In match 2 of the finals I was on the losing side (1540, 1778, 948). We were just playing defense and trying to stop the other teams ramp. 1087 flipped over trying to get up a ramp. I thought that we had the match easily. Then somehow they started going up again. In some impossible feat they righted themselves. After the regional talking with my teammates we all agreed that if you can pull that move off you deserve to win. Great job 1087.
Gotta tell you what a roller coaster ride we had at PACNW. Our bot was working great most of the time because of a dedicated pit crew of students and mentors. Our drive team big Mike, human Mike, Crash and the Ice Man did a great job. These folks are all backed up by our scouts & SMEs. This really is a team effort. But all this gets you so far. We had great alliances throughout the prelims. Finally we were very fortunate, delighted, happy, euphoric (ok out of terms for this) to be picked up by 997. A great bunch of passionate robo folks. At LC we often discuss how the second pick is the toughest. What a great pick 1087 turned out to be. The competition was tough but great fun and no one got en eye poked out! So it all good.
I tried to thank everyone I could, if I missed anyone please accept my sincere thanks. After a red eye flight, we are back home safe and sound, but will soon not forget all the great folks we met at PACNW.
Thanks
Frank Larkin
Lansdale Catholic Cyber Crusaders
Team #272.
There is a Flickr Group containing many photos taken from this regional. If you feel like sharing yours create a Flickr account and add your photos to the group. Tag them with “team XXXX” for each robot/team shown and everyone will get to see all the photos.
http://flickr.com/groups/2007frc_pnw/
Look for the team links on the group page to see all the photos of your team.
does anyone have any of the regional on tape or webcasted anywhere
I think that our team has a few of our matches on our team website. That actually won the best website award. I think the thing that was the coolest about it is that a freshman was in charge of the design of the it. Anyways, if you would like to go to
This is team 1891’s website a.k.a. the “Bullbots”
I hope this answers your question.
thanks. does anyone else have any of the matches
http://www.soap.circuitrunners.com/2007/movies/or/
is a video archive of all of the matches held in Portland last year.
You may want to grab the matches your teams were in before this gets taken down for next year.
Does anyone know of a similar video resource for the 2006 year in portland?