New York Tech Valley Regional
 

I have started this thread for questions & comments related to the NYTV Regional Competition on March 16-19th in Troy.

Team 4481 is already excited for the NYTV regional, in a week we will leave the Netherlands to visit New York and compete in the NYC Regional one week later we are competing at NYTV. Good luck to you all with the last preperations for the regional!:)

We're planning to make a picture database for the NYTV regional with additional information, so if you already have some nice pictures of your awesome robot feel free to send them: info@teamrembrandts.com. Thnx ;)

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Team 4481 is already excited for the NYTV regional, in a week we will leave the Netherlands to visit New York and compete in the NYC Regional one week later we are competing at NYTV. Good luck to you all with the last preperations for the regional!:)
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Safe travels and see you in a few weeks, if you need any travel/food/entertainment suggestions for the Albany area feel free to ask and I can make some suggestions.

1493 is really excited about this years regional. A few months ago people were talking about the "hardest/best" event this year and I think the NYTV is a sleeper. So many really good teams are attending the event and from what I have seen so far from many of the local teams its going to be very competitive. I am interested in seeing what alliances form on Saturday. Hopefully we will be joining one

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Any suggestions on where to eat dinner Wednesday-Friday nights?

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Both Moe's Southwest Grill and Dino BBQ are two places that come to mind that are more of large group atmosphere. Big Apple and Defazios are the two biggest pizza shops in town.

Coming from a volunteer or mentor perspective, you have to hit up Brown's Brewing Company.

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Yeah, that's not gonna happen. Chaperoning kids + brewhouse = fired.

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But at least your last moments as a teacher would be absolutely delicious. ;)

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And then I would be poor and homeless and sad.

Maybe some other time!

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^ This.

... But I was going to ask if you were looking for places for your entire team or a "get-away" option. :)

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195 took over Dino BBQ for dinner one night while at TVR last year. HIGHLY recommend it. Good food, Good atmosphere, and they can certainly fit a large number of people (IIRC, we brought 80+) .

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99% of teams will probably be staying in hotels out in Latham / Albany by the airport, where there is your usual assortment of chain fast casual sit down restaurants and whatnot. I don't (didn't) eat out there that much, but there's a Red Robin, an Uno's, a Cici's, Olive Garden, some Chinese buffets, that sort of chain family fare that should work for you guys. Lots of places out there along Wolf Road or route 7 should be fine. Honestly this is probably your best option versus eating in Troy directly.

Troy is full of excellent little places to eat, most of which are not "large group of high school students" friendly, but are all delicious. Muddaddy Flats is a take out / eat in fast casual quesadillary, with a variety of delicious options. They should be big enough for a team or two. Up the hill by the Wal-Mart is Pancho's, a decent Mexican restaurant great for large groups. Lots of the best restaurants (Brown's, Bombers [though that just closed down, right?], etc) are also bars, so you probably can't take kids there. Flying Chicken is a pretty good soul food place, but it's close enough to a less than desirable neighborhood that I can understand if you're sketched out by it

I'll edit a few more places into this post once I remember.

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Not to break away from the food discussion too much....

The 2016 Pit Map has been posted:

http://techvalleyfirst.org/doc/NY_Te..._Pit_Map. pdf

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On TVR's competitiveness:
Wow this regional is tough.
359 is the obvious one to point out, traveling from Hawaii. Also traveling from afar is 4481 with an excellent looking machine. Traveling from Ohio is 48 and from Canada is 3990. All of these away-teams have a track record of success, and I expect them to up the ante for TVR like some of the away teams from last year did.

From the Capital Region, 2791 looks to have their best machine yet, 20 is coming off an Einstein appearance. 5236 has a solid breaching machine, and 4203 has a cool robot. Some other typical contenders from the Capital Region like 3044, 1493, and 250 are probably going to be excellent as well.

From Western NY are 3003, 1551 who usually build solid machines, and 5254, who revealed our prototype machine during Week 3 of build season, and has been working hard ever since.

229 is coming from Northern NY, and they have a history of success, as well as 333 from downstate, who revealed a beautiful machine yesterday at premiere night.

Lastly, we have a crop of rookies, one from China, 5879, and three others, 5881 from Albany, 5943 from Carmel, and 5964 from Voorheesville all coming to us for the first time.

I'm beyond excited for TVR, and I can't wait to see what the Tech Valley can do against some of these out-of-state powerhouses!

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Yup -- 36 teams, a surprising percentage of whom are pretty darned good most of the time! I'm looking forward to a brutally fun time. :D

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I am interested in seeing how this regional will play out; it seems quite competitive this year.
After reviewing the pit layout, I cannot seem to find team 3003. Did they forget to add their pit?

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For the record, 4930 is also coming from WNY to defend our TVR championship from last year!

I'm really looking forward to this event. It's got everything! I don't think I can remember attending an event this small that has looked so competitive top-to-bottom. Add onto that the fact that we have teams from Ohio, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Montreal, The Netherlands, and China? What? This is going to be incredible.

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The pit labeled 3043 is incorrect (that team is from El Paso and isn't coming).
That pit should be for 3003.
Looks like just a typo.

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Good eye Mark, it would appear that you are correct. Thanks for the clarification.
Hopefully they didn't mistype their pit display number either!

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For anyone traveling from outside the area (looking at you 4481), go check out the Empire State Plaza in Albany. There's a ton of cool Dutch architecture as well as some more unusual buildings...

Egg.

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Hey everyone. Who's excited for a little TVR action this week?! I know I am!

Anyway, I'm going to be your FTAA for the event (make sure to come say hi!) and got myself in a bit of a pickle. I'm coming from the Rochester area. My plans fell through last minute so I don't currently have a place to stay for the event. If any local teams/mentors/parents/volunteers would be willing to let me couch-surf for a couple days, or if any traveling teams happen to have an empty space in one of your hotel rooms you'd be willing to share, I would be forever grateful. I can get a hotel room on my own, and will if I have to, but I'm trying to minimize the cost of travel this year since I'm doing 6 events.

If you're able to help in any way, please PM me. I really appreciate it!

See you all Thursday morning!

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What an event!

Congratulations to 359, 3990, and 4508 for winning the event, 3990 again for winning Engineering Inspiration, and to 229 for winning the Chairman's Award!

Thank you to 229 for joining 5254 and 20, and thank you to 1665 for coming in clutch in the semifinals when 229's drivetrain had to unfortunately fail.

Shout outs to:
2791 and 3419, who we were debating picking over 20 on 5254. After weighing a number of scenarios, we ended up selecting 20, but 2791 made our semifinal match-up incredibly hard with 5236, and their third partner, 3624, aka "Magic Bucket".

Also a big shout-out to 4481, who was byfar the most enthusiastic team at the event, with the most ambitious machine there. Everyone wanted you as their third robot, and your outreach is amazing and well-known. If anyone at TVR deserved a trip to championships for their global outreach, it was your team.

I'm ecstatic that 5254 can attend the world championship once again this year, and I'm also glad that every robot in the finals can attend worlds this year due to the Wildcard system.

I'll see many of you in a week at the Finger Lakes event!

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What a fun 3 days at RPI for TVR

The quality of play was excellent and some really impressive teams that could possibly go pretty far at Championship.

Team 1493 would like to thank 48 for selecting us to partner with. It was an honor to be noticed and selected by such a iconic team. We have been working really hard the last 2 years to improve our program and it is nice to see the hard work paying off. I wish we could do FLR this weekend but the back to back regionals is a killer and we don't have the ability. (Can we please figure out districts NY???)

Best of luck to our other alliance partners 1551 at FLR this week, and good luck to all the Capital District teams at FLR this weekend, bring some banners back to the area.

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(I think it was 1551 :p )

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Thanks (fixed)

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Team 48 had fun working with you guys! I think our alliance could have made it farther without our cylinder issues, but it was fun while it lasted.

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Great event!

We obviously didn't do as well as we'd have liked to--a faulty PDP followed by a faulty PCM didn't help things any, and we literally ground our (WCP aluminum) drive gears round (and aren't sure how/why that happened). Without time to replace them, we hoped they'd last the tournament; alas, had they survived another twenty feet I think we'd have been semifinalists, but we backed through the Sally Port and then...spinning motors, no impulse.

Thanks to 48 and 1493 for a hard-fighting alliance, and to 229 for some hex shaft afterward so we could keep things tidy as we yanked our gearboxes off in preparation for this week.

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+1

Having your season end week 2, or 3 is not fun for anyone.

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An existing dialogue on the topic can be found here:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=136623

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You can still have your year end on week 2 or 3 in districts :rolleyes:

Districts add playtime for the same cost as a regional

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Team 145 would like to thank teams 250 and 333 for choosing us to round out your alliance. I think we had the makings of a real spoiler but it just didn't happen. We loved 333's auto, and 250's amazing scouting program was inspiring.

We knew we had a decent machine, even though our rank was pretty low, when we were scouted by 3 or 4 of the top teams on Saturday morning.

We made some new friends and re-connected with some old ones as well.

We held the high score with 359 and 3419 for most of the day on Friday!
(Thanks 3419 for the shove at the end!)

TVR gets the best talent from New York, the Northeast, The US, North America and the World!

Congrats to the planning committee for a great event.
The judges, referees and volunteers are top notch and Angry Eric is the best in the biz!

We look forward to playing the game again at the Robot Rumble in October and seeing all of you again.

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BTW, the Quals 49 would have been scored with 198 points in elims, which would have exceeded the 195 non-penalty points we scored twice in the elims at CVR. Congrats on a great match.

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Not sure how you got 198, but nonetheless it was a great match at -8 capture, for a random qualification match. Great way to end our day 9-0 on Friday.

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The magic bucket really sucks...literally. Sorry that joke never gets old.
Thank you to our partners for a great playoff, 2791 and 5236.

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On behalf of team 3044,I would like to thank our fellow alliance partners Team 4930 and Team 4481 for a fantastic regional. We are looking forward to seeing you this weekend at FLR, Electric Mayhem.

Shout out to 4481 for their fantastic team spirit, hope to cheer with you again soon!

Congratulations to all teams for an amazing regional!

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Check out the amazing highlight video for the 2016 NY Tech Valley Regional!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC3SZCpC5S0

Hope all you guys enjoy this. :)

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On behalf of Electric Mayhem, 4930, I want to return the thanks to 3044 and 4481. This was the most fun alliance to be a part of I have ever seen, and we even gave the top alliance a run for their money in our first match (before everything fell apart in the second one!).

As a matter of fact, we had such a great experience partnering with OxBe4 that we picked them again one week later, along with 340, and went all the way to the finals together! What a great week and a half.