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Re: BattleCry@WPI 12 - Reg opens 4-April

The NUTRONS had a great event. We loved having another chance to compete with 2648, they are an amazing team, and it was great to compete with 2079, you guys were really what we need to complete the alliance. Hopefully we'll see all of you at the Beantown Blitz on June 4th!

Re: BattleCry@WPI 12 - Reg opens 4-April

The Aluminum Falcons, FIRST Team 2168 would like to thank:

WPI staff, students, Solidworks, BAE Systems, and other supporting sponsors for once again running one of the best east coast post season events.

FRC176 Aces High - Thanks for picking us in the vast field of options and for playing some solid defense with your rookie drivers. (On a personal note it was rather cool to work with my high school team again.)

FRC157 Aztecs - To our "random selected partner" you were the perfect compliment to our gameplay, running us tubes, and playing smart. Thanks.

FRC175 Buzz - Thanks for letting us run your spare minibot throughout all of Saturday, it was pretty key to most of our wins. Good luck at your other offseason events.

This event was truely great for our kids. To see our robot finally perform at the level we knew it could was a very proud moment for myself and the rest of the team. In one match we managed to score an ubertube, 8 tubes, and a minibot, I had no idea our drivers could pull that off.

Re: BattleCry@WPI 12 - Reg opens 4-April

I had a lot of fun looking from the outside in as a volunteer this time around. I rejoiced, suffered and hung out with almost every drive team at BC12, and had a great time in the process. Thanks to all the teams for making the event as electric as it was.

To my fellow volunteers, specifically Koko Ed (Mr. Ed Patterson), Ruth Toomey and most of all, the coordinator Colleen, thanks for taking me under your wing for the weekend and having a great time in the process. I hope to work with all of you again.

Look out, we've got a new volunteer on the loose!

Re: BattleCry@WPI 12 - Reg opens 4-April

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Originally Posted by jwfoss (Post 1063106)

This event was truely great for our kids. To see our robot finally perform at the level we knew it could was a very proud moment for myself and the rest of the team. In one match we managed to score an ubertube, 8 tubes, and a minibot, I had no idea our drivers could pull that off.

Justin -

I know it might have been crazy on my part as an alliance captain, but I picked 2168 knowing and trusting that you guys could do exactly what we needed; put the alliance on your back. I didn't even walk onto the field with a pick list. I knew 2168 would be there, round after round, to put up more points by themselves than 2 decent robots together.

Showing up to an event with 9 out of 10 students being freshmen and coming out the 8th alliance captain put us in a scary position. We struggled every match to put up a single tube. It might have been crazy, and I know it was a bummer our usual drivers weren't there to put up 5 or 6 tubes, but it really gave 2168 the opportunity they so well deserved to finally shine. Your fantastic tubing, totally in sync with the tube running of 157 was the reason we got as far as we did.

Good luck in the future, you guys have amazing things ahead of you

Re: BattleCry@WPI 12 - Reg opens 4-April

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Originally Posted by JackS (Post 1063068)

Congrats to 1519, 1073, and 238 for putting on quite a show in the finals. I'd like to thank Teams 121 and 3044 for being great alliance partners and even though we lost to the eventual winners it was still fun. And I'd also like to thank all of the volunteers and WPI for putting on a great event. I know I saw KoKo Ed in queuing and some RPI students on field reset, you guys really kept everything running smoothly the whole time. It was my first BattleCry and it definitely won't be my last.

Also, to James Temple of 176 it was so cool to see you take town the 40-78 alliance that I was certain had too much firepower for anyone to stop. And to Steven Greco it was awesome watching you guys in the finals and too bad you couldn't take it home.

If I remember correctly the awards went as follows:

BattleCry STAR- A mentor and multiple event volunteer from 40
Best BattleCry- 2648
Top Gun- 78
Awesome Offense- 40
Dominating Defense- 2523
Noncombatant Service- 1991
Purple Heart- 2079
Medal of Honor- 3280
General Staff- 2791
General Staff-?
General Staff-?
Air Superiority- (1519)?
Engineering Excellence-?

Hopefully others can fill in the holes.

Air Superiority was actually 134.
Engineering Excellence was 190.
One of the General Staff was 131.
The name of the BattleCry STAR award winner is Karen Pringle, a longtime mentor and FIRST volunteer (i.e. 15 years).

Also, if anyone is interested in watching the "Twelve Song" intro video again, here's a link to it on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq8HK...el_video_title.

Re: BattleCry@WPI 12 - Reg opens 4-April

Team 166 had the best time we could have considering our elevator had broken in our last match at championships and we were unable to to repair it in time for battlecry because we had just gotten it back 3 days before the competition. However we proved that our robot a can also play amazing defense leading us to go 6-1 in qualifications. We have (hopefully) fixed the elevator now so it will be ready for mayhem in merrimack.