Florida Regional wrap up
 

Well guys this weekend was amazing, congrads to the winners and yes 179 has an amazing robot. Overall this weekend was great, everything ran pretty smoothly. WE did have a problem here and there with the scoring system but it was quickly worked out. Congrads to all the teams on awards and a great regional. What were your thoughts?

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Uh... who won?

That's my most pressing thought ;)

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233 179 & 1292 won. Congracts to them.

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I was watching the webcast and those were some of the best finals ever. All those teams had amazing robots. Congrats to them again.

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Does anyone have a *real* list of the seedings and alliance pairings, since according to other people FIRST is not properly updating them?

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I think this post may help you out.

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My thought was I caught you without your safety glasses on in the pit.....wandering around all thursday and friday telling me and everyone else to put theirs on.....then low and behold I catch you without yours....lol :)

it was one heck of a fun time that's all I know....thx to 312, 343, 1083, 1368, 180, 801, and anyone else I am forgetting for a blast of a regional....

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no no i had them on dont know what you talk about. Saturday was busy for me with all the incidents i had to respond to. Three people to the hospital in a matter of two hours.

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It was 1592, not 1292. Great last match though... it was fun to watch even in my exhausted, half-asleep state which I'm still in while I write this post :( . (I guess that's what happens when our team plays X-Box until 4am the first night, and 2am the second.)

Congrats to the Bionic Pink Swamp!

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well it's all over....but sooo much fun...we all knew it was gonna be pink and swamp together just the question of the third partner....

the pits were really nice...thanks to FIRST who listened to us about the conditions from last year...

it was a true battle for everyone it seemed...up and down with rankings with penalites but in the end it turned out great...congrads to everyone


i'm sooo tired...i think i'll go to sleep eventually

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Those final matches were intense. It doesn't look like SOAP is hosting the videos of it. Anyone know if they're planning to host those on SOAP or the NASA site?
That second match between us and 108's alliance was a stackfest. Great job 108, 61 and ??..

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61, 108, and 1051
I thought that was one of the best matches of the whole weekend, 3 more seconds and I think we would have had you guys, but you and 233 had by far the two best robots in the competition. Can't wait to see you guys again in Atlanta.

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thank you all for all of your wonderful words about 233! :)

personally... thursday scared me. It was the first time i got to see our robot all dressed up, unscratched, and actually drive on the field... except it didnt drive like planned. it drove in circles and continually shifted between high and low gear... not cool... but thanks to our wonderful pit crew we got that (and a few other glitches) fixed for Friday and Saturday. :)

Competition was great... reffering to another thread, the competition did seem like it as missing a little something at first... but once we got into the game, it was a blast. i enjoyed seeing everyone's robot perform, and our final alliance with The Children of the Swamp and The Bionic Tigers was awesome... it was great to finally work with Swamp Thing than against them, and after years of getting 2nd at this regional, it was a relief to actually win it all, thanks to our wonderful alliance.

a special congrats to Krunch for winning the Chairman's Award, you guys seriously deserve it! And to everyone who came to the competition, whether to compete, judge, referee, cheer, scout, support your family members or friends, or just hang out and watch, thank you.

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This is just my opinion, but this was one of the best overall competitions that I have been to. It was basically perfect. My team won a few matches and lost a few, the weather was nice, Woody signed our robot and my shirt, and I was really happy when we won the Judges Award.

Thanks to the teams who were with us in an alliance, 343 and 1402 I believe (sorry if the numbers are wrong). Congrats to the winning teams and the team that won the Chairman's award.

Good luck to all teams in the rest of competition season.

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Definitely agree I mean they gave pink and swamp allience a run for there money and it was great matches. Oh yeah just incase anyway wanted to know the other finalist allience was 1251, 845 and 1270.

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in general i think all the elmination matches were intense. People were stacking tetra's like crazy. There was never a dull second, from swampthing breaking to heatwave breaking, even tytus got into the fun and got hit in the head with a tetra, i had to respond to that since iw as lead safety supervisor ;)

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I didn't realize that many accidents occured. I guess I always assume there are no accidents that in volve injury since I never see them. Did these happen in the pits or near the field?

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yep, tetra right in my face, ledt a nice red mark too

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I must say, the regional was a ton of fun for me, though I was not on the team anymore. The people who remember me make it a ton of fun (180, 179, 312, 1402, ect.), madd shout out to 234, bionic blue, or what not it was, you guys had an awesome bot, one of the few that sould hold a tetra good, pity you didn't get selected, I think you woulda done awesome in finals.

I must say however, I think it was weird in finals how some penalties were overlooked, true, the refs are only human, but to my knowledge when robots hold tetra's over the driver's stations, shouldn't that be a penalty? Lord knows no one were by two bots when they did it in finals, but oh well, not liek it woulda made a difference in finals or anythin' :P

Good fun, and some great bots out there, also awesome drivers. Wish you all the best at your next regionals and netionals, if I don't make it!

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I'm just curious...did anybody keep tabs on how many times the DJ played the chicken dance? Or the YMCA? Or "We Will Rock You"?

A little variety never killed anybody. (Although I guess if the DJ is the only thing I can nit-pick about, the folks in Florida must be doing something right!)

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i never counted but it seemed like every time i went to the stands it was the YMCA or we will rock you...ucf arena got it down pack though...most teams were just dancing away with the YMCA and stomping with we will rock you


yeah..many lil injuries i heard through Ryan..good thing tytus is okay and everyone else :)

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Funny that you mentioned Tytus's name before anyone else's. I was amazed that Tytus didnt climb any trees or poles this weekend. Florida regional ROCKED!!! Thanks to everyone for making those 3 days memorable.

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It just keeps getting better and better every year, the tetra coming over the wall made it a bit more intresting watching tyty move, i glad nothing happened, that wouldve been too many contorls ::hehe:: Anyway, thanks to the Refs, judges, and volenteers, and the tech ppl. I can only hope they had as much fun as I had. Thanks to Pink and the Bionic tigers, we had a awesome alliance. and can't wait to see every one at either SC or nats.
Now to try to get "we will rock you out of my head"....
Mandi

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For We Will Rock You, we quit counting Saturday morning when it got to 12 times.

What a great regional. This is really a fun game to watch. The thing that impressed me the most was how well all the rookie teams performed; we didn't have very many there but I saw alot of pretty good tetra mechanisms, and even the teams that didn't try stacking had the capability to contain and play defense.

See y'all at nat's

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I have to say 233, 179, did a great job. They gave us the first match in the QF. but the second one was very close. Great job. It was pink time to take the win. Great job by 108 they where under rated. they did what they had to do to do well they just got bad breaks. We wanted to do well but we did not want to be in the top 8 after friday. We would of liked to have been pick by a top seed.


Florida regional I think is the best. We had three major snow storms in Mass. during our stay in Florida.

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There were 5 incident reports filled out and three people to the hospital. The three people in the hospital were all in the stands. Two people tripped on stairs hurting there legs or something else. One girl had a asthma attack and then a panic attack. Then one was for the nose bleed of a driver and thats why they had to stop the matches for a couple of min and one was thursday night a team was testing AI and the arm came down on a hand just a cut. There were alot cuts and scraps but nothing serious

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Two of the girls where mine students. One slip on a wet stair and slammed her leg into something. She has to wait a week before a Dr. even See her because of the bruise. The other girl did have a asthma attack and then a panic attack. the panic attack was caused by getting a IV which has a needle. she does not like needle. that is what set her off. She is fine now and doing good. On this trip I had a kid twist his knee that is why he was in a wheel chair at the competition. and when the kids got off the bus after the 28 hour ride I had one kid get sick on the driveway. had one girl drop where they had to call a EMT's. So this was the first year in 11 years I had this many problems.

I will be bring only 16 kids next year instead of 48. These kids are going to have to work very hard to come.

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Yes you guys had alot of problems, but from my experience talking with you guys to find out what happen and get the paper work done you guys did very well and handled everything while staying calm. I guess it just wasnt your weekend

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yeah i had alot of fun saturday and friday and i am glad we were able to have swamp and the tigers on our alliance for the finals and great driving from both teams in the finals. also great driving from all the teams in the finals that we were able to face u guys were great. although red dragon got kind of annoying lol but they were great at that defense :cool: see you guys in atlanta for nationals

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Lol, the Red Dragons were great alliance partners. It's hard to defend too superfast robots like pink and swamp though. Lol. Yeah the finals were awesome.