Re: Detroit Regional 2005
 

We snapped a picture of our first place seat.

http://imagehost.biz/ims/pic.php?u=4...=280064&c=.gif (caution 56k, my dad gets crazy with resolution)

You may notice our Average QP... If the competion was entirely based on that we would have been in 14th place.

Re: Detroit Regional 2005
 

For all who are unaware, Ben worked the event as field manager from Wednesday morning, when we constructed the field, till late Saturday afternoon to take the field down. Yet he still took the time to post these results. We all owe Ben and his field crew two thumbs up for a job well done!

Re: Detroit Regional 2005
 

What an awesome regional full of awesome teams. By far my best FIRST experience ever!

I just wanna thank everyone that made it happen, and send a huge thanks out to 245 for picking us, and 301 for kicking major tail with us.

Also, great job to:
33, 397, and 123 - Great battle in the finals there! That was too fun!
494, 1213, and 184 - Awesome matches! I mean, cmon! A TIE in the Semi-finals? Jeeez! :yikes:


Can't wait for nationals :D

Re: Detroit Regional 2005
 

Thank you much. But just for the record & to give teams their propers, you were pitted against:
397 33 123
1213 494 184

Re: Detroit Regional 2005
 

Just want to second what John already said, Detroit was awesome! Great job to teams 1213, 494 and 184, you were a tough alliance. Look forward to seeing 494 at nationals. Finalist teams 397, 33, and 123, you were awesome too, those last few matches were really close! Congrats to team 33 for winning the robot design award, you guys deserved it.

Also wanted to mention how impressed I am with how much all the teams are improving as we progress through the competitions. It seems like everyone is finding ways to make their design better or figuring out how to use what they have to much greater effect. Some of the competition at Detroit was truly fierce, so hats off to everyone's efforts, you all deserve a pat on the back.

Finally, to our alliance partners teams 245 and 301, we couldn't have done it without you, thanks for all your hard work and dedication. 245, thanks for picking us, you guys have an incredible drive team -- your quick reactions and stacking speed were just amazing. Oh, and the chairs on the field during that time out -- GOLDEN, that's all I can say. 301, YOU OWN THE BACK ROW. :-D Seriously, you guys held on to that thing like no other, I'm glad we had the chance to partner up with you.


Once again, great job to everyone who was at Detroit, especially the volunteers/refs/judges. Everyone worked hard and the event was a huge success. I had a blast. Good luck at the rest of your competitions, and can't wait to see more Triple Play at nationals!

Re: Detroit Regional 2005 - lost my coat!
 

Lost coat!

Did anyone find a black winter coat - "RFT" brand? It turned up missing on Saturday 3/19 at the end of the Detroit Regional. There was a set of Craftsman wrenches and a LiveStrong wrist band in the pocket. It was in the Team 1213 pit area.

I would greatly appreciate the return - we will still have some cold weather to deal with!

Peter

Re: Detroit Regional 2005 - lost my coat!
 

Im sorry to hear this. One of our team mebers lost his coat on friday. Those bleachers were brutal!

Re: Detroit Regional 2005
 

Awesome competition! Big congrats to the winning alliance!

Underneath the bleachers looked like it rained FIRST stuff! Yeouch!
I was a volunteer at this regional, and I noticed that there were many things we had in a lost and found in the pit area... Including some coats... I think the Wayne State lost and found now has this stuff, thats all I know...

Also off topic, I lost my camera, it was a Digital Fujifilm xD picture card camera with a resolution of about 2.5 megapixels, and was also in a small black bag with a strap, if anybody can find this, I will be very grateful :) .

Seems like this is the regional to lose some good stuff, eh?

Re: Detroit Regional 2005
 

For lost and found, I would try the Fieldhouse @ (313) 577-4280

Ben

Re: Detroit Regional 2005
 

Here are the FIRST rankings http://www2.usfirst.org/2005comp/Eve.../rankings.html
and matches
http://www2.usfirst.org/2005comp/Events/DT/matches.html

Re: Detroit Regional 2005
 

Where did you find those? I looked all over the FIRST site but they werent there. Did they just put them up?

Re: Detroit Regional 2005
 

Just a note:
The rankings page appears to be correct.
The "matches" sheet is incorrect when it comes the the QF's, SF's and Finals. The alliances are incorrect.

Ben Tower

Re: Detroit Regional 2005
 

i don't the rankings are correct b/c we (503) seeded 6th at the comp, not 8th.

Re: Detroit Regional 2005
 

I misspoke, the intelligence is flawed, the CIA failed, I was misquoted.

Really though I screwed up, both the sheets posted above are incorrect. All teams at Detroit had 12 matches, why the scoring system shows 11 for many I do not know, but the results listed above are incorrect.

I apologize for my fact checking error, check out the first post in this thread for rankings.

Ben Tower

Re: Detroit Regional 2005
 

Be aware, Mr. Tower, that should you fail, we will disavow any knowledge of your actions> ;)

http://www.defraudingamerica.com/disavow.html