2008 NASA/VCU Regional

[Lil' Lavery]

Guess I'll make it three years in a row, although this thread might not be as hot this year with VCU's move to week 2.
I'm hoping I can make it down from Philly to attend, but we'll see. Good luck to all the teams, and keep VCU as the best regional.

[September]

I'm personally glad we got moved down from the first week. I get another week to relax, make college decisions, apply for a job, and do stuff...

[Joe Matt]

Hopefully we'll get some NJ teams down here finally since we no longer compete with their regional...

[JesseK]

Bleh, moving VCU to week 2 takes away so many options for us for our 2nd competition since there are rules in the county that say no back to back competitions

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Joe Matt

Hopefully we'll get some NJ teams down here finally since we no longer compete with their regional...

Two years qualifies as finally? NJ only moved to Week 1 in 2006. Remember 1279 coming down from NJ in 2005 and dominating the qualification rounds (then getting dominated in the elimnations)?

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Two years qualifies as finally? NJ only moved to Week 1 in 2006. Remember 1279 coming down from NJ in 2005 and dominating the qualification rounds (then getting dominated in the elimnations)?

Doesn't count, I didn't know my friends in NJ FIRST yet so I couldn't brag to them about how VCU > Trenton.

[sporno]

I cant wait for VCU this year , its gonna be tight

I wanna see alot of the rookies from last year and see how they do , like the turtles , 2186 , and the goochland team

[DRH2o]

Team 1598 is registered

[dlavery]

Team 116 is registered.

-dave

[DRH2o]

Dave,

Saw you on Discovery HD the other day. Great show !!

[VanMan]

Its going to be AWESOME. I can't wait until we know what the goal is. I think our team is going to be in the guinness book of world records soon for our massive collection of turtles. I'm excited.

[geeknerd99]

401 will be there. We're probably going to have a personnel issue with the whole concert band festival thing though. I've already been excused, and the rest of the projected drive team isn't in band, but most of our team is in band. We're working it out though.

[gblake]

Folks - FYI - For those of you who liked the 6-player Overdrive Simulation we (Lockheed Martin) put together for the NASA/VCU Tech Row exhibits (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/30906), there are some other FRC game simulations brewing out there. A friend sent me a link to this pertinent CD thread:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=65695

Blake

[smurfgirl]

I watched this regional for almost the whole day Friday, but I was practicing with my own team on Saturday so I missed most of it. I heard something interesting from a teammate that I would like more information about. He said that he had the webcast running Saturday while he was working on something else, so he caught bits and pieces of something that appeared to be a match being stopped to investigate a violation of rule <R16> (the 80" rule). It appeared to him that the match was stopped, a robot was measured, and then the match was re-started from scratch. So did anyone see this instance? What I'm wondering is what really happened in this circumstance? Did this happen as he saw it, or did he misunderstand some of what was going on because he was occupied with other stuff at the time?

[1086VEX]

during our second semifinal match team 401 tipped over but they waited for the end of the match then measured them, but we didn't replay that match. thats the closest thing i can think of...