This regional looks like it is going to be a great one guys, I can’t wait to see you all there! I have wanted AZ to have it’s own regional since I started participating in FIRST a little over 3 years ago, and for it to finally be here is amazing 
Good luck to everyone this weekend, I hope we have some good clean, intense competition :yikes:
I’m just so psyched to be at the very first one in AZ!
After the first day, all I can say is WOW! High score so far is 322 (QP), I don’t remember who it was. The usual suspects (king of the hill bots) are pretty effective… HOWEVER… NO ONE can secure the ENTIRE ramp. This has made things very interesting, and I am expecting to see this be impossible at Nats too. It all comes down to autonomous modes people… GET IT WORKING 
Great jobs to all the teams out there, the competition has been great. To be ranked 7 right now among such great teams makes me very ecstatic. It all doesn’t matter though, we can break down tomorrow and I would still be as jubilant as I am right now:
Rookie All Star Award is all I REALLY wanted
Congrats to wake zero and team 1011 on the rookie all star. You guys totally deserve it and did VERY well today.
Was it me or were you the only AZ team to walk away with hardware from the first day awards?
Guess we will see how it all plays out tomorrow.
anyone have standings from AZ?
Cory
*Originally posted by Cory *
**anyone have standings from AZ?Cory **
http://www2.usfirst.org/2003comp/events/AZ/teamrank.html
KenL’s being a good boy, and updating.
We love you, Ken.
*Originally posted by Cory *
**anyone have standings from AZ?Cory **
Cory,
The standings are available on the FIRST website under regional events, arizona regional, standings…
FIRST is doing a much better job keeping the website updated with scores and standings.
These are some of the awards that were handed out tonight, which I received second hand.
Imagery: 207
Controls: 192
Judges: 874 (becasue they are an extremely small school in an area with virtually no technology)
rookie: 1011
222 also won an award, but I don’t know what it was.
There were more awards given out, but these were all I got.
222 won team spirit
Ty very much! Todays awards (Sat) should bring some more AZ team awards though, and there is still a LOT of qualifying matches to get through (3 per team) :rolleyes:
*Originally posted by BionicAlumni *
**Congrats to wake zero and team 1011 on the rookie all star. You guys totally deserve it and did VERY well today.Was it me or were you the only AZ team to walk away with hardware from the first day awards?
Guess we will see how it all plays out tomorrow. **
Was Truck Town Thunder allowed to keep their entire robot, or were they forced to remove parts of the arms?
How is team 980 doing? I heard they hit the stacks incredibly fast.
ALso, what was the rulling on team 68 and their arms?
My source told me that truck town did not have their bar blockers.
Some awards from today, relayed second hand and now done by memory. standard disclaimers apply.
Sportsmanship: 60
Industrial Design: 330
Engineering Inspiration: 294
Chairmans: 234
website: 234
animation: 192
Winning alliance: 968, 606, (460)?. 8th alliance (11th seed)
finalist: 192, 330, 989. 7th seed
great to see the underdogs win.
hopefully some of the local teams can fill in the rest of the details
Now all we need is some pics…
*Originally posted by Chris Hibner *
**Was Truck Town Thunder allowed to keep their entire robot, or were they forced to remove parts of the arms? **
They were not allowed to fully extend their arms to block the side bar areas. The ruling was that you are not allowed to use the field to brace yourself against other robots.
Team 698 won 294’s Gracious Professionalism Award! They were the only team nominated 3xs. Great job!
We were not forced to take them off by the officals we elected to take them because we felt that we didn’t need them. The robot is better with out them we feel.
I would also like to congratulate the winners of the awards and the overall comp.
Ill try and get some pics up in the next few days…
Not alot of competition action (too busy in the pits) But i got some nice pretty close ups of some of the big name teams…hehe
Ill try and get em up quick…
TC
i guess we’ve been forgotten…
team 624 won the delphi’s driving tomorrow’s technology award
I took like 400 some pictures. If there is any robot you want to see I can get you the picture.