Florida Off-season, Mayhem @ The Museum
 

I am proud to present the Florida Off season Competition 2005, Mayhem @ The Museum which will take place on 8th and 9th of July. The Competition will take place at the Museum of Discovery and Science in Broward County downtown Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. South Florida FIRST has taken the responsibility to run this Off season Competition. Broward County is represented by...

Team 108 (SigmaC@ts - Motorola/Dillard HS/Taravella HS)

Team 408 (Roboticks- Blanche Ely High School)

Team 710 (Paw- Apex Machines & Westminster Academy & Pine Crest School & North Broward, Coral Springs Christian)

Team 1251 (TechTigers- Sonny's Enterprises Inc. The Car Wash Factory/First Service Realty Int'l & Atlantic Technical Center Magnet High School)

Team 1345 (Platinum Dragons- NASA/D & D Millwork/Dragon Heat - a 21st Century Program & Stranahan High School).

Agenda:

July 8th (Friday- this day is optional for teams):
- Team showcase
- Free Imax Movie Ticket
- Team conducted workshops
- PR outreach
- FLL demonstration
- Go into conjunction with the animatronic dinosaur exhibit.
- Late afternoon/evening, BBQ at the beach.

July 9th (Saturday):
- Qualifying Rounds
- Elimination Rounds
- Entertainment (Performances, Mentor driving)
- Awards
- We should be done by 4 p.m.

Maximum Capacity of teams (as of now) - 25

Museum of Discovery and Science will open up the whole place to us for this off season competition. There are many restaurants and fast food places available around the museum (there are few at the bottom floor). Arrangements are being made right now. We need your help. We want you there. We would like to know who would be interested in coming (we definitely want the Florida teams to be here as well as teams from other states). As of right now, we are looking at $200 - $250 registration fee. If you have any question, feel free to contact me at arefin.bari@gmail.com or Mr. John Burke (Magnet Coordinator, Broward County Public Schools) at john.burke@browardschools.com

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I automatically volunteer myself and my team to attend this off-season event. I am pretty sure it is alright with the rest of the team, only if we can get more pink people to go; which is not very difficult to do (especially during the summer). Plus it is fairly local. :D

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now I have to choose between this and IRI? Come on! ::wonders how I can swing going to both::

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Wow thats great to hear they finally got that up and running I remember we were talking about that last year and I'm glad that The Museum brought it all together.

Count Me in to help out and hopefully I can rally the rest of the Florida FIRST guys to come out and help.

Who can we contact to let us know how we can help.

Dan

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Have you guys established hotel plans with any of the local-area hotels for this event? Often times some motels/hotels will offer a special rate towards teams. I think if we found out about the hotel situation teams could better plan and assess whether or not we can attend.

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IRI isn't the same week as Mayhem @ The Museum (I think I am going to IRI too). I would like to see team 1390 and team 1604 down here.

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Woohoo, chaching.. one ticket please! 179 won't miss it...

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Thanks Dan for Supporting us. We would love to have you down here to help us out. I will be talking to the volunteers and see what we would need to do to get this going.

No, we haven't had a chance to get in touch with the hotels/motels. Teams should be able to get rooms for the night as a group. Also, keep in mind, Friday the 8th of July is optional for teams who are traveling from far distance.

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me and pete will probably be there, my brother will probably come too, you can count us in

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if i have a ride down.. i'll love to help out...

i missed the bots @ the museum last year cause i was on a plane to chicago..this year i should be home then...

can't wait to have fun w/ my favorite florida teams and ppl...

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BTW, if anyone can remember some of the old fun challenges we used to do at Mayhem In Miami, please send me a PM or IM. I'm trying to think of all of them. So far I've got:

"You think you can do it better???" for the mentors
"All girl drive team"
"Capture the hill" - not so useful for this year's game, but maybe I can modify it a tad...

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ohh yeah swamp awsome will tytus go

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you mean My driving career isin't over yet?

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I be alsmot sure if swamp goes Tytus will be there. :) Can't wait it should be alot of fun. Event is open to all teams.

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Well the one Good thing about Ft. Lauderdale is there is quite a pluthera of Hotels, and this museum is about a 7-10 minute drive to the beach and all the resorts there. It could be quite a vacation for some people :-) I'm excited to see a competition in my home town.

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Wow this is so incredibly awesome. I remember last summer one of the coordinators of the robot demo there wanted to do an event. Even better its two days before my bday! Pete, us alums are driving some of these matches.....with hopefully an improved 710 bot...

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Maybe like who can cap the highest??

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My father is good friends with the owner of the Riverside hotel on los olas, its the closest hotel. I can try and make some arrangements if you would like a room there, pm or IM me.

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We also did one robot on the field at a time to see who can score the most points alone, as well as rounds of 1 v 1.

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as for 710, along with the people stated above, i will (almost) surely be attending and, barring extraordinary circumstances, I am forcing all the former-267 members to attend also.
sounds like a party.

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you can count us in. wouldn't miss it for the world :D

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Great Good to see 1029 coming to an off season event! I'm starting to get pumped for this competition.

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Awesome. Can't wait to see all my friends again.

As of now we have team 108, 179, 233, 710, 1029, 1083, 1251, 1345.

... Its been 3 days since we announced this. Registration should be opening very soon. We need response from teams. We would like to have atleast 25 teams here. Please pass the word to all orlando teams. Thanks.

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some ideas for side competitions: (someone was asking for some ideas)

1. who can cap the most goals on each other.
2. who can lift the most weight (# of tetras and/or goals)
3. fastest robot

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Another team who joined the offseason... team 1341

As of now we have team 108, 179, 233, 710, 1029, 1083, 1251, 1341, 1345.

I would like to have a contact number from team 233, 710, 1029, 1341 regarding registration. If you see this. Please email me the contact number at arefin.bari@gmail.com ... Thanks.

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The registration will be opening tommorrow morning, May 12th. The deadline for the registration is June 15th. We encourage to register as soon as possible. Teams who has contacted us back or has been contacted should be getting an email from us sometime today regarding the registration for the offseason. If any team is interested and who hasn't gotten an email from us please contact me (arefin.bari@gmail.com) or Mr. John Burke (john.burke@browardschools.com). We look forward to see the Florida teams spreading FIRST in the community and rocking the museum.

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We really would like too see teams 79 and 312 come down if at all possible and of course the Orlando teams :D . Also out of state teams please consider this if you have the means to do so. Looking foward to seeing some great action at the museum. ;)

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I wasn't aware of the merger between the three... :confused:

I think one of our NMEs (actually the President/Captain/whatever we call him's mother) volunteered us for it before we knew about it... hehe... :D

Also, do you still need a contact number for 1341?

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Nope, I have got the contact number for Maura Malloy. She should have gotten an invoice about the registration yesterday. Can't wait to see team 1341 here. :)

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1604 does not look like we will be showing up, but I'll just put in a little rumor that I am pushing 1390 to attend... we are working on the logistic and discussing our funds. I'll make them more aware of the June 15th deadline. Arefin, I'll let you know as soon as I find out what the mentors decide.

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Thank you Barry. I talked to your mom and she has told me that she is trying to work things out with orlando teams. I really do need all of you guys help to get this going. If you can, fix that arm and drive that bot down here. I would like to see 1604 here.

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Its getting close, A month from now there will be a blast in Downtown Ft. Lauderdale. Every single person who will be there in downtown those two days (july 8th and 9th) will know what FIRST is.

Thanks to the teams who is joining us to rock the Museum. For more information, check out www.mayhematthemuseum.com ...

This offseason was my dream, now it's a mission.

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This off season was my dream, now it's a mission.[/quote]

Arefin you have done a great job with this, I am so glad to see this event off the ground and running. This event will be awesome so glad to see some of my favorite teams are registered for this event. This is going to be a great time.Thank you to Arefin, Mr.Burke and all who made this possible you guys rock. :]

-Drew
Team 1251
The Tech Tigers

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Arefin you have done a great job with this, I am so glad to see this event off the ground and running. This event will be awesome so glad to see some of my favorite teams are registered for this event. This is going to be a great time.Thank you to Arefin, Mr.Burke and all who made this possible you guys rock. :]

-Drew
Team 1251
The Tech Tigers[/quote]

I second what Drew said.... I've been watching you, Arefin through all of this...it keeps you up so many hours when I wish you were sleeping so you won't get sick or anything. But you keep on going...it's your dream sweetie and it's coming true. I'm soo proud of you and thanks for doing such a great job.
Thanks to the offseason commitee...you guys really do rock!!

I'm always still here to help....let me know if I can do anything.

Great job again! We love you ppl....keep up the good work we'll see you in less than a month now....

:)

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Look out for some nice trophies by me for this competition!

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warning: excitement spoiler!

Someone posted this on the S.P.A.M. Forums. http://www.spamrobotics.com/forums/i...opic=213&st=30 That last post in that thread mentions Tropical Storm Dennis. It is somewhat headed towards Ft. Lauderdale and one of our team members plans to cancel because of it. Will anything be cancelled, such as the event on the beach?

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As of right now, no. But I would like to discuss it with the committee members. I will post back here at night letting you know if everything is still the way it has been planned.

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Note that the link posted on their forums is 120 hours, much after the event is over.

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Alright here is the update, Doesn't look like that the storm will get here before Sunday night. Yes, we may have rain but we are inside the museum, under the roof. The Mayhem is on.

... Now that I am thinking, the teams at the Mayhem will show off exactly how the Florida teams play, Through storms, with all the energy and spirt. :)

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... Now that I am thinking, the teams at the Mayhem will show off exactly how the Florida teams play, Through storms, with all the energy and spirt. :)[/quote]


Heck Yesss!!! Arefin said it go Florida FIRST, so proud to see this happening hopefully Dennis will not mess things up but if he does were ready for everything.

-Drew
:)

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i don't think this storm will hurt us...what's a little drops of rain??? it's just rain we aren't going to melt ya know...

the party is still rocking on down in south florida so tis all good :)

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That tropical storm warning line is a little close. I think I'll bring something to cover our robot, in case we have to carry it in the rain. lol Is the drop off area covered? Also, if the beach party has to be canceled, is there an indoor, backup location?

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I took a little peek around the area that we're going to be in just before they started to set up the field. It's a covered outside area just outside the museum. There is a bus loop (uncovered) by the field, which is open on a first-come, first-serve basis (as I read in one of the many emails that my team's gotten in the past 24 hrs).

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Mayhem begins today in 4 hours. I hope we won't be under any hurricane watch. I just checked the hurricane Dennis's path, doesn't look like it is going to hit us. The most we might get is some rain. Fellow Cders, Please pray that the hurricane Dennis won't get here, so we can run this offseason smoothly. Thank you. Time to head out...

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Good luck with Mayhem, Arefin! Many of us have you in our thoughts and prayers, and we are all wishing you and the rest of the crew the best of luck, and safety from Dennis. Hope everything is going smoothly!

-- Jaine, the Perotti family, and the rest of CD.

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Jaine thank you so much that means a world to us and the crew. So far so good wish us luck for Saturday. :ahh:

-Drew and the crew.

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well tis be a first fun day at off season... the sun was shining and it was hot and muggy but w/ the 12 teams and all we had tons of fun of course... FIRST events are never boring for sure... tytus dancing on the segway was intresting (sry tytus it is caught on tape... ;) )...and mike walker doing his thing... :D

hats off to the off season crew for doing a lot of work and the museum and sponosors... :)

i'm having fun so you guys are doing a good job...

i think the most fun i had was babysitting arefin's vex bot ;) should have taken it home with me to play and bring it back

and everyone was driving other people's bot which was fun to see too...

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Congratulations Arefin on your dream come true

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Great off season event! Props to Arefin for getting it off the ground today, even though the weather (hurricane) was threatening it. Great job Arefin!

Thanks to 233 for the pick and 1083 for trying to hold on in the final round while our arm got locked and Pink's gear switcher broke. Also thanks to 108 SigmaC@T for their backup battery so that we could play in the final rounds. Much appreciated all! :D

Congrats to 1523 (M.A.R.S.), 1251 (Techtigers), and 1390 (Weletthedogsout) on their win! Maybe our alliances might have a rematch sometime...

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Thanks, and great job to you guys too, when i saw your alliance i never thought we'd pull it off, you gave a great fight, and as for that alliance rematch...that would be sweet. :D

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so s.p.a.m. had fun and myself and my team give big congrats to the winners and all the teams. we had all new drivers and operators handling the bot so it wasn't the usual s.p.a.m. team but it was all good. we had a lot of fun, cheering, dancing and well yeah...

great job again to the crew!

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Well, I'll add to Tiff's post. I know most, if not all, drivers and operators were either first time driving, first time driving that robot, or just do not have much experience. The most important part is that we had fun. I know I did. I got to operate S.P.A.M.'s beast for several matches. I even managed to stack a few. I am very suprised I could do any of that because I am partially blind and I could barely see the goals.

Good job all teams and thanks to everyone for making it fun. This was the most fun FIRST-related event ever for me because I got to drive the bot so much and we weren't under so much presure to win.

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Thanks to everyone who helped for making such an event possible. I had a very good time and it was great to experience some more FIRST. Thanks to 1523 and 1390 for a great alliance.

Dave

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Well, I am very upset that i missed this event. I was suppose to be off the cruise ship by 10 am and i was going to head over there. But, do to the hurricane the port was closed for awhile and i didn't get off the boat till about 130 pm. Congrats Arefin and all the hard work you did. You did something that me and Dan tried about 2 years ago, but you actually succeed and i tip my hat to you.

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Fin, Finny, Fin-Fin, Finarino, Finta....

anyway, im so glad that it went off without a hitch for you guys, i know ive been talking to ary for the past couple of weeks and seen how stressed he is. its nice to see that he wont have an ulcer now because it apparently went so smooth! (thanks to the teams for keeping him out of the hospital ;))

Fin keep up the spirit man, the world needs people like you, people who give the time and effort to make the best of every situation. keep up the effort and you'll go places kid.

Sorry fin about not makin the trip to florida, ya know im in college and yes, i am the sterotypical college kid *broke*. But you can make darn sure that ill be a ref for you next year and ill make sure i drag some NE teams down to the sunsh...err hurricane state for your event!!!

GOOD JOB FINARINO!!!!!

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i must say they were very nicely done... i love them... hats off to you!

and the ppl who created the logo nice job too...hats off once again!

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thanks to the huricane it made us all work alot harder for it

it's good that it came true even though it was a wet one

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Don't worry about the weather, it was great.

It is not a true South Florida FIRST competition unless it is held during a hurricane!

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::Gets on Stage::

Mayhem @ the Museum, a dream that became reality, an off-season competition that took place on July 8th and 9th at the Museum of Discovery and Science, downtown Ft. Lauderdale. First of all, I would like to thank all the sponsors, Skanska, Museum of Discovery and Science, Broward County Public Schools, and South Florida FIRST. Thank you to all the teams who came down and joined us at the Mayhem.

Team 108 – SigmaC@T
Team 179 – Swampthing
Team 180 – S.P.A.M.
Team 233 – Pink
Team 710 – Paw
Team 1029 – Wolvcats
Team 1251 – TechTigers
Team 1341 – Knights who say NEE
Team 1345 – Platinum Dragons
Team 1390 – Weletthedogsout
Team 1523 – M.A.R.S.
Team 1592 – Bionic Tigers

It was really a Mayhem. Friday we set up the field while teams were showing off their true spirit of FIRST. Once we had the field ready (around 12 p.m.) we started practice matches. Caught a lot of attention from public, they were very interested in FIRST. We also had a lot of local TV channels; newspapers come in and interview teams as well as mentors from FIRST. Then it was the social where (I assume) the teams had a good time. We had BBQ. Friday night few of us stayed at the Museum (since it was an open space) with the field.

4 a.m. Saturday morning, it started raining very badly with a lot of wind (Broward was smashed with the ban from Hurricane Dennis). The field carpet was wet (3/4 of it). Everything was flying around. About 6 in the morning, the storm calm down. We had few shop vacuums. The committee was probably up for calling this off. But I didn’t want to say “I quit.” Volunteers joined me to start cleaning up the field. We had the carpet dried by 9 a.m. We waited till 12 p.m. since we were supposed to get another ban from Hurricane Dennis. At 12 we put the field back together. We started at 1. The competition included 20 qualifying matches, Elimination round, Human triple play, Autonomous competition, Mentors obstacle course driving. It was fun. It was amazing to see how the crew pulled it off. The name of the competition totally merges with the way it went. I hope the teams enjoyed it.

I would like to thank a few here. I would like thank John Burke (magnet coordinator), who was up for all these work, David Ellich (1251 mentor), for being there all the time and help planning everything out, Rosemary Petrill (1251 mentor), for taking care of all the judging criteria. Comes down to College students… Andrew Rudolph, yup he did it again, he made 17 trophies, and they look very professional. Mike Walker, who came down from Orlando and took care of the field and scoring. Dan Richardson, who did DJ for both days, he kept it going. Thanks to Steve Shade, Anne Bergeron, Bill Brown, Peter Smeryage, James Martz, Abraham D. for being referees at the Mayhem. Thanks to the 1251 crew (Drew, Kevin, Sebs, Dave) for being there and helping me all the time, without you guys it would have been so hard to pull this off. Thanks to Tytus Gerrish, Tiffany Lee, Amanda Makintosh, Barry bonzack for staying with me and support me with whatever I needed help with. Thanks to Jaine perotti for coming up with that nice logo for the Mayhem. The shirt looked Awesome.

I would also like to thank Dan Richardson and Ryan Albright who tried to do the same thing 2 years ago. I was inspired by them and I told them that I would make it happen. Sorry that it too me 2 years but I pulled it off. And ofcourse I would like to thank FIRST because if there was no FIRST, I wouldn’t be the Arefin that I am now.

Ok… I am done. =)

::steps off the stage::

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To everyone who was involved with Mayhem @ the Museum --

I want to congratulate you all for doing such a fantastic job organizing and pulling off this event. Starting and running an offseason, especially for the first time, must be an incredible challenge. It sounds like everything went smoothly for the most part, even with the threat of Hurricane Dennis. I am glad that everyone remained safe, and that Mayhem did not have to be canceled. Thank you to everyone who pitched in.

To Arefin especially --

I must say that I admire you for your strength of will and your determination. Running this offseason put you through way too much stress, and I am glad that it is over for the sake of your health. However, reaching for one's dreams is what makes people happy - without anything to struggle for, people would never gain the satisfaction of surmounting a challenge. It makes me so happy to see your dream come true, after all of the sleepless nights you had to endure, and the seemingly endless volumes of work that you had to do. Not everyone can deal with the large amounts of stress that you had to bear - let alone have it go as smoothly as it did.

You are one incredibly strong person, and I congratulate you for your perseverance.

Thank you to everyone who helped this young man's dream come true. I appreciate and value you all.
FIRST has the power to change lives, inspire, and make dreams come true - as is evidenced by the outcome of this offseason event.

-- Jaine

Mayhem and Thanks
 

This was my first time to be volunteering for a FIRST event and not just a spectator or competing in it. I knew it takes thousands of hours of planning and dedicated people willing to give up their time with nothing in return to pull events like this off, but I had no real idea before now. I give props to the people there on Thursday afternoon, Friday at 5:00am, and all Saturday. I have never seen such dedication out of any group of volunteers as the ones here. Set up the field...then being awake at 4:00am for a quick teardown, then to set it up again hours later, and tear it down again after it was finished. (FYI: FIRST needs a disclaimer that parts of the field can become flying projectiles under hurricane force winds.)

I could not be more impressed with a human being like Arefin on Saturday morning as I watched him on the field with a vacuum trying everything he can to get it dry, refusing to give up. I have no clue the stress it takes to get something like this organized, then to have the dream threatened by an unforeseeable act of God the night before after months of planning and consecutive sleepless days. That in itself was enough motivation for me to keep helping. Arefin- Mission successfully complete, returning to homebase for a nap.

Thanks to everyone to help make this event possible, what an awesome event it turned out to be!


::Switches to 1390 hat::

I would like to represent 1390 in thanking Mars and Tech Tigers for an awesome alliance and our first championship win. Heck, it was the first time we have gotten an award...or even first time to move on from qualifying rounds to the finals. I am thrilled we have something to return home with, show our administration, and display in the front office of the school. Watching 1251, 1523, and 1390 ending the day with three triple plays is one memory that will stick for a long time, lets remember each other when alliance picking comes around at UCF 2006 ;) I truly believe this will help improve the team, it could not have been possible without these two teams. Thanks.

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Thank you first off to Mr.Arefin Bari and John Burke for coordinaing this event. Thanks to all the sponsors who made a dream a reality you have done your jobs with that. The whole setup and tear down crew thanks for your patience and great willingness to help out. To the night crew u guys rocked we need to do that again sometime lol.To all our volunteers who helped out, excellent work keeping things neat and organized you guys are the best. The refs were wonderful thank you for comming and bearing with us as we were preparing the field still on Saturday morning. The teams that came thank you so much I hope you all had a great time despite the weather and changes of schedule. Thank you M.A.R.S for selecting 1251 The TECH TIGERS and thanks weletthedogsout for being a great allience partner as well. Everyone who had anything to do with the event that you so much for support and help.

-Drew
Team 1251
The Techtigers!!!! :eek:

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Does anyone have a list of the scores from each match? If so, I oculd use them so if they could be PMed to me or something, or posted here publicly. Thanks. Otherwise, odn't worry about it.

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This competition was great. A good dose of fun, excitement, and weather. On behalf of my team, I would like to thank Arefin, Mr. Burke, and all of the volunteers that made this event possible. This is the best way to end a robotics season, worry-free of school, having a great time playing the best FIRST game (since I have been in robotics at least) ever.

I am all ready for next year already. How many more days until we get the 2006 game? :confused: :eek: :ahh: Too many

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Great job mr. burke, arefin and crew competition went of well even with the rain and delays.

Mad props to andrew with his awesome trophies

Kudos to Mike T. Walker for getting the scoring system and competition field working ( I believe thats the first time a florida competition actually got the stuff to work lol )

"Mad Love " for my team who wasn't there but apparently helped out in the final round, confusing but amasing none the less. woohoo go 1083 EmotiCons

Ohh and gotta give it up for that hot dj crew, they should like dj every FIRST competition in Florida after amasing performance.

And lastly thanks to Tytus for stealing all my jokes and thinking he's funny and being like " Ohh I'm tytus and this is my joke " hehe :-)

Great Job to everyone, it takes a ton of people to have a great competition and think teams did a great job maintaining a high energy and exciting atmosphere, even in just missing a hurricane. I'd love to see the other off season competitions stack tetras with 35 mph gusts of wind. :-) heh

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hey. i beat you to it fare and square.

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It seems that many of the people I wanted to thank have already been thanked... it was amazing how many people got together in the end. I do want to send a double-thanks out to two teams in particular, Teams 1251 and 1029. Especially with all of the putting up and taking down of the fields, no way we could've gotten it done without your help. I was amazed how many students and mentors both teams had over there whenever we worked on something. Thanks a bunch guys!