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Each team got 6 matches to play?
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I am working on scores for FFL and was wondering if each team got 6 matchrs each!
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Thank you so much to team 1629 for picking us you were amazing alliance partners. 1184, we wouldn't have been close without you. The rep from 1629 and I were in complete agreement about picking you guys (we didn't even have to play rock-paper-scissors) Thanks for cheering with us as well. :) :)
After all the problems we had at BAE, getting picked for the finals would have been enough. Being seeded forth and getting picked by the first seed was more than we could have hoped for. Winning, well I am still not sure I believe it happened. I have no voice left. :) :) Congrats to Team 612 on your Chairmans award and to all the other teams that won awards. Teams 181, 888, 1218, you guys were great opponents. We were definitely nervous when we got to the finals against you guys. Thanks to 768 for trying to let me use their printer, I really appreciate it. See you guys at nationals and post season! P.S. We have completely quantitative scouting info. If any team wants to know anything like their average score, shot average, average points in lower goal, % of the time you successfully made it onto the ramp, I have that info on every team. Let me know if anyone is curious about how your team did. Quote:
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I would like to thank everyone who worked tirelessley to make Chesapeake a GREAT experience! To the Pit Divas, we really weren't trying to make your jobs difficult, and I apologize for never being on time. :) To all the volunteers, refs and judges, who kept everything real and made fair calls consistently. And to all the teams, who exhibited gracious professionalism on and off the field, playing great offense and defence, and always lending a hand when needed.
A very special thank you and recognition to teams 175, 1629, and 1184, we wouldn't have had a chance if you didn't give us your time-out to allow us to repair our gearbox on the front rollers. You guys are amazing! -Chris |
Chesapeake ... the perfect regional?
First off, this Chesapeake Regional was by far the most enjoyable competition I've been to in my 3 years in FIRST.
The refs were very consistent in their calls and were always available if we had a question. I think it helped to have two head refs to share the position. After every match we agreed with the result and spent no time whatsoever wishing to review a call. Thank you very much Steve and Anne! Ah... the Pit Administration Divas. I have never seen a rendition of the macarena performed with such skill. I know exactly why we were always late to cue. With your chanting of "team 888", you became our cheering section in that half of the building. This is the 5th year for my team in FIRST and now we were able to spend more time helping other teams with their robots than our own (this made it very difficult as usual to find our mentor). If any teams have questions (1820, I have the final copy of your auto code) feel free to contact me at colehasson@gmail.com . However I can hardly ask for a GP award, the amazing act of GP by teams 175, 1629, and 1184 during finals deserves an award. You guys definitely deserved the win, regardless of the final score. I hope to see you in Atlanta! Good luck to all teams and thanks to the Chesapeake crew for making this a model competition for other regionals to try and replicate! |
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If anyone has a Regional gallery for Chesapeake set up on their site, link them here.
I didn't take 1 picture this weekend. :ahh: I especially want a picture of the rock wall in the pits. |
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Though we did not win that elusive regional championship banner, this was a banner regional for team 293. We had our best ever qualification performance, and we were the first pick in alliance selection for the first time ever. Our scouting effort was once again superb (we even ran several "mock drafts" on Friday night before alliance selection), allowing us to build what we felt was the most powerful alliance in the field.
The event was very well run. While I was initially concerned about the officiating regarding robot-robot interaction, the refs kept the flags in the pockets throughout the intense elimination rounds and let the robots and drivers decide the championship on the playing field. Congrats to the winners, 1629, 175, and 1184. To 1629, I guess it turned out better for you that we declined your offer of alliance. We have no hard feelings towards your team and we hope you have none towards us, but team 103 was #1 on our board and we wanted the higher second round pick. It was a privilege picking Cybersonics team 103. You are one of the benchmark teams (25 being another) against which we measure our performance. We take great satisfaction when we can beat you, but at Cheasapeake we enjoyed working with you even more. We also thoroughly enjoyed working with team 1389. We were very surprised that you had not yet been picked when we chose you. You remind me of 293 before last season--a small, competitive team that builds good robots. Best of luck to both 103 and 1389 in your competitons in this year and in years to come. For the scout from 175: who were the top 5 teams in the qualification matches in center goals per game and what were their averages? Thanks! |
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I attended the "Jet-Lag" regional with my team (1524) and I honestly must say, it didn't seem the have the same amount of excitment to it, and I am blaming that on the seating. At Hartford, they placed the bleachers really close to the feild, making it seem like you were really right there, with the setup at Chesepeake, the bleachers were way far away from the playing feild. (well, on the side I was anyways)
Fun bits: 1. Finding out the hard way that Brits spin backwards in the Macerena! 2. Finding out 237 needed a flux capasitor (how do you plan on getting the balls to go 88 mph?!? 3.Playing DDR with 165 4.Drop-kicking people in our Hotel 5.Famous Dave's! 6.Seeing a Team from CT win 7.Don't remember anything else... Not-so-fun bits: 1. Finding out the hard way that Brits spin backwards in the Macerena 2.Our chain kept on breaking...... 3.Our team in the hotel (can you say 'gassy?'haha) 4.The guy with tthe guitar on 007, that just anoyed me. 5.Not really meeting anyone. I cant remember anything else ATM... |
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A huge thanks to them for announcing every part we needed to help everyone else, and also the use of a photo copier at the end of the day (even though it had some issues :ahh: ), and the "borrowing" of the microphone on Thursday night to have a bit of end of the day fun for the Elvis comment, the BEEEEE-OOOOOOOP, and the helicopter sounds, they were all great sports. They also were great sports about announcing some rather unusual requests, such as ours, and another teams Flux Capacitor request our Right Sided bit shifter request, our Pinecone request, and also Team 1337's ROFL COPTER request. ![]() :yikes: From the warm southern welcome on Thursday morning with the classic "Y'all", to the hourly Safety announcements, you could tell they were definately enjoying their jobs this year. Hope to see you all next year. :) Quote:
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In the same vein, the GP of the teams we knocked out of the elimination rounds was amazing. Almost every single team came to us and said something along the lines of "Good luck, we'll be cheering for you." It felt awesome to see not only our team and our alliance partners cheering for us during the finals, but several other teams as well. I don't know for sure which were cheering for us and which for our opponents, but that doesn't really matter; all the teams were rooting for everyone to do well. One team I really want to thank is 1727; several of them stood by the curtain near the field the whole time from semis on, encouraging us on the drive team and cheering their heads off. They were the first to congratulate us when we got off the field. Thanks, guys; you have no idea how good it felt to look over and see you rooting for us in between matches. |
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[quote=Elgin Clock]YES!!! The Divas.. lol They rocked! How can anyone forget about them??
and the helicopter sounds, they were all great sports. [quote] The head pit diva-Dr. Spence-as well as being an outstanding dancer, is the first woman to graduate in aerospace engineering from the Univ. of MD, is an expert on helicopter design and an engineering professor. She is our state FLL partner. And I think I've talked her into coming to the Championship! ;) |
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By total shots [auton and driver opporated] (we scouted 7 matches for most teams) 293- 9.667 341- 8.286 399- 7.714 1389- 6.143 56- 5.857 with 237, 888, 175, and 1629 very close By total shots during driver opporated period 56- 5.75 1389- 5.571 399-5.429 888- 5.286 341- 4.857 with 612 and 293 very close By total auton shots 293- 5.333 341- 3.429 175- 3.2 399- 2.286 237- 2 with 1629 very close Hope this isn't an information overload, but I am a data nerd. Anyone else who is curious can ask me in the forum or PM me. :) |
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Congratulations on the win, and hope to see the big smiling faces (especially after this win) at the Championship Event in Atlanta. Also, Thanks to BUZZ as well for the use of some tools while we were helping get some rookies in the game on Thursday and Friday morning. |
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We also did pit scouting on Thursday, but that is probably not much different than most teams. We have used a quantitative/spreadsheet format for two years now. (A spreadsheet help to pick our division winning alliance last year at Championships.) The quantitative scouting is really telling. Many times you think that a team is performing really well but they actually aren't performing as well as other teams, they are just more noticeable. You are always welcome to any tools we have. You're efforts to help all the other teams at this regional were impressive an inspiring. You really exemplified the meaning of FIRST. I was also impressed with you're robot both here and at UTC. Thank you for the congratulations, we will definitely be at Championships (we would have even had we not won the regional because of our Chairman's award) See you there. :) :) :) |
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Team 612 attended the Chesapeake Regional for the first time, and we had LOTS of fun.
Thanks to all 64 teams... we all had a great time with all of you. Thanks to all the volunteers..........this was not possible without every single one of you. Also thanks to the Divas..........you guys were AWESOME! Finally congrats to every single one out there who attended this regional. You all are the winners, and i haven't seen this much gracious professionalism during any other competition. |
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Thanks to everyone that worked so hard at Chesapeake!
Especially Mike Wade, Jenny Beatty, Carol Kauffman, Rob Taminelli, Greg Needel, Jess Jankowitz, Steve Shade, Anne Bergeron, Lucinda Crabtree, Jeff Seaton, and the list goes on and on.... We have been to all 4 years of the Chesapeake Regional and would not miss it for the world. See everyone in Philly or Atlanta. Its Game Time!! :D |
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Hopefully I can encourage my team to compete in Monty Madness, I guess it all depends on what the rest of the team wants to do.
I came to Chesapeake during my Spring Break to mentor my team and I had a lot of fun. I was really impressed by our drivers and our scouting operation which did a great job. What really impressed me was how fast we fixed our robot after the third quarterfinal match. During that match our infamous net had two poles completely sheered off. We only had 6 minutes to repair our damaged net and we still managed to fix it, mad props to 103 and our pit crew for fixing it so fast. Unfortunantly we were in such a rush to get back on the field we did not replace our battery so our battery died midway through the first semi-final which was dissapoting becasue we could have shot a full clip of balls:( Oh well, I was very proud of my team, and I am glad to see they have carried on the traditions from last years team, I am proud to be an alumni and mentor of this team. Hopefully they can go to Nats, becasue in my opinion this is the best robot our team has built, it would be a shame for it not to go to Nats. Good luck to all and congrats to the winning alliance on a come from behin victory. -Spikey |
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guys... that was awesome ::sniff:: that was ::sniff:: my last regional! Aaaaaaahhh!!! :ahh:
oh but hey I'll see bunches of people again, like the Pit Admin Divas--I recognized you from the FLL tournament I volunteered at! Back to my point. FIRSTers are awesome, and there is no regional like Chesapeake. I was totally wowed when 175 offered to help our team when they were our opponents during the finals. Also, I appreciated the mentors of team 56 trying to explain to me how to scout on Saturday--by championship, I'll have it straight before Saturday afternoon. Congratulations to the number 1 alliance--it was awesome facing you guys! Hope to see you at the Championship :) |
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On behalf of Team 399 (the guys without shirts on from Cali) we would like to extend our thanks to those who accepted us into your regional and made us feel welcomed. I personally loved the city and the atmosphere back east, we hope to attend again. Thanks again to all the teams who helped us to succeed.
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For everyone attention,
The Lucas has won the Chesapeake Regional FFL! Alex Cormier came in 2nd while I came in 3rd. Thanks to all the great teams and players for partaking in this event! |
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Some on your team need to seriously reconsider the no-shirt look. :eek: |
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Yea, I had loads of fun at this regional event. It was my first regional event, becuase I was unable to attend last year's competition. Anyways, I met loads of cool people, and I was wondering if people who saw me at the competition and recognize me via my website (http://www.myspace.com/jadedthunder), could contact me either via email (haahaamagician@gmail.com) or via aol screen name: haahaamagician
-Hamid Team 1656 The Haverford School HSR (Haverford School Robotics) |
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at half-glance, the bleachers sometimes looked like a football game |
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That was exactly the kind of team boost the Chesapeake regional needed. To 399, you actually kinda helped us get into the Team Spirit of things (and this is our home regional). It was magnetic (with 624's help)! You guys should come again, though it is not likely you'll see me. (I'll be in college then.)
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This Chesapeake regional was fantastic. I'm already looking foward to next year's. Annapolis is now one of my favorite cities. Congratulations to 1629 for the #1 seed, and thanks for inviting us and 1184 along to help in the end. Hopefully both of you will make it to Atlanta.
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Team 1629 will be going to atlanta. I know that buzz wanted some buttons at annapolis but we were all out during the finals. We should have a bunch at Championships so just come and find us (unless we find you first). |
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I was just wondering........
does anyone has a video of the last Award Ceremony?? |
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I had a blast at this years regional. Thanks to all who helped us out with parts and such. We wouldn't have had a well working bot without everybody's help. I would like to thank few teams in particular, Team 75 for our odd-ball random parts, Team 175 for the green cold cathodes to fix our awesome robot cart, and last but not least, Team 1894 for picking us to join them in their alliance (sorry we didn't do very well).
PS: Team 611 is in need of a pair of lollerskates. |
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