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470 and 815 have been close to 862 for years...

But I have some other personal favorites that I always root for:
573
1502
910
1023
1188
494
45
1

I root for them for many various reasons. Mostly because of things they've done over the years. (And none of those things were on the field.)

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since this is my rookie year on my team i really wanted to get out there and meet a bunch of new people, ive made friends on a couple of teams that i would do anything for:
217
226
1114
703
i really hope to meet more people on different teams and build more relationships in years to come. i really believe that first isnt just a competition but a bond between people from all over that wont be broken anytime soon.

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So what plans have been made for team gettogethers this summer?

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116 had two outreach events with other teams in the next 15 days, but those aren't true gettogethers. We had plans for a game of broomball with 612 after build, but it got booked up before we could rent it, and it's been kinda put on the back burner since then. I have an odd feeling that the subject may come again when we're working Space Day together next Saturday.... ;)

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My team and myself personally have made a lot of friends within the FIRST community, especially though events such as volunteering at competitions. For the past few years, I've been invited to RAGE (173) to host Vex demonstrations and help their FVC team.

Our team shares resources (such as travel and field components) with our sister team Max (1071), which we founded in 2003 with former mentors and students from our own team.

We're also good friends with Checkmate (40), especially in the FVC and EasyC PRO departments. Both of our teams develop 1/3-scale miniFRC robots with Vex each year, and we also helped Intelitek beta-test EasyC PRO over the months leading up to the 2007 Kickoff.

Our team has also hosted joint FIRST demonstrations in the past with the CyberKnights (195), as one of our engineering mentors works with one of theirs at a local fuel cell company.

Outside of the competitions, our team often hangs out with TRIBE/SieH20Bots (237), especially at ski areas in Connecticut during the winter months.


For me, I've personally become friends with quite a large number of teams. It's to the point where at the Championships it seemed like every ten feet someone would say "Hey, It's Art Dutra!" :p

I'm not yet sure about this summer yet, but last summer I went to a bunch of parties where there were a lot of members from 228, 230 and 237 there. :cool:

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We have always strived to be open and meet other people, but several teams are great friends to us, both on and off the field.

2135 (Presentation Invasion) is a rookie team that we helped mentor this year, and we will always be behind them to see them go as far as they go.

492 (Titan Robotics) are our old buddies from 2005 when together we won the Pacific Northwest Regional, and have kept in touch with them. One of their team members, Kevin Brashum, even came to Santa Clara University to help mentor us.

668 (Apes of Wrath) is growing fast in the Bay Area, and we are proud to work with them, whether it be on their regional alliance or demonstrations at community events.

Of course, I feel that all FIRST teams are friends in a bigger community.

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I've heard that our team is pretty close to 33, 111, and 494. I personally have made friends with members of 538, 1746, and 1102. :)

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I thought it was especially cool how we maintained a really strong relationship with you guys and with 195 at the Championship even though you were in a different field than you were. (I was so surprised to see that you guys made it to the Championship after all!) I know that about 1/4 of our team went over to the stands of your field so that they could sit and talk with you and with 195. As our alliance captain, I joked about yelling over to your field really loudly to invite you and 195 to be our partners and bring back the regional alliance! We also saw 195 at the Hard Rock at our team dinner Wednesday night and spent some time with them there- we actually found out that one of their drivers was in the hospital, and we wish him a speedy recovery. We made some new friends at the Championship this year, like teams 292 and 2068- the three of us got to play three matches as an alliance, and those were fun matches. 292 helped us out a few times at the Championship, and we are indebted to them for that. 2068 was also a really great team that we enjoyed working with, and if they hadn't gotten chosen before we selected our alliance partners... we would have tried to bring back that killer alliance. Our alliance partners from UTC last year have still maintained a great relationship with us, as well- 177 helped us out when we were in need of a master link for our chain at this year's regional, and I know that our CAD teams had some great discussion with one another. 176 played a few matches with (and against) us as well, and we brought back the good memories from the past. At last year's championship, we cheered them on as they won match after match in the Newton field. Two other teams who I would be truly remiss to not mention are teams 1071 and 230, who allianced with us during the scrimmage and maintained that great relationship through regionals and beyond. 1071 almost lent us a driver when ours was sick. We cheered each other on, as we did with 230. There are many other teams who we've become great friends with over the years, but they are far too numerous to mention. Thanks to everyone for helping us and supporting us through the years.

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Great Thread! Yet another one of those discussions that hits a nerve and needs to be responded to.

Team 85 has always maintained friendship with our neighbors 107, 141, and 74. We've also worked with and helped 2015 and their mentor's previous team 1654. It always seems like some of our students know someone from each of these teams, we help share transportation, swap parts, etc. We also made some friends on 2054 this year and hope we can continue this. Every year we make some new friends as pit neighbors or alliance partners. Perhaps more than the students, the mentors make more friends as we see the same faces year after year.

For me personally, I always try to keep in touch with my original team (288) and the other West Michigan teams(518, 858, 904, and others). I also like to keep tabs on 1243 and 1504, both near my hometown. Its been great to watch them start and turn into such successful teams. (Maybe they could work together and get a team started in Shiawassee county.) I always try to keep in touch with 857 from Tech as well.

One of the highlights of my season was being so warmly welcomed by 1164 at the Pheonix Regional. I've never seen a team so much like my own, even better in some ways. It's an honor to wear the windbreaker they gave me.

One of our major goals in doing our Mall Expo last year was to help restore the ties that Beth is writing about. We restored and started many connections between our teams that are so vital but so easy to slip away. I hope we to do more of these types of things in the future. Maybe a little better ties between teams could have helped teams like 1500, 391, 658, and others that are no longer active.

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Our team met team 100 at Davis, and they are awesome people. A great friendship was developed between us. You cannot not be good friends after the hell-ish battles you and other teams fought through together at Davis elimination matches.:)

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This year 226 has made several friends, our closest being 515 and 1447.
This is my rookie year, and I loved every second of it. I made friends from so many different teams. 1015, 862, 469, 217, and 1114 just to name a few. This year has been amaaazing and I'm so sad that the season is done. But yay for off seasons.

As for the challenge, 226 and 469 are having a party this saturday with the teams we've made friends with this year. We're also hopefully having something of a demonstration to the community at our city fair and inviting other teams to come if it successfully goes through.

This year was fabulous and I can't wait for more! I love everyone I've met and I just can't believe how friendly EVERYONE on FIRST is. It's very heart warming to know that there's so much love (:

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Team 330 is friends with 294 (we were on the same team in 1997 before we split off), 980, 968, 687, 981, 696, 599, 597, 1702, and 4. (Those are just the ones I know about; I'm willing to bet that there are more.) If you look at the Einstein audience pictures, just on the Curie side of Pink, there is a mixed blob of blue and pink. That's 330, 696, 294, and 599's VEX team forming one cheering section. A few 980 team members were also in the mix. (The pink was from 696's shirts; blue was from 294 and 330 and whoever else had a BeachBot shirt.)

And, don't tell team 1332 that teams don't cheer for each other during eliminations. They were cheering for us all through San Diego elims, even though they weren't picked or picking. Team San Diego (all of the San Diego teams) has a history of cheering for each other until all are out, and then they cheer for whoever they like (often everybody).