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Unread 12-03-2006, 22:25
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Re: 2006 Great Lakes Reigonal

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Originally Posted by Beth Sweet
Congrats to 1503, 1114 and 67! Now, we all get to wait and see the newly bald Karthik. I have it on good authority that his students get to shave his head!
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Yup. Before the season, I promised that I'd shave my head if both 1114 & 1503 won a regional... I'll have it done before Waterloo for sure, and maybe even before I go to Detroit this weekend.

As for the regional, what an amazing weekend. It seems like a lot of the teams were still in debug mode on Friday, but made big turn rounds on Saturday. Look out for 33 & 469 this season. With their turrets and camera aiming, look for them on Einstein in Atlanta. This robots have amazing potential.

The game play was very physical. We had robots coming at us from every direction in the finals. If it wasn't for HOT clearing us some space, things would have been very different. Robots who need lots of space and time to shoot are going to have difficulty on Saturday afternoon. The amount of defence (Canadian English ) raises exponentially during the eliminations.

Overall the Great Lakes Regional was a wonderful experience, and we look forward to defending our title next year.
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