Re: 2008 New Jersey Regional
 

just keeping it exciting..... (pulls pins out of voodoo doll)

WC :D

Re: 2008 New Jersey Regional
 

Lol I thought we went totally unnoticed this weekend!!!

Re: 2008 New Jersey Regional
 

it's hard to be unnoticed when you're currently seed #2 :).

Re: 2008 New Jersey Regional
 

The new spot for the NJ GameDay is http://gameday.soap108.com/?evnet=nj.

Enjoy!

Re: 2008 New Jersey Regional
 

Bill Miller from FIRST asked me to post this on behalf of FIRST:

TO: The FIRST Community
FROM: Bill Miller, Director FIRST Robotics Competition
RE: FIRST Principles


At FIRST we aspire to some important goals. One of the most important is to change our culture. We try to achieve our goals by operating according to a different set of principles and imbedding them in everything about FIRST - including what we celebrate and what it’s like to attend our events.

Yesterday, music that violated those principles was played at one of our events. The music reflected things in our culture we want to change, not celebrate. It had no place at a FIRST event.

I apologize to the members of the FIRST community who had to hear it. I also want to assure you it won’t be played again at one of our events.

Thank you for your understanding and best of luck in the season.

Re: 2008 New Jersey Regional
 

Yeah, I've noticed at past regionals they've some fairly 'blue' music. Even if they were playing the radio edits, people know what it represents.

On a different note, I think I've figured out why the NJ webcast kept dying yesterday. They're running at twice the bandwidth that midwest is. Midwest is playing autodesk submissions right now, and is taking about 20k/s. New Jersey is running at about 40k/s. I'll confirm for sure when midwest starts doing games.

Re: 2008 New Jersey Regional
 

We noticed that team 303 was DQ'd in a match for running into the other alliances wall during hybrid mode which caused one of the opposing alliances control system to fall off the shelf.

Was this the first time this happened for this team or were there earlier warnings for the same thing?

It seems a bit harsh if it was the first time. Plus, why didn't the other team have their control system secured?

Re: 2008 New Jersey Regional
 

I've seen a few teams have to dive for their control systems, and I've also read here on CD that the velcro doesn't cut it all the time.

Re: 2008 New Jersey Regional
 

Is anyone watching the NJ webcast and thinks the music is STILL pretty bad? This really doesn't seem like FIRST music. Maybe it's just me?

Re: 2008 New Jersey Regional
 

Yeah ive noticed the same thing...not sure whats up with that :confused:

Re: 2008 New Jersey Regional
 

WoW, that regional almost got messed up thanks to shaniqua..... WoW. congrats to team 103 and 25 for playing by the rules and not taking advantage to her mishap

Re: 2008 New Jersey Regional
 

Please fill me in?

Re: 2008 New Jersey Regional
 

Two years ago our control panel was knocked down and our joystick smashed during auto. There was no penalty for the other team, and we were given time to get another joystick and run the match. I'm not sure that should have been a DQ since 555 did get to play the match, just based on past personal experience and common sense.

Re: 2008 New Jersey Regional
 

after the 8th alliance made their first pick, she went to 103 and 25 to ask them for their second pick where someone from 103 reminded her it was a serpentine draft...

Re: 2008 New Jersey Regional
 

Ahh, ok. I missed that one.