Greater Toronto Regional
 

So what teams are going to the Toronto Regional? 1511 will be there!!!

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Theory 6 will be there with about 700 kids from our school.
Sorry if we give u headache on friday ;)

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Thats awsome

700 kids thats crazy!! :yikes: :yikes: :ahh:

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It will be amazing! and all 700 of them will be wearing our Team's Orange Toques. We have also advertised around the town about the event so don't be surprised if the number of our supporters climbs to our personal goal of 1000.

Cya all there,
Vivek.

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Team 1006 will be there, of course. I am so excited for the GTA Regional, it will be AWESOME!! GO EDDIE!!!!

P.S. What is the deal with awards this year? Are there 2 of everything?

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Team 1305 will be there and can't wait. 700 people wow it must be nice to have all that support from your school.

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it would be nice to see 1006, 1241, 1305 and several other teams again. school's always a tough hurdle to get over, especially since almost our entire team is made up of graduating students. maybe we'll see you guys again! GO TEAM 1558! if we go again, we'll try to grab top rookie seed again if we don't make it to the finals :)

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NiagaraFIRST.org will be there in force. Teams 1114, 1503 and 1680 are eagerly anticipating the biggest regional in all of FIRST. We can't wait to see all of our good friends again, especially our neighbours from the south, Team 48.

I'll be the MC for the event, and I'm looking forward to seeing all of you.

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While Team 188 wont be there physically, our spirit will be with all of the teams there, especially our "adopted" ;) team of 1558, who took the highest rookie seed at Waterloo with some sweet defence. There will also be scattered members of the team who couldnt make the trip to California, who will be cheering on everyone. Its sad to think that my last year with the team as a high school student wont include another amazing home event, but it heartens me to see how eager everyone is for this event to happen. I wish the best of luck to everyone there!

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This will be my first regional this year without 188 LOL. They were in Pittsburgh and Waterloo with us, but won't be at the big one. It's a shame because they are such an amazing team, but SoCal will be amazing. Good luck guys and have fun!

P.S. Thanks for the playing cards! They're awesome!

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639 will be there for the fourth year.

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639 you guys were awsome at FLRC and i cant wait to see you guys in toronto. Its gonna be an amazing regional.

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I think they might not have two of everything because of the waterloo regional, but Greater Toronto is still a huge regional so they still might.
Guess we just have to wait and see...
Good luck to all the teams coming there.

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Team 1219 is eagerly awaiting the event. We will be there with about 50 - 100 supporters;although, i am sure theory 6 will out number us :D . We are also very eager to meet 639, 48, 1114 and other powerhouse teams.

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Oh, Oh,I'll be there. My biggest job will be to keep Karthiks' ego in line :rolleyes: .

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772 is going of course :). I cannot wait!!! I'm really eager to see teams from Finger Lakes such as 1547 and 639. I personally have never been to this regional so it should be even better!

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Team 854 will be there we are all very excited after Waterloo!

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1140 is going to be there. It's going to be so weird to not know any of the teams there. We're 1 out of 7 or 8 US teams and 1 out of 3 Michigan teams!! All are welcome to our pits, so come and say "Hi" I look forward to meeting new teams that I would have otherwise never gotten to meet.

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772 will definitely be there as Andrew said.. My 3rd year there, hopefully the best:).. Good luck to everyone! Hopefully they sell better chocolate at the *hershey centre* :) .. 188 .. not there.. what happened? hope you guys could come! Wow team 48 w00t w00t!:P and the Whole Niagra Gang! I wonder is 771 SWAT is going to be there:P! Good Luck Again.

Aruj Chawla aka Brown Surfer or UPS

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Don't be worried, we are all very friendly people up here. Drop by at team 1241 pits if you ever need anything we can help with.

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Team 865 will be there for the fourth time. So sad that this will be my last year as I am finishing high school this year :( But I had alot fun and learning experience with FIRST which is the most important part.

Good luck everyone and see you all on Thursday. Drop by our pit and say hi.

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I think its pretty clear from last weekend that 1305 is the new Canadian powerhouse team. I saw them push Truck Town across the field one match. TRUCK TOWN! Nobody pushes truck town, and they made it look easy. That drive system they have is something else. Nice custom build 2 speed with 4 CIM's. Tank tread system, with some secret tread compound ;) Its nice, real nice. I expect big things from this team in the near future.

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Team 48 Delphi E.L.I.T.E. will be there for the fourth consecutive year. We look forward to seeing all the great Canadian teams and our friends from up north. We also eagerly anticipate the return pairing of the Canada's Wonderland announcing/MC duo - Steve W and Karthik! May Steve's hair be loud and Karthik's mouth be....not so loud. :D

FYI, if anyone is in the Niagara Falls area, we'll be on the Canadian side for about four hours starting around noon Wednesday. Feel free to track us down and hang out with us, if you like.

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Like Karthik said team 1503 will be there with pride.

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I'm negotiating with my wife for permission to go. :D

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"My Kingdom for a Fast Ferry!"

If you can make it, I guarantee you will NOT be disappointed!!!

-SlimBoJones...

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There will be 54 teams its gonna be crazy
Cant wait

1511 leaves wednesday after school.
QEW greatest highway ever

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There will really be a total of 66 teams.

This event is awesome.

The #1 FIRST regional.

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GRRRRR! I could've been taking that over and my worries (ansd my wife's worries) would be over.
AH well. It should be up and running for me to go to the Canada's WOnderland event.

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Obviously, you've never had to drive the QEW! :p

What was it ex-Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston said about pressure of a pennant chase?

"Oh that's nothing. Pressure is driving down the QEW with your exit comming up and you're two lanes over. That's pressure."

Sing it, Cito! ;)

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Repeating what out members have said before Team 772 is going to be there, with INCENTIVE, so watch out Karthik, it might get very tiring for you there. :D Hope to see you all there, too bad about 188, team 1503, 188 and 772 would have made a greate alliance just as in Waterloo. Well Good luck to all the teams out there hope to see you on Thursday

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You do know that Toronto is a no sledge hammer zone?

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I like the four lanes. LOL :D

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Of Course SWAT is gonna be there .. Wouldn't dream of being anywhere else. Expect to see us and our kilts in two more days !!

Good luck with that Steve!


See everyone in a couple days!! .. I still don't even know why I am bothering going to school .. I mean I will be too excited to even do anything in my classes ...

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Chuck has made his first international trip ever! ;-) He's just waiting for the rest of the team to catch up! :D

We're all looking forward to a great time. Can't wait for Thursday...

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1275 will be there... see everybody on Thrusday

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I will be sure to stop by and say hi.

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its confirmed that 1558 will be attending =D

unlike waterloo, where only 8 people attended, we have a total of 48. it's going to be fierce! we look forward to meeting teams from waterloo and other teams who didn't attend that regional!

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So I printed out 200 flyers for 639 with field layouts on the back. Didn't have time to laminate them but I did get clear sheet protectors so it's similar. There's enough for one per drive team per team at GTR. Bring your own dry-erase pen and clipboard if you'd like. We don't have enough of those to give out. Personally, a field to draw on was very useful for me at FLR.

Below is a small pic of it.

edit: The upside-down "BLUE" at the top of the page was cut off when printing... which made no sense.

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From the pits of 1511:

Fixing our chain as of right now and getting ready for the first practice match at 11:18

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congrats on your first practice match....next time you get online get on aim

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we've been watching the practice matches and gosh 1511 you guys are probably one of the best we've seen. gotta love your gun on your bot :P BTW thanks for the solder and soldering iron. interesting how we are already ranked on the standings. you guys are #1! we're number 9

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GTA Regional looks awesome as it is. A lot of highly competetive teams out there. I can see that spirit will be high, I am so pumped! The SWAT 771 machine is lookin nice (oh yeah Shyra)............GTA REGIONAL, the biggest regional in FIRST, will be awesome!

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is anyone webcasting it?

please say so. pleeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaseeee.

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Practice Day went really well. We did pretty good and i cant wait till tomorrow.

Im in the hotel doing some last minute scouting. I should get some sleep. Here are a few pictures from today.

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Sorry, Prabhas... but no.

We finished inspection earlier than usual (2pm) and did well in practice matches, capping up to 6 at various times. Teams had 6 practices matches (3 sessions) so they were spread pretty far apart in time. Lucas had lots of time after our last match to finish autonomous - knock down right hanging tetra while holding a tetra, ready to cap the center home goal like the Martians. I haven't watched too many teams, but of those I have, 1596, 1305, and the NiagaraFIRST bots stick out.

The arena looks oddly empty with only one field, but the atmosphere is still there and I am amazed to be back here. Whoooo. Looking forwards to competing in about 9 hours.

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Wow guys! Sounds like this regional is running great (especially without us :P). Keep the info coming! Although this isn't the SoCal thread, 188's shining over here. The robot's doing great and our team is more spirited than ever. Thing's are really looking good for us.

(Oh, and good job 1558, our team is very proud of you guys.)

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Keep us informed on SoCal. Start a thread if there isn't one.

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Good old Mississauga. From what I experienced Thursday, it still appears that Greater Toronto is going to end up as one of the friendliest, best run, most competitive regionals in all of FIRST again this season. I absolutely love coming here, and I can't wait for Friday and Saturday. Best of luck to all teams!

Today is April 1. Steve W and Karthik have vowed to repeat their mischief at our expense from last season. We shall tread lightly when returning to our pit this morning..... But know this.....Karthik......I can break you easily, you twig. And we have some very sharp scissors in our pit, Steve. They'd be perfect for cutting through that mass of Technicolor goop you have in your hair. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!

Finally, I can connect to the wireless router from my laptop in the pit, but I can't get on the Internet - any ideas on how to fix that? I hear it works great for some teams, but not so well for others.

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WOW! Friday was awesome! Congrats 1114 (Simbotics) for being in first place after today. You're an awesome team and it's great to see a GM Canada Team in first! Congrats to all of the award winners today.

Theory6: That was crazy with all those people there!

Waldo girls: Spirit is awesome, we love you!

Everyone else: Can't wait for Saturday, I'm sure it will be great!

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Maybe it's due to the number of lesser experienced teams here, but there were more penalties at GTR than I've seen at any other regional, in person or webcast.

The day got better as it went on as everyone improved functionality. I believe the high score was 105-0.

So 639 ended with a 4-2 record. First match was lost when partners got three 10pt penalties and second was lost when one of our drivers straddled the loading zone but apparenltly was touching (there's a little piece of cloth that hangs down?). Anyway, the refereeing was consistent and Steve's explanations after every match are useful for the audience and players.

I've been impressed by 1114, 854, 1305, 84, 1596, and 703 in no particular order.

We added the ability to hold a tetra during auton to our robot yesterday and tested auton with it last night. It worked wonderfully today and starting the driver period with an owned goal and a tetra in your claw ready to cap is very useful.

gotta go.

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So far this has been amazing our robot is workig great and our human player team is doing really well also! I can't wait till tomorrow!

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For us, I was surprised that we have such a strong robot. We played mostly defence and we pushed everyone around like pushing paper boxes.

Good Game Everyone and Good Luck Tomorrow!

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Can someone post the top 10 (so far)?

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Everything is available at usfirst.org.

1114
1596
1334
1482
854
703
1244
1404
1397
773

Rankings

Match Results

Awards

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Oops... thanks, I'm an idiot.

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the competition here is really fierce!! its amazing! yeah we took some unecessary penalties, but hey thats what you get for not following the rules. but of course match 55 really stood out for us =D

great strategy that 48 came up with, and we took down the alliance with 772, 1305 and 296 down! of course we could not have won that one because of a penalty taken by 1305, but then again we lost our second match because of penalties. we played some solid defense and almost shutout 1305 =D. solid ramming helped so much. and we apologize for any lost foam you guys suffered because i remember seeing some come off =)

i congratulate all the teams (especially the rookies and even more for 1596) for doing so well in the seeding rounds.

BTW does anybody have a video of match 55? i would really like it

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anyone know the alliance selections? it isn't on usfirst.org

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It is if you look at the match results, and you can use the standings to determine which seed each alliance is.

Alliance selections:

1 - 1114, 1305, 1511
2 - 1241, 772, 1006
3 - 48, 1503, 84
4 - 854, 639, 1353
5 - 703, 1596, 1680
6 - 1397, 1141, 1547
7 - 1482, 773, 1330
8 - 1334, 1053, 1392

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QF 1.1 High score in the nation...128 to 0.

Alliance #1 (1114, 1305, 1511) beat Alliance #8 (1334, 1053, 1392)

Alliances #1 and 5 have advanced to the semi-finals.

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Update

Semifinall 1:
Alliance #1 (1114, 1305, 1511) vs. Alliance #5 (703, 1596, 1680)

Semifinal 2
Alliance #3 (48, 1503, 84) vs. Alliance #7 (1482, 773, 1330)

Finals:

Alliance #1 (1114, 1305, 1511) vs. Alliance #3 (48, 1503, 84)

And the WINNERS of the 2005 Greater Toronto Regional are:

Teams 1114, 1305, 1511

Congratulations

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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE REGIONAL CHAMPIONS 1511, 1114, 1305!!!


1511 I am so proud of you guys....i told you we could do it

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I just wanted to say a huge congrats to the GTR winners, 1114, 1305 and 1511. Sounds like it was a really exciting time, I'm sorry I missed it.
Also, a quick note to 1114 , awesome comeback from the Waterloo regional guys.. I know you were having your problems there so it's awesome to hear that you ended up winning this weekend!
As for 48, it was a bummer not seeing you guys this year. boo on exams being a week away and me not being able to skip out on a weekend of studying. Great job on getting to the finals! Take care and hopefully I'll be around next year.. though I still say you should check out the Waterloo regional. (and Travis thanks again for helping out Dave and I last year)

In any case, I'm sure no one wants to listen to me drone on. Congrats everyone, from what I gather it was a great regional!

-Ann-Marie Winkler

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Wow.. 1511 is having some rookie year! All three rookie awards, spirit, and a CHAMPIONSHIP! Congrats.

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Congratulations to the Toronto Regional Winners,

Also, Congrats! :yikes: to my guys on their Regional Finalist Award. I can't wait to hear the stories! Great way to end your senior year James, Loren, and Mike!

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I guess it's safe to say that 1511 is no longer a rookie team.

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Does anyone have any pictures from that 128 match?

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They can still win rookie awards at the Championship, so I think they are rookies. But they are a very strong team already.

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Congratulations to the winning alliance. Wish I was there!

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What do you think about team 1564? We're the second best rookie this year ( I think ).

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Me too, Duane. Me too.

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What a day..............................

Thank you 1114 and 1305 for picking us as your alliance partner. You guys had amazing robots. We were so glad we got to work with you guys. This regional was so awesome. So many great rookie teams it was amazing to watch

The first match was insane.... I could not believe how well we played together. 128 points Highest score in the nation. Incredible

To our amazing drivers for driving like pros. To the mentors for believing in us. To our cheering section. Waldo's we love you girls It was so much fun to cheer with you.

To the other alliances Team 48 1503 and 84 you guys were incredible. Great battle till the end. Such a close score in the second match. You guys played amazing.

to 1503 our neighbor rookies. Awesome job guys you were incredible to watch.

I cant believe how it turned out. I am over whelmed and so happy.
FIRST is amazing and I'm so glad i got this experience. Cant wait till Nationals

Thank you Kim we love you and we couldn't have done it without you


"Rolling Thunder whats our cry V I C T O R Y"

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Just as a correction: Team 1547 (Where's Waldo from Trafalgar Castle) won Rookie All-Star Award.

edit: correcting myself .. did not know that 1511 had won rookie all-star at Rochester and that is what Joel meant.

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and 1590 won the Rookie All-Star at Buckeye.

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1511 has won all three rookie awards, but each of them at a different regional. They also finished as a quarter-fnialist, a semi-finalist, and a winner of the three regionals they attended. I hope to see them do very well at the Championship.

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I think they meant that we won Rookie All Star at Rochester, Highest Rookie Seed at Cleveland, and now Rookie Inspiration at Toronto.

But Waldo's award was well deserved, what a great team!! I hope you girls are coming to nationals so we can cheer together again! Congrats!!!

And thanks again so much to teams 1114 & 1305 for selecting us, we hope we did you proud!!! How much fun was that?!?!

Karthik, thanks so much for all the support!! :D 229, thanks for coming to cheer us on! :)

I guess I am a bit in shock still and dont know how all of this has happened... except that our team put in a ton of hard work, and with a little bit of luck, and some amazing alliance partners, this was an amazing regional.

Thanks for all the congrats from the teams!

And I do have one huge thanks left... thanks to all my kids for all of your hard work, long hours, endless scouting, tireless chearing, amazing energy, awesome driving, great coaching, and what a great robot! You guys are my inspiration! You are the reason I can stay up countless hours to finish up scouting or paperwork, or robot stuff. I dont know how we keep doing it, but we do. You guys deserve it all, you are truely an amazing rookie team :) (Or as Ed says, perhaps we really arent rookies anymore!) And lastly, I have to say thanks for all the appreciation you guys have shown. Never could I have expected to be so important to the team. You guys really made the mentors(and especially me) feel special, and we are so happy for all of you. I love you guys!!!

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Congrats to the winning alliance.

1114 deserved this, they had an amazing robot(s) ,great drivers and a brilliant coach. The triplet project was exceedingly successful.

1305 has been great all along, and thier robot is simply amazing.

1511 are an amzing rookie team, great job guys!

Also congrats to the finalists you gave us, the crowd, an amazing show.

See you at nationals :)

Weekend Recap
 

What an amazing weekend we had in Toronto. The event went off without a hitch, and the Hershey Center was rockin' all weekend long. For the sake of brevity and organization, my thanks and congrats are in this thread.

Despite teams only playing 8 matches, no team was able to finish the qualifying rounds with an undefeated record. Team 1114 finished on top of the pile because of average RP of 18.37. This was definitely not the same Team 1114 that was in Waterloo. All three NiagaraFIRST.org teams made huge strides, including an autonomous mode which gave them 2/3 of the home row after 4 seconds. Teams 1305, 1241 and 48 all finished with one loss as well.

After the alliance selection process, it was evident that we'd be in for some great eliminations round. Team 1114 picked 1305, and then picked up the steal of the day by getting Team 1511 in the second round. Teams 1241, 772 and 1006 formed an all GM alliance. Team 48, who also improved greatly from their earlier regionals picked 1503 (one of the triplets) and 84. The fifth seeded alliance was also very strong, Teams 703, 1596 and 1680.

With all these strong capping alliances, it was clear that the elimination rounds were going to exciting. The tone was set early when the top seeded alliance (1114, 1305, 1511) put up a score of 128. There was a big upset in QF3, as teams 1241, 772 and 1006 went out in two straight. They actually had out scored their opponents by 39 points in match 1, but took 40 points in penalties... ouch.

When the dust settled from the semis, we were left with a final which was bound to be exciting. On one side you had 1114, 1305 & 1511 and on the other side it was 48, 1503 & 84. Consider these storylines...

- 1114 and 48 were finalists together, one year ago in Toronto. They came within a whisker of winning the whole thing. The teams are best of friends, but have had some very tough battles in the past.

- Two NiagaraFIRST.org robots battling it out in the finals. It was definitely weird seeing double out there. Having the same robot on both alliances, is a unique feeling. These two teams worked hand in hand all season long, which made strategizing for the finals quite unique.

The first match of the finals went to the 1114, 1503 & 1680 alliance, 40-31. This set the stage for one of the most exciting matches I've seen in FIRST. In autonomous mode, 1114 knocks one hanging tetra, and caps home center , while 1511 knocks their hanging tetra. On the other side, 1503 who has the same routine as 1114, missing the home center, and ends up containing the tet. This turns out to be crucial. Team 48 comes out hand plays some tough zone defense, which gets in the way of both 1114 and 1305. 1511 picks up the slack and does a lot of capping for the alliance. With about 10 seconds left the 48 alliance has control of the center row. 1114 gets to the autoloader at the 5 second mark. They somehow manage to pick up a tetra, turn and cap the side goal as time expires. Everyone in the arena realizes that that last cap is going to make it very close. The score comes in.... 32-31 for the number one seeds!

It was absolutely amazing. The perfect way to end an awesomely exciting weekend.

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congrats to the winners, finalists and all the other teams that made it to the elimination rounds! it was amazing how much the 3 GM triplet teams improved. you guys capped so much faster than at waterloo. it was insane.

too bad our team wasn't chosen, it definitely looked bad in our last game when we had a short circuit. our robot wasnt experiencing any real difficulties, but that looked bad for sure. also our second game was lost carelessly because of loading box penalties, but hey...that happened to the 772 alliance as well. despite all that, the regional was great! congrats to all the teams and especially all the rookies for doing so well!

P.S. we were thinking any of the alliances that needed a bot to take down a couple good cappers for them could have chosen us. =\

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Kelvin,

I too was surprised that you weren't chosen for the eliminations. Your team constantly showed great defensive prowess by using your arm to block teams trying to cap. Congratulations on a great rookie season.

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You can say that again...I was very surprised, as I had them quite high on my list.

Also, to team 1558, I'm very sorry I couldn't be there to help you out on Saturday, but I unexpectedly got sick.

Simbotics: as soon as I saw you guys on Friday, I knew that you were back and ready to do something special. I'm really happy for you, and I regret that we were never able to work together this year.

1305: What can I say...great season, wow. And you'll get one of those bibs someday soon!

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thanks, Karthik. im sure we would have been chosen if our robot worked in the last match. shutting down 1114 would have made us look good :P. oh well. there were many things we could have improved on, and marketing ourselves was one. and we couldn't have done so well without you and woburn supporting us. =)

adam, its ok. unexpected things always happen. it was great seeing you with an accident t-shirt! thanks

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Congrats to the Winners!
Our scouting reports had you guys on top and practically unbeatable. The last match was incredibly tense with 48 out to block any scoring attempts.
Just a personal footnote; I didn't understand how we were overlooked during alliance selections. I thought with a decent 20th position and with a higher RP than most would have been a good choice. :confused:
Guess there's always next year!


Gerbs, Team 1620

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Congrats to the winners! I had an awesome time and was thoroughly impressed by the high level of play by many robots at the event, especially 1114 and their automated capping and autoloading routines.

Although both of our alliance partners seemed to have devastating problems during quarterfinals, that didn't stop us from making our mark. Thanks to the judges for the GM Industrial Design Award (that's 3 outta 4 years!) We'll be back next year.

See everyone at Championships.

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The Greater Toronto Regional was a blast. We at team 1404 would like to congratulate the winners, all of which were fantastic robots (we played with 1114 and against them in two consecutive matches, and were able to see their power from both sides).

Despite the fact that we missed the playoffs (our final game, lost by one point, and that dropped us from 7th to 21st, from being a picking team to out of it altogether [although, this is nothing compared to what the blue alliance must have felt in the final]), we still enjoyed the whole event. This was my first and last time at the event as a team member, as I graduate this year. Hopefully, I'll be back in some sort of mentoring role next year with 1404.

Good work all, and I hope to be there next year.

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The GTR was amazing. Thank you to 1114 for picking us for an alliance we worked well together and 1511 you guys were great. I knew when I saw 1114 on Thursday that they would do great in the competition and you guys did. We made a great alliance and maybe we could do it again in Atlanta. I would also like to thank everyone that made this regional possible.

Hafize

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A well deserved win for 1114, 1305 and 1511, congratz!

As for Karthik, you rock man! I've never seen an MC with so much energy.

Thanks to 781 for the gearbox when ours broke.

As dissapointing as our quarterfinal matches were, it was still a kick a** regional and there is no other regional in which I would rather be.

I certainly hope that out team will come back next year, though I will be a college mentor then...

This regional has always been the best regional and I want to thank EVERYONE involved for making my FIRST experience the best I ever had. This was my last FIRST regional as a student, and what a ride it has been!

Thank you and see you all at Atlanta!

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Thanks to all for a fantastic event!

Does anyone (ideally, the official scoring-data-entry folks) have a copy of the match details for the GTA Regional... we wanted to run some statistical analysis, but our data was incomplete/inaccurate... (something including the penalties...? the data posted on the first site does not include this...)

Thanks!

Congratulations to all teams, and thanks again for a wonderful time!

David Hoare
team 1419 - Courtice

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does anybody of a pic or video of Steve getting capped when a tetra flew off a robot?

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i heard about a judge getting capped! didn't know that judge was really the announcer steve! if anybody has that video/picture, can they send it to me as well?

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That was an amazing regional. We had a great time. The final match was AMAZING. I have never seen such good playing from both alliances.

Congrats to the winners, and we might just see you again next year.

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That was fun ^_^ Team 1346 (Trobotics) wants to thank Team 1241 (Theory6) for being such awesome hosts and giving us a place to sleep ;) It was great cheering with you guys. Props to Waldo and Rolling Thunder for your cheer squad, you guys made cheering awesome. Our whole team was rookies, only person who had been on the team before was our teacher. Now that we know what this is all about, we'll be a force to be recokend with next year >=D

Karthik, are you Tamil =O?!

Kims Robot, tell me your Neopets username ASAP, I quit so I've got a little something for ya ;)

PS: We're sad that no one came down to dance with us ;_;

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It was truly a pleasure to travel to Toronto and participate in the 2005 Toronto regional at the Hershey Centre. The staff, judges, referees, announcers were all truly gracious professionals. Our team had the time of their lives; plus with the help of #1114 and #1305, we won!

Our team, Rolling Thunder #1511, has a photo-sharing web site at rollingthunder.smugmug.com or through our team web site at www.penfieldrobotics.com. Although I don't have a video clip of Steve getting "capped" by a tetra, there are lots of photos and a few short video clips there; more to come this week.

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I will try and find if any of the people on 1511 got it on tape i know i didnt but there were a few others that were filming. I will make another highlight reel for our team in a few days also

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awesome, thanks guys!! :D

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What are you talking about? You must have been at another regional. If it were true someone would have gotten a photo or something.

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Hmm, well I know that it happened during one of our matches... and we tape all of our matches.... but I don't have the camcorder!!! I will find this moment as soon as I get my hands on the video...

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someone out of the few hundred ppl watch, must have gotten a pic or video of it

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Hmm... You all might be referring to the driver of my team's bot for the last match we played. We.. kinda.. almost.. capped a ref. :o

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I know it was in the quarter finals. I would guess it was QF 1-2. I know this because I was standing in the "on-deck" area with the #5 seed alliance when it happened.