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Akash Rastogi 01-04-2012 18:58

Re: 2012 Washington DC Regional
 
All of 3929 wants to give a huge shout out and congratulations to 357 for winning and 1218 for being finalists. Great work guys!

Grim Tuesday 01-04-2012 19:17

Re: 2012 Washington DC Regional
 
Oh, one other thing: The speech by the Mayor of DC on Friday morning was totally inappropriate and somewhat offensive. You could tell that the astronaut was joking about "it being all about winning", but I'm not sure that this guy was.

It was cool to attend a regional with Dave Lavery; I got him to sign my shirt! :D I tried to get John Dudas to sign it too, but he disappeared before I could find him.

RoboMom 01-04-2012 19:29

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Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday (Post 1152382)
The advent of that "teams inspected" projector was one of the best ideas I have ever seen. It's only only useful to see where your team is in the inspection process, but it was also incredibly useful for us to see that during our first match of the day on Friday, we were partnered with an uninspected robot, and though we tried to get them inspected as quickly as possible

This "inspection tool" was developed by the Chesapeake head ref, Steve Shade, and LRI, Anne Shade, primarily to help the Chesapeake inspection team. There are a lot of codes for each team on that pit map, corresponding to different areas where the team has passed. I "managed" inspections at Chesapeake, and witnessed the side benefits, like you experienced, to have this posted for all to see.
I am hoping that more events inquire about using it.

Koko Ed 01-04-2012 19:41

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Originally Posted by RoboMom (Post 1152479)
This "inspection tool" was developed by the Chesapeake head ref, Steve Shade, and LRI, Anne Shade, primarily to help the Chesapeake inspection team. There are a lot of codes for each team on that pit map, corresponding to different areas where the team has passed. I "managed" inspections at Chesapeake, and witnessed the side benefits, like you experienced, to have this posted for all to see.
I am hoping that more events inquire about using it.

It was very useful to us in team que.
I would wander back into the pits and check who was and who wasn't passed and relay it back to Jeffrey so we could keep an eye out for unispected teams. I put it right up there with FLR's Media buttons as things that should be adopted on a national scale.

Ryan Dognaux 01-04-2012 19:53

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Originally Posted by Koko Ed (Post 1152447)
Oh, that's what those things were. I thought they were the DC version of crepes.

They had those too! The food options at this event were pretty awesome. I don't mind paying the venue prices when there's some variety, and there were plenty of other options within a couple of blocks of walking. Good job planning committee!

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Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi
All of 3929 wants to give a huge shout out and congratulations to 357 for winning and 1218 for being finalists. Great work guys!

Thanks! Congrats on your regional win as well. Quite the weekend for some Philly area teams.

Koko Ed 01-04-2012 19:54

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Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux (Post 1152509)
They had those too! The food options at this event were pretty awesome. I don't mind paying the venue prices when there's some variety, and there were plenty of other options within a couple of blocks of walking. Good job planning committee!

I haven't bought venue food since I became a volunteer. Si I never check what a venue has to offer.
The people who feed the volunteers do such an awesome job.

tim-tim 01-04-2012 20:04

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First off, I would like to congratulate FIRST Team 461 on earning the Chairman's Award.

Second, congratulations to FIRST Team 1885 on winning the Engineering Inspiration Award for the 3rd year in a row. We knew we would be up against some stiff competition. Well deserved!

Thanks to FIRST Teams 1218 and 141 for an amazing ride through the elimination rounds. It is too bad we all started to fall apart at the same time. Good Luck to you guys at the FiM and MAR Championships. You guys were awesome to work with!

Congratulations to FIRST Teams 467, 357, and 2914 on the Regional win. You guys played a great set of matches, which were very competitive. Can't wait to see you all in St. Louis!

Alexa Stott 01-04-2012 20:35

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Originally Posted by Duke461 (Post 1152393)
Could you please elaborate on the issue here?
-Duke

Section 2.2.3 of the game manual:
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The Players
Each FRC team may provide up to four Players for each Match: two Drivers, one Inbounder, and one Coach. The Drivers must be pre-college student team members and are responsible for operating and controlling the Robot. The Inbounders must be pre-college student team members and are responsible for entering Basketballs onto the Court. The Coach may be a student or adult team member. The Coach must wear the designated “Coach” pin or button during the Match.
And <G31>
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Only Inbounders may contact Basketballs; each Inbounder may hold a maximum of two Basketballs. During Teleop, Inbounders must remove Basketballs from the Corral immediately upon arrival. All Basketballs in the Alliance Station must be held by Inbounders once removed from the Corral.
Violation: Foul
Edit: you guys had a pretty awesome inbounder, by the way (not to mention overall a great team and robot). I saw him hit quite a few shots throughout the event.

Duke461 01-04-2012 22:22

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Originally Posted by Alexa Stott (Post 1152553)
Section 2.2.3 of the game manual:


And <G31>


Edit: you guys had a pretty awesome inbounder, by the way (not to mention overall a great team and robot). I saw him hit quite a few shots throughout the event.

I was the human player :D
I also had a lot of shots that just clanked off the front rim :rolleyes:

Oh, so you're saying multiple members of one team acted as Inbounders? At first i thought you meant you couldn't have the three human players inbounding basketballs. Interesting, i never noticed that, but i didn't get to watch a ton of matches.
-Duke

Alexa Stott 01-04-2012 22:33

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Originally Posted by Duke461 (Post 1152639)
I was the human player :D
I also had a lot of shots that just clanked off the front rim :rolleyes:

Nice! I was working behind the red alliance player station. You were one of the better ones out there this weekend that I saw!

Tsom467 01-04-2012 23:00

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FIRST Team 467 would like to thank FIRST Team 357 and FIRST Team 2914 for joining our alliance and becoming the DC Regional Champions! Extra thanks to 357 for giving us some aluminum stock so we could repair our bridge dropping arm. Also want to give credit to the student on 2914 (sorry I never got your name!) who was able to, in 6 minutes, tear down one drive wheel and replace a bent axle - amazing job under those stressful conditions!

Our scouting meeting on Friday night discussed what would be a "perfect" team - and we ended up being just that - everyone did their job perfectly. As the drive team coach, I don't remember being on an alliance that worked as well together as we did.

We are also very happy to be able to give a DC area team their first Regional win! Congrats!

Congratulations to FIRST Teams 1218, 836, and 141. We watched you play through the qualifications and eliminations, and knew we had a hard fight ahead of us.

Congratulations also to FIRST Team 461 for winning Chairman's. And a HUGE thanks to them for the Festo pneumatic valve!

We'd love to see you at Nationals - we've got to do some serious fundraising, in a short time (not to mention build a crate! :D ).

Thanks again!

Wetzel 01-04-2012 23:38

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Originally Posted by Tsom467 (Post 1152668)
FIRST Team 467 would like to thank FIRST Team 357 and FIRST Team 2914 for joining our alliance and becoming the DC Regional Champions! Extra thanks to 357 for giving us some aluminum stock so we could repair our bridge dropping arm. Also want to give credit to the student on 2914 (sorry I never got your name!) who was able to, in 6 minutes, tear down one drive wheel and replace a bent axle - amazing job under those stressful conditions!

Our scouting meeting on Friday night discussed what would be a "perfect" team - and we ended up being just that - everyone did their job perfectly. As the drive team coach, I don't remember being on an alliance that worked as well together as we did.

We are also very happy to be able to give a DC area team their first Regional win! Congrats!

Congratulations to FIRST Teams 1218, 836, and 141. We watched you play through the qualifications and eliminations, and knew we had a hard fight ahead of us.

Congratulations also to FIRST Team 461 for winning Chairman's. And a HUGE thanks to them for the Festo pneumatic valve!

We'd love to see you at Nationals - we've got to do some serious fundraising, in a short time (not to mention build a crate! :D ).

Thanks again!

That student is Ari, a junior and second year member of the team, and our only student with previous FIRST experience. We hope to see you in St Louis, we are building our crate tomorrow!

Wetzel

Tsom467 02-04-2012 00:04

Re: 2012 Washington DC Regional
 
Please give him a pat on the back from all of us! :D

Koko Ed 02-04-2012 02:59

Re: 2012 Washington DC Regional
 
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Originally Posted by Duke461 (Post 1152639)

Oh, so you're saying multiple members of one team acted as Inbounders? At first i thought you meant you couldn't have the three human players inbounding basketballs. Interesting, i never noticed that, but i didn't get to watch a ton of matches.
-Duke

This actually is not surprising as I have seen many teams playing it fast and loose with rules at several events. I actually caught a guy with a media pass go right up to a drive team during a match and start barking orders to them. I told him to go back and sit down. Looking back I should have just taken the pass from him and had him removed from the field.
Most of the teams that do this are lower end teams who obviously do not bother to read the rules so do things like bring whole entourages to the field (one team at Montreal to combat my stopping them bringing too many people onto the field due to a lack of driver button gave four extra driver buttons from a previous regional to other member so they could bring eight people onto the field) to having the wrong buttons (or even outright losing them) to having too many people handling the balls.
All these antics due is cause more work for already stressed out volunteers and it's neither funny or endearing. It's just stupid and unnecessary.

LinuxArchitect 02-04-2012 09:51

Most improved team award
 
Continuing with a new tradition that we started this year at the Chesapeake regional, GreenSTEMs and ERHS Robotics Team 53 are sponsoring a most improved team award, based on the simple net change in team rankings from 2011 to 2012. (Check my math!)

Improving from 57th to 16th for a net of +41 is team 3123, the Wildcogs from Owen J. Roberts HS in Pottstown PA.

Improving from 43rd to 8th, for a net of +43 is team 2849, Ursa Major from Hammond HS in Columbia MD.

And winning this year's award for the most improved team at the DC regional, improving from 58th to 14th for a net of +44 is team 2900, the Mighty Penguins from School Without Walls HS in the District of Columbia. A pizza party and trophy are on their way!

Congratulations to everyone on a great event, keep up the good work, and we look forward to seeing you again next year!

George


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