Central Valley Regional 2016

Competition Regional Competitions
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Surprisingly, no one has made this thread yet, so here it is.
A list of teams:

8
254 <- 2015 Carson Quarterfinalists
585 <- 2015 Carver Division
649 <- 2015 Curie Quarterfinalists
670
701 <- 2015 Curie Quarterfinalists
751
812
972
973 <- 2015 Carson Quarterfinalists
1323 <- 2015 Tesla Finalists
1422
1458 <- 2015 Carson Division
1662
1671 <- 2015 Newton Champions, Einstein Champions
1678 <- 2015 Newton Champions, Einstein Champions
1967
2073
2135
2643
2761 <- 2015 Newton Division
2813
3045
3189
3303
3482
3495 <- 2015 Curie Division
3501 <- 2015 Hopper Division
3859
3925
3970
4135
4171
4255
4543
4711
4973
4990
5104
5134
5136
5137
5458 <- 2015 Carver Division
5496
5499
5677
And 3 Rookies:
5817
5852
6059

This regional sure is stacked!

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All DARK GREEN… almost fell on the floor when I made the Excel Team list out.

Excited to see some of the best of the best in CVR only a 5.5 hour drive up at 2am who needs sleep anyhow?

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With four world champions and many more teams that have advanced deep into the eliminations at St. Louis, this year’s CVR is looking to be even more stacked than last year’s. We are looking forward to getting to interact with and see some amazing teams from all over, and hopefully play with some of them! Good luck to all teams attending!

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Very excited to be going! Can’t wait to see some great designs from some amazing teams. Good luck to everyone!

5

It’s going to be a good event!

Just a reminder, if you are looking for hardware or help fixing/troubleshooting something on your robot that isn’t code please come by 1678’s pit and ask us if someone is free to help you. We may be too busy to do so at times, but we enjoy helping when we can.

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Or that is code! We don’t have as many programmers as mechanical/electrical people, but if we’re free, we’re happy to help :slight_smile:

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This is gonna be good.

8

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Let’s not forget, 254 - 2014 Einstein Champions…

Not sure how many regionals have had three WC teams from the last 2 years in the field.

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973 was a WC with 254 in 2011, not 2014

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No, 973 was on Galileo in 2014. Still, they did make it to Einstein that year.

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My apologies. Thanks for setting me straight. But still, there are 4 wc in the field which is very impressive.

13

Here is some REAL Field Damage. This is just a fraction of what we are seeing.

This piece of poly is one of the dividers on the Batter.

14

More CVR shenanigans.

Turtle bots,

And tower wars.

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Any chance anyone has a picture of the view from 254’s camera?

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I feel your pain. As field reset at GSD last weekend I collected at least 15 bent or broken pegboard pins, and that was just one field resetter on one end of the field.

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Looks like 1678 clinched the 1st seed spot.

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At CVR, We believe “Robots are not points”!



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This year’s Central Valley Regional was awesome! The atmosphere and facilities were great, every volunteer was eager and kind, and the competition was intense. IMO it was the best CVR yet, and it will only get better. Thanks to 1323, 8, and 5677, you guys were so much fun to work with.

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That funny moment when you look up the results of this event more in depth and discover that the entire finalist alliance (including back up robot) is going to championship

1323 gets a wildcard via 1678 winning the regional and being last years world champion
5817 gets Rookie All Star
8 gets a wild card via 254 winning the regional and being a hall of fame team
5677 gets a wild card via 1671 winning engineering inspiration and being last years world champion

I love the wild card system so much for this very reason, but I am curious about why 8 was unable to play in elims.