FINAL CALL: PASCACK PANDA-MONIUM 2008
 

ATTENTION TEAMS: This is the final call for Pascack Panda-monium 2008!!!

The deadline for registration is October 10th, 2008! This is the first Tri-state area event of the fall- let's start the season off with a bang!

Here's some important information:

Date: October 18th, 2008
Time: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Place: Pascack Hills High School, 225 W. Grand Ave., Montvale, NJ, 07645
Team Capacity: 32 Teams
Cost: $200 per team (If you bring a pre-rookie team, you pay $100 and the pre-rookie team gets in free!)
Game: FIRST Overdrive!

Other information:

• We plan on using four-team alliances for the eliminations, provided we have enough teams.
• As mentioned above- we've got an easy way to spread FIRST! If you bring a pre-rookie team, you will pay $100 for admission, and the pre-rookies will get in for free!

Special events:

• Door prizes and raffles!
• We're giving away a brand-new LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT kit! Teams should note that Mindstorms uses a version of LabView to program- *hint* *hint* *nudge* *nudge*! :D

You can also check the CD-Events page or the event site.

Teams should sign up here, and volunteers can register here.

I know everyone will come out to support us and make the inaugural Pascack Panda-monium a great event!

See you on the 18th!

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A Mindstorms kit would be a useful help for any team (or team member) wanting to bring themselves up to speed on LabView, in preparation for the 2009 season. Just like Vex experience with EasyC was directly transferable, so it this. The kit is worth more than the registration fee, and someone's leaving with it on the 18th.

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Teams: The deadline for registration has been pushed back to OCTOBER 10TH! If you are interested in coming to the inaugural Pascack Panda-monium, that's your final chance to sign up!

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Pascack Pandamonium 2008 Team List: (REV 9-18-08)

11 MORT- Flanders, NJ

25 Raider Robotix- North Brunswick, NJ

102 Gearheads- Somerville, NJ

271 Mechanical Marauders- Bay Shore, Long Island, NY

369 Nuts 'n' Volts- Brooklyn, NY

423 SEC Robotics- Wyndmoor, PA

522 Robo Wizards- Staten Island, NY

555 Montclair Robotics- Montclair, NJ

694 Stuypulse- Staten Island, NY

1672 Mahwah Robo-T-Birds- Mahwah, NJ

1676 Pascack Pi-oneers- Montvale, NJ

1989 Vernon Vikings- Vernon, NJ

2070 Ridgefield Robotics- Ridgefield, NJ

2458 Team Chaos- Gladstone, NJ

2539 Krypton Cougars- Palmyra, PA

Pre-Rookie Ben Franklin High School- Philadelphia, PA

Don't miss your chance to sign up for this awesome event!

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Cannot wait!
I am soooo excited that 102 decided to attend! Hopefully we get more teams to sign up for this event. It's going to be awesome.

Come on FIRST teams (well, those in the surrounding area) sign up and lets get the race started (again)

:D

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1923 submitted yesterday for Pascack Panda-Monium! So excited!

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Just realized that the juniors and sophs have PSATs that morning and that some seniors have a band competition same day. :(

This is going to get tricky.

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As if anyone needed further enticement, this photo was taken in my living room just afew moments ago... Someone's going home with it, but not me :mad:

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Pascack Pandamonium 2008 Team List: (REV 9-22-08)

11 MORT- Flanders, NJ

25 Raider Robotix- North Brunswick, NJ

102 Gearheads- Somerville, NJ

271 Mechanical Marauders- Bay Shore, Long Island, NY

369 Nuts 'n' Volts- Brooklyn, NY

423 SEC Robotics- Wyndmoor, PA

522 Robo Wizards- Staten Island, NY

555 Montclair Robotics- Montclair, NJ

694 Stuypulse- Staten Island, NY

1302 Revolution Robotics- Sparta, NJ

1672 Mahwah Robo-T-Birds- Mahwah, NJ

1676 Pascack Pi-oneers- Montvale, NJ

1923 The MidKnight Inventors- West Windsor, NJ

1989 Vernon Vikings- Vernon, NJ

2070 Ridgefield Robotics- Ridgefield, NJ

2458 Team Chaos- Gladstone, NJ

2539 Krypton Cougars- Palmyra, PA

Pre-Rookie Ben Franklin High School- Philadelphia, PA

Don't miss your chance to sign up for this awesome event!

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:] Looks like we're still gonna make it. (With a small group of 4-5 people:P )

Making repairs this week and testing a new hybrid that we may or may not get to use depending on if we even have enough people in order to have a RoboCoach. See you all there.

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I had sent Volunteer Info. in, like after Monty Mad. and I think I sent it in after getting an email saying to sign up. Let me know if you got it.

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Attention all teams: There will now be a hands on Autodesk Inventor Seminar at Pascack Panda-monium!

More teams are wanted -- Register now!

http://panda-monium.team1676.com/

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1923 is still working on getting money from the school and working out the logistics of travel. We hope to be there.

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1989? Hurdler!? ;)

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Updated Team List -- 9-26-08:

11 MORT- Flanders, NJ

25 Raider Robotix- North Brunswick, NJ

102 Gearheads- Somerville, NJ

271 Mechanical Marauders- Bay Shore, Long Island, NY

369 Nuts 'n' Volts- Brooklyn, NY

423 SEC Robotics- Wyndmoor, PA

522 Robo Wizards- Staten Island, NY

555 Montclair Robotics- Montclair, NJ

694 Stuypulse- Staten Island, NY

1302 Revolution Robotics- Sparta, NJ

1676 Pascack Pi-oneers- Montvale, NJ

1923 The MidKnight Inventors- West Windsor, NJ

1989 Vernon Vikings- Vernon, NJ

2070 Ridgefield Robotics- Ridgefield, NJ

2458 Team Chaos- Gladstone, NJ

2539 Krypton Cougars- Palmyra, PA

Pre-Rookie Ben Franklin High School- Philadelphia, PA

Pre-Rookie Shaker High School - Latham, NY

---Once Again, there will be a Hands On Autodesk Inventor Seminar at Pascack Panda-monium!----

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694 is from Manhattan, not Staten Island. :p

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So noted and updated on the official Pascack Panda-monium website

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NEW: A FTC Demo/Competition will also be happening at Pascack Panda-monium. Bring your FTC Bots!

"OLD:" - An Autodesk Inventor Hands On Seminar/Training will also take place at Pascack Panda-monium!

---There's still space left for FRC teams ... Sign up Now!---

http://panda-monium.team1676.com/

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Not to outdo ourselves, Team 1676 would like to announce two ancillary events just to add to the fun of the event.

For the students:
Super Smash Bros. Brawl Tournament, winner's prize to be determined

For the mentors/coaches:
Pie Eating Contest, winner receives trophy

Graham, please add the preceding to the list of special events and remove the word raffle.

Unfortunately, a raffle is not possible due to complications regarding school policy, but raffle tickets will be GIVEN away for a chance to win the LEGO Mindstorms kit. Details on the 18th.

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Pie??
What kinda pie??
Is the consolation prize a free pie of choice?? :D lol.
Or will we be eating 3.14 :P

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I'm missing this for PSAT's?? :(

Hopefully our robot will be ready by the end of this week. Uploading some new code next week and we'll be ready for you guys:)

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Me, I am partial to Blueberry, so if anyone who's buying the pies reads this...

I just hope it's not - ugh - Rhubarb.

I think Apple is boring. Pecan is good, but OMG I'll probably gain another 20 pounds just thinking about it. Ditto shoofly - but this IS New Jersey...

Don

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mmmmmmm.........Pie

Cherry is my favorite. Pumpkin is good too, as is blueberry, and banana cream, and peach, and pecan, and lemon meringue, and coconut cream, and apple, and raspberry, and boysenberry, and mincemeat, and boston cream, and peanut butter, and chocolate moose...and most others.

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Updated Team List -- 10-02-08:

11 MORT- Flanders, NJ

25 Raider Robotix- North Brunswick, NJ

102 Gearheads- Somerville, NJ

271 Mechanical Marauders- Bay Shore, Long Island, NY

369 Nuts 'n' Volts- Brooklyn, NY

423 SEC Robotics- Wyndmoor, PA

522 Robo Wizards- Staten Island, NY

555 Montclair Robotics- Montclair, NJ

694 Stuypulse- New York, NY

806 Brooklyn Blacksmiths - Brooklyn, NY

1302 Revolution Robotics- Sparta, NJ

1676 Pascack Pi-oneers- Montvale, NJ

1923 The MidKnight Inventors- West Windsor, NJ

1989 Vernon Vikings- Vernon, NJ

2070 Ridgefield Robotics- Ridgefield, NJ

2458 Team Chaos- Gladstone, NJ

2539 Krypton Cougars- Palmyra, PA

Pre-Rookie Ben Franklin High School- Philadelphia, PA

Pre-Rookie Shaker High School - Latham, NY

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OK, Now I am hungry...

You say this contest is for mentors? Hey! I'm a mentor! ;)

14 days left...

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I did say mentors.. I'm one too... looks like I won't be eating breakfast that day =P Just drinking lots of water haha. Even though I'm not a pie person, I'm sure it'll be exciting =D

Can't wait for Pascack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Oh!!! Will there be another email going out to those who volunteered??

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how would someone go about winning this kit is it a raffle or some sort of competition.

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All attending teams will receive "raffle" tickets at the start of the event and at a later point throughout the day the ticket number will be read and displayed and then that team will be able to recieve their prize.

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Unfortunately, 1923 won't be able to make it. With so many of our students taking the PSAT the trip just isn't workable.

I'm sorry to miss out, I'm sure it'll be a great event.

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No chance to have seniors and frosh go ? We would really appreciate having you guys there!

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We're going to try. I'm sending out another email blast to members to see who can make it. If I have a big enough number we'll try to make it work out.

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We had the same problem but we'll still have the necessary 3-4 people.

Base Driver
Arm Operator
Student Coach
and maybe robocoach if you have the people available.

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Libby, some of 1089's students want to go to the Inventor workshop that day.
If you need, I'm sure I could con some of them into being your pit crew/drive team.
Let me know if you need help! =)

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Would 1089 like to come as a competing team? There are still spots available...

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hmm- there's a thought.......would they?

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We opted not to compete back to back weekends - we'll be at Duel this weekend. But I will ask Mr. G again.

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Updated Team List -- 10-11-08:

11 MORT- Flanders, NJ

25 Raider Robotix- North Brunswick, NJ

102 Gearheads- Somerville, NJ

271 Mechanical Marauders- Bay Shore, Long Island, NY

303 Panther Robotics- Bridgewater, NJ

369 Nuts 'n' Volts- Brooklyn, NY

423 SEC Robotics- Wyndmoor, PA

522 Robo Wizards- Staten Island, NY

555 Montclair Robotics- Montclair, NJ

694 Stuypulse- New York, NY

806 Brooklyn Blacksmiths - Brooklyn, NY

1302 Revolution Robotics- Sparta, NJ

1676 Pascack Pi-oneers- Montvale, NJ

1923 The MidKnight Inventors- West Windsor, NJ

1989 Vernon Vikings- Vernon, NJ

2070 Ridgefield Robotics- Ridgefield, NJ

2458 Team Chaos- Gladstone, NJ

2539 Krypton Cougars- Palmyra, PA

Pre-Rookie Ben Franklin High School- Philadelphia, PA

Pre-Rookie Shaker High School - Latham, NY

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What time do yall want your volunteers there at next weekend?


7 DAYS!!!!!!!!!

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Pits open at 6:30A, practice rounds at 7:45A, so.... to be honest, i'm not sure ... Will talk to the Volunteer Coordinator....

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PASCACK Pre-Rookies please note:

Make sure your Robot Radio Modem is 2007 or 2008 vintage.
You must set a unique team number and tether up OI/RC.

This will make sure there will be no field communiation issues on Sat.

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Thanks for the tip! Shouldn't be a problem!

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So after reading the email sent out with the 411 for the competition, it is bound to be on interesting competition for sure. I know I'm excited for this weekend... I'm looking for my NASCAR... errrr racing items ;) to bring with me (like a checkered flag... sadly I could not get a driver haha).

ANYWAYS... I am very excited!!! I have been planning out my homework schedule for the weekend (Saturdays are normally homework days for me) but it will be well worth it to do some more Friday night... Hopefully everyone is getting their well needed rest for the festivitives awaiting everyone in just a few short days!!!! Don't forget to bring your spirit and energy :cool:

See yall there!!!!

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The official Pascack Panda-monium website has been updated and has FULL schedule of events, special events, venue map, etc.

http://panda-monium.team1676.com/

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Hmm...playoffs will be fun to watch. Why was the division style chosen as apose to a regular tourny? See you guys in 2 days:]

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The division style was chosen to allow more teams to play in eliminations, and allow more matches for each team in elims. With a regular tourney, we would have had at most 16 teams playing, with 4 4-team alliances. Now, 18 teams will play a minimum of four matches in elims, and many will play more.

Just remember to bring batteries... because it's gonna be

PANDA-MONIUM!!!

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...2 days....

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......1 day......to finish the hurdler hope it works

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:yikes:

Surprise surprise...I'm bumping you up on my scouting list!:D

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Don't forget bou plungy ;) he'll be there too... but i think they took off the plunger :( sad... sad sad sad lol

make sure to get enough sleep everyone :p

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its 10 pm the night before the competition...are you at the high school finishing your robot tonight...we are

Edit 11pm: Still 1 foot short

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Unfortunately 1923 won't be able to make it to Pascack this weekend. Not enough kids available to make the trip :(. Hopefully next year. I'm sure it'll be great!

(also, first cd post from my iPhone! )

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We'll miss you guys!

Anyway, the field and pits are all set up and ready - it all looks awesome! Several dozen people were there setting up, it took about 4 hours. See you at 6:30 am when the Pits open tomorrow!

Don

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Is there anyone who can provide periodic updates on here? It'd be nice. Thanks and good luck to all competing.

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On behalf of Team 1676, I'd like to thank all the teams and fans that came out to the first *hopefully* annual Pascack Panda-monium. We thank you for working with us while we worked out the kinks that came up, and hope you had a blast! We certainly did!


P.S. The Bergen Record, the major newspaper for Bergen County, has posted an article on Pascack Panda-monium. Read it here.

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PANDAMONIUM was one fun off-season event. honestly i cant say i had much more fun at others (and i been to quite a few)

might be that i won the pie eating contest :D by apparently a large margin im told haha. (p.s. ill be back next year to defend my title)

i like how everything was set up.

good reffing, good people, good comp. thanks for making it possible!

and congrats to the first seeded alliance.

*into radio* wizards....OUT!

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(emphasis mine)

Yeah, starting on your third pie when everyone else had barely finished one (if that) will make you win!

Glad you had a good time...hope to see you next year!

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well wouldve been four.. cept i had to breathe hahaha

(btw would love to get pictures of the whole event, not just pie eating contest... i looked a mess i know it hahah)

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Any word on results/awards? I had PSATs in the morning then passed out. lol

I wanted to know the different alliance/match pairings. Awards page on the website please?

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I can't guarantee it'll be up this weekend, but we'll work on getting it up ASAP. Same goes for photos. Right now, we're all recovering (getting up at 5:30 after a football/marching band game last night isn't fun...)

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What were the match results and alliance pairings though?

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Hey Graham, no complaining. Some of us were up at 5 after a football/marching band game :p

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And some of us had to get up at 5:20 after not getting up that early since... well... I can't remember when :p lol

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Wellll, I was woken up by a cat at 4:30 in the morning after getting to bed at 12:30.

But it was a ton of fun. Thanks to all the teams and to all the volunteers, referees, etc.

Congratulations to the finalists, 271,1302,369. Major congrats to the champions 25 (thanks for letting me coach!), 11, and prerookies 2791. You guys were all awesome.

Thanks to Killian and the Pi-oneers for letting me be announcer! It was my second time announcing an event and I had a blast!

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Watch out for that soon-to-be rookie team, their mentor has already led one rookie team to a regional championship!

Based on those results, I take it Mr. Heller had fun this weekend? :)

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So I heard all the good news last night and wanted to convey the messages that the team members who attended had to say since nobody comes on CD. :P

By far this was one of our (ppl who attended) favorite off seasons to date. The people were friendly and the competition was great. We are definitely making this one of our annual off season competitions! Thank you so much to team 25 for choosing us as alliance partners and to the pre-rookies of 2791 as well. Also congratulations to our sister team 1302 for being finalists along with 271 and 369. The Pi-oneers really know how to put on a competition!

See you all at Brunswick Eruption 7!:D

EDIT: anyone have pictures or videos of the #1 alliance that they could email me? Please PM me if you do. Thanks.

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It was an awesome competition, and I'm very surprised with the results. Thanks to 25 for picking us for the alliance, and thanks to 11 as well. Hopefully we'll be there next year (hopefully they'll change the date) with our own bot. Borrowing one just isn't the same. (Especially when you're given minutes to learn how to drive it) And Forbes, he had a blast. Here's some proof:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e7...h/P1100562.jpg

And for anyone who noticed we only had 3 people there, the rest of our team is Juniors and brand new freshman.. I think we still did well for having one mechanic and two programmers.. Most of it was luck, though. Next time we'll bring a driver.

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On Behalf of the Pascack Pi-oneers I would like to extend our thanks to all the teams who competed, the mentors who competed in the Pie eating contest, and especially to Big Mike and his crew of refs. Also would like to thank "Pauly Robots," John Park, and Sara (Last name escapes me, sorry) for being amazing FTAs/Scheduling people, and also to all the other volunteers for doing everything that you guys do, because without you this event would not have been possible!

We had a blast, hope everyone else did!

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Any time Rob :)

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Mike!! I'm so proud...you woke up on time for this one =]

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Such a wise guy... I was only a half hour away cause I was working 10P to 6A in the Bronx so I wasn't going to miss it for the world :)... It's going to be the same way for BE7 :D....

It only happens once that I stay asleep through an event :D

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Sleep at an event?! Preposterous!!! Next time... take my job :p aint no time for sleeping... let alone sitting lol. But it's all good... its exciting :D haha

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I did at Monty and trust me I wasn't good at it, thats why I went back to Field Reset and Queuing so quickly :o .

I'll stick to Queuing till I get more practice w/ Wayne :p

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The wizards were -by a large margin - the team with the best image. You couldn't miss those purple robes everywhere...
Those pre-rookies from Latham were pretty amazing, eh? Watch out for them!

Also, excellent announcing. When's your chance at a regional?
Reffler, aka BandChick.

I can't believe we survived. It all worked though. Also a huge thanks to the others who helped - Big Mike, the NASA guys, and a dozen others whose faces I know but not their names...

Don

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haha we try =D lol someone asked "who are u guys?" so i made it a mission for them to never forget >.< lol :D

miss ella wouldve liked to been flawless but for some reason there was auton/hybrid trouble that u all saw, it was weird cause it never did that be4 or after the comp.. so *shrug* i forgot how many wins.. but i know we only lost twice.. sadly it was in eliminations and in a row :(

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Poll question: If you went to Pandamonium, do you think Team 1676 should host it again next year (hopefully with more teams)?

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OF COURSE :D

Definate Y-E-S :D

Maybe it's just cause I loooooooooooooooove offseasons hehe. But Panda-Monium was a blast!!!

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Yea, I found it to be accessible from to different routes... Maybe next year we can try doing a better job advertising. Panda-monium turned out great for only running it's 1st. season. Once teams start to see it returning again then more should turn up. Maybe we can do some advertising in the NYC Regional as well as the NJ & SBPLI Regionals to get the other boroughs to come in as well (BX, QN and MA). Food was awesome which was a big plus, staff was friendly and the teams were very understanding on how we were doing things. That being said all we need is MORE teams to signup for next year and we'll be good to go :D.

P.S. THERE MUST BE ANOTHER PIE EATING CONTEST so jax1488 aka Jack Ferente can defend his title :D. Ahh how the memories of Jack getting down and dirty year after year :P.

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Actually, I'm pretty sure he meant the other Sarah, Sarah Neid, the Scoring Queen.

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Team 369 would like to thank Team 1676 for hosting Pasack Panda-monium, our alliances Team 271 and Team 1302 for making such a strong alliance. We would also like to congratulate the Champion Teams 25,11,and 2791 for their great work.

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How did the round robin finals go? Any thoughts?

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From my team members on the topic of another PP:

Absolute YES. Fantastic event that can only get better with more publicity in the future and more teams. It gives our drivers more time to practice for other off seasons as well after a long summer of nothing to do.

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Confusing but nevertheless we managed :D, That was the first time I dealt w/ Round Robin Elimination Matches so it confused me for the first 2 or 3 matches :)

I think the best part was having volunteers go back and forth from the score table to the pits to queue up teams manually since schedules were kinda difficult to produce.

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We can definitely try to advertise again, but we did try really hard last year to get teams interested. We had flyers and buttons to hand out at both the NJ Regional (where we competed), and the NYC Regional (where we volunteered). We also handed these out to any NY/NJ/DE/PA teams in our division at the Championships, and we tried CD to spread the word. I think we got most of our teams to sign up by word of mouth though. But maybe now that we've hosted it once people will be more receptive to flyers/buttons :D

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I know, teams will always be leary about attending a new off-season event thats being hosted for the first time. But once the event has been broken in then word should spread a bit quicker. I mean after all it's one of the more accessible ones in the Tri-State area w/ excellent food :D....

Drools for more Chili and Pizza

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Mmmmm food =D I loved having breakfast and lunch there... made my dad get me food :p haha. But it was excellent =D I agree with Mike... there should definately be at least 24 teams next year... we'll spread the word around, and come on, who doesn't want to attend offseasons? Especially ones with cute lil pandas :] Maybe... we need more pandas :eek: lol... and then have the lil pandas perform the game... people love pandas haha. But seriously, there will definately be more teams wanting to attend and I surely can't wait :D

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I bet that little panda will never forget that day ever lol...

I think he's the youngest FIRST off-season mascot I've seen so far.

Hmm... now where can we adopt additional pandas *ponders*

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...Every team should bring someone in a panda costume ;)