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Ditto the thanks to all the volunteers and sponsors. You guys are all there every year making this happen and we really, really appreciate it. You had a really stressful situation with the wifi interference, coms etc. but got it up and running. I hope you guys don't have to deal with these gremlins in the future. You ran a friendly professional ship. Great MC's Dan, Barry and George, you guys are awesome. Thanks to all the judges for the reviews of everyones hard work. We enjoyed having all the out of towners, 597, 341, 103, 1027, 2564 and 3549. So many rookies this year, thank you JC Penny... Wow...

233 - Guys.. Can you put the thing together before you ship it please? We had our usual scout meeting until 12:30am Friday night about the pink "improvement" factor. I bet other regionals don't have to deal with this because you come ready for business. Well our scouts were right and you guys rocked the house. It seemed like when we were off you were on. If we both played a perfect match we would have broke all the score records. Love you guys!

108 - Arefin, I really appreciate the compliment. I'm sure Andy and I feel the same way when I say it's an honor to have the privilege to coach, be part of and work with such great teams/people.

341 - Great to have you all, good folk and we hope you come back. Awesome machine, our scouts were torn on picking you.

103 - Congrats on the Engineering and Inspiration award, and to Jack for the Woody! You guys rocked and I loved the minibots.

180, 1902 and 3149 - Great job and awesome teams to come down to. Great minibots 180 and 3149, and all of you were great tube scorers. Us Florida teams are tough to beat, look out Einstein.

3242 - Wow, a second year team wins Chairmans, that's hard to do with teams like 79, 1902, 1523 ,1557 etc, etc, etc around. Keep up the hard work!

3622, 3520 - Great people on board starting these teams. You guys are in good hands, I expect great things!

And thank you Zach for the compliments, 1592, 744 and 801 was a scary alliance. You guys had some awesome tubeage.

945, great machine, very consistent with auto and logos

1251 you guys were incredible, I feel bad about the watchdog issues, without that I know you would have went all the way, I hope you get that worked out. and thank you Drew.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awBqmOvqsjQ

here is the armcam Video of the final round

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"Armcam"!! What a cool video!

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lots of footage to go through.... i'l get them all uploaded eventually

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That is the coolest thing ever! You can actually see me on the right side, the dude with the green hair and lime green big boots! Yep! That is me!

Florida Regional is always the da bomb! I always enjoyed being there and being a volunteer as an official scorer and website evaluator!

179- You guys always put the competitive edge on. Simplicity is bliss! Team 86 enjoys our long time rival of greenness! We will always be back next year. You guys are amazing!

233- Pink, The Famous Comeback Team. This is like the 4th year overall (from what I can remember) where issues has plagued your early progress until you guys came back and show off the amazing robot in the last few matches before the finals. Kudos to you pink guys! I had the honor to talk to Marian during the matches on the field and shared our stories.

Congratulations to Jack for winning the Woodie Flower award!

Thank to all of the amazing volunteers and staff who worked all the hours to make this amazing Florida Regional awesome and the way it is known around the world.


-Josh

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Panda is grateful for all the support and camaraderie we received from the "food group" teams! It turned out to be a great alliance that only had to fold to the one that was even more awesome...

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Luvin' the Plushies! :D

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It was definitely an amazing regional... even if I still don't have my voice back yet :yikes: Congrats to all the teams and I love Exploding Spamdamonium!! :p Looking forward to the South Carolina Regional next week.

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Anyone with pictures or video from the regional it would be awesome if you could post links here. Im sure we all missed alot while working on our robots.

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THANKS to everyone who contributed. We raised 328.03. We will be doing the same thing at Palmetto and then challenging our sponsors to match what we raise.

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i cant edit so il re-post

match #14 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOnruyS0r4U
match #23 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp8pQzumx1k
match #32 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9viMuZjGYBA
match #54 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuMFgwC49qw
match #61 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RTgHKxjS3s (new)
match #71 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LGVmh_NLn4
finals round #2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awBqmOvqsjQ

the pictures i took at the regional can be found here
http://s30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...gional%202011/

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The Florida Regional had two photographers this year, Michelle Celio and Victoria Burg, who took thousands of pictures (literally....thousands) during the event - in pit, on the field, awards. They are now both working feverishly to edit the pictures and deliver them to the Regional Committee. As soon as we get the pictures, we'll post them on the Florida Regional website and I'll make a post here letting you know they are up.

Sarah Plemmons
Chair, Florida Regional Planning Committee

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Thanks to Exploding Bacon and S.P.A.M. for showing the Pandas how alliance members can work together to be greater than ever expected.

As the number eight seed, we didn't expect to make the final. But with the help of 1902 and 180, the "Exploding Spamdamonium" alliance was not really challenged until the finals.

We got lucky during a couple of matches. But the scoring power of 180 and 1902 was something to behold. Add the solid minibot deployments from 180 and 3149 and we had a pretty good team.

During the final, S.P.A.M. mentors pitched in to help repair our minibot deployment device. Exploding Bacon sent a contingent of cheerleaders over to our small group of spectators and team members and taught them a Panda cheer, "P A N D A, panda, panda, all the way."

Thank you both for teaching us Pandas what First Robotics is all about.

Craig

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How are the pictures from the event coming? I'm hoping to use one in a presentation for work.