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About that. What kind of wheels are you using? Are those Vex Pro?

Good Luck to everyone else at the competition!

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Well having two gearboxes tear up is never a fun practice day, but.....MATCH Schedule is UP!!:D Looks like we get to team up with some great teams for the first match.

Also it looks like Saint Louis Teams get 12!!! matches this year. This is amazing with 43 teams attending.

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Well STL was hit with field communication issues today. A few matches had to be rerun which set us back about an hour.

1444 was in one of the failed matches, so of course they came by to see if we were using too much bandwidth. We aren't, but we are one of the few teams (so far) to have severe problems with the recent C++ update and fix them. So I ended up talking with the FIRST engineers in New Hampshire to help figure out the issue. Turns out one team did not have the update, so we helped them through it and fortunately they had no issues. Communications seemed to be fixed for now. Made for a hectic day...

Congrats to the teams that won awards today! You were all very deserving, IMO.

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I'm glad to hear it was fixed. We had communication issues last year and it was very frustrating! Best of luck to all teams tomorrow!

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^This, I believe that the judges have nailed the awards so far this year. A big Congrats belongs to Charlie Blair for Team 931. His humbleness, dedication, and passion for mentoring and teaching his students is well deserving of the WFA. The emotion on Charlie's face when he accepted the award showed how much he loves FIRST and his students. I know that moment brought some tears to my eyes then and now.

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Congratulations to team 1208, 3284, and 2408 on their regional win, and 1208's long deserved chairman's award

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Charlie, you are my hero. :D

Those who have worked with you at events and on teams know that your passion for teaching, challenging, and inspiring students drives you to absurd extremes of energy and commitment. This award is well deserved and long overdue.

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EDIT:

Found someone with most of the matches here

http://www.youtube.com/user/orrfan444

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Out of all the regionals I've been to and watched, including Galileo in 2011. This eliminations was the most competitive. A well earned victory. Everyone preformed amazing. Great job!

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Wow what a regional this year at Saint Louis. This year's regional had the best atmosphere of any FRC event that I have ever attended. The matches were very exciting and the spirit in the stands was fantastic. Here are a few shout outs.

To team 3862: Wow what a season this year. It was amazing seeing both area teams advancing into the elimination rounds. Your team and alliance played a great three matches against us in the quarters. I am so proud of what the Iron Scorpions were able to accomplish and overcome this season.

To team 1658: Thank you for making us you first pick. We were very surprised to be picked that high from the 28 seed. It was a shame that your potentiometer fried before eliminations or else the finals might have been a bit different. You guys were a great alliance captain and I look forward to competing with you in the future.

To team 2978: You all were a steal as a second round pick. You auto helped put up some major points and you played fantastic defense throughout eliminations. Your team played hard until the end even giving up your bucket for the alliance.

To team 3284: How your team fell to the 6 seeded alliance captain is beyond me. Your drive train was the strongest at Saint Louis this year and your movable net design will make you a force at championships. Congrats on the championship win.

To team 1706: All I could say when I saw this machine was wow. The Kinect targeting system that your team had was fantastic. Your team's robot level is something our team will strive for going forward into the future.

To team 1208: First of all how could you guys fall to 3284 as their first pick. Your robot was to good for that. The level that the MeTool Brigade has achieved throughout it's team's history is fantastic. Your team had not only an awesome robot, but also a fantastic program. Your Regional Chairman's Award is long overdue and I hope that someday our team can emulate the success that MeTool has displayed in their years of FRC.

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Thanks to 1288 and 1706 for choosing us in the finals. We had a great time playing with you guys and made it further than we ever thought we would. The finals were very exciting (albeit extremely stressful) this year.

Also thanks to 1706 for the buck-boost converter that helped solve the power problems with our Kinect.

And a huge thanks to our sister team, 4329, for your support throughout the whole competition and especially during the finals.

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Congratulations to our friends 3284, 1208 and 2408 for their regional win, and an extra congratulations to 1208 for their overdue Chairman's Award. Good luck to all of you at Championships.

Also congratulations to 2783 for winning the Engineering Inspiration award, we'll see you guys later at Queen City, and good luck at Championships.

And to our partners 3411 and 4330, it was a pleasure having worked with you both and making it to the semi-finals. Good luck at your upcoming regionals.

We'd also like to thank everyone who came and offered us help after our "durability test" Thursday. We're fortunate enough that our head mentor was able to teleport from Australia earlier that morning, otherwise, we probably would have been done for the weekend.

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FIRST of all, thank you for the regional everyone, it was a great time with some great teams. Being that we are now done with our season, we are thinking ahead.

My teammates and I are interested in hosting an off season event at our high school. We are 20 minutes outside of St. Louis and were wondering:
1: Thoughts?
2: What teams may be interested?

We are shocked there is not currently one and would like area teams to have a little more fun.

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Great robot, robohawks. You were a good team this year as always. I am sad that 4246 wasn't given the opportunity to alliance with you.