[Paul Copioli]

Congratulations to team 440 on their first ever regional win. I absolutely can't believe they were available for the final pick. In the eliminations they averaged 8.3 laps per match (teleoperated). In the finals, they did 9 laps in each match.

Congratulations to 27 for their Chairman's Award and good luck at the Championship.

For those of you that did not get to see Detroit in action, you missed out on a great competition. Here are a few things I want to point out:

1. The refs were consistent, made correct rulings and fixed mistakes when they were brought to the refs attention. Sure, they made mistakes, but corrected them when they could. Detroit has always had consistent reffing and this year was no different. I also want to welcome back Ron Webb as Detroit's Head Referee.

2. The first match on Friday was 124 - 70 (minus 20 penalty points making it 50) with a total of 15 hurdles between the two alliances.

3. There were about 10 hurdlers in a group that were all good. For a regional with 32 teams, that is pretty impressive.

4. The elimination rounds were intense and had many high scoring matches. The quarterfinals had all but QF1 go three matches and one had a tie.

5. The finals had a total of 412 points scored between the two matches. That is an average of 103 points per alliance!

6. I eye-witnessed a couple extraordinary things that team 27 accomplished:
(a) They repaired a completely demolished main drive gearbox withn a 6 minute timeout. This type of failure would have put 99% of FIRST teams out of the eliminations.

(b) The diagonal last second shot was ridiculous. They nailed it from the red alliance side right after the red overpass and banked it off the side board on the blue overpass and scored the 8 point hurdle as time expired. In person, it was spectacular!


Thanks to 469 and 440 for being such great partners. I can't believe 469 edged out 27 for the number one spot by 0.4 ranking points. That is just 1 auton line between the 10 matches. I thought there was no way 27 would lose the number one spot, but 469 pulled off another miracle.

[PizzmasterP27]

Originally Posted by johnr

congrats to all teams. had a question? did 27-team rush- shoot a last second hurdle over center wall or did i blink at the wrong time?

we did indeed and here is a video
http://youtube.com/watch?v=f1N5doWRskw

[65_Xero_Huskie]

Originally Posted by PizzmasterP27

we did indeed and here is a video
http://youtube.com/watch?v=f1N5doWRskw

Sick.
All i can say