Gali-leo!

[mgreenley]

I figured it was about time for us to get a Galileo thread started. What does everyone think of our division this year?

EDIT:
I've attatched a list of all the teams attending with the number of regional finalist/win placements as well as all team awards listed (MSword format). From the looks of it, it's going to be one tough division, but I can't wait!
Also, I've added my first attempt at a Galileo userbar; I'll edit the image as I refine it. (Append: Second edit) .gif second userbar up. I'm thinking the shading needs to be worked on, but I'm only using userbarmaker.com and MSpaint. plus, I should really do my calculus now. I'll make them look nice later. Cheerio!

Notice: I've made an error with team 291's information in the .zip. It should read:
2006 PIT KPC&B Entrepreunership
2006 PIT J&J Sportsmanship
2006 PIT UL Industrial Safety Award
I'll change this as soon as I'm not on a school computer (i.e. one that can unzip/zip files).

Teams in Galileo:
1
16
27
45
59
67
74
86
100
118
125
135
155
173
177
190
201
211
224
231
237
269
291
295
306
326
341
354
365
384
399
418
444
462
481
494
519
537
547
581
614
665
716
766
809
830
852
869
904
935
971
989
1014
1038
1103
1126
1158
1241
1262
1276
1289
1319
1366
1390
1403
1448
1482
1506
1523
1547
1567
1592
1604
1625
1649
1662
1700
1719
1730
1747
1784
1814
1868
1897
1922

I don't know about everyone else, but I can't wait!

http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/6721/galileouserbar9ux.png
http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/9531/11452386392ar.gif

[Joe Matt]

Galileo for the 3rd year in a row, 4th year in a row pitting next to MOE.

[Sara Milton]

2nd year in a row for 237!!

[Nuttyman54]

we're psyched for it! Can someone make a userbar for Galileo? (i would, but i don't know how)

[Kim Masi]

177 was in Galileo during the '04 nats and will be returning again! there are a lot of teams that were at the Philadelphia regional in Galileo...It'll be interesting to see how things play out next week!

oh, and I cant wait for Blair's infamous "Gali-leo" chant!

[The Lucas]

there are a lot of teams that were at the Philadelphia regional in Galileo...
8 teams from Philly Regional by my count:
173, 177, 291, 306, 341, 365, 444, & 716
Including the entire Winning Alliance!
Funny how division assignments work. There were alot of Galileo Philly teams last year.
Speaking of odd occurrences, it does look like we will be pitted next to 384 for the 4th straight year as Joe Matt said. Unfortunately, 358 will not be on the other side, like the last 2 years.

[Peter Matteson]

177 was in Galileo during the '04 nats and will be returning again! there are a lot of teams that were at the Philadelphia regional in Galileo...It'll be interesting to see how things play out next week!

oh, and I cant wait for Blair's infamous "Gali-leo" chant!

We always end up in Galileo for some reason when we go to the championship.

I wonder if we pit numerically or we will do the highest # lowest # end in the middle method the other regionals I've been to used.

BTW I hoping for numerically because then we're next to our local friends Rage and my alma mater (undergrad) WPI.

[JackN]

It looks pretty tough. I know Me and the rest of the team 494 gang are pretty pumped. Getting to play with teams like 16, 27, 45, 67, 173, 177, 190, 211, 237, 269, 341, 365, 384, 547, 716, 766, 989, 1014, 1126, 1276, 1319, 1403, 1506, 1625, 1747 will be an honor not to mention all the other strong teams. I must say that the fact that at least 1 regional winner if not more won't be in the playoff rounds is quite shocking!

[Pat McCarthy]

I'm extremely excited to be playing in the Galileo division!
I'm happy to have a great division chant this year. Being in Newton, it's not as easy of a chant.
"Iss-ac New-ton" vs. "Gali-leo": No contest. Galileo wins.
I also made a Galileo userbar if anyone is interested. Just don't use the same link location as mine, save it to somewhere you can host from; I don't want to overuse mine.

http://pcpat67.googlepages.com/Galileo_userbar.jpg

[Jaine Perotti]

I am so excited to be playing in the Galileo division this year. I think that there are alot of strong teams in this division, and whoever represents Galileo on Einstein will give the other divisions a sure run for their money. (Personally, I hope 716 is one of them... the ultimate way for me to end my senior year would be a division win!)

As I posted in the official 2006 Championship Divisions thread, these are the teams I am going to be watching the most on Galileo. 16
27
74
86
118
135
173
177
231
237
291
341
365
399
494
830
852
1038
1276
1625
1784 Oh, and by the way, I love the Galileo userbars! :)

[Sugar_Bunny]

Do we know who the announcer is for Galileo?? I know Blair has done it in the past, but will he be back?

[Chris Marra]

Do we know who the announcer is for Galileo?? I know Blair has done it in the past, but will he be back?
I'm pretty sure I read it somewhere on FIRST's site, but I can't find it anywhere anymore.

[Joe Matt]

I'm pretty sure I read it somewhere on FIRST's site, but I can't find it anywhere anymore.

I never saw it on the FIRST website, ever. I bet it's Blair, since the MCs have their personal favorite fields (Jeff is ALWAYS on Arch, etc)

[pakrat]

Lots of strong teams out there. I'd like to see pics of the bots. Anyone wanna try and put together a Galileo Mosaic??
I know we're planning on showing the world what we can do. We're a holonomic drive, so any team that wants to stop by and check us out, feel free.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Blair said he would be on Galileo at the UTC regional.

[Mark McLeod]

Unfortunately, 358 will not be on the other side, like the last 2 years.
We missed you guys at Philly too! I'm going through withdrawal.
Nutritionally speaking I didn't get enough (MOE) green in my FIRST diet this year!

[Sugar_Bunny]

Thanks guys!! I just hope he's our MC!! He's lots of fun!!

[Jacob Plicque]

I am so excited to be playing in the Galileo division this year. I think that there are alot of strong teams in this division, and whoever represents Galileo on Einstein will give the other divisions a sure run for their money. (Personally, I hope 716 is one of them... the ultimate way for me to end my senior year would be a division win!)

As I posted in the official 2006 Championship Divisions thread, these are the teams I am going to be watching the most on Galileo. Oh, and by the way, I love the Galileo userbars! :)
1. I am curious why you did not mention 1126 on your list. Aren't they capable of scoring 40 pts in the game.
2. I want to know why you selected 173, 830, 1276, & 1784. Do they have unique defensive capabilities?

[thatphotochick]

i'm excited to be in gali-leo this year. we were in newton last year...lol that chant is more lame than gali-leo (that will be way more fun). i'm so excited to see the few teams from pitt and BMR, and some new teams.

[JamesBrown]

1. I am curious why you did not mention 1126 on your list. Aren't they capable of scoring 40 pts in the game.
2. I want to know why you selected 173, 830, 1276, & 1784. Do they have unique defensive capabilities?

I can tell you that 1276 was mentioned because they are excelent at scoring, can push almost anyone around and are extremely hard to push around with their 6 traction wheels and AM shifters. The reason that they haven't been mentioned much is that the reletive power rankings don't have all of the information from Manchester, their only regional where they pretty much dominated.

[JackN]

The top ten bots

1.177-2 regionals is hard to beat
2.1126-can't start a fire without Sparx
3.173-this pick enrages me
4.494-they are out of this world :D
5.16-Bomb Squad nuff said
6.1276-Best Blitz other than a football team
7.384-Sparky was a great bot at VCU
8.365-You have to be green to be seen and they are seen
9.1625-There is a reason Win is in their name
10.547-I F.E.A.R. them

Honorable mention
27
67
74
201
211
237-Could easily move up, and are in a good spot
1747

[Jeff Rodriguez]

Why are we (173) #3 and 237 not on that list?

[JackN]

I had seen and heard good things about RAGE and I just forgot about 237 *Smacks his head*

[Barry Bonzack]

Neither of my teams have been to the Championship before, and now they both are in the same division. This will be a very nice culture shock for them. I can't wait.

Let me start the cheering....



GALI-

[Andy Baker]

GALI-



LEO



It's good to be a darkhorse.

AB

[Jaine Perotti]

1. I am curious why you did not mention 1126 on your list. Aren't they capable of scoring 40 pts in the game.
2. I want to know why you selected 173, 830, 1276, & 1784. Do they have unique defensive capabilities?I forgot 1126. The list I typed out there was done by memory, not from any official stats. It's a combination of what I have observed, and what I remember hearing about on CD.

173 - has shown great promise since the beginning of the season in terms of shooting and playing defense.
830 - even though their statistics aren't "stellar" (due to bad luck), they have been a solid, reliable shooter throughout the season. A good second pick during alliance selections.
1276 - as explained above, 1276 has made a name for themselves as a shooter.
1784 - a great defensive/maneuverable robot, and have had an impressive performance their rookie season. They are also very cooperative alliance partners. Would make a great second pick during alliance selections.

[K.Shaw]

Blair is the announcer on Galileo. he said it at UTC and when we talked to him in Boston. when we were saying goodbye he said "see ya on Galileo!" LOL :yikes: woot.

[Cody Carey]

173 was pretty much the only bot we couldn't push sideways at Philly... That means that they deserve to be mentioned. That, and the fact that they score like nobodies business! I think that we need to stop mentioning people based on their various rankings, and start mentioning them based on their actual performance. Quite a few of the teams that haven't been mentioned yet will probably be top contenders.

[Cody Carey]

Oh yeah... and


Gali-leo!

[Tim Delles]

Now i know my team isn't in your division but I still kinda wanted to post my top 10 from the divisions

My Top 10 Galileo Teams

1.) 1126
2.) 118
3.) 494
4.) 1567
5.) 177
6.) 365
7.) 237
8.) 173
9.) 27
10.) 16

[Rob]

The top ten bots

2.1126-can't start a fire without Sparx




And I'm sure if they don't seed their gun will be for hire...

Sorry I know it's not my division, but I can't pass on stupid musical references :D

Rob

[Ian Curtis]

It's good to be a darkhorse.
AB

And let's not forget defensive teams who shut down triplets for lunch :D !

I'm really surprised about one team though. 118 has only been mentioned a few times, and the only time 118 didn't score in autonomous was when they got rammed so hard there robot turned around.

Also, does anyone have video of 237, especially in autonomous? I've heard they shot in auto, and considering their past autonomouses, and teaser video, they must be fairly good at it.

[The Lucas]

And let's not forget defensive teams who shut down triplets for lunch :D !

I'm really surprised about one team though. 118 has only been mentioned less than we have, and the only time 118 didn't score in autonomous was when they got rammed so hard there robot turned around.

I would everyone to watch the finals of the Lone Star Regional in the NASA archive (http://robotics.nasa.gov/events/webcasts/lsr_2006.php). We have 3 teams from the Finals: 231 (AC Champion), 118 (AC Finalist), and 418. It took 3 matches to decide it between these great bots.

[K.Shaw]

Also, does anyone have video of 237, especially in autonomous? I've heard they shot in auto, and considering their past autonomouses, and teaser video, they must be fairly good at it.

im not quite sure if there are any videos up of us up yet, im sure there will be though. also we shot well in auton at the UTC regional, we had alot of camera problems at the Chesapeake regional partially due to the fact there was alot of natural light.

[MasonMM]

231 builds quality robots. They had two robots pushing on them and still were able to score balls. And not to mention, when they bring out the defensive game they can dominate.

118 got autonomous working just before the eliminations, and it worked out amazingly. Those finals at lone star are great matches, quite competitive, it's a shame 118 had to end it fallen over.

[Gerry Salinas]

I'm definitely very psyched about this, and I know I can speak for the team and say that the same is true of the rest of us. There're some great teams on our field, and I'm not going to try and name any because I haven't been keeping up enough to be fair. But a shout-out to High Voltage! Team 231, our fabulous Alliance Captain and quite a force to be reckoned with, let me tell you.

Gali-leo!

[Noah Melamed]

Update your lists!

Team 637 is a last minute addition

Can't wait to see you all there its our first year at Nats!

[Barry Bonzack]

I just finished my last English class of the semester, already finished my last business class and last statistics class, and turned in 4 college credit hours worth of community service (needed 200, turned in 350 in FIRST alone). Going to my last Humanities class at 2:30. My finals start tomorrow, I am supposed to have finals on Thurs and Fri, but I am taking them early on Mon and Tues so I can go... Study Study Study this weekend... Anyway, It just occurred to me one week from this moment I'll be done with stress of school, and be focused on stress of robotics. HERE WE GO, I'm PSYCHED


GALI-

That was Georgia font ;-)

[Sara Milton]

GALI-
LEO

[K.Shaw]

Update your lists!

Team 637 is a last minute addition

Can't wait to see you all there its our first year at Nats!


welcome to the Galileo Division! :yikes:


Gali

[JackN]

Leo

This is going to be fun to watch

a regional winner in every match will be fun to see

[AndyB]

wow, u saved me a lot of time. but im working on a webpage for galileo (through CooneyRobotics) which will display all awards, regionals attended (including standing, record, and PPR), and hopefully, a picture for every robot.

GALI

[haroony341]

i was a volunteer at the Philly regional helping wiht team queing. one thing i noticed in the elimnation rounds is that that by the elimination rounds, the philly teams started to play more and more defense. and if i remember correctly, the winning alliance, was a very defensive alliance. and there was only one shooter in either of the alliances in the finals. i figured since philly was in the last week of regionals, many teams did their scouting and found strategies to to stop great shooting teams(such as 103, 272, 341, 365, 433, teams which dominated qualifying rounds). but in earlier regionals, many shooting teams won.
so the question is, what type of game do you feel is going to be played at championships. more defense, or more offense?

[JackN]

More offense. There are so many strong shooters, especially in GALI

[Bill Moore]

i was a volunteer at the Philly regional helping wiht team queing. one thing i noticed in the elimnation rounds is that that by the elimination rounds, the philly teams started to play more and more defense. and if i remember correctly, the winning alliance, was a very defensive alliance. and there was only one shooter in either of the alliances in the finals. i figured since philly was in the last week of regionals, many teams did their scouting and found strategies to to stop great shooting teams(such as 103, 272, 341, 365, 433, teams which dominated qualifying rounds). but in earlier regionals, many shooting teams won.
so the question is, what type of game do you feel is going to be played at championships. more defense, or more offense?
I think in a Regional you tend to see that because the team pool is only half of what it will be in the Championship divisions. I believe this game will end up very similar to last years, you will be able to win with one or two robots playing defense during the Qualifications. Once the divisions move to Einstein the game will be predominantly offensive, just as last years was. There will be many good 3-scorer alliances in the divisional playoffs.

[Barry Bonzack]

wow, u saved me a lot of time. but im working on a webpage for galileo (through CooneyRobotics) which will display all awards, regionals attended (including standing, record, and PPR), and hopefully, a picture for every robot.

GALI


especially in GALI


LEO

[Barry Bonzack]

The Irony. I am studying for my Humanities final on Tuesday over the Enlightenment, and first name on the study guide is none other than

Gali-


If you all would like me to type what my textbook says about him, let me know.

[The Lucas]

-LEO

[Peter Matteson]

The Irony. I am studying for my Humanities final on Tuesday over the Enlightenment, and first name on the study guide is none other than

Gali-


If you all would like me to type what my textbook says about him, let me know.

Edit: Lucas beat me to it while I was typing.

-leo

Going to work for two days and packing will be tough. Competition weeks always drag the last couple days before you go.

[Cody Carey]

-leo

Going to work for two days and packing will be tough. Competition weeks always drag the last couple days before you go.


Gali- ? How does one go about inserting a Gali- before a -Leo... Not important. TO THE MATTER AT HAND!
I leave for championships tomorrow at 6:00 pm, and all I have packed are two pairs of swimming trunks, I think that I am in trouble

[Bemis]

Haha. I'm better off than you. five pairs of socks. Thats it.












oh, and -leo

[JackN]

Hey, we leave Wednesday and um im already packed, save my swim trunks. Thanks Cody for reminding me. It is going to be good. one more thing
GALI-

[Alex Cormier]

go 1126!


Issac Newton....

[JackN]

THere shall be no mention of Sir Issac Newton in the Galileo forum. And besides Newton is going to get crushed by the Galileo winnig aliance any way

[Kyle Love]

...leo

GALI!

[Ian Curtis]

Guess who gets to upset Newton in the semis on Einstein?

-LEO!

Now I should probably be getting around finishing my geometry project which is due tommorow morning... :ahh:

[AndyB]

wow, u saved me a lot of time. but im working on a webpage for galileo (through CooneyRobotics) which will display all awards, regionals attended (including standing, record, and PPR), and hopefully, a picture for every robot.

GALI

ok now that I found this (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/1830?) , I won't be doing the webpage.

[Kellen Hill]

You know whats sad. A couple of team members and myself are leaving at 4 AM wednesday morning, and we live in Northern Illinois!!! Its about a 13 hour trip but it will be worth it to see all the other robots and the great competition. We are driving because we have to bring the cart and all of the spare parts. The rest of our team will be conveniently be flying out wednesday and thursday afternoon. A fellow junior and myself will be missing the ACT because we are leaving when we are. The rest of the juniors will be able to take it because they are leaving later.

[Kris Verdeyen]

I haven't slept for four weeks. That awful nail biter at the LSR left me a broken man. I lie in bed nights, tossing and turning, and seeing that match over and over again. Every time I think Magnum will get a shot off, it gets pounded by 418 and I sit up screaming. If cold sweats were an Olympic Sport, I'd get the gold medal. Actually, I'd probably get the Silver, because LASA would keep beating me up.

And, uh.... -LEO


:)

Good luck to all Galileans. The rest of you.... well, I'd say "good luck," but I don't think I could mean it, so I'll just say, "luck" and leave it at that.

[BGiraud]

Fly out tomorrow. I can't wait.

I feel we might be one of those sleeper teams people have been talking about. We were one of the last two to get in off of the wait list.

The robot was designed as an autonomous 3 point shooter. We turned out drive train sideways and it is awesome. Bad luck with equipment and partners gave us a low ranking at the NJ regional. The judges noticed us, but the other teams didn't. So goes random pairings.

Considering what we have read here, we will change our strategy. A lot of luck goes into being a top eight seed so we will focus on getting noticed by one of those teams. Since there so many big guns out there, we will be focusing on defense. Our goal is to be noticed as the utility defense bot that can score if needed if our big gun partner goes down. Our main task is to shut down the top shooter on the other team. Its not that we can't shoot, we can, but rather play a team strategy. Also, we can harvest from the floor. Top loader big guns may like this in a partner.

I think the ideal team has two big guns and one bully. In my opinion a three point shooting bully (us) is better than a dumper.

Thats my sales pitch. Keep an eye out for us. You can't miss the sideways drive train and GIANT green bicycle wheel shooter.

TEAM 637


Good Luck All

GALI-

[AndyB]

looking through team records, we have a lot of solid teams in our division. I've noticed my two top teams from Boilermaker (135, 1038). Also, 1625 was killing those chains with Wildstang in the auton at Wisconsin. Also, if I'm not mistaken, I SEE MARTIANS (494). Always good to be with t-kats as well.

Shout out to 537 and 1103, the two other Wisconsin teams in our division.


-LEO

[Peter Matteson]

Getting ready to head to the airport I decided to check this thread. No one has posted for 11 hours! So...


GALI-

[Greg Marra]

Getting ready to head to the airport I decided to check this thread. No one has posted for 11 hours! So...


GALI-

I'm sitting about 15 feet away from you in the airport, but

-LEO

[Mr. Clean]

Yeah so I am sitting in the peachtree center wacthing all the teams just arriving going into their hotels. I have been here since about 10 am. Can't wait 17 hours til the doors open tommorrow morning.

[JackN]

4 hours the MArtians will be flying down I am pumped up

GALI-

Man I am psyched

[Barry Bonzack]

4 hours the MArtians will be flying down I am pumped up

GALI-

Man I am psyched



-Leo

T-minus one hour before my team meets to get on the bus.


Team 1604 would like to ask other gracious teams in Galileo to help cheer for us with our 1604 mini hurricane flags (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/24640?) because we are only bringing four students, leaving not much of a cheering section in the stands. Thanks all, can't wait to see you there.

[Nuttyman54]

Team 1604 would like to ask other gracious teams in Galileo to help cheer for us with our 1604 mini hurricane flags (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/24640?) because we are only bringing four students, leaving not much of a cheering section in the stands. Thanks all, can't wait to see you there.

We'll be cheering good and loud for all Galileo teams! I'm sitting in our hotel room at the Days Inn, and I'm really pumped for tomorrow. Look for the guys with the shiney gold pants! Also a shout out to 1511 Rolling Thunder, who are great floor-mates!

GALI-

[Conor Ryan]

We'll be cheering good and loud for all Galileo teams! I'm sitting in our hotel room at the Days Inn, and I'm really pumped for tomorrow. Look for the guys with the shiney gold pants! Also a shout out to 1511 Rolling Thunder, who are great floor-mates!

GALI--LEO
Yeah looks like a ton of 'leo teams here at the omni so far I've seen 45, 341, and 365 so it looks like we are in good company. Good Luck everyone!

[vVigglEs]

Im looking for a post of the times(before the matches) and results of the matches... i want to keep track of times, when certain teams will be playing today Friday and sat... so a list of times of matches before the day start would be awesome! Ive looked through us first.org and i couldn't find a list of times for practice matches... i hope they post the qualification matches.

[Theory6RobotiX]

Any way someone can post what time each match will be played and by what team. I'd like to watch my team on the webcast but I dont know when their matches are.
Thanks

[MasonMM]

they will probably be posted in the morning... teams usually walk in and there is a schedule laid out in the pits for them, and they come up online around the same time.

[vVigglEs]

post teams post!

[Nuttyman54]

Dave says (and I quote) "Those pants are beyond pimp!" (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/24645?)

Stop by the 971 pits and see what all the commotion is about

[BGiraud]

The best 3-2 record team has 46.2 point average and is ranked 17 after day 1. They must be a goot shooter to get the great point total.

Since we play good defence our point total is 19.6. Good defence means your opponent can't score so you don't get ranking points. Same 3-2 record gets us ranked 41. oh well...We feel real good about it any way.

I hope the scouts can see through this when it comes time to pick a defender for their allience.


Good Luck All

[Marcel]

What do you guys think of Team 59?

[Eric Scheuing]

Anybody know where I can find the standings? I want to know how 177 is doing.

[vVigglEs]

http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/2006/chevents.htm

eric you should of jest im me

[Eric Scheuing]

Thanks Matt.

I didn't know you had it.

[Greg Marra]

Anybody know where I can find the standings? I want to know how 177 is doing.

If you two hadn't gone to prom instead of nats, you'd already know our ranking :p

[Beth Sweet]

1. 1625-27-547
2. 177-1126-201
3. 365-1038-291
4. 341-86-190
5. 237-1276-384
6. 269-135-494
7. 173-16-118
8. 1592-1523-1103

Wow, the first time in their history that HOT has not been selected for the tourny at regionals or Atlanta... 10 years, wow...

[Tim Delles]

My picks of who wins what.

Quaterfinals
1 def. 8
7 def. 2
3 def. 6
5 def. 4

Semi-finals
5 def. 1
7 def. 3

Finals
7 def. 5

[Alex Cormier]

Let's go alliance #2! I can't wait to go back and see these matches!

[Alex Pelan]

Well, here are my picks:

Quarterfinals
8 beats 1
2 beats 7 (these matches are gonna be good)
3 beats 6 (these matches are gonna be good)
4 beats 5

Semfinals
4 beats 8
2 beats 3

Finals
2 beats 4

/perhaps a little biased.

[Lil' Lavery]

Galileo:
1 def 8
----------4 def 1
4 def 5
-------------------7 def 4
6 def 3
---------7 def 6
7 def 2

[Lil' Lavery]

201 rocked, and the #2 teams has an amazing 67-62 match to advance to the semis and bust my bracket. Awesome job guys

[Alex Pelan]

1 beats 8, 2 beats 7, 3 beats 6 and 4 beats 5 for the Galileo quarterfinals. Maybe some upsets will come eventually?

[Eric Scheuing]

/perhaps a little biased.
Perhaps. Based on prior preformance, maybe it's true though.

[Alex Pelan]

1 beats 4 and 2 beats 3...still no upsets, the finals should be good.

[Alex Pelan]

177, 1126, and 201 take Galileo! See everyone else on Einstein!

[Lil' Lavery]

Congratz to our first div champs:
177
1126
and 201

[ahecht]

Can anyone fill me in on what happened in finals? I was watching on the monitors in the pits, but I am a bit confused.

According to the FIRST web site, there were three matches in the finals, all of which were won by blue. Did red actually win the first, or was there some other wierdness? And what happened after the final match? I just saw one robot fly off the ramp and balls flying everywhere. Did autonomous get enabled again accidently?

[thatphotochick]

i wanna thank everyone in galileo for making is a blast. thanx to blair, the refs, the crew, the judges, and all the teams for making it clean and fun.

[deficite]

The third match was just played for CNN to tape, if I was informed correctly.

It was very fun getting to play in the finals!

[musicgal]

I was sorta disappointed that there wasn't any rookie teams selected in the Galileo Division finals. Of course, that might just be because i'm on a rookie team. ;) But is this typical at the championships?

[Mike Betts]

I was sorta disappointed that there wasn't any rookie teams selected in the Galileo Division finals. Of course, that might just be because i'm on a rookie team. ;) But is this typical at the championships?

Ashley,

Has this been typical in years past? No... Will it be typical in the future? Yes... Let's look at some numbers:

There were 33 regionals this year. That means that a potential 198 teams (not counting "repeats") were either finalists or regional winners.

The four divisions in Atlanta sent a total of 98 teams to the elimination rounds.

I would hazard a guess that each division had a few finalists and perhaps even a regional winner who were not selected. It is not surprising that our division fielded no rookie teams in the eliminations.

As the number of regionals grows, this aspect of the game will become more and more skewed. In fact, FIRST will someday be forced to change it's championship eligibility criteria...

I hope that this adds perspective to your observation.

Good Luck.

Mike

[Mr MOE]

Thanks to all who made Gali-leo the place to be this past week. Emcee and announcers were great - fun and exciting. The teams were energetic and high on GP.

Kudos to all the volunteers on the Gali-leo field also. The field ran smoothly the whole competition.

MOE 365 would like to thank all of our alliance partners through the qualifying matches and a special thanks to teams 1038 and 291 for being our partners in the eliminations. We made a terrific team.

Enjoy the off-season, everyone!!!!

P.S. If anyone is interested, Duel on the Delaware is scheduled for October 21, 2006. We would love to see Galileo teams attend!

[slickguy2007]

I would like to thank the emcee Blair for being such a great sport. Team 1403 orchestrated some tricks and stunts while we were being announced. We got all of our allies to show their GP as they all agreed to join us in the crazy stunts we pulled. In our last qualifying match we even got our opponents to join us for the fun. Their was no shortage of GP on the galileo field.

Some of the stunts for those of you who missed it:
1. Our alliance ran out into the field and hugged Blair(our hp accidently stepped on the MOE flag and he took a tumble but laughed the whole way down :p )
2. Our alliance slammed our hands on the player station as we were being called and cleaned it off with windex
3. Our alliance ran out into the field and did the limbo
4. We got our alliance and our opponent's alliance to "party boy" Blair out on the field. It was great seeing our opponents and our allies doing this b/c this proves that GP triumphs over all... and it is as simple as that :cool:

Thank you to all the volunteers that made this event possible and to all those who cheered us on as we performed each of our stunts. :)

If anyone has any pics or video I would love to have them. I am trying to find some video and I'll try to post it soon!

GO 1403!!!

[Mr MOE]

Great job to 1403 for orchestrating all the fun during the announcement of teams during your matches.

I didn't see all of it, but I was present for the group bear hug of Blair. It was great! His comments immediately after were hilarious.

Thanks for making Galileo the place to be!

[anna~marie]

We got our alliance and our opponent's alliance to "party boy" Blair out on the field. It was great seeing our opponents and our allies doing this b/c this proves that GP triumphs over all... and it is as simple as that :cool: ...If anyone has any pics or video I would love to have them. I am trying to find some video and I'll try to post it soon!

GO 1403!!!
That was a lot of fun! I'm glad we were able to get in on it.
Blair is/was such a great emcee to go along with it, and yeah if anyone finds any video post it please
FIRST isn't just about learning, it's also about having fun!!!

[ahecht]

The third match was just played for CNN to tape, if I was informed correctly.

It was very fun getting to play in the finals!

Ahh, that makes sense. And congrats to the blue alliance for being the first alliance in the history of FIRST to win three matches in the finals.

[Jessica Boucher]

The third match was just played for CNN to tape, if I was informed correctly.

That's correct.

Thanks to everyone, teams and volunteers, who made Galileo awesome! You made my job easy :)