121, another competition, another victory.

[Greg Perkins]

Mayhem on the Merrimack+121= another championship. too bad, if WPI hadn't broke its winch off we would have beat the Rhode Warriors, but we also died during that match and we screwed up, too bad still was a load of fun tho!!!

See ya all at BattleCry!!!!!

THanks WPI(190)


Badjokeguy

[Rob Colatutto]

who else won with 121?? was it 271 by any chance?

[Greg Perkins]

yep, those mechanical marauders beat us again:(

Badjokeguy

[fast frank]

Originally posted by badjokeguy
yep, those mechanical marauders beat us again:(

what does that make it now, 3 times?

yep, we did win with 121. we qualified last, 16th out of 16. we only won 2 of our 8 qualifying matches. we kept blowing motors, or haveing batteries die, and we had a leak in our pneumatics that we couldn't find. fortunately the 2 that we did win were against 121, and i think those were the only matches they lost. they qualified 1st and picked us as their alliance because they felt that we were the only threat to them. together, we swept the finals, 2 matches, 2 matches, and 2 matches. thank you 121

[Renzorocks]

it was such a good competition! thanx for picking us 121! u were such a great alliance. thanx for believing in us!! sorry 151 for eliminating you again :(, i really am. u have an amazing robot and it was a really close match, maybe next time we won't have as much luck as we did today. can't wait for Battlecry!!

"all your off season comp are belong to us"

[Tom Schindler]

Originally posted by Ricksta121
173 may have won the championship, but we beat them at utc, so you do the math.

Not trying to downplay your victory at UTC, it was an amazing run through the finals, probably hte most fun i've had watching FIRST finals ever, but i wouldnt give 121 the full credit for beating rage... if you watch the matches, 69 wouldnt let rage get to the goals. their pestering defense allowed you guys to win... a GREAT team effort.... one of the best alliances i've seen..

Tom

[Kyle Fenton]

As much as I like Rick's optimism, it is always a team effort.
Our alliances this year 69,103,469,230,190,885, and 271 have all contributed so much in achieve soo much.

As much as I know we picked 271 because they have always been a good powerful team, plus we like to be paired with a different variety of alliances too.

I was unfortinaltly not able to attend Mayhem because I had SAT's. But I watch the video and was amazed. The driver, my friend, totally new to driving, did an awesome job.

A couple of things surprised me

95 didn't attend, and they were schuleded to

61--What happened to your Aztecs like ball devise? I remembered your robot from Quincy, and you looked a lot different on the field.


Anyways, It was an awesome event, keep up the good work Team 140

[Mike Soukup]

Originally posted by Ricksta121
he figured out we are the team to beat now why cant everyone else?

we have entered 5 comps this year and have won 3 (and each time we have beaten team 88, sorry guys). got at least 2 more to go. plan on some tough competition at battlecry from 121 and its alliance. our robot is, according to the judges at nationals, the best in the country. 173 may have won the championship, but we beat them at utc, so you do the math.

Nice to see Gracious Professionalism is alive and well. There is nothing like building up one's opponents and not showing any arrogance.

Mike

[Kyle Fenton]

Originally posted by Mike Soukup


Nice to see Gracious Professionalism is alive and well. There is nothing like building up one's opponents and not showing any arrogance.

Mike

Its not 121, its just Rick

[Joel J]

Originally posted by Kyle Fenton


Its not 121, its just Rick Yeah, but we aren't going to start this scuffle again. Congrats to 121 on winning another competition. RAGE people, it ended about a month ago, don't start anything again!

[STonn]

I had to work and couldn't go to the competition... does anyone have video from Mayhem?
Thanks in advance.

~Synthia

[SharkBite]

i want to congratulate kevin for doing such an awesome job driving..... this was his first competition driving and he looked like a seasoned veteren

i didnt realize how difficult it was.... i drove one of the matches (we lost that one because of my idiocy) and i can now understand what the driver goes through

congrats to all the drivers out there

[fast frank]

yea i also found out how hard it was to control the robot. we normally have 2 drivers and 2 operators. i'm a driver. we only brought 3 kids. we had 2 drivers and no operators. so us drivers alternated back and forth on the driving and operating, and the 3rd kid was our human player.


by the way, did anyone notice the camera shots from our robot? we had a wireless camera mounted on our robot and they played the feed on the big projection screen.

[SharkBite]

i want to say one more thing


i am proud of the new england teams

maybe its just because there is a higher concentration of veterans, and this is where FIRST has its roots........ but i am always glad to see that new england consistantly produces lots of quality contenders...... great job, all of you

[SharkBite]

how did you have two drivers and two operators.... i thought only 2 people were aloud to touch the controls... one had to coach and be hands off, and maybe theres only an exception for a human player

[fast frank]

we alternate, we have 2 driving teams

driver #1 with operator #1
driver #2 with operator #2

[KevK]

Hey thanks for all the compliments guys!! I had a lot of fun driving, and i had a lot of fun working with 271, you guys were excellent!, in the one match that i lost while i was drving, you were able to pin me twice, i better not let that happen again, :) There was a lot of great competiton in the finals, especially from 61, and 190, two powerful robots, I wasn;t sure how we were going to win until 190's arm broke.

Can't wait to see everyone at WPI!!

[Mike Soukup]

Originally posted by Kyle Fenton


Its not 121, its just Rick

That's what I figured, but remember that the forums may be a person's only exposure to your team and what one person says can reflect on your team as a whole. So please watch what you say :)

Since Andy Baker is much better with words than I am, I'll refer you to one of his wonderful posts http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2779

Mike

[Andy A.]

95 wanted to go, but due to some confusion, someone decided we were not going. I'm very frustrated, because mayhem has become a favorite of mine and I had planned on going.

We also wanted to go to battlecry, but again, confusion lead to our coach not applying us even when we had an invite.

That only leaves River Rage, which hopefully 95 will be going to. Even if I have to steal and run the 'bot my self...

-Andy

[Mike Norton]

We changed our gear to go slower with more power and we went to far. We ended up breaking our tracks in the first match we went into. after that we were playing to not break. the power you saw was broken power. wait till WPI you will see us come alive again. We were sorry to break WPI robot. because we knew we could beat them when we are 100%. So becasue nobody else could move them we wanted to show that we could.

We will be ready for WPI. I hope that everybody brings spare parts. because this is our last competition and we will use everything up.

[Joe Menassa]

Yea, you guys (61) were amazingly powerful. In our first match in the quarters with you guys we could barley hold our goal while you were pulling it out. We spent over a minute in that tug-o-war and you had it out of the zone at one point but in the last second we pulled it back in. After that match our motors were fried. You must have seen us trying to cool it down with a vacuum which we switched the air flow and then we just brought our robot outside.

[fast frank]

yea, 61, you were extremely strong. we melted 2 of our 4 drive motors in that tug of war. we had play the rest of the finals with only 2 motors. but we did move WPI, we practically pulled them over, they were up on their side. too bad we had to face them 3 times in qualifying, we lost all 3 times. they had a good robot. if you had that much power when you were broken, i hope we're not against you at battle cry!

to be honest with you, when we were teamed up for a qualifying match, someone on your team was telling me how powerfull you were. "we just sit there for the first minute, decide which goal(s) we are gonna steal, and then go take them" simple as that. i didn't believe it. and then you broke in that match, so entering the quarter finals i thought it would be easy, i was proved wrong, very wrong!

[robomama]

i'm so jealous...you guys get to attend all these post season competitions and i don't know of any around here :-(

[Andy Baker]

robomama,

Indianapolis is only about a 13 hour drive from South Carolina... you should come to the Indiana Robotics Invitational on July 19-20! I'll send a note to your team contacts.

Andy B.

[Mike Schroeder]

Hey 121,


I hope your team is thinking about attending the Brunswick Eruption in November, we can have a replay of the Nationals or who knows maybe even team up and kick butt :cool:

[robomama]

ONLY 13 hrs!!!

i hope they can send a group!
thank for thinking of us :-)

we'd love to show off Manuel Overdrive (MO) again!!

[SharkBite]

as far as i know we arent going to the brunswick eruption.... the main reason for this is we have no money... we are still paying off florida

maybe i will go to watch though, im going to rutgers so i will be around

does anyone know of any teams in the rutgers area looking for a mentor?

[Mike Schroeder]

Hey sharkbite as a matter of a fact team 25 is sponsering a team in south brunswick about 2miles form rutgers and in hightstown is about 25 mins away