Re: Palmetto Regional - South Carolina
 

I'm soooooooo there. Then again, since the regional is about ten minutes by car from my house... :D

I'd be highly shocked if there wasn't room for anything at the CC. I've been on the inside for basketball color guards--there's lots of space down in there. (Whether or not FIRST uses all of it is beyond my knowledge.)

I know 1293 is sorta playing host to 433...they started posting on our board and never quit. So it's still on for Taboo?

One other thing I read in the paper today...it seems like the SC Department of Commerce is having an electronics recycling day this Saturday in the Colonial Center parking lot. While it's awful nice of them to be so convenient for any fried Victors, it seems like CC parking is bad enough with the USC students there. (Then again, I guess most teams are carpooling in. 1293 will have the worst per-person fuel economy of the regional! Muahaahaahaa!)

But...yeah. I'm in. If you need help getting somewhere, ask the folks in the shirts that say d5robotics on the back. (<sarcasm>Gee, wonder how they'll see the design...</sarcasm>)

Re: Palmetto Regional - South Carolina
 

The beach is about...2 hours away from Columbia. As for other fun things in Columbia...not sure, I'm more familiar with the upstate area myself ^_^

Re: Palmetto Regional - South Carolina
 

Depends on the beach. I can get from the far side of Columbia to Charleston in about an hour and forty-five. Your mileage may vary.

(By the way for all of the SC newbies, you really should see Charleston if you've got an extra day in your schedule by some miracle. It's beautiful.)

Re: Palmetto Regional - South Carolina
 

Yup, we're still on for Taboo. Anyone else that wants to join us is welcome. Come to our pit for more information.

Re: Palmetto Regional - South Carolina
 

YAY! I'll probably come by the pits....dunno how to play though (maybe some can teach me?? :D)

(BTW: Good luck to all...my last post on ChiefDelphi until I return Sunday afternoon)

Palmetto Regional - South Carolina - UPDATES!
 

Okay! So Hi from Palmetto! I'll try to post as many updates as possible, but from what I understand there will be a webcast so yeah.. I'll be posting tonight!

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I am Jonesin' for a robot competition - I wish I was there!!! we don't have RealPlayer at work (some license issue with the freeware) so I can't watch the webcast. Let me know how we're doing, and say hi to April for me.

Re: Palmetto Regional - South Carolina
 

This is Team 900 (Team Inifinty) posting live from their pit. We are here at the regional and enjoying it. We have been workign on autonomous (a way to knock down the 10pt ball) and a lifter to get us on the bar today. To my left, I can see the back of Team 393's crate. To my right, I can see Team 507 (yeah, those orange guys) working on their 'bot. Well, my team just left to go to our next match. I'll try to post again but we'll see how that goes. By the way, there is "free" wireless access at this competition. The AP name is "Linksys" and the access appears to be provided by the CSD. Thanks to CSD for providing me with a way to check my email and post on CD.

Re: Palmetto Regional - South Carolina
 

wow match 56 had a lot of penelites

Re: Palmetto Regional - South Carolina
 

Yeah that match sure did have a lot of penalties. I wonder how that match ended up.... I think the teams competing were 900, 1102 Vs. 665, 348.

Re: Palmetto Regional - South Carolina
 

Wow, seven penalties, hmmm, how dare them, bah penalties are soo overrated we won anyway. Granted it was all thanks to our wonderful opponents, we couldn't have done it without their accidental goal tending since we were accidentally driving through our corral. Oops, good luck everybody.

Live from team 900 pit
Anthony

Re: Palmetto Regional - South Carolina
 

So, I'm reporting in our hotel after the first day of competiton. Let me just say, there are a lot of great teams here and if you get the chance, watch the webcast there are some great matches going on! Currently we are ranked third out of the 42 teams competing. (Not to brag) Its been a great day for us, we've had barely any problems, except for one accident with our arm's sprocket falling off. But, we had the problem fixed after one match and are now back up and running, full potential. I wish luck to all of you competing tomorrow, and if you need any sort of help, let team 845 know and we'll try to assist you!

Re: Palmetto Regional - South Carolina
 

Daggone webcast hasn't worked all day! :mad:

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Worked fine for me :confused:

Re: Palmetto Regional - South Carolina
 

Top 4 teams at Palmetto: 1) Team 11, 2) Team 1319, 3) Team 845 (us!), and 4) Team 343! OH! And here are the rest in the top 8 after the first day of competition: 5) Team 5, 6) 1051, 7) 281, 8) 122!

Team 11 is really tough they're so far 6-0-0 (Out of 8). If all things go well our next two matches will be pretty good. There's a lot of great teams here. There's deffinetly a lot of high spirit energy around the competion.

Horror story:

Imagine this if you will, the most important functions of your robot are rendered useless, and you have 20 minutes to rebuild somthing that seems impossible. Every things hectic, it turns out that you have to send your bot on the field anyway.

Oh. Anyway. What happened was the shaft that held the sporket that runs our arm up and down cracked right in half! So we had to replace the shaft AFTER sending the robot out into the field for one match with out the arm, and still winning! But yeah we fixed it and everything was good. SO! I have to go because this is the only computer in the loby and people are getting pushy! Bye!