2007 Silicon Valley Regional

Competition Regional Competitions
#81

Thank you.
There are 4 Hawaii teams this year. The other two will be in Vegas, including us. We also just finished competing in NJ and our team is still feeling the jet lag and missed schoolwork after being gone for a week and a half.

Good luck to you folks! We actually travel to Seattle every year after competing in a national electric car race every year in Portland. There is a team from Seattle called team sealth that competes against us every year!
We watch the Mariners and shop in Tualip?? at the outlet mall yearly!!:smiley: and go to the casino’s next door of course…hehe…

#82

Our robot is finally fully functional! We struggled today with programming but we had near final code for our last match today and our robot scored 4 tubes including one at the last second to tie the match. Tomorrow we should be scoring 5-6 a match now that the robot is fully functional.

The robots the stood out for me today were 488 and 190. Both teams have fantastic ramps and will be very important come elimination matches.

Good luck and have fun tomorrow!

#83

Same as 766, we only finally now have a fully fucntional bot. We’re looking to turn it on tomorrow and finally have it actually performing to its real level.

#84

1070 had the la regional to work out a majority of our kinks in the lift sytem but now, they are working next to perfect. also, we’ve been working on our defense…

im really looking forwards to tomorrow’s matches…

#85

We are an entirely defensive bot, we are currently ranked 5th. We seem to be pushin people around and makin it hard to score. But we can climb any ramp. Some good fun out there, playin defense. Come and stop by our pit.

#86

It’s been a great regional so far, and I look forward to tommorow as I head off to sleep. The one thing that really keeps our team running to the level we’ve achieved is our meetings. Other teams could learn from this: it eliminates just about all og the chaos. After every match, no matter the outcome, no matter what, all memebers but the key scouters in the stands go off to a quiet corner and meet. It really keeps everyone involved, and it allows us to highlight all that needs to happen, to schedule who’s in the pit when, and to refocus onto what we need to do.

And designing the robot before touching tools made us able to work with one heck of a machine.

Good luck to all teams tommorow!

#87

Thank you!!! Hopefully the website will be working tomorrow. Wish I was there! Sounds like great fun! Believe me, you definitely miss this when you get to college. Good luck to all of the teams!

#88

They are actually in the top 5, I believe they are seeded 3rd.

#89

What’s the verdict on the competitiveness of this regional? Most competitive SVR yet? What about a run down on the current “all-stars.” How is 488 doing? What kind of scores are being put up? Why haven’t they uploaded the results to the website?

#90

I can’t speak to how more or less competitive things are this year than in years past, but so farm we feel as if things here are a bit less competitive than PNW was two weeks ago. In Portland, we saw none of the problems people reported in week two regarding robots missing matches and failing inspection and the like, but that sort of thing seems to be very prominent here in San Jose. As the day went on, things got better, naturally, but the ramp up took a lot longer than it did in Portland. Because our design requires some participating from other teams to be effective, today was a trying day for us.

We’re doing okay. We are 3-2-1, I think, and have been pretty steadily improving our performance. I think we all underestimated how badly battered and bruised our machine was after PNW, so it took us a bit of time to get everything back in shape. Tomorrow, we expect to lift well in our remaining two qualifying matches and continue the trend we established this afternoon.

#91

I understand the desire to make sure your machine is in top condition, but this is a violation of <R21>. Just a heads up.

<R21> At the competitions: Teams are allowed to repair, modify or upgrade their competition
ROBOT while participating in a competition event. To support this, teams may bring
SPARE, REPLACEMENT and UPGRADE PARTS and COTS items to the competitions
(within the limits specified in Rules <R30> and <R31>). Work can only be done on-site in
the Pits or at any facility made available to all teams at the event (e.g., in a team’s repair
trailer or a local team’s shop offered to all teams to use). Fabrication may be done when the
Pit area is open for normal operations during the period starting with the opening of the Pit
area on Thursday and ending at 4:00PM on Saturday. All work must be completed when
the Pit area closes each evening. Parts cannot be removed from the competition site and
retained overnight after the Pit area closes.

Good job today. You’ve got a great robot.

#92

I didn’t know about this.
Won’t happen again.

#93

Scouting data so far:

Team AvgRingers
254 3.5
852 3.5
100 3
114 2.666666667
987 2.5
1280 2.166666667
668 2
2024 2
604 1.833333333
692 1.666666667
190 1.5
971 1.333333333
192 1.166666667
368 1.166666667
115 1.142857143
760 1
846 1
1560 1
2035 0.833333333
2141 0.8
1693 0.5
1967 0.5
973 0.428571429
766 0.4
1544 0.333333333
1970 0.333333333
1458 0.2
581 0.166666667
1700 0.166666667
256 0.166666667
840 0.166666667
253 0.166666667
624 0.142857143

Team AvgLift
1700 20
1070 17.5
846 15
624 12.85714286
190 10
987 10
488 7.5
2144 7.5
675 7.5
668 7.5

Overall SVR has been an interesting experience. I am really proud of 488 so far, the robot is more or less functioning as designed. It is tough depending on other teams for scoring, despite how easy you try to make it for them. Would I have advocated building a lifting robot if I had to do it again? Probably, but either way it is a lesson learned. Hopefully as the finals approach people will understand team’s abilities despite the match performances. The match pairing algorithm is frustrating for most.

#94

The standings and match results are posted now on FIRST’s site. http://www2.usfirst.org/2007comp/events/SJ/rankings.html

#95

Finally…now the rankings are actually useful for scouting purposes.

#96

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Did it go up, then go down?

#97

still working for me, do you have the old page cached?

#98

We did very well yesterday (5-1-0)
We were against 254 for two times during the Qualification matches, and either game was with super good robots, we thought… “AHHH there goes our ranking” but surprisingly we won both, and both are so CLOSE!! Luckily for us , we got on the ramps both times, so thats 30 points by itself!
out of the 5 matches we won, 2 matches we had ringers stuck on our lift so we couldn’t touch other ringers, and 1 match our ramp was hit by another robot, so it fell out in the beginning, so we can’t “score” anything, good thing i think 2024 put a couple ringers and among with our other alliance , so in the end one of our alliance got on our ramp so we got to win the match. With our ramp design, we can still move and adjust position even with the ramp down! And when we don’t need our ramps, we can easily detach them so our robot would be lighter and faster and it would be easier to climb on other ramps!!
during the match that we lost, it was like one on one considering our only alliance got DQed , but we still did pretty well, put we 3 ringers in a row, which was pretty good.
so of our 3 “no-problem” matches, we score 2-3 ringers.
we added something to the lift so ringers can no longer get stuck on the lift!
hope we can score a lot more today

Currently ranked 3 (the last time i checked at least), but we still have 2 more matches to go!

Good Luck everyone!!

#99

Any idea when the Eliminations will begin? The webcast has been the elimination brackets for the past 1/2 hour…
http://robotics.nasa.gov/events/webcasts/regionals_2007.php

#100

Hey team 2024 is at the silicon valley regional, and even though we didnt make it to finals, we kicked butt! we were 12th! YAY!!!