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Hey guys. Team 399 is making "Science and Technology Hero Cards" for famous scientists and engineers. These are baseball-like trading cards including figures like Albert Einstein, Steve Wozniak, and (of course) Dean Kamen. But, we would also like to recognize those mentors who have helped the FIRST teams by donating their time and their smarts. :D

If you're going and would like to honor one of your mentors with their very own trading cards, then email team399@gmail.com and we'll send you the form to fill out for 1-4 of your mentors (sorry about the limit, but we do have limited funds to do this). We'll have their cards along with a small pack of other scientists at the regional and will deliver them to your pit.

We hope you guys find this exciting!

Good luck with the rest of the six weeks and see you in LA.

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Cool idea. I would suggest, since i think a lot of us from LA are not on CD as much as East Coast team, try getting the Woodie Flowers and Volunteer of the Year award winners.

LA Regional looks exciting, though quite a few teams that are local can not attend due to Hawaii being the next week:(

Once again the extremely helpful FIRST Aid Station, ran by 599, will be back. Please email me if you have any requests or comments about the station.
EricRobodox@gmail.com

hope to see a lot of familiar and new teams this year.

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Bumpin this thread.

Who else is excited?

Whats not to love, Los Angeles has crazy awesome teams from competitive robots to aggressively public relation teams to extremely veteran teams to rookies. I guess you can say the same with our major sports teams too....

GO LAKERS!!!

anyways, I am excited. Hopefully the social will be pretty cool.

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Yes, I'm very excited! Somehow the timing worked out with my spring break so that I can actually go to the whole event (and six flags on the side...). I can't wait to see some of the awesome teams going, it's been a while since I've seen a lot of them!

Hopefully we can manage to fix our possessed robot's mysterious problems on thursday and to join the ranks of competative robots. (anyone know a good exorcist?)

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294 will be showing up with a performance that's hopefully a little stronger than what we showed during quals in SD.

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I'll be there, though not with my usual team. I'll be wearing the black and yellow of 1135 as they return to FRC after two or three seasons of only FTC, instead of my normal blue and yellow.

By the way, who is interested in having an unofficial CD get-together sometime Thursday?

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I would be! =D

So few west coasters use CD though, it's kinda hard to keep up ;P



If San Diego was any indication of what this event will be like, I'm excited. Definitely going to be top notch teams here... Our robot definitely will be.. improved. I was glad with our three hurdles in the last qualifier, and hopefully we can increase that number.. Although it comes no where near those at the top! =D. Our Hybrid should be getting three lines more often now though ;)

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What a cool idea!
I'll be looking forward to see how the final products look =)

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Have you seen the BeachBots' shirts this year? I'd call them "midnight blue" rather than the traditional royal blue. Apparently, there was a foul-up by the shirt vendor. As you know, Team 980 is also black and yellow, so we'll be color-coordinated!

I think a west-coast CD tag-up would be great. Thursday lunch-time??

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It was intentional.

Thursday lunch sounds good to meet up. Say near the "food" place(s), or outside for those that brought their own.

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I want to go, but I will probably not be able to leave the venue. Plus, its safer inside, USC and the Sports Arena are not in the best of neighborhoods. How about near the Robot FIRST Aid Station/Machine Shop? Its inside and not as congested. If its the same as last year, its a big open area near the entrance of the Arena.

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I was thinking outside the pit area to encourage people to leave the robot "alone" for a little while. Maybe near where the FLL/VEX demo was last year. (Though the area near the Robot First Aid station could work too.)

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Lunchtime get together sounds tiiight. But I vote for right outside the arena because after being in there all day it's nice to get outside and breathe some fresh air. Plus we could probably get in a game of frisbee or soccer!

I'm so stokeeed. It coincides with my spring break too so it'll be nice to not have to worry about making up a lot of work when I get back.

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It might be best to wait till Thursday morning to see how the field and pit areas are laid out, then have a pit announcement made for time and location.

Oh, and remember to make and wear CD name tags or buttons (if you have time).

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Hmm, 1726 can't wait to join the fun at LA this year! Hopefully my dad (squirrel), my brothers (s_forbes, GUI), and I will be able to meet up with all the CD members on Thursday, if we can get our robot working by then! :yikes:

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Mom--I don't have to wait till Thursday.:) Though the pit announcement would be a good thing.

And yes, CD name tags are a good thing. I'll be wearing mine throughout the regional.

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I'll be there holding down the field. Come look for me, I'll be in stripes.

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ill be there definitely. oh and is there like a template to make a CD name tag?

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a CD meet up sounds promising. but i cant help but wonder what will we all do? (I am sure there a very oblivious and simple answer to that) being one of the only people from my team on CD for years i suppose ill be the only one in Turquoise and Black:cool:

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Nope. There is an easy way to do that, though...I think. I'll check it in a minute and get back to you. [Edit] Printscreen (while you are facing one of your posts), open an image-processing program (Paint works), and paste. Crop out anything you don't want, move everything else around to suit yourself, add trim if you want to, print it out and stick it on some sort of pin/name badge.

Meet and greet. Kind of like the Championship Webhug, without the Championship and the hug itself.

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We sit in a circle with our laptops and chat on Chief Delphi! :P

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only if there was internet :(

Well, I dont think i need to wear my name. Ill probably be the only one from 599, and we are the Robodox, as most everyone in SoCal knows. Eric+Robodox = EricRobodox. That and I also dont have time to make a pin ;)

I cant wait. As evident from me not logging off CD all day from being home sick.

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Unless Mr. Van shows up. ;)

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Maybe he will, I dont know if he will even see this thread. Normally he scrolls through robot showcase and technical forums. But he may do a search for "599" and see this thread too. IF the robot is ok, I am sure both of us will be there then.

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if people from CD in LA met up several times during the year it would make all our teams better, feels easier than trying to get my team to attend summer meetings :P

im sure as CD people we would get more done. for FIRST and our teams in general.

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There are two FIRST related groups that meet semi-regularly all year in LA. The Regional Comittee and SCRRF. Most of us are also on CD though many just lurk. Either group is always looking for new people to help with events.

Let me know if you are interested and I'll show you where to go.

BTW I'm looking forward to watching a true herder at LA. Yours seemed like it will do good job

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Team 1515 is looking forward to another amazing regional. See you all there!

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I'll be wearing a volunteer name tag - robot inspector. I'll put my CD "name tag" on the back of it.

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A bit hard when team 4's colors are turquoise and black.. haha You won't be the only one.

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indeed i would, always been very dedicated to FIRST and id like to expand my energy into FIRST efforts. anything i can do will get done.;)

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/30974?

herding seems like such a waste of our speed, those balls slow ya down :D

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Does anyone have information on the Team Social?

I need to know how restricted attendance will be (parents, siblings?) as well as the start and end times.

-Mr. Van
Coach, Robodox

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Hm, assuming this team social doesn't get canceled, it should be fun hanging out with a few teams.

Hey, people who were with us at the San Diego Comp, do you know why the San Diego Social got Canceled?

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I don't know, but I'd ask ChrisH if I were you. All I really know is, it looks like it'll happen.

Check the SD thread(s) for that.

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Does anyone know when the social is and (if there is one) the dinner thing that we usually have?

I really need to get an agenda out to the members and parents as soon as I can, and it would be nice to know where/when the social & dinner is.

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i talked to chrisH and he said that there will be some sort of Team Social on Friday night.

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A few High Rollers and I will be driving out Friday morning to watch the LA regional, what are some of the hotels teams are staying at?

-Keaton

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Well, I'm not sure where teams are staying this year, but I do know where an old Visitor's Guide is located. I don't think the hotels have changed much, though the venue might have (not sure if '05 was Forum or Sports Arena).

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2005 was the Forum... where the Magic happens :)

sorry, big laker fan.

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1070 isn't staying at a hotel. We're all semi-local so we just gonna wake up early and drive downtown every day.

It's my first year in FIRST and I'm so excited for this regional! I competed with 1070 in a competition earlier this year (the Fall Classic? ... something like that) but I hear that was tiny in comparison. I've been looking forward to the LA Regional for months and the suspense is nearly killing me at this point. :)

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Heheheh, tiny is an understatement. Be prepared to have strange/wonderful images burned into your mind. My first time last year was incredible.

Hopefully you'll get to Atlanta. It'll make LA look puny.

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We just got in from Arizona; we're staying at the Radisson (It seems way too nice for us). We made sure to come to LA early so we could visit six flags on Wednesday! Can't wait to see all of the teams on Thursday, it looks like it will be a fun regional.

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no doubt about it its gonna be AWESOME!

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LA is going to be....interesting to say the least. ;) I'm going to be volunteering somewhere, no idea where though. (btw Nica, we're still going to hold you to that soulja boy for Karthik)

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Its going to be my last regional, so I am just going to go there and plan to have a lot of fun. All I know, is that I want to be on American Gladiators for a day :)

If you havent heard, the venue sort of overbooked, so American Gladiator set is still at the arena. I think the pits are split because of this. Its definitely going to be wild.

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YES. hahahaha that and the Apple-bottom-jeans-boots-with-the-fur song. :D

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We just got the following info about the team social:

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cool, i guess it was good that we changed the departure time of our buses to 8pm on friday.

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Come one, come all! If you are a CD member at the Los Angeles Regional, some of us will be gathering during the lunch break on Thursday.

Who: Any CD member at L.A. regional
When: Lunchtime Thursday
What: Meet-and-greet.
Where: By the practice field. (new info)
Why: You know you want to meet the folks behind the screen names.:P

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=( I'd come but we're not driving down until around 1 so we won't be there till 2. I'll still come and say hi to everyone

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sounds great. Someone come get me if I forget, likely to happen. Most of you all know who I am and what I look like.

Im getting to bed soon, got to get up early to get to Granada before we head out to the LA Memorial Sports Arena.

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Eric, if you don't see us, I will drag you about ten feet. If you forget, I will do the same. If you're at Robot First Aid, you WILL see us.

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I forgot to check this thread for regional info (Yes Eric, I do come here. But mostly in general, and I don't really post much).

Any chance of trying again on the meeting CD members by the practice field, now that we know where everything is?

Team 599 has been working like crazy on our new autonomous mode and we look forward to seeing how we perform on the competition field. Good luck everybody!

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Nice! I think she means 02 though. They had a dance, and giant wrestling suits, and it was pretty cool. Wish I could be there for it this year. We aren't doing to bad over on the beach here in Hawaii though. :-D

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i went to the practice field during lunch but i didn't see you guys.

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For those who are trying to keep up with the fast paced events here in wonderful Los Angeles, I have put up pictures of most of the robots here

http://selectric.org/nerds/2008ca/

although these pictures were taken during the day Thursday, when most of the robots were still being worked on, and thus many robots are incomplete.

Also the match schedule is going to be distributed this morning so I don't have it yet.

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Is this regional being webcast? And if it is, what is the address?

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It's not webcast

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I'm working on tryin gto get some video off my camcorder, this going on trips with electronic equipment thing is a nuisance sometimes!

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Great team social, although I left before they got the moon bounce set up. Good luck for tomorrow.

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yep the social was AWSOME! i especially liked the bungie cord moon bounce thingy.

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Sounds like a plan, maybe. Though I'm not sure when... maybe right after alliance selections if you aren't a captain? (Oh, and we looked like a circle of guys from several teams and the crew.;)) Or we designate the 1726-867-1135-842 area as "CD hangout zone". I'll probably be in 1135's pit unless we're competing.

Quick way to find me: The white hard hat. (Or post a who-am-I and I'll find you.)

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Jeff (Kane) and I are helping out with the event, but during lunch if we have a quick break we'll come say hi. (BTW sorry to Thunderbots earlier in line, I totally blanked)

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Yes, good social indeed!


Here are our scouting results from the Friday matches using the NDS scouting system that one of our members developed. Note that some of the data may be inaccurate due to our scouts getting tired throughout the day, but it is a very good representation of what the stats are for each robot.

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Thank you for the pictures. Best of luck to all the teams.

We hope to use our arms and catapult tomorrow as well as have a hybrid mode.

Saturday morning, if there are any great programmers free we need you. We are trying to program our robot to accelerate/move forward, decelerate/move backwards, strafe to the left, strafe to the right For example, forward button one time = half speed forward (~8ft/sec), forward button once again = full speed forward (~16 ft/sec), backwards button hit twice would then put us at half speed, then stop. Strafe would be one button push to reach full speed.

How fast does the FIRST IR board response to a button push? Stop by our pits if you like to help. Team 2404 - TNT.

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If you see me, either of you, catch me. White hard hat, blue safety glasses already on.

Nica still hasn't done it...not that I've seen.

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Does anyone have any pictures of the field and pit layout?

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No, but here's a quick word picture:

Pits: 4 groups of 10 pits, 5 back to back, with one single row of three on each side. All other teams are in a back row even with the loading dock. Inspection and practice field are next to the loading dock.

Field: standard, but the widths around the field are narrow on the sides. There are no bleachers below the side stairs on the lower level.

All told, we're in about two-thirds of the normal space.

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im just sad i cant test my skills against the American Gladiators. The ring thingy outside is soooo tempting. Like a big jungle gym.

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I've said it before, I'll say it again, 1717 is going to be BIG; and not just this season.

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Well, we can't....

I wonder if any GDC members are in town? ;)

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here's one video, I did figure out how to get video off the camera, although the quality on this upload was pretty low. This is match 27.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4UCIVGxmxg

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Hey, I want to let scouts out ehre know that while we did absolutely horribly the first three matches, we have straightened out problems we had earlier and are wrking on getting a better hybrid mode working. If EricRobodox actually drives well (I don't know how he is doing personally) we can easily score 2-3 hurdles per match. I think that someone needs to come up with a weighted scouting system that weights the later matches more in the average because those are closer to tha actual capabilities of the robot in the elimination rounds.

Also, i'd like to bring up soemthing that I don't know if other teams are doing. I'm planning on putting together a practice field box of items that our robot needs to bring. This includes one allen wrench and box wrench of each size we use and pliers. Is there anythign else that would be a good general item to put in this type of box, and is this a good idea in the first place? Feedback, criticisms, and suggestions for this type of idea would be welcome.

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We appreciate the compliment :)

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I have uploaded some of the matches to SOAP. It tends to be very 330 centric at the moment, but eventually all the matches will get up there.

http://www.soap.circuitrunners.com/2...ca-losangeles/

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I'm trying to get a few more on our youtube page

http://www.youtube.com/user/frc1726

but they're rather 1726-centric for some reason

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Congratulations to:

330
1717
980

For winning the regional!

And great job to the finalists (2659, 294, 702) and everyone else at the competition.

Great regional!

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This regional ROCKED. It was veery intense and exciting. Congrats to the winning alliance and all other teams who participated and rocked the Los Angeles Regional. It was great being surrounded by so many spirited teams, incredible robots, and gracious professionalism.

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The alliances were:

1. 330 1717 980
2. 1622 687 2486
3. 1197 1726 2102
4. 2637 1438 1702
5. 1160 399 842
6. 1515 599 238
7. 2659 294 702
8. 207 1538 589

Congratulations to 2659, 294, and 702. I can't believe that two of the best lap robots made it onto the same alliance and 294 was a steal.

Thanks to 1717 and 980 for the great run through the finals.

Congratulations to 399 for the chairman's award!

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A big congratulations goes to 2659, Alemany HS. Denying to another alliance and then leading their own alliance, quite a feat for a rookie team.

Volunteering was pretty epic. Congratulations to all teams and a big thanks to Jim Beck for directing another great regional.

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Agree on all 3 counts. I'm so proud of 2659 and how much they've grown in the past few months. LA was once again an amazing even, and I'm sad that it might be my last time going to it. (college etc..) Great job!

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Congrats to the unstoppable D'Thunderbeach alliance!

Props to 2659-294-702 and 1515-599-238 for being our opponents during elims, too... all six of you played an incredible game, and 399 for winning Chairman's twice in a row in LA.

edit: (oh, and thanks to Team Paradox and the N.E.R.D.S. for being awesome and cooperative alliance partners.)

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294 had a great time. We had originally been looking at the regional as extended hurdling practice. We never thought we'd make it to the finals again.

Staring down the field at 330 and 1717 sitting right next to each other was unnerving to say the least. And the 980 smilie made it all the more intense. We were just happy to finish up with a score that was more than half of their's.... :p

All in all, we're pretty happy that the Beach Bots will be joining us in Atlanta along with our San Diego alliance members 1717 and 968. Hopefully we can bring a strong West Coast showing to Nats.

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hey, had a great time. Congrats to the Beachbots, all that practicing paid off. 599 wants to see you in Atlanta with us so GET THERE. 1515, you guys were cool, things didnt happen as expected, but oh well, we had fun all of our matches with you. Congrats to all the other teams I didnt mention, I am too tired to list them all, Im going to sleep after this post.

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Congrats to 330 1717 and 980, we enjoyed watching you guys. Hope to see you in Atlanta, and show everyone how we do it on the west coast!

-Keaton

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As a freshman in college having participated on the team last year, it was great to see the team win at LA (didn't actually see it in SD). It was a blast to feel all the excitement again.

Ditched class on friday (one of them my math class :yikes: ) to catch the early flight to be at the competition on friday and saturday. So much fun as always, it was well worth it.

Congrats to 2659 294 and 702. (especially 294...it was wonderful to see you again, we worked so closely together last year, and I was thrilled to see that we had teamed up in SD)

Thanks to our wonderful alliance members, 330 and 980. It was wonderful to work together.

More congratulations to 339 on the Chairman's Award

Also it was great to cheer with everyone (primarily 339 and 1515).

Can't wait for next years challenge!!!!

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Congratulations again to 330, 1717, and 980, you did great! as well as to the rest of the teams in LA, we had a great time. Also 399 for Chairman's, and thanks again to all the volunteers that made it happen!

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Congrats to 330,1717, and 980!!! This alliance made the LA regional even more fun to watch! Congrats to 399 for winning Chairmans.

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Congrats to all the teams that participated, especially the winners of the final round: 330, 1717, and 980!

I just wanted to thank everyone for making our team's first regional of 2008 absolutely amazing! We met so many great people from other teams and just had an absolute blast! We weren't entirely satisfied with our own robot's performance but we are going to make some adjustments at the Las Vegas regional and try again. Our team hopes to see some of you there (although I personally have a timing conflict and will not be able to attend).

I was seriously impressed by the spirit of all the teams and congrats 399 for winning the Chairmen's award!

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Awesome regional, seemingly unstoppable number one alliance - I believe they scored over 100 points in every match they played. Should make for a good west coast showing in Atlanta.

Thanks to 1160 for choosing us in the eliminations, and for 842 (The girl side of their team!) for playing with us.


Can't wait for next year. And more importantly Atlanta this year!

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399,

I love you guys, congratulations on the chairman's award, and I can't wait until HOTlanta. Jonny quest/Mr powers, you're the bomb, keep it up.

-Daniel

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Congratulations to the repeat LA Regional Chairman's Award winner, Team 399. You totally energized the event, especially with your video. It was awesome at field level just in front of your very enthusiastic section.

330 and 1717 gave an impressive display of effective Trackball handling and maneuverability throughout the LA regional. 330's selection of 1717 pretty much "sealed the deal" for the regional win. 980's goal was to clear some track for them (which often meant trying to keep out of their way).

There was a great mix of teams at the LA Regional including some outstanding rookie teams. The schools for Rookie All-Star (2429, La Canada HS) and Rookie Inspiration (2404, John Muir HS) award winners are located about a mile of one another. I'm so proud of Team 2404 "TNT" for their perseverance throughout the season. There are even better things ahead for their program and their school.

Thanks to the volunteers and RD who stepped up to make the LA Regional a truly great event.

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I'm putting videos of almost all the elimination matches on our youtube page

http://www.youtube.com/user/frc1726

I missed the last final...oops! but I hope you enjoy them.

edit: we are leaving the hotel now, I'm not done uploading, sorry! the last few matches are not there

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Saturday was quite an intense day for Curtis Montano, the Head Ref. Never have I seen so many matches challenged. It was ridiculous, the challenge box must have been filled for 70 minutes straight. It would make everyone's life easier if teams really made an effort to play clean matches. If there were penalties, they were accidents on their driver's fault. People give the refs a hard time when they do not realize how hard their job is. At competitions, they easily have the hardest job, and the group at LA was definitely one of the finest group of referees I have come across.

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Yeah, 399, we're so stoked you guys are going to Atlanta.

I would have been highly disappointed if anyone else won the Chairman's Award! Honestly, I'm more excited about that than actually winning the Regional. Give a shout out to the rest of your team for me, you guys deserve that win.

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I dunno about the "if anyone else won" statement, some of our members were really worried after looking at the stuff other teams had done!
MorTorq, Robodox, the Holy Cows, and others really had a lot of stuff to their name.

But thanks for the compliment! I'll be sure to pass it on. It's really great to hear that from you guys, and as AdamHeard said somewhere, you guys are going to be BIG.

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thanks for the compliment. 399, you guys do some great stuff. Go get world chairmans, and let 599 have a turn already.... lol. congrats.

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Sorry, I didn't mean to make it sound like that. Many teams were deserving of the Chairman's award. MorTorq, Robodox, Holy Cows, and others were very energetic and amazing.

It's just that I knew you guys more on a Personal level.

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I want to extend a quick congratulations to team 294 for making the finals again! It's been great to see you guys doing so well in recent years.

1717 is becoming a true FIRST powerhouse. While I haven't had the fortune to see them this year, I have no doubt that they will be a force to reckon with in Atlanta.

Meanwhile, 294 and 330 have met in the finals for 3 straight regionals. Seems like a fun rivalry is developing out on the beach.

Congratulations to all winners, and good luck in Atlanta.

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An impressive display of hurdling was put on by both 330 and 1717. 980 played great defense clearing the way for 330 and 1717. The double hurdling is simply amazing. Put 968 in the mix and Socal will be well represented in Atlanta. If you want to model yourself after consistent teams who hit the mark each year, follow 330, 968, and 1717. If you do that, you will be in the mix every year.

We have come along way and are still learning: you must control the game piece!

Congratulations to the LA Regional Champions

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Thanks to tor bots and nerds for choosing us in your alliance. We fought well. I cant wait till next year.:D