Palmetto Regional - South Carolina

[Frank L.]

New Regional...For all teams planning to participate in the first Palmetto Regional...."Welcome" You are in for a treat. The venue, the Colonial Center (USC's basketball facility), is brand new and spacious. The planning committee is working to make this one of the best Regionals ever. Our plans are to send to each team that will be participating a packet of information prior to your travel. Currently, the Regional is shaping up to be an extremely competitive one, as well as the usual...fun. Should you have any questions please contact us and we will try to answer. More information to come. Frank L.

[Kel D]

The Firebirds are certainly excited to come. Does anyone know what there is around to do, if there is time to do anything else but robotics .

[Tytus Gerrish]

its Going to be awesome

GO SPAM #180

[Gary Dillard]

We never had any doubt that going to the backyard of 343 and 342 (MIM and the Burning Magnetos) would be great! We were honored to partner with each of you at regionals in 2002 and 2003 respectively - can't wait for this year.
Still not sure if I'll be coming personally since we're splitting the team for 2 regionals this year - I'l be there in spirit though; any word on a webcast?

[Frank L.]

Great to hear for you... Gary, we can only hope to provide the exceptional level of hospitality that you showed us in our rookie year (2000) in Florida. Always great to work with your team...you guys sat the standard...we have only tried to follow. On the webcast...we are working on that...will keep you informed.

[Jonathan M.]

Only 15 days until Palmetto! I can't wait, I want to meet as many students on other teams as possible at this regional! So if you would please list your full name and team number I'll do my best to track you down and hang out with you, share FIRST stories etc. Only 15 days and 3 hours to go!

I'm Jonathan Minor, on 845 Cutting Edge. I'll be the really loud kid with (hopefully) blue hair screaming at many matches, and helping out other teams that have trouble with their robots!

P.S. Can't wait to see Doug (MiM's robot) in action this year! We'll finally be at the same regional yay!

[IMDWalrus]

If I'm not mistaken, Palmetto will be the farthest 818 has ever traveled for a regional...

I'm not quite looking forward to the bus ride (12 hours...ugh), but I think I'll have a great time in South Carolina. I've even found more proof that I'm a true FIRST geek...I'm excited about seeing robots I wouldn't have seen anywhere else!

Right now, I'm a bit more excited about this weekend's Detroit Regional. Give it a week, though, and I'll be pumped up for Palmetto...

[Jay W.]

I'm Jay, Cutting Edge #845, I'll be hanging around with Jon. I'll have either an old Clemson hat (go Tigers) or blue hair. I'm looking forward to the SC regional, I know ComBBat and The Flashbacks from the UCF regional will be there, can't wait to see the the other teams, good luck!

[Frank L.]

Just returned from a Palmetto Regional planning committee meeting today in Columbia....things are moving very quickly...glad to hear from you guys (818) that you are planning to make the trip...12 hours is a long way, but our goal is to make this be best experience of any regional that you attend. I made that 12 hour trip several times to Mich....Kettering (sp?). Always enjoyed competing in your area. For all the teams that are participating in the Palmetto Regional...make sure you get your headcounts to USC for the team party...right now we have heard from around 25 teams with over 700 people planning to attend. Another thing...we are working on trying to get a webcast of the regional...we will advise as soon as we can regarding the webcast. See you in Columbia.

[Libby Ritchie]

Hey, team 818, we will see you at both Detroit Regional as well as in SC! Make sure we get a chance to talk. Good luck to you at both competitions!

We are very excited to come to Columbia! Thank you for the updates on the webcast. I hope it works out!!

[Charlie B]

Team 900 is looking forward to it. Will there be a practice field, or at least a practice pull-up bar, or practice IR beacons?

[Matthew_H]

I wonder how many teams that are coming to the Palmetto regional has already gone to a regional earlier in the season and how many is this the first one they will be attentending.

[ttedrow]

I did a quick count and 14 of 42 teams Palmetto regional will be their only regional.

Tim Tedrow

[Warren Boudreau]

Does anyone know if there will be room for a 10 ft bar to practice on?

[IMDWalrus]

Originally Posted by Warren Boudreau

Does anyone know if there will be room for a 10 ft bar to practice on?

I'm assuming that there will be if (and only if, unfortunately) one of the area teams brings their playing field along with them.

Bit out of the question for us - we're already hauling enough stuff as it is.