Re: 2007 Philly Regional
 

MOE 365 will be packing up tonight for an early arrival tomorrow morning. Safe travels to everyone!

REMINDER - all teams will receive two Philadelphia Regional Personal Recognition Buttons with their registration packet. Please find the time over the next very hectic three days to recognize someone in a special way. Give him/her a button, quickly document the reason on your handy-dandy form, and drop off the form in the marked box in the Pit Admin area.

THANKS!!!!

Best of luck to all! (...and to all a good night)

Re: 2007 Philly Regional
 

433 is leaving at 7:15 tomorrow! (Yeah, we're lucky with location :P)

The Ghanaians are here, everyone's ready to go...

SOO EXCITED.

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well, we are leaving at 6:45 tomorrow! and w00t for the Ghanaians, can't wait to see them again.

Hope to see everyone sometime at Philly!

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we get to sleep in an extra half hour :P

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I got you all beat! I get to sleep in until 11am! Mwahahaha...but then I have to drive down. Oh well.

Re: 2007 Philly Regional
 

Well its 0600 and I am up and getting ready to leave for Philly, I had to get my CD fix before departing. Good luck to everyone attending I can't wait to see all of my old friends again and to make new ones. Any one want to find my I will be at the volunteer desk or walking around showing people around and doing other random stuff. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE.

Re: 2007 Philly Regional
 

Great practice day today in Philly. Hope all teams got their bots tuned for some fun tomorrow. Thanks to all the volunteers and staff who made everything run so smoothly today.

Best of luck to everyone tomorrow.

Re: 2007 Philly Regional
 

Today was a great day for a lot of teams, We have 3 great rookies with 2/3 of them being able to score on the rack and they both have effective ramps.
There were a lot of teams that could score fast on the bottom and middle racks, the driving today was a little shaky but thats what practice day is for.
All in All it was a great first day for Philly Regional I can't wait for tomorrow and Saturday, good luck teams!

Re: 2007 Philly Regional
 

Is there a webcast of this competition?

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No, I think 578 is taping for an archive

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How was the first day of the competition?
Whos looking good out there?

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Lots of good teams from what I saw today (the last 2ish hours). Teams 103, 272, 433, 1712, 486 and 365 seem to be the teams to beat out there. I saw some pretty hot matches at the end of the day, especially the one with Dawgma in the last 3-or so (I don't remember which off the top of my hand).

I'm definitely looking forward to seeing teams compete tomorrow.

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I'm really surprised a bit this year, teams like MOE and the Royal Assault aren't totally dominating EVERYTHING. Which means the teams are getting better, yay! Not to say those two aren't handing out spankings. I've had a lot of fun playing defense mostly, but I do see that the end ramps are playing a huge part. Good luck to everyone tomorrow, Do well.

Re: 2007 Philly Regional
 

We have had some of the craziest days at competitions this year in Philly. Like yesterday we had our carrier plates close to failing so we spent like an hour and a half replacing them with the hardened ones. This was not as easy as it sounds our robot does not make it easy to get to our transmissions. And then today the left side drive system just stopped so we thought it might be the pins falling out since we had heard of that problem it turns out we were right we lost all five carrier pins on the left side drive. We found some new plates thanks to team 708 but they were different gear ratio so we took apart the right side drive and found out we had lost four of the pins on that side and would have lost the last one very soon. this whole time we managed not to miss one match while fixing the robot even winning one when our human player threw a tube on the rack and the other two robots drove up on our ramps we didn't even have to move. But now we have the whole thing back together and it works again hopefully we can get some new plates from banebots that will hold up to stress of competitions. I love this regional it is crazy loud and very competitive. Well we will see everyone tomorrow and hopefully have some more great scoring and competitive matches.

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From what I saw today there was a lot of solid teams out there. I was very surprised by the rookie team 2229 they have been doing really well for a rookie team. Teams 341 and 103 are really fast at scoring and driving they are going to be some hard teams to beat. Team 399 is one of the most spirited teams that I have ever seen, must be a west coast thing :), Congratulations to the mentor from 316 for winning the WFA. Wayne Penn did a really great job today on the field, lost his voice a bit but still a great job, Freddy was great as the pit announcer always a good time. The volunteers have been amazing and have kept things running so smooth. I can't wait for tomorrow to see whats next great job so far best of luck to everyone.

Also congraduations to teams 103, 272, 399, 357, 365 and the other teams that won awards today.