rookie teams at nationals?
 

ok so our alliance won at the milwaukee regionals and it's our rookie year... wanted to ask if there will be any other rookie teams at regionals we should party

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Which ever team wins Rookie All Star is invited to Nationals, thus there will be quite a few rookie teams

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Or if a rookie wins a regional.

Hmmm... I wonder if 1511 will be doing their rookie get-together on Thursday again. (I'm not part of a rookie team, nor am I going, but I know this has happened in the past.)

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Congratulations Team 2549 on your regional win!

For the past three years Team 1511 has hosted the "All Rookie Meet and Greet" (ARMAG) at Championships. I'm pretty sure we will be hosting it again this year. It will be announced here on CD as well as in e-mails to Rookie teams, if we can collect their e-mails. There will also be a flier given to all of the rookie teams as early as we can when we get to the competition with the date, place and time.

So yes! There will be other Rookie teams and yes, you'll have a chance to celebrate your success with some other rookies!

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Excel #2474 will be there if we can raise the funds. Those of you who won the rookie all-star award, what did you do to earn it (other than have a good robot)?

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umm 2337 will be there, if they got the funds, they won rookie all star at detroit

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team 2599, who one in san diego, made a team handbook

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Team 2590, Nemesis will be there. We won runner up...so look forward to getting your butts kicked ;o

jk, good luck to all rookies! :D Looking forward to meeting all yall ;)

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team 2604 will be there (not a question of getting the funds, we will)

look forward to a seeing all the rookie and senor teams there

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what do you mean runner up? Rookie Inspiration?

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Runner up?

second in finals, but got rookie all star?

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Also, for the original topic:
http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv...hp?eventid=182
Scroll down; everyone past 2335 is a rookie. Can't tell you how many are actually going, though...

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Just curious, how many of you rookie teams out there actually hurdle? Many of the rookies I have seen are either lapbots or run laps and try to herd.

So my question is, what do you all do and what do you do the best?

Can't wait to meet everyone in Atlanta:D

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1676 won Rookie All-Star 4 years ago - and I can tell you that it wasn't because we had a good robot*.

It was because we had a good team.

Being rookies and all, we found in competition that we had built an extremely robust robot, one that just was not breaking, and we hadn't yet learned how to do scouting - so we had several dozen kids who had just spent six weeks building a robot, and were now itching for something to do.

Out they spread, to several other teams (some rookies, some not) - helping everywhere they could. Loaning tools, parts, hardware (we have these huge racks of all sorts of nuts & bolts). We didn't do it to win an award, it just came naturally - we like building robots!

Anyhow, these teams we helped I guess were appreciative and told the judges and, well, I guess we did something right, because we won Rookie All-Star. Nobody was more surprised than us, really.

Don

*It's not about the robot.

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its not. the san diego team that won rookie all star only won 1 qualifying match. hmmmm.

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Team 2609 - Hurdle quite well and pretty fast with 2 speed Andy Mark transmission. Great team members

We will be attending Atlanta!

Kevin Reid
Kettering Rookie event - Winning Alliance, Quality Award
Waterloo Regional - 4th place Alliance, Highest Rookie Seed, Rookie All Star

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Team 2468 from Austin, Texas will be attending Championships representing Lone Star Regional as Rookie All Star. We placed fifth overall in the seeding matches.

We are a speed bot (15 ft/sec) with the ability to herd and knock the ball off. We have an autonomous in which we got four lines at LSR. We have true Ackermann steering with two wheel drive. Our driver has had over 20 hours of practice since we also built a practice bot.

We had an education team, outreach team, website, business team. Our education team did presentations at several of our feeder schools, three area events with engineers and colleges concerning career fairs and career choices.

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Congrats to ALL rookie teams for a successful first year in FIRST. If you still deciding weither or not you should go to Atlanta. Atlanta is a great exepeirce for the students, it s good for meeting new people, having fun, even if you do not do so good in the competition. the Social is fantastic and Atlanta is a great time to bond with your team. My advice is that you should go to Atlanta for the experice and to see the world champion of course too.
Congrats again and hope to see you in Atlanta!!!!!!!

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Rookie team 2423 will be going to Atlanta! We won the rookie allstars award despite us having a very small community to begin with. I'm very happy with all the support we received from our mentors, team 125 (the nutrons), and the rest of our team. As the team's only student programmer I can say this much. With almost no experience with programming when I joined the team in September, but with a ton of support from my mentors and other teams, I can say recognition is not all about winning, (we placed somewhere in the 40's of 51 teams) but just as important (if not more) is having an organized supportive community who's enthusiastic about what they do.

I guess we'll be there if we get the money and enough people to go.

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2415 is going to be there. This is going to be so great.
We can hurdle decently well. The most we have done in one match is 2 but with some adjustments we should be able to get that number a bit higher and our auto mode is getting a lot better hopefully.

Hope to meet all you guys at this rookie luncheon thing.
Good luck to everyone

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Team 2430 is going to be attending. We say good luck to all rookie teams that are going to championships.

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at our regional, team 2621 won the rookie all star award for their great robot and gracious professionalism, as described in the ceremony. I don't know if they have posted to this thread yet, but i will be rooting for you guys in Atlanta :)

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Good luck to all rookie teams

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It is great to hear that the rookies this year have successful robots (as was the purpose of this year's game). I am really happy that you all rose to the challenge and have become true FIRST teams. It is also good news to hear that some can hurdle (btw, 2 hurdles is more than many of the veteran teams ;) )

Good luck to all and see you there!!

P.S.-If you need help raising funds to go, visit the FIRST team resources pages.

http://usfirst.org/community/frc/content.aspx?id=6876

http://usfirst.org/community/frc/content.aspx?id=7006

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You guys might want to watch out... at SBPLI one of our rookies took it all... 2487 kicked butt all day and took home regional winner... i'm hoping they make it to Atlanta because they are a team to watch!

Congrats 2487 you guys ROCK!!

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Nemesis 2590 is heading down to GA! We're a rookie team. Our bot makes laps, herds and can knock off trackballs from the track. We banked on our autonomous mode getting three lines on average and an occasional ball of as well.

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Team 2556 Will be there as well. We won Rookie All-Star at Bayou Regional. We've already begun to procure funds and there's no way we'll miss this. :)

Our bot can rabbit around, and we're working on Hybrid.

We might be able to knock off a trackball if they can finish the pnumatics on thursday.

See you guys there. I'll be the guy in the stands with the camcorder probably. :D

Also, to all the teams who were at the bayou regional, our bot wont be smoking anymore.

We finally learned not to let our programmers mess with our wiring. :)

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In Israel, the last 2 years, the Highest Seed and the Rookie All Star awards were given to the same team.

I know about regionals where the Rookie All Star winning team won none of the matches.

:)

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How is it possible for one team to get rookie awards for two years?

GO ROOKIES!!! :D

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I think he means that the same team won both awards at the regional. Not that the same team won them two years.

hehe, 500th post.

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No, I meant that those 2 awards were given each year to one team.
Not the same team though.

Sorry for not being clear!
:)

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No, I meant that those 2 awards were given each year to one team.
Not the same team though.

Sorry for not being clear!
:)

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From Israel i know that 2630, from Emek Hefer will be there, they have a great robot and they dont only hurdle- they also shoot the ball!
but i am sure that i can count on Leav to read this and give you more information later:)

I guess we can also be considered as rookies.. this may not be the first year a team from our school is competing, but none of the team members of this year participated in last year's season ( the program runs at our school only at the 11th grade..) so all of the team members are rookies.

good luck to all the rookies! :D

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Team 2344 will be there in ATL. You guys better watch out!

Go Saunders!

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2550
is indeed going : )

There are only two teams from Oregon going : |

But I'm hoping to make a lot more long-distance friends!!
See you there!
I love FIRST...

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team 2591 can hurdle and we are getting pretty good at it now
and we will be in atlanta

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Chap Robotics (Team 2468)

At regionals we were primarily a speed bot, scoring our most points in autonomous (in fact, we were the only team to get 4 lines and consistently captured 3). We were also able to successfully manipulate the ball around the course when it came our way.

Since then, we've revamped our robot to not only reliably make a complete circuit, but also knock down a ball during autonomous. Though we're not a hurdler, if anyone's in the market for an initial-scorer, we might be able to hook ya up!

Natalie "Gnat" Craik
Project Manager
Chap Robotics
Team 2468...Appreciate! (feel free to smile, we all do!)
Westlake High School
Austin, TX

whschaprobotics@eanes.k12.tx.us

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Team 2354 will be in attendance.
Assuming everything goes well we will be able to hurdle by shooting. Other than that, we are mainly a herder with a quick and effective arm mechanism.

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team 2487(winners of the long island regionals) will be going