Ok This will be an extremely long post so just bare with me please.
Starting with the good the bad and the ugly:
I'm deeply upset that our 3 yr pit lady has announced her leaving the FIRST community. I talked one on one with her and she had said that she was leaving FIRST and that was why the new pit announcer was being trained. Friday was the first time she had left the it Area and watched a few full rounds of nothing but Robot beating and banging. Now on to Volunteer Stats. Thursdays volunteer staff was undermanned. Friday and Saturday was a big improvement on staff. Field and seating setup I was a bit unhappy about considering that the judges tables were in front of the main seating for teams. This arrangement made it EXTREMELY difficult for me to take good picture and for those with camcorders to get a good video shot expicially when the Flow Control made its rounds 10 times per minute noting that we should kneel on our knees so that people in the stands. I am deeply hoping that maybe next years field setup should have the judges sit by the field control area so that people both on the floor and in the stands may watch the matches w/o interruption. I liked the fact that we were able to bring food to the pits and thank the regional coordinators for making this arrangement. As for the field and food issue I won't lie I did sneek cans of soda in but always cleaned up after myself. I am hoping that maybe in the distant future something will eventually work it self out like the other Pro Sports Games. Pits were roomy but felt small if your team had a lot of stuff and the team next to u had less stuff but eh! no problems whatsoever.
Now Onto the important stuff :-)
A Very big congrads. To the Regional Finalist
1 Time NYC FIRST! Regional Alliance Captain Team 233. You guys had an excellent and reliable robot espicially the seriousness in hanging. Remember Think Pink!
2 Time NYC FIRST! Regional in consecutive years (2003 - 2004) Team 522. You guys had an unbreakable beast and I wish you much luck and success in Atlanta. She Hangs She Hangs Oh Baby She Moves She Moves I Go Crazy She Hangs like a Monkey and her name is Libby She's built Like a Tank and she fights for McKee.
1 Time NYC FIRST! Regional Team 759. You guys were awesome in not only Blocking but in herding of the balls. The speed of your robot was simply awesome. espicially during auton when you guys went from one end to the other in under like 2 secs. UK ALL THE WAY!
And a personal thank you to Team 334. Thank You for allowing me to work on your robot I almost felt like I belonged there but eh! we'll see what the near future holds ;-) I share your pain in not seeing your robot as competitive as it should have been. I hope that you can fix the drive train during nationals so that you may be competitive. Once agin Congrads for the Award you recieved you deserved it and I'm sorry I couldn't do more.
Congradulations to all 33 Teams in which have registered for this event you all were awesome. Who would have guessed that all 4 Staten Island Teams would get to play the remaining matches of the Competition. That was so cool and next year I hope to see some more Staten Island Teams Head to Head Competing. Congradulations to all the Award Recievers you earned it. Mark our Head Referee. Though it didn't look like you did much these last 3 days you did make sure that teams were warned of penalties and trained fellow referees to watch for them. Excellent job and you deserve every ounce of that award. Be afraid I might want that nice award next year so watch for where I volunteer in lol :-)
Now Onto Pictures. I didn't take as many pictures as Day 2 but I do have some and will be available at
http://firstprojects.tripod.com around Sunday Night around 11PM EST. Kinda having issues with my camera and network.
Edit:// DUE TO THE LACK OF BEING BY THE FIELD I WAS ONLY ABLE TO GET A FEW PICTURES OF T.759. THE PICS I HAVE WILL GET UPLOADED TO CD PROBABLY ON TUESDAY
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Past FIRST Robotics Events that I proudly volunteered at:
FLL: NY State Competition '03
FRC: NYC Remote Kickoff '04 & NYC Regionals '04-'15 ,'10-'13 & NJ Regionals '06-'10, Finger Lakes Regional '09 & SBPLI Regional '08-'15 and the World Championship in '05 (Galileo Field) '07 (Newton Field) '09 (Practice Fields Attendant / FTA(A)), CeBIT Convention in '04 & NextFEST in '06 both held @ the Javitts Center, Monty Madness '07-'10, Panda-monium '08, B.Eruption '08 & '09, Ramp Riot '08, PARC '09 & '10, BR^2 '09 & Wol. Inv. '09 -'15
2015 FIRST Robotics Off Season Events that I hope to volunteer at:
Where is Wolcott Invitational
2015 FIRST Robotics Events that I will be volunteering at:
SBPLI Reg. & Championships
Volunteer Resume:
Alt & Lead Team Queuer, Field Repair/Reset, Field Setup/Breakdown, Spare Parts Attendant, Field Power Controller/Score Keeper, Co-Emcee & Official Scorer, Control System Advisor, FIRST Tech Advisor Assistant & recently Practice Field Attendant.