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Yes, I couldn't believe they actually brought in the towelman. He is a staple at the St. Louis Blues hockey games. For those who don't know who he is, at every Blues game, at some random time during the game he will come running down from the very top level of the Savvis Center waving his towels around. Then he will get the crowd to chant "1....2....3....GO BLUES" and then toss a couple towels. Everyone in St. Louis loves him, and when he came out I was just like :yikes:

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I too want to thank our alliance partners- 16 and 537. Just a note for those of you who are interested. The following is the list of the top 15 teams after qualification in order and then the alliances in order of seed and pick.
Top 15 teams: 650, 967, 931, 171, 93, 16, 935, 1098, 1024, 933, 269, 356, 940, 1216, and 537.
Allaince 1: 650, 1272, 939
Allaince 2: 967, 16, 537
Allaince 3: 931, 1024, 1331
Allaince 4: 171, 93, 1094
Allaince 5: 935, 343, 158
Allaince 6: 1098, 1018, 535
Allaince 7: 933, 547, 1216
Allaince 8: 269, 1288, 940

In the quarterfinals 1 beat 8, 2 beat 7, 6 beat 3, and 4 beat 5.
In the semifinals 1 beat 4, and 2 beat 6.
In the finals 2 beat 1.

Ryan Miller

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Hey all!
I just wanted to thank (again, Ashley already beat me to it) our awesome alliance of team 967 and 537 (967, thanks for picking us, 537, thanks for joining!). Those finals certainly were edge of your seat. I already had lost my voice from yelling throughout the day, but we did our best to keep the volume up.

I see that the physical-ness (if that's a word) of this year's game has been brought up. I did notice how heavy it was getting there at times. I can remember several times when we'd be getting up onto the platform that we'd be bumped (for example, some of the hanging bots would actually swing back and forth a little after winching up there) and knock us backwards. I know we were mentioned in an earlier thread as having banged someone up, and I just wanted to assure them that any damage done was entirely accidental. I'm sure that none of the teams at the competition would intentionally damage another robot. I don't think that the competition is any more physical than last year though, the whole "knock into the totes a half a second before the other robot hits exactly opposite to you" was pretty rough too.

Anyway, to all the teams at Saint Louis- Awesome game guys! To those attending the competition in Annapolis coming up in a few days- We're looking forward to getting to see everybody!

Later,
Matt McNelley

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On behalf of everyone on Team 935, RaileRobotics (we were the team that was handing out the yellow bandanas), we would like to congratulate each and every team on doing so well at St. Louis. There were many, many, very good robots there and the amount of gracious professionalism was unbelievable. Another thank you needs to go out to all of the volunteers, judges, and FIRST representatives.
I especially liked being in the presence of so many great teams, such as 16, 343, 158, 1024, 650, and the list goes on. If anyone needs scouting information about teams at St. Louis, send me an email, and I'll see what I can do.
I think that is all I have to say, wait, one last thing, good luck to each and every team this year, and Hella, you guys rock! I don't know if any one from Hella's Angels visits here, but if you do, we were the team that was down on the floor with you guys after we lost, cheering you on!

GO TEAMS!

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A complete list of award winners is available at the following website: http://www.stlouisfirst.org/FRC2004awards.htm

Also, does anyone have contact information for Team 1315 CHESS? I spoke with them and gave them incorrect information and I would like to correct this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ryan Miller

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Here is us against Hella's in the first match of quarterfinals. This is our first year and we got the Highest Seeded Rookie award. We were 16th at the end of qualifying rounds with a 4 and 2 record. Congrats BBS, Mean Machine, and Charger Robotics for a great regional, we will see you all next year.

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Hey 967, 16, and 537, i see no recognition of our support
I'm pretty sure our cheering(or at least mine) was loud enough for you guys to win :)

Grats on your win seth, awsome driving, i was jealous
I LOVED BBS' cam system, beautifully built robots in the finals here in STL

Rock on Linn-Mar

edit: the lime green shirts from team 931

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Does anyone have the standings before finals. I just wanted to see how everyone faired and they are not posted on FIRST yet.

THX

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Hey 931 you guys rocked! I had to take off my hard hat just so you guys wouldn't hold me up from goin to the bathroom! Will load lots of pics in a bit, you may have saw him but one of our mentors is a registered news photo guy and was on the field the whole time. BBS and 537 I saw our group photo and it is REALLY cool hopefully I can scan it here soon. I slept in class today cause I was still tired! (Don't worry, didn't miss much, our school is in state for b-ball and the teachers aren't really teaching anything important since 75% of the school will be gone.)

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Extending Seth's thank you, all the teams at stl rocked........there was no doubt that the arena was rockin with all the fans jumping up and down for ALL teams. For teams going elsewhere this year, show that spirit once again to make every place as exciting as STL.

"air ric"......oh and thank you seth for findin my lucky red headband

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Team 537 would like to thank Teams 16 and 967 for picking us in your alliance. The final matches were incredibly intense and exciting and we were glad to assist our alliance in anyway possilbe. Your robots did an excellent job and we wish you the best of luck in the future, and can't wait to meet again at Nationals. This year Team 537 was not elligable to attend Nationals unless we won chairmans or another award. This was also our first year attending the St. Louis Regionals, as we usually only attend the Midwest Regionals. (Be prepared for our colorful scarves and capes in Evanston, along with some student designed coloring books, crayons, and tattoos) This was just the boost we needed, and our entire school has built up an excitement about robotics, as this is the farthest we've ever gone during the finals. Now it is just a matter of raising enough money to send our entire team to Atlanta. Thanks again! Hopefully we can keep in contact and I look forward to seeing the picture of our winning alliance!

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Congrats to all teams, the elims were fierce and exciting!! Sussex: You guys earned that win, lets see another at MR.

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[quote=tbmantia]Does anyone have the standings before finals. I just wanted to see how everyone faired and they are not posted on FIRST yet.

What kind of standings are you wanting? I have a lot of the information, and can post more than the top 15 teams. Basically, I can give you any information about things before finals that you need, but I need to know what you want.

Also, I too want to extend my thanks to all the teams at St. Louis on behalf of my team and its members.
Thanks again,
Ryan Miller

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[quote=RMiller]I would like to see what rank each team was and their qp's for the entire regional.

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Team 1094 would like to thank team 171 for choosing us for their partners in the finals. We had a pretty bad record in the qualifications and really had no hope of making it to the finals. It made the experience for our small 2nd year team as exciting as it could be. Our other partner, team 93, had a super robot that performed very well. You could tell from the actions of the crew that many hours of dedicated work went into that machine. Our team would especially like to thank both our alliance partners for their good sportsmanship when we snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in an excellently planned match. You could see the disappointment on their faces but still they were pleasant to us. I hope we can be a better partner for 171 and 93 somtime in the future.