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Alright! So... I'm here (Thursday night) in my hotel room. YAY!

Practice rounds didn't look so good to begin with. However, some of the matches at the end got pretty furious. Can't wait for the real stuff. I'd like to hear some comments from others, too.

Perhaps we could have a little Chief Delphi get together? T967, Seth, will be there providing he isn't busy doin' what he do.

NYACK has a pretty good competitor for the Spirit Award this year; 547 is whooping up some serious yell power. It's flipping noisy!

-Zing

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Since Ricky can't get on Chief Delphi from where he is, he asked me to keep everyone updated for him.

He called a few minutes ago and said practice round today went well, for the most part. The teams at SLR are great - everyone is working together and helping other teams out. Ricky said 269 and 93 both practiced well, 93's human player is good. Overall, the competition looks to be a fun.

The venue is ok, he said, with the exception of not being able to plug anything in, in the stands and outside the pit area (bad news for teams scouting with laptops and such!) The venue staff is pretty strict about that rule and FIRST rules.

Ricky said that 269 is doing well. They had good practice rounds today, passed inspection and were just finishing up some last minute autonomous stuff when he called.

Look for a second update tomorrow night!!

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Well, an update from team #1098, today was quite fun, lotta low scoring matches (one was 0-5 :ahh: ) and some incredibly close ones, like the one we lost (90-95 :ahh: ). But once again, Baxter Bomb Squad has an amazing robot, and a very ingenious way to get up onto the bar and the "shelf" thing. So far, only a few teams can actually get up to the bar and hang everytime consitantly, ours being one of them. Plus a lot of teams auto modes either don't work, or they don't have one at all, my team, 1098 was finally able to get our auto mode to work on the last game of the day (we ALMOST got it to work on our 3rd match, but.....we hit the wrong ball and released the other teams balls :yikes: ).

BTW, our team is giving our those annoying whistle/light/keychain things, I think FIRST has now banned anyone from using our whistles :yikes: I think..... But I am glad too, hard to drive with a whistle that sounds like your drivetrain burning out :D

If you want to spot me, I am the driver for our team and wearing the Army "fishing hat". Plus I wear hearing aids if that makes a difference?

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We are 5-0 2nd place to 650 hella robotics going into saturday comp. Low scoring, lots of ball matches, bar is important.

Saw A. Morrison running the queing area, Man She is Really Scrict!!!! :D :D :D

Good luck too all!

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Yea, I think the final standings will really turn around in the last few rounds, even the teams who have lost (like 1098, we have lost twice) still are pretty high up in the standings, maybe its cause we are having pretty high scoring matches :confused:

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Yay for internet access...

Friday went well, we are 3-2, with the 2 losses being matches we should have won, and are 16th seed, hopefully moving up tommorrow...#16 BBS is looking stronger with each match..Its a fun time, and Dean is here!!!

Congrats to our buddies #93 for winning Xerox Creativity and to Sean Schuff for the STL WFA Award......tommorrow will be fun!

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What exactly does BBS do? big balls? small balls?

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Everything, for their automode, from what I remeber, they latched onto the goal and dragged it over to the chute and uncapped the 2x ball in the process. Then using wings they corral the balls in, and use a suction cup method for picking up the 2x ball. Plus they can get up onto the bar VERY fast.....

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Hey does anybody have pictures of BBS's robot this year? Is there a STL Regional web site with an image gallery that I can see the robots at?

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BBS uses giant cams on the side of their bot to do two things. One, grab the goal and two is to lift them selves up onto the platform. Only problem I can see is that while they are hoisted up on the cams they get ZERO traction. Once again they have a great auto. mode. 93 looks great! Their shooter is a real baller and they can fill up goals REALLY fast.

Good luck to all today!

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Arrgh!! This information blackout is driving me batty!! Any news from the regional?? Any word on my team 343??

I'm stuck watching the Central Florida Webcast because there isn't one in St. Louis. usfirst.org has no current standings - - they don't have standings from last week's regionals........

HELP!!! :^)

Have several Great Days!
eric

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GO INDIANA TEAMS!! (Any word on any of the teams from Indiana?)

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Don @ UCF ( w/ 845) told me that they were with the #4 alliance.....they lost their first 3 matches friday, but I cannot tell you how it all ended up....hopefully that can hold you over until you get more info....

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The indiana teams had a great showing here at st. louis.. 1024 won the imagery award for our great looking machine... we were ranked 9th at the end of qualifying and were drafted third.. 1018 pike robodevils also had a great bot , ending up ranked in the lower teens somewhere and getting drafted 6th... it was us vs. them in the first round of the finals and after we each won one and then two ties ... pike and thier alliance pulled it off by 10 pts in the 5th match!.. The bloomington teams had a great showing check back later for thier details...

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An exciting regional with a classic final round.

967 (Mean Machine) and 16 (Bomb Squad) proved that

Cap + Hang > Hang + Hang

Two extremely well constructed and consistent machines, great teamwork, and a well earned regional win.

In qualifying, 650 was the top seed, 967 second, both teams undefeated.

931 (my team) was third. Our alliance was eliminated in the five-match quarterfinal that Michael Long described earlier. 1024 and 1331 were our alliance partners, and we could not have asked for two finer teams or robots.

547 took the regional Chairman's Award -- a real class act.

276 (Mad Cow) was in the house -- Dean stayed on the field for two of their matches to check out their weird walking action.

11 rookie teams at St. Louis this year. This was the third year for St. Louis regional and it has gotten better every year.