UCF regional 2004 update

[Ryan Albright]

Welll, we are here. We had a good day or practice alot of teams working and alot of team kinda. This is going to be one of the strong regionals this year. few robots looking good 21, 1083, 108, 179, etc. Hope people watch the webcast. Since we didnt have a "offical" social 1083 held a unoffical social at the bowling alley it was great fun thanks george for that. We are gonnna get some pics up from that soon so stay posted. I will keep a update on this thread

[RogerR]

any pics from the competition? the webcast quality was ok, but that still doesn't really cut it for me

[miketwalker]

Originally Posted by RogerR

any pics from the competition? the webcast quality was ok, but that still doesn't really cut it for me

I didn't have my camera out today really... I just handed the camera around at the "social" to take pictures tonight, I'll post those tonight if I have the energy, otherwise tommorow night. Again... excellent job to team 1083 for a well put-together unofficial social. I'm excited for tommorow, some nice looking robots out there. Good luck to all!

[white_ChocOlat8]

i'd like to thank everyone for comeing to social it was awesome meeting all of the faces behind the names. also i would like to wish everyone a good luck in tommorows rounds.

[IsabelRinging]

Are those cowboy hats I see on 710's drive team?

/me is still watching the webcast...

Oh, and I wasn't watching earlier, so uh, what was our team DQed for in match 14?

[Alex Cormier]

what was with the match where no red robots were on the field...

[Koko Ed]

Aw man! Poor Heatwave!
I hope they can fix their robot.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

OMG.... 179 is AWESOME. i am watching the webcast.. i think it was match 71 or something but they ruled!

[Heretic121]

swap was doing nicely the 2 matches i saw 1 they hung the other they got both 2x's capped... i hope to see them at nats... =D and congrats to 945 for being in the lead

[Elgin Clock]

UCF Florida Regional Awards 3-12-04

Imagery Award - 233 - Think Pink!
Leadership in Control Award - 386 - Team Voltage
Xerox Creativity Award – 267 - Demolition Squad
Delphi Driving Tomorrow’s Technology Award - 945 - Element 945
Daimler-Chrysler Spirit Award - 79 - The Navigators
Judges Award - 61 - The Intimidators
Rookie Inspiration Award - 1402 - Freedom Patriots

Woodie Flowers Award - Team 108's Ken Ardizzone

Congratulations everyone!!

[Zorkinian]

Today (Friday) was a crazy day - the game just got more brutal as the day progressed. For those who don't know, you can find the (unofficial) rankings as of the end of Friday on www.soap108.com - it's under "events" or some such link like that. These probably aren't perfectly accurate, so take them with a grain of salt.

[Gabe Salas Jr.]

Originally Posted by Zorkinian

Today (Friday) was a crazy day - the game just got more brutal as the day progressed.

It is just going to get worse tomorrow, especially during the elimination rounds.

[miketwalker]

Originally Posted by Zorkinian

Today (Friday) was a crazy day - the game just got more brutal as the day progressed.

Yea, I agree... it was really bugging me. Our robot turned into a punching bag pretty much because of it's catching ability, teams were ramming us really hard and broke quite a few things.

[Zorkinian]

Yeah, ComBBAT was taking a beating - they really didn't like your basket, and felt a need to really mess it up. I saw you just had to retract it to protect it near the end of some rounds. Now, if that's what it was like during qualification matches...just imagine what the finals are going to be like. It'll be like last year all over again - except with giant towers and mighty hooks and arms.

[RogerR]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Aw man! Poor Heatwave!
I hope they can fix their robot.

i just got a call from steve, and since the broken peice was only PVC, they should be done fixing it well before the pits close tonight.