Pittsburgh Regional
 

Good Morning,

I am the LRI for the Pittsburgh Regional. I've been trying to develop a contact list for all teams that will be attending our regional. I have 37 teams on the list provided by FIRST. Trying to find Addy's for the teams that are valid is becoming quite a challenge.

My intent is to keep communications open with all the teams so we can hopefully defuse as much stress as possible during inspections for everyone.

Soo.. I'm requesting that any team attending the Pittsburgh Regional send me their contact information to: daviddujmic@yahoo.com. This information will remain in my personal file and will not be shared with the public. If you request NOT to have your Addy disclosed in the sea of addy's at the top of an e-mail, just let me know. I understand and will send single e-mails to those contacts.

Good Luck,

Dave Dujmic
LRI Pittsburgh Regional 2009

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Hey Dave. Team 2656 is going to be at the Pittsburgh Regional. I'll send you the names and email addresses of our 3 team contacts.

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Awesome!! Yeppers. I got you on my list. Welcome to the Regional.

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Team 1249 will be there again.

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Always a pleasure 1249! Thank You

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I would like to thank everyone that has replied. I'm still missing contact information from several teams. Please take a few seconds to drop me a line.

Thank You,

Dave Dujmic

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So.....who's all ready for the 2009 Pittsburgh Regional? 48 will be there as usual, as will two of our NEOFRA partner teams from Buckeye, 379 and 2901. Who else?

48 and 291 are co-sponsoring the Pittsburgh Regional webcast. 48 will mainly produce it onsite - it will be available at http://live.delphielite.com and most likely be incorporated into SOAP Gameday at http://gameday.mttkllr.com.

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1743 will be making our fourth consecutive appearance at Pittsburgh, and we're more excited than ever. I am Looking Forward to seeing lots of old friends, not the least of which being the fabulous Wayne Penn. Many thanks to 48 and 291 for providing the webcast so my family will be able to watch the event all the way from California.

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2603 will be at the Pittsburgh regional -- we look forward to seeing some old faces and meeting many new ones!

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EHOVE Mavericks 2252 will be there for our second year. We're going into Pittsburgh with no technical issues, which is kind of a nice change for us. It's a fast-paced event, and this year we're ready!

Dave, I think you've got all of our contact info - if not let me know.

Not to hijack the thread, but do the WPA keys differ for each regional, or do teams "own" the same key for the whole season? We've got our key loaded from the Buckeye Regional; I'm just wondering if we need to plan on loading a different one on Thursday morning. Thanks!

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New keys are generated at each regional. You'll have to load a new one in Pittsburgh and have your software inspected, but since you've got the updates installed it shouldn't take much time.

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Good luck Joey and 1743, as well as 48 and all of 1038's friends. Make sure and give Wayne a hello from us.

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222 can't wait for Pittsburgh! We've been hooked on Pittsburgh since our first visit there in 2007. The teams there are all great, the venue is very nice and we get to have Wayne Penn as an MC. We'll be leaving our school tomorrow morning so we can get an afternoon of tourist activities in before diving head first into Lunacy. Safe travels to all teams!

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Do those tourist activities include a stop at Primanti's? Visitors always love those sandwiches, for whatever reason.

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To be honest I don't know exactly what tourist things we are doing ,but I've always wanted to try one of their sandwiches.

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1249 and 337 will load the trailer after school today and leave after school tomorrow for the 5 hour trip. Can't wait to see old friends and meet new ones. Stop by our pits and talk robots. If anyone needs any help or parts, let us know. See everyone Thursday morning

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*cough* Panini's in Cleveland invented these sandwiches.... *cough*

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There's no shortage of free time to invent things when you aren't too busy winning Super Bowls.

(Even Google wouldn't know a "Cleveland-style sandwich" if it saw one. We get the credit, and that's all that matters.)

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Primanti was born in Cleveland. Hmm. :cool: But the sandwiches are good regardless of where they were invented.

I was going to caution visitors about not stepping in the "Sixburgh" rhetoric while in town (especially from the youngins who weren't alive when Pittsburgh won 66% of those SB's....). It appears my caveats were justified. :p

Just stick to robots! For the love of Pete, do not ask the locals about football! Match turn times will swell to 30 minutes or more while you wait for Steeler fans to stop talking. Just mention the Pirates, and they'll move on. :D

Sincerely,

A Cleveland fan who lives at the battleground that is the midpoint between Cleveland and Pittsburgh.

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Cool.. I thought this thread died in cyber space.

I'll be glad to see all you guys there. Oh.. And please do some sight seeing. We got so much to see, do and eat... Ok.. that was weird. But you got the idea...lol

Thanks Pete for that helpful tip about the WPA.

Good Luck to everyone and safe travels.

LRI

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I would just like to congratulate 222, 1218, and 1743 on the BIG winnings!

Regional Winner #1

#1 seed

Autodesk Visualization Award

Judges Award

Catch 222 in Philly!

I hope to be in attendance for this one! :D

Bradley

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Looks like there will be yet another Lunacy champion coming to Philly this year in 222! What a field that's going to be...

And as for 1218, I'm so proud of you! From using hockey sticks to windshield scrapers, you guys have some of the best and most outside the box ideas every season. You definitely deserved to step back into the winner's circle!

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On behalf of team 1743, I'd like to thank 222 and 1218 for being absolutely amazing partners. We had a fantastic run, and we're looking forward to seeing you all in Atlanta.

Congratulations to 3062 for winning Rookie All-Star. You'll do a great job representing Pittsburgh at the championship.

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More importantly, the mentors from 1218 were more than willing to spend a great deal of time helping teams with Labview and were instrumental in getting one of the rookie teams to mechanically pass inspection. I had to call on Peter their programming mentor a few times to assist teams with LabView issues I couldn't resolve.

Major kudos to you on not only an excellent, solid robot, but for being a great example of GP in a regional that definitely needed a helping hand getting robots moving on the field!

--Eric

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Congratulations on the big win 222, 1218, and 1743!!! You all did a great job. We finally did it Tigertrons, you guys should be very proud. I just wish I could have been there to share the experience. Good luck in Philly, I'll be there Saturday to cheer for ya!:D

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Congratulations to all teams on the winning alliance. MOE has connected with all of you at some point and is proud of your collective accomplishment. Terrific job!!! Very deserving!!!

We are looking forward to seeing the Tigertrons at Philly and, hopefully, all of this alliance at the Duel on the Delaware on October 10th! ;)

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Congrads to 222, 1218 and 1743, Enjoyed playing against you and with you this weekend. Thanks to 1629 for picking us and 48 as alliance partners. Also big CONGRAD to team 337, Chairman's Award winner. You are a great friend to us at team 1249

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Congratulations to 337 for the Chairman's Award win! We loved playing the one elimination match with you guys -- we wish we had had more, but that's how it goes.

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I wanted to thank all the Pittsburgh Regional volunteers, especially the technical support personnel, who kept the event right on schedule, if not AHEAD of schedule. Other events should emulate your methods.

Congrats to 222 on their first regional win, and kudos to 1218 for their Hoover of a robot - you earned the Mega-Maid award for the Pittsburgh event, hands down. :)

1629 - thanks for picking us and 1249 to be a part of your alliance. It was fun while it lasted. Congratulations also on earning the Engineering Inspiration Award. I always like it when teams who did not submit Chairman's at an event win this award, as it reaffirms to all that EI is not meant to be 2nd place Chairman's. Keep up the great work.

1743 - From 18 lbs. over weight on Thursday to regional champions - what a ride, eh? Your perseverance is commendable.

379 - thanks for being a great team filled with special students and mentors. Keep on truckin', and good luck at Chesapeake next week!

2901 - congrats on making the eliminations for the first time in your young existence, and great job on earning the Rookie Inspiration award. Keep building upon this early success, and you'll go far. All the NEOFRA teams have much to be proud of this season.

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Thanks to all of the Volunteers, Organizers, Sponsors and Teams that made Pittsburgh a great event, you are all special for being here. I would like to give a special shout out to Dave and Pete, Inspection guru and no real problems on the field, Great job gentlemen.

Nichole, Jan, Jess and Norm, Super job Thanks for making Pittsburgh sospecial for us.

Volunteer of the year - Tim Freiz it is about time, great job.

TEAM 1708

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Travis, thanks for the kind words. I saw that your team was recording the video feed at the event... will you be passing it along to The Blue Alliance?

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Presumably, but I'm still waiting for Buckeye Regional vids to appear on TBA (as well as updated and accurate W-L-T records :p). I think David Thomas from 964 was on the hook for those parsed vids, if I recall.

For Pittsburgh, our alumni mentor Frank (who did a great job producing the webcast with 291, by the way) tells me he does not have the time to parse the video (I believe it is all in .flv format), but he can send the video to someone else who wishes to volunteer and who would then pass the vid on to TBA. Frank does have FTP capabilities to send the files to any volunteers who step up to the plate.

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On behalf of team 3062, I would like to thank everyone at the Pittsburgh Regional! The support and encouragement from every team, every mentor, and every volunteer there kept my team's spirits high.

291 and 2172 - Thanks for a tremendous effort in the tournament!

2051 - Thanks for your programming skills and support. Words can't explain how grateful we are. Congratulations on finally getting into the tournament!

1629 - Thanks for the autonomous programming help.

Travis and Team 48 - Thanks for helping with our wiring!

63 - Thanks for being great pit neighbors and all of your help and support.

337 - Thanks for the trailer hitch bolts.

1708 - Thanks for the great head-to-head wide-bot battles. It was great working together in our final qualification match.

1743 - Congratulations to my former team. Great job and effort! Sorry about the steel rod! :o It is a souvenir I will cherish for a long time!

Tim and Jess... two of the finest, hard working volunteers I've ever worked with! Congratulations!

This was an amazing regional event! I enjoyed seeing friends from previous events and making new friends. I can't wait until next year!

I feel like I've purchased a one-way ticket to cloud 9. This has been an unbelievable year for me and St. Joseph High School.

Gigapan Images from Pittsburgh
 

Tom Lauwers of Gigapan was at the event on Friday and shot several great images. They're posted on the Gigapan site.

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I actually stopped in here to ask if anyone remembered what the panoramic photo machine website was called, and Pete had that covered. So I'll quickly move onto my secondary purpose, that of thanks.

Thanks to Ken from C.I.A. (291) and Jerry from the Red Barons (63) for helping us out with some electrical and hardware problems.

Thanks to MARS (2614) for the inflatable green martian, which one of our students won. It will be moving into our workshop full-time starting tomorrow.

Thanks to teams 2603 and 63 for selecting us as their third alliance partner. In only our second year as an FRC team, it was a great honor to make the Elimination rounds. I also wish to extend our deepest apologies for letting down our partners with an untimely breakdown, which forced them to replace us. At least it gave 337 a much-deserved shot at the playoffs.

Finally, I want to thank my team members who are moving on to college next season: Mike Tasota, Kelly Miller, assistant captain Nick Grieco, and our team captain Katia Paramonova. In all honesty, going on without them isn't going to be easy, but I know they will all be with the team in spirit (and some perhaps even in person) when the Regionals roll around in 2010.

Congratulations to the wining alliance, and thank you to all the great teams and people in Pittsburgh again this year. FIRST continues to be a positive experience for both myself and our students. I can't imagine life without it now. See you all in 2010 in the Steel City, and perhaps even in Cleveland if we can swing it.

Be seeing you.

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What an event! I would like to say thank you to all the volunteers that made this regional possible! Also a huge thank you to the Labview support volunteers and also to 1218 for spending so much time helping us get our robot running. We unfortunately did not have our cRio updated prior to the competition and encountered some issues after updating the cRio that left us dead until Thursday afternoon. Volunteers like these and the graciousness of the teams that attend the Pittsburgh regional are just awesome and that's why it's quite possibly our favorite event! Also a special thanks to Wayne Penn for great MCing and the boost of support he gave us and all the other teams competing at the Pittsburgh regional.

Thanks to our partners that made our alliance an awesome force. Thanks to 1218 for having an awesome dumping bot and great scouting to help out with our second pick not to mention the programming help. I suggest everyone take a little time to look at their machine and creative use of materials including use of crutches and hockey sticks in their design. Thanks to 1743 for playing some great defense and bringing their awesome human player. We could not have won without either team and I cannot say thank you enough!

Finally thanks to the students on team 222, their parents, our hometown community, our small but many sponsors, our school district and my fellow mentors. Without support from everyone we could never put a bot together. We are eternally grateful for all who have supported us in the past and those that continue to support us in the future. It's been an emotional roller coaster this weekend going from a robot that couldn't even move to a regional champion!

Thanks again to everyone!

Re: Gigapan Images from Pittsburgh
 

This is really neat - thanks for posting. I took the liberty of recording a few snapshots within some of the gigapans. Fun stuff.

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Team 869 would like to congratulate all of the teams at the 2009 Pittsburgh Regional! Everyone did a great job! Just a quick question, I was wondering if anybody got any video of the 'roller coaster' crowd demo. If so, please PM me so we can work out an email exchange. Also, I hope everyone had fun this year, I know we did! To all teams still competing, good luck with the rest of the season!

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Hey 1708 -

Nice working with you guys and our Alliance Captain 128. I think from all the group photos we took together people must've thought we were the Champions!

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Thank you for the kind words! We (the Control System Support volunteers) were glad to be able to help 222 and the other teams in Pittsburgh this weekend!
Two of us will be at Chesapeake and Atlanta with our team, 1511 - any of you making it to either event, stop by our pit and say hello!

I'll also echo that 1218's presence helping other teams was phenomenal. They did a fantastic job!

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FYI, Eric and Jeff, two fantastic mentors from 1511 volunteered to come down to Pittsburgh to help teams there (just like they did at their home Finger Lakes Regional last week) - even though their team was not competing there.

These guys were everywhere, making sure WPAs were installed, software/firmware up to date and most importantly, working with teams to track down and correct their software, cRIO, DS and wiring problems. You could track their progress through the Peterson Center by the trail of working robots and illuminated students they left in their wake. It's people like them (and many others) who make FIRST so successful and such a great place to be.

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Yay Eric and Jeff!! We love you guys, and now so does the state of Pennsylvania from Pittsburgh this year and Philly last year! :D

I hope Thunderplucker doesn't have cRIO issues in Annapolis, because you guys are bound to be too busy helping other teams :p

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Congratulations to EVERYONE!!

After reading all these threads there was a ton happening while I was focused on the robots. Pete, Jeff and Eric were awesome as well as all the other teams that offered support in one form or another.

Hope to ALL of you next year.


Dave
LRI

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Congratulations everyone at the Pittsburgh Regional.

Everyone did really well.
Team 222 you deserved it.
Your bot was great, it was ashame we weren't able to have that alliance with you.

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1708 you guys had a really great defensive bot and we were hoping to pair up with you, but never got the chance. Best of luck to you!

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Does anyone have pictures from the regional? Thanks. :)

Cass

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Hi Cass,

Yes... I took over 500 photos. Most of bots and game action. I went through them yesterday and had to toss a bunch of blurred pics.

I have a site that is not in use at this time... so I plan on seperating them and posting them on the web. I'll put the word out through here and with the teams that attended.

Stay Tooned

Dave

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Sounds great. Thanks. :)

Cass

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I can't wait to see those pictures! :D

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Wow it has been a week and I am already missing the competition. Have not opened the crate in case a miracle happens and $10K drops into our lap for another regional.lol

128 and 2252, what an honor. Close matches in the quarter finals and lots of fun, see you next year.

222, 1218 and 1743 Great matches, you were the class of the event, hoping to do PARC and the Duel so I'm hoping to renew the competition.

3062 - GREAT JOB Mike and the Spartans, enjoy the sun in Atlanta.

I would also like to give a shout out to 2641, see you later in Annapolis, I'll be the only 1708 shirt in the house. Way to make your mentor team proud, Go Vikings.

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Just tracked our robot (1249) and it is in South Carolina along with 337 and 2614 ready for Palmetto next weekend. Always enjoy these two regions. Will be traveling with 337 to Atlanta during my spring break to cheer for them.

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Has anyone posted photos from this event somewhere yet?

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Dave said he had a bunch of pictures that he was working on. He said he would put them up shortly. I think.

Cass

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Hey Dave,

We're still looking for your 500 pix from Pittsburgh. If you have posted them, please let us know where.

Thanks

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Hey Everyone

Ok I got the site up but still have a ton of work to do on it. All the pics are on there. Sorry about some of the quality.

The site is www.team1708.com

Please forgive the pages that are not done yet and still need organized. And some of the links may not work at this time.

Give me some time.

Dave