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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
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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.


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