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Yes congratulations to all the rookie teams! I got a chance to meet a lot of you and you guys did awesome! :) I hope to see you out there for years to come!

And I don't believe I said it on here yet but congratulations (as usual) to 340 for winning RCA, I'm really rooting for you guys in Atlanta this year! :)
Also to all of the Regional finalists and champions! You guys put on quite an amazing show and had some pretty amazing robots, Congrats!

And lastly a huge thanks and congrats to John Hobbins of 1241 for winning Regional WFA and Kate Leipold for the volunteer award. Thank you for all the hard work you guys do!

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They won't release it -- I already called. :/

I did a quick check of regional results -- Coopertition Award winner vs. seeding -- and found that every Coopertition Award winner was in the top three seeds. (I don't have seeding data for Peachtree, but it was true for all the others, including Oregon where there was a tie for the award by the 2nd and 3rd seeded teams).

I think this hullabaloo might go away when people realize that it is basically an ineffective strategy.

I cannot pretend to fathom their minds on this one, Kim.

There were some hurt feelings on my team that you guys walked away from your controls. We were looking forward to a good game.

I think we'll have to agree to disagree on whether or not this is GP -- our friendship is more important than who ranked where and why. I want to be perfectly clear that we understand that you guys *did not think it was against GP*, and that you wouldn't even consider doing it if you did. This isn't an issue of anyone choosing to go against GP, it is an issue of disagreement on whether or not something is GP, and that's fundamentally different.

Patrick

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That was my sister. It's great to have something to nag to her about.

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Thanks to those on 1511 for the clarification. Personally, I was giving you the benfit of the doubt, and in all honesty I am angry at the system and not at any of the teams here. I understand the drives and motivations, and why you did what you did. We'll just have to agree to disagree in this case.

I've also talked to one of our senior mentors who really has his head on straight. As he puts it, "no matter how much people want life to be fair, it isn't and these are the rules we have to work with. Number one we are here for our students and not to compete."

After this past weekend, I'm sure there will be alot of internal debate as far as what to do next at Cleveland. Ultimately, the call of stratigy is left on the field with our students. However, we designed our robot specifically to be a Mid Field Robot, and some times that means playing some heavy defense in order to win with a low score.

Hopefully at the end of this season, there will be no lasting hard feelings all around.

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I wasn't aware that we ranked low because we didn't understand the ranking system. I thought we had the philosophy of "let's show the other teams' scouters what we can do and they'll pick up".

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Ubiquitous, competitio, sponsorship...what else?

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Anything without an ou next to each other pretty much ruined Steve.

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In her own words:

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Thanks for joining the party!
I wish that we could have played a match with all robots working, but so goes life. If we had us all going, we would have rolled easily in to the semis, and maybe into finals. Remember the round where we scored 5-7 by ourselves? Anyways, you guys were fun to have as an alliance, and we hope to see you at FLR next year!

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Personally, the team I'd most like to thank for being at FLR is team 3162, and my favorite moment was when they won the "Most Inspirational" award and everyone "clapped" in ASL. That was amazing, and I think that really shows the spirit of FIRST. :D

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Sponsorship was spelt spocoship

I have to laugh at myself sometimes too. No use in having fun if you can't make fun of yourself.

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I can't tell you how proud I am of that team. When I approached Joe, Gary, and Wendy about the idea of a joint Rochester School for the Deaf/NTID team, they enthusiastically dove head-first into this swirling melee that is FIRST. Watching the Deaf/hearing interactions at the B&L team social on Friday was quite fun, too.

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Ok, spocoship has potential. LOTS of potential.

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Webcast footage was not recorded intentianally because our focus was to obtain viewership data for 2011's webcast.

Next year I could look into what resources could be brought together to record that crystal clear feed you might have seen on the flat screen tv on the field, if that will be of interest to any of you.

The highest priority however will be to serve our viewers with at least a non "stop motion" feed of the regional next year.

Re: 2010 Finger Lakes Regional
 

Webcast footage was not recorded intentianally because our focus was to obtain viewership data for 2011.

Next year I could look into what resources could be brought together to record that crystal clear feed you might have seen on the flat screen tv on the field, if that will be of interest to any of you.

The highest priority however will be to serve our viewers with at least a non "stop motion" feed of the regional.