I remember that. The mentors really need to watch what they're doing. Our coach almost dq-ed us one match when we thought our radio wasn't working but our high-schoolers stopped him in time. Half the time you don't even think about it before fiddling. Something we need to watch for.

I don't know, team 521 looked pretty impresive and confident doing all those donuts in the middleof the field. They're a crazy group, those L33T CREW dudes. You really got to watch out for them!!! They have gone for 37 to 34 tied with 33 in QPs average and I hear tomorrow they get down to business and might even try to go straight!!!!:p

But seriously on a more serious note. Everyone is doing a bang up job and congrats to all. Team 236 is very consistent, 173 always seems to pull through some how, and 155 is doing great

P.S. I would just like to thank all of our alliance partners and all the teams that helped us out with our robot. Through out the day we had been having problems with the driving system. Often times we wern't able to help out our alliance partner as much as we had hoped but they never really got that upset with us and often would swing by the pits later on to see how we were doing and if there was nething they could do. Also I would like to thanks the teams that offered there own oppinion on the matter and willingly got down on there knees to have their own look to see what might be wrong. Sorry, for the inconvience and thanks to all of our (both the L33T CREW and all the teams that helped) hard work, after the awards show our robot was running fairly straight and capable to drop our suction plates and latch on.
Goodluck all and I'll see you in a few hours

donuts can be a powerful thing

Thanks MisterX for saying 155 is doing a great job. It isn't easy doing all that work in the stands or in the pits. As it shouldn't be any surprise to anyone we won the Team Spirit Award (when I say we I mean 155).

To those who can't watch, I'll be "quasi" webcasting it, through a webcam heh. The address is http://marc.themikecam.com

Picture will update every 15 seconds.

Just to let everyone know the Aztechs, Technoticks, and Kilowatz won the UTC regional

a.k.a 157, 236, and 782

yup
 

yup we sure did but all the robots that went up against us put up a great show and all the matches wer close ane non-stop action. what a great regional.

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I have to totally agree with you there. This regional's finals were soooo intense it was crazy. I was so surprised when the rage and paragon alliance went down. The matches were ridiculously good. I haven't been that excited watching a regionals finals since I first started FIRST in 2000 with my high school team.

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sorry, but I just have to do it just to make sure no rumors go around. The mentor on one team was not the human player. One of the students accidentally put on the mentor pin and the ref noticed. And the other mentor did not touch the joy sticks, he stepped in to driver zone pointed at the controler hitting it with his finger, he was not tring to drive it. Just making things clear.

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yeah, we accidentally wired one of our motors backwards during a last minute repair right before the match, so we couldn't actually move. Rage was good, but they could only do so much by themselves.

UTC Regional Thanks
 

Team 236, the Techno Ticks (funny dance people), would like to thank our alliance partners team 157 and team 782 for everything. Thanks for the awesome competition and we look forward to seeing everybody in Houston.

TEAM 236, THE TECHNO TICKS!!!

Hey Buzz...

Is that what happened? Well you guys put on a good fight all weekend and I was impressed by your bot, especially your autonomous mode. I could've sworn in one of your matches you hit the wall in about 2 secs. That only happened once, but the rest seemed to be around 3 secs. You guys did a bang up job at UTC. Looking forward to seeing how you do at nationals.

Well... as an unbiased (ha!) crowd member at UTC I have to say that I personally did not even realize that the last match they played was in fact THE last match.... I was up in the 600 section at the meadows, or the nose bleed section if you will, and I did not even realize they were playing the final matches. What threw me off was the fact that the two alliances who played the last match, did not have the usual "come out and shake each other's hand" before their last match... :confused:

Oh well, I watched parts of the match. It was a good one for what I saw of it and overall the competition was a fierce one, as it always is at UTC.

Congrats to all who went and hoping to see the teams who are now qualified to go to the championships in Houston!

For all the other teams who played at UTC and didn't qualify... look at it this way... You now have a start on your fund-raising for next year with all the money you save by not going.. if that is any consolation. :(

See.... I am always looking on the bright side!!! :D

What made me confused was the on saturday, they picked alliances, and then we were right on stage getting ready. what happened to lunch break? And yes, it was a very fast pace competition. We played one match and minutes later we were gettting called to go out again. Maybe to fast, but I think that was part of it beng such a good competition.