2006 West Michigan Regional
 

With it a short 3 days away, might as well start the thread. Good luck to all!

Re: 2006 West Michigan Regional
 

It is looking Pretty tough.

5 Regional winners (494,85,67,1506, 1272)
5 Regional Runner-Ups (494,70,451,141 Twice,1602
1 Number 1 seed- (70)
1 Number 2 seed- (33)

And several other strong teams

Alright I added 1272

Re: 2006 West Michigan Regional
 

Is there going to be a webcast for the West Michigan Regional?

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Not from Nasa
Palmetto Regional
Columbia, SC
March 30 - April 1

Greater Toronto Regional
Mississauga, ON, Canada March 30 - April 1

Lonestar Regional
Houston, TX March 30 - April 1

Mabee some other group will pull it off (Wildstang)

Re: 2006 West Michigan Regional
 

I do not believe that there is going to be a webcast for WMR

I also would like to see where everyone is staying in grand rapids during the competition?

i know team 66 (the flyers) are staying at the Spring Hill Suits and jsut wanted to know who was stayin where .. because we had so much fun last year with team 27 (rush) in the pool (if you were there u would have laughed so hard) but n e ways just let us know :D

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Defently pumped for the West Michigan Regional. Alot of good teams are going to be attending.

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I come up with:

• 5 Regional winners: the list above left off our partners from Boilermaker - 1272
• Lots of opportunities for surprises: 13 untested machines and 5 rookie teams
• 25 Award Winners: 10 of them design awards (including 33's two Delphi Awards)

I think it will be a lot of fun. Don't forget that Team 85 is one of the closest teams to the event. Our shop is around 12 miles away. Don't hesitate to ask any of us for information about the area or for exotic spare parts. Of course, any of the local teams (74, 85, 107, 141, 288, 518, 858, 904, 1227, 1500, 1654) and our great regional volunteers will also be happy to help.

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im pumped and i wont even be there haha!

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Oh and don't forget team 66's chairmans award ......

just wondering who is the 13 untested machines ?? could u list them please i was just wondering abotu that :confused:

Re: 2006 West Michigan Regional
 

Grand Rapids hotels are good, but you might want to look at some of the Holland hotels next year. As for the web-cast, NASA or FIRST should really consider adding West Michigan to there line-up. We always have a great competition. Again if you need any help or some ideas for what to do during the weekend, all of the Holland area teams should be glad to help.

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*nods* I'm sure anyone from the many local teams would be way more than willing to help out. I wouldn't hesitate to help those who need the help. I shall only be there Saturday though (family related stuff in the way), so if you want to talk to me, I'll be there on Saturday wandering the pits and collecting buttons...

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Team 107 can bring our small cnc mill along if some needs parts on site or have
access to a machine shop 10 or so miles away.

jim :)

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Team 234 is looking forward to attending this regional. It should be amazing to see all the great midwest competition in one regional.

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Oops, I found 12 teams, not 13 with only one event listed.
288, 518, 1227, 1256, 1327, 1447, 1500, 1674, 1677, 1783, 1918, 1940
It looks to me like all teams with two events are not going to nationals.

While I think this is right, the data analysis I did to get it could have produced errors.

Re: 2006 West Michigan Regional
 

Nothing yet about a webcast but I will be recording all the competition via DVD and uploading the video to my server in the evening. I will see if I can get my friend at GVSU to help me with the idea of a webcast, I meant to work on it about 2/3 weeks ago but i've been really busy.

All matches that I record will be of high quality DVD quality ( 2-4 hours per disk)

-Mike Aalderink

Re: 2006 West Michigan Regional
 

There is no webcast planned for this year but the committee is working on having a webcast for future events. When we get it set up next year it will be accessible thru the regional website. Sorry we can't get it this year.

Free Wireless thru Saturday Midnight
 

Great News, I was just informed that GVSU-IT is offering wireless access to the organization and participants of the Robotics competition throughout campus.

The Bluesocket login below will be activated from now until midnight Saturday.

Re: 2006 West Michigan Regional
 

as for team 66 we went to 2 regionals this year ...Great Lakes regional and West Michigan and we are also going to nationals so i guess i will see most of You at nationals :D

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Well, I hope the practice day went well for those teams competing there right now. See ya Saturday!

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My impression of West Michigan regional after the first day.(compared to Midwest regional )



1. Robots-I think the competition is more compressed ,meaning the distance between the highest level teams and the lower teams in not as great.

2. pit area -48 teams and the split pits is a great idea.wide Ilse and plenty of room.

3.food- fair prices $2.00 pop and water about half the price of Chicago.

4. parking -FREE

5.Staff Overall staff seems well trained and organized at both events.

Great job to the organizer and staffs


Good luck on Friday and Saturday to all the team

Jim schaddelee

Re: 2006 West Michigan Regional
 

I wont be doing a webcast as I hoped but I Will do my best to upload the video files to my teams website from my DVDs which I record off the main feed.

-Mike

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Sounds nice there. ^_^ GVSU usually has some of the fairer prices though... I <3 that field house to death.

Sounds like fun too with the robots =D I really wish I could be there today.

See ya all tomorrow at the WMR!

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Anywhere we can get the match scores? They're not up on the FIRST website, and I'm getting really anxious :p

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I'll second that, it seems like all the standings / match scores for the regionals this weekend aren't up yet.

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I'll be making an appearance with the whole family tomorrow(Saturday)...

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*anxious* They can post the scores for the matches anytime they want now... :D pwease can you do that for all the anxiously waiting people who are still at their homes?

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I'm not completely sure, but I think the top three are 808, 85 :D , and 70. Thats how it stands right now.

One thing that kinda made my day, was that team 67, which I think is a good team, needed help with there transmission. I don't know how they got to us for help, but they came and got me from the stands because I'm the "expert" on the transmission for our team. I'm not, I just put it to gather last year and this year. Anyhoo, I was glad to help, but I'm surprised that they needed help. They are one of the better teams to me. Good luck to all of the team tomorrow. :D

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sounds interesting... ^_^ hehe, I'm so up for tomorrow, I can't wait.

I fell asleep, only to find out it was Firefox being stupid and not showing the updates to the standings and stuff.

Re: 2006 West Michigan Regional
 

'BOUT TIME!

Get that kid started early!

-Mike

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So far this has turning out to be a great competition. A good mix of good defensive low goal scoring robots and Offensive High goal scoring robots.

The highlight of the day for me was probably the awarding of the Woodie Flowers Award to Steve Yasick, probably one of the most moving moments I have ever witnessed in FIRST.

The competition should be heating up even more tomorrow, should be interesting to see how the alliances pan out.

Re: 2006 West Michigan Regional
 

What alliance won today?

How did team 85 (our mentor team) do?

Did everyone have a good time?

How do people like that regional as compared to GLR or Detroit?
We are in Michiagn and I often wonder what the difference between the three regionals is?


Carolyn
19th at GLR

Re: 2006 West Michigan Regional
 

I think the 4th alliance won with teams 70-451-503, Team 85 was second after qualifying matches and won the sliver medal along with the sportsmanship award. It was a blast. The energy was intense and I love it there.

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I am so glad to hear you did so well.
You guys are a great mentor team.
We sure appreciate all the support we get from you.

Carolyn

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They were an awesome alliance, They sent us packing in the semi's. I believe everyone had there money on the 27 & 85 aliance though. What a great event. :yikes:

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Don't forget about 910.

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Haven't seen anyone post about this, and I kind of feel bad but I like having some team pride every now and then...We pulled a mini HOT...We won both the regional and the regional chairmans...ISN'T THAT SWEET! I don't know but I thought that was sweet. I really didn't think we would win the regional, but it came down to teamwork more than just having one sweet robot. BOB your robot is amazing, very hard to play defense against you guys. I would also like to thank team 70 and team 451, great job with autonomus mode, I could tell if we won the match or not by looking to see if there was a huge jam of balls in the goal. Congrats to all the teams at west michigan, and we'll be seeing a lot of you at nationals.

BHOP

2006 West Michigan Chairmans
2006 West Michigan Regional Winner
2005 Championship Winners
2005 Newton Division Winners
2005 High Score
2005 Detroit Regional Chairmans

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Good job team 85 and their alliances. Team 141 supported you the whole time through the finals. We supported all the local teams though. Personally, I think that this year went awesome, and Mrs. Lamotte is so proud of us for coming together moreso than we have in the past as a team.

Even though we aren't gonna go to nationals this year, we're gonna see if we can go to some offseason.

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Congratulations everyone.

Team 1654 was behind the 27, 85, 910 alliance the whole time wheering you on. Cant wait for nationals and I look forward to the bus ride down with 85!

-Mike

PS, video will be up of the West Michigan Regional on our site very shortly, about an hour or so.

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congrats guys :cool: