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Award Recipients (I stole the computer from greg... and plus he needed to announce the winners):

Volenteer of the Year: Rob Taminelli
Imagery: 1791
Radioshack Innovation in Control: 1629
Xerox Creativity: 709
Delphi Driving Tomorrow's Technology: 237
Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers Entrepreneurship: 103
Judges: 1597
Website Design: 1895
Woodie Flower's Award: Jeremy Skene (612) (I hope to read this entry and those of other regional winners soon!)

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WINNERS!!! Good luck to everyone tomorrow!!!

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Thank you Jess!

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Can anyone post their impressions of the robots at Chesapeake, I am interested in seeing what people think of the various robots here.

From what I have personally observed this regional is not as deep as the NJ regional, and there are a lot of teams that this is their first regional. There are a lot of shooting robots, but only a few are very accurate, and score consistantly. Anyone want to give their top 5 picks? Please share some thoughts.

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Hahaha real nice Kres... now I can see why you are so disturbed... :D
And all you had to do was wait one more minute and I'd have had it up for you. No patience... ;)
The internet access has some issues at the venue but we'll try to keep you updated. I've been Greg's helper monkey all today after filling in for him during practice matches on Thursday and have gotten a little practice in myself as a game announcer, which is a lot of fun (though I still need lots of practice to get as good as Greg and all the other fantastic announcers at Regionals. The competition has been tons of fun so far, filled with great offensive and defensive action. Who knows what will happen tomorrow. Again, congratulations to everyone so far! Can't wait to see what happens tomorrow. Good luck to all!

Oh, and don't ask about the boy's bathroom thing... Greg added the message below his name and mine and he simply doesn't know what he's talking about...

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Hello everyone, this is a programmer for rookie team 1820 here (I'm not sure if anyone else from my team has posted yet). This is our very first competition ever, and so far it's turned out to be very exciting. Things were a little rough at the start, but we've been doing ok with help from our mentors, team 888. Well, good luck to all of you, and I hope to see you tomorrow!

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Quite a few good shooters and a couple of good corner goal scorers here. Also a lot of rookies - don't remember exactly, but I think it was 8-12 of them. The teams which seemed to have it together were (in no particular order and my apologies to any I missed):
181
237 (their own bot, not to be confused with the 4 or 5 others they built yesterday and this morning)
175 (strings of 3 pt'ers when it works right)
888
293 (one huge barrier on defense and very good scoring, too)
56 (excellent 3 pt & 1 pt, with a new, lower profile since NJ)
122
341 (got better and better all day)
1449
484 (reliable corner scores, usually good for 10 in auton)
225 (another good corner bot)
103 (lots of 3 pts, except for some turret control issues)

237 has to be the standout team of this event for how they single-handedly put so many rookie teams, which were in dire straits yesterday, onto the field today. Shouldn't be any surprise that they absolutely defined gracious professionalism this week. And they have one strong scoring machine of their own.

The game play has been more defensive than NJ was, but not as heavy on the rough play and ramming as I saw in Pittsburgh last week. Strong shooters usually drew heavy defense, so there weren't any really high scores, with 60 - 80 pts typical for the strong alliances and some single digit vs. teen scores for the weakest. 103 had some problems with their shooter turret mid-day, but came back strongly in their last match today.

My impression is that there are more good robots here than in NJ, but none that are equal to 25 (Lost Wages is in for a treat). Looking forward to seeing what tomorrow brings!

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Any private videos of Chesapeake? Love to see them!

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15 rookies, and some teams playing thier first comp of 2006 as well here in Chesepeake.. :ahh: Craziness all around. I like how the rookies are in between 2 novice teams in the pits. Their is a huge pit map in a nice location, but it causes a bit of a delay when you look for a team in numerical order, but i think that was a great move on FIRST's part for rookie support at the event.

Speaking of that...

Thanks Pete. We are more than happy to help. Within our team it's a bit crazy as of now and this has been an interesting weekend to say the least (we got stuck in an elevator at our hotel tonight in one instance among other things :ahh: ) but we'll continue to offer and give help to any team (novice or rookie who needs it on Saturday as well.

I personally think it was our duty as a novice team in FIRST to offer this support for the rookies (or an team at a competition for that matter). As of right now, we have had no major problems with our robot (knock on wood), and that has made it easier to help more teams at this event.

I want to as of right now thank all the people organizing this event for making our efforts to help multiple teams get through inspection on Thursday, and also as early as we could on Friday morning/noon-ish as smooth as possible.

I'll try to get some names to put behind that thank you, but for now. Thank you Chesapeake Regional Committee, and the many Volunteers and other teams for your support in our efforts of supporting some less well off teams than us at this regional.

Oh and just a little side note to Pete. We did end up having a team find us a Flux Capacitor, and when we were done with it, we indeed did give it back. :p

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This is what I love to hear!

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Alright,

Thanks all for the updates, I'm especially interested in how the rookie ref Pat Bogard is handling the pressure. Rumor has it that he's spent so much time in a Hopkins lab that his physical stamina is limited and he has a hard time seeing anything clearly that isn't in a Petri dish :D

As long as Jess feels as though I am impatient ...
How about some alliance pairings, playoff updates, and Sat award winners?

In all seriousness, It's very gratfying to see team alums out volunteering in meaningful ways at events.

(and Greg, I think I'd like to know the boys' room story, but I think I know what happened. When Jess was a student on 103, she was never allowed to eat or go to the restroom for fear that she'd miss something important. It's possible this is her first experience with public restrooms in more than fours years ... you know Jess, when you told me not to comment on this, it was really an invitation to do so ;)).

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Alliance 1: 1629, 175, 1184
Alliance 2: 181, 888, 1218
Alliance 3: 293, 103, 1389
Alliance 4: 614, 1111, 339
Alliance 5: 602, 56, 709
Alliance 6: 484, 341, 836
Alliance 7: 225, 237, 303
Alliance 8: 1647, 399, 624

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Updates on finals results will be posted shortly pending the start of the matches in just a few mins and their eventual completion.

And Kres, while I may have never been allowed to eat or use the restroom while on 103, I can say that I have indeed visited restrooms perhaps once or twice n the past. ;) This was just my first adventure into the boy's room (and was Greg's fault... he led me into it).

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Do I read this right? Not a single rookie team in the finals? That strikes me as a little odd.

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Does anyone know what is happening right now?

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(Jess Jank posting as Greg)

Alliances 1, 2, 3, and 4 have made it to the semi-finals. more updates later.

correct. no rookies were picked in alliance selections. great job to all the 15 rookie teams at Chesapeake though!