Cleveland Regional

[mountaindewd]

I dont know about anyone else, but I am X-TREMELY HYPED about this Regional. We are leaving tomorrow to get there, and it should be a blast!

I believe we did quite well at the St. Louis Regional... We placed 17th individually, but we were picked in the first round by team 1098. (Our alliance placed 3rd, including winning a 2-1-2 Quarter Final Match) Eventhough we only had that first practice day to drive our robot around and get a feal for it, I still feel that our driving was SUPERB. Our Human Players were dead on (Missing less than 10 the entire weekend!!!) and we discovered what we could and could not do well. LoL...

Overall St. Louis was a BLAST, and I am hoping that Cleveland will be 10x better. (maybe a Gold, heh...)

I personally want to wish all the teams competing there GOOD LUCK, and have a LOT of FUN! I know I will. May your beards grow ever longer!

If you are going to the Cleveland Regional, come say HI to me... If you are in the first 10 people to come say HI, I will PERSONALLY, wish you Good Luck...(I'll be the one with the White Construction Helmet with the ONE Devil horn... In the middle... You can't miss me, LoL)

Jason ("Tree") Shepherd -=- Pike RoboDevils Team 1018

[KenWittlief]

is that technically called a unihorn or an omnihorn?!

clevelands gonna rock! will keep my eye out for you

[Joe Matt]

Yes, Cleveland DOES Rock, not just in the song. ;)
I'm from Cleveland myself and love it there. I'm trying to get my team to go next year, because that'll be my final year (WOAH! Time flyes!)

[mountaindewd]

Yeah, I'm from Indianapolis, and I have been looking forward to this Regional for a while now. I hear it is going to be fun, and I can not wait. We leave tomorrow, but I wish we left tonight. Cleveland does Rock! *does happy dance*

[Kevin Karan]

we leave at 3 tomarrow

[Ryan M.]

we leave at 3 tomarrowWe'll probably leave around 3:00 or 4:00 also. :)

[mountaindewd]

Yeah, we are leaving around 11:30 in the morning... Its like a 5 or 6 hour trip for us... *Sighs* oh well, road trips are fun, and once we get there it will be SWEET!!!

[Alex Cormier]

Yeah, we are leaving around 11:30 in the morning... Its like a 5 or 6 hour trip for us... *Sighs* oh well, road trips are fun, and once we get there it will be SWEET!!! :]
yup about 4 or 5 hours for us! advance team is leaving tomorrow!! with me Pit Crew for Drives Team and Pit Crew Chief. Can't wait to defend our title, with 541! :]

See ya guys there.. stop bye in the pits of 1126 and ask for omni man, well chat n tell ya interesting stuff about our bot and team... :]

less then 1 day!! :]

[lunchbox1126]

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yup about 4 or 5 hours for us! advance team is leaving tomorrow!! with me Pit Crew for Drives Team and Pit Crew Chief. Can't wait to defend our title, with 541! :]

See ya guys there.. stop bye in the pits of 1126 and ask for omni man, well chat n tell ya interesting stuff about our bot and team... :]

less then 1 day!! :]

4-5 hours thank God for game boys! :]

[Ryan M.]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :p :p

Our trip is only 2 or 3! :) Well, have "fun" on your trip. :)

[Greg Needel]

the other mentors and I are leaving tomorrow at 5 am......so lets just say tomorrow will be a very very long day

[Alex Cormier]

4-5 hours thank God for game boys! :]
can't wait to play some 3 xbox halo int he hotel rooms

[mountaindewd]

Indeed! We have movies galore, and plenty of game systems. The nights at the hotels will be super sweet! I'm extremely excited, we are leaving in like 30 mins... CAN'T WAIT FOR THE BUCKEYE BAY-BEE!!! GOTTA LOVE THE COMPETITION!!!

Good Luck to everyone this weekend, and I hope I will get to meet you guys in the arena. I'll try to update our performance as we play this weekend!

Have fun, be safe, and make it the time of your life!

Jason Shepherd ("Tree") -=- Pike RoboDevils Team 1018 (Omnihorn, LoL)

[Alex Cormier]

HOPE you had as much fun as i had there! and good job!

[lunchbox1126]

Thanks to all teams especially 340, 67 and 191 X-CATS! 191 you guys were right there next to us the whole competition and really felt like an extension of the team. All teams did great and really demonstrated what FIRST is all about!

[lunchbox1126]

I must congratulate GRR's animation team, after picking my jaw off the the floor I finished scoring this amazing animation. Simply outstanding!!

[Eclipx]

we have rouchy to thank for that. one kid worked on the animation. he had 1 or 2 friends help him check everything, but he was the only creator. i'm really happy for him. he worked extremily hard on and off the Robotics season. congrads.

[rees2001]

I must congratulate GRR's animation team, after picking my jaw off the the floor I finished scoring this amazing animation. Simply outstanding!!

Yup, this was all one pretty much one kid. All his ideas, all his work. Last year he won the award at Pitt the same way, and he still has one more year to go. Look out FIRST... Oh yeah, our robot wasn't too bad either, 13-0, Motorola Quality award, number one seed, Regional champs. But that took a lot of team work and some awesome alliance partners. Thanks 67 & 1126, 2 of the best scouting teams to go along with 2 great robots. See you in Atlanta.

[Greg Needel]

Oh yeah, our robot wasn't too bad either, 13-0, Motorola Quality award, number one seed, Regional champs. But that took a lot of team work and some awesome alliance partners. Thanks 67 & 1126, 2 of the best scouting teams to go along with 2 great robots. See you in Atlanta.



great job 340, 67 and 1126.


btw rees I think i might do a whole lot more masks for nationals.....maybe 300? :D

[Koko Ed]

great job 340, 67 and 1126.


btw rees I think i might do a whole lot more masks for nationals.....maybe 300? :D
Everybody loved the Visoneers flashing pins. For some reason they kept asking us for them. Where did you get them?

[Kevin Karan]

Everybody loved the Visoneers flashing pins. For some reason they kept asking us for them. Where did you get them?
they ran out saturday morning... like an hour after they started handing them out. I had to trade my delphi eliets frisbe for two of em. And, I think they were only handing them out in their pit area...

We won our first two matches at buckeye, but on the third one of the bots fell on us when we tried to hang, blowing one of our tires and messing up one of our grippers. Thank you x-cats for the tire repair kit! The gripper problem kept on componding on itself untill we finaly had to replace the gripper. All went well in our sencond to last round untill we tried to hang and noticed that on of our casters had snapped off at the weld and we had to have it re-welded. We won our last round and that was it.

[Ryan M.]

Yeah, the flashing lights were cool... I never managed to get one though... :( ;)

Congrats to the winners. Especially 340, who went undefeated. :)

[KenWittlief]

our team had a great time - thanks to everyone who came up and said "Hi I know you from CD"

I didnt get to meet everyone I wanted to - we were busy most of the time and I was exhausted the rest of the time

it did seem like a few people were dissapointed when they met me, something like, Oh Hi! your Ken?!"

Maybe they were expecting the one on the left side of my CD photo?!

:^)

[Koko Ed]

I think one team deserves mad props for their improved performance this year at Buckeye is the Mad Cows who seeded sixth after being the butt of so many folks private jokes last year (remember the Cow tipping jokes?). They even had a similair drive system and what was so tip happy last year was a terror this year, especially when they hung and would grind those wheels. I remember one robot getting too close and getting torn up. That has to be rather intimidating.
My hats off to you Mad Cows!

[lunchbox1126]

yes the cows definitly had it working this year! They had an amazing idea, but just had to wait for the game to catch up the their ingenuity.

[lunchbox1126]

anyone know how often a back to back win has happened?