Re: 2006 NJ Regional
 

The NJ regional was an awesome time. While we hit a few roadblocks with our robot, we did sort things out (just in time to ship to Philly :) ) and we still had a lot of fun. Aside from being a little chilly, I was impressed with the venue. I was in the pits on most of the day on Thurs. and Fri. and when I watched a few of the final matches on Sat. I was also surprised to see just how spirited the crowd was - it was great!

Thanks to all of the volunteers! Congrats to all of the teams!

Re: 2006 NJ Regional
 

There is one last point that should be added to this discussion in the context of rules and officiating, if only to inform future discussion (be it civil or uncivil) on disqualification calls and non-calls. This thread might not be the right one for this, but I'll post it anyway because it needs to be pointed out. FIRST has either limited or clarified the conditions for disqualification, depending on your perspective.

FIRST did not include in this year's game rules the following sentence from last year's <G25> (of which I was a most vocal critic):
This year <G22> lists several specific guidelines and concludes:
FIRST wants to avoid the type of subjective judgment calls by referees that affected the results of regionals last year, which is why they changed <G25> of 2005 to the much more narrowly-tailored <G22> of 2006. A disqualification here or in any similar situation would have been an indefensible call.

Re: 2006 NJ Regional
 

Congrats to all!!!
The NJ regional was very nice!! I had a wonderful time there..
The americans are very nice to us(brazilian).. thank you all..

On Saturday I believe was the best day.. Me and my friend went to the dance place(I don't know how to say it =P) and we dance and have a lot of fun there.. I met a lot of people there.. the best was the girls heheh very pretty all.. I hope to meet u guys there next year!!

my english isn't very well eeheh but I am trying..

Congrats to all teams!!!! good job!!!

Bye..

Re: 2006 NJ Regional
 

Haha, glad to see he's on our level.

Re: 2006 NJ Regional
 

Ladies and Gentleman, boys and girls. Presenting Ackley flip 2006:

http://www.bolt.com/Chrisms/video/35...ms_video_PAGE1

(go easy on the clicking... i dont know how much bandwidth they give me)

Re: 2006 NJ Regional
 

Ha! It is MUCH better than my Portugese!

We are all very happy that shipping your robot to New Jersey in one week (!) was successful. You guys are great!

Don

Re: 2006 NJ Regional
 

:confused: I didn't understand you man!! hehehe

hehe do you speak portuguese?! funny that.. there in the competition I spoke a lot of portuguese and no one understand me.. it was vary funny!! hahaha :P

Thank you Don..

Re: 2006 NJ Regional
 

Congrats team 25 on their chairmans award, Amazing robot, and WFA.

And thanks to 223 and 522 for being their for us we did great.

sorry this is so late i was very busy with hspa's and missed home work

Re: 2006 NJ Regional
 

WOW can we get him to flip for us at nationals. I almost want to start doing that but i think i would get stuck. :ahh:


shaun