2011 BAE Granite State Regional
 

Alright, who is excited? :)

Team list is looking packed with 53 teams! Teams that stick out to me that are either here for the first time or haven't ventured up in a while include 61,69,95,176,213,836,1138,1772, and 2010.

4 rookies on the list as well: 3451,3467,3566,and 3585.

This will be a fun year!

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Can't wait, 126 will be there again and we are anxious to see the teams that will be there as well...is this your first time at BAE?

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Heck yea! 562 is ready and raring, be wary of the bulldog, he tends to hug!

I've been thinking about organizing an unofficial programmer's social at the arena. Anyone up for the idea or willing to work with me on it feel free.

OT: (WOOT 50th post :D)

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It isn't my first BAE, I have been attending since 2003! I was a former 1519 member and I am now working with team 3467 out of Windham NH.

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Good Luck to our rookies (who hopefully like 3467 have veteran mentors :D). We'll be sure to keep an eye out for you.

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Team 836 has been their before,, just as you said,

its been awhile :)

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1729 Will be there :D

If any of you rookies need anything (or anyone else for that matter) come on by our pits.

... and looking at the list of teams, it's going to be an awesome regional.

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In case anyone hasn't seen this recently, there's an option to pre-order your food from the arena food services folks. The link for the order form is at the bottom of this page: http://www.baesystemsfirst.org/regio...ed_to_know.htm

Trying to Help

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As always, team 134 will be there

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I am very excited for the GSR this year. It will bt my 2nd year in a row attending with a new team!

Can't wait to see old friends and new faces!

Best of luck to all teams.

Rob

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BAE should be an epic event this year. The team list seems to be even more stacked than usual and nothing matches the electricity of the Verizon Center during finals! I am very excited to see what unfolds! See you there!

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95 is looking forward to Manchester, as always. I think we'll be bringing a real honey of a 'bot this year.

I've also spent a bit of time with 3585 out of Claremont NH. They have a great facility, coaches and really eager students. I think they are shaping up to have a great rookie year. Keep an eye for them.

Manchvegas or Bust!

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I'm definitely excited to be attending GSR too! :-) It seems like the competition is particularly strong this year; the average 2010 OPR and CCWM stats for the 2011 GSR team list are 1.5 and .3 respectively... each .5 points above the international average! Although I don't put that much stock in those metrics, it is telling that the attendants of a Week 1 regional are well above the average!

1519 will be looking forward to play with 3 of our alliance partners from last year (1058, 1073, and 1772) and many other friends! Best of luck to all teams!

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Look out for 126....:eek:

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I was working just outside of Manchester this week, and just flew out a couple of hours ago. I am looking forward to flying back there in 3 weeks!

BAE Granite State was the first FIRST competition I ever attended as a mentor. It holds a special place in my heart! Glad we are coming back this year!

On another note, since we (in the DC area) haven't had the snow related issues we had last year, we do want to offer any help to teams at the Granite State regional who may need assistance - mechanical, electrical, or LabView related. Just look for the members of our RAP (Robobees Assistance Program) team. We would be happy to assist!

Steve

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166 will be there, and as usual, you can always come and ask us for help with anything Mech, C++, or (maybe) Labview related.
Zuelu562, that sounds like an awesome idea! I'd definitely participate, if my team would give our software team enough time with the robot that we can finish our code...

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Haha, sounds like our team, at least we have a practice board to make sure code works how we want it to (for now). We're not even close to being ready to set up the actual electronics on the robot (scary).

Once we get past Bag let's get some programmers together from the regional and organize it.

Side note: In case you didn't see it, since GSR is a Bag event, we can drop off our robots on Wednesday.

Going to be checking with the regional director about pit setup on Wednesday.

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Team 1831 will be attending :D Im so excited to see everyone again :3

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Hey there! I'm a senior on HYPER (69) but it'll be my first time up at GSR. I have a few friends who have been there who said it's great, so I can't wait to get there. See you all there!

And to the person who was talking about an informal programmer social, I would agree that would be pretty cool xD

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TPNigl, like I told Matt from 166 let's butt heads about getting the programmer's social together after bag. I think we've all got more than enough on our collective plates at the moment. Also, send me a PM, I have a question for you about the photosensors on the field.

Also, about Bag Drop off, I've been hearing rumblings about NOT being able to set up pits on Wednesday Night Drop-Off, be aware.

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176 will be back at BAE this year, after a 4 season hiatus from the event. We're all looking forward to a great competition :)

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For the Excellence in 3d Animation competition, we have 166 (Chop Shop), 1519 (Mechanical Mayhem), 58 (Riot Crew), 811 (Cardinals), 562 (S.P.A.R.K.) and 95 (Grasshoppers) competing this year! Good luck to all 6 of us!

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Does anyone have a copy of a schedule for the event?

Thanks!

Trying to Help

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So excited for GSR 2011! Cannot wait to compete and see everyones solution to Logomotion! Just gotta get used to those backwards logos from the driver station...

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1073 will be there again! While several of us were scouting at Week 0 yesterday, our problems from Unveiling were fixed!

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This is the official stance. From the email sent to GSR attending teams by Brian Belley:

It is permissible to bring the bagged robot in Thursday morning at 7:45 for the same inspection, if you really can't make it Wednesday night. If a lot of teams elect to do this it will result in a lot of delayed unbaggings, so I'm really hoping teams take advantage of Wednesday night. Also at this time teams will be allowed to send in up to 5 team members to unbag the robot (assuming it has passed bag/tag compliance) and load in any pit equipment. At 8:30 the main doors will open and the rest of the teams and spectators can enter.

So, short answer is: Wednesday night is for dropping the robot off only. Anything else, including opening the bag, is verboten.

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Why not kill two birds with one stone though? Let teams simply drop off equipment in the pits and not touch it. What are the other BnT regionals doing Wednesday night?

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I wish they did that too! Even if it was one load of stuff on Wednesday night since Thursday morning can be a pain with only three people for an entire pit!

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Thursday

7:45 AM - 3 Teamp Reps to uncrate
8:30 AM - Pits and Machine Shop open
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Registration/Inspection
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Practice Rounds
12:00 - 1:00 PM - Lunch
1:00 - 4:30 PM - Practice Rounds
8:00 - Pits and Machine Shop Close

Friday

8:00 AM - Pits and Machine Shop Open
9:00 - 9:30AM - Opening Ceremonies
9:30 AM - 12:00PM - Seeding Matches
12:00 - 1:00PM - Lunch
1:00 - 5:00PM - Seeding Matches
5:15 - 6:00PM - Awards Ceremony
6:30PM - Pits and Machine Shop Close

Saturday

8:00AM - Pits and Machine Shop open
9:00 - 9:30AM - Opening Ceremonies
9:30AM - 12:15PM - Seeding Matches
12:15PM - 12:30PM - Alliance selections
12:300 - 1:30PM - Lunch
1:30-4:30PM - Final Rounds
4:45 - 5:45 PM - Awards Ceremony
6:30 PM - Pits close, crates packed

Hope that helps!

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Does anyone know if GSR will be webcasted? 254 and 1868 were hoping to use video from there to train our rookie scouts, but the regional website doesn't say anything.

Thanks!

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According to the NASA Website GSR will be webcast :D

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Awesome!
Thanks again, and good luck to all teams. First week regionals are a unique experience.

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I'm sorry to tell you this but that means nothing. Those are all of the week one events. Unless there is a link there you should assume it is not being broad casted.

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From a BAE GSR e-mail blast:

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FRC Team 175, Buzz Robotics will be in attendance. Anticipating another great year at BAE.

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Perhaps I'm slow, but isn't the regional in like 3 days? Has anyone seen the link for the supposed webcast? I just went thru the BAE site (http://www.baesystemsfirst.org/regional/) and didn't see any mention of a webcast. Please post a link to it here if anyone has it.
Thanks in advance

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It should come out later since they won't set it up until the regional is set up and it will only be broadcasting Friday and Saturday so it may only come up on Friday.

3 more days!

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Welcome to the longest three days in FIRST second only to 3 days before kickoff.

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Thank goodness we get to load in the robot on Wednesday!

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the GSR will be webcast
check out www.coderedrobotics.com for the schedule and link(s)

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I decided to do some Looking Forward style predictions for this event, just for fun.

20 has produced yet another solid entry for BAE. They looked impressive at their scrimmage, building on their maneuverable 2010 drivebase. Their gripper didn't look the best, but there was already talk of improvement. Expect a solid showing at BAE, although it will take a lot of work and luck to pull off a regional win.

1493 is not exactly a team notable for victory, but they had a surprisingly strong entry this year. Featuring a unique octagonal holonomic base with vertical lift, 1493 will turn some heads at BAE with their agility and surprisingly quick scoring ability. Expect them to fall to the second round of the draft, rounding out a lower seed alliance that scouts well enough to cause at least one major upset.

175 and 176 both performed very well at Suffield. 175 had one of the only functioning minibot, which wasn't great, but was consistent enough to propel them through the eliminations. Both robots scored consistently and should make an impact at BAE.

126 has a very simple, yet impressive tube scorer, showing off a consistent autonomous mode before ship date. They performed well with 1519, another impressive scorer, at the Week Zero event. If these two teams get together, they have a strong shot at taking the regional.

40 is possibly the very first Pink-clone to take the field this year, and they certainly did a great job on their robot. They have their strongest chance to take BAE since 2008, and should be playing in the final match of the event.

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What time does Code Red plan on putting their feed up? 10? I'm getting it broadcasted through my school and am just wondering what time we need to put up the webcast.

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Chris thanks for the shoutout on 1493. We have high hopes for this year. Started off a little slow today new gripper design needed some adjustment but we are looking good heading into friday. Special thanks to team 20 for giving us new gear box to save our gripper.

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Their website is down (I blame sales dude for making IT reboot the web server).

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Anybody have a link to the match schedule?

3467 is hoping to finally be able to deploy our minibot on the real pole tomorrow! :)

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were do you watch the live webstream of this competition. Can someone give me the link?:confused:

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www.coderedrobotics.com/webcast

That should be the webcast link.

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Hello, everyone!

The Programmer's Social will be held tomorrow during the lunchtime by the stairs leading to the right side of the pits.

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The match schedule is up on the FIRST site:
http://www2.usfirst.org/2011comp/eve...edulequal.html

Good luck to all teams tomorrow - it's going to be a great day!

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Noting that I have not seen any robots this year from GSR. I would bet money that match 11 (78 and 1519 v.s. 69 and 126) has serious implications on the seeding tomorrow. Those are 4 teams that build robots capable of winning regionals every year.

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404 ERROR T.T :mad: boo I wanted to watch match 1 lol

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back up website is not working either. I really want to watch my team!

Go RoboBees!

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I can get to the webcast link, but it says off-air...

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It's working for me now. Match 6.


And then it went offline...

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Yeah I watching it too, but went off air as well. Hmmm guess I can watch NJ until Alamo starts

Edit: back online...knock on wood

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To those of you lucky enough to be able to get the webcast, where are all the penalties coming from? Thanks.

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Most of the penalties are coming from robots crossing into other teams feeding lanes (lane incursions).
We just had a match with a score of 100!

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Anyone else getting "Account Suspended" messages when navigating to any of the Code Red webcast pages?

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Unfortunately.
C'mon, I'm trying to watch my team and get paid for it at work! :)

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Try just the ustream.tv link:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/code-r...state-regional

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if you can't load coderedrobotics.com, try this:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/code-r...state-regional

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I can't watch the webcast... but there haven't been any match updates since 11:10. Did the field go down?

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The field was having problems and they broke for lunch early, but its working now.

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It's not working for me either. I get an "Account has been Suspended" from the link posted on BAE's website, and when I tried the other link given on this forum, it says that the channel is offline.

Does anyone else have any other links that they're watching the matches on?

Thanks for the help!

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I think it's safe to assume that the problem is on Code Red Robotics' end. Hopefully they'll figure it out soon.

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As of right now were 8 matches behind, we just finished 20 and should be on 28. Highest score in a match so far is 100 points.

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Is anyone else only getting audio and no video through the webcast?

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I don't have video. The general consensus, from what I've seen, is that no one has GSR video right now.

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It seems like team 40 is the team to beat. Fastest minibot and capping. 78 has quick capping as well.

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I think that code red robotics's host got mad at all their traffic, either that or a bill hasn't been paid. I hope it gets sorted out soon! It looks like they host at http://goredhost.com/ which is weird. As far as I can tell the billing is done at http://goredhost.com/members/

Maybe someone can get in touch with them and un-suspend the account. Oh and it looks like goredhost.com has some connection to http://www.newedge.com/web/guest/home as well as a registration at http://goredweb.com/ which is registered to an individual email.

Hope this helps.

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Is 131 as good as their ranking suggests? Or are they getting help from alliance partners.

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It looks like they've had a relatively easy schedule up to this point. However match 28 they didn't have traditionally good new england teams on their side of the field they still put up good numbers.

I don't have any knowledge of this year's robots though, just my BAE goodness-o-meter from previous years.

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I missed most of the New Hampshire webcast due to the Code Red tech dificulties. There is nothing on the Blue Allliance site. Is there going to be any video archive on Friday's game?

Thank you in advance

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They probably wont' be up for at least a week after comps! :(


3467 had an amazing day and thanks to all our partners who helped us go as far as we did today! 7/8 deployments successful with the only one missed when we were pushed from the tower (7 were first place and one was second by a split second). We had an amazing day and we cannot wait until tomorrow!

Good luck on the last day of competition from all of us over here on 3467!

WIND IT UP!

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Anyone know what happened to 20?

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The webcast was down most of the day, but it looked like they had drivetrain problems in the few matches I did catch.

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They had driver station problems for their matches in the morning. They are working now and have a good minibot (the only one we have lost too but it was close ;) ) and they can score tubes on the top rack. I can see them rising up tomorrow!

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Yes, we had driverstation problems. One of the inspectors had us reimage our new classmate needlessly which pretty much bricked it, then neither of our programming mentors' laptops seemed to be able to connect, nor our old classmate. We got a loaner classmate (thanks to 1493, who offered to let us use theirs), and will use that for tomorrow.

Also, we had the wrong braker on our lift motor, causing it to trip and shut down, taking the rest of the CAN network with it. We took it off CAN and put a bigger breaker in, and its now working fully.

We look forward to playing a few more matches tomorrow!

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This post could not have been more accurate!

When Match 11 was first played in the morning, 3566, 78, and 1519 lost to 69, 166, and 126 by a score of 49-66. However, 3566's robot did not move due to field issues, which resulted in a replay of the match (and Matches 8-10, as well, for the same reason - it was apparently an issue with the driver station, I am not sure about the details). Match 11 was replayed as the last match of the day, at almost 7PM, due to the delay issues earlier in the day, and the 3566, 78, 1519 alliance topped the 69, 166, and 126 alliance by a score of 90-34 thanks to awesome tube scoring from 78, tube ferrying by 3566, solid scoring from 1519, and back-to-back mini-bot strikes from 1519 and 3566.

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Just a quick update on GSR field issues:

There have been numerous field issues, including a unclear matter regarding CAN bus robots. Teams using CAN bus have been advised that it can't be assured to work on the field. It doesn't seem to be consistent, and no one can replicate the issue, but 95 spent several matches dead before it was pointed out.

We've rewired to use PWM, as has at least a few other teams. Hopefully the issue is eventually resolved, but at this point we're scared off of canbus (I'm calling it can't bus for now).

I'll be curious to see if this has cropped up at any other regionals, or if it's isolated to this field.

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You are using Java, right? We are too. The guy who was helping us thought that is was the Java CAN bus that had an issue. We had issues until we found that one of the jaguars' breakers was being tripped, causing the bus to die (as stated above).

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We are indeed using java. I hadn't heard that theory, but I suppose it's plausible as any. I'm sure it will all get figured out in the coming days.

Oh well. We ended up not using any of the cool CAN bus tricks the jags offer, so it didn't really lose us much besides two matches and a lot of now messy wiring.

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We had CANbus issues prior to ship and couldn't get it to be stable. We pulled it out and replaced it with PWMs a week before ship and have had no issues since. We run Java and we believe the issues are between Java and Can, and not the hardware.

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Is anyone having audio problems with the webcast?

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unfortunately :/

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I hope they fix it soon.

Congrats Sue Hay on the Woodie Flowers award.

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Lol for anyone that passes the video feed recording station, that computer setup is mines. Please don't touch the case because it is highly top heavy. Also I'm recording the event lol

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Alliances
131, 40, 20
811, 3074, 1058
175, 1519, 176
95, 78, 885
836, 3467, 3323
58, 172, 126
3566, 61, 166
1729, 69, 1073

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The #3 and #1 alliances are scary good. Great job on scouting, teams - can't wait to see the showdown.

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Someone got a tube on the tower. The best part? It actually prevented a team from deploying their minibot (from what I would see) .

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The real best part? It was against themselves, from what I could see. And they still won.

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Congratulations to 175, 1519 and 176 for an impressive win.

I felt a little guilty watching the game from poolside down here in Florida... But I got over it... :rolleyes:

All four minibots scored in the last match... Very Impressive! Minibots most definitely made the difference at this regional...

Regards,

Mike

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Congrats to 175, 1519, and 176 on winning the Regional! Thanks or putting on a good show through webcast.

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Where is Woody?

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On behalf of team 836, I would like to congratulate the following teams:

Congrats to Team 166 for winning this year's BAE Systems Chairman's Award!

Congrats to Team 131 for winning the Engineering Inspiration Award.

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1138 won the Judges Award!!! :D :D :D :D :D

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The real real best part? I was coaching the human player that landed that tube....and three days prior while discussing how to throw tubes he asked me what to do if one of his throws were to ring around the tower. I told him it probably wasn't possible. He proved me wrong. Very wrong.

But anyway... a big thanks to 175 and 1519 for a great afternoon!!!

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I have no clue how 176 fell to the 14th pick of the draft. Incredible.

Congratulations 175, 1519, 176.

Great job 20 on getting it together in time for the finals.

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Thank you!! :)

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It feels awesome to finally get a banner after 17 years of 166 existing. I'm not sure if anyone on our team is going to get sleep at all tonight because they are still so excited! I recorded our award being announced and the finals and uploaded them to youtube, here are the links:

Chairman's:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_R9Lym97hA
Finals Match 1:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6nIIO2jtfI
Finals Match 2:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPAvWFsqRcA