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Thanks! and a great regional! We hope to go to nationals too ... but we'll have to do a heck of a lot of fundraising, and I'm not sure we'll make it. At least it's during our spring break, because if I miss one more day of cat dissection, I think my bio teacher is liable to have my head, instead of the cat's!

The competition was great, though, during the finals. Geez ... first they come and say it's a tie, then a whiles later they say we lose ... then the next two matches we manage to win. And all this while we are working tirelessly trying to get our hanging mechanism functional again! Three regionals and we've never had a problem with it; all of a sudden we're in the quarter/semifinal matches, and we go to hang ... and the hook shears off, completely tearing the (admittedly) thin piece of aluminum supporting ourselves. Someone tells us we have 20-30 minutes before we go again, so we race to the pits to do some surgery ... and a rep comes and tells us we have to be there 5 minutes ago! This leaves us crippled our next match, so all we can do is cap -- which we pulled off fairly well. So after the match we grab a drill, make a new locking hole, manage to get the piece back together, albeit a little shorter now and go to hang in our next match ... the piece again shears, but somehow, I can't quite say why, we were still hanging at the end of the match, 130 lbs. supported by a tiny thread of aluminum, dangling precariously. Phew! In my three years in being in FIRST, this was definately the most exciting, nerve-wrecking experience ... and we didn't even have time to fully think about what we were doing.

Congrats to all!

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Congratulations to all the teams who participated in this regional. The collaboration of all teams and the exceptional gracious professionalism was amazing and made this event a phenomenal regional. Congratulations to the the winning alliance. Thanks especially to 818 for choosing us as allies and to 9 for joining us. Hopefully we will all be up and running come nationals. Congratulations to 34 and 435 we were without question hoping to have that as our ending alliance, but unfortunately that could not occur. Good luck everybody and see everybody at nationals.

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Hey Great job to all our competitors the regional was great!

The Elimination rounds gave us a run for our money, all of our opponents were capable foes.

Special thanx to 281 and 122 for being great alliance partners. I'm glad 122 and us (11) could finish what we started in Annapolis (we lost in the Semis).

I'm so happy that our mentoriees 1302 Pope John made it to the Finals with us. It made for a fun bus ride home.

P.S. I think the music did get a lot louder between friday and Saturday

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i would like to send a big thanks out to teams 11 and 122 for being real awsome partners look forward to seeing you at the nats. hopefullywe will be in the same divison and can hook up for the finals.

p.s. any body have any pics of the finals

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This was my first non-Florida regional, and it was a blast. 34 and 435 were great alliance partners, and all the matches were awesome to watch.

I'd also like to know what was up with the "Unfortunately, dancing is not allowed." signs. Even though it was kind of funny for the DJ to have to come on the mic every once in a while to say "Do not dance, y'all. Do NOT dance."

Heh, and who else took a sign when they left? I know I'm not the only one, because I saw a team that had put one on their robot the next day.

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Heh, it was team 900 with the sign. We laminated it and put it on to ensure that it would last until nationals. Some of our team started dancing and were told to stop, it was kinda funny considering they were playing dance music. In fact we got two of those signs as we were leaving.........there were plenty left as they put them every five feet. I appreciate what the organizers of the even did in order to make it a memorable regional. I know that my team and I all had a wonderful time, with the exception of not being able to dance hehe.
-Aaron

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Yep...the non dance thing was a surprise, even to the planning committee members....we were told on Friday by FIRST that dancing was not allowed, something about insurance...not sure that I understand, since dancing has been allowed at other regionals...i.e. Atlanta...but will make sure that it is addressed in the debriefing meetings in a couple of weeks....I know that USC had planned for that to occur. Thanks for the input.

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I was kind of upset when I found out the dj later let people dance and the party livened up a bit. Most of our team ate pizzas read the signs and left. If you know ComBBAT we can't stay anywhere without dancing.

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Haply enough, I just found out today that team 122 does plan on attending the nationals (there was some money and other issues which were resolved). Hrm ... just checked the FIRST site, and it seems divisions are out, and we're not in them. Oh well, can't wait till champs, and hope to see 11 and 281 there (and the other teams as well!).

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I don't remember that happening, and we were there for a while.

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the facilities were nice, many of the exibits were interesting too- did anyone "play" with that auto balancing machine? the extrusion frame reminded me of our own robot :)

maybe those of us going to atl can do some dancing to make up for palmetto?

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Yeah, actually I thought that the exibits were pretty cool. Especially the auto balancing machine. Did they use a potentuimeter (sp?) to do that?

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Does anyone know where I would be able to get a copy of the webcast? I was hoping to download it and show it to our sponsors.

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Your best bet would be to contact someone on Team 108...They archive match video and host it online. I don't know if they have Palmetto video (there's currently none on the site), but they're probably your best shot.

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i thought chesepeake was the best regional i ever went to.....but palmetto definitely beat it