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Unfortunately, Steve should also have said that he isn't in a position to answer properly. ;)

It's real late to be adding a team: we're actually already at 30 teams (a nice multiple of 6) and the pit layout is done (and looking very cramped). But if 1930 is really serious and has the money, I can see what I can do. Definitely I'd say the chances are slim though.

If someone from 1930 is really serious about this, please contact me ASAP at rbgorbet@uwaterloo.ca.

Looking forward to seeing you all at the event!
Rob.

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Hey all,

The weakness with the "Triplets" is currently being accessed and worked on, some changes will probally will be made by the time the waterloo regional comes up (although I have no clue what they are).
I also am looking forward to the Waterloo Regional, I personally had a great time last year and am hoping it will be even better this year. From what I have seen so far this year there will be some pretty strong teams and robots on that field there, making it a difficult regional.

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If Rob can't make room at Waterloo let me know if they would be interested in GTR.

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Yes, we'll definately see you guys in Waterloo, the triplets will be full force!

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OK, now I can get excited about Waterloo!

The 931 bus departs St. Louis 6 am tomorrow morning bound for the great North Country, land of Tim Horton's coffee (Toujours Frais)!

My day job requires me to be at a couple of meetings tomorrow, but then I 'just happen' to have a work related reason to go to Waterloo, so I catch a 5 pm flight to Detroit and a connection to Waterloo arriving YKF about 10 pm. Catch up with the team at the Comfort Inn Kitchener Wednesday night, inspect robots all day on Thursday, work related meetings on Friday, enjoy the competition on Saturday, the take the bus back to St. Louis with the team.

It is nice to be able to mix work with FIRST on the same trip!

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Any teams staying at the The Howard Johnson Hotel in Kitchener ?

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Truck Town Thunder will be staying at the Best Western St. Jacobs Country Inn. We should be getting in about 10pm tonight (Wednesday). We can't wait for another great time, hopefully just as good, if not better than last year's competition!!

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I just walked by the PAC on the way back from a tutorial, and it looks like everything is set up for tomorrow! I can't wait :).

edit: I thought I might add one thing.

If any of you are going to be wandering around the campus this weekend... watch out for geese! Now that it has come to "spring" (it's still freezing :mad: ), they have become all territorial and are hissing at people and honking while standing on top of buildings and such.

There's one pair in particular that you're probably going to run into though (I think they have an egg in the garden) outside one of the Red enterances... the one closest to the student life centre. But yeah. They were just hissing at me when I went in there to check out the setup haha. So be careful!

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Practice matches have begun today at Waterloo! The level of competition has increased this year, with the feeling that this regional could turn out to have one of the most energetic atmospheres and packed houses in recent memory!

Early teams that appear to be working quite well are 68, 610, 1503, 931 to simply name a few. Remember that this regional boasts the triplets and a number of competitive teams from GLR!

Also sporting a new look is our emcee Karthik, looking sharp in a well-fitted blazer, somewhat offsetting his new hairstyle!

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How's my new favorite rookie team 1901 doing?

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As I wasn't there today I do not know how we did,but I know that tomorrow everyone on our team will be there. We will be alot louder than we were at FLR, at least for Friday, because we are bringing I think 80 students from our school to come and watch the competition. Since we are a small team this year we would like to inspire more students from our school to join next year. 80 students may not seem like alot to some of you because you have huge schools, but for us, we have alittle less than 600 students in our school. So, we are really bringing 1/6 of our entire school. hopefully we will have a bigger team next year.

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Thats great to hear. Good luck

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How's 1305 looking at the regional? I see that they're ranked 11th after friday :ahh: and this comes as a surprise to me since they're probably one of the best teams up here in Canada.

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Can anybody update us on the Waterloo regional? The FIRST website doesn't seem to be updating it this morning.

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Waterloo Alliances

1.) 1114 1503 1281
2.) 1219 1596 912
3.) 188 610 771
4.) 1680 1901 931
5.) 68 1305 1558
6.) 854 830 1189
7.) 1846 772 859
8.) 1084 781 1605