Originally Posted by Ed Sparks (Post 933263)

I hope one of you local guys will post a link to the video from FOX5 when it's available.

Originally Posted by Jeremy Roberts (Post 933021)

Wow, I just watched that again. I didn't realize that we kicked that one over you and in.

Originally Posted by zachcrosen (Post 933192)

Hey there everyone. This is my first post on this forum. I am a mentor for team 3139, Oxford Omega. The Peachtree Regionals were awesome. They were more exciting than I had ever expected. The social on Friday night was very fun as well. One of our kids got me to race him 3 times through the bouncy obstacle course! I think I'm, getting too old to be doing those things.

Congratulations to 1466, 1771 and the 3rd team that won the finals (sorry, can't remember your number)!!!

To our alliance members (team 34, 1848 and fill ins 1311), thanks you all for putting your faith in a rookie team to join your alliance for the finals. I hate it for everyone that we had our issues. We had bought 2 new batteries for the regionals and we used one earlier in the day and were saving the last one up for the last match. Unfortunately, when we wired the positive and negative wires to the batteries, we crossed them and it caused us to fry all of our Jaguars when we turned the breaker on! Rookie mistake!! I guess you learn from your mistakes...

I am planning on making it to the finals at the Dome next month and hope to see some of you there.

Again, I had an awesome time and can't wait for next year. Thanks again to everyone who helped us along the way and who we met up with over the weekend; it was all well worth it!

Zach

Originally Posted by Tanner (Post 933050)

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5207857/highlight/54230

Made a little highlight thing for it, when I found it.

So, remember kids - always (and I mean always) make sure you've got your negatives and positives in the right place.

-Tanner

Originally Posted by Ken Streeter (Post 936461)

Thanks for sharing this highlight video -- reminds us of a kamikaze autonomous mission we set out on in our rookie year back in 2005 where we unintentionally drove a beautiful arc all the way across the field to ram an opponent robot at high speed and practically stuffed it into a goal. (As an aside, the robot we practically destroyed in autonomous ended up picking us during alliance selections to play defense...)

Originally Posted by Ken Streeter (Post 936461)

However, at the end of the 1261 runaway autonomous, the referee is waving a flag for the red alliance -- was a penalty actually given, and, if so, for what?

Originally Posted by Tanner (Post 936462)

I do believe a penalty was given on our alliance for having two of our alliance's robots in the far zone.

Originally Posted by Ken Streeter (Post 936463)

Ah, that does make sense -- didn't think of that penalty in this circumstance -- I'm simply glad to hear the penalty wasn't for "field damage" or anything of the sort.

Originally Posted by Weinberger (Post 936049)

To Ed Sparks and ALL team members of #34 the Rockets

What a thrill it was to go head to head defense against such a quick and magnificent machine!! As stated in previous posts, even at the buzzer the scores were up in the air. You've got an excellent team and I can tell that your mentors are extraordinary; (congratulations on the Regional Woodie Flowers award). Thanks for the great competition. Thanks to our alliance partners team 1466 Webb Robotics and 1771 N Gwinnett HS. .....

Originally Posted by Ed Sparks (Post 937112)

Thank you! We had a blast. I've never seen a finals quite like that before. You guys were tough and very deserving of #1 (We'll get 'ya next year :) ).

I had a very memorable weekend. Finalist, WFFA, Motorola Quality Award, and best of all, I became a grandfather the same weekend. Happy birthday Elaina Mckenzie Johnson !