The regional is looking pretty good in its new facility, Hamilton High is a very nice campus, plenty of free parking, the pits in the hallway is working pretty good, the gym looks like it is going to be big enough to handle the crowds, and the food is decent and reasonably price. Just try and find an arena out here that can say the same thing.
Teams have been wonderful with the inspectors. Lots of cooperation and eagerness to make things work. Kudos to Karen from 842 for building us a 5V power supply to run the radios at the WPA kiosk.
Knocked out a lot of issues with radios and software versions. Some teams are trying to use last year's radios. Can't do it, and its tough to tell them they have to find a DLINK and a converter in order to compete, especially when their school is several hours away.
Be sure to have memory sticks with 2.27.11 version of the DS and v28 of the cRIO image available. Had to update many teams' DS software and a few cRIO images.
It was good to meet Andrew, nice to see CA represented by 330, always fun to see the NERDS again and 842 is always impressive to watch. Bienvenidos and buena suerte to the two teams from Mexico, you know this is going to be a loud and FUN regional when you have Fervot (3462), Tecbot (3158), and Orange Crush (1011) in the same room, going to have to dust off my earplugs
Well, suns coming up, time to head to Chandler.