2008 Finger Lakes Regional

[Justin Montois]

Just wanted to ask that everyone PLEASE drive carefully tomorrow. The 30 min you might be late is totally worth not ending up in a ditch or something. I look forward to seeing everyone in the AM and hope everyone has good luck and great elimination matches!

[Adam Freeman]

Oh, and as far as standouts goes, c'mon - #0020 was #1 practically all day, and was a member of more 80+ point alliances (of which there have been 13) than anybody (4 of them, two of which scored in the 90s).

I agree... 20 was the top team at FLR on Friday, and will continue on Saturday. Their pneumatic arm is really smooth and their drivers have been incredibly intune with each other.

We have worked all day to try an be that smooth.

[65_Xero_Huskie]

The roads dont look to bad as of now. Still wanna be careful getting to the competition. And good luck today with ur last match.

[Pat Arnold]

I wanted to send good luck from Florida to MAK Team 211. As my brother, one of their mentors, told me last night "If it weren't for bad luck, we'd have no luck at all." Watch out for penalties, ignore your rank/standings and continue to rack up points hurdling! Even though you only have one scheduled match left today, I hope it's a blast.

I really wish FLR was webcast! Good luck to all teams & hope the weather doesn't cause too much of a problem (of course, as I told my brother...if you attend our "FLR" : the FL Regional, snow & ice are never an issue ;) ).

[Koko Ed]

Just wanted to ask that everyone PLEASE drive carefully tomorrow. The 30 min you might be late is totally worth not ending up in a ditch or something. I look forward to seeing everyone in the AM and hope everyone has good luck and great elimination matches!
Typical Rochester weather.
It looks like it's starting to snow again.
Probably from the lake.

[Pirate prodigy]

Hey team 354 here unfortunately we cant make it this year due to overbooked "hotels" but good luck to Team 340 and team 1518 our finalists partners in 07 and to all other teams good luck up in FLR

[DarkFlame145]

I would like to thank all teams who have won awards on the first day of Competition.

[Freddy Schurr]

What happening?

[XaulZan11]

What happening?

I'm wondering the same thing. I think alliance selection would have already happened. Anyone know the alliances?

[Steve S.]

Alliances - http://www2.usfirst.org/2008comp/events/ROC/scheduleelim.html

[JamesBrown]

20, 2053, 174 won, 191 was replaced by 174.

Congratulations, to team 20, hopefully the Capital Region teams can keep up the success next week

[Tetraman]

Congrats to teams 20, 2053, 191 and 174. Winners of FLR. After the Finals match 1, 174 was brought in to replace 191, and 174 thanks the red aliance for letting them share your victory. Congrats again to those teams.

But an even bigger congrats to the finalists 1126, 378 and 1551 for their incredible matches. It was really close and I thought you had it made.

1511 took the EI award.

340 deservingly takes home the Chairmans award.

[Jaybee1405]

Congrats to the winners and of course 1511 and 340.

[rw55ryan]

Team 2228 would like to thank all the teams at the FLR for a great competition and good luck with the rest of the season!

Congrats to the wining teams!

[Hannah1405]

This year was my first year, and a lot of fun! Thank you to everyone who made this a great experience. And congrats to the winning teams!

[Hiteak]

Major congrats to all the teams who competed this weekend and also major congrats to 1511 for Engineering Inspiration and 340 for winning the Chairman's Award. It was another amazing year. I do have to say I feel really weird with this being my last event as a student, but I know mentoring will bring on a whole new world.

[Josh Goodman]

Great competition everyone! Wasn't our best regional robot wise but we are very happy to receive the Engineering Inspiration award!

Thanks to 65 and 1450, our alliance partners. You guys rocked!

[Ellery]

Congrats to teams 20, 2053, 191 and 174. Winners of FLR. After the Finals match 1, 174 was brought in to replace 191, and 174 thanks the red aliance for letting them share your victory. Congrats again to those teams.

But an even bigger congrats to the finalists 1126, 378 and 1551 for their incredible matches. It was really close and I thought you had it made.

1511 took the EI award.

340 deservingly takes home the Chairmans award.

Thanks again to all on the alliance 20, 2053- we had an awesome team that swept through the finals and made quite exciting matches. 174- you guys really pulled through for our alliance team by pinch hitting for us...You rocked!

I'm still curious to find out how our arm broke in the last 30 seconds. If anyone had a clear video of the match I would love to check it out. All I heard was a loud snap.

I second 1511 and 340 are well deserved for their awards. They are two teams that by far epitomize community service, congratulations to both.

[65_Xero_Huskie]

congrats to the winners. When the alliance selection happened, me and a friend said that it would be u guys in the finals with 1126's alliance.
Im a little worried about how Ref oriented this game is, In a couple matches i seen the flags go up around 12 times and only show 2 penalties, and then there were matches where they didnt go up at all and there were 5-6.
Did anyone find out what the penalty was that won them the match?

[pafwl]

FLR, what a competition! Please accept our apologies for leaving before the finals and award ceremony. We were fighting the weather and the health of many of the team members.

Lansdale Catholic Cyber-Crusaders team 272 would like to thank all the organizers, volunteers and teams involved in the 2008 Finger Lakes Regional. Team 365 mentioned it was a great regional so we took a chance going north in winter.

On the minus side we..
* had snow.
** sick students and mentors dropping left and right
*** broken parts, wires, IR devices,

We were dancing with Murphy all morning on Friday.


On the plus side we...
:) met many warm, passionate and humorous people.
:eek: witnessed and were part of some of the most competitive rounds we have ever seen this early in the season.
:D were part of a great alliance with 67 and 420 in the quarters and semis. Thanks to team 67 for giving us a shot.

We especially want to thank the judges for picking our design for the Xerox Creativity in Design Award. Additional thanks to teams for their team awards.

Congratulations to the winning alliance and all the award winners. Good luck for the rest of the season. You are all what makes FIRST great. Thanks for letting us share in it.

[Dylan Gramlich]

Did anyone find out what the penalty was that won them the match?

it was a line penalty. Many thought it was an impeding penalty on us but our alliance had pulled back before hand.

[Mr MOE]

Once again, the FLR regional was a fantastic FIRST regional in many ways:

* Competition - terrific and very competitive teams
* Organization - everything ran very well
* Venue - thanks RIT
* Volunteers - you all make it happen
* Friendliness of teams - the event feels like one big family having a reunion

Congratulations to GRR Team 340 on the Regional Chairman's Award. Thanks for the goodie bags at the hotel! We were honored to have you guys as our pit neighbors! Also, we want to thank Jason Rees for the nice send off he gave us on our bus as we were braving the snow and ice-covered Rochester roads on the trip home. You guys are a great team!

Congrats to Rolling Thunder 1511 on receiving the Engineering Inspiration Award. You guys are doing wonderful things to inspire. Keep it up!

Winning alliance - 20, 191, 2053, 174 - you guys rocked! We had tough matches against you in the semis. You all executed a great game strategy.

Thanks to the co-emcees, Steve Warren and John V Neun! It was great having you both work this regional (and JVN, I like your new checkered bandana)!

MOE 365 would like to thanks 1507 for selecting us as their partner for theelims. Also, a big thanks to our third partner, T-Rx 145! You both made fantastic partners and were great to work with.

MOE really loves the FLR regional. Thanks to everyone who put such hard work into making this such a sucess!

[Starke]

:D were part of a great alliance with 67 and 420 in the quarters and semis. Thanks to team 67 for giving us a shot.


I believe you mean 424 - G.R.R. 2 :yikes:

[pafwl]

Ooops... Yes 424, my bad.

[computerboi1503]

Team 1503 really would like to thank teams 340 and 316 for being with us... you guys were great...big points and no hurdles...imagine what we could have done if we didn't break. Thanks Guys!

Nick Lawrence
Team 1503 Operator

[kristenliz_28]

Wow, what a regional! :D I would like to thank everyone who helped out my team, especially 2053, for giving us a key part that broke.

dam 191, it sucks that your arm busted, hope you can fix it =O

moe, your robot is amazing, I thought we would go 2 and out against it

congrats to 340 and 1511! :D

even though it took us 5 hours to get home last night, I'd do it all over again ^.^

[RIT_FIRST_LH]

I'm working on getting some of the matches on the internet as soon as possible...

Just so you know
- While the cable cast quality was a little on the poor side to begin with I have set my recorder to capture it at the highest quality possible as a result the file size will be fairly big.
-Fridays Opening Ceremony is captured. :)
-Fridays Award Ceremony was cut off by mcc broadcasting (yell at mcc not me)
- I do have saturdays award ceremony captured. :)
- Saturdays opening ceremony is captured
- I should have fridays footage matches, ceremonies, and so on, on the internet by this weekend.
- I should have saturday's footage on the internet by the weekend after this weekend.

[DarkFlame145]

I would like to thank the Warlocks and Moe for picking us for their final alliance partner. I would also like to thank Moe once again for letting us barrow your Bimba air cylinder. With out that we wouldn't of been able to compete.

[Koko Ed]

I would like to thank the Warlocks and Moe for picking us for their final alliance partner. I would also like to thank Moe once again for letting us barrow your Bimba air cylinder. With out that we wouldn't of been able to compete.

How is the student on your team that passed out in the foyer yesterday doing?

[MoniqueSays]

What a regional this was this year! This is the first regionals we've won in six years, and I'm overly excited for our team. Overall, this year's one of the best.

I'm disappointed for 191 because their arm broke after the first match in finals, I hope you guys get that fixed soon! It'd be a shame to not see you guys at Nationals.

Thank you VERY much to team 2043/Tigertronics. They lent us an extra robot controller after ours was ripped and destroyed during a match (which was the reason why we were incapacitated during one of our matches). I'm glad you guys are on our alliance this year.

Team 365/MOE, you guys were a tough one to beat. Your robot was great this year, I'm sure you all worked hard on it.

& congratulations to teams 340 and 1511!

[Ellery]

I'm disappointed for 191 because their arm broke after the first match in finals, I hope you guys get that fixed soon! It'd be a shame to not see you guys at Nationals.


Thanks for the support... we are still confused at what really caused the damage but we definitely could fix it for Buckeye in a few weeks.

Your robot is quite impressive, especially the hybrid mode. Good luck on your next competition.

[65_Xero_Huskie]

Also, i dont know if there is a video up, but when 272 shot their ball over the middle divider and it hit 1126's ball and stopped it from scoring, It had to have been the best play there for me :)

[Doc Wu]

I won't pretend to speak for the rest of Team 1507, but I'm sure they'll express similar sentiments...

After having most of our team turned back to the school by the snow and a cranky school bus driver, we scrambled to get just a drive team there. I know I was pleasantly surprised that despite that, we did so well. Many, many thanks to all the teams who came up to us and offered help, even if it was just to cheer for us and make up for the lack of our team in the stands.

It was hard making alliance decisions. Choosing MOE was a great choice, but there could have been many other equally good choices. T-RX was a great partner too. I wasn't closely involved in the decision making, but I know a lot of close choices were involved. Both teams had a good chemistry with our drivers and we're proud of how we all played, even if we were eliminated.

Congratulations to the winning alliance 191, 20, 2053 and 174.

Thanks to our neighbor team, 378, the Circuit Stompers. We were rooting for you in the final round, congrats on the silver and thanks for helping us load our trailer. See you at GTR!

We had a long, harrowing ride home through the snow, but afaik we all made it back safely. We'll look forward to next year's FLR - hopefully without the snowstorm!

[Tetraman]

Also, i dont know if there is a video up, but when 272 shot their ball over the middle divider and it hit 1126's ball and stopped it from scoring, It had to have been the best play there for me :)

That was one of the most nuts and crazy thing I've ever seen at FLR...other than the huge topple of Tetras in Triple play.

there was also the part when MOE was falling and the track ball fell on the top of the middle wall and rolled close to the overpass. If only it landed on the overpass that would have been the most incredible thing ever.

FLR got so much fun at the Elims. Good times!

[DarkFlame145]

How is the student on your team that passed out in the foyer yesterday doing?

He wasn't feeling good for the rest of the day, but medically he is stable. His blood sugar was very very low since he didn't eat that morning. It was an huge shock when he hit my shoulder (I thought he was messing around) and then I realized something happened when he kept going to the floor. Thank you for asking. I would like to thank the mentor from Sparx who was there trying to help our mentors with him.

What I find a little strange is that a mentor was telling a couple of us not to fool around cause they didn't want to take any of us to the hospital. So that was a huge, wow for me.

Thank you everyone.

[Koko Ed]

He wasn't feeling good for the rest of the day, but medically he is stable. His blood sugar was very very low since he didn't eat that morning. It was an huge shock when he hit my shoulder (I thought he was messing around) and then I realized something happened when he kept going to the floor. Thank you for asking. I would like to thank the mentor from Sparx who was there trying to help our mentors with him.

What I find a little strange is that a mentor was telling a couple of us not to fool around cause they didn't want to take any of us to the hospital. So that was a huge, wow for me.

Thank you everyone.

And that's why we mentors keep telling you kids to eat your breakfast.
A regional is a big physical and mental drain for alot of hours. You kids need your energy (and not from a can).
I'm glad he's ok.

[WEHickok]

I would like to say thanks to all that took part in FLR. That was a great event. Nice, clean, fun venue. Great teams. Great matches. Great old friends. Great new friends.

Then there was the snow. You guys even throw a great snow storm!!

The team drove thru the night and arrived home about 5:30 this morning. Some of the mentors (that didn't get to sleep all day like the bus driver) spent the night in Rochester and drove home today. But it was well worth all the trouble. Team 67 had a blast. This was a very competitive regional for being so early in the season.

Congratulations to the winning alliance and all the other seven that put up a good fight. Thanks to our partners, Team 272, and Team 424. We had a great alliance.

Congratulations to our old friends on Team 340 with the RCA and Team 1511 with their EI win. Good luck to both of you in Atlanta.

And to Team 2340. What a start in your rookie year. Keep up the good work.

Thanks also to Team 365 and Team 191, fellow Hall Of Famers, for being so friendly. Did you notice that all the HOF teams were in the Quarter Finals? Great job.

Thanks, again, FLR for a great time.

[Koko Ed]

Thanks also to Team 365 and Team 191, fellow Hall Of Famers, for being so friendly. Did you notice that all the HOF teams were in the Quarter Finals? Great job.

Thanks, again, FLR for a great time.

and semis. It was amazing.
I truly hope the Michigan GM teams (and perhaps many more) will come up to play some more. It really was an amazing event. The semis and the finals were really intense. And it's great just having so many legendary teams around to show Rochester what a high standard FIRST adheres to year in and year out.
See you in Atlanta guys!

[Ellery]

Then there was the snow. You guys even throw a great snow storm!!

Thanks also to Team 365 and Team 191, fellow Hall Of Famers, for being so friendly. Did you notice that all the HOF teams were in the Quarter Finals? Great job.

Thanks, again, FLR for a great time.

I am glad to hear that everyone made it back ok through the Rochester Winter Wonderland. It was great that your team and Team 365 decided to come out this way and bring out the highest level of play that FLR has seen to date.

As always all teams are very competitive on the field but the comraderie in the pits were phenomenal. We hope to see you back next year and hopefully the weather will cooperate.

[rachakate]

I agree - what an event!!!

Just out of curiosity - how did everyone feel about the bleachers? It did keep everyone a little bit further away from the field, but I thought the trade off of easier, more seating, more professional looking, and safer was well worth it.

[Mr MOE]

I agree - what an event!!!

Just out of curiosity - how did everyone feel about the bleachers? It did keep everyone a little bit further away from the field, but I thought the trade off of easier, more seating, more professional looking, and safer was well worth it.

Bleachers were fine. I like the idea of having more seating. Folding chair bleachers are much better for FIRST events. Like it or not, much of the team is sitting for 2-3 days. The more comfortable, the better.

Thanks for a great event!

[Koko Ed]

I agree - what an event!!!

Just out of curiosity - how did everyone feel about the bleachers? It did keep everyone a little bit further away from the field, but I thought the trade off of easier, more seating, more professional looking, and safer was well worth it.

Of course I liked having the stands out. More seating for teams and guest. I know spirit was down a bit but I think that was because the game doesn't generate as much excitement in the qualification rounds like it does in the eliminations.

[Mr MOE]

moe, your robot is amazing, I thought we would go 2 and out against it



Thanks for the kind words. Your bot (Team 20) and many others (67, 1126, 191, 272, 1503 - I'm sure I am forgetting many) were also impressive. We knew that it would be a fight against your alliance in the semis and it was.

Congratulations on your victory and strategery (it is a word now, isn't it? ;) ).

It was great being out there on the field with and against you guys.

Rocketeers ROCK!

[Ellery]

I agree - what an event!!!

Just out of curiosity - how did everyone feel about the bleachers? It did keep everyone a little bit further away from the field, but I thought the trade off of easier, more seating, more professional looking, and safer was well worth it.

I liked it alot...more seating and less room for unnecessary stuff. Once Again congratulations on the WFA:D

[Mr MOE]

I agree - what an event!!!

Just out of curiosity - how did everyone feel about the bleachers? It did keep everyone a little bit further away from the field, but I thought the trade off of easier, more seating, more professional looking, and safer was well worth it.


Ooh, I forgot! Much congrats on your Woodie Flowers Award recognition. Well deserved!

[Josh Goodman]

Ooh, I forgot! Much congrats on your Woodie Flowers Award recognition. Well deserved!

Took the words out of my mouth! GRR-eat Job!:p

[rees2001]

What can I say. Despite the weather FLR rocked again this year. It was great to see some old friends again. On behalf of 340 I would like to thank 1503 & 316 for selecting us. I would also like to thank 67 & 272 for selecting 424, also us.

Congrats to 1511 for the EI. I know our team has the utmost respect for your group. To 1126, 378, & 1551 you guys rocked. To 191, 1507, 20, & 2053 you made a great winning alliance. It is a great story to have 2 original teams work together.

MOE, you are an inspiration. A true example of what FIRST is all about. It was nice to share a pit with you. My kids couldn't stop talking about it. Thanks to Ricky for all of your help. We can't wait to see you guys again in Atlanta. I'm glad to hear you made it home. That goes for all teams.

Thanks to all of the volunteers for making the event as well run of an event that I have ever been to. You truly make the FLR a home regional.

Finally I want to thank my team. You guys make me proud. Kate, congrats on the WFA. To all of my mentors & Justin I couldn't pull this off without you.

It was great to spend a few days with some old friends & make some new ones.

[bbr4d3r]

I would like to say thanks to both 191 and 2053 who when we (team 20) were in desperate need of a new robot controller, which had been ripped apart during our last qualification match, went above and beyond and shared with us there robot controllers. It was an even extra special moment to have shared a regional championship with those two great teams that helped us out in such a big way. Even cooler was to get to team up with another founding team. Also a special thanks to 174 who came up big when they were called in to action in the final matches. Without you three teams none of this would have been possible so THANK YOU! :)

Thank you to all of the teams and volunteers team 20 had a great time at our first FLR and look forward to coming back and joining you all again next year.

[Justin Montois]

FLR this year was simply amazing. First off, I would like to say to both of my teams 340 & 424, that I am extremely proud of all of you. You guys faced some tough obstacles and handled them extremely well. Also, all of our mentors and our amazingly dedicated team leader Jason Rees for their work all season so far and we are all so grateful.

MOE, you guys are exactly what a national CA team should be. You guys would jump at the chance to help anyone with anything and I was so honored to see your team in action next to us in the pits. I cannot tell you how much we appreciated having your endorsement for Chairman's, it's very humbling. You guys also brought a great robot again and I'm sure all teams that attend FLR want to have you guys back every year.

65,67,68, thanks for trekking all the way to Rochester. We loved having you guys there and it really gave FLR almost a championship feel. Having you guys there brought another National Chairman's award team as well as two national Woodie Flowers award winners. I hope you guys had a good enough time to consider coming back next year.

1126, You guys know we love you and we were really pulling for you in the finals. I hope we can get together with you guys soon and go bowling or something.

Thank you to 1503 and 316 for being awesome alliance partners.

Congrats to 1511 for your deserving EI award. 2 EI's and a CA award in three years is amazing.

Congrats to 20,191,2053 and 145. You guys were an amazing alliance and I hope you all can make it to championship.

A special congrats to Kate Nordland on her WFA. GRR loves you volunteer goddess!

A big thank you to the entire planning committee for their tireless efforts to ensure that FLR was a great event and it was executed wonderfully.

Last but not least, I'd like to thank all the volunteers for their dedicated and hard work. The judges and the Refs had very difficult jobs and did an amazing job. Everyone was so friendly and helpful it made the whole event awesome.

I can't wait for championship!

[65_Xero_Huskie]

Hrmm. I gues lots of people thought FLR was going to be a good regional.'
2 other Champion mentors even decided to show up.
Copioli and Karthik BOTH showed up right before Elims started.
:)

[RIT_FIRST_LH]

Question to finger lakes teams, what are your opinions on a RED Fairport Team.

Had a discussion that came up with a community like fairport that is huge about red raider spirit that it would benefit the fairport high school blue lightning team supportwise by becoming a team with a "red" theme.

[Tetraman]

Question to finger lakes teams, what are your opinions on a RED Fairport Team.

Had a discussion that came up with a community like fairport that is huge about red raider spirit that it would benefit the fairport high school blue lightning team supportwise by becoming a team with a "red" theme.

I'd say go for whatever helps your own team and school spirit. If you want a Red Thunder to go with your Blue Lightning, take it to town!

[Koko Ed]

I'd say go for whatever helps your own team and school spirit. If you want a Red Thunder to go with your Blue Lightning, take it to town!

But there's already a Red Thunder team.
Rolling Thunder.
I say stick with the Blue Lightning look. A FIRST team is neither the school it represents or the sponsor that it represents but the marriage of the two. Thus forming a new identity which is the robotics team. I recommend incorporating red into the design.

[John Neun]

I admit it's been a while since I have posted anything on Chief Delphi, but I have to express my admiration for FLR and thank everyone for welcoming us so warmly to our first FLR. What a wonderful venue, and what a wonderful group of teams! Thank you all very much. It was one of the best regional experiences I have ever had.

[rees2001]

Question to finger lakes teams, what are your opinions on a RED Fairport Team.

Had a discussion that came up with a community like fairport that is huge about red raider spirit that it would benefit the fairport high school blue lightning team supportwise by becoming a team with a "red" theme.

There is a lot to be said about the school/team partnership. We have used the school colors with our team since we started. It works out well at school & seems to make more sense with the other students.

[RIT_FIRST_LH]

There is a lot to be said about the school/team partnership. We have used the school colors with our team since we started. It works out well at school & seems to make more sense with the other students.

"But there's already a Red Thunder team.
Rolling Thunder.
I say stick with the Blue Lightning look. A FIRST team is neither the school it represents or the sponsor that it represents but the marriage of the two. Thus forming a new identity which is the robotics team. I recommend incorporating red into the design."

I think something both of your teams can share is if you were to sit at a pep rally your team colors would fit in with the schools crowd of orange or red, at fairport hs pep rally the history is that this team loves to sit together to emphasize that FIRST is a team activity, only problem is that the group of 50 wearing black in a sea of red just seems out of place. And it kind of sends the wrong message to the school.

To add on there is some history of brighton hs and fairport hs working together around 01-02' I think that has something to do with the name blue lightning.

[rachakate]

Teams undergo identity changes all the time. Maybe have different T-shirts different days. The new red look, and the old "throw back" look.

By the way, for anyone at FLR, the welcome to the Finger Lakes video that was shown at several times throughout the competition was put together by Larry. I was impressed every time I saw it. Well done Larry!

[Mekong_Delta]

What a competition!
This is my first post and first time to FRC!
Guess what? I'm already hooked. :)

Thanks to all the judges, volunteers, planners, organizers who made it possible. You guys rock, the competition went so smooth.

Congratulations to the finalists: 378, 1126 and 1551, you are very competitive teams. The game could have gone either way.

Congratulations to our alliance partners: 191, 2053 and 174, without you all, we wouldn't win the final match.

Special thanks to 2053 for lending us the very important part of the robot: The Controller.
Also thanks to 191, 1518 for the offers when we needed helps.

[Martinez]

Congrats to the winning alliance: 20, 191, 2053 and 174!
As a Binghamton native, I've excited to see 2053 win & only two years out.
Hopefully the publicity will pump up and we can get Vestal or Bingo HS involved now.

Congrats to 1511 on EI!
Kim (and I'm sure the other mentors) are doing an incredable job.

Sadly Chuck headed out early ala fears of the weather. Darkness & Black Ice not a good combo. Turns out we did the smart thing. A bus trailing behind had a tree fall on us and went off the roads. Don't know if anyone was hurt...

Pros: Rochester is always a awsome time, after 7 years its still my fav regional.
Cons: Honestly, this is my least fav game ever. Can be dull and waaay to many penalties.

See all those headed to Philly and have a great 'March Madness' to all else!

[RIT_FIRST_LH]

Teams undergo identity changes all the time. Maybe have different T-shirts different days. The new red look, and the old "throw back" look.

By the way, for anyone at FLR, the welcome to the Finger Lakes video that was shown at several times throughout the competition was put together by Larry. I was impressed every time I saw it. Well done Larry!

You did an excellent job coordinating us volunteers, congrats on the woodie flowers award as well, it's well deserved!!!

I think this years flr opening video was ok, but next year it's going to be better!

Also I'm in the process of uploading flr videos while it's going to take a few hours to upload expect to see FLR 08 feed videos appearing on the following site, these are huge files at the highest quality possible so don't be shocked if the links don't lead you anywhere yet they will as time goes on.

http://www.wasapi.com/FLR_08/fingerlakes_regional.htm

Uploaded 1-23 so far!

[Koko Ed]

We have a few on our Photobucket.

Best qualification match of the weekend. 191, 1503 and 68 v s. 67, 1126 and 1518) (http://s50.photobucket.com/albums/f327/X-Cats/2008%20Season/FLR/Day%20Two/?action=view&current=roc_028x.flv)

[Ellery]

Hrmm. I gues lots of people thought FLR was going to be a good regional.'
2 other Champion mentors even decided to show up.
Copioli and Karthik BOTH showed up right before Elims started.
:)

Really - I saw Karthik walk by quickly but I missed Paul. I would have tried to track them down to say hello.

Oh well next time.

[Ellery]

I admit it's been a while since I have posted anything on Chief Delphi, but I have to express my admiration for FLR and thank everyone for welcoming us so warmly to our first FLR. What a wonderful venue, and what a wonderful group of teams! Thank you all very much. It was one of the best regional experiences I have ever had.

John,

Your team is always welcome and we (RochesterFirst community) hope to keep things fun and accomodating to our visiting guests. The only thing we can't control is the bad weather unfortunately but I'm glad you guys all made it home safe and sound. If you have any suggestions to improve your experience here at FLR please let us know. The committee will typically send out surveys to teams soon for feedback.

Ellery

[SSMike]

Hrmm. I gues lots of people thought FLR was going to be a good regional.'
2 other Champion mentors even decided to show up.
Copioli and Karthik BOTH showed up right before Elims started.
:)

Yeah it really is amazing how many people that you can meet at the competitions. Unfortunately I was on the field and didn't get the chance to introduce myself and say hi to either of them. Luckily I was able to meet a lot of other awesome people that I recognized merely from CD. Personally I saw (and I know I'll accidently leave many out) Alex Cormier, Hiteak, Koko Ed, Dylan Gramlich, Jay Trzaskos, Liz Smith, The Lucas, Ashley Christine, jgannon, and of course Steve W. FLR was awesome!

[Ellery]

Question to finger lakes teams, what are your opinions on a RED Fairport Team.

Had a discussion that came up with a community like fairport that is huge about red raider spirit that it would benefit the fairport high school blue lightning team supportwise by becoming a team with a "red" theme.

Well it all depends on what the objective is? Do you want to be a unique entity or a combined based on your school and sponsor? Whatever the choice understand that "Blue lightning" has been your team's identity for some time and will be know by it, if you change it you may have to get that branding re-done for everyone to realize it's the same entity.

Back in years prior to 2000 our team had multiple colored Tye-Dye shirts, designs each year that people didn't remember who you were during the competition. Back in the day it didn't matter as much because there weren't too many teams to begin with. But now that there's over 1200 teams branding yourself is critical. Take for example Team 365 MOE - They have done an awesome job picking their team's theme and Branding and everyone will know that it's them.

If the team is willing to start a clean slate and integrate the school colors it's fine, just be awarre that it will take time to get people realize that it's the same team.

Just my 2 cents

[Martinez]

If the team is willing to start a clean slate and integrate the school colors it's fine, just be awarre that it will take time to get people realize that it's the same team.

Just my 2 cents

I remember when 229 did this. Every year there was a different shirt color and because we weren't that accomplished I think people didn't really knew who we were. The team then decided to go with the Clarkson "Green n Gold" since they were the sponsor and we had two High Schools. That same year was stack attack where we made these huuuuge 4 tall foam wings: across the front Clarkson University like a giant robotic billboard. I'm sure after that ... people pretty much remembered who we were.

:D

[RIT_FIRST_LH]

Getting more support from the school is something this team is trying to obtain, a little bit more than recognition at FIRST events. If it takes time to rereconize them I don't think it would be a huge deal.

As mentioned before this team has a habbit of sitting together at pep rally's completely in black (50+ students). The only problem is everyone else (2,500+) is wearing red.

With that in mind do you think Team 578 would recieve more support from the school and will be be more accepted by thier peers if they were to change thier primary color to red?

FYI FHS financially supports the team on a greater scale than Gleason.

Thanks for these comments everyone :)

[DUCKIE]

Perhaps you might be able to find something like

...This... (http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000ARHJKW.01-A2PQCYHMPO91ZM._AA280_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)

that way you can combine your "blue lightning" with your school's red. The blue would still help you stand out during pep-rallys... but you would still be wearing red too.

[Koko Ed]

Perhaps you might be able to find something like

...This... (http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000ARHJKW.01-A2PQCYHMPO91ZM._AA280_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)

that way you can combine your "blue lightning" with your school's red. The blue would still help you stand out during pep-rallys... but you would still be wearing red too.

Now there's a look that will stand out from the crowd.

[TVwazhere]

Hello, teams of New England and canada, Michigan, and a few others.....

This has been my first regional, and was it a reigonal! Theexcitement, enthusiasm, and the teamwork almost made me black out!

Thank you to teams 191, 2053, and 174 for being a grerat alliance team,

Thanks to team 67, 68, 350, and a bunch of other teams that gaves our drivers fora run for our money.

Speaking of which, our entire team did great. Our scoutsdid excelent, our pit crew did extrodinary, and our NEMO'S (Non Engineering Mentoring Organization) did supurb with raising team siprit and moral when things felt bad.

Team 20 will be goingto a regional in boston, but most of the team will not be there:(

Great job teams. No hard fellings, only robots.

[Shelbo]

Team 316 had a great time at FLR this year. thanks to teams 1503 and 340 hope we are alliance partners again soon. :D congratulations to the winning teams and the award winners.

[Shelbo]

I would also like to thank team 1591 for the best drive train award!!! hope to see you guys again soon!:D :D

[The Lucas]

FLR this year was definitely one of the best regionals I've seen. We had a great field of teams and exciting matches.

Congrats to 340 for a well deserved Chairman's Award. Also thanks for your help with our IR interference problem.

Thanks to 1507 for picking us and 145 for completing our alliance. We certainly made a good run.

Congrats to the winning alliance of 20, 191, 2053 and 174. When your alliance was formed I knew our path to the finals would be a difficult one. Thanks for some good semifinal matches and incredibly exciting finals matches.

Thanks to 65, 67 and 68 for coming to this event from MI. Having teams of your class and experience in attendance makes any event better. Thanks to 67 for orchestrating the HOF photoshoot (67, 191 & 365), that was a very fun photo op.

To teams 84, 272, 316 and 1511: See you in Philly!

[jgannon]

FLR was an excellent event, and all of us on 1743 enjoyed ourselves (even though the snowy ride home pushed us to the brink of delirium). I want to be sure to thank team 365, as well as mentor Jeff from 191, for their help. They saw that we were having issues with our ball knocker on the field, and approached us after a match with a solution. With their ideas, assistance, and parts, we were able to put together something that worked flawlessly in our final qualifying match. Every time we knock down a ball in Pittsburgh, it will be a direct result of their selfless efforts. Thank you for showing time and time again why you belong in the hall of fame.

[Ellery]

Here's a couple of links from the Rochester City School District taken from the competition.

cHECK IT OUT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGME6fuM6hs (part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPaBOq6RRPg (Part 2)

[RIT_FIRST_LH]

FLR 08 Competition Video Archive Update

Up to Match 50 so far plus interviews:

http://wasapi.com/FLR_08/fingerlakes_regional.htm

More to come in the near future when I have the free time.

[Tetraman]

FLR 08 Competition Video Archive Update

Up to Match 50 so far plus interviews:

http://wasapi.com/FLR_08/fingerlakes_regional.htm

More to come in the near future when I have the free time.

You the man!

[dhitchco]

Here are a few links to photos from 2008 Finger Lakes Regional.

Pics I took of volunteers, judges, etc:
http://drhitch.smugmug.com/gallery/4568255_nV77S#269265101

Pics I took mostly of team 1511 (Rolling Thunder)
http://rollingthunder.smugmug.com/gallery/4478276_uZz5r#263394554

Photos from Ken Huth; the photographer hired by the regional committee:
http://www.huthphoto.com/Photos/Events/EventFIRST/FIRST2008/2008.html

Photos from Steve at robotphotos.org
http://robotphotos.org/v/first/fingerlakes/2008/

[Valkyrie133]

Cons: Honestly, this is my least fav game ever. Can be dull and waaay to many penalties.


So, I'm curious...after Philly, do you still think it's dull? :)

[The Lucas]

Looking back at the field of FLR after 5 weeks of regionals, there really were a lot of great bots.

These teams went on to win at another regional:
20 (Boston)
67 (GLR)
84 (Philly)
365 (Philly)
1126 (Buckeye)

Note: That includes one team from every semis alliance.

These teams ended up as finalists at another regional:
68 (Waterloo)
272 (Philly)
1503 (GTR)
1507 (GTR)

Also I think special recognition should be given to 191 and 2228 for the record high scoring fight they put up in the semis at Buckeye against the winning alliance. Most importantly FLR was a great event and a lot of fun.

[Ellery]

Photos from Steve at robotphotos.org
http://robotphotos.org/v/first/fingerlakes/2008/]



Minor correction it's Mike from Robotphotos.org Thanks for all the links.:)

[LeelandS]

The Finger Lakes Regional was incredible. So much energy and hard work, I even managed to trade out a couple buttons to other teams. I will always remember this particular competition, because this was my first FRC competition. Can't wait till' next year!