2006 Wisconsin Regional
 

Since all the other regionals are starting to get their own threads I thought it was about time to give some publicity to the up and coming Wisconsin Regional on March 23-25, 2006 at the US Cellular Arena in Milwaukee!

The Regional Planning committee is excited for this rookie regional in Wisconsin and we hope it is one of the best in FIRST.

We have an amazing social planned at the Milwaukee County Zoo, featuring a classic Wisconsin Tailgate and music from the one and only Dean Simmons and the Kamens.

The regional so far has 33 teams and will feature the always awesome announcing crew of Dan Green and Paul Copioli and some other great surprises.

Can't wait to see all of you in March!

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Green and Copioli?!

Dean Simmons and the Kamen Brothers??!!

To quote the inimitable Paul Copioli, "Are you kidding me??!!"

Even if we weren't competing, we'd come to Milwaukee just for the party!

Can't wait to see all of you there!

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Team 862 is coming out there and we can't wait!

(Especially for the classic tailgating. Although with high school students involved I'm not sure how 'classic' it will be! :) )

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'Classy' tailgating....that's how we do it ;)

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This is going to be a regional for the ages...I Gau-ran-tee! I think Ricky has a candidate for understatement of the year when he says "...and some other great surprises." You will NOT be disappointed when you come to Milwaukee =)

Look for the official regional website to be updated this weekend with tons of information: www.msoe.edu/wisconsinfrcregional

Also, be on the lookout for the official call-out for social "help."

Kev

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Quick update on the WI Regional:

The Social now features 2 Bands: The Briggs Bluesbusters will be opening for DSATKB.

This Briggs & Stratton house band has 11 members (eight are company employees), including John Shiely, chairman, president and CEO, as rhythm guitarist. The Bluesbusters have opened for top bands including: The Beach Boys, Ray Charles, Blood, Sweat & Tears and James Brown. They have also competed in Fortune Magazine's Corporate Battle of the Bands at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, finishing #2 in the competition. The band plays covers by soul and blues-based rock artists as well as the company anthem "Briggs & Stratton Man."

Also it looks like we will be grilling up over 3,000 Wisconsin brats and hot dogs. This will be the Largest FIRST Tailgate ever.

We also now have some very special guests committed to the regional. You will have to wait and see who those will be. :)

For teams attending, look for an email after Ship Day with more regional details such as social directions, venue parking, and things of that sort.

2006 Wisconsin Regional
 

Hey teams!

Team 537 is looking forward to competing for the first time in our home state of Wisconsin. If you plan on attending the regional, tell us so!

Also, we plan on making our scouting report for a certain team available for that team so that they may judge their own performance, so you might want to find out where our data entry team is located.

See you all in about a week!

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862 is looking forward to competing at the Wisconsin Regional. Check out our PS2 Controller in our Pits.

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Note: I merged a new WI Regional thread that was started with this one.

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Both of the Martians are going to be there. This is going to be on heck of a regional.

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Alright, a tailgate, that's what I like to hear.

For any interested teams, team 93 will be broadcasting our scouting data throughtout the pits. We use the STAMP scouting program, and will have a programmer there. More info on this to come.

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From what I hear, some special songs are being cooked up just for the Wisconsin Regional.

Has anyone ever heard the Offspring sing about lubricating gearboxes? heh.


Andy B.

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Well if any teams in the area get Milwaukee Channel 12 News, you may have seen 269's Ricky Quinones and Elise Janowak in studio talking about the Wisconsin Regional and FIRST Robotics in general. It was pretty cool, except they just came back from Boilermaker, which means that they are probably sleeping all day today. Good job to you two, and Eric Hoffman as well, even though they didn't show him.... poor eric.


The other Andy B.

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Anybody know about a webcast or if NASA TV is going to be broadcasting? See you all there! Say Hi!

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dont think so.

hi

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Tyler, it is likely that the Wisconsin Regional will be webcasted. At the moment, the NASA Website has WI listed as tentative. Then again, BMR was not on that page and they were webcasted for the entire weekend, as far as I know. I'm sure Ricky Q., Kevin Kolodziej or someone else from the WI Regional Planning Committee will give us a heads up on Thursday or Friday about a link to the 'cast. As the site says, stay tuned!

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Team 81 is going to the Milwaukee regional, and I am so happy it's almost time to see "Double Vision" again! (That's the name of our 'bot.) :)

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The regional will be webcasted, look for a link from here and on the regional website (http://www.msoe.edu/wisconsinfrcregional)

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WOOT! Who's pumped for tomorrow?

I know I am!

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Bring on the Cheeseheads!!!

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I'm going to college in Wisconsin next year and I would like to mentor a FIRST team. Are there any teams that need mentors with chairmans help?

Also is there any way I could contact teams and talk to coaches about mentoring??

Thanks

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Team 706 is ready to kick some robot!!!
FEAR THE APE!
Look for us in the red shirts with teddy bear apes on the front and neon monkey hats.

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Here is the full awards list from Wisconsin:

Volunteer of the Year - Jason Subriana from #1259 and the WI Regional Planning Committee
Imagery - #81
Radio Shack Innovation in Controls - #111
Xerox Creativity - 1732
Delphi 'Driving Tommorrows Technology' - #862
Entrepenuership - #537
Friday Judges - #1259
Website - #1108
Autodesk 3D - #1716
GM Industrial Design - #1091
Motorola Quality - #494
J&J Sportsmanship - #93
DaimlerChrysler Team Spirit - #862
Sat Judges - #1710
Rookie Inspiration - #1739
Rookie All-Star: #1714
Highest Rookie Seed - #1714
UL Safety - #70

Regional Finalists - #70, 494, 1781
Regional Winners - #111, 1625, 1816

Engineering Inspiration - #1306
Chairmans - #1108

Regional Woodie Flowers Finalist - Bob Blersch from #269

Congrats to all!

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So that makes 2 Regional Championships and a Regional Chairman's for Wildstang...is it possible that they could be this year's Team 67?

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Yes, look out for Wildstang this year. They have an excellent shooter with awesome camera tracking, can vacuum the balls off the floor really well and have a great strategy.

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First off congratulations to 111, 1625, 1816. on winning the regional. You guys had a powerful alliance.

Congratulations to 1108 on winning Chairman's Award.

And thank you to teams 525 and 1732 for choosing us as their third alliance member. We had two great matches against 111, 1625, 1816.

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Hey we just won Rookie All-Star at the 2006 Buckeye Regional and now we just won it here. Does that happen often? Everyone I talked to said they've never seen it before and I was just wondering whether it has or if it's even possible.

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Well, we always look up to 67. You are a solid team with great robots.

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WildStang did have an extremely effective robot, however, they are also very beatable. If you know how to defend them they will be limited in the amount of points they can score.

They had a great alliance though and I'd like to congratulate them and Winnovation and 1781 for winning.

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Thank you for the congratulation, although we were allied with Winnovation and 1816. 1781, our pit neighbors, were with the 'Twins', 494 and 70... which was another AMAZING alliance.

Great job to everyone at the Wisconsin Regional. It was a blast.

-Nate