2006 Lone Star Regional
 

So who's all gettin pumped and ready for the Lonestar Regional? 1902 is gonna be there and we are ready for a great competition! I noticed that there are like 18 rookie teams going to be there, thats A TON!! Where is everyone staying in the area?

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I'm staying at home!

Ah the joys of a hometown regional. Seriously, though, we've got some interesting things planned as usual. Any one who's previously attended will have some idea of what I'm talking about. Also, I'm pleased to see all the mainstays returning, especially 364. Expect some loud, crazy, very bright orange people in the stands.

Basically, we'll see you guys here. I'll especially be looking out for ya, what with the rookie all-star and attending two regionals in your rookie year.

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After a year off from FIRST, 704 is looking to make a strong comeback.

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Home town for us too! Even though it's our third year, new sponsors and only 1 returning student makes us virtual rookies :) Saw you Oinkers tearing it up already, looking forward to seeing you guys!

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418 will be there in full force. I'd like to give a welcome to all the rookie teams in particular. Come on by and say hi, and I know I speak for everyone on our team when I say I'm looking forward to seeing and playing with you all.

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I will be out there with 1902, only competition i will probably attending. I hope i picked the right one!

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I'm so excited about next week! I think we are staying at the Holiday Inn-Astrodome at Reliant Park where we stayed last year. I hope to see a few teams there.

Good Luck everyone!

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1745 will be there! Glad to know that team 364 is able to attend despite the hurricane!!!!

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Team Blarglefish will be back, ready to rumble. We'll be staying at home, since the competition is only about 30 minutes away. We've got a lot of new faces on our team this year, so it should be fun for them. The event should be tons of fun. Oh, and the robot stuff should be a blast too. :p

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Rookie team 1742 will be there!! We're pumped and can't wait to get down there! I hope to meet as many of you guys as I can, so if you happen upon 1742's pit, stop on in and say hi!

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Anyone know the link to the lone star webcast?

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just go to robotics.nasa.gov there's a link to the FIRST webcasts on the front page, and the LSR link will show up on thursday when the webcast starts

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I believe this event has the most gulf-coast teams participating that were affected by the hurricanes last year. Good luck to these teams. You inspire all of us.

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Well 1902 is getting ready to take Houston by storm, we fly in tom. afternoon and baring no lost shipping can't wait to compete on Thursday lol.

Can't wait to see you all there!

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Team 1888 will be there were staying at the Holiday Inn. We are one of the rookie teams. We have a 12:30 curfew and are all lookin to meet some new people so if anyone else is stayin in that hotel come stop by our pit and say hello mabye we can hang out after the competition. Look for me (Mike Chenault) one of the two drivers. Im lookin foward to meeting everyone around.

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Welcome to Houston all you out of towners and it's good to see the rookies! Weren't the Brazilians rookies last year? Gave us all a run for our money!

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Team 499, Toltechs, will be back for our sixth season.

We have a picture database of just less than half of the robots on our website.

http://www.toltechs.com/2006/index.htm

You will find the LSR robot pictures in the '06 Innovations page with a link at the bottom of that page.

Suprisingly missing is team 57 :rolleyes:
Hard drive crash, ya that's the ticket ;)

APS

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624 Cryptonite will be there, green spiked hair and all! We're really looking forward to it as we consider the Lone Star to be our "home-town" competition.

By the way, anyone who is interested in getting their hair spiked up for the competition just needs to stop by our pit. You can get your hair spiked, and get a pin saying "My hair was spiked by 624"

See y'all there!

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57 isn't there because of the whole "Oh no the robot isn't finished we're doomed no we don't have time for pictures" thing. Heh. We've plans for quickly fixing the slew of minor problems we were having in michigan, however, so we should be putting on a much better showing.

Also, fear 624. as far as I know, they were the only team to actually get the vision tetra on the center goal in autonomous. They only missed immortality because the darned thing didn't settle enough to count. I fully expect them to be autonomously targetting opposing robots and taking them out with poof balls aimed at power switches. Or something similarly impressive.

2006 Lone Star Regional
 

Team 1817 will be there and will hope to have a STAMP or FSN Scouting Database on wifi (g/b) open to everyone or come by and ask for a printout.

Scouting Lookup Info:
username: texastech
password: redraiders

Also come by our pits and check out our Promotional video which features a time lapse of the last 5 days of us building our robot.

Finally we are taking bunch of X-Boxes and maybe a few DLP Projectors. We will be staying at the Holiday INN Astrodome and hope to get something going with some other teams.

Now its time for me to pack up drive 8-9 hours to H-Town

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Yikes! I guess we better mount our no-fault power switch cover, not to mention our static discharge proximity bomb! Well, wait, I guess we better finish the robot first... :D

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I just came back from the AstroArena, and things are looking sweet! There's a great group of volunteers out there who have set things up to run really smoothly in the morning. I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight, I just know it.

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Myself and a few friends are watching via webcast from the UK. One of my friends (who isn't involved in a FIRST team) has asked me to say that 704 is the best looking robot she has seen, saying "the design is lovely and looks professional..."

There seem many good robots at Lone Star, and from what I saw first hand at NYC too, there seems to be a high standard this year. Well done everyone.

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Holla! out to Kris Verdeyen for lookin like a hot shot on his first chance at robot-introducing-guy.

And congrats to Lynden Bridgewater for his Volunteer of the year award, he really does alot and deserves it.

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great games everyone. the finals match was especially exciting, awesome plays. Anyone going to host the matches?

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I had so much fun. It was amazing. I know the rest of my team 1888(the pink robot) had fun as well. We had trouble practice day and then had some problems on Friday but Saturday everything was fixed and we had two incredible matches. We were kinda bumed that we didnt get picked but its understandable. Thanks everyone for the great regional. I would like to extend my thanks to all the teams that let us borrow stuff when we needed it. 364 was very generous and allowed us to use their tether when ours went missing. Thanks alot guys we woulda been nowhere without you.

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Thank you everyone for making 06 Lone Star another great regional. It is my last time attending Lone Star as a student as I am about to graduate but the last 4 years have been a blast.

Congrats to 231, 418, and 1421 for winning.

See you all at Championship and look for some changes to our robot.

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Let me add to Allen's post to say I also had a great time and thanks to all the teams, supporters, sponsors, volunteers, and Reliant Arena staff that made this such a fun event. This was my fifth year with the team and each year is more fun. I had several guests come to the competition for the first time, and they were blown away by the energy, enthusiasm, and knowledge shown by the students.

And a special thanks to Team 1884, our neighbor in the pit, for being such a great neighbor. A rookie team from London, UK, they did just great in the competition (8th seed Alliance Captain), won a Judge's Award, and were just fun to be around. Sure hope we see you guys again next year.

Thanks to our alliance partners 704 and 1496. We got knocked out in the quarter-finals, but we all gave it our best shot. And of course, congrats to teams 231, 1421, and our buds from Austin, 418 for the Championship. Great final matches.

On to Atlanta, with a better robot. Hope to see many of you'all there.

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Well, I know I had a great time, and from what I could tell, so did the rest of my team. Though we had constant issues with our chains we finally got them fixed, only to be plagued by faulty code in the elimination rounds. Because of that we were replaced in the semis, and had to cheer from the sidelines. Though we didn't get to do what we knew we were capable of, team 1255 still had a great time. Twas my last time to attend as a student, because I'm graduating and will be attending the University of Texas at Austin next year. Might have to call up 418 and see if I can help them out as a college student...

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Thanks to everyone in Houston for your great home style hospitality, it was great. Our team had an amazing time, and the fun never stopped for us. There were some amazing robots there, 118 231 148 418 364 etc.. it was great to see such stiff competition. Congrats to 231, 418, 1421 for the championship you took down a strong alliance it was quite impressive.

Special thanks to our alliance in the eliminations 148, 1255 ( it was an unfortunate series of events but you guys had an amazing robot ) and 1745, also gratz 1745 on your rookie all star hopefully we'll be able to see you at nationals.

Hopefully we'll see some of y'all ( picked that word up in Texas ) in Atlanta if we can make ( still working on funding ) but can't wait till we can compete in Houston again.

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awww just got back home from LSR . . so Ill try and make this post . . coherent.

I (and my team for that matter) all had an awesome time. for a first time team we coulnt have asked for a better 3 days (rookie all star, and our coach Robert Acosta winning the Woodie Flowers award, doing so well in the prelims then getting to play in the finals with explodeing bacon and the robowranglers).

I really want to say thanks to 118 for helping us figure out that electrical problem with the camera(the TTL chip fried on saturday but none the less thanks), and thanks to 1902, for being such an awesome team. and congrats to team Chaos for winning the game(those last 2 matches were . . insane).

any way it looks like the team will be able to find money to go to atlanta( I may not be there finals), so we really hope to see all the LSR teams at atlanta.

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LSR was more than likely the only competition I will be attending this year and I am very happy its the only one. Congrats to all the people already mentioned but, I have to congratulate the regional planning committee in houston you guys put on a great regional, as with any competition there were issues but I feel that the positives of the weekend greatly outweigh the negatives.

I also was very impressed with the quality of the rookie teams in Houston, you would think with so many (19 rookies i think it was) there would have been many more broken robots when friday came around.

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Yea it was very intense...especially in the final matches...we had a grat time..i was very nervous standing behind our controller...but it was awesome...great mathces...we were glad to take home 1st place...if anybody has any videos of the finals id like to see them also

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We are a little short on funds at the moment, but we we'll be there!

PS I loved your chant. Especially when the other teams starting chanting it!

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Lol "Oink Oink Boom!" was hilarious! Awesome job everyone, Plano West Robotics will surely be there to hang out with you guys next year =). Best of luck to all the teams going to Nationals, you guys definitely deserve it! OVerall the competition was an amazing experience. I <3 robotics.

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I believe one of my team members has some of the finals on video. Let me ask him and I'll get back to ya. :)

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Everybody we met at LSR was great. Judges, teams, everybody. We had a great time, too.

Oh, man, that final was a cardiac. I was so impressed by the winning alliance and how they hustled and muscled out a win. Great strat. Great teamwork. Great driving. You guys so totally rule.


vic


I just wish we had a cheer as kewl as 'oink oink boom'........

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I don't think that there is a cheer as cool as Oink oink boom. If it's any consolation, you guys had the coolest hats, or were at least in the top 3. :)

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Heh thanks, its pretty cool. We are short on funds also, and are running the risk of not raising them in time. We are doing what we can tho so hopefully we can both make it.

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Kris Verdeyen rocked the house people!
I know you made Team 118 proud.
Come back next year!

Also CRyptonite had the coolest hair salon going, spiking it.

It was a regional of total class acts: rookies, veterans, volunteers,inspectors,refs, judges, Reliant staff - everyone -

I'm looking forward to Nationals for sure - but I'm also looking forward to Lone Star Regionals '07 -
Jane

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It really was an excellent regional. The championship match was beautiful to watch! It was the best mix of well designed robots and awesome strategy! I'm wondering if Kris could have kept going after that? He used it all up that last match! Didn't I see one of the judges dumping water on him? :D
Our robot had a constant string of little problems that kept us out of the running so I ended up spending too much time in the pits and not enough time doing fun stuff. I did, however, get hit by shrapnel from an exploding backup battery in the pit next to ours. That was sort of interesting!

To all the team that came, it was a great competition and we look forward to seeing you here again next year!

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Indeed, it was a great experience. As part of a rookie team, we were very pleased with how well we did, even though we were a little disappointed when we dropped from 6th to 16th in rankings after losing our last match by one point...lol. ohh well, it was still an awesome time, and the intensity of the finals was more than enough to make up for it, well, that and finally being able to not worry about if the robot is functioning... :yikes:

congrats to all the teams that made it. i'd like to say thanks to 118 for graciously helping so many other teams, and also to 1902 for being an inspiration, as well as bringing us all a few good laughs. that being said, i'm off to bed... i'm still sleep deprived... :eek:

~Tim~

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The LSR were amazing. Our entire team had a blast and we're glad we were able to finally bring home 1st. Thanks to 231 and 1421 for being the best alliance partners we could ask for.

I think we got video of the finals but we had to switch out batteries in the middle of the final match so theres about 10 seconds missing. I'll try to see what I can go about getting that footage.

1902, I wish I could be part of your team...it's absolutely amazing and I hope y'all can get the funding to make it to Nationals. Our team knows how that goes...try calling up news stations and getting them to do a little blurb on the team and ask for donations. That is how we were able to make it to Nationals our first year.

Cyber Wolfs, can't wait to see y'all at Nationals...it's going to be great having y'all there by our side!

And CRyptonite, thanks for letting me borrow your battery box for our Chairman's Award presentation. I managed to be about 6 inches taller and the judges loved it.

Everyone at LSR, y'all were awesome and made it such a great 3 days...I'd do anything to go back right now! Can't wait to see those teams that are going to Nationals!

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I've been thinking...

LSR is one of (if not THE) largest regionals, correct? It is also the regional with the most rookie teams. From what one of the judges told me, there's talk of making it into a super-regional next year.

Tell me then, why on EARTH is there no off-season event for LSR teams? I think all of the Houston-area teams need to get together and try to organize an off-season event for the coming year. There are enough teams around with enough money to do it. I'm certain there would be support for it too. Has this ever been talked about before? I intend on bringing it up at my team's meeting tomorrow, to see what they think. I'd like to know what teams would be interested in trying to get this together, and maybe we can get something going.

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There used to be off-season events a few years back. I think the issue was that they were getting too expensive, and we started having difficulty finding a place to hold all the teams that wanted to attend. Also, this was back when you could relatively cheaply build a fully functional field for your team.

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I think an off season event would be great. But you have to remember the Lone Star Region is big. not just Texas(which is huge) but Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, plus we have teams from Brazil, Ecuador, and even Britain now. To have all those teams make a journey might be difficult with work school and money. But maybe there are still enough teams around Houston or that would travel to get things going. Great idea tough!

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This is a suggestion:
Look under Chief Delphi forums: Off Season Events & then First Related Organizations - sub-forums and read what some of those groups have done/are doing. It might be something to consider talking about. You could start a thread there and see what kind of interest is generated from the teams in the locations that you mention.

.02
Jane

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How could a rookie team, even one with such obviously talented mentors and students as team 1902, Exploding Bacon, have landed the first seed in the 2006 Lone Star Regional? Why, through the use of superior strategy, of course. Just look at this gem:



Now that's what I call a plan! :)

By the way, it was great getting to meet all you guys at the regional - of course, you do realize that you have to make the trip again next year, don't you?

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I loved the dry erase board that 1902 had. It took me back to football, except 1902's strategies actually WORKED. :p

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i would be dissappointed if we didn't see 1902 back at lone star year after year.

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Just thought i would share my photo gallery from Houston....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/4465190...7594097315290/

Enjoy!

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Yeah, I should probably have mentioned the place from which I stole the above picture. Thanks, Andrew!

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Hah! Thanks from the 1902 strategy guy (and former football player and coach).

Kris: My white-board looks like that after every strategy meeting. That picture was taken because this meeting happened to take place near our pit area. Some team members saw the board and *really* wanted a picture of it. ::shrug::

Thanks so much to all the teams and volunteers at LSR. I've said it before, but it bears repeating: if I had to summarize the Lone Star Regional in a word, it would be "hospitality."

LSR will have my vote if 1902 decides to go to a second regional next year.

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I could tell that either you had some coaching experience, or had been doing FIRST strategy for a LONG time. Excellent job though, it was good to see people really play on the strategy portion of FIRST.

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Hehe its cool man. I was happy just to see it up having not posted the gallery to anyone but our team...Unless you secretly are monitoring our team messages....