2009 Southern California Regional

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I was spectating at the LA regional. A lot of really impressive bots out there!
I especially liked team 1717's drive system and pivoting launcher.
Very exciting final match, too! Those two alliances were pretty much evenly matched and played well.

I was surprised, though, that little effort went into going for empty cells to convert to super cells -- was this intentional? In other words, did alot of the teams here decide going for the super cells weren't worth it/too risky?

[ricechrisbtreat]

Hey, Michael Montazeri, thanks for the congratulations, but the truth is we would be lost without the help of your old team, 1138 and I would have been lost last year without your help. Programming this year involved an entirely new control system and programming laguage but we were able to figure it out thanks to your help last year. Thanks for all your help man and a big thanks to Team 1138, Eagle Engineering from Chaminade!

Also, I want to give a huge thanks to Team 207 and 973 for picking us as their third alliance member. I thought we made a great team. I was the robot shooter for team 2659 during the quarter finals through the finals and the alliance spirit on the field was amazing! Thanks so much for the pick, we owe you guys. By the way, both of your robots were amazing both in looks and functionality and I think our robots complimented each other's strengths and weaknesses very nicely. See you guys at nationals in Atlanta!

-Chris Barlog
Team 2659

[NoahTheBoa]

Originally Posted by ricechrisbtreat

Hey, Michael Montazeri, thanks for the congratulations, but the truth is we would be lost without the help of your old team, 1138 and I would have been lost last year without your help. Programming this year involved an entirely new control system and programming laguage but we were able to figure it out thanks to your help last year. Thanks for all your help man and a big thanks to Team 1138, Eagle Engineering from Chaminade!

Also, I want to give a huge thanks to Team 207 and 973 for picking us as their third alliance member. I thought we made a great team. I was the robot shooter for team 2659 during the quarter finals through the finals and the alliance spirit on the field was amazing! Thanks so much for the pick, we owe you guys. By the way, both of your robots were amazing both in looks and functionality and I think our robots complimented each other's strengths and weaknesses very nicely. See you guys at nationals in Atlanta!

-Chris Barlog
Team 2659

Our entire team is extremely happy for you guys. You just keep getting better and it's pretty amazing that you not only made it to the finals for two years, but that you won. Good luck in Atlanta! If you need any help just find our pit.

[chaoticprout]

Did anyone at the regional get the video? If so, can someone possibly upload the finals and or the awards ceremony? Thanks

[Mike Hendricks]

Well .. time to throw my 2 cents in here

It was nice to see all the usual suspects down in LA again. All the 330 guys volunteering on the field and in the pits .. David from 980 (who I always seem to run into everywhere at FRC events) .. and of course our friends from north county .. GRR 973. It's been awhile since we were at the same regional, and this one didn't disappoint.

Playing back to back regionals was pretty tough, although we were still pumped up from our 2nd seed and finalist finish last weekend in SD. In 6 years, we've never seeded 1st or 2nd, let alone in the same season. 399 and 1671, you guys were great to play with. Those semi matches against 207, 973 and 2659 were the best matches I've seen this year, and probably some of the best matches I've seen in my history with FIRST. First the tie, then the next 2 matches with only a few points of separation - that's how it should be.

Also, thanks to all of you who came over to see the Gyro - it's something we worked hard on this year, and are very proud to be one of the teams that accomplished the task. We were really hoping to take it to Atlanta to show it to everyone else, but it just didn't seem to turn out that way. Sorry for all of you who were hoping to see it there - if you have questions or want more information on it, please PM me.

And thanks (and congratulations) to everyone else there. We all know that the California regionals are the best in FIRST .. and it's because of you guys. We'll see ya next year!

Originally Posted by chaoticprout

Did anyone at the regional get the video? If so, can someone possibly upload the finals and or the awards ceremony? Thanks

I recorded the field feed of all the qualification and elimination matches, and both award ceremonies. Hopefully in the next few days (depending on work), I'll be able to get them off the DVR and up on Youtube and TBA. I haven't had a chance yet to check out the videos. If you have anything specific you were looking for, PM me.

[whosdadog]

I got some cool HDR pics of the field and pits, and put them in this thread. http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=75809 have a look

[MrForbes]

uploading some elimnation matches to youtube

http://www.youtube.com/user/frc1726

This little Acer netbook has a small keyboard, please scuse my spelling errors! and it was a long day at Magic mountain

[BurtGummer]

399, I will have nightmares of you filling my trailer in 3 seconds. I'm not sure how the Wizard of Oz could seem so scary, even if its just the Tinman!

We had a great time at the LA Regional, and it was our first ever competition, yay rookies! The comeradery was amazing, and everyone was so helpful to each other. We also learned ALOT about the whole scouting concept.....we didn't even know it existed until we got there.

Teams that I enjoyed working with would be 1717 and 4. The 3 of us were allianced on Friday, and we dominated. I'm hoping our team can get to the caliber of 1717 one day.......that was an awesome bot!

We ended up winning the Rookie All Star award, so we are invited to Atlanta if we can get that $5,000 dollars......

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I posted this in a different thread, but though it was appropriate to re-post here...

For those interested, I took a video of Team 1717 during their practice in the pit.
(I hope you guys don't mind that I posted this. I was definitely impressed by your drive system and had to show some colleagues of mine)

http://eric.segonline.net/2009/misc/team1717vid.avi

Note that its in divx format.

[LBseale]

Originally Posted by BurtGummer

399, I will have nightmares of you filling my trailer in 3 seconds. I'm not sure how the Wizard of Oz could seem so scary, even if its just the Tinman!

We had a great time at the LA Regional, and it was our first ever competition, yay rookies! The comeradery was amazing, and everyone was so helpful to each other. We also learned ALOT about the whole scouting concept.....we didn't even know it existed until we got there.

Teams that I enjoyed working with would be 1717 and 4. The 3 of us were allianced on Friday, and we dominated. I'm hoping our team can get to the caliber of 1717 one day.......that was an awesome bot!

We ended up winning the Rookie All Star award, so we are invited to Atlanta if we can get that $5,000 dollars......

Thank you very much, that match we played stands out in my memory as a superb example of teamwork. I remember our driver showing me in a video of the match when you guys knocked off a robot going to pin us, it was a wonderful play.

Good luck going to Atlanta, where there is a will, there is a way. It would be great to see you there, provided we go also.

[Ricki E.]

Originally Posted by LBseale

Thank you very much, that match we played stands out in my memory as a superb example of teamwork. I remember our driver showing me in a video of the match when you guys knocked off a robot going to pin us, it was a wonderful play.

Good luck going to Atlanta, where there is a will, there is a way. It would be great to see you there, provided we go also.

Thats what an hour of game strategy does to an alliance. It was nice working with both of you!

[Sunbun]

On behalf of 1197, I'd like to thank everyone for making this year's regional a blast. We were thrilled (and very surprised) when our mentor won Regional Woodie Flowers on Friday evening!

(side note: I promised I'd shave my head if we left L.A. empty-handed... guess that'll never happen! )

Congratulations to 1138 and all the champion/finalist alliances - well deserved, teams.

We did fix our robot in time for alliance pickings, but alas, that was too late... it'll be ready in Vegas for sure. We'll be bringing more of our Lil' TorBot dolls, too.

[pandaparty1616]

I just wanted to give a huge shout out to all the volunteers who dedicated their time and energy to making LA a blast! We would be nowhere without you, and a regional is only as great as its volunteers. And LA was AWESOME!

Thank you, for keeping FIRST going strong!

[GabeRC1717]

I'll agree with my teammates here and throw in a little extra, I especially enjoyed the conversations that I had with the programmers from 1515 and the chairmans award winning team who's number escapes me at the moment about image processing. They were some really smart guys and I'm glad we could share all the work that we had all done!

[ricechrisbtreat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBgp83xTJS8

that's a link to the final match. It came down to winner take all after we won the first round and lost the second. You can see our whole team going insane at the end. we were so happy when we won! We barely thought we had a chance at first ! anyway, enjoy