Re: 2013 BAE Systems Granite State Regional
 

Unfortunately we already tried calling our Regional Coordinator and she wasn't able to help us. We reached out to all of our sponsors and as many companies as we could all day yesterday and today with no luck. It's tough being a team for the Boys and Girls Club because many companies already donate to the Club and can't give specifically to the Robotics Team.

Re: 2013 BAE Systems Granite State Regional
 

Wow, what a regional. It was am amazing experience for everyone on 2791.

I'd first like to thank 229 / 4124, in particular James Temple for all of their help and effort this build and competition season. In the build season, around week 2 or 3 we used some of their early concept designs to help us build our Frisbee hopper. Then, in week 5, I heard from James that they were struggling with shooting. I sent them along the details of our completed hopper-shooter prototype, and then a few days later I hear nothing but good things from the 229 camp. Essentially, we collaborated and ended up with "fraternal triplets".

As BAE approached, we decided it'd be best for all three of our teams if we scouted together, continuing the partnership from build season. This is probably the best decision I made all week. 229's students and mentors ran an excellent scouting program and Excel database, allowing our rookie scouting team to really learn from the best and to understand what it takes to be successful. We even made our pick list together, a level of collaboration I have never heard of in FIRST prior to this event. It was one of the most fun pick list meetings I've ever had. (Granted, we made it together since we were "certain" 229 wouldn't be in the top 8... but still)

I know that when 4124 took home that banner with 610, I was so proud of all of you guys. Congrats on the win, even though a room full of Clarkson engineers needed some help from an RPI guy to pull it off. ;)

I'd also like to thank our alliance partners, 3467 and 78. Having those two teams in the huddle was worth it for strategy alone. While the three of us didn't all work at 100% capability during either of our two matches (2791's shooter jammed in QF1, 3467 lost air pressure in QF1, and 78 unfortunately tipped in QF2), it was still a fun set of elims matches and the strategies we came up with were pretty solid. I'm sorry that our shooting wasn't working as well as it did in our best qual matches.

(On a "neat coincidence" note: This is the second consecutive event that we've had to face 610 + a team with Clarkson mentors from the eighth captain position. We did MUCH, MUCH better this time. One of these days, Nick, we'll catch you...)

I'm sure I have a million other things to say about this regional that I'm forgetting, but I do want to add just one thing. We were fortunate enough to win the Motorola Quality award at this regional. I am so proud of everyone on 2791 - we have come a long, long way from PVC arms, wooden claws, and fiberglass bumper frames. It's been a great year, and we'll see if we can keep our success going at WPI.

Re: 2013 BAE Systems Granite State Regional
 

No more dubstep arms! :) I was very happy to see 2791 take that home, what a clean machine.

Best of luck at WPI!

Re: 2013 BAE Systems Granite State Regional
 

Congratulations to 610, 4124, and 3609 you guys all had amazing robots and worked very hard to plow your way through the eliminations!

Big shout out to 131 on your Chairmans award. You are an amazing team on and off the field and that award was long overdue!

Thanks to 2791 for picking us and leading our alliance and to 78 for joining us. Sadly none of us stayed operational for both matches but we fought hard! Good luck to Shaker this weekend at WPI and can't wait to play with 78 again up in Pine Tree!

We on 3467 had a long weekend that started with a major rebuild on Thursday morning. We successful got the entire robot completed by lunchtime but some interference issues between our climbing arm and shooter assembly forced us to chose between one or the other. We went with our climbing arm since the shooter code needed a lot more debugging than two days of competition would allot so we stuck with the arm.

Big plans in store for Pine Tree so beware!

Good luck to teams moving forward to regionals and the Championship!