Originally Posted by acdcfan259 (Post 835824)

Needless to say, I'm about as excited as you can get. I wish i could just fast forward through these two days of school and just get on with it. Going to be making some upgrades to make our robot a little more competitive, and hopefully elimination worthy. Gunning for another safety award, but it looks like 250 could give us a run for our money.

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi (Post 835925)

Did anyone realize how many regional finalists, winners, and just overall BIG teams will be there?!?!?:ahh:

Originally Posted by thefro526 (Post 836145)

Hmmm.... Safety Award, eh? 816's won the Safety Award in '05 and '07 in Philly, and we also won the Safety Award in NJ this year too. Needless to say we're going to give you a bit of a challenge for the award. (or should I say you're going to give us a bit of a challenge?)



Stogi, Philly is one of those Regionals that has always had quite a few High Caliber teams year after year. It's just it never really got noticed by a lot of people as one of the "Stacked" regionals like Midwest. Regardless, I haven't even looked at the team list yet. I've decided that the only thing that determines how well a team will do is performance, not lineage or hype. If you want to Debate that, remember 2 out of 3 World Champions were eliminated in their First Regional. That being said, I heard some Rumors of a "MORT Anomaly".....;)

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi (Post 836257)

I counted 15 big names and good robots based on this year's performance alone. I don't look at team history when walking into late week regionals. Only week 1 regionals.

Originally Posted by Koko Ed (Post 836279)

Does anyone know if the regional gives out parking passes for volunteers?

Originally Posted by Koko Ed (Post 836279)

Does anyone know if the regional gives out parking passes for volunteers?

Originally Posted by Koko Ed (Post 836279)

Does anyone know if the regional gives out parking passes for volunteers?

Originally Posted by Waynep (Post 836736)

WOOOO!!! Philly Regional just got better with Koko Ed gracing us with his presence!!!

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi (Post 836536)

Will anyone be webcasting/archiving mathces for TBA? Upset that NJ hasn't even been archived on TBA yet.

Originally Posted by The Lucas

Parking at 15th and Cecil B Moore should be free for volunteers and the public as well.

Originally Posted by Roger (Post 837161)

Free is a good price! Is that the parking garage what looks like to the west one block of the Liacouras Center? See here at google maps. We've got a couple of 15-seat vans to find parking spots for.

Any places nearby that serve early breakfasts? We had an excellent sub shop near Boston's regional that had good, fast, and cheap breakfasts -- something you don't find too often.

Also -- so many questions! -- we've got a couple hours Sunday morning before we have to drive back home. Any Philly sights to go to on a Sunday morning or is everything closed then?

Originally Posted by Roger (Post 837161)

Also -- so many questions! -- we've got a couple hours Sunday morning before we have to drive back home. Any Philly sights to go to on a Sunday morning or is everything closed then?