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We are leaving from Richmond @ 1:30pm today to try and beat the famous Baltimore traffic. Don't talk about bus rides. We have a 16 ride to Worlds in two weeks. SOOOooOOooOOOooOO not looking forward to that ride :(

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Which teams would these be?

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In case you don't have it. Here is the webcast link. Right now it is not streaming for some reason.

http://www.mdfirst.org/

Click on the red text in the center: "Watch Chesapeake Regional Webcast Live: Friday and Saturday, April 12-13, starting at 8:30am"

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The webcast says its offline for me. Does anyone else have this?

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We are having some issues on our end with the stream. Currently we are running video only. We will need to take the stream down to resolve our audio issue. Hoping to get it fixed when Qualifying matches finish up today.

Thanks everyone for your patience on this!

Cheers,

Mike

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What the issues with Saturday matches it keep going offline it be nice to watch the stream this is going to make the elimination round hard for the people watching the webcast

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I don't see Friday awards listed on the FIRST website (http://www2.usfirst.org/2013comp/eve...A/awards.html), can anyone update us?

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Volunteer of the Year - Dennis Faber
Volunteer of the Year - Paulette and Robert Dorr
Imagery - 2640
Innovation in Control - 888
Creativity - 4541
Excellence in Engineering - 1086
Team Spirit - 1086
Entrepreneurship - 365
Rookie Inspiration - 4638
Woodie Flowers - Michele Kosin, 4288

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We haven't had any really big problems today with the stream. The matches have occasionally dropped due to the bandwith being used at the Convention Center. We are keeping tabs on it.

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Thank you.
To the 64 FRC teams. To the 150+ volunteers. To all those Jr.FLL teams at the Expo (and the parade), to the FTC teams, and to the FLL ones too. To everyone who helped with the inaugural FIRST Stop visitor program, including all the outstanding student ambassadors who took the training seriously and made the event shine. To the adult ambassadors who led the TEDxBaltimore Adventure tours and helped manage all those visitors for FIRST Stop. To the NASA Robotics Alliance and the staff in the mobile machine shop. To the amazing alumni who are running the event in lead roles (looking at you Greg, Anne, Steve, Courtney, Jeff, Andrea, Tim for starters) and all the other alumni who volunteered, and stopped by.

And finally, thank you to our Senator Barbara Mikulski, who spent 2.5 hours at the Chesapeake today- listening to the stories, watching the action, and asking some great questions. We were so honored.

Congrats to the winners! We were kind of suprised we weren't picked, but we definately were extremely happy with the progress of the robot. Thanks to all of our alliance partners through-out the weekend and thank you to all the volunteers that helped make Chesapeake possible.

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Wow! Great competition! Although we didn't get past the qualification rounds (we didn't get picked), we have a lot of fun and met a LOT of great people! Like others, our robot did pretty well after many improvements, even though our ranking was low. We're proud of what we have done in the past 3 days.

Next up - Battle of Baltimore!

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From the perspective of a volunteer and spectator... I don't even know where to start. I had an absolutely incredible experience at the Chespeake Regional, so there's a lot of things I want to say!

This was my first time attending Chesapeake, not to mention my first time volunteering at a regional. All of the volunteers whom I met were extremely welcoming. I love the fact that this regional includes such a strong program for Jr. FLL, the expo, and is incorporating one for FLL as well. The energy and excitement definitely made these students even more excited about STEM and their own challenges. As for FRC, these matches were among some of the exciting ones I've seen this year (especially those nail-biting finals matches).

Shout-out to Robert and Mike, the AmeriCorps Vistas for DC and Baltimore - I know both of you put a lot of work into this event and it definitely showed!

I had a great time working with everyone, can't wait for next year.

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What another great Chesapeake Regional, thanks planning committee and Bill Duncan! I had a blast working with all the students, mentors, volunteers, and everyone else at the event!

A huge congratulations to 2199, The Robo-Lions, on earning the Regional Chairman's Award! You guys definitely deserve it! We look forward to seeing you in St. Louis.

Congratulations to 3941, Absolute Zero Electricity, on earning the Engineering Inspiration Award. It is good to see your program go through all levels of FIRST, and at such a high level. I can't wait to see what you all do in the upcoming years.

I couldn't be happier for Michele Kosin on earning the Woodie Flowers Finalist Award. You are a true role model and great member of the FIRST community!

Congratulations to 329, 1708, and 2638 for winning the Regional. You guys made for some very exciting elimination matches.

I look forward to seeing those who are going Championships in St. Louis. Thanks again to everyone for making the event a very fun and exciting event to be a part of!

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http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...VuO5enm0UZV80Y

Playlist of ALL the matches from the Chesapeake Regional, viewed from field-side, courtesy of RobotBill, the game announcer. Thank you Bill!