2011 Sacramento Regional

[KevinGoneNuts]

Originally Posted by CallieJ

1868 is going to be back at Davis this year after missing last year. It'll be great to catch up with our alliance mates from SVR last year- 100 and 675. Expect some crazy spirit from us this year....


Taylor, if you mess with this I'm stealing your slinky.

That alliance sounds good to me! haha. All three teams are going to be there too!

I am really starting to get excited about SAC, only a few days now!!

Originally Posted by TheOtherTaylor

And my slinky will bring peace and goodwill to all regional participants. No stealing.

This slinky intrigues me...
haha

[KevinGoneNuts]

Three more days until D-Day!

[h1n1is4pigs]

the one problem with this is i have to get up at 5 AM tomorrow morning which is going to be oh so fun....

[KevinGoneNuts]

it's should be the only downside of tomorrow. I'm so excited because this is my first regional competition. (I went to calgames, but that doesn't count as a regional).

[Akash Rastogi]

Best of luck to the boys from MadTown, 1323!

[h1n1is4pigs]

well if this is your first regional you will definitely have a great time just remember to get some sleep at night. and i wish you guys luck tomorrow

[KevinGoneNuts]

Originally Posted by h1n1is4pigs

well if this is your first regional you will definitely have a great time just remember to get some sleep at night. and i wish you guys luck tomorrow

Haha I will, thank you. Good luck to you too!

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

Best of luck to the boys from MadTown, 1323!

Are you with 1323? or just cheering them on?

[ATannahill]

Did no one submit an animation?

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by KevinGoneNuts

Are you with 1323? or just cheering them on?

Very good friends, and it looks like they are third seed!

[emekablue]

Originally Posted by rtfgnow

Did no one submit an animation?

Team 701 as well as 1323 made animations.
But team 1671 won the Autodesk Excellence in Design award for their animation, which can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETuh0XEkjk0

[hg273]

Are there any archived videos or photos from Sacramento?

[rahilm]

Congrats to 1678, 1868, and 766 on the win (and EI for 1868, too) and congrats to 604 on winning Chairman's.

668 had a good time at Sacramento despite all the trouble we were having. We had an interesting weekend to say the least. We came in Thursday we a pretty good robot and an almost complete minibot and deployment system. Late Thursday, though, we decided to swap our chain tensioning method to turnbuckles, and ended up failing one of them, causing us to devote a lot of our resources to getting our arm back up, which didn't happen till our 4th match (which is why we ended up playing defense our first 3 matches). Ultimately, we didn't get picked for eliminations (a big downer to our seniors, who hadn't experienced this in all our 4 years on the team). We ended on a good note, though; we weren't allowed to bag up since we were still on the backup list, so we spent all our time finishing up our minibot. Right before finals ended, we actually got our minibot successfully deploying at 1.6s .

We look forward to seeing most of you at SVR.

I'll try to post a picture later of the hex shaft we twisted 60 degrees when the arm failed.

[Vikesrock]

Would anyone be able to help me out with the team numbers for one of the Dean's List winners, Torgeir Lindborg?

[Michael Corsetto]

Originally Posted by rahilm

I'll try to post a picture later of the hex shaft we twisted 60 degrees when the arm failed.

Please do, that was an impressive feat to say the least, I could hardly believe it when I saw it!

Big thank you to 1868 and 766 for partnering up with us Saturday afternoon. Thank you 1868 for working with us on getting your second minibot to work with our deployment system, I think both teams got a kick out of seeing it work so smoothly in such a short period of time.

I'm really proud of the students on 1678. The team has never made it past the quarter finals, never won any awards (except the rookie inspiration, since rookie all star was won by the only other rookie at the event), and only ever attended the sacramento regional in it's 7 year history. This year we "finished" the bot early, spent a week and a half programming auto and doing driver practice, and ended up only loosing one match the whole regional! Now the team is headed to St. Louis, and considering the team has never been to a competition farther than they can bike to, this is going to be a fun time

[rahilm]

Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto

Please do, that was an impressive feat to say the least, I could hardly believe it when I saw it!

Big thank you to 1868 and 766 for partnering up with us Saturday afternoon. Thank you 1868 for working with us on getting your second minibot to work with our deployment system, I think both teams got a kick out of seeing it work so smoothly in such a short period of time.

I'm really proud of the students on 1678. The team has never made it past the quarter finals, never won any awards (except the rookie inspiration, since rookie all star was won by the only other rookie at the event), and only ever attended the sacramento regional in it's 7 year history. This year we "finished" the bot early, spent a week and a half programming auto and doing driver practice, and ended up only loosing one match the whole regional! Now the team is headed to St. Louis, and considering the team has never been to a competition farther than they can bike to, this is going to be a fun time

You guys really deserved it. Your robot was impressive from the get go and you had a really great minibot; when you teamed up with 1868 and started using theirs, you guys were impossible to contain in eliminations. Congrats and have fun in St. Louis