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DUEL ON THE DELAWARE - SALEM COMMUNITY COLLEGE - OCTOBER 11, 2008
Hi all: Here is an update on the Duel on the Delaware off-season competition: NEWS ************************************************** ******** * Emcee Wayne Penn graces us with his presence for another year! * Now accepting applications for "Michael Wade Duel Master Volunteer Award" = apply now; applications due by October 1 * 5th Annual Success Won't Wait Book Drive = continue gathering those books! * 2nd Annual Sneaker Drive * FIRST Tech Challenge Scrimmage = sign ups for the FTC scrimmage will be announced soon * Volunteer Sign-ups ************************************************** ******** WAYNE PENN TO EMCEE DUEL ON THE DELAWARE IN 2008 The Duel is honored to have the one and only WAYNE PENN be our emcee for another year. MICHAEL WADE DUEL MASTER VOLUNTEER AWARD The FIRST Community does a terrific job of recognizing volunteers and mentors. The planners of the Duel event would like to continue the tradition with the 4nd Annual Duel Master Volunteer Award. This award is a combination of the FIRST Woodie Flowers Award, FIRST Unsung Hero Award, and the FIRST Volunteer Recognition Award. This award celebrates a FIRST team mentor, who demonstrates the spirit and values of what FIRST is all about. In honor of Mike Wade, who made the Duel on the Delaware possible by providing his NASA field and much assistance since 2001, this award will now be called the “Michael Wade Duel Master Volunteer Award.” Mike exemplified what we are recognizing with the Duel Master Volunteer Award, so it only fitting that this award acknowledges Mike’s contributions. Teams attending the Duel on the Delaware will have an opportunity to acknowledge and recognize one of their own for contributions to their team and to FIRST. Those previously recognized include Dina Campagna - Team 341, and Bob Foell - Team 433. If your team is attending the Duel on the Delaware on October 11, please consider nominating a team member for this award. Nominations are e-mail only as described in the following attachment and are due by OCTOBER 1st. SUCCESS WON'T WAIT BOOK DRIVE 5th Annual Success Won't Wait Book Drive at the Duel on the Delaware - October 11th, 2008 Team who brings most weight in books wins a prize (magazines, encyclopedias and textbooks NOT ACCEPTED) www.successwontwait.org Teams!!! Continue collecting those books for our annual book drive! See your team (and lots of books) at the Duel on October 11th! ================ The following update is from the organizers of the Success Won't Wait Book Drive at the Duel on the Delaware event. Thanks again for all of your book donation efforts. Your books are being put to good use! SUCCESS WON'T WAIT UPDATE To finish out 2006, we have a very large project in the works with the Police Athletic League (PAL) centers of Philadelphia. There are 27 centers in the city which service the needs of urban schoolchildren ages 6-18. Lt. Susan Slawson from PAL has partnered with us to provide a reward system for these kids. Each center will receive a package of approximately 125 books representing a wide age range. These will be used as rewards for exceptional behavior. According to Lt. Slawson, using rewards like this in the past has consistently inspired amazing behavioral changes (finishing homework assignments, volunteering for projects, etc.). She also said that many of these children have NEVER OWNED A BOOK -- something we had a hard time grasping. The books that were collected at the third annual Miracle of Reading Education Book Drive (at the Duel on the Delaware) will help us complete this project. When finished over 3,000 books, many obtained through FIRST volunteers, will be available to children from some of Philadelphia's most economically disadvantaged areas. Thank you for continuing to support our mission. Read now, because Success Won't Wait! Susan McNeill and Vincenza Carrieri-Russo Success Won't Wait organizers USED SNEAKER DRIVE Used Sneaker Drive – we will be collecting used sneakers that are in decent shape (used but not abused) that can be reconditioned. (Adult sizes only). The sneakers are reconditioned and sold in Ghana. The dollars are then taken and used to provide families in Ghana with materials and training to farm. Every 600 pairs of sneakers provides a family with, a bicycle, one pregnant rabbit and hutch, 50 assorted fruit trees, three hens and one $@#$@#$@#$@#, 100 Lucaena trees, one colonized bee hive, 50 inoculated started bags of mushrooms, access to local water, a complete pedal driven Miracle Pump System, ¼ acre integrated vegetable farm, and training for one year in intensive organic farming. 2008 FIRST TECH CHALLENGE SCRIMMAGE The Duel will once again include the official playing field for this season's FIRST Tech Challenge game. FTC teams can sign up to scrimmage and learn about the game, strategies, and playing field components for this years challenge. More information will be forthcoming. TEAM LIST - August 11, 2008 30 Teams Max, 30 registered *Waiting List Slots Available* Teams currently registered... 25 Raider Robotics (*) 75 RoboRaiders 84 Chuck 84 87 Diablo (*) 222 Tigertrons 272 Cyber Crusaders 316 LuNaTeCs 341 Miss Daisy 357 Royal Assault 365 MOE/Miracle Workerz 422 Maggie L Walker Mech Tech Dragons 423 SEC Robotics - Mechanical Mayhem (*) 433 Firebirds (*) 539 Trinity Episcopal Titans 555 Montclair Robotics (*) 708 Hardwired Fusion 709 Femme Tech Fatale (*) 768 TechnoWarriors (*) 816 BCIT 1089 Team Mercury 1218 Vulcan Robotics 1370 The Blue Charge! 1640 Sab-BOT-age 1647 Lenape Regional Robotics Iron Devils 1712 Dawgma (*) 1719 Umbrella Corporation 1727 REX 1893 High Tech Parrots 1980 Team Aberdeen 2558 Scibots (*) indicates team has yet to pay registration VOLUNTEER SIGN-UPS If you would like to volunteer to help with the Duel on the Delaware, please send an e-mail to John Larock (John.A.Larock@usa.dupont.com). Do the Duel! |
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I'm so sad that I can't make it this year :(. This will be the first Duel I have missed. Saturday classes are really no fun. Everyone sign up this is a great event.
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Duel on the Delaware attendees:
This update is from Susan McNeill, co-founder of Success Won't Wait. The update is provided to communicate where the books your teams graciously donated have gone since you donated them at the Duel on the Delaware Book Drive last October. Having partnered with Susan and Success Won't Wait over the past four years, I can honestly say that the books you donate will go the some of the best causes that can be found in our area and beyond. We hope that your teams are actively hoarding books for this year's book drive. ;) Enjoy the rest of your summer! John John Larock Team Coordinator - MOE 365 Duel on the Delaware Planning Committee ============================================== Success Won't Wait Summer Update, 2008 In July 2008, Success Won't Wait embarked on its single largest project yet. At the request Laura Ellison of AmeriCorps, Success Won't Wait volunteers spent months sorting through thousands of books for a trip to Lewis County, West Virginia. Lewis County is one of the poorest counties in the state. According to Census Bureau statistics, the median income for a household in the county is $27,066, and the median income for a family is $32,431. Males have a median income of $27,906 versus $18,733 for females. The per capita income for the county is $13,933. There is exactly 1 public library to serve the entire county. This library had a total collection of only 19,000 books. There are four elementary schools and one middle school, as well as a senior center -- and all were in desperate need of books. Success Won't Wait volunteers gathered over 5,000 books which Susan McNeill and her family then drove to the county seat of Weston, West Virginia. Representatives from all over the state were there to greet them and deliver the books to the various locations. Literally, thousands of the books that made their way to Lewis County were from the Duel on the Delaware Miracle of Education Book Drive in 2007. Your contributions were immense and so appreciated! Photos and more information will available soon on the Success Won't Wait website. You can visit www.SuccessWontWait.org for updated information on this project and many others. Thank you, thank you, thank you for helping us with this truly rewarding project! Susan McNeill and Vincenza Carrier-Russo Co-founders, Success Won't Wait susanmcneill6@comcast.net |
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In preparing for the webcast I am asking asking for attending teams to send me a layered photoshop image of their team's logo. A copy of the Duel VII logo in the same format would be nice too. I am starting to design overlays and effects that will be used during Duel VII.
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DUEL ON THE DELAWARE - SALEM COMMUNITY COLLEGE - OCTOBER 11, 2008
Hi all: Here is an update on the Duel on the Delaware off-season competition: RECENT NEWS ************************************************** ******** * Play "You've Been Sentenced" at the Duel this October * Watch the Duel via WEBCAST this year! * Bulk Lunch Pre-Orders Will be Available Again This Year ************************************************** ******** OLD NEWS, BUT GOOD NEWS ************************************************** ******** * We are proud to have Wayne Penn as our Duel Emcee again this year * Please have your team submit someone for "Michael Wade Duel Master Volunteer Award" = apply now; applications due by October 1 * 5th Annual Success Won't Wait Book Drive = continue gathering those books! * 2nd Annual Sneaker Drive * FIRST Tech Challenge Scrimmage = sign ups for the FTC scrimmage will be announced soon * Volunteer Sign-ups ************************************************** ******** "You’ve Been Sentenced" Robotics Add-On deck Featured at the Duel “You've Been Sentenced!” is the first game in history to turn the activity of sentence making into a very funny, playable, and challenging game. Using a unique word deck of pentagon shaped cards containing conjugations of funny words, famous names from throughout history, familiar places, and wild cards, players have to make grammatically correct and justifiable sentences. The real fun begins when players have to read their sentences out loud and explain what they mean to the rest of players. The players form the jury and vote thumbs up or down on whether the sentence and justification stand and the points are scored. The basic game features 540 cards with over 2,500 words to insure billions of possible sentences. In addition to the card game, the game creator McNeill Designs has developed an online version of “You’ve Been Sentenced”. The online version of the game will be featured this year at the Duel on the Delaware. Also featured will be the new Robotics Add-On deck developed by team 365, MOE. Please plan to join us at the game table to check out the Robotics deck and test your grammarian skills! For game rules, check out the “You’ve Been Sentenced!” website http://www.mcneilbrighterminds.com/ybs.asp DUEL WILL BE WEBCAST FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS YEAR We are honored to be working with Scott L from the Tigertrons (Team 222), who will be handling the webcast of the Duel this fall. The Duel webcast page is http://asp.shinraikon.com/duelvii.aspx Please take a look. More detailed info will be forthcoming. BULK LUNCH PRE-ORDERS WILL BE AVAILABLE AGAIN THIS YEAR Teams will be able to pre-order lunches again this year. In the next INFO PACKET, the lunch order form will be included. WAYNE PENN TO EMCEE DUEL ON THE DELAWARE IN 2008 The Duel is honored to have the one and only WAYNE PENN be our emcee for another year. MICHAEL WADE DUEL MASTER VOLUNTEER AWARD The FIRST Community does a terrific job of recognizing volunteers and mentors. The planners of the Duel event would like to continue the tradition with the 4nd Annual Duel Master Volunteer Award. This award is a combination of the FIRST Woodie Flowers Award, FIRST Unsung Hero Award, and the FIRST Volunteer Recognition Award. This award celebrates a FIRST team mentor, who demonstrates the spirit and values of what FIRST is all about. In honor of Mike Wade, who made the Duel on the Delaware possible by providing his NASA field and much assistance since 2001, this award will now be called the “Michael Wade Duel Master Volunteer Award.” Mike exemplified what we are recognizing with the Duel Master Volunteer Award, so it only fitting that this award acknowledges Mike’s contributions. Teams attending the Duel on the Delaware will have an opportunity to acknowledge and recognize one of their own for contributions to their team and to FIRST. Those previously recognized include Ron Karpinski, Dina Campagna, and Bob Foell. If your team is attending the Duel on the Delaware on October 11, please consider nominating a team member for this award. Nominations are e-mail only as described in the following attachment and are due by OCTOBER 1st. SUCCESS WON'T WAIT BOOK DRIVE 5th Annual Success Won't Wait Book Drive at the Duel on the Delaware - October 11th, 2008 Team who brings most weight in books wins a prize (magazines, encyclopedias and textbooks NOT ACCEPTED) www.successwontwait.org Teams!!! Continue collecting those books for our annual book drive! See your team (and lots of books) at the Duel on October 11th! ================ The following update is from the organizers of the Success Won't Wait Book Drive at the Duel on the Delaware event. Thanks again for all of your book donation efforts. Your books are being put to good use! SUCCESS WON'T WAIT UPDATE To finish out 2006, we have a very large project in the works with the Police Athletic League (PAL) centers of Philadelphia. There are 27 centers in the city which service the needs of urban schoolchildren ages 6-18. Lt. Susan Slawson from PAL has partnered with us to provide a reward system for these kids. Each center will receive a package of approximately 125 books representing a wide age range. These will be used as rewards for exceptional behavior. According to Lt. Slawson, using rewards like this in the past has consistently inspired amazing behavioral changes (finishing homework assignments, volunteering for projects, etc.). She also said that many of these children have NEVER OWNED A BOOK -- something we had a hard time grasping. The books that were collected at the third annual Miracle of Reading Education Book Drive (at the Duel on the Delaware) will help us complete this project. When finished over 3,000 books, many obtained through FIRST volunteers, will be available to children from some of Philadelphia's most economically disadvantaged areas. Thank you for continuing to support our mission. Read now, because Success Won't Wait! Susan McNeill and Vincenza Carrieri-Russo Success Won't Wait organizers USED SNEAKER DRIVE Used Sneaker Drive – we will be collecting used sneakers that are in decent shape (used but not abused) that can be reconditioned. (Adult sizes only). The sneakers are reconditioned and sold in Ghana. The dollars are then taken and used to provide families in Ghana with materials and training to farm. Every 600 pairs of sneakers provides a family with, a bicycle, one pregnant rabbit and hutch, 50 assorted fruit trees, three hens, 100 Lucaena trees, one colonized bee hive, 50 inoculated started bags of mushrooms, access to local water, a complete pedal driven Miracle Pump System, ¼ acre integrated vegetable farm, and training for one year in intensive organic farming. 2008 FIRST TECH CHALLENGE SCRIMMAGE The Duel will once again include the official playing field for this season's FIRST Tech Challenge game. FTC teams can sign up to scrimmage and learn about the game, strategies, and playing field components for this years challenge. More information will be forthcoming. TEAM LIST - September 12, 2008 30 Teams Max, 30 registered *Waiting List Slots Available* Teams currently registered... 25 Raider Robotics 75 RoboRaiders 84 Chuck 84 87 Diablo (*) 222 Tigertrons 272 Cyber Crusaders 316 LuNaTeCs 341 Miss Daisy 357 Royal Assault 365 MOE/Miracle Workerz 422 Maggie L Walker Mech Tech Dragons 423 SEC Robotics - Mechanical Mayhem (*) 433 Firebirds 539 Trinity Episcopal Titans 555 Montclair Robotics (*) 708 Hardwired Fusion 709 Femme Tech Fatale (*) 768 TechnoWarriors (*) 816 BCIT 1089 Team Mercury 1218 Vulcan Robotics 1370 The Blue Charge! 1640 Sab-BOT-age 1647 Lenape Regional Robotics Iron Devils 1712 Dawgma 1719 Umbrella Corporation 1727 REX 1893 High Tech Parrots 1980 Team Aberdeen 2558 Scibots (*) indicates team has yet to pay registration VOLUNTEER SIGN-UPS We still could use additional volunteers! If you would like to volunteer to help with the Duel on the Delaware, please send an e-mail to John Larock (John.A.Larock@usa.dupont.com). |
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FYI: Duel Music Requests!
Once again, (4th/5th year?) I will be the DJ for the Duel on the Delaware hosted by 316-The LunaTechs & 365-Miracle Workerz. As usual, I ask that you send all music requests to dueldj@gmail.com Please do not overpower this thread by posting here, as I most likely will not be able to check it for requests this year. I am much busier than in past years between work and Uni. If you could please make sure the music is **clean** before requesting, I would be most appreciative. Also, I was living at camp (no internet/itunes) all summer... so if you have any summer favorites you would like to hear, please request them. **Clean** means that it is playable around children, teens, AND adults. For example... "Teenagers" - My Chemical Romance = NOT CLEAN (Cursing) "Shake It" - Metro Station = CLEAN |
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222 can't wait for Duel. I can't believe how fast it is approaching!:ahh: I guess we better get to work on our redesign. :ahh:
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Well, it's a week and a half before the Duel. Our bus driver is checking the suspension and the springs on his bus. We're packing boxes....along with Chuck, of course.
Are we going to meet or exceed??? Are we going to get anywhere near??? We've done a ton! :D We've done two ton!!:ahh: We've even done two and a half ton!!! :yikes: What are we going to do this year??? We'll bring books...don't know how many yet. More than I thought...I thought we had drained this county dry of books last year, but even I was fooled. We found enough to beat our previous record! I have no idea what we'll bring this year, but we're working on it. Anybody out there bringing books??? How many? :D |
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How are you doing the weight? An estimate or did you put them on a scale?
You're trying to give us a run for our books, aren't you??? |
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Will someone unseat CHUCK 84 as the book drive winner this year? We will see next Saturday! Thanks to all teams who are donating books to this very worthy cause! |
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DUEL ON THE DELAWARE - SALEM COMMUNITY COLLEGE - OCTOBER 11, 2008
SPONSORS - Salem Community College, DuPont, NASA, First State Robotics HOSTS - Teams MOE 365 and LuNaTeCs 316 INFORMATION PACKET #3 Hi all: Here is an update on the Duel on the Delaware off-season competition: MORE RECENT NEWS ************************************************** ******************************************* * FIRST Tech Challenge "Face Off" Scrimmage * NEMO Meeting Scheduled * TALON military robot from Foster-Miller on display * Play "You've Been Sentenced" at the Duel this October * Watch the Duel via WEBCAST this year! * Bulk Lunch Pre-Order Form attached * MOE "Green Man Group" to entertain * No longer accepting nominations for "Mike Wade Duel Master Volunteer Award" ************************************************** ******************************************* OLD NEWS, BUT GOOD NEWS ************************************************** ******************************************** * We are proud to have Wayne Penn as our Duel Emcee again this year * 5th Annual Success Won't Wait Book Drive = continue gathering those books! * 2nd Annual Sneaker Drive * Still accepting Volunteer Sign-ups ************************************************** ******************************************** 2008 FIRST TECH CHALLENGE SCRIMMAGE The Duel will once again include the official playing field for this season's FIRST Tech Challenge game "Face Off." Find out more about the game at the FIRST Tech Challenge link http://www.usfirst.org/community/ftc...nt.aspx?id=962 NEMO MEETING SCHEDULED Team 357's own Chris Troy will be leading a NEMO (Non-Engineering Mentor's Organization) Meeting at the Duel. Times will be announced at the event. TALON MILITARY ROBOT ON DISPLAY One of the TALON family of military robots from Foster-Miller, will be on display at the Duel on the Delaware this year. http://www.foster-miller.com/lemming.htm YOU'VE BEEN SENTENCED GAME “You've Been Sentenced!” is the first game in history to turn the activity of sentence making into a very funny, playable, and challenging game. Using a unique word deck of pentagon shaped cards containing conjugations of funny words, famous names from throughout history, familiar places, and wild cards, players have to make grammatically correct and justifiable sentences. The real fun begins when players have to read their sentences out loud and explain what they mean to the rest of players. The players form the jury and vote thumbs up or down on whether the sentence and justification stand and the points are scored. The basic game features 540 cards with over 2,500 words to insure billions of possible sentences. In addition to the card game, the game creator McNeill Designs has developed an online version of “You’ve Been Sentenced”. The online version of the game will be featured this year at the Duel on the Delaware. Also featured will be the new Robotics Add-On deck developed by team 365, MOE. Please plan to join us at the game table to check out the Robotics deck and test your grammarian skills! For game rules, check out the “You’ve Been Sentenced!” website http://www.mcneilbrighterminds.com/ybs.asp DUEL WILL BE WEBCAST FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS YEAR We are honored to be working with Scott L from the Tigertrons (Team 222), who will be handling the webcast of the Duel this fall. The Duel webcast page is http://asp.shinraikon.com/duelvii.aspx Please take a look. More detailed info will be forthcoming. BULK LUNCH PRE-ORDERS WILL BE AVAILABLE AGAIN THIS YEAR Teams will be able to pre-order lunches again this year. Here is the lunch pre-order form. Save some bucks for food for your team! GREEN MAN GROUP TO ENTERTAIN MOE 365's "Green Man Group" will be sounding the beat over lunch. Teams are encouraged to join in playing or dancing. MICHAEL WADE DUEL MASTER VOLUNTEER AWARD - NOMINATION PROCESS CLOSED Thanks to all teams who submitted a nomination! The FIRST Community does a terrific job of recognizing volunteers and mentors. The planners of the Duel event would like to continue the tradition with the 4nd Annual Duel Master Volunteer Award. This award is a combination of the FIRST Woodie Flowers Award, FIRST Unsung Hero Award, and the FIRST Volunteer Recognition Award. This award celebrates a FIRST team mentor, who demonstrates the spirit and values of what FIRST is all about. In honor of Mike Wade, who made the Duel on the Delaware possible by providing his NASA field and much assistance since 2001, this award will now be called the “Michael Wade Duel Master Volunteer Award.” Mike exemplified what we are recognizing with the Duel Master Volunteer Award, so it only fitting that this award acknowledges Mike’s contributions. Teams attending the Duel on the Delaware will have an opportunity to acknowledge and recognize one of their own for contributions to their team and to FIRST. Those previously recognized include Ron Karpinski, Dina Campagna, and Bob Foell. WAYNE PENN TO EMCEE DUEL ON THE DELAWARE IN 2008 The Duel is honored to have the one and only WAYNE PENN be our emcee for another year. SUCCESS WON'T WAIT BOOK DRIVE 5th Annual Success Won't Wait Book Drive at the Duel on the Delaware - October 11th, 2008 Team who brings most weight in books wins a prize (magazines, encyclopedias and textbooks NOT ACCEPTED) www.successwontwait.org Teams!!! Continue collecting those books for our annual book drive! See your team (and lots of books) at the Duel on October 11th! ================ The following update is from the organizers of the Success Won't Wait Book Drive at the Duel on the Delaware event. Thanks again for all of your book donation efforts. Your books are being put to good use! SUCCESS WON'T WAIT UPDATE To finish out 2006, we have a very large project in the works with the Police Athletic League (PAL) centers of Philadelphia. There are 27 centers in the city which service the needs of urban schoolchildren ages 6-18. Lt. Susan Slawson from PAL has partnered with us to provide a reward system for these kids. Each center will receive a package of approximately 125 books representing a wide age range. These will be used as rewards for exceptional behavior. According to Lt. Slawson, using rewards like this in the past has consistently inspired amazing behavioral changes (finishing homework assignments, volunteering for projects, etc.). She also said that many of these children have NEVER OWNED A BOOK -- something we had a hard time grasping. The books that were collected at the third annual Miracle of Reading Education Book Drive (at the Duel on the Delaware) will help us complete this project. When finished over 3,000 books, many obtained through FIRST volunteers, will be available to children from some of Philadelphia's most economically disadvantaged areas. Thank you for continuing to support our mission. Read now, because Success Won't Wait! Susan McNeill and Vincenza Carrieri-Russo Success Won't Wait organizers USED SNEAKER DRIVE Used Sneaker Drive – we will be collecting used sneakers that are in decent shape (used but not abused) that can be reconditioned. (Adult sizes only). The sneakers are reconditioned and sold in Ghana. The dollars are then taken and used to provide families in Ghana with materials and training to farm. Every 600 pairs of sneakers provides a family with, a bicycle, one pregnant rabbit and hutch, 50 assorted fruit trees, three hens and one rooster, 100 Lucaena trees, one colonized bee hive, 50 inoculated started bags of mushrooms, access to local water, a complete pedal driven Miracle Pump System, ¼ acre integrated vegetable farm, and training for one year in intensive organic farming. TEAM LIST - October 2, 2008 30 Teams Max, 30 registered. 1 Team on the Waitlist (007 - Parkville Robotics) We welcome 375 - Robotic Plague, and Team 686 - Bovine Intervention to the list. Teams currently registered... 25 Raider Robotics 75 RoboRaiders 84 Chuck 84 87 Diablo 222 Tigertrons 272 Cyber Crusaders 316 LuNaTeCs 341 Miss Daisy 357 Royal Assault 365 MOE/Miracle Workerz 375 Robotic Plague 422 Maggie L Walker Mech Tech Dragons 423 SEC Robotics - Mechanical Mayhem 433 Firebirds 555 Montclair Robotics (*) 686 Bovine Intervention (*) 708 Hardwired Fusion 768 TechnoWarriors 816 BCIT 1089 Team Mercury 1218 Vulcan Robotics 1370 The Blue Charge! 1640 Sab-BOT-age 1647 Lenape Regional Robotics Iron Devils 1712 Dawgma 1719 Umbrella Corporation 1727 REX 1893 High Tech Parrots 1980 Team Aberdeen 2558 Scibots (*) indicates team has yet to pay registration VOLUNTEER SIGN-UPS We still could use additional volunteers! If you would like to volunteer to help with the Duel on the Delaware, please send an e-mail to Duel Volunteer Coordinator Peggy Beattie at (margaret.s.beattie@usa.dupont.com). Do the Duel! |
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Current (and probably final) team list:
7 Parkville Robotics 25 Raider Robotics 75 RoboRaiders 84 Chuck 84 87 Diablo 222 Tigertrons 272 Cyber Crusaders 316 LuNaTeCs 341 Miss Daisy 357 Royal Assault 365 MOE/Miracle Workerz 375 Robotic Plague 422 Maggie L Walker Mech Tech Dragons 423 SEC Robotics - Mechanical Mayhem 433 Firebirds 555 Montclair Robotics (*) 708 Hardwired Fusion 768 TechnoWarriors 816 BCIT 1089 Team Mercury 1218 Vulcan Robotics 1370 The Blue Charge! 1640 Sab-BOT-age 1647 Lenape Regional Robotics Iron Devils 1712 Dawgma 1719 Umbrella Corporation 1727 REX 1893 High Tech Parrots 1980 Team Aberdeen 2558 Scibots |
NEMO at Duel on the Delaware
There will be a NEMO meeting at the Duel, at 11:30 (right before lunch). It will be an informal discussion and meet and greet, so bring any questions, concerns, or tips that you would like to share. The moderator for the session will be the one and only Chris Troy. Everyone is welcome!
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Only three days left to send music requests to dueldj@gmail.com!!!
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Well, Mr. K, we've never been that scientific about it. We just measure by how full the bus was last time and how full it is this time.
We'll make a judgment call on Friday night when we pack the bus. Anybody out there going to do better than Dawgma? |
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:D Juts 2 days left to go:D Good luck to all teams coming to the event.:]
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All Teams Duelling this weeked:
TWELVE THINGS YOU SHOULD BRING TO THE DUEL 1. Your competitive spirit 2. Safety glasses (not just for your forehead!) 3. Your robot (in case you need a reminder) :D 4. Your books for donation to Success Won't Wait 5. Your used sneakers for our PPP Africa charity drive 6. Your dancin' shoes! 7. Your grammatical prowess (for the YOU'VE BEEN SENTENCED game) 8. A power strip for your pit 9. Some $$$ for great food/baked goods and fun Duel merchandise! 10. Your FIRST Tech Challenge bot (or equivalent) to play on the FACE OFF! scrimmage field. 11. Your homemade percussion instruments to play along with GREEN MAN GROUP! 12. Some fun team wear to show everyone watching the DUEL WEBCAST! Do the Duel This Saturday!! See you there! |
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Web cast of Duel VII (External Player) on the website If not, open VLC and click on Open Network Stream (under file menu) and enter this URL: http://www.nishinsei.shinraikon.com/DuelVii.asx And it should open the stream I am glad you are interested in the webcast and I know with the Tigertrons crew it will be a success. We also have an embedded Meebo Chatroom on the portal page. Just click on: Web cast of Duel VII (Embedded Portal) and join the discussion. I will try to get online with my laptop and join the room. Maybe if the announcers are willing, we could get the announcer game going for a bit (major hat tip to Paul, Karthik, and Jonathan at Waterloo, most entertaining webcast ever) :D |
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I just wanted to stop in here and wish all the teams good luck today!
I'm sad that since I joined FIRST, this is the first Duel I've missed! YAY FOR THE WEBCAST! ~_^ |
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Another fun Duel yet again. We had some problems at the beginning of the day but apparently 222 liked us enough to pick us. We are pro ;). But, I knew it would be us against Moe at some point because in eliminations its always us against Moe. Theres were some pretty instense matches. See everyone going to Jersey there. I dont know where else we are going.
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Great day! Great time time had by all. Our newbies had a fantastic intro to FIRST Robotics.
John, you and your crew ran a top notch event, as usual. 357, thanks for choosing us. 1647, thanks for joining us. It was a great run to the semis! We're checking out trailers for next year's load of books. This time, I know we'll have to go out of county. We'll be at Ramp Riot. See you then! |
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I only figured out my travel plans to Duel at 11pm friday night. I'd never been to a Duel before. I'm so so so glad I went, even if I was only there for the first half of the day.
Thanks to the awesome MC, Wayne Penn, for letting me jump in for a few matches. Thanks to everyone in the stands for tolerating me as I learned to MC. :) Unfortunately, due to the fact that i'm going to college next year, I may not be back at Duel for a little while. It was an excellent event though, and I hope to be back...someday. |
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this webcam thing is killing me lol. I need to see. Me and my friend were sitting in the lobby trying to watch it as it was happening but we couldn't lol.
But the competition was pretty amazing. first I've been to and it makes me never want to quit robotics lol. Thanks guys! btw: whats up with shinraikon? servers down? |
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Thanks to MOE and the LuNaTeCs for hosting yet another high quality Duel! Shout outs also go to all of the refs and other volunteers that helped to run the event smoothly and on time.
Also, thanks to our alliance partners, 555 and 1089 - you were awesome. Finally, congratulations to Mrs. Cokeley for winning the Mike Wade Duel Master Award - truly a recognition well deserved! :) P.S. Does anyone have any pictures/video of us, 25, using our launching mechanism to upright 555 in QF 3-2? |
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Thanks all for a great time at the Duel.
Here is a summary of the Duel awards: Mike Wade Duel Master Volunteer Award Lauralynne Cokeley - Teams 1089 and 25 Duel Champions Teams 25, 555, 1089 Duel Finalists Teams 375, 272, 1640 Success Won't Wait Book Drive Award Chuck 84 - 7,013.2 lbs - A Duel RECORD! Honorable Mentions 2nd - Team 423 - 3,564 lbs 3rd - Team 1712 - 2,299.2 lbs Total Book Drive Donations - 14,215.7 lbs - another Duel record! Play of the Day Award Team 2558 - righting their partner during Qualification matches (Team 25 also did this in eliminations) First in the Queue Award Team 768 - always first in queue for their matches! Duel Spirit Award Team 375 - Robotic Plague See y'all at an upcoming off-season! |
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I know I sound like a major loser... I'm total team noobie. Chuck didn't place right? lol. I don't quite understand the whole competetion thing yet.
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Thanks to all the volunteers, Team 365, Team 316, Team 222 and everyone else that played a part in making DoD an awesome event. I also wanted to say thank you to NASA, Rob Thate, and Ron Karpinski. Without their help these events could not happen.
Thanks to Team 365 for selecting us and to 75 and 422 for being great partners. Congratulations to Teams 25, 555, and 1089. It was fun battling with you guys in the semis. And special thank you to Chuck 84 for bringing 7,000 lbs of books and for baking 7,000 lbs of cookies for our team. You guys are too kind. Our team had a blast, learned a lot, trained some new drivers, and made some new friends. That's what the off-season is all about. We are already looking forward to next year's DUEL! |
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First of all thanks to Moe and the Lunatecs for putting on a great competition! Our team had a great time. Thanks to our alliance partners 816 and 2558. Those were three intense quarter final matches! Can't wait for the next Duel! Hope to see many of the teams at BE and Ramp Riot!
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Books found at Duel on the Delaware - Oct 11
We found a small, striped canvas bag containing 5 books, the type you might read for your English literature class. If you wish to claim it, PM me.
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What a great event! I'm so glad I took the 18 hour detour from my weekend trip to Dover to attend and volunteer! As always it's great to see old friends and make a few new ones!
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Sunny: Did anyone knock it over? Me: Nope, it just went over on its own. Sunny: Do you think it's out? Me: yep, I think so. (At this point we are both just standing there looking at it when the other robot approaches and gives 007 a little nudge. 007 pops up, sways a little bit and then takes off.) Sunny: Or maybe not. (And he goes back down the line to watch the rest of the match.) :cool: |
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Cynette:
Thanks so much for dropping by our little party. Hope you had a nice time and a safe ride back. You are welcome to volunteer at the Duel anytime! Great to have someone from Rolling Thunder dropping by the Duel! |
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I will work on getting an on demand stream set up, low bandwidth(DSL), and will place the link on my website's Duel page. http://asp.shinraikon.com/duelvii.aspx I would like to thank all the teams, and volunteers for making it such a fun event. I hope to be at next year's Duel on the Delaware VIII. |
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Thank you to 365 and 316 for hosting an awesome Duel on the Delaware! It was super mega awesome and tons of fun.
Also big thanks to 1712's alliance partners (316, 007 and 87) you guys were supercool. :D And to all volunteers, thanks for making this such a fun and well-run event. Congrats to the winning alliance (25, 555 and 1089) and the finalist alliance (375, 272 and 1640). You guys were fabulous. And finally AWESOME job and congrats to all for the 14,000 pounds of books!!! |
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Thanks to 1712 for donating about 2200 lbs of that 14,000 (and for buying boxes to haul them in!)! :D |
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Photos of the event can know be seen at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8285488@N05/ Feel free to copy any or post any on CD if you wish to identify some of the, ahh, let's call them characters, seen in some of the shots. I'll put a few up here as well, including the famous Kressley Floridized car. |
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Does anyone have videos of the matches.
P.S. Im looking for the one with our diagnal shot in particular. |
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Im looking for matches:4,7,15,18,22,qf1-1,qf1-2,sf1-1,sf1-2,f1,f2,f3.
Thank you:) |
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Here is a link to the match archive. http://asp.shinraikon.com/duelvii/match%20archive/ :D
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Thanks!:D
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