2007 FIRST Robotics Competition season

Rack 'n Roll
Year 2007
Season Information
Number of teams 1305[1]
Number of regionals 37[2]
Championship location Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Georgia
Awards
Chairman's Award winner Team 365 - "MOE"
Woodie Flowers Award winner Dan Green
Team 111
Founder's Award winner General Motors
Champions Team 190 - Gompei and the Herd
Team 987 - High Rollers
Team 177 - BobCat Robotics

The FIRST Robotics Competition game for 2007 is Rack 'n Roll.

Regional Winners

The top three teams in each of the 37 Regional events were invited to attend the Championship event at Atlanta, GA.

Week one

BAE SYSTEMS Granite State Regional Winners:

NASA / VCU Regional Winners:

The winning alliance of the NJ Regional Event

New Jersey Regional Winners:

Pacific Northwest Regional Winners:

St. Louis Regional Winners:

Week two

Arizona Regional Winners:

Bayou Regional Winners:

Finger Lakes Regional Winners:

Florida Regional Winners:

Great Lakes Regional Winners:

Los Angeles Regional Winners:

Pittsburgh Regional Winners:

Wisconsin Regional Winners:

Brazil Pilot Winners:

Week three

Boilermaker Regional Winners:

Chesapeake Regional Winners:

Detroit Regional Winners:

Greater Kansas City Regional Winners:

Midwest Regional Winners:

Peachtree Regional Winners:

Silicon Valley Regional Winners:

UTC Connecticut Regional Winners:

New York City Regional Winners:

Week four

Boston Regional Winners:

Buckeye Regional Winners:

San Diego Regional Winners:

Waterloo Regional Winners:

Week five

GM/Technion Israel Regional Winners:

Colorado Regional Winners:

Davis Sacramento Regional Winners:

Greater Toronto Regional Winners:

Las Vegas Regional Winners:

Lone Star Regional Winners:

Palmetto Regional Winners:

Philadelphia Regional Winners:

SBPLI Long Island Regional Winners:

West Michigan Regional Winners:

Championship

The 2007 Championship event was held in the Georgia Dome from April 12–14, 2007. 344[3] teams from around the globe competed in four divisions for the Championship title.

Division champions

These were the teams within each division that won their respective divisions.
Archimedes: Teams 179, 233, 71
Curie: Teams 910, 1270, 330
Galileo: Teams 1902, 173, 1319
Newton: Team 190, 987, 177

Einstein playoffs

The four division champions played each other at a fifth, central playing field for the title of Championship Winner.

SF 1-1: Galileo beat Newton, 54-32
SF 2-1: Archimedes beat Curie by way of a disqualification. A Curie robot earned a red card for tipping an Archimedes robot. This was the first time a robot was disqualified on the Einstein field during the final rounds of the FIRST Championship.[4][5]
SF 1-2: Newton beat Galileo, 48-34
SF 2-2: Archimedes eliminated Curie, 88-74
SF 1-3: Newton eliminated Galileo, 44-32
Final 1-1: Archimedes beat Newton, 50-34
Final 1-2: Newton beat Archimedes, 72-58
Final 1-3: Newton beat Archimedes, 59-54, to become the 2007 Championship Winner.[6]

Chairman’s Award

The 2007 Chairman's Award was awarded to Team 365 - Miracle Workerz - DuPont Engineering / DuPont CCRE / First State Robotics & MOE Robotics Group, Wilmington, DE

Notable events

References