Pam is great. :) :) So is Sav. :) But.... I love Pamela!


To everyone.... have fun!.....Except for you Tytus... :D

Hey, kinda got a last minute problem possibly arising, but hey, when isnt there? heh

Is anyone coming through broward county on the way there? We're having a problem getting all the students AND the robot there. We were wondering if someone could let our robot hitchhike up. It may not be nessacary at all, but I'm trying to start early if its a problem. Thanks everyone!!!


Update on 108: Well, we had a snabu with the drill motors on our tranny during a presentation at a middle school. The original drill spun out and killed the brushes and froze the motor. However, we have a box of spare drill motors so you would've thought itd be easy. Problem: the gear required to be on the drill motor is different than the ones ON our drill motor. So we're now trying to get the machine shop to replace and press the gear on the motors. Should we be unable to do this, watch out! You'll see a very, very slow 108 (but I'll still keep pushing!).

How's everyone else's bot looking? Good luck all!!

Problem should be resolved! I know I'm posting this rather quickly, but one of our engineers just notified us he's coming and can the robot. Thanks so much for your support everyone!

Give me a message on xtekeymanx on aim, im leaving saturday at prob like 5am

less than 24 hours now,
im Loading up the truck afterschool

red revolving light cover
 

we seem to be missing our red light cover. does anybody have one to spare? if not, can we borrow somebody's when they're not up?

Post some pics so those of us who can't go :( and share 'em with us. And no torturous pictures either please ;)


Have fun! And let the party begin!

Good Luck
 

Good luck to everyone going tommorow. I will sitting at home waiting for the Sears guy.

Can't wait til UCF. I'll definatly be there :)

ya i just got here in orlando we are staying in the la quinta and there is no high speed interenet connection :( well i cant wait to see everyone tommorow

Race is going to be there!

ALL RITE!

George, Andrew, Nathan, Where can we see a teamlist?

There is only approximately 13 hours, 44 minutes, and 23.41 seconds left until the pits open. I can't wait! I think I will go to sleep soon since I have to get up at like 4:00am.

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In case anyone on my team is trying to reach me, my e-mail isn't working tonight so if it is important enough, call me or send me a pm on Chiefdelphi. It is funny that my instant messaging, one of my website's webshell, and me e-mail stopped working within about an hour of each other.

Anyways, see you all at the rodeo.

Rodeo Results
 

Sportsmanship: 665 for oustanding generosity in the Pits
Play of the Day: 180 for righting itself with it's arm after being tipped
Spirit: 179 for being very loud and very green of course =-]

Finalists: 386, 665, 1065

Champions: 108, 180, 186

Congratulations to all of the winners. I'd like to thank everyone who attended. Spirited teams, tough competition, and outstanding examples of gracious professionalism made this an event that I'll never forget.

George

P.S. If any photos of me doing anything silly turn up, please know that they are all forgeries. Thank you.

Robot Rodeo was A+ mazing (heheh). I had so much fun. I especially had fun working on setting up out there. I wanna send a special shout out to George from 1083, Andrew Rudolph (beautiful trophies ;)), Nathan Pell, Kenny from 108, and the other people who put a ton of effort into this competition. It was a great competition... even with the controller problems, but I liked the game without the autonomous, it was pretty cool because it threw a curve ball and tested the drivers so they had to work with their robot to get the top of that ramp.

All the teams were great, I was very impressed, they all made it an awesome environment. I've never seen Swampthing so spirited, I hope they keep going with that, it was a ton of fun. I saw MANY robots out there doing some pretty amazing things that I have never seen their robots do, it was great to watch and see the capability of many of those machines.

Finally, I thought it was really cool all the inter-team bonding that was going on... I shouted up "Who dat BBAT?" since I had no team, and I was amazed that within a few chants of it, half the auditorium was chanting with me..... even though our team wasn't there. I really loved watching how great the teams seem to be, last year's Robot Rodeo was a ton of fun, but I mean this year team's were getting so involved with cheering and dancing and having fun, and it was more like one big team that happened to be having multiple robots working. It was great to see teams cheering and complimenting their opponent after the matches, I've seen that before of course... but teams were very nice about it at this competition. Can't wait to see you guys again! I'm ready for the next competition with you guys, I'm proud to say I'm on a Florida team!!!!!

Yay!

Okay, Robot Rodeo: "Sooo good." (Teen Girl Squad. Please someone get that reference.)

I second what Mike is saying about all the inter-team bonding. I don't know how or why it happened, but it was great, and I hope it continues through UCF. I was feeling the love.

Big thanks to teams 108 and 186 not only for being fantastic alliance partners, but for generally being awesome.

Oh, also... George's announcing was great.

Rodeo was wonderfully exhausting. I need a nap.

That was A day to remember The Field Was Broke tho, i leaned on it and it almost came down. and the carts wouldnt fit through the doors we fixed that wih some of them fancy Electrice screw drivers. Swamothing Was KILLING! i Was Like WOWH! am i realy the one driving that?. All the confidnce that i had lost in myteam from Preivous experiences Has Been Recharged MY Guys Are AWESOME! Swampthing.... CHeering? it dosent sound right BUt TaDa, I got to see alot of people Ive been Missing and talking to IT REALY! annoys me that I was Way too Busy With Our matches To Talk and do somt things with some people , it Felt Good To be Picking aliances BTY Thanks TO KRUNCH79 And PAW710 For alliance Stack-attacking with us, and sorry Swampthing didn't deploy Those Blasted Trigger Buttons to run the deployer motors Were WAY wHacked UP! And, andrew Nobody would have noticed if you gave it a little kick to get it on its wheels ;). But you got to admit, That move with swampthing to block bottom os the ramp with Krunch doing there little crab thing Was Prety Wikid Cool. And thanks Leslie for the massages, I realy Needed them from all that stuff i did. George,Dan,Ryan,and Mike enjoy your Swampthing awards, you deserved them. And Stephanie Ms Most Spirit Of the Building Sorry i was way too busy. Mike, i was on clematis St, tonite until 8:45 i didnt see you so i went home. SPAM Congradluations you always seem to pull it togeather and flip it over. Umm Lets see What else... OH! There are way too many of you and way too much stuff i have to do with you all, I have to go out and see some of you and chill with you and stuff.

It was aLL great Best Off SEason Competion EVER!