Re: 2007 Greater Toronto Regional
 

the webcast sometimes shows a lunar eclipse if you are using Firefox...I would try using the same link but on Internet Explorer.

Re: 2007 Greater Toronto Regional
 

IE has been working the best for me:

http://www.ctvdigital.com/discovery/first/first.asx

Re: 2007 Greater Toronto Regional
 

48 just played some killer defense on 1114 but the blue alliance still dominated in ringers.

No one got up 48's ramps, 1114 remains undefeated.

Re: 2007 Greater Toronto Regional
 

at last an American Interview. Go Donnell...o' Capn' Saftey.:)

Re: 2007 Greater Toronto Regional
 

There you go, someone from 48 was just interviewed in the pits!

Re: 2007 Greater Toronto Regional
 

Maybe Discovery Canada lurks on CD? :D

Re: 2007 Greater Toronto Regional
 

Congrats Karthik on GTR Volunteer of the Year!

Mr. Breadner - it's K-A-N-A-G-A-S-A-B-A-P-A-T-H-Y.

Ka-na-gas-a-bap-a-thy.

Tis not (that) hard!

Re: 2007 Greater Toronto Regional
 

More congratulations to Karthik! Well earned!

For some reason my screen froze up before they got to the Friday awards, but I did see the day's last qualifying match -- in which 1114 remained undefeated. 2056 looks like a good bet to stay that way also. I have enjoyed watching the incredible offensive power displayed by those two teams.

As we saw last week, expect the defenders to get serious tomorrow. (Psst, Travis -- this includes 48. :) ) Will we see a repeat of Waterloo, where scoring by the mighty tubers was muted in the finals?

Re: 2007 Greater Toronto Regional
 

Can someone post the Friday award winners here please?

Re: 2007 Greater Toronto Regional
 

They are here.

edit: copying for convenience

Outstanding Volunteer Award Karthik Kanagasabapathy
Imagery Award 773 Kingsville Kukes Kingsville, ON, Canada
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award 1075 Sinclair Sprockets Whitby, ON, Canada
Xerox Creativity Award 610 Crescent Robotics Toronto, ON, Canada
Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technology" Award 1241 GMCL & Rick Hansen SS Mississauga, ON, Canada
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award 772 Sabre Bytes Robotics LaSalle, ON, Canada
Judges Award 1514 WHCI Robotics Toronto, ON, Canada
Website Award 188 Woburn Robotics Toronto, ON, Canada
Woodie Flowers Award Mark Breadner
Autodesk Visualization Award 849 UHS WOLFPACK Unionville, ON, Canada

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edit2: can someone explain why no team number is shown next to Mark Breadner's name? /edit2

Re: 2007 Greater Toronto Regional
 

I know for sure that Mark Breadner was nominated by team 188. However it would not surprise me at all if he was also nominated by another team or several other teams. Perhaps there is no team number next to his name because we've lost count of the number of teams that he is directly or indirectly responsible for starting in some way. It's about time he received a WFFA and he's surely a strong contender for the WFA at the championship event. I'm sure there'll be more congratulatory posts from people that have been around longer than I have, who can better emphasize the effect Mark Breadner has had on FIRST in Canada.

Anyways, Congratulations (Mr.) Breadner!!!

Re: 2007 Greater Toronto Regional
 

The answer to ME is simple... there would be too many to list :p . The GTR, and even FIRST in Canada will forever be known as the house that Breadner(s) built. And I mention that to recognize the incredible efforts of Rhona Breadner, and even the Breadner kids as well! Rhona is so humble that many do not realize just how integral she is to our program here north of the border - FRC, VEX, FLL and even future things I cannot yet speak of ;).

But Mr. Breadner's history extends across a pleathora of teams all across the nation. If you wanted to get technical though I believe Mr. Breadner has really only been directly involved as a mentor with one team - 188.

Re: 2007 Greater Toronto Regional
 

Thanks for the explanations. Many of us have known for several years now that FIRST is strong in Canada. Now we all know a little more about the reasons for that.

Re: 2007 Greater Toronto Regional
 

If you look on Some of the other regional awards listings they don't post the WFA winners team number either.

Re: 2007 Greater Toronto Regional
 

Yeah, you're right -- except at St. Louis where we goofed and posted the team number and name instead of the mentor's name. :o