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Who else is going to the Long Island Regionals?

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Team 1468 will be there

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I'll try and stop by on one of the days. Too bad the LIRR goes nowhere near the arena.

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Team 2027 is going!!

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102 will be there again :D and we are definately looking forward to it :D

Which other teams (besides 102) will be submitting chairman's this year?? Good luck to all teams... it's only 1 month away (and a few days haha)

(any way we can move this topic into the Competition section so it's easier to find???)

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I'm not going :( -- because its the same weekend as when we go to Boston :)

Someday I'll get to go and take my father there so I can explain the game to him in person. He lives on LI and goes every year and enjoys it, but hasn't a clue whats going on. So if you see an 80-ish-year-old man wandering around watching say hello and explain the game to him. Thanks.

Scott -- I believe the LIRR goes to Hempstead and you can take a bus to Hofstra. Try here http://www.mta.info/libus/routes/routes.htm with the N70/71/72 bus.

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Check again, two years in a roll NYC teams have traveled to the Long Island Regional at Hosftra using LIRR or have taken the MTA Nassau County buses from Jamica Bus station (F train to 164th St).
Worth the trip.
:)

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Team 270 will be at the SBPLI Regional at Hofstra
good luck to all teams
- team 270

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And take the bus from there? Gosh that is a trip! (That's the trip I used to take from Pratt to home.) You'll still have to transfer at, what, Roosevelt Field? (Still wish I was going, but my trip will take longer than the F train and N24 combined!)

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870 will be there. =)

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Exactly. It would be the Q30 to the N22 to the N70/71/72 for me. 2 hours of sitting on a bus instead of a 15 minute car ride..such a hassle.

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Couldn't you take the Q30 to Jamaica and catch the LIRR to Hempstead? Oy. I guess either way you'd be travelling a while. Bring a good book!

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From the SBPLI site info:

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Me and others from my team want to go too. Maybe we can get one of our faculty members who owns a van to drive us up there. Or we can squeeze into my moms car which is what people from my team we already planning on doing. Or we could all just head up together using public transportation.

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Since Long Island is just 2 days away, I want to say good luck to all the teams participating. Hopefully it'll be a great time :D See yall Thursday!!!

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OK so after practice today what robots look good and what's your opinions?

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the team that launches it over the overpass is amazing.

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I didn't see a single match today...

BTW I put the Match schedule for Friday and Saturday in the news section of http://team358.org

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I'd appreciate some periodic reports on 2010's performance - purple and silver team from Ohio.

Go Lightning Bots!

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I did get a chance to speak with one of the mentors from Delphi at their pit.
Very nice folks.
They didn't seem to have a lot to do :) , so I'd guess the robot's in tip-top condition.

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I have been informed from Ashley Marshall from Team 102 that the Gearheads (her team) will be webcasting the Long Island Regional! She asked me to post the URL on here so you all could watch!

You can find the webcast (starting tomorrow) at http://team102.frc

I have been told that it shouldn't matter if the 'www' is included or not.
Team 102 is hoping to get this up and running tomorrow!

If you have any questions, Team 102 is the team to ask!

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Where is it? I cant find it? Can you link to it directly?

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JayJay It's there on the front page just scroll down a bit and therre are links to all 4 pages.

Marc, it doesn't surprise me that you didn't get to see a match what with all the different teams you were working with.

358's machine seemed to get better as the day went on

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I heard 870 was doing pretty good. ;p

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Congratulations to Mark McLeod for winning the Woodie Flowers award and a volunteer award. You deserve it! Thanks from team 1751 for all your help.

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I second that Congrats on the Woodie Flowers award. Marc seems to be able to work with virtually every team on Long Island.

Almost like he was a clone.

Hey wait a minute.....did I see 2 Marcs running around here? :D

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No such server...

P.S. Ash let your team know they spelt Delphi wrong on their website lol (www.team102.org) they have it as delfi in the media section.... Leave it to me to look for spelling errors...

Anyways All the teams looked good, kinda shocked Team 375 isn't any where near the top 10. *wonders what happened to them*

Congrats to all Friday's award winners including but not limited to Marc :) - well earned and deserved for years of hard work and dedication :).

Ok I'm off to re-think how I'm gonna queue t'morrows matches lol... :-p

CYA in the morning :)

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Great Job to all of the SBPLI Regional Participants today. I had a blast Driving and operating with you all today, and im looking forward to another great day tomorrow. And congratz to all the award winners today, especially Marc! GREAT JOB!

I cant believe ours got the "Driving Tomorrows Technology Award! I guess those Omniwheels Paid off!

GOOD LUCK ALL FROM THE HARBINGERS TEAM 1751!

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congratz to mark on winning a woddie. he helped us out today with some of the weirdest stuff ever with our robot:yikes:

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The rumor around the pits was that they broke one of their 18" X 3/4" bore pneumatic cylinders for their shooting mechanism. Not sure if it's true or not though but it sure sounds plausible.

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I am also shocked. What happened to them?

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idk - Takes note to ask tomorrow...

Well all isn't too bad

The SI Teams are doing ok
522 - McKee's in 5th.
1688 - Pt. Rich is somewhere around 16th.
371 - Curtis is hanging around 28 (Much better then usual, usually they're in the back somewhere)
375 - SI Tech is bringing up the rear (Shocker :ahh: )

Def. a change in standings for the SI Teams (well for the bottom 3 anyway - McKee likes to hang out with the top dawgs)

Real interesting top 8 / 10 so it'll be even more interesting if it changes or stays the same come alliance selection.

Crosses fingers for 8 Awesome Alliances

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i cant get on i dont think that this site exists can you put up a working link to view long island

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I am not actually sure why the link is not working.
Ashley Marshall from Team 102 contacted me from Long Island and asked me to post that exact link for her on CD.
Other than what she told me, I don't really have any information.
However, there is another thread about webcasting for Long Island:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=66331

I'm sorry I can't be more of a help here.
But I hope the above link helps!

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Well me being the first one through the door :)

Congrats to all the teams that competed this year at the regional, you all were awesome... I do have my favorites but in any case you all did excellent. Congrats to all of todays award winners and regional victors.

Thank You to all the teams who cooperated w/ getting out to the field promptly so we can keep an on or close to schedule :).

Hopefully I'll get to see everyone again in '09.

For those attending the NYC Regional and Championship - Good Luck!

I hope to see all of you at an off-season or 2 :)

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Could someone please explain what "Musical Theme", "MVP", and "Greening Award" were awarded for?

It's listed on the bottom of : http://www2.usfirst.org/2008comp/events/LI/awards.html and I'm quite confused :confused:

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I believe those awards are pilot awards for starters (FIRST is trying them out similar to the best cart award to be given in NYC)

I have no clue what the awards are suppose to mean though - I too am confused :confused:

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Congratulations to Team 2010 on their first ever regional victory!

Thanks to 2487 for picking them and 102 for being a part of the alliance!

Anyone have details of the elims?

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Thank you teams 358 and 533 for asking us to join you in the elimination rounds. We had a nice run to the finals. Congratulations to the winners and everyone who received awards.

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I have the elimination bracket which I'll scan and upload in a couple of hours :)

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You can check both the FIRST website here and TBA here.

Did any team happen to record the matches?, I would love to see them again.

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LOL I should have been more specific.

I know the scores - just wanted a more detailed description of the action.

I'm sure I'll hear all about it when 2010 returns home.

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Really close matches and with the current scoring system it left the teams on the edges of their seats. Esp. when the Game Announcer was waiting for the scores themselves.

I think the highest score for the day was 98 set by alliance #2.

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I visited the table in the corner of the arena where the camera crew (you know what I mean) was stationed. Based on what I learned, I think you should speak with someone from team 353.

I believe there was a game (it was toward the end of the qualifying matches) where the red alliance scored 112.

****

Next year is the 10th year of the SBPLI regional. Looking at how everyone was this year, I can't even begin to imagine how next year will be.

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Musical Theme: For the past two years Long Island First has held a contest in which teams can produce a theme song for the regional. The winning entry is played throughout the competition.

MVP: Each team was asked to nominate one of their members as the "MVP". Each nominee received a certificate and one nominee was chosen as overall MVP.

Greening Award: This award was presented to the most environmentally friendly team. I heard that the winning team conducts highway cleanups.

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I'd like to thank teams 2487 and 2010 for picking us (102) to be on their alliance. It was an incredible competition and everyone was great, and it was a true battle to the end. So congratulations to ALL the teams in Long Island. Hope to see our alliance partners in Atlanta :cool:

Also, congrats to 329 on a well deserved Chairman's win.

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Great job Jbirds and 1203, we would have had this competition if our we didn't have certain problems in the end. Big disappointment :(. Great job overall, we had an amazing alliance!

Congrats the the finalists and the chairmans winner as well!


Video?

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Congrats to everyone who got in an alliance or got an award.

I would like to say a special congrats to Sayville. They were very gracious and professional with us. I didn't think they were rookies. Great job guys!

I'm a bit dissapointed that we didn't get in, even though we placed 19 and people lower then us got in...but I'm being overdramatic. We should be proud we got such a good place, sinse we are made of a 4th grader, three 5th graders, a 6th grader, five 7th graders, and two high-schoolers. Our driver was the 6th grader (congrats to him, too). We did very well.

Again, congrats everyone! Good luck to The Gearheads, Sayville, and 2010!

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I think that was the match where 375 hurdled 5 times.

I just wanted to say to Team 102 that I was very impressed at how much your driving improved since New Jersey. Congratulations on your win and congratulations to 2487 and 2010 also.

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Congrats to all participants, winners and the dedicated folks who put on the regional and way to go 2010 Lightning bots our Neighbors and fellow NEOFRA members, from Champion township(Warren), Ohio.

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I would like to say one thing though: I understand you like to watch your team. However, I would prefer if people sat down so that us little people behind them can also eenjoy the game. Thanks ^^

Btw, anyons stuck sitting next to a girl who kept screaming "JUST KEEP LAPPING! COME ON! LAPS!", sorry. I got a little caught up XD

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I'll add just a bit to what Joe mentioned.
These are three local awards SBPLI-LI FIRST has added just to our event, not FIRST awards.

The Musical theme award is intended to attract and involve other elements of the school to FIRST. In Hauppauge's case we involved the music department, specifically, the budding composers and recording media teacher. (unrelated) We also had our concert band perform at opening ceremonies were Matia was honored. The theme is then played throughout the competition as a signature piece.

The Greening award was new this year. SBPLI-LI FIRST wanted to highlight the importance of solving our ecological problems. The winner Team 871 West Islip, has been involved in Adopt-a-Highway since 2004, spending one Saturday a month and have picked up more than a ton of trash and recyclables.

The MVP award is to recognize individual contributors to the success of a team and to the objectives of FIRST. The overall winner is based on an essay submitted by the team leaders. Sort of a student Woodie Flowers.
This year's winner, Suliaman Usman, is a senior at rookie team 2476 Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park. I had the opportunity to work with Suliaman and he really is the driving force behind getting this rookie team started.

It was a lot of fun wasn't it?
I'm really glad we got to play together Tony.

I recorded the elimination matches--I finally got to see some robots competing :)
I won't promise my videography is any good though, but I'll make you a copy of what I have. Let me know an address to mail it to.
I might not get to it until after Atlanta, but then again I might watch it today...

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I would like to thank 533 and 1803 for making such a great alliance with us. I would like to congratulate our mentor and advisor Mark McLeod for winning both Volunteer of the Year, and the Woodie Flowers Award. We will put the essay onto our website soon. To teams 870, 522, 375, 1468, 287, and my favorite racer of the year, 496, you guys were at the top of our scouting lists all weekend. 4 straight SPBLI Finals and counting. Great Regional!

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Team 1203 “Pandemonium” would like to thank teams 870 Team R.I.C.E and 1468 the Jbrids for selecting us to be on your alliance.

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Congratulations to:

2487, 2010, and 102 on a well earned win.
358, 533, and 1803 for making it to the finals
329 for a well deserved Chairman's win
2638 for winning Rookie All Star (I hope you guys can go to Atlanta)

Mark McLeod for winning Woodie Flowers and Outstanding Volunteer
Chris and Pat Early for winning Outstanding Volunteer.

Congratulations to all teams for a competitive and fun regional. Hope to see you all next year!

-Joe (aka the annoying guy who made everyone leave the pits at 6 on Friday)

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Hello, I am the team 102 member responsible for the aforementioned webcast at Long Island. I setup the wireless network on Thursday. Unfortunately I noticed that nobody was going to use our wireless network because the Hofstra Wireless Network offered Internet access. Since you can only be connected to one network at once people had to make a choice between the chatrooms/webcast/radio and open Internet. Obviously people chose Internet. Thus on Friday and Saturday I decided not to lug the server/WAPs back to the university.

Additionally "team102.frc" is NOT a mistake. If you were connected to our wireless network on Thursday and typed that in you would be connected to our landing page. You can't access it from the Internet... only from our network.

I hope that clears some stuff up.

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Newsday, the local paper here on Long Island has some really NICE footage of the competition from the practice day on Thursday.

The footage can be found here: http://www.newsday.com/video/

Look for the video titled "Robot Wars on Long Island"

Yeah I know it's not really a robot "war" :rolleyes: but it's still some nice video footage.

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thanks, it was a great time being with your team in the elimination rounds

we would also like to thank team 2010 from being on our alliance and team 375 for being our mentors and helping us throughout the competition