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Levin571 24-04-2004 19:21

Re: The Regional Wars
 
how about restarting the Rumble at the Rock off season tournement and introducing the "Grady Cup" there?
the original FIRST off season tournement spot i think should hold a best of the best tournement

Andy Grady 24-04-2004 20:30

Re: The Regional Wars
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Levin571
how about restarting the Rumble at the Rock off season tournement and introducing the "Grady Cup" there?
the original FIRST off season tournement spot i think should hold a best of the best tournement

Funny you should say that... ;)

Lets just say, I am working on a suprise for the 2005 offseason...keep your eyes peeled in the coming weeks.

Did you know, the summer of 2005 would be 10 years since Rumble at the Rock was first created? Kinda makes you think...doesn't it? :yikes:

-Andy Grady

Mike Soukup 26-04-2004 16:23

Re: The Regional Wars
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Andy Grady
Defense (Northeast Version) - When a robot uses full force to bash, ram, or block a team from scoring points, resulting in victory.

Defense (Midwest Version) - Tip over, accidentally get in the way of opponent.

I can't let you openly mock us like that. It's on!

Here's another set of definitions for you to chew on:

Offense (Midwest Version) - When a robot uses cleverly, beautifully, and specifically, designed assemblies to score lots of points for their alliance, resulting in victory.

Offense (Northeast Version) - Repeatedly bash, ram, or block the opponent in the hopes that they get confused and score for your alliance.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andy Grady
Its ok Mike...I mean look at football teams like the Colts...great offense, alot of fun to watch. Eventually though, they were overun by the stronger, more experienced, defensive masterminds, the New England Patriots. Another case where the Northeast dominates. ;)

If you're talking football, I've got one for you. Superbowl XX - Bears vs Patriots. Best defensive team ever vs well...I don't know if the Pats were good at anything that year. Result: 46-10 victory for the Midwest; Northeast goes home and cries. I suppose you'll blame it on the ugly uniforms. Before you mock me for going back almost 20 years for my example, just remember that I'm clinging to my childhood memories of the Bears being a great team.

Who's going to respond first, JVN or Grady? This sure is fun :D

Raul 26-04-2004 20:38

Re: The Regional Wars
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Andy Grady
We are just waiting for you guys to catch up and start playing our game before we totally blow you out of the water. Everyone knows that defense wins championships, and we invented defense in the northeast! Don't get me wrong, you guys are definately starting to catch on (i.e. Martians). But it took you long enough...

Definitions:

Defense (Northeast Version) - When a robot uses full force to bash, ram, or block a team from scoring points, resulting in victory.

Defense (Midwest Version) - Tip over, accidentally get in the way of opponent.

Its ok Mike...I mean look at football teams like the Colts...great offense, alot of fun to watch. Eventually though, they were overun by the stronger, more experienced, defensive masterminds, the New England Patriots. Another case where the Northeast dominates. ;)

-Andy Grady

Andy,
Be careful what you wish for. I have often been tempted to make a killer defensive robot to fit the name "wildstang". When I get fed up with complex mechanisms, we may do that.

The problem is that it is no fun to sit in the pits and have every other team mad at you because you completely took away their ability to compete. And then they would all complain that it is a battlebot not a FIRST robot. You see, it is more fun to design and drive a robot that can perform several delicate functions, rather than just go after other robots to stop them. A "box on wheels" as my good friend Mike Bastoni use to call them, can do that. Lots of creativity there huh?

Andy Grady 26-04-2004 22:26

Re: The Regional Wars
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike Soukup

Offense (Midwest Version) - When a robot uses cleverly, beautifully, and specifically, designed assemblies to score lots of points for their alliance, resulting in victory.

Offense (Northeast Version) - Repeatedly bash, ram, or block the opponent in the hopes that they get confused and score for your alliance.

I wish I had a reply for that...but frankly thats too funny! Job well done! To bad your logic is a little off...I think when you guys were tie dying those Wildstang shirts, some of it may have seeped a little too far into the cranium ;)

You see, the best offense IS a defense. Lets go back to 1995 for a minute and review a defensive masterpiece which was called "The Big Bopper". In the finals, against Raychem and Woodside High School, the Gael Force robot would drive up the side of the ramp, barrel into Woodside or any other robot sitting on top of the hill, then when they were down and out..score juuuust enough to get by. This ultimately resulted in more exciting matches! In the northeast, we like to keep things close and exciting....no 300 point blowouts like you guys in the midwest try to accomplish each year, putting the collective audience to sleep. With FIRST, its all about style! In the northeast, we are alllll style.

As for Raul...didn't you guys build one of those defensive robots last year? Wildstang the wedge? See, defense does win championships my friend...I dont deny that you midwesterners are catching on...it just took ya a while ;) Of course you need to understand...when Team Hammond won its 4th championship this year, they woke up the sleeping giant that is the Northeast. Next year when things get a little rough on you midwesterners...make sure you give your thanks to the Beatty's for giving us something to shoot for :D

-Andy Grady

P.S. For those just tuning in, just a reminder that this is a fun thread...my comments and the comments of others are not meant to put down or belittle any team in a serious manner...in other words...don't take anything I have to say seriously ;)

D.J. Fluck 26-04-2004 22:49

Re: The Regional Wars
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Andy Grady
You see, the best offense IS a defense. Lets go back to 1995 for a minute and review a defensive masterpiece which was called "The Big Bopper". In the finals, against Raychem and Woodside High School, the Gael Force robot would drive up the side of the ramp, barrel into Woodside or any other robot sitting on top of the hill, then when they were down and out..score juuuust enough to get by. This ultimately resulted in more exciting matches!

Grady man, come back to the present...quit living in the past, buddy :p

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You proved my point already with what you have below:

Quote:

In the northeast, we like to keep things close and exciting....no 300 point blowouts like you guys in the midwest try to accomplish each year, putting the collective audience to sleep. With FIRST, its all about style! In the northeast, we are alllll style
See, you let them blow you guys out, then you go run them over at the end...but they still win....of course we like running up the score for when your "box on wheels" comes and flips us, we can just sit there cheer and celebrate while you desperately try to come back and fall short in the end..I guess thats how the Northeast likes it, close, but no cigar. ;)


Quote:

As for Raul...didn't you guys build one of those defensive robots last year? Wildstang the wedge? See, defense does win championships my friend...I dont deny that you midwesterners are catching on...it just took ya a while ;) Of course you need to understand...when Team Hammond won its 4th championship this year, they woke up the sleeping giant that is the Northeast. Next year when things get a little rough on you midwesterners...make sure you give your thanks to the Beatty's for giving us something to shoot for :D
Haven't you been saying that since like oh Hammond's first championship back in 97 ;)

Collin Fultz 26-04-2004 22:53

Re: The Regional Wars
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by JVN
Uhhh....
Yep. I most certainly am.
Checkmate.
He wins.

All hail Cyber Blue, and Indiana.
Wooo.

John

Don't take him too seriously John...after all...if he had that much pull at Rolls...david kelly wouldn't have a job :)

Andy Grady 26-04-2004 22:56

Re: The Regional Wars
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by D.J. Fluck
Haven't you been saying that since like oh Hammond's first championship back in 97 ;)

Yeah...but this time we REALLY REALLY mean it! Plus, after 4 National Championships, ya gotta figure the midwest is ready to revolt against its own.

-Andy Grady

Ben Lauer 27-04-2004 13:13

Re: The Regional Wars
 
Revolt..no sir, we are just trying to find a way to make sure no non-Indiana team has a chance. Just wait, eventually the championship will be in Indianapolis so all the teams can drive home every night instead of staying at a hotel.

D.J. Fluck 27-04-2004 16:44

Re: The Regional Wars
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Ben Lauer
Revolt..no sir, we are just trying to find a way to make sure no non-Indiana team has a chance. Just wait, eventually the championship will be in Indianapolis so all the teams can drive home every night instead of staying at a hotel.

Ben, I think we'll let Michigan play with us too, they outnumber us by a lot...thats for sure :p

Edit: Maybe Illinois too, if they're nice :p

Andy Grady 27-04-2004 16:48

Re: The Regional Wars
 
Joke time!



Q: What do you get when you cross the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and a Ford Pinto?



A: A midwestern FIRST robot!



HAHAHAHAHA...oh man, i crack myself up. ;)


Waiting for tomatoes to be thrown,
Andy Grady

JVN 27-04-2004 17:30

Re: The Regional Wars
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Andy Grady
HAHAHAHAHA...oh man, i crack myself up. ;)

If I laughed, does that make me a tremendous engineering nerd?
I think, yes it does. ;)

Elyse Holguin 27-04-2004 21:02

Re: The Regional Wars
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Andy Grady
Yeah...but this time we REALLY REALLY mean it! Plus, after 4 National Championships, ya gotta figure the midwest is ready to revolt against its own.

-Andy Grady

Don't look only at us, I recall a Technokat Championship win in there. (Not to mention the Illinois and Michigan wins as well.) We're just trying to keep things in a nice centralized location. I kind of like Indiana as the ringleader.

Elyse Holguin 27-04-2004 21:04

Re: The Regional Wars
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by JVN
If I laughed, does that make me a tremendous engineering nerd?
I think, yes it does. ;)

You didn't need to laugh to make yourself a tremendous engineering nerd. You were already. :D

Ben Lauer 27-04-2004 21:50

Re: The Regional Wars
 
Ok, I love Michigan, and Illinois is ok, but they have to be nice.

But really, We don't have mountains to climb or fun roads to drive on. The most elevation change we have is the bridges over interstates!!!! Maybe thats why our robots are better, nothing else to do!!!!


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