2010 Buckeye Regional
 

Well, well, well. It looks like we are at full registered capacity this year, at 50 teams, with a month to go on registration. This does not look good for the team that I'm starting, but it is good news none-the-less.

Anyway, my ranting aside, who is going, and who are you looking forward to see?

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If you're starting a new team you can still register. Most Regionalshold spots for late signing rookies.

I was shocked to see how fast this regional filled up.

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If I am not mistaken, Buckeye has hosted many more teams than this in the past, and the Wolstein Center is a huge venue. I expect they can and will fit in more, especially rookie teams.

Edit:

2009 - 59 teams
2007 - 58 teams
2004 - 60 teams
2003 - 63 teams

So there's plenty of room.

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Ok, thanks for the clarification.

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Purdue FIRST teams 1646 Boiler Precision Guessworks, 1747 HBR, and 461 WBI will be attending the Buckeye Regional again this year.
We're all excited for the upcoming season!

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Team 93 is coming to Ohio this year.

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man we had so much fun at buckeye last year but we wont be there :(

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Team 48 just got into Buckeye off the waitlist. That means all 8 NEOFRA FRC teams - 48, 276, 379, 2010, 2835, 2901, as well as rookies 3193 and 3209 - will be there.

Based upon the team list, it looks like the event will be even more competitive than last year. Looking forward to it!

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1038 will be back along with the 3 rookie teams we are working with, 3138, 3201 and 3266.

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Seams so empty without all the Indiana team. So sad they moved the date.

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THREE rookie teams, Jimmy? I though it was tough just working with one!!

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It hasn't been too bad. We'll see how Saturday goes. We are having a mock build season day to teach our new students and 5 other teams we are working with ( 3 Rookies and 2 2nd year teams) what it is like to go through the first couple weeks of build season; from strategy to robot design. We are usin the 2005 game, Triple Play, as our challenge.

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[blar 2005] Make sure you have plenty of loading-zone touching fluorescent zip ties on hand. :rolleyes: [/blar 2005]

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I'm trying to plan a video for our regional. Will post more information as I finish getting the correct permissions.

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Let's ramp up this thread. Who's excited for Buckeye?

Team List: www.frclinks.com/e/oh

I'm looking forward to getting a chance to demonstrate some bot upgrades, an actual *auto* mode, and using our primary, non-sick driver.

I'm looking forward to hopefully being in a match with 3138 (or perhaps about 6-8 matches...in a row :)), as well as 1038 (provided they get over their 48 disease and work out all the gremlins) and seeing CIA 291.

I'm looking forward to all 8 NEOFRA teams competing there together, including hopefully an enhanced performance from the sexy bumper squad of Falco Tech 3193.

Finally, I'm looking forward to seeing the first viable rampbot (double elevation) in person.

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I'm looking forward to 964 finally having a functional robot at the start of the regional.

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We are looking forward to Buckeye as well. It is always a great competition. The CORI teams will all be heading to their first (only) regional competition, so it will be a chance to see all our robots in action for the first time. It's always fun competing against 48 and 1038. It will be nice to see the Purdue teams as well. Always quality robots and several mentors who were at one time on 1014 that it will be nice to see.

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Team 836, The RoboBees, are excited about attending the Buckeye Regional for the first time.

-Tim

PS - Any recommendations on places to eat that aren't too far from the venue?

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http://www.urbanspoon.com/ps/16/3131...in-Center.html

I think the Subway is well-traveled. Rascal House Pizza is close too.

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Thanks Travis!

How does thie regional rank compared to others. On the premise of excitement and energy. I have been to several events, and some seem rather dead compared to others.

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Competitiveness: Above average. We're never the "flashy" regional. Blue collar is a decent way to describe it, I think. Relatively few "superstars", but a lot more good to really good teams.

10 out of the 60 teams will be rookies - a healthy number, and all from Ohio. At least two of them I know will be very competitive, based on their prior competitions. Go Ohio!

Excitement/Energy: It's a big event in terms of venue and number of teams, so the opportunity for loud noise and energy is definitely there. The game announcer is usually JonDarr Bradshaw, who does a great job. There have been a number of emcees at Buckeye over the years, but if Dave Verbrugge shows up to emcee, it's on, although I think Michigan chains the doors at the state lines any more to keep all their emcees from leaving. :)

For some reason, I recall that an abnormally large number of mascots congregate at Buckeye, so read into that what you will. Slider from the Cleveland Indians often shows up.

The Team Social is actually a *genuine* event held at the Great Lakes Science Center, which is a pretty cool place right on the lakefront.

All in all you should have a good time. Thanks for visiting!

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I believe in 2007 the announcer/emcee team at Buckeye was Bradshaw/Verbrugge wasn't it? I don't think Dave attended in 2008, but I could easily be mistaken.

JonDarr brings an amazing level of polish to any event. We (2252) and 1990 had the great pleasure of working with him during the NASA 50th anniversary event at a multi-day open house. He certainly "gets" FIRST.

We're all looking forward to Buckeye. Pittsburgh was a great warm-up, but we consider Buckeye to be the main event.

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1038 is quickly working on our upgrades for Cleveland and looking forward to some maintenance free matches.

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We are also anxious to see some "old" and "new" friends and looking forward to having BIG fun.

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Yes. There is YouTube video of Dave in action at that event. Search for "frc48". "Do you want......silver?.......or GOLD??????" :)

In 2008 and 2009, I believe Buckeye used a local emcee who works for NASA Glenn - I forget his name - he does a good job, but it's nice to get one of the marquis emcees from time to time.

No doubt.

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This will be my first time back to Buckeye since '05 with 229. I'm definately looking forward to it and the team (2053) will be climbing on the bus in less than 24 hours. Good luck to al the teams and see you at the competition.

:)

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Will there be a webcast?

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Yes, Team 48 will be providing a webcast. The link will be posted here as soon as possible.

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2010's super excited to be at the Buckeye Regional again! If anybody at the competition needs LabVIEW assistance, we should be able to help you out, just drop by our pit. It is definitely a super-energetic event.

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I'm hoping we can have a nice little repeat of last year :D

But seriously, I'm very excited to be coming back to Buckeye again this year and to see our old friends and meet some new ones!

We hope to have some modifications done before the regional starts that should make us more of an all around threat, rather than just defense like we were at BMR last week :)

Can't wait to see you all there!

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yeah, i'm excited too, i hope we can be good at both defense and offence. gotta get the bot fixed first.

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It should be http://live.delphielite.com.

The link should also show up on http://robotics.arc.nasa.gov/events/...s.php#webcasts before too long.

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Once we are finished with our repairs, come find us if you need any help.

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I'm going to need someone good with Java to stop by 964's pit on Thursday. I had to learn Java on the fly, and just built the code off the default camera tracker code. I want to remove all the tracking and leave just the camera-to-dashboard bits, and also make sure we're running efficient code, since we're constantly getting watchdogs errors.

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We don't have anyone on our team that knows Java, but I can tell you that there should be programming reps for each programming language at the pit admin area.

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Hope you're all pumped for the Buckeye Regional in less than 8 hours! It will be my first time attending this event, and I'm sure it will be nothing less than a great time.

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Anyone know what team Dean's List Finalist Award winner Mathew Bliss is from?

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Hi I'm Mathew Bliss who received the Deans List Award. I am from St. Edward High School in Lakewood Ohio. Our team name is StreatLeagle and our team number is 2172.