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So Since the other threads are started, Alamo, who's going? I see that there are only 13 teams signed up right now (as of 9/30/12). Who else is planning on going that hasn't signed up yet? I know a lot of teams who have come in the past have picked other events first but are still attending.


I know my team (2158) will be attending.

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3997 Screaming Chickens will be there good luck to all the teams who are going to come and compete in the Alamo city

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Teams 1592 and 801 are going to Texas!! We are excited and ready to make some new friends from the area.

Already counting down the days,
Zac

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Alamo is always excited to host many out of state (and out of country!) teams. Please let us know if there is anything I and the rest of the Alamo Regional planning crew can do to help you have a great trip.

Additionally, the team I mentor - ausTIN CANs, FRC Team 2158 out of Austin, TX - will be competing with you at both Alamo and Orlando. I know that our team would love to get to know you all while in Florida and welcome you to our home regional!

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Team 3997 is hosting a event on:

Come join fellow FTC and FRC teams at
Robot Fiesta!
Fiesta is one of America’s truly great festivals that began as a way to honor the memory of the heroes of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto.

Over the past century Fiesta has grown into a celebration of San Antonio’s rich and diverse cultures and includes numerous events.

This year we wish to host a private new event, the Robot Fiesta!

Details, details...
$20 per team member prior to the event (chaperones will be free and required for each group attending).

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

8 pm - 11:30pm in La Villita

$25 per team member at the door (chaperones will be free and required for each group attending).

If you have any more questions please feel free to contact me thought cd or on our website at http://www.screamingchickens.org/robot-fiesta.html

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62 Teams attending

Team List:

57
457
499
624
653
801
922
1429
1477
1592
1785
1987
2158
2468
2583
2585
2587
2721
2789
2833
2952
2969
2982
2985
3028
3029
3080
3103
3240
3320
3335
3345
3353
3417
3478
3481
3545
3552
3561
3614
3679
3696
3743
3834
3943
3997
3999
4063
4219
4271
4282
4332
4400
4412
4502
4597
4603
4635
4670
4696
4747
4842

To all the teams attending GOOD LUCK!!!!

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Team 3478 and another 3 or 4 mexican teams will be attending this year to the Alamo regional. Good luck everyone :D

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The Shadetree Mechanics(3999) will be there.

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2789 is still ecstatic, in shock/disbelief, and running on adrenaline over the past few weeks. We are PSYCHED and pumped for Alamo and will be unleashing a mechanism we've been working on for the past couple of weeks that gives me goosebumps just thinking about it!

We're excited that our fellow Hub City Finalist alliance partners 4063 will be coming, they were a blast to play with, and we're also excited to see Hub City Chairman's Award Winning 2468 again, their cross-court shooter is a beautiful machine! Coach Norm's team is a class act, and we wouldn't have been able to compete in Hub City without their help. This week at Lone Star, we got to see 624, 1429 & 1477 in action, and look forward to seeing them again, as well.

I'm also really looking forward to seeing 57 & 2587 again. I've always loved both your teams, and have a great deal of respect for your kids, mentors, and robots, and I can't wait to see what your teams accomplish at Alamo!

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All I have to say is that with the talent coming to Alamo, there better be some wildcard slots being generated. Unless of course the regional win goes to an unlikely alliance of teams that previously came SO CLOSE to pulling of a regional win themselves.

Also, we've got plans and schemes for some improved accuracy and mobility, so I suggest everyone else bring their A games. Or their B games and willingness to accept help from a visiting team, cause we're weird like that.

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I assume that this means you will be finally putting on those ramps...:p

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Ya know...a TEXplosive Dancing Leopard alliance for the win would be epic :D

I know 1429, 2468 and our team have already qualified...does anyone know if there are other teams that have qualified this season and could potentially create a wildcard slot at Alamo?

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So far, those are the only 3 teams that have qualified. 1477, 624 and 1987 all have one event before Alamo and could create some more.

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It's a shame that 148, 16, 118 and 245 are not participating this year.

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I was under the impression only competition-merit based awards dropped down to wildcard. So only event winners would pass down, not chairmans/EI.RAS/etc?

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Nope. Only previously qualified winners at your current regional can create wild cards, but all that matters is that they qualified at a previous 2013 regional. Here, look at this handy Wildcard Worksheet.

And yes, I'm assuming/hoping 1477 and 624 will do well enough to be potential wildcard creators at Alamo.

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Teams 1592 and 801 are very excited about our first trip to the Lone Star State! Looking forward to hanging with you guys!

We are hosting a nondenominational worship service on Good Friday for anyone who might be interested in joining us. It will be held right after the pits close Friday night in the East Registration Room of the Convention Center. The service will last about thirty mintues, and hopefully be a great chance for some team bonding. Hope to see you there!

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2468 cannot wait to get at it again. It was exciting watching Lone Star and Orlando, seeing all the teams compete that will be coming to Alamo.
This week we have Kansas City and Peachtree to watch with Bayou and Dallas coming up next week.

It will be a different feel without 118 and 148 not to mention Bomb Squad and Adambots.

We had Spring Break this week, so not many kids around.

It will also be exciting to have FTC in the house with all the FRC teams again.

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Team 1592 has created a Twitter list of the teams attending the 2013 Alamo Regional.
Alamo 2013 FRC Teams Twitter List
We couldn't find Twitter accounts of all the teams attending. Please tweet us @FRC1592 if you know of a Twitter account of one of the teams that we don't have on it.

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Thanks for making the list! From a quick search on Twitter, it looks like people are already talking about the #AlamoRegional .

2789 is really excited about Alamo, we can't wait! We're looking forward to having another shot at playing with the great teams we've seen at Hub City & Lone Star, as well as meeting teams coming in from outside of Texas and new rookie teams. See y'all in 7 days!

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Team 1987 is really excited to make the trip down south from the Kansas City area. The 12 hour bus ride there will be with much anticipation and excitement. I know for me personally, I am looking forward to the weather. We can live without the predicted high of 99 for Saturday, but the 70s and 80s predicted highs while we are there sounds about right.

Sorry we did not add a wild card spot, but our sister team 1986 is just too much to handle. We build next to them, literally with a swinging door between us, and we could not be happier for them.

We are hoping to to add to our list of inspirational teams while in Texas, and I am sure you will not disappoint. Hopefully 1477 and 624 pull out invites to champs, as that would be several teams available to make wild card spots.

From our scouting so far, I predict some pretty high scores and fierce competition even without some of the powerhouses you mention.

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Sadly, 624 missed out on qualifying at PeachTree, so they won't be generating a wildcard at Alamo. Here's my list of teams that can currently generate wildcards, and teams that could win this week and thus generate a wildcard.
Current qualified wildcard generating teams: 1429, 2468, 2789

Potentially qualifying teams (could win this week): 1477

So there will be at most 4 teams at Alamo that could create wildcard slots. There obviously COULD have been more if some people had done their jobs. (I'm looking at you 2789.) Still, those are some strong teams, so there's a good chance we'll have one or two wildcard slots generated.

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We were hoping we could have brought a wild card spot to Lone Star, but as Mastonevich pointed, 1986 was quite a handful, especially when allied with Oklahoma's Cockadoodle Dominators & The Dapper Dans

Because of all of the offensive robots going to Alamo with different scoring strategies, we've been busy here in Manor concocting a "flexible" defensive mechanism that will hopefully give us several options for causing plenty of headaches & stress for high-scoring robots both in the quals and in the elims at Alamo. It's our hope that the mechanism will help us double-qualify for champs and potentially create an additional wild card spot ;)

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Does anyone have video on 1987 and 1785? I mean come on team 1987 was a finalist at Kansas City! I would be most grateful if you would share it with me.

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I heard pool noodles are fun to put on your robot at the last minute.

All of the GKC matches are archived at the website listed by Dodar. More-net does a fantastic job in that regard.

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Thank you! I enjoyed watching your twin bots compete at Orlando. You both looked great.

Well Team Titanium did spill the beans that pool noddles are very effective at blocking frisbees. Thank you both for providing me the link. I look forward to watching 1987 at work :D

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1987 Semifinal match - http://150.199.24.201/WMSDownloads/r...lmatch_014.asf

1785 qualification matches
http://150.199.24.201/WMSDownloads/r.../match_081.asf
http://150.199.24.201/WMSDownloads/r.../match_086.asf

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Thanks. We should be back up to 100 percent on Thursday morning. Still had a few issues in Orlando so we will see what we can do. =)

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I guess we proved you wrong, Kevin. ;)

On a curious side note, other than 2158 who else is competing for the Chairman's award at Alamo?

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1592

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I know for a fact that 3999 is submitting. Will 624 be submitting?

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Yes! Unfortunately due to student leadership conflicts, 624 chose to present their chairman's submission at Alamo instead of Lone Star this year. Now the surprise is ruined :rolleyes:

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2789 is also submitting at Alamo, Good Luck to everyone going for the award!

As an aside, Team Appreciate won the award at Hub City, and I for one am glad they submitted there, their video was awesome & inspiring!

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I'm nearly certain that 57 is competing in Chairman's at Alamo.

Also darn the luck on 624 and 1477 not qualifying. I was hoping for a longer list of wildcard teams at Alamo, but alas. Guess we'll have to do it the hard way.

Side note: Thanks to an exciting work emergency, I'm flying straight from Brazil to San Antonio compete with you people, so you'd better put on a good show. Or take it easy on the guy that just got off a red-eye. Whichever you prefer.

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Team 3478 is also competing for Chairman's at Alamo. Good luck, teams.

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FIRST team 4400, Cerbotics will be presenting as well.

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801 and 1592 are on their way to San Antonio.

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I hope you guys have a safer trip to San Antonio than Orlando.

See you in two days! :)

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Does anyone have a rough estimate on how many discs 1477 was scoring during autonomous and teleop in the elims? I wasn't able to watch the bayou eliminations until the finals this past weekend.

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From watching Bayou, they still score their 3 in auton and near end of quals and all elims, they were working a floor pick up for the last 6 secs. They still score a good amount in teleop. They were making at least 3/4 a run with about 3-4 runs a match.

If they get that working and 624 continues with their 7? disc autonomous, Alamo is going to be in for a show if those two get together.

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Wow, what an incredible tournament! There were so many great teams and inspiring stories of teams helping each other.
2468 would especially like to thank our alliance partners 4063 and 2789, who were the reason we were able to advance and win finals. You were both under rated but you could not hide how amazing you are, 4063 with 3pt teleop shooting awesomeness and 2789 who is definitely one of the top defensive teams in the world. The fact that this is your second gold and you already got a silver is astounding and proves your abilities.
#hubcityredemption
We also want to recognize our new friends teams 1592 and 801. We were very short handed on scouting and without them we would not have been able to record data and make the selections we did. Our members quickly became close with theirs, and while it was awesome to see 801 advance to finals, it was unfortunate we had to be on opposing alliances. Still, I am glad to know that we will see them soon in St. Louis.
Finally, we want to give a shout out to our 4 FTC teams. While we were happy to see you all qualify at district, we were even happier to see three of you in division finals and one win Innovate. And we certainly could not contain our joy when they announced that the Pi Rho Maniacs won Inspire and would go to St. Louis with us and our friends.
624 and 1477 also deserve the respect of all FRC. Everyone knows of the incredible robots you built and can't wait to see what you come up with next year.
Thanks to all teams competing (even those with "unappreciator" blocking mechanisms :P ). See you all next year!

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#hubcityredeemed

Since Lone Star we know that our dream alliance would be 2468 and 4063 because of the fact that you both built good robots that played the game differently and because you play smart and hard. The small pyramid shooter/full-court shooter/defensive bot combo is how we won at Lone Star, and it seemed to be the perfect combo at Alamo as well! Thanks to both your teams for giving us the opportunity to share this victory with you! See you in St. Louis!

I would also like to thank Jess, Patrick Felty, Sarah Le, and all the inspectors and cueing volunteers. The regional ran smoothly, and y'all did a great job of coordinating all of the action in front of the curtain as well as getting help to teams in need behind the scenes.

I would also like to send a shout out to Kris Verdeyen and his mad announcing skills, and thanks to RoboGreg for putting up with my Steelers jabs & holding up all the ridiculous signs my team made!

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I was just inspecting at the event but it was one of the most memorable events in recent history.

4603 had their robot stolen during shipment and so many teams worked together to get them not only a running robot, but a shooting and hanging robot. 3481 helped them at their shop before the event. 1592 and 801 gave them their spare hangers. 2587 donated their shooter. 2587 and 1592 ended up picking 4603 for the eliminations which is just an awesome story. I know many more teams helped them but those are the ones I know about.

I want to thank all the out of town teams for being great representatives of FIRST. 801 and 1592 were fine examples of FIRST teams, they quickly became two of my go to teams to get help for teams in need. They also provided a steady stream of jumpers to get all the teams sending battery voltage back to their driver station. Thank you guys and please come back often.

1987 congratulations on the Chairman's Award win. Your team is just awesomely nice. Every interaction I had with your students and mentors was just really pleasant. Your students are always willing to help and are extremely respectful. Thank you for being awesome and I hope to see you at more Texas events in the future.

1477 thank you for your help getting teams through inspection. I love working events where your competing because you always make my Thursday night easier. I know that all your students will be working with the teams that haven't gotten through inspection yet. Also your robot was awesome the whole regional. The industrial design award is very well deserved and your ability to improve through out the season is so impressive. I can't wait to play with you again during the off-season.

Congratulations 2468, 4063 and 2789. 2468, I'll admit that I wasn't a believer in the full court shooter but you guys played a very impressive full court cycle game, it kept the defense on you but ineffective and left 4063 completely open to run their game. TriKzR4Kidz, 4063, I told you at the event and I'll say it again you all are going to be the first real powerful team from the south of Texas if you keep on the track that you are on. From your infectious image to your extremely gracious behavior and actions your going to be in the mix at every event that you go to. I was thrilled that you got the GP award again, very well deserved. 2789 great job once again, your driving and strategy seems to step up to a new level during eliminations.

3478 congratulations on the Engineering Inspiration award, great job. You all are fine representatives to spread FIRST and STEM through out your country.

Thanks to everyone for making Alamo an awesome event. I can't wait till next year.

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This story and the 1592/801 car accident, robots wrecked, everyone stepping in to help and making the Eliminations at the Orlando Regional are the stories that I share with people who ask why I participate in FIRST.

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After all of this, the finals was a match of the under dogs.
Seed 3 VS.4 was unexpected even after all of this bad luck, there was still a Cinderella ending for our team (3997) and 801.
It was a hard fought, but a very good match from 4th seed!
We'll see y'all again at worlds! :)

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FRC 2468 would like to extend our Appreciation to FRC 2789 and FRC 4063 for competing with us at the Alamo Regional. Exploding Bunny Appreciation was a blast to be a part of. It was great fun and very exciting to compete together. The teams worked well together and altered strategy throughout the matches to pull off the Championship win. It was nice to be on the same team with you guys rather than be competing against you as we did at Hub City tournament.

We had a great time meeting FRC 801 and FRC 1592 in San Antonio. Working with you teams in the pits on Thursday on other teams robots was a blast. We hope to get out to Orlando to compete with you guys some time. Thanks to both teams for helping out with scouting though out the tournament. You guys showed what FIRST core values are all about especially after your unfortunate events earlier this year with your robot. Many teams benefited as well as the tournament with your presence. Brad and Bobby, your teams are fortunate to have you as Coaches/Mentors.

Congrats to FRC2789's Jeff Erickson on your Woodie Flowers award. It is very well deserved. It was a pleasure to be on the field with the other WFA to congratulate you.

As always it was great to compete with long time foes such as FRC 2587, FRC 57 FRC 1477 and FRC 624.

Thanks to the volunteers, judges, inspectors, referees and field crew for running such a great tournament. Kudos to Patrick and Jess for the tournament organization and the new mentor lounge. I never got to visit but was nice to know there was for us to retreat to.

At AllenGregoryIV, we did have to make some adjustments to our full court shooter and strategy due to the conditions of the frisbees. At Hub City, the frisbees were all new and shot as we had tested at home with frisbees that had not gone through the treatment they get on the field. It was nice to see the inclusion of some newer frisbees on Saturday.

Kris and Greg, awesome job on emceeing the matches. You guys are so knowledgeable about the teams and bring in interesting facts about the teams there.

For those on CD who do not know, Alamo Regional runs the Regional FTC tournament on Thursday and Friday and the Regional FLL tournament on Saturday in conjunction with the FRC tournament. It is very exciting to see all three levels represented in the same venue.

As always, I wish I had more time to visit with other mentors and teams to pick their brains on how their program runs. So many resources, so little time - but I always come away with a few new ideas from visiting with other mentors.

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So very spotlighted.

With that out of the way, FRC 57 would like to thank FRC 1429 and FRC 3481 for working so hard with us in the elims. 8th seed wasn't the best place to be, but I think we had a decent showing despite that and our suddenly buggy shooter.

Congrats of course to FRC 2468, FRC 2789, and FRC 4063 on the impressive display of strategy and tactics to make it to regional champions. Those semi-finals were simply epic and nail-biting. Huge congrats to Jeff Erickson for the WFFA and the truly impressive hardware haul for 2789 this year. Hope you guys have as much success at Champs, and I hope you can get a defensive auto-mode worked out to bump your capabilities there.

Congratulations especially to Ilaria Ferrari of FRC 3103 on the Dean's List Finalist award. Her wiring and plumbing job on the robot made it easy to troubleshoot some of the shooting problems they were having and we got to blame programming and mechanical for a change. Those young women on Iron Plaid always impress me with their enthusiasm and dedication and I'm disappointed I can't drop by and work with them more often. They're working on their continuous improvement and I'm expecting bigger and better from them as the years go on.

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CONGRATS TO TEAM 1987 FOR WINNING CHAIRMANS!!!!

U GUYS R AWESOME

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Well, I've taken a couple days to be thoughtful about what to say after Alamo this year. Sadly, I can't find a word to describe it sufficiently. So, hopefully this won't be too long. Here goes...

Firstly, to Exploding Bunny Appreciation. It was the perfect alliance. At Hub City, it really sucked to have to defeat 2468 in the semis. But, it was a real pleasure to work with 4063 and the Bomb Squad to make it to finals. This time, we had the right combination (FCS, Pyramid Shooter, Defender) to pull off the victory. #hubcityredemption

Secondly, to the Finalist Alliance (3997, 801, 3545). You were a fantastic group. I'm happy that our alliance was able to pass two wild cards on to 3997 and 801, but also deeply sorry that 3545 was left out.

Thirdly, to the one seed (1477, 624, 457). Those matches were epic, and the excitement our six teams generated when we were on the field was unparalleled this year (and perhaps even for several more previous years as well).

Fourthly, to Lambot (3478) and FRC 1987 for EI and RCA, respectively. I've always liked Lambot's enthusiasm and the energy they bring to the event. The Chairman's Award video from 1987 was unlike any I had seen. It demonstrated the community that was the Alamo Regional, and kept more people in their seats to watch it than any other RCA video I've seen.

Lastly, and most importantly, to my team FRC 2789 TEXplosion, particularly Kelly S. for her exceptional essay that gave me the opportunity to walk up in front of everybody and hold that WFFA trophy. Also, of course to Bobby Garcia, Pedro Merced, Janice Trinidad, Adrianna Jacobi, Holly Davis, Jim Pabst, Donna Kidwell, Harry Kidwell, Andrew Seins, Kaitlyn Seins, Donte Davis, and Regina Pineda for being such great Mentors, Parents, and Alumni.

I remember sitting in the stands at Epcot in 1998 when I first saw a WFA handed out. I remember meeting Dr. Flowers in 2000, and shaking his hand again in Lubbock this year as we received our Finalist award. It has been a trip of 15 years, but here I am looking at one of my greatest life accomplishments as I write this.

Further thanks are due to FRC 41. Particularly to Brian Beckey from my student days and Bill Tompkins, Tom DiGanci, Jeff Charney, Mike Kutch, Jim Giacchi, Will Merrell, Garrett Dicken, Reema Sil, and Matt Tyler from my mentoring days for all of their support as Mentors, Teachers, Administrators, and Alumni. It was our win at the NYC regional in 2008 with FRC 555 and FRC 1989 that gave us the trip to Atlanta. There, I met FRC 2468 and the adventure that brings us to today was started.

To Mid-Atlantic Robotics, and all of the great teams there for my excellent and memorable experiences as a student and a mentor. Particularly, I want to mention Jerry Fisher, Chris Gregory, Monique DiTuri, Jim Hobin (and all the Hobins) and FRC 56, 223, 555, 1089, 1279, 1302, Team Overdrive (I don't remember their number), FRC 3142, and FRC 3314.

And to all my friends in Texas, all of the WFFA winners on the field when I received the award, and all of the teams I am so fond of. Particularly, Norman Morgan, Danny Diaz, Tony Bertucci, Scott McMahon, JVN, Adrienne Emerson, Jess Jank, David Yanoshak, Mike Outlaw, Sarah Le, Steven Zabriski, and Stash Zabriski. And for teams: FRC 57, 118, 148, 418, 2158, 2468, and 4610.

Thank you all for making Friday so wonderful. I will cherish the memory of that day and what all of you had done to make it possible forever.

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Those last matches were truly epic, im im glad to have been part of that semi-finals match, even though we came up short, it was an epic match. I would like to thank 1477 and 624 for taking us along an incredible elimination round, it would be an honor to do it again, i would also like to thank 4603 for the rolling tool box that they gave as a gift, We Were glad to have been able to help you here and provide tools and parts to rebuilt your robot (4603 I hope to see yall back here again). Team 3997, i like to say congrats on making it to the World Championship again this year, make us proud over thier.
and congrats to Team 1987 on winning the chairmans award here, hopefully will meet again at Ozark Mountain Brawl

Exploding Bunny Appreciation alliance, congrats on winning the regional, along with other teams from Texas, our state will be represented well at the World Championship. Good Luck And A Safe Journey to St. Louis everyone

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It was long...but we should consider ourselves so fortunate that we are surrounded by so many great people that deserve to be acknowledged :)

I shouldn't have to say this, which is exactly why I will, but Jeff, we are very proud of you and grateful for...well, everything. Thank you. Without you, we wouldn't have been able to dream of being this successful!

Which reminds me...that signature of yours is a little out-of-date, Billy Bob!

Now get back to work. :)

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Just to clear this up, that was not the Broncobots' chairman's award video. The video that was played was made by Roll24Productions (Great job Edward). My understanding was that there was a problem getting the chairman's video to the AV crew. This was not 1987's fault in any way. I was really looking forward to watching their video, hopefully they will post it to their website soon.

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Well then, I stand corrected. Hopefully 1987 will post their RCA video to YouTube or their website soon.

And to Roll24Productions, that was an excellent way to end the event.

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We very much enjoyed the Alamo regional. The excitement throughout kept us going every day.

Thank you for the congratulations on our RCA win. I am so happy for our students as I know the work they put in to make it happen. I will try to find out where our video is. Maybe next time we need to hire ::wink:: Roll24Productions as it was a very nice video they produced for the regional.

We would like to thank our alliance partners during eliminations, 3335 and 3999. It was a hard fought battle. In my opinion 2789 is a force to reckon with. I heard they wanted to cause stress for everyone at the competition as a defensive bot, and stress they caused.

It was awesome to see the international presence at Alamo. The energy the Mexican teams have is amazing. I hope they harness that energy into great engineering ideas for the future. Speaking of Mexican teams, 3478 received a well deserved EI award.

Congratulations to 2468 (yes I appreciate), 2789, and 4063 on a wonderful win. 1477, 624 and others sure had great robots, and you beat them. What an achievement! I wish I knew his name, but the to the coach on 2468, your 20 years of experience in coaching sure comes through in a completely positive way. Keep inspiring!

I know 1987 made friends for life with 3552. Stay awesome!

Attending what I believe to be the biggest FIRST regional with FLL, FTC, and FRC was impressive. The regional planning committee had their hands full, and they did a great job.

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That'd be Norman Morgan, "Coach Norm" a few posts up. Also the 2013 Hub City WFFA, so I think it's fairly likely he'll be inspiring for many years to come.

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I hope so! I've never worked with anyone else in FIRST that can put situations into perspective like Coach Norm. He knew when we needed to calm down, and he knew when we needed to get fired up, and he knew exactly how to do it, too. That WFFA at Hub City was very well-deserved.

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Thanks Andrew for the nice words. It was great to watch your team spend so much time across the pits from us on another robot. I know they will remember the dedication you and your team showed them.

Yes Kevin, I do plan on being around for a while. It is the closest I will get to coaching basketball again, but this is so much better in so many ways.

Bobby, I had a great set of mentors as coaches that provided me such good training starting with my Father who was an FFA advisor, my college basketball coach Mark Adams and all the way to Clifton McNeely who is current head basketball coach at the school of FRC1477.

I do admit that I get in a different element when I get on the field and start to prepare for a match.

I have had to change from keeping so close to the vest as I would in sports. Robotics has changed me as a teacher, mentor and individual. Tony Bertucci with FRC418 has been a huge influence on me as a mentor in robotics as well. He provides such a positive role model for mentors to follow and answers all my silly questions.

I am also very fortunate to have such a strong group of mentors as well as parents who work with my team.

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Thanks for the shout out Norm RE Alamo FIRST continuum Event , we even had a small 20 team Jr.FLL Expo out in the carpeted area of East Registration on Saturday from 10:00 - 2:00. We put this model out there as way to promote the full FIRST continuum to not only FRC teams but the media and general public as FRC has the more flashy robots that draws more attention. The trick is to balance the venue exposure and dual opening ceremonies so that the other programs don't feel like step children at a FRC event. It also affords the FLL kiddos to see first hand an idea of what is next.

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I did forget to mention the JFLL. In fact, one of my Assistant Principals was there to watch her grandson and wandered over to the FRC field after lunch. She was blown away and so excited. Yesterday, we were having STARR tests on campus and I found her showing a video from the tournament three different times to other admins and teachers. She told my principal that she would sign up to go to any robotics tournaments in the future.

I think the idea of all levels under one venue is great for the younger students to see the next level. My FTC students who stayed and watch Saturday were so pumped at the end of the day. Many of them had done FLL in the past and were over visiting with the younger students about the contest.

I think this is a great model for others to follow.

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Kansas City chose to separate out the events, but I was pretty impressed with all of the events together. As I say to my team often, "everything is a compromise".

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I want to send out thanks to the crew that worked the event. It was a blast. To the winning alliance I hope you guys kick some tail in St. Louis!

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I think it's a great idea if you can pull it off. One question I have, though, is how do you handle the folks that need to be in two or more places at once? I'm in the minority, but I'm not the only one that is both a FLL coach and a FRC mentor, and I volunteer at both types of events.

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So other than perfecting a clone device, I don't have a good answer. We do make it known that this will be the schedule at the start of the FLL and FTC season. We run FLL and FTC qualifiers during the season so only those that advance will be at this event. A much smaller population has to deal with this very same situation when it comes to World Championship and World Festival.

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What can I say? This was my third year attending to the Alamo regional, and as coach of the drivers team it was one hell of an experience. I wait the whole year just to be there, being a Mexican team it is hard attending to more than one regional. Going to a regional is kind of expensive for us. Luckily for us, next season we are going to have the first FRC regional in Mexico. All of you guys are invited, I just hope you know Spanish, you are going to need it in case you come.

About the regional, I'd like to congratulate everyone, Octopi for choosing us as their alliance partner. We weren't expecting to be picked since we had lots of trouble with our robot (burnt motors, cRIO issues...), but in the end we had lots of fun playing with them and our friends of ausTIN CANs. Also, congratulations to Octopi for their Rookie All Star.

To team 1987 congratulations on the RCA. And to all the other teams participating at elims, THANK YOU. Those were the most exciting matches I have ever seen at the Alamo.

To team 2468 thank you for helping us with our issues with the cRIO. Without you guys our robot would have been lost. I hope to see all you next season, expect the noisy guys of LamBot in 2014.

To all the teams attending to the championship, see you there.

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Sorry if this is a little late but team 4282 would like to thank all the teams that participated at the Alamo Regional as well as any teams that were paired up with us during qualifications. I don't think we would've done half as well as we did without you guys!

We'd also like to thank teams 624 and 2468 for helping us fix a few things on our robot that allowed us to pass inspections nwn

For our second year competing in FRC we believe walking away with a 10th place finish was a huge accomplishment considering our resources and we hope to see you all again next year at the Alamo Regional! (And maybe World Championships? ;3)


(Also a personal thanks to the mentor from team 2468 who gave me the Wago tool, I actually put it on my lanyard and it has come in handy more than once now cx)