Congratulations to all teams!!!
If anyone has videos or picture of 1458 or any of the quarterfinals/semifinals/finals
please email them to me at ramones.rock@gmail.com
Thank you to everyone that was there, that was an intense competition. And a huge thanks to alliance 8, 1662, 295, 1726, for that 5 round streak. awesome job to all of you. and of course, our alliance. 100, awesome scoring bot as well as awesome, nice, fun people. 997, your elevators are incredible, as well as being a great D bot, on top of having a cool, professional team. thanks again to everyone who was with and against us in qualifyings, as well as everyone in the finals.
Yes, I would like to say some of the same things as Alekat:
Team 701 was awesome out there today, Great job! I was very impressed that a team built almost entirely out of new members could continue building the same quality of robot that we (the alumni) spent 3-4 years learning how to make!
Props to our Allies 852 and 2035 as well!
and congrats to 100, 1458 and 997 – you guys were a very good opponent and definitely deserved the title… it was a good clean game, fair and square and most importantly INTENSE – it could have gone either way … making it very suspenseful for us poor audience members
So this is our teams 2nd straight silver @ Davis
We’ll be back next year … 3rd times the charm as they say.
What an amazing regional that was! I would have to say that was a lot more intense than SVR for sure.
Like I figured, 115 really did improve at this regional, we still had some bad luck, but we had some awesome matches, and the team had a lot of fun. And winning two awards on Friday, that was just amazing.
And Alliance 8 really surprised me there, especially in their first match against Alliance 1, seeing both 100 and 997 knocked over really caught me off guard, the whole place just went crazy when that happened.:eek:
People also went nuts when the yellow cad was given for flipping both 997 and 100 with an arm…
In this regional alone there were 2 yellow cards given, all today! :ahh:
Congrats to all the teams at this regional for all their hard work.
We at Team 115 are really happy with our team’s improvement from SVR to Davis, going from a bottom 10 team to getting picked for eliminations. ( In the last qualification match we scored 4 ringers and a spoiler, which was the highlight of the day for us).
A special thanks goes out to team 1351, TKO for supplying us with not one but two carrier plates for the banebots transmission, once in SVR, and once in Davis. (Banebots “new and improved” carrier plates seemed to fail as well) Thanks guys, you really saved us.
The yellow card wasn’t even given then. the next match they rammed 100 again so our alliance leader talked to the referees about it.
What was the second yellow card?
Last match there was a second yellow card given to the team that tipped 100. I saw the ref throw it, as well as a blue flag.
outstanding event
really intense. had to be one of the best. really dissapointed we didnt get picked for the finaly matches. our first round on friday we lost due to a penalty by another team on our alliance, another round we lost 4-5, our team contributing the only points there. i thought we were a very well rounded team, but thats the way things work. i am really impressed with all the teams and their support for each other. Big thanks to all the teams that helped us out in giving us replacement banebot transmissions:100(great job this year guys), 753, 1726, and 114.
well there is much more to talk about im sure, ill be back on here tomorrow most likely, right now its time to get some much needed sleep!
p.s.–
how about that pit announcer? “Hurry up and leave, im hungry and want to eat!” what is that all about, common now!
-Andrew Nabors
Team 1671
Head Driver
Haha, she’s a friend of mine. You just have to take those comments with a sense of humor
I think she was also tired of having to announce the UL safety excerpts every once in a while.
haha yeah she was kind of funny at times
but sidetracked, and went “crazy” a lot
ha
but yeah i was getting tired of hearing “no running in the pits” over and over or “stop blowing bubbles” ha.
Always a bridesmaid, but never a bride…
1351 makes a habit of losing in the semifinals. It’s starting to irritate me. So close, yet so far…
For us the real finals were quarter-finals.
omg… How we made it through I shall never know…
If there was ever a match with two perfectly even alliances… That was it.
-1662 - Played AMAZING defense. Our bumpers are literaly in tatters thanks to them. The sheer pushing force of that 6-wheeler is amazing.
-295 - Very effective ramps. We had no idea this robot would be such an effective lifter. Truely a unique ramp system.
-1726 - Powerful offensive bot that easily matched us when it came to tubing. They really packed a punch in the defense department too.
It was a real slap in the face that first match - total catastroohic failure for our alliance. Two robots fliped in the first minute, tube on our flag (penalty:(), and a massive score for blue alliance.
But CONGRATS to alliance #1!
997 is an amazing lifter. They literaly lifted our robot after the bell, giving us maximum time to score tubes.
Don’t underestimate 1458. They played offense for our alliance, not defense… And got at least 1 tube a match - which is a lot considering the defense being played out there. They also rescued us repeatedly when a tube landed on our flag.
First regional victory in 8 years for FRC 100. First regional victory in 4 weeks for FRC 997:D
Nice job to everyone who made Davis awsome!
Congratulations to all teams (Especially Team 100 and their winning alliance! Good job), and we hope to see at least a few of you in Atlanta (we know we’ll see 100 at least).
675, much to all of our amazement, won the Engineering Inspiration award. Honestly, nobody expected that, and I’ll be honest, I was crying for like an hour afterwords knowing that after 7 years, 675 would be going to Atlanta.
Many thanks to Team 114 (Eaglestrike, you guys were AWESOME!) and 2159 (Robopirates, thanks for the help, I’ll be sure to visit sometime) for their help in the elimination rounds. We played well, guys.
I have to admit, Davis was awesome. I got about 200mb worth of pictures and video, so I’ll probably put those in a .rar and upload them (even the Team 675 pictures, I’m sure somebody else wants those).
Hope to see you all in Atlanta,
Otaku
We finally stopped driving for the night, and the motel has free wifi, so here’s a picture from the first quarterfinal match…997 and 100 stayed up for the remaining 4 takes on the first quarterfinal, and with 1458 took the quarter, and hung in there win the finals…great job!
Congrats to all the award winners, and a big THANKS to all the officials, judges, and other volunteers who put on this event! Everything went just fine from where I sat, and I sure enjoyed the pit announcements…
Let me start by staying we were SO exited to be picked by 100, and 1458 made an awesome second pick :yikes:
well that quarterfinal was the most freaked out I have EVER been!
now we hve had some close calls before, like loosing out first match in both the quarter and semi finals at PNW, but 5 ROUNDS!.. DANG!
Our compressor was on fire! :ahh: :ahh:
I looked at our video from those matches and as we pointed out to the refs, it should hav only been 4. That does not matter, the only thing that matters was that we all had a great time and build GREAT robots
I hope to see the award winners and the other winners at nationals
and as in every competition there are teams that deserve to be going to nationals who are not. Davis was a gea competition and for our first time going we thought that the place was very inviting and we might just come back some other year
ALSO
I have our video from Friday and Saturday where we just shot an overview of the field, when I get it put up I will make sur to get up a link.
I’ll be posting all the Qualifying Match rounds in WMV this morning; I live-encoded everything on friday/saturday short of the finals as NASA apparently webcast that part of it. Had literally no bandwidth at either the competition or at the hotel heh, sorry for delay.
can somebody please post the awards. Thanks
Can someone please explain to me why there is no information from this regional on the FIRST website?
Lets see what I can remember:
Website Award: 115
Autodesk Visualization Award: 670
Highest Rookie Seed: 2036
Kleiner, Perkins, Caufields & Byers Entreprenuership Award: 115
Woodie Flowers Finalist Award: I don’t remember the name, but the mentor was from 1359
Imagery Award: 1359
Motorola Quality Award: 100
DaimlerChrylser Team Spirit Award: 997
Regional Finalists: 701, 852, 2035
Regional Winners: 100, 997, 1458
Engineering Inspiration Award: 675
Regional Chairman’s Award: 1359
The others I either don’t remember or I’m just not sure.
A great regional and thanks to all for such a wonderful regional, great job teams!