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Sweet! Tell us when they are up! I may have some photos of everyone's robot; it depends on whether or not I can get my hands on the scout's camera.

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Still working on the photos, but here's a video I took:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW4lZHtKljU

I had a great time this year, and hope to do both this and the DC regional next year. Congrats to 88, 346, and 1086! :)

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My videos of the finals two matches at VCU:
Finals 1
Finals 2

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keep an eye on www.bluecheese1086.org pictures will most likley be going up later this week!

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This was 346's first time too! We are so excited! We've been waiting 10 years for this! :)

Plus we were undefeated! 13-0! And this is the first year we're recieved GM's Design award. Our team is finally pulling everything together! But I'd like to sincerely thank 88 and 1086! We could not have done it with out you! I hope to see you both at Nationals!

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On behalf of Team 2068:

Congratulations to team 1086 on the Chairman's Award.

Congratulations to Teams 346,88, and 1086 on the Regional Championship, we enjoyed playing against you guys in the eliminations.

Thank you to Teams 612 and 1908 for being awesome people to work with.

Thank you to all teams competing it was an awesome weekend.

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Congratulations to 346, 1086, and 88! You guys played great, along with all the other teams in the tournament. Thanks for making the 10th anniversary go smoothly.

I loaded the few pictures I took to Flickr.

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Hey Everybody! - David Dobbs and I enjoyed hanging out with you in Tech Row at the 10th anniversary of the NASA/VCU Regional.

We hope everyone who gave the Lunacy simulator a try enjoyed it. We look forward to seeing you and everyone else next year at VCU for the 11th NASA/VCU Regional, and the third appearance of the 5th Gear simulator there (it's where we first unveiled the prototype last year).

In this year's virtual competition we used high scores and one single-elimination match to whittle our competitors down to the top four 3-person teams/alliances. They were:

• Team 620 James Madison HS (Highest score for the entire weekend = 118)
• Team 2028 Phoebus HS
• Team 2068 Osbourn Park HS
• Team Awesome (one person from each of 122, 384, and 2402)

In a 6 match, Round-Robin play-off, the impromptu Team Awesome! alliance went undefeated, dethroning last year's champs (Team 719) and clinching the NASA/VCU 5th Gear bragging rights for the next year. Their scores against the other three teams were 72-62, 86-66 and 88-68.

Congrats to Logan, Stephen, and Paul, this year's 5th Gear NASA/VCU Regional Champions (and the winners of our extremely nonvaluable prizes:))

Picture of a Match in progress
Team 620
Team 2028
Team 2068
Team Awesome - 2009 Champions




Blake
PS: A heartfelt Thank You to Annika, Pattie and Dee for all of your support and help this year and last.

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Team 122 Nasa Knights would like to give
Congratulations to Teams 346,88, and 1086 on the Regional Championship, we enjoyed the eliminations so much. 346 13-0 WOW impressive.

I would like to thank Teams 116 and 620 for being such great partners . The last set of matches were some of the best if seen. Many teams came to us with complements on are matches.

To all the teams we worked with and talked to at DC & VCU it was a great experience see you in Atlanta.

Rick:]

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I'm going to be posting my photos on Picasa this year, since there's far too many for my Flickr (the total number is about 25% of my entire gallery!).

I've posted photos from Wednesday, since there's only 32 of those. More to come.

http://picasaweb.google.com/coredesat

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I was able to pull some strings and acquire a copy; I'm hosting it on my website (fixermark.com/frc/2009/FIRST_Richmond_Regional_10th_Anniversary.m4v)

It would be great if someone could set up a bittorrent for this; it's about 66MB and I'm hoping to be able to share it without hammering on my bandwidth quota. ;)

While I live in Pittsburgh now (Petersen Center Regional Woo!), 2000 was both the first year for the VCU regional and the first year for our team. We shared a build space at VCU's brand-new School of Engineering with a couple of other teams; it was an equipment bay that they were converting into a new laboratory. The space was large, cold, and half-finished, and we loved it. That was the year we came in only a couple of steps away from last place and ended up in the finals. It was the year we learned what a drive train was, and what melted motor brushes smell like. It was the year I signed on to do half of the programming and ended up doing just about all of it and much of the electrical system too. But mostly, it was the year I learned that all of that neat stuff I see engineers do wasn't something other people with degrees and titles did; it was something anyone with enough patience, care, and interest can do. The reason I still volunteer with FIRST every year is that it worked for me, and I want to see it work for other people too.

Congratulations to this year's competitors; there were some great designs out on the field this year. Best of luck at nationals!

Take care,
Mark Tomczak
FIRST Alumnus, Team 422 (Mech Techs, GSGIS, Richmond, VA)

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OK, here's the torrent (via Mininova). I'll seed for a while.

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I'm having a hard time with photobucket (any suggestions for a better image host?) but I am uploading a few of my favorite photos from the finals onto CD, so look for them soon.

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Thanks for the download link

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Try Flickr or Picasa.