Re: PARC VII Results!
 

All the teams deserve a congrads. I think out of all the Off-Season comps on the east USA, PARC has got to be the one with the top noch teams making the competition look like a regional. The amont of teams (28) out of the 3? something that had signed up did spectacular.

My Favorites from last year and this year
365 - FIRST said no more moe stix at a competition. They never said anything about the off-season events. Thanx for letting teams no that the Moe Stix will never dissappear.
25 - Fast as always. Very noticeable Hawiian shirts. Almost thought you guys were on vacation when i saw you guys. Guess not --- Hope to see u next year
175 - awesome machine. your probably the only team i know that can herd balls, have every single one of them shot by the HP successfully, and then cap to finish and win the match w/o hanging. Awesom job BBBBBBBUUUUUUUUZZZZZZZZZZ
1218 - I like the drive design of the robot. It makes for easy mobility no matter what, whether you get flipped or not ( haven't seen it happen yet either ) Awesome Commercial btw

Yes a couple of 1218's members got together and made a commercial advertising the "superbar". I won;t say what it is / how much is it that you gotta ask them yourselves hehe

Re: PARC VII Results!
 

A few random comments on PARC...

* Excellent event. Just the right number of teams. I was a bit concerned when I heard that as many as 36 teams were attending - mainly because it lengthens the day and potentially reduces the number of qualifying matches each team has. One of the many reasons for attending off-season events is to allow drivers to "play" with their machines more with (typically) less teams than would attend a regional. The more play the better. The PARC organizers made a great decision by scrapping all special rounds to allow more qualifying matches per team.

* Pits in the cafeteria were great!!! Although it was a longer walk, moving the pits from the hallways was a terrific decision. Plus, it got folks like myself (who could use the exercise) doing some pit-playing field laps after working off those chili dogs and pierogies.

* Speaking of food, the event had very good food (for a FIRST-related event) at very good prices. The cost of my lunch would have paid for a medium soda at Trenton (no offense NJ guys)!

* PARC always has a friendly, down-home feel to it. This year was no different. That is one of the factors that makes this event so special.

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* A HUGE thanks to the Tigertrons for loaning us their OI for the morning. As JOE3 mentioned, ours was inadvertently left in our workspace in Wilmington, Delaware and we did not realize it until about 8:15AM on Saturday. Fortunately, a carload of Miracle Workerz was en route and we pulled off an OI handoff of the Northeast Extension (thanks to Action Joe Perrotto - Woodie Flowers Award Winner - for letting leaving his pancake breakfast on Saturday to drive to obtain the OI and hand it off to Pat Grusenmeyer and his carload, who eventually delivered the goods right around noon.

Tigertrons - GizMOE would have been dead in the water without your help. Thanks much.

Brian Lucas, our programming mentor, was once again invaluable. He was writing code almost up to our first match so that we could map our functions to the Tigertrons controller. And it all worked the first time out!!!! Off-season is truly about adversity (partial pit crew, partial comp team, beat-up robots). It's always exciting.

* Thanks to Chuck, Team 84, for selecting us in the Elims. Also thanks to Team 1302, our third partner. We were having technical difficulties and could not compete up to our full potential, but we gave it our best shot.

* Regarding what I will call "the FLIP and PULL" incident - Wayne C. came up after the match to apologize to us on behalf of 25. No more words besides the fact that our teams are and will continue to be friends and competitors. No hard feelings. We look forward to tusseling again.

* Buzz, Team 175, was awesome to watch. In one of the elimination rounds with 341, they just filled up that goal and capped it. A sight to behold.

* Tigertons 222 competition team - beating the Daisy-Buzz-Royal Assault alliance was not an easy task. You guys were amazing. A truly great series of finals rounds. Also, congrats on capping that mobile goal during qualifying matches which was "brimming" with balls. It did not look possible. Good thing the LEXAN of the player station acted as a "sneeze guard" because I believe a stray sneeze would have dislodged that 2X multiplier.

Thanks to everyone who made this a terrific event. Good luck to all attending more off-season events in the coming months!

Re: PARC VII Results!
 

someone needs to teach Mr. Harding not to go over bumps at an angle on a segway ;) :p What an awesome event, thanks again!

PARC VII Pictures
 

PARC VII pictures are finally up!!!

300+ pictures.....

http://www.tigertrons.com/PARC/Pictures.htm
http://www.tigertrons.com/PARC/Pictures2.htm

Dial-Up people beware.............

(Well....Page 2 and 1/2 of page 1 is working - Be Patient ;) )

Re: PARC VII Pictures
 

Whooo! Thanks for posting up a bunch of pics of Team 639's "Red Tulip" in the mix! Really nice.

Re: PARC VII Results!
 

First of all i would like to thank team 222 for hosting ( and winning) this great event). I really liked having the pits in the cafeteria instead of the halways.

I also would like to thank 25 and 1403 picking us. We really didn't think we would get picked because our hook arm broke. Any one in the pits watching the monitor when u guys picked us will agree that it was one of the most... unusual allience picking 'celebrations.' Anyways the quarterfinals were great and i loved the round that we won with out either robots' end effecters.
:yikes: Great competition, I can't wait for next year!!!! :D

Re: PARC VII Results!
 

LOL!!!-That pit celebration was the funniest thing ever. That was an amazing match as well, we both played to our full defensive potential and our shooters did great. Nice to see some sort of parity in that 2 good robots, although broken, will still always have a chance against 2 fully functional robots.