Re: 2008 Los Angeles Regional
 

congrats 1717, 330, 980 good luck in Atlanta. LA was awesome and i would like to thank all the volunteers for their efforts and team 599 for their awesome first aid station as always.

Re: 2008 Los Angeles Regional
 

definitely congrats to the winning teams 1717, 330, 980.

I'm a first year Marketing/PR mentor for Team 2102. I (and my wife) had an amazing time. Everyone lent so much energy to the event. It was crazy to see it ratcheting up in intensity the 2nd and 3rd day.


Of course I'm also predicting that ya'll need to stay on your game this coming year because we are only getting better :)

Thanks to all the folks who contributed. It was fantastic to see so many people donating their time for such a worthwhile event.

Re: 2008 Los Angeles Regional
 

Id Like to thank 294 for hurdling so much but especially team 2659 for being such a strong rookie team on and off the team to lead their own alliance and pick up team 702 (Big risk taking on a second lap bot) as one of my team members said once we got picked, "We Will Make it Work" and it was amazing to see our alliance take on the robots we did!

Here at 702 we are all very happy with how things worked out :)

Best LA Regional so far! thank you all for making it happen

Re: 2008 Los Angeles Regional
 

Team 1717

I sincerely apologize for the content of the post. I really admire how your team works together, and how well D'Penguineers is structured and organized. My thoughts were not well thought out, I did not mean to be derogatory towards your team. In hindsight the way I communicated them indicated feeling of resentment, I meant to present just a playback of the our regional matches. I apologize for my post in a public forum representing my team.The post was not my teams opinion just me thinking out loud the night after the regional. They were made with unintentional bias. At the time, I did not read my post over throughly enough to see how the comments I made could be seen as rude. Finally, Congratulations to your alliance, Teams 330,1717 and 980.

Sincerely.
Matthew Baker

Re: 2008 Los Angeles Regional
 

Team 330,

I apologize for offending you by speaking badly of you alliance member team 1717. Please understand, this was not my intention, and I feel great remorse for the trouble and even more for the offending things I said. I was not representing my team, This should have been my first priority on Chief Delphi, representing my team and FIRST in a positive light.

Sincerely,
Matthew Baker

Re: 2008 Los Angeles Regional
 

Congratulations on your success in FIRST, I know that it is an outstanding program. Now as a graduate of high school, when you get settled into college life, start to volunteer at a local regional or come back to LA and volunteer. Mentor at a local high school near your college or try to start a new team if you can. We do not want to lose our FIRST program graduates and hope they come back not only to help with their old team, but to start new teams and help them to achieve the success of your program. Pass on your knowledge and lessons learned....!

The FIRST site has the volunteer application and I am sure that Jim Beck or other regionals would LOVE The help from people that know what is going on.

Again Congratulations on your success and I hope to see you as a volunteer or mentor in the years to come.

Re: 2008 Los Angeles Regional
 

eh, just to show a counter, well almost counter-argument. Go to college, use what you learned. And once you have been out of FIRST and have had some more experience, bring it back to a team. Volunteer, but about mentoring, I am going to wait until I graduate probably, or at least a year off. I dont want to be a college mentor on the team right after high school, it will be like I never left and it could prevent from more progressive experience both on my end and the team I am mentoring in.

Re: 2008 Los Angeles Regional
 

I feel like I might have too much "hometeam" pride to mentor another team. Does anyone else have that same problem of not wanting to divide their allegiance to their original high school team?

Re: 2008 Los Angeles Regional
 

Mentors are resources to a team and any resource that a team can afford to share or give up to another team in need, perhaps ought to.

Re: 2008 Los Angeles Regional
 

I agree with Oscar. I would always feel like I am a Robodox, but its not about pride in your team once you leave, at least to me, its about spreading FIRST and creating the best experience for those who are in the program or creating an experience for those to yet to be in the program.

But.... if you wish to stay with 1717, you can just come back and mentor 1717 once you graduate, or maybe from afar with certain aspects like CAD or sending certain designs during the early stages of planning.

Re: 2008 Los Angeles Regional
 

I think you are all right. Loyalty to your original team is tough to set aside. Not sure I could do it either. On the other hand, sharing what you have learned is an unselfish act, maybe the highest honor you can give to another person or team.

Re: 2008 Los Angeles Regional
 

I have posted a paper in CD-Media with YouTube links to the video clips that I shot of the Elimination & other selected matches at the Los Angeles Regional.:cool:

You can also find them by searching YouTube for “FIRST Robotics Los Angeles” or by team number, using the Chief Delphi standard to prefix it with “frc”. For example: “frc330”, “frc1717”, “frc980”, etc.

Or just go to: http://www.youtube.com/GaryWHedge

Re: 2008 Los Angeles Regional
 

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It's MorTorq TV the "Ocho", and that means 8 times MOR fun! From the evil plot of Larry Nakamura to the crazy ramblings of Mark Leon to the MorTorq Monkey's infectious dancing, this episode has something for everyone!