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:ahh: :] :] :]
Congrats! Finney and other teams!

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They were in good hands when they picked Baxter Bomb Squad as a partner. Very solid veterans.

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Congratulations to the 2004 Chesapeake Regional Champions!



... ..... and a congrats on a job well done to our sister team, 222! Best Wishes in Philly!

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So 303 came in second??!!

Was it a close match?

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I was told this morning that if they won the regional or won rookie inspiration, the school would pay for the trip to the Championship :)

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Now that is great news!

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any word on the third partner for 303 and 222?

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Any word on other awards today?

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THe Chesapeake Awards are listed here:

http://www2.usfirst.org/2004comp/Events/MD/Awards.html

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That was a brilliant move on Finney's part- picking 16. Every round 16 would herd 5 balls, cap the large goal, and hang- those two combined for the highest score so fat- 210

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it was a VERY close match. first round 1405 and 16 won by a lot, then second round 449 hung and 16 lost power so 222's aliance beat us. third round 1405 hung, while 16 capped and hung. it was awesome.


BTW i am the driver for 1405. to clear up any misunderstandings our principle promised us finances for atlanta so here we come!!!

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You guys flying or driving?

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driving. just leaving now. should be home by...3 am

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just fyi..... in the semi-finals us (team 1405) and team 16 got the highest score in the country so far - 210 points!!! both our bot and 16 were hanging, plus lots of balls with a 2x thanks to 16. booyah

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I meant to the championship. :rolleyes:

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flying sounds grrrrreat. but we are not sure yet. anybody have any ideas of where to start finding good flight deals? hotel deals? anything will help.

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Start searching sites like Expedia.com and Cheaptickets.com tomorrow and pray.
Alot.

BTW. It's about a 17 hour drive from Rochester to Atalnta straight through.

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Or my favorite, Orbitz. However, I don't notice much difference between the different travel sites, at least not nearly as much as there used to.

Depending on flight times and days, as well as airports, it's between $294 and $650 round trip.

Its Generally much cheaper to fly from Buffalo then Rochester, however, I found the best deals on Airtran, from Rochester (and pretty good ones from Buffalo, too).

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We're flying down with Webster Sparx. 60+ kids on one plane. What fun. :rolleyes: :p

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How much did that cost!?!

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I have no idea. I didn't buy the tickets (Thank God!)
Xerox is paying for the trip, I think.

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Can anyone confirm what team won the Saturday Judges Award #2? The FIRST site lists the team as 1391, but calls the team "NASA/BellSouth Pioneers/Greenville County Schools & Hillcrest High School & Mauldin High School", which is team 1319. Team 1391 is NASA/VanguardID Systems & Westtown School (and my alma mater).

Congratulations to all the winners at Chesapeake!

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Congratulations to the winners at the Chesapeake Regionals today! 1405, you guys are an inspiration to every rookie team. There were some seriously exciting matches with robots going into all out physical attack.

Unfortunately, we lost in the quarter-finals but we're not too upset since we're going to nationals anyway. I can't wait to see everyone in Atlanta. (Especially team 25, we need to have another 16-player Halo rematch :p )

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close final matches guys. Nice solid alliance. Well, winning a regional and finalist in another, ill take that :) . It was 222, 303, and 291. Chesapeake was a great regional yet again, I hope that the Maryland administration dosent shut it down and keeps the regional going! (In case you don't know, NASA funded the regional for two years, then after that the state would have to take over if it was successful enough. I hope it was!)

Good job 1405, 16, 446!

Edit: One thing I found interesting was that all 3 teams on our alliance won an award that afternoon. 291: website - 222: Motorola - 303: GM design.

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Unfortunately, we lost in the quarter-finals but we're not too upset since we're going to nationals anyway. I can't wait to see everyone in Atlanta. (Especially team 25, we need to have another 16-player Halo rematch :p )[/quote]
Firstly, Congractulations 1405, we loved your performance. Good job.

Halo.. yes some more would be fun. We should plan something, E-mail me at bharatnain@msn.com .

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1: I would just like to say great job to everyone first off. I had a great time. :D
there were some really great robots out there. and is it just me or do all the rookie teams seem to be doing really well this year? its really exciting to see so many rookie teams do as well as the have been.

2: Hey i have a question. does anyone know what happened to that guy who passed out during the awards. i was really worried about him. just wanted to know if he was alright.

3: i am suffering from withdrawal. i miss my robot. its all alone in its box now.:(

thanks again to teams 291 and 222. way to keep the pineapple spirit alive lol. thanks guys.

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The worst part for me is that in the hustle and bustle of packing for the bus (we were sharing a bus with team 25), I had forgotten to call fedex for the pickup of the robot until after we got back to the high school, at which point fed ex freight was closed. now that I'm about to crash, I just need to write myself a note to call tomorrow because I am B-E-A-T

Despite long lines, however, I was VERY pleasantly surprised with the foodservice at the Dry Dock. MUCH easier to get more healthy food than at Trenton (blech).

Overall, our team learned a lot at this regional, and even though we suffered from mechanical failures in three rounds (our drive system was whacked), we had a blast!

We tried our little "Got Glow?" experiment for the first time at the regional, and for some people it seemed to catch on. More often than not, however, we found ourselves picking up the glowsticks that people left on the ground, so we may be hesitant to try it again. It was pretty cool to watch from the field though!

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I wrote down 1391 while watching in the stands.

This is by far, my favorite regional. Well run, nice space layout for the pits, easy access to and from the stands, and places to eat right out the door. Plus, we were allowed to bring water into the pits. I just hope that each team had enough GP to clean up their area so they will continue to allow us to bring in food. The MC was amazing, the DJ played the CD we gave him, the machine shop was so helpful and even gave one of our students (the one who will be attending the Academy starting in June) a tour. And there is no prettier panoramic view than stepping out the door and seeing the harbor.
Congratulations to all the teams. You made this event so much fun.

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you have the flight info for our flight, If you guys are going that same trip with us from Buffalo, We'll make some room on our charter bus to and from our school. You can even leave your cars in our parking lot like the rest of us. I am so proud of you guys. It's nice to have a 340 alum running the team, driving the robot, being an awesome role model. Keep me informed about what you are planning.

Oh & did a catch a grrrrreat in there? lol. Nice job bud.

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It did look really cool from the stands. Train all of your kids to 'rave' with them like some were doing up front. That'd be really cool. Or a really big safety hazard. Or both. Just the same, it looked really cool.

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Thanks!

we didn't know how much room there would be for all of them to Poi (that's what the swinging around on wires is called), and we didn't have enough chains for everyone, so we just went with 2 or 3 people to do that, and we had everyone else going through a bit of a routine while the others hit the "drums". Sadly, we were in a dead zone as far as sound was concerned. We could barely hear them from the driver's station in front of the stands.

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hey everyone and thanxs for a great regional its great being at the navel academy i hope my team chooses this regional next year. but really what i wana say is i hope we can make it to nationals and o yeah id really like to find out were team bomb squad(16) are staying. drop me a line guys later
AIM:UHSGUY2030

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Heres some movies from the event (main focus is on team1391)

Stream in RealPlayer 10
Download (VCD Quality MPG2, ~100MB)

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You can barely hear anything from the drivers stations. :p

Anyway, I ended up doing team queing, so if you were on your teams flight crew, then you saw me being all bossy and telling you where to go. :p

Thursday we were running on time almost all day, with periods of delay to try to fix the faulty ball drop. Friday we got behind with robot and field problems early, and ended the day 5 matches behind. Saturday we started about 15 minutes early, and ended about 5 minutes late. By late Saturday almost all the teams had figured out the flow and it ran real smoothly.

A question for teams at Annapolis: How did we do?

Other then that, good job to Steve and Trystan, the lead annimators for 116 on another Visualization Award! Great matches from all the teams, and to 1420 for the perfect FIRST attitude.


Wetzel

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Congratulations to winners, particularly 1405 (I have to support Rochester teams).

Wetzel, you appear to have taken over my job from last year. I'm sure you had as much fun as I did. ;)

An odd thing I noticed, team 16 won the Regional Chairman's Award according to the link. They won the Chairman's Award in 2000 (I believe). Now, I was under the impression that with the new Regional Chairman's Award system, previous Chairman's Award winners weren't supposed to win it again. Did I misunderstand something or what?

Matt

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How many people would be interested in getting a video of Dave Lavery's speech?

If the demand is high enough I might make it available for streaming and/or (a large) download.

If anybody is going to Drexel this week I could put it on CD-R's and give it to you directly. Just ask.

- Sharp

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I would love to see the speech, as I was unable to attend the regional.

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I would like a copy of Dave Lavery's speech. I'll stop by your pit at Drexel.

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No Matt, you did not misunderstand. There appears to be a miscommunication.

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copy from Hall of fame submission post:
I am from team 16 and I apologize for any confusion. At the moment, I am a little confused also. I can not find any documentation that clearly states that past chairman's award winning teams can or cannot compete at regionals. Can someone send me a copy of this letter? As far as I know, we have not recieved a letter that says we cannot submit a chairmans award presentation to a regional. The only thing I have found close to this is in the FIRST hall of fame fact sheet, that says "teams are not able to win anoher Chairman's Award, and the Hall of Fame applications will receive separate review by a panel of judges." The assumption is that this pertains only to championships as the rest of the document pertains to championships. I think the judges at Chesapeake would have informed us if this was not allowed unless there was some miscommunication. Judges at St. louis also inquired of our chairman's submission. Does anyone know of documentation that clarifies this that I am unaware of??? Thanks for your help.

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Even though we didnt win I am glad 1405 gets to go to nationals now. They deserve it.
They were in 3rd seed nearly all the time. Us and 303 just kept jumping between 1st and 2nd all day until they lost the last match.

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I believe team 16, is staying at the Holiday Inn Express in Atlanta, but I'm not positive. I would also like to thank teams 1405 and 449 for the great final matches. This is my first year for being on anything related to FIRST and I never expected something like this. Team 222, 303, and 291 you guys where awesome, and I hope to see you all at Nationals. By the way the cheer we where trying to do with the woo pig sewy...we where calling the hogs our college football team here in Arkansas. It was funny to see the crowds reaction. Thank you everyone for a great time.

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Wow, Arkansas, what a trek, thanks for coming. You all made it a ton of fun. Can't wait for nats, or philly, or offseason, jeez, i can't wait to robot. Thanks for the compliment, you guys were amazing.