Re: Waterloo 2008,
 

w00 one day of school left!!! :D:D:D

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I went to the PAC today and saw the cardboard on the floor. How exciting!

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Speaking of the PAC, I've noticed that I always see teams lost in cars trying to find it on thursday morning. I will try to help them here:

I'm assuming you've already found columbia or university streets and are heading west:

Along Columbia (I'm less familiar with Columbia)
-You'll go through a long stretch of detached homes, then enter a more built-up region
-You'll pass a gas station on your left just before some lights
-Then RIM on your left (notable by the RIM logos on brown buildings)
-Then the university campus starts, notable by a large smokestack on your left
-You want to turn left at the lights. If you see big playing fields on your right followed by a dry lakebed, you've gone too far. Turn left on westmount and follow it south to university, turn left on that, and come in through the main entrance of the university at Seagram, then follow the instructions below
-Once on ring road, make a right, then an almost-immediate left to get into the parking lot.

Along University
-You'll pass Wilfred Laurier on your left, then a bunch of houses/apartments
-On your right, you'll pass a large plaza containing a McGinnis sports bar, subway, harveys, and mongolian grill.
-Shortly after the plaza, you cross a set of railroad tracks and the road becomes divided
-Turn right at the lights to get onto the entrance to ring road
-Turn left onto ring road. There will be large parking lots on your left (but these are not the parking lots you're looking for)
-Ring road will make a fairly sharp corner to the right, and now open land will be on your left
-Continue, and soon you'll see this ugly bugger on your right
-Then on your right you'll see the PAC (this is where the competition is)
-You'll go uphill and make a gradual right, then on your right will be a parking lot. This is the one they've used in past years (I think).
-If you get to a T-intersection (base of the T going to your left) with a stop sign, you've gone too far. Do a U-turn or just continue around ring road again.

Once you get into the parking lot I'm thinking of (if it is indeed the parking lot for FIRSTers), the PAC is down a steep hill (there are stairs on the left). You'll be entering the BLUE NORTH entrance (there should be a blue thingy above the doors, but I'm unsure if it is labelled BLUE NORTH. The competition is down the stairs.

Re: Waterloo 2008,
 

Good Luck to all teams coming!! Be sure to stop by our pits and say HI and look at our, hopefully, award winning drive train!!

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Good luck to all teams. May the best team win. And remember to have a good time no matter what happens.

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whoa whoa whoa, not cool to insult the math building. For us math students, its our home for most of undergraduate (eat, sleep, and study there).

See all you volunteers tonight!

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If people can update this thread with what happens at the half day marks of each day for those of us not lucky enough to be there, I would really appreciate it!

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I'll keep everyone updated when I get there tomorrow and get the webcast set up.

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some of the cylinders got rejected due to them being reconstructable, but they solved that

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so, who's standing out besides 1114 so far?

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Someone please get in touch with Karthik and ask him to check his email. Thanks.

Good luck to all teams that are attending the regional. =)

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Day 1...

1114, 2056, 1241, 68, 1310 impressed

in no particular order...

Didn't get a chance to see too many of the other robots during practice day, but from what I saw from behind the lexan, there was a lot more hurdling than I expected. Every practice match we were in, there were multiple, multiple hurdle robots.

Also, the forkapult IS forkapulting!

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webcast is up: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/2008-waterloo-regional

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Thanks. I'll be watching :D

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Waterloo had been great so far, we've had Karthik doing pushups, 2056 play a tough first match with 1241 on them hard with D, 1114 do 6 hurdles in their first match with a diagonal (cross quadrant hurdle) at the end. Every time a team breaks the plane Karthik has to do 5 pushups.