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Unread 22-03-2003, 20:38
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FIRST seriously screwed this one up.
dude, how else are they supposed to do it? Some regionals would only have like one or two animations if they did it regional by regional. Autodesk has said that they are adamant about this system staying in place because of this. They obviously have put a lot a though into how this works, and seriously, it just gives you more chances to win.

On another note, We won it at Great Lakes!!!!!!!!!!!!! Our team is not competing there but we were there to do scouting!!! Anyone who was there probably saw the 5 members of our team who were there run down and grab the trophy!!!

I just saw the awards for St. Louis, and it looks like 1182 is our biggest competitor b/c they took first at st. louis and got an "honorably mention"(2nd or 3rd, it doesnt say) at Great Lakes.
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Unread 22-03-2003, 21:30
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Actually, 103 was not competing at all this weekend. The conference system was devised by Autodesk. Once you enter your animation at a regional your team attends, you automatically compete at all regionals in that conference.
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Actually, 103 was not competing at all this weekend. The conference system was devised by Autodesk. Once you enter your animation at a regional your team attends, you automatically compete at all regionals in that conference.
Oh and if anyone feels that this is just a personal attack on teams that win this way or Team 103 in particular just because my team didn't win, that is not the case at all. My team did not enter an animation this year. But if we had, I would be saying the same thing that I am now..

The system they have in place for this is just weird and needs to change. IMHO.
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Unread 23-03-2003, 07:22
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Elgin,

No offense taken. The system has confused many along the way, including our team.
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At the NYC regionals Team 522 ROBOWIZARDS! took first and couldn't do it without our alliance Team 694 StuyPulse and Team 421 Alfred E. Smith High School. Thanks Guys!!! Great job.
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At the NYC regionals Team 522 ROBOWIZARDS! took first and couldn't do it without our alliance Team 694 StuyPulse and Team 421 Alfred E. Smith High School. Thanks Guys!!! Great job.
Wow! Three teams to make a winning animation...
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woo-hooo!!!!!!

we won great lakes, it was really cool too.

Umm.... let me see... second plave was the thunderchickens 217 (the batman themed animation)

third was 1182. there animation was about the first symbols (circle, square, and triangle) building a roobt to reacxh the top. Kinda cute, and nice for a rookie team.

soo....we'll see you all in Midwest, whoever is going, and please stop by team 74's pit. We'll be there (myself and chris) and we really want to meet alot of you guys.
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NORTH EAST RESULT TO DATE

Well I have the official results from the NORTH EAST Regional- This excludes the New Jersey- Mid Atlantic Regional wich I think is this weekend.

If you go to the Regional Results on the usfirst.org site you can find the first place winners. No other animation results are listed. I got these from the Autodesk AVA coordinator- (Kelly) and she only answerd my request with a list of the teams that are moving on and not what place and where they won. I thought this might cheer up a couple of teams- as it did mine.

103, 75, 288, 166, 500, 230, 271, 151, 178, 270. (THESE TEAMS ARE MOVING ON TO THE Championships) Congrats to all.
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WOOO-FREAKIN' HOO! Bwahahahahaaa.... Thank you to everyone who voted us high points....


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Is that even possible? There are ten teams in that list... Unless they started skipping the duplicate wins in their count of top three...


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Unread 25-03-2003, 16:08
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i dont know about the rest of you...

i wasn't so much disappointed with the method with the whole confernce thing. It was actually the implementation.

I don't know about the rest of the regionals. The two I went to, the animation judging was in the PIT. On a regular TV. I couldn't hear a thing. The volume was maxed out and I had my ear up against the speaker, and I couldn't make out what they were saying. It was ridiculous! Teams using dialogue to convey their message, or even just part of it, were screwed!

The Verizon center has special booths for people to watch events. Why couldn't we go up there to judge the animations? And there can't be only in two rooms in an entire building. There has to be someplace else where the judging can take place.

It came down to whose looked the best.
And from what I saw, that was 103 by far.


...You guys got told who you're second and third place was? They just announced the first place at both regionals. Left the rest of us hanging as to who else was moving on.

I found this year's animation judging to very upsetting. It seems to me that the Animation judging was thrown in as an afterthought. That it was a blow-off type thing. "Who cares what they think, they're just animation"? I hope they improve upon it future years. This was just absurd.
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103, 75, 288, 166, 500, 230, 271, 151, 178, 270. (THESE TEAMS ARE MOVING ON TO THE Championships) Congrats to all.
Does anyone know where I can find documentation of this, my team (166) is listed and i want to confirm that we are advancing since we were never notified

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Unread 25-03-2003, 16:52
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Is that even possible? There are ten teams in that list... Unless they started skipping the duplicate wins in their count of top three...
Well I know 103 three won twice in our conf. and I'm sure there was another duplicate. I'm surprised there were 10 I thought there'd be less. It would seem that the cream should keep rising to the top. But the judging is very subjective and (no Offence) but some of you are not fully trained to evaluate these. It takes years of experience to do that. Even many professionals have trouble in this area. And given the conditions of the viewing for judging that just adds to the ability to focus and hear and truely evaluate all the entries. The main reason I think some of you may have been unprepaired is that Autodesk assumed that everyone reviewed and fully understood the catagories and many other students pointed out in other threads that they wondered if some teams even read the entry form because they couldnt identify the answers to the required element- What Does FIRST Mean to Your Team?. These Animators are the same ones that are judging the animations too... Dont get me wrong- I feel that you can all do it- if there is time spend learning how to evaluate.

In our conf- there were 10 teams that are going on to the Professional Round of Judging- That doesn't include the NJ regional that is this weekend. I dont mind that there are 10 teams because I want as many teams as posible to get the opportunity to win. But- in theory (based on my oppinion which is based on my experience) there should only be 5-6 teams that continually rise to the top, if all the criteria are followed for the catagories. Technically there should be the same 3- but the system allows for the a subjective eye which exists in all of us. Anyway I hope three more teams are added to the list just to give more teams the opportunity to move on.

Good luck to all the other conferences as wee wind down the last few weekends and approach the Championships.
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Does anyone know where I can find documentation of this, my team (166) is listed and i want to confirm that we are advancing since we were never notified

*I hope its true *
I got an email from Kelly at Autodesk- The email was based on my request and not from any official document. It was part of the answer to a larger email addressing many of the other concerns we all have/had.

I coppied and pasted from her email- So As long as she didnt miss type then ITS TRUE. CONGRATS- If we find out that there was a mistype- then I have a copy of the email to prove I wasnt making it up!!

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Wow! Three teams to make a winning animation...
Obviosly they failed to read the title of the post here.

Those were the winning alliance members at NYC, not the winning animation team. 103 won @ NYC...
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Unread 26-03-2003, 13:27
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We won the Chairmans Award and the Dtiving Tomorrow's Technology Award

Teams 384, 302, and.... won 1st
Team 103 won the website award
Team 1038 won the Animation award
Team 365 won the spirit award

im not exactly positive on the rest...
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