Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

No problem mate. We worked extremely well together... and i must admit that the finals this year were extremely intense.
Congratulations to 558 and 195 for being a great alliance, and to 176, 25, and 2104 for putting up a great fight- you guys were an extremely intimidating alliance.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Congratulations to the winning alliance! You were a tough group to beat!
Thank you to our alliance partners 237 & 549, we sure gave our opponents a run for their money!

This is (don't tell anyone) probably my new favorite regional.
The spirt was wild, and Connecticut really seems to get the gist of what FIRST is all about.

Thanks for a wonderful weekend!

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

I had a great time at the regional. I really enjoyed it, especially as a part of a rookie team. A lot of cool stuff happened, including changing out a BaneBots carrier plate of whom's pins fell out in under 8 minutes!

Kind of a sucky way to end the day though.... After the closing ceremonies, we had a Social back at our build site, and I had to leave to go to the hospital due to some chest pain (I have a history of pneumothoraxs..) Turns out it was just a pulled muscle in my back from picking up the bot.... Glad it was this though (better than a week in the hospital...)

Anyway, the regional was great. Congrats to the winning alliance, and to the rookie all-star winners... We know how hard it is to be a rookie team, and you guys deserve the award for all of the great work.

Jacob

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Does anyone have a video of the match with teams 25 and 1991 in which there were 316 points scored?

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

I think I do. If so it will be posted on www.team2064.com under Video.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Shh! Don't tell them that!

Actually, the finals were very intense and my heart was pounding even when I wasn't up there coaching. It was so much more fun to have a difficult match at the end, so thanks to 195 and 558 for your amazing teamwork, and thanks to 176, 25, and 2104 for spicing things up for us. Congrats to everyone on your excellent robots!

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

If your team/visitors/sponsors/family happened to arrive home this weekend with FIRST safety glasses that they borrowed to visit you in the pits, and you will be attending the Boston event you might want to turn them back in there. A number of them went missing (perhaps because teams left early or in haste on Friday) and were not turned in to the Student Hosts who were collecting them yesterday... They are marked by a yellow line on the nosepiece.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

This was the devil dawgs first time competing at UTC. The competition was excellent, and we made some new freinds. The parking fees were marginal, and the food was moderately priced (where else can you get a cheeseburger for six bucks that tasted that good?). I was kinda confused on loading dock senario. I know it's a union shop and they have their own rules on when certain docks can be used, but to wait to the last minute to tell us we can't use the front doors to load/unload our tool carts caused some confusion, that shoulda been on the UTC event website info. See you next year at UTC...


Stills

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

About a third of our team, including our drivers and coach, came down with a similar problem Friday night/Saturday morning... luckily it worked out in the end, but between that and the snow, we were worried for a while.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

It's the FIRST Flu as I like to call it. Some years it take form as a stomach upset. Some years as a cold. Some years as the laryngitis virus (last year that was the one that got me - couldn't speak in a normal voice for several weeks! and it wasn't from yelling - I caught it at BAE where I was a spectator - not cheering - and had it through Championships). This year it seems to be the stomach thing that is affecting different regionals.
Wash your hands. Frequently. Get rest and drink lots of fluids. Eat properly. Take care of yourself before the competitions and you will be able to fight things off better.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Will anyone from team 230 be putting up an archive of the webcast?

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

The folks over at Soap 108 (www.soap108.com) have already started uploading matches from CT. It usally takes them about a day to get everything uploaded which isn't surprising considering the enormous task they undertake for all these regionals, encoding, editing, and uploading every match...but I'm sure glad they do it!!

-Justin

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

The matches were being uploaded live as they happened, but then stopped after match 20ish. I believe theres a few DVDs floating around with the remaining matches in them. They need to be parsed and uploaded though.

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Stills (and anyone else),

As always, things can deviate from the script. I was not happy with the event loading and unloading for the teams but most of this had to do with teams having ignored or not read the information on our event web page.

The info on unloading was posted here ("Access to the Loading Dock"). If you experienced something different please send me an email detailing your experience. Please be as specific as possible.

I was upstairs supervising the load-in at the loading dock and could not be everywhere at once. We need your input if we are to make corrective action for next year.

I look forward to getting your emails...

Mike

Re: 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!
 

Congratulations to the winning alliance, we saw first hand how powerful you guys were. Also, a big thank you to our alliance partners 716 and 1027.

And a big thank you to team 134 for sharing the bus ride to and from Connecticut with us.

Except for the "FIRST flu" this was a great regional.