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Mmmmmm I love me some triple crown. 3 out of 5 baby!!!!

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Team 1629 had a great time at the Buckeye Regional. Thanks to all the teams who made it a great weekend!

We'd especially like to thank 191 and 2228 - Thanks for being FANTASTIC alliance partners, you guys are such great teams and were a lot of fun to play with. Hopefully we'll see you again either in Atlanta or next season!

Congrats to the winners, and to 612 for winning Chairman's again - you guys deserve it!

Thanks to the refs for running the matches smoothly, and thanks to the judges for seeing our potential for the Engineering Inspiration Award!

See you in Atlanta!!

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This year was pretty fun for me. It was the first time our team stuck with one set of drivers, only switching out once. I know it's GP to let everyone have a chance, but this was much better. Also, our robot [mostly] worked this year. That's a plus!

The GLSC was really fun, it's been years since I've been there. More entertaining than the Rock And Roll Hall, in my opinion.

My thanks: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=66148

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i also wanted to send a big thanks too our sister team the Xcats....those semi finals were just amazing....if anyone wants to see some intense high scoring matches try to find those....i thought we were on Einstein not Buckeye

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Yep, sorry. I just edited it. Yet another reason why you have to be careful CD'ing while on a late-night bus ride. :o

-q

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Delphi Elite, yes I know I already said this to some of your team on the way out, but it deserves saying again... I don't know how you all COULDN'T be the winners of the safety award. What on earth would we do without your safety escorts?

Congratulations, Delphi Elite!

-q

p.s. Your half-track drivetrain is rockin sweet... really like the speed it has now too. See you all in Atlanta!

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Wow! Congratulations 1024 on your 3rd win in one season! Good luck in Atlanta.

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Thanks for the compliments. In addition to their obvious duties, these kids serve as our eyes and ears in the pits, pointing out teams in need of parts or assistance. They've given me more reasons to smile this year than I can count.

I've actually started to see teams mimicking the safety escort actions on their own - imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. It's nice to see their practices assumed internally by other FIRST teams. The safety escort motto - walk carefully and carry a big mouth!

Thanks to 1008 and 1532 for joining 48 in our (yet another - 3 events, 3 QF finishes, 3 lose first, win second, lose third situations - only on 48 do you see such patterns of consistency in seemingly random events materialize.....) short but sweet elimination run this year. Your teamwork in sticking up for alliance partners placed in precarious positions more than makes up for not advancing in the elims.

Thanks to 48's own Frank Bosak and David Thomas from 964 for putting on a great webcast. We DIDN'T have the draw of Karthik and Copioli like Waterloo, but we still had upwards of 150 viewers simultaneously watching our little ol' robotics competition from abroad. Great job, guys.

And I think someone over at TBA needs to take a look at the stats for your linked sig banner, Q - they list you as semifinalists at Buckeye! Oops....

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Speaking of the webcast, it is still up on uStream.tv but it's very laggy, and trying to find specific parts in a video that long is tedious. Is there a way to download it? I've been trying to download it off of uStream.tv but I couldn't. Would it be possible to cut it to hour long pieces and put it on youtube (where it can be downloaded with just a bit of work). You guys did a great job with the webcast, but if you did this too that would be awesome. Thanks.

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Frank only recorded the webcast vid of Friday's matches - he was a bit wary of saving that much stuff to ustream - didn't want them to pull the plug lol.

I *think* we had a VCR recording the feed in VHS throughout the weekend - not sure if Dave T. or anyone from 191 got any good quality vid that could be digitized, parsed, and uploaded to TBA or SOAP.

If someone else had the patience to parse the video (Koko Ed?, Ellery?), I'd look into what kind of source tapes we have and send them out.




If we still have them, I'd attempt to send the tapes if someone else wanted to do the parsing.

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I think Ellery has the capture card and he's REALLY busy with school. So I don't know....

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I can give you my new address for a copy of the tapes and upload the raw digital footage so the excellent team here can help me parse it.

Lesman, hold on for about a week or so. I might be able to parse some of the UStream video, but I have to wait for the service to convert it to WMV.

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Team 2048 had an Awesome time!!
cangrats on the 3rd trophy! You guys deserve it we're glad to be a part of your alliance!

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Team 2228 had a great time at the Buckeye Regional!, we got hybrid working and went to the semifinals with team 191 and 1629. the refs did a good job and the field program was fixed ,see you guys next years!

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I would like to say thank you to everyone who made this competition possible. After Thursday, I didn't know what was gonna happen. Also a huge thanks to all our alliance partners throughout the competition! To all the teams who gave SparX awards, Thank you! To 1386, thank you for being there and doing your best for us. To 2048, thank you for stepping in and doing exactly what we asked of you and what we needed from you! To 1024, congrats on your 3rd victory of the year, and thank you for selecting us, it was an honor. And to my own team, 1126 SparX, for making my final buckeye as a student one to truly remember.

"It's all about the stories." -Dale B. SparX mentor