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I guess same as every regional, I'm always looking to connect with more FIRST friends, so this post is for whoever will be attending the New York City Regional on March 7th 8th and 9th. Got ideas/suggestions? Any events you plan on throwing individually? Questions?

I'll be doing announcements in the pit on all 3 days so drop by and say hi while you're there!

So for everyone else, who's competing and who's volunteering there?

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I'll be attending and I'll be part of my team's Pit Crew, so I'll be sure to stop by and say hi!

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Sameer, I'll be there for at least one of the days. Most likely hanging out with 694.

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woohoo Drexel represent!
were you from Stuy or just for fun?

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Our team (1676) is still on the waitlist (:() but some of us will probably stop by to visit on the Saturday.

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It was cool to work with you guys at the competition last year.

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Just for fun, Joe Blay is one of the few NYC people I know.

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Yea that's probably one of the things that irks me about FIRST...the regionals fill up really fast and it becomes pretty hard to get that 2nd or third regional in. 1155 and 2265 got put on the waitlist for Rochester and got in, but for a time we thought we would be going to only 1 regional this year.

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I hear he's kinda cool.

Anyone who is new to NYC should feel free to stop by our stands, we could always use more scouts...

694 will be at NYC as usual, hopefully 1676 can break off the waitlist, although I'm not positive I want to be on the other side of the field from them like last year.

We usually host some sort of social the day before the regional. I'll talk to our guys tomorrow to see if we can put something more concrete down a little earlier this year.

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Team 237 will be coming to NYC after competing in Baltimore the last two years.

I hope that someone will be able to host a team social there, our team loves to perform and write songs just for these occasions.

Anyone think this regional could put up a national high score? I'd love to see it done here.

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I believe NYC or Hartford set the high score in 2009...ofc it was beaten in subsequent regionals but it was pretty up there. I think it would be pretty nice to do it again.

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Looks like we've got 7 rookie teams this year, but 1 less team. Wonder which side of the Javits Center we got...

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Our team (2016) was on the wait list for NYC as well but we wanted another regional so we signed up for the Buckeye Regional. We will miss the NYC regional as we have many friends there. We will try to stop by on Saturday as well.

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Gahh so close...:yikes:

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Team 1396 the Pyrobots will be there:)

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Ive had the opportunity to finally come back and help my team out this year after graduating. Its gonna be a lot of fun and I cant wait to see what this year is gonna be like at NYC.

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Awesome! I'm looking forward to seeing you guys in the pits!

Yep, mentoring is a lot of fun and NYC Regional is usually really great!

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Team 369 will be at NYC and look forward to seeing many great teams as always.

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Sadly, we were too late to register and we are on the waitlist for NYC. We will however, be competing at the Connecticut Regional and the Long Island Regional.

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Team 2601 - The Steel Hawks - will be there in NYC! Can't wait to see everyone and their robots!

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Hope everyone will be fine through the storm...good luck as we enter the final leg of build season!

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Team 1230 Lehman Lionics will be there as well. Looking forward to competing with everyone.

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All female students and mentors are invited to the NCWIT Women's Networking Reception on Thursday afternoon. For information & to RSVP:
http://www.nycfirst.org/nycfirst-events/ncwit-reception

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4263 will be there. We're a second year team, I'm a first year mentor! I'll be there all three days, Thurs with my team, Fri volunteering for FTC probably (and with my team as much as I can be), and Saturday with my team and maybe in our career booth.

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Team 545. I'll be there on Saturday to watch the action.

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Andres, you can cheer for the Long Island teams!

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NYC Regional is all set for next week!
All the Pit stations are assigned.

We have special international guests from Canada, UK, Brazil, and Turkey.

See everyone on Thursday!

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Hey all!

1 Week to go! It's going to be an outstanding event. Get excited!

For those of you that use Facebook, spread awareness of the event to your friends by joining this event and inviting your friends, colleagues, classmates! We want to make sure everyone knows about these awesome days at the Javits. Post robot pictures too, if you'd like. Let's raise the level of excitement as high as it can go!
http://www.facebook.com/events/48137..._mall_activity

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Is there a way we can see what the pit setup is like?

Also team 694 has put together this document for pit scouting before the event. With a field this large, we thought this could really come in handy for teams specifically teams without the resources to pit scout.

Here is the thread that I made to discuss this doc if anyone has any suggested changes.

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Jblay,
Here is the Pit Layout for this year's NYC Regional. See you next week!

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/38743

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Cant wait to see you all on Thursday.

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So Pumped for Thursday! I'm part of Team 334's drive team so I look forward to working with and competing against all of you guys!

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Will there be a webcast?

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FIRST Team 271 - The Mechanical Marauders - will be there, can't wait for the competition!

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When is there not? Its New York, I'm sure there will be. There usually is a camera guy up on a cherry-picker right behind the bleachers filming the field.

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Please keep in mind as Cherrie Fleisher-Strauss (HI!) notified us,

All female (sorry boys) students and mentors are invited to the NCWIT Women's Networking Reception on Thursday afternoon.

The event is hosted by the National Center for Women & IT (NCWIT) & Bloomberg and takes place at the NYC FIRST Robotics Regional Competition on Thursday, March 7 from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

This is your opportunity to network with lots of other young women in technology, including those in college and working professionals, and learn about opportunities, internships and scholarships available through the NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Program. You’ve worked hard to get here, so take a break on them! There will be food, music, networking opportunities and door prizes!

Attendees MUST RSVP, so please go to: http://ncwitaspirationsnyc2013.eventbrite.com/ to RSVP and for more information about the event.

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1796 is in the process of working with nycfirst to collaboratively get a webcast running for the event. I`ll let you know of more details as soon as they become available!

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We should try and get it recorded this year. I know I personally love looking back at our matches and can't imagine other NYC teams don't.

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3 more days :eek:

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Plan some time to visit the College & Career Fair at the NYC Regional. There is a list of participating schools, sponsor companies & associations on our website: http://www.nycfirst.org/nycfirst-eve...ge-career-expo

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This is true, our team enjoys going back and watching matches to see what we did so well, as well as what we could have improved on. I'll see if its possible to make this happen at the same time as running the live stream.
Just 3 more days! Hope everyone is as excited as we are.

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If any team needs some help, I will be at our pit on Thursday till about 4pm and Friday all day. Just stop by and ask I will help as much as I can.

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In general you should always ask teams for help when you need it, especially teams that are doing well and don't have a lot to fix, they are always happy to help. 375 has always been a fantastic option for this at NYC and Billy knows some stuff I guess. I hope everyone at NYC has gone over the inspection checklist on their robot and knows what to expect when they go through inspection.

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Not to mention have all your forms ready...it'll save so much time during registration. Trust me, with 65 teams to flag down, it can get a bit crowded around the Pit Admin desk and people will lose their temper.

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Team 884 is excited to be attending NYC for the first time. Just wanted to double check that we are allowed to drop off our robot Wednesday night between 6:00pm-8:00pm. Can someone confirm that for me? Thanks and good luck everyone. See you two days!!!!!

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Hang on...I emailed Pat Daly to find out. As soon as I find out, I'll let you know or someone else will post it.

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NYC Agenda

Yes, according to the schedule, dropoff is Wednesday 6pm-8pm.
5 team reps.

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Team 375 is so happy to be back at the NYC Regional! :)

We are available to help anyone with robot fixes and scouting.
Come by if you need anything


-- Good Luck all NYC Regional Teams :)

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Thanks Mark

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NYC Regional will be webcast at


nycfirst website: http://www.nycfirst.org/nycfirst-eve...-live-coverage
USTREAM: http://ustre.am/UMS1

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And if its on there it will also be available on BlueAlliance Game Day. Seems like the same format. Thanks Mrs. Strauss!

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Hey Guys!

I know this is a bit late, but we (Stuypulse 694) will be hosting a social at the Fat Cat Music Club (no this is not like one of those crazy clubs with people jumping and dancing, although you're free to do so if you'd like). It's fairly cheap and there's a lot of table games you can play while hanging out with us and other teams who are competing in the NYC Regional. It's also a great opportunity to, well, socialize.

Anyway, Here's the rest of the information:
Date: Wednesday, the 6th (AKA Tomorrow)
Address: 75 Christopher Street
Directions: Closest Subway station is the 1 Train (Christopher St.-Sheridan Square Stop), you can also take the A,B,C,D,E,F,M to the W 4 St and walk a few blocks to the Fat Cat.
Time: 6-8 PM
Cost: ~$15 or less if you leave early
What to do: Pool, ping-pong, shuffleboard, fooseball, chess, checkers, backgammon, and scrabble, or just hang out.

Also: There's food in Fat Cat, but you can also order takeout from nearby restaurants (we usually end up eating together after this event, you're welcome to join). For those of you who have never been to one of our team socials before, it's very fun, and you get to hang out with people from different teams whom you will meet again in the next few days.

Hope to see you all on Wednesday!
Po.

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Bringing this thread back up in case people haven't seen it yet.

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I would make a separate thread for that Social Event.

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We would like to thank our alliance partners teams 334 and 1635. We had an excellent run and it was very enjoyable. You guys played very well and we are grateful for having the opportunity of playing with you.

We would also like to congratulate the winning alliance teams 694,3137, and 4797. You guys played very well and facing you guys in the semifinals was the highlight of the day. It was an intense set of matches.

Thank you to all the teams that participated and good luck in any of your future events.

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Despite everything, team 334 really enjoyed working with you guys and 1635. You had great bots, attitudes, and members. We look forward to working with you in the future.

I would also like to congratulate the winning alliance, especially team 3137. You guys had a tremendously ingenious design and it got you places. Have fun in St. Louis. =)

I have to say this was one of the best years of my FRC career.

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And the same to you. Watching your defense was excruciatingly suspenseful; you guys definitely made us pull out our A-game and get our act together. I guarantee that everyone on our team found semis to be as intense and exhilarating as you found it - it was most certainly among the highlights of our day, if not the highlight.

Shouts out to 1660, 3171, and 4122 as well; PRIDE's level 2 climber and 1660's accuracy made us very nervous, and competing against you guys was fantastic.

#frcnyc2013

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As an audience member, it was very exciting watching semi-finals and finals. The replay made it even more so.

334: I admired your robot all weekend. It was consistent (and good) all weekend. As I programmer by trade, I admire the consistency.

375: Thank you for helping us fix our shooter. You showed what Gracious Professionalism is all about. I'm going to Chesapeake for fun and hope to see you in finals there.

1660: It was great seeing you win Chairmans. I'll never forget the first year I did crowd control when you were sitting right by the area I was "guarding." I asked to buy a granola bar (thinking it was a fundraiser) and was just given one. And the team helped me keep the area clear. While all the students on the team then have since graduated, the gesture made an impression on me and helped me enjoy the experience enough to come back. And later become a mentor.

1635, 4122 and 3171: congratulations to you as well. You all fielded great robots.

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The very tough build season we experienced had given us no indication that the NYC Regional would be so exciting. Thanks to all participating teams for making the competition a fun experience. Congratulations to the winners and especially to the rookie Team 4797 that was part of the winning alliance. What a thrill it must be to win the NYC Regional after climbing that steep learning curve of the first season.

Special thanks to our alliance partners 334 and 375. We played some good matches together. The qualifying match we played with 334 on our side was the turning point as far as our team's confidence was concerned.

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I too want to say thanks to Teams 1635 and 375. You fought hard and had awesome robots, its a shame we couldn't work together more. Also, congrats to the winning alliance of 694, 4797, and 3137. I remember when I met 4797 at a ConEd conference and they were so curious on how to even start, now look at them going to St Louis. I sincerely applaud those guys. As a Senior, this year really meant a lot to me and I can honestly say that I am happy with how we did. We quickly became the talk of the town among a GREAT showing of robots and I think we raised the reputation of Team 334. Thanks again to 1635 and 375, you guys really help give us a fighting chance.

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Congrats to the regional winning alliance and to all those who won awards.

Thanks to those of you who watched our webcast and to any of you who missed it or want to relive your matches for memories they can be found below.
We had a member at the AV desk both days cutting and splitting matches as they happened so anyone could easily go back and find their match in the videos section on the right of the website. Sorry if we missed any but I'm pretty sure we got 99% of them.
Link to archived matches: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/29861992

Again congrats to the winning alliance and I'm sure we will see some of you in a few weeks at SBPLI.

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I haven't had the chance to read through all the madness on ChiefDelphi or in my email after yesterday since I woke up about 30 minutes ago and am currently consuming every food item at my parents house, but just some initial thanks and comments.

I heard there was some drama about our human player removing the slot, when we were told this was okay by the ref staff, I found it a little odd, but figured it was just something I hadn't thought about before and especially since those slots came off so easily it made sense that you were allowed to remove them.

In terms of the craziness with the field, I still don't know exactly what happened, I understand why teams were forced to lose their camera, because we wouldn't be able to play otherwise. 3137 basically couldn't score in teleop in the elimination rounds as a result of this and it was a huge blow to our alliance. As soon as I heard about this I walked over to the FTA to see if anything could be done, admittedly I would probably not have done this so eagerly if it didn't effect our partners, but I was informed that nothing could be done and I had to accept it. We modified our strategy as a result of this and rolled with the punches. I'm not saying this series of events was fair to anyone, because we all had to deal with them, but they existed so we dealt with them. I do appreciate the time that was put in especially in the semifinals to try and get everyone at full operation and the recognition that the #1 alliance deserved a replay in the semis despite the fact that we argued the call because that is always the initial response once you've won a match that is about to be replayed.

With regards to penalty calls, this game has extreme penalties and you have to develop strategies around them. We worked hard to make sure all our partners always understand the rules with regards to fouls and that made us walk out of the qualification matches with only 3 foul points on our alliances. This was a big reason that despite all our mechanical troubles during the first 2 days, we ended up in the top 5. Different refs have different interpretations of the rules, especially in early weeks while the game is still evolving and we emphasized understanding how the game was going to go at the regional, not how we thought it should go.

Now some shout outs:
375, you guys are the epitome of gracious professionalism, you just get what FIRST is all about, it's because of that, that you guys have so many wins and awards under your belt, you guys are the team I looked up to as a student and still learn from to this day. It was great getting to play a match with you despite the loss, and those elimination rounds against you were the craziest that I have ever been a part of.

334, you had the best robot at the event without a doubt, you were the first team on our pick list, no offense to our partners. Great job this weekend and really just proving yourself to be a force if not the force at NYC going forward, it is wild to think how much your team has grown in the last 2 years, I have a feeling Brooklyn Tech will be back with a vengeance next year.

3137, such a consistent auto and climb, and that was exactly what we needed. You guys have a great group and it was amazing getting to work with you. Your ability to just flip your strategy and just be the perfect teammate was unreal. A huge part of the reason our alliance won was that we weren't 3 teams operating on the same field, we were one unit playing towards one goal. It was an honor getting to work with you guys for the first and hopefully not the last time.

4797, showing everyone why you should not hesitate to pick rookies. We picked you guys cause you were consistently worth 20 points a match. 10 from the auto and 10 from the climb every time. What we didn't realize was that once we were with you and were able to help with some of your electrical issues you were able to be an awesome defender. Aldo, I hope I'm spelling that right, you were an awesome driver and seriously slowed down the best robots at the event while not committing penalties or slowing down our scoring. I hope you guys can get the money together in time and make it to St. Louis, we will try to help you get the sponsorship and fundraising you need.

To the finalists, it was awesome to see 1660 make it so far and pick up the chairman's award, I know you guys have been waiting a long time to qualify for the championship. 4122, just consistently solid all weekend, if you guys weren't scooped up we would have been facing a very rough decision between you and 4797. 3171, it was great to see you recover from that fall off the pyramid in the late matches of qualifications and still put together a finals run as an alliance captain, I hope we get to cross paths again in the future.

To all the teams that were at the competition this weekend, the volunteers, the judges, thanks for helping make this NYC regional what it was and hopefully next year will be even better.

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Man Thanks Congrats to you guy, it was a great match! And you guys all played well, I'd like to thank 3171 and 4122 we was great team and had a great run!

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Did anyone find a Navy Blue North Face Recon yesterday? The last place I saw it was on the stands on the side of the scoring table, horizontal middle, vertical top. I left it with my team while I went to do something else. Inside is a clipboard with stickers from Autodesk, VEXpro, Con Edison, Bronx Science Robotics, and Nvidia. My name, Richard Lin and Team 1155 is written on the back of the clipboard. There is also a frisbee with a Bronx Science logo on it. I'd appreciate any information that you may have. Thanks!

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FIRST Team 3171, Hurricane P.R.I.D.E. would like to thank and congratulate our #7 alliance partners, The Harlem Knights (1660) and The O-bots (4122) on a great run all the way through to finals. Congratulations to Team 1660 on their Chairman's Award win, and congratulations to 4122 on the Inspiration In Engineering Award. We wish you both the best in St. Louis. Congrats to 694, 3137, and 4797 on their win, with a huge thank you to 3137 for helping us with our bot. We can't wait to compete with you guys at SBPLI. We'd like to thank Team 353 for their support and friendship. Finally, it was great working with Team 4713 in getting their robot ready for their next match! Good Luck Teams! On a final note, we hope Team 694 has an easy time with getting their photon cannon reset! - By the way, we love it.

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Richard,
All of the lost items were sent back to Manchester in the crate. There was a backpack, but we didn't look inside of it. There were also jackets, pants, hats. It amazes us what you guys lose...

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I would just like to say we had a great time at the NYC Regional and it was so nice to meet so many amazing people and teams. It was so interesting to see how each robot was unique in its own way.
Thank you to everyone and Good Luck to all teams :)

- From Team 375

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Haha! How could someone lose their pants?! I mean I know its an exciting event, but come on...that's a little too much.

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UPDATE****

FIRST Team 1796, the Robotigers picked FIRST Team 358 and us, FIRST team 3171 to be in their number 4 alliance. We won the SBPLI regional and now the following teams who competed in NYC have invitations to nationals: 694 (NYC W), 3137 (NYC W), 4797 (NYC W), 1660 (NYC F/Chairman's), 4122 (NYC F/Insp. in Engineering), 1796 (NYC G.P./SBPLI W), 3171 (NYC F/SBPLI W), and 353 (NYC SF/SBPLI Insp. in Engineering). 358 was also an SBPLI winner and winner of the regional chairman's award, but did not compete in the NYC 2013 regional.

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Crazy how good 1796 got after not even making eliminations at NYC. We saw their potential at NYC, but they just didn't have it all together yet, was really awesome to see that they put things together and where playing to that potential. Also a shout out to 369 who was awesome at both NYC and from what I saw of SBPLI, real shame they won't be at champs, I think 369 really stepped it up this year and made an awesome machine and in my opinion their best ever.

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NYC was very... frustrating for us to say the least. Qualifications 1-8 were horrible with sporadic motions by the robot, left side drive randomly dropping out, and autonomous woes. When we finally diagnosed it down to a bad Anderson power pole quick connect crimp to a drive motor, pneumatic trouble, along with some serious programming clean-up we were all set to strut our stuff in our last qualification match (a replay of a previous match) and show we were worthy of being picked. Fate said otherwise; as soon as Qual 7 rematch started auto started our shooter feeder arm snapped off with the attempt to shoot our first auto disc.
At that point we knew it was impossible to get a pick as our consistency was deplorable even though just a new aluminum tube kept us from running almost 100%. We easily replaced the arm with our back-up but with no more matches to play all we could do was pack up.
We went home with a lot of lessons learned and an itch to get our bot performing the way it should. We entered SBPLI with some upgraded code and drivers that relentlessly practiced on our skeleton-drive bot( simplified AM frame with same drive-train as our comp bot). SBPLI most definitely wasn't a flawless performance but it was relieving to see her work the way we expected her to since NY.

JBlay, thanks for noticing us in ny and even motivating us to get her working for NY by coming up to us and telling us 694 was interested in picking us if we got our stuff together for our last match (clearly we didn't in time). It really gave the students(and the mentors) a push to try to get it working by our 7th qual replay(due to field fault) knowing that teams were still looking at us.
SBPLI is always an enjoyable regional and we thank all the teams there for helping with our random parts and tool requests. It most definitely wasn't a smooth road to the finals but our awesome alliance 358 and 3171 really helped us pull it out (we were ecstatic to see both of you were still available for our two picks as you both were at the top of our list) . We played some really tough alliances but the seamless communication and tweaks made as an alliance I think is what pulled us through. Our opponents were fierce contenders and we were never confident knew who won a match until the scores went up. Thanks to the LI teams around us in the pits who made it possible and I think this season summarized a great lesson for our students that resiliency and constant persistence pays off. 1796 looks forward to seeing our alliance, and everyone else at St. Louis. I'm pretty sure we will be bus-ing it so if anyone needs anything please don't hesitate to PM me.

NYC FIRST Photo Contest April 19th-May 10th
 

Everyone who attended the NYC Regional is invited to participate in the NYC FIRST Photo Contest: https://www.facebook.com/nycfirst/app_292725327421649. It runs through May 10, 2013. Help us spread the word!