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johnr

15-03-2008, 20:32

congrats to all teams. had a question? did 27-team rush- shoot a last second hurdle over center wall or did i blink at the wrong time?

Josh Fox

15-03-2008, 20:35

i responded to this in the other thread u mentioned it too

u saw the truth:D

Jazonk

15-03-2008, 20:40

yea we did, it was amazing!!!!!!!

johnr

15-03-2008, 20:43

that was one bleep of a shot. hope ours works as good as yours. maybe we can play catch some time?

Jazonk

15-03-2008, 20:45

Sure that would actually be fun...except the ball would probably crush your robot

Swan217

15-03-2008, 20:59

The Cyborg

15-03-2008, 21:23

Congratulations to teams 217, 469, and 440 for the victory! Also Congratulations to team 27 for the Chairman's award. Everybody did an excellent job today at Detroit. I was very impressed with many of the robot designs that I saw today, especially the rookie team 2337's amazing robot! I loved that kicking design!

Striker_27

15-03-2008, 21:49

The pit crew is my new hero! Foxy and Barch are the best, the last second hurdle over the wall and overpass was the best play of the day in my opinion!

Nawaid Ladak

15-03-2008, 23:31

i keep on hearing about this

but we need visual evidence!!!

Herodotus

16-03-2008, 00:08

I was very much impressed by all the teams competing at this Regional. In my opinion you couldn't have asked for better alliance pairings. Congrats to 217, 469, and 440 on the win, and congrats to everyone who won an award.

I'd also like to say that I was incredibly impressed by two other teams in particular, 27, and 2337. As always you guys at team Rush have put together a remarkably well designed robot, and you did some amazing pitwork getting it fixed up for the finals. The last second hurdle was also incredible.

And 2337, I have to say you're design impressed me a great deal. Aside from hitting it over the driver's station, an impressive feat in itself, the fact you guys have such a creative design just blows my mind.

I'm glad I finally got to see overdrive in person, it's certainly much better than I think I gave it credit for. Now I just can't wait till our first regional this year at Western, we'll be seeing some of you guys there.

P.S. Thanks also to iPirates for some interesting lunch time conversation. And I think you guys also had one well designed robot. I hope we'll see you guys at either the Championship (we can only hope) or at MARC.

65_Xero_Huskie

16-03-2008, 00:36

Ha,
I called a 217-469 alliance a week ago winning it :)
Congrats to all the teams.

Mike Schreiber

16-03-2008, 13:37

To be honest, there were many things that Team Rush did this weekend that were amazing - among them:
-Aforementioned last second hurdle (yes, it counted!)
-Getting their robot fixed and onto the field with seconds to spare in the timeout
-Somehow psychically telling their #3 alliance opponents to take silly hurdle-impeding penalties when it was 3-on-2 and 27 was benched
-Winning WFA (Tony Lapp) and Chairmans!

Don't forget Chairman's :D

I'd like to thank teams 47 and 453 for carrying us while we swapped our transmission....twice.

Congrats to 217, 469, and 440, you guys were just the better alliance, and really did deserve the victory. That's 2 in a row for the chickens, nice work.

Josh Fox

16-03-2008, 13:41

Once again congrats to 469, 217, and 440 on their win it was a great time playing against you guys and definitely the most fun I have ever had in a match with the competitiveness

hopefully a video will be posted to youtube soon or the blue alliance of our hurdle I'll see what I can do to help the process

Paul Copioli

16-03-2008, 14:41

Congratulations to team 440 on their first ever regional win. I absolutely can't believe they were available for the final pick. In the eliminations they averaged 8.3 laps per match (teleoperated). In the finals, they did 9 laps in each match.

Congratulations to 27 for their Chairman's Award and good luck at the Championship.

For those of you that did not get to see Detroit in action, you missed out on a great competition. Here are a few things I want to point out:

1. The refs were consistent, made correct rulings and fixed mistakes when they were brought to the refs attention. Sure, they made mistakes, but corrected them when they could. Detroit has always had consistent reffing and this year was no different. I also want to welcome back Ron Webb as Detroit's Head Referee.

2. The first match on Friday was 124 - 70 (minus 20 penalty points making it 50) with a total of 15 hurdles between the two alliances.

3. There were about 10 hurdlers in a group that were all good. For a regional with 32 teams, that is pretty impressive.

4. The elimination rounds were intense and had many high scoring matches. The quarterfinals had all but QF1 go three matches and one had a tie.

5. The finals had a total of 412 points scored between the two matches. That is an average of 103 points per alliance!

6. I eye-witnessed a couple extraordinary things that team 27 accomplished:
(a) They repaired a completely demolished main drive gearbox withn a 6 minute timeout. This type of failure would have put 99% of FIRST teams out of the eliminations.

(b) The diagonal last second shot was ridiculous. They nailed it from the red alliance side right after the red overpass and banked it off the side board on the blue overpass and scored the 8 point hurdle as time expired. In person, it was spectacular!

Thanks to 469 and 440 for being such great partners. I can't believe 469 edged out 27 for the number one spot by 0.4 ranking points. That is just 1 auton line between the 10 matches. I thought there was no way 27 would lose the number one spot, but 469 pulled off another miracle.

GaryVoshol

16-03-2008, 15:55

that was one bleep of a shot. hope ours works as good as yours. maybe we can play catch some time?

397 and 1 tried that.

703Trombley703

16-03-2008, 16:26

397 and 1 tried that.

Our driver tried doing that with our lift system but we fell short in one of the qualification matches. Also i couldn't believe that team rush had that last hurdle at the end. Congrats to 217, 469, and 440 on a great win. Hope everyone else's year goes great :D

PizzmasterP27

16-03-2008, 16:54

i would like to congratulate team number 1 for engineering inspiration. we were very scared that alot of good teams were going for chairmans at that regional (1, 27, 217, 247, 314...and more). it was a close match and if we didnt get chairmans you guys would have.

Btower

16-03-2008, 20:39

Way off topic, but when we were packing up the field Sat night, we found a Blood Glucose Meter. Anybody have a clue as to the rightful owner? It could be kinda important.

Call me @ 248-219-6030 if you have an idea.
or ben.tower@comaupico.com

Another awesome Detroit Regional still my favorite.

Ben Tower

rcoasterk22

16-03-2008, 21:26

Great competition everyone! Team's 469, 217, and 440 you guys were awesome to play against. It was definitely some, if not the, most fun I have had at competition. Congrats to 1 for Engineering Inspiration, you deserved it. Also either I or someone else WILL upload the video of the final hurdle to youtube and post it here :) .

Grant Cox

16-03-2008, 21:31

This was one of the most fun regional experiences I've ever had. The crowd was great, the competition was awesome, and it was just an incredible time all around. My couple of comments -

- in the last finals match, we had a score of 124, which is the same as the score of the very [i]first match of the competition. Those of you who say our drive team is too superstitious... I rest my case :cool:

- 27 has sealed themselves as one of my favorite teams. All the members I talked to were very outgoing and friendly, and their "Ask me about.." pins were fun. Their bot is easily one of the coolest I've seen, and I was hoping all day Friday that they would get it working. The unbelievable pit work on Saturday (repairing drive shafts and grabbers and whatever else in record time) left me in awe. I cannot WAIT for Great Lakes.

- the eliminations on Saturday were some of the most intense and dramatic that I have witnessed since Atlanta last year. I watched the semifinals between 1025/1528/815 and 27/47/453 with anxious anticipation, as they were both scarily impressive alliances. The finals between us and 27/47/453 were some of the most amazing matches I've ever driven in. Like Paul said, just look at the Semis/Finals on TBA - the match scores are crazily high and crazily close.

- I've never had more fun being a driver than here. The drive teams were all unbelievably GP and I had a great time meeting drivers from all sorts of different teams. Three instances in particular come to mind. In our last qualifiers match, it was 217 and two rabbits vs three impressive hurdlers. It ended up being one of the most intense matches ever, and afterwards Fox (27's driver) and I waited at the field for the scores to be posted, and agreed that regardless of the outcome, it was an awesome match. A similar instance happened in the finals, when we passed each other on the field to get our robots after the second match before the scores were shown.

- I'm putting the third instance in a separate bullet because it's also a segue to the next point. I love team 1, the Juggernauts. Your hybrid mode was unbelievably impressive in St Louis, and it's too bad you started having problems at Detroit. Your EI award was 100% deserved. However, even more impressive is your skill and graciousness in driving. After the first finals match, we quickly joked about when you stopped to let us go around, but it really was an awesome courteous move that ultimately helped us both. I hope you noticed when we did the same in the next match :p

- the Thunderillas lived on in Detroit :) little more needs to be said here. Anybody who knows us knows how close we are as teams, and the opportunity to be complete once again was awesome (I'm using that word too much, aren't I). RoboReunion 3.0 will have even more to celebrate, eh?

- congrats to 440. Like Paul said, sitting in the stands watching all the top alliances pass them up was akin to someone finding an old winning lottery ticket under their bed. Having such a good racer (and friend team) to complete our alliance was just so cool.

Now I have to back to washing hair glue out of my hair and nursing some severely damaged vocal cords...

Steve Ketron

16-03-2008, 23:08

Detroit Regional was amazing. I could not believe how competitive a regional with only 32 teams could be. Congrats to 217, 440, and 469. You were an amazing alliance and I was hoping that our alliance (815,1025, and 1528) would have had the oppertunity to compete against you. We had the perfect set-up being the #6 alliance and thaught it was going to happen. I was very impressed with the way our alliance worked together. There was a little concern with 1025 getting a yellow card after ramming 815 in qualifiers. But, I just have to say that 815 was very critical in the selection of 1025 as our third alliance partner. This proved to be an excellent choice and the teams worked very well together.Also congrats to the #2 allianiance for getting through what you had to. I hope we have the oppertunity to compete against all of you again in Atlanta or even MARC.

P.S. Want to especially say thank you to team 217's programmers for helping my freshman programmer out on Thursday. Without your help, I don't think our robot would have been able to compete as well as it did.

Josh Murphy

16-03-2008, 23:45

I think the Detroit Regional was awesome this year. There were some pretty competitive teams and the eliminations far exceeded my expectations. 27 you guys were awesome, thanks for picking us and believing in us. To bad our auto mode wasn't working in the finals(due to a bad encoder). Congrats to the winning alliance. Thanks to all of the teams that competed for making a great 2008 Detroit Regional. Good luck to everyone for the rest of the year.:)

Don Wright

17-03-2008, 05:50

Thanks to everyone that made the Detroit regional so much fun. It was an honor to step in and coach when Dan was sick on Saturday.

The competition was amazing and every round was a blast to play. Thanks so much to our alliance partners 217 and 440 as well. I hope we can do it again sometime... See you at Ai...

And congrats to Mr. Lapp from 27 on the WFA finalist award!!!

http://www.freebmw.net/don/DTW_2008/wfa.jpg

physics_guy47

17-03-2008, 09:57

First off, thanks to my pit crew and team for your dedication to the robot and keeping the event running smoothly. I REALLY need to thank my drivers for putting up with my energy and intensity out on the field.

I want to thank team 27 for picking us and for both 27 and 453 for putting their hearts and full efforts into the elimination matches and the finals.

I am amazed at the efficiency with which 27 worked in the pits making repairs. They kept cool heads and got things done quickly.

Aside from Great Lakes in 2000 (winning the regional paired up with the girl I would later marry) I would have to say this has to rank at the top as far as my experiences go.

Congratulations to Team 1 for the engineering inspiration award and to Team 27 again for the Chairman's award. I'll be pulling for you guys in Atlanta - you deserve the win.

Thanks to everybody that made this an amazing regional and a true reason to be proud of being a part of FIRST.

jasonjmonroe

17-03-2008, 10:22

Here are some pics from the Detroit event. My apologies that I was only able to make it to the eliminations day and then only after lunch.

All the photos are full resolution if you click on the medium sized photo it will open in a new window (then right click to save-as).

NOTE: Selecting on "all" photos takes a long time to load because only the "favorites" are cached.

DTW Eliminations Day: Favorites (http://jasonjmonroe.com/TWMM/photos/2008/Bees/DTW031608/)(515) All (http://jasonjmonroe.com/TWMM/photos/2008/Bees/DTW031608/index.php?&full_list=true)(1599)

-J

PizzmasterP27

17-03-2008, 19:48

congrats to all teams. had a question? did 27-team rush- shoot a last second hurdle over center wall or did i blink at the wrong time?

we did indeed and here is a video
http://youtube.com/watch?v=f1N5doWRskw

65_Xero_Huskie

17-03-2008, 22:16

we did indeed and here is a video
http://youtube.com/watch?v=f1N5doWRskw

Sick.
All i can say

hopkins

18-03-2008, 00:28

Brandon Martus

18-03-2008, 09:51

Here are a bunch of pictures from the Detroit regional that were sent to me:

From Jay, the AV guy, the slideshow that was playing during lunch:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/misc/FIRSTDetroitSlidesShow2008.mov

From Dane Gussin, a local photographer:
http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/ThumbPage.aspx?e=3628934&g=00

Mike Murrish

18-03-2008, 21:30

A big thanks to teams 703 and 835 for a great run with us in the elimination tournament. You guys were awesome! Congratulations to 469, 217, and 440 for your undefeated run to the gold and to 27 for your Chairman's victory. We're looking forward to seeing you all in Atlanta! As for 27's last-second hurdle, simply unbelievable.

jordanski27

18-03-2008, 22:32

I just have to say that the Detroit Regional was an amazing experience overall. Thank you so much to our alliances for being there when we were down. This was my first competition and I was in awe throughout the entire experience. It blew my mind how well everyone worked together and the amount of team spirit that was exemplified by all of the teams. I cannot wait to compete at Ypsi and then Atlanta in the near future. Hope to see you on the field and good luck to everyone!

hopkins

19-03-2008, 14:14

Does anyone know if videos are going to go up on the blue alliance or not?? Ive heard that they only put up regionals that are webcast... but i really want to see some matches again.
thanks

Jazonk

19-03-2008, 19:33

I think anyone can post the videos on TBA but you need the files. I know we recorded our matches, I'm not sure about the others. You will have to find the teams that recorded them and have them post the vids online. I'll see if we can get ours posted.

ShadowofaCat

19-03-2008, 21:09

First off. Great job to all who attended Detroit regional!
It was great seeing everyone out there so energized!

Congrats to 27 with the WFA and Chairmans and not to mention the hurdle at the last minute! I saw that fly by and almost freaked! You guys were definitely a hard team to beat!

Congrats to all rookies that attended. I was completely blown away by 2337. Not to mention the bullet bill!

Way to go 440 on their first regional win! You guys were great out there!

Last off. The thunderillas are back! 217-469 has grown so close together in a year! It wouldn't be FIRST without great people and great robots!
To quote "the foof" "I'd take a bullet for any of my homies on [217]" :)

great job everyone!

One more thing! :) When can we expect the videos on the Blue Alliance?

Stormnnormn

20-03-2008, 08:41

I think team 27 did a pretty good job.
I can't believe they got it fixed.
The matches we're pretty good.

I'd also like to thank 815 and 1025, they were pretty good partners.
It is a little upsetting our battery fell out. We had it fall out during practice a few times, should've known...

frdm_rckr

21-03-2008, 11:47

To all the teams at the detroit regional, you guys made it great. I got sick after the competition from all the cheering over people and my throat is still healing from the yelling. Eveyone did there best and thats all you can do. Good luck to all the teams in there coming competions:D !

Tomasz Bania

21-03-2008, 23:09

I don't think anyone recorded all the matches, and no one signed up to archive the regional. I will look through my archive to see what I have, but I think it was mainly focused on our team (and our alliance partners), and would only be from Thursday or Friday (No HD cam on Saturday).

Tomasz Bania