Re: 2006 Palmetto Regional
 

Hey all!
Palmetto was awesome, and it was great to have another shot at competing after our problems at the Manchester regional.

Congrats to the winning alliance, a very impressive colection of bots and players.

Thanks especially to the Bomb Squad and PIoneers; Making it to the finals was great, especially for us seniors for whom it was our last shot. All you guys were awesome, and thanks again to PIoneers for the shirts.

16-95-1676 - 2nd place in Palmetto

good luck to all from 95 (Drive Team Coach + Human Player)

Re: 2006 Palmetto Regional
 

Hey this is Eric on team 247 typing from our hotel room...

We had a really rough couple of days (in 44th position at the end of qualifiers), but I'm glad team 11 saw that we had improved a lot. We really worked well together in a qualifying match (I think it was one of the highest if not the highest scoring match on Friday). They shot, we blocked. Also props to team 1251: you guys were awsome. Quite often they just snuck into the corner - uncontested - and dumped everything.

This is the first regional we've ever won in our eight years as a team. Pretty gosh darn exciting...

Re: 2006 Palmetto Regional
 

Oh man what a regional!!! :] First I would like to thank the whole Palmetto regional, staff, crew and teams for making a great event possible. Next a special thanks to our alliance partners 11 and 247 you guys were amazing. Finally, the 1251 I love you guys and we definitely earned this won. To all the other teams at the event it was great being in such good company. Glad 1251 could attend.

Thanks and congrats,
-Drew 1251

Re: 2006 Palmetto Regional
 

First of all thanks to everyone that made this event so exiting and well run.
I will like to give a special THANK YOU to team 845 (Cutting Edge). If it wasn't for you guys we would not have performed as we did.

I also want congratulate team 11 (MORT), not only for having a great robot with a great autonomous mode, but also for having a great scouting team. You guys did not pay attention to the ranking position but to what the robots abilities were and how consistent they were. Thanks to this scouting we made a very strong alliance.

Big thanks to both teams 11 and 247, you guys are awesome. See you all at Nationals.

Dave

Re: 2006 Palmetto Regional
 

First, big thanks to everyone, it was an awesome competition, and some great matches! Everyone was friendly, helpful, and it just improved the environment of the regional.

Congrats to 1251 (I love the shirt, David), 11, and 247. All three teams had excellent machines that deserve the title, "regional champion."

Also wanted to comment on The Grasshoppers, and Truck Town Thunder - both teams had awesome robots.

congrats, thanks, and good work to everyone!
~Jay

Re: 2006 Palmetto Regional
 

So the 41, 44 and 8th seed take it all the way to victory.
What a great example of good scouting. I wish I had known that to announce it.

Please tell me more about 845's help.
thanks

Re: 2006 Palmetto Regional
 

Please tell me more about 845s help.
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Well, 845 has been an absolute savior to 1251 this year. They had done so much for us already, but at Palmetto this amazing team came through again. 1251 decided after the Florida regional that we were taking our ball grabbing mechanism off to make our ball hopper bigger and just do human loading. However, we forgot the Lexan to make our hopper bigger and 845 thankfully was able to donate to us a whole piece and if anybody has seen the prices today on a sheet of 4ft*8ft lexan it's not cheap. Past competitions they have been our alliance partners, let us borrow tools and batteries.

Thanks from the whole 1251 crew 845!!!!!

Re: 2006 Palmetto Regional
 

Hey all!

I want to thank everyone at the Palmetto Regional for making it an awesome one!

Congratulations to our friends from New Jersey, MORT 11 along with DaBears 247 and TechTigers 1251 for winning! It was a great match, even if my team's robot went down in autonomous.

Also, thanks to my own team's amazing alliance, Bomb Squad 16 and Grasshoppers 95! I think we put up some good fights there and I don't know about you all, but I had a great time cheering on our alliance!!! [[Plus the flag was pretty fun to rig with all the items, creating the "Pihopper Squad" :D ]]

I would also like to thank Team 180 SPAM for teaching us all to play STOMP at the social, and also Team 1885 for bringing on the X-TREME DUCK DUCK GOOSE! [[You guys really were Rookie All-Stars, have fun in Atlanta]]

This was an awesome regiona, and in my opinion, completely worth the 13 hour bus ride we took to attend it!

Can't wait to hopefully return and compete in another great Palmetto competition!

Thanks to all again!

~Zara... but you can call me Pi-girl~

Re: 2006 Palmetto Regional
 

just got home, Finlay back in the 56Ace . i want to thank everyone who made it possible for me to be there. Like Spam for bring me up there and back with them on their bus. and the tech tigers and billfred for allowing me a place to sleep. Special thanks to Drew Kev Sebas And Phil for their Floor. To Mrs. Lee For the shower. Billfed for his floor and the driving around and the walmart trip. Mr. E for your hospitality, Mr. Higgins for giving me toe okay to travel with spam. all the teams for trusting me with my hands all inside their robots. I had a great trip and enjoyed seeing all of you. congratulations 1251 for bring home the trophy to Florida again.

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Some thoughts about Palmetto, now that I survived the ride home with P and the trailer...

First and foremost, congratulations to M.O.R.T., DaBears and Tech Tigers - wow, if we had to come in second, I am glad it was to you guys. I am so proud to have been on the same field with you guys. I normally would wish you luck at Nationals, but you guys are so good, you don't need luck. But, good luck anyway....

None of this would have happened if the Bomb Squad team 16 hadn't picked us - our first quarterfinal, semifinal and final, all at once! The Grasshoppers team 95 were equally awesome, and there's a photo to prove it. Thanks to both of you, we really did form a great alliance. Both you guys work so well under pressure.

The people at Palmetto are so friendly and helpful. More teams that I can count helped us there, and we appreciate all of it. The purple hot melt glue, armadillo, #35 chain offset link (during finals!), battery chargers, and myriad other things we were given, all helped us make an astounding (to us) accomplishment. Even the judges, referees, FIRST folks, photographers and even the venue staff were all just amazing.

This might sound odd, but the bathrooms (well, the men's rooms at least) were by far the cleanest I have even seen at any public venue. Real hot water which stayed on long enough, always soap & towels, and spotless even at the end of a long day. I'm impressed.

I finally met Billfred in person! And he even knew where Radio Shack was!


Lastly, but not leastly, my team. I'm way too old for this, but I felt like a kid again. Dan (CEO), thanks for allowing me to be on the floor, I can't believe you didn't snatch that badge back from me the first moment you could. JK, Shu and Dom, just thanks - words can't describe it. Phil, Kevin, Ed, and our Team Mom Lisa, you are all far too modest, I'd proud to be considered an equal...

The scouting team, those I saw and those I didn't, YOU were the entire reason for our turnaround Saturday, and look what your hard work did for the team. (Finalists! Woo Hoo!). Lee, Kyle & Katie, thanks for a job well done. (Note: I found that the size of the code does NOT affect weight! I tried it.;)

From Andrew to Zach, Mike, Brian, Eric, and the rest of the pit crew - you guys are the best, thanks for keeping cool under the pressure, I admire that.
Zara (Pi-Girl? Since when?), Lizzie, the rest of the crew, the programming team (you know who you are!).... In short, everyone, including those watching on the Web...

Thanks for the hardest fun ever.

Don

(Sorry for the length. I owe out a lot of favors now)

Re: 2006 Palmetto Regional
 

i think i speak for the other 3 but
no problem it was an interesting experience having you in our room Ty

Re: 2006 Palmetto Regional
 

Palmetto Regional was awsome

special thanks to the 247 scouter because with her and our socuting systems we made the strategies for the matches at the end

also to ashley the scouter of 11 for really scouting the robot and not the alliance

also to cutting edge for being the greatest team ever and to all of the new friends that i have made

sebas

go 1251

Re: 2006 Palmetto Regional
 

I agree with Sebas up there^!!!!
Palmetto was an amazing Regional.
I had so much fun! And thank you to 1251, TechTigers for letting us share a bus with you guys. I think I can speak for the entire team when I say this : We had an awesome time hanging out with you guys.
I would also like to thank team 1026 for scouting and not just looking at our matches but our robot itself. And any other teams who had looked at our robot as well, and not jsut our matches.
This was also the first time Team 108 has ever gone to the Palmeto Regional but I can say it was beautifully orginized, it was so much fun, and we are so happy that SOAP was able to help out any teams that needed it.
Hope that everyone else had a great time, too!