2007 Arizona Regional

Competition Regional Competitions
#63

The arm thing was partly a change in strategy, and also we had a bit of trouble with the claw getting bent up, and it was out of adjustment. The plan (which worked in the second final match) was to run defense and make up for the lack of scoring by ramping…unfortunately Team Caution had some pneumatics troubles before the last round and couldn’t get them fixed in time.

Our driver Dan played remarkable defense, he had never done it before, ever!

I do have some video, the second final match is on a pictures page that’s linked on an earlier post of mine in this thread (post #39, coincidentally). I can also send you the other two final matches, I’m sure you’d love to have them…pm me

#64

We knew that we were going to play defense against you guys so we zip tied the claw to protect it. We would have clipped it had we known that 1492 was going to be disabled. 1492 wasn’t to only ramp available either, we had tried to get 842 to deploy their ramp but it didn’t go. Oh well, it was a great finals match none the less. Congrats again to you guys!

#65

Our team taped every match again this year, we’ll probably be getting them actually parsed and up in about a week or 2. On that note: if anybody didn’t sign our DVD order sheet going around, but wants one, please ask for it here! It’s free, and it’s got most of the Regional on it!

#66

at last somebody taped the matches. I want to get the DVD. tanx for your help

#67

I’m not sure if 1726 signed the list, so I would like to get a copy please. Thanks.

#68

i think i want one ya i do

#69

Sweet! Our team would love to have a copy. What do you need from us? address, email, tel ???

By the way… did you record from the feed at the event or your own camera?

#70

Ya team 1212…or me would like a copy. What do you need from me?

#71

One of the families of our team records the matches themselves each year (they’re family of a former student and friends with some of us still on it). It’s a really nice camera so it’s not bad quality or anything. We record our own footage because we don’t like some of the footage we get in things like webcasts (like zooming in on a robot barely moving back and forth while team XXXX on the other side of the field scores 500 points). There won’t be any real time scoring on the bottom, but hey, there’s tradeoffs for everything.

I won’t start collecting information from CD members quite yet, because this year we actually had some of our students go around with an order sheet during the Regional (in the past we just contacted teams afterwards, but we wanted to get to the teams that don’t check contacts frequently so we decided to talk to them at the Regional this year). Once I get the list of all orders I will post up what teams already have DVD requests and then I will ask for additional orders.

The DVDs are free in most cases (if you want 20 of them and are having them all shipped to Canada, I’m not so sure we can do that for free). You can get more than one, and we don’t care if others on your team already ordered some.

Typically the DVDs are a 4 disc set, with all ceremonies/awards on one disk, Friday matches on a 2nd disk, Saturday matches (including playoffs) on a 3rd disk, and other random things (Regional slideshow, timelapse of our build, etc.) on a 4th disk. I do not know when they’ll be ready, usually we send them out sometime in April or May, part of it this year depends on whether the footage we get at the Championship will be in the same DVD set or will be seperate (haven’t had this problem before since we haven’t gone anywhere other than AZ in 3 years).

I know 842, 1011, 60, and us were already going to the Championship. Are 39 or 1013 going to go since they qualified? Also, 2134 is trying to go, but they’re having to work something out with FIRST to settle payment by Tuesday. I hope all goes well for them.

And if you see this, Don, what field are you announcing for at the Championships this year?

#72

we(39) is going and I’m almost sure that 1013 is going too.
meet you guys over there

#73

Congrats 842, 1726, and 1492. It was a very very well played final. I did get a chance to talk with the Coach from 1726 early on, team 1726 had great ideas, great design, and a great robot. As well for their finals alliance, the sideways tube placment was a great offensive threat and the just the threat of the ramps really commanded a great deal of our attention and messed with our strategy.

Thanks to all at the AZ Regional, I enjoyed mentoring the students, working in the pits, coaching onfield, and the challenge of the game itself.
Jeff Steeno

#74

I want one!!! Please!!!

#75

I would love a copy too.

Thanks

#76

i would like one for myself if u dont mind. i dont know about the rest of our team though.

#77

#2134 would love a set of DVDs. Please shoot me an email and I will send my mailing address. Also, do you mind if we make copies to give to the students? I’d be happy to pitch in for the cost of the operation…

Also, it was a pleasure working with you guys in our alliance. The Cobra Commanders are a class act!

We’re still trying to get to Atlanta. It’s looking good. Hopefully we’ll see you guys there.

-Mark

#78

Thanks and same here with you guys.

Looking forward to it.

#79

I hope 2134 can make it to Atlanta, it’d be good to see you guys there as well!

Our video of the AZ Regional is slowly making its way onto SOAP’s archives. Currently I only have a digitized version of Friday, expect to see it coming on over the next few days. Saturday’s video will get up when I have that as well. It is the same matches that we will have on our AZ Regional DVDs, if you want a sneak peak of what we’re offering (I don’t know how the qualities compare; the DVDs are at least as good as this footage, probably better but I could be wrong).

To see what’s up so far, here’s the link to SOAP’s archives:
http://www.soap.circuitrunners.com/2007/movies/az/

#80

I thought those might be coming from you guys…thanks for doing it! we’ve been watching them already.

#81

We stalled at match 14, for some reason our upload rates started getting incredibly long and timing out so I’ve given up for tonight. After all the footage is up I think I will upload a notepad file with a match and team list, since there aren’t any team numbers to read in the actual match videos.

I have confirmed that we have our DVD order form sheet, I will be getting it back from one of our teacher sponsors on Monday of next and week and will be able to start collecting information for those not on the list then.

#82

All Friday matches are now up, and I should have all the Friday awards up before the night is over. Opening ceremonies won’t go up until tommorow since it’s a fairly large file.

Saturday probably won’t come up for another week or two, hope this is good for now!