2011 New Jersey Regional

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by sNeff

How did 2016 pick up that red card? I didn't see anything obvious in the match feed. Does anyone have it on youtube/etc yet?

The judges said that they picked up a tube in the opposing alliance's lane.

[dodar]

Originally Posted by Hallry

The judges said that they picked up a tube in the opposing alliance's lane.

From the webcast POV it looked like it was only partially in the lane. I thought it was a legal grab. And you mean referees not judges

[Vikesrock]

Alliances
1676, 2016, 303
423, 486, 293
1923, 25, 1860
1228, 2590, 75
2180, 816, 1302
1089, 1647, 102
2729, 1218, 192
2191, 181, 2199

[sNeff]

Awww GRT (and our awesome alliance mates) got knocked out in the semis =(
Looks like our pneumatic system started breaking, and then no one got minibots up on our side... =.=

Still excited to see underdog Alliance#6 up against 2016 and company. Go go underdog!

EDIT: Aww, first match goes to the crazy amazing Pioneers and Monkey Wrenches and Panthers. Not entirely unexpected, really, they earned 1st Alliance.

EDIT2: Congrats to 2016, 1676, and 303, and a double to 2016 for Chairmans. Big thanks to 1676 for hosting the webcast--I wouldn't have been able to keep up without it.

[PayneTrain]

Teams 303, 1676, and 2016 are your 2011 New Jersey Regional Champions.
Congrats to Panther Robotics, the Pascack Pioneers, and the Mighty Monkey Wrenches.

[Akash Rastogi]

Big congrats to our friends 1676 and 2016 on their Championship AND 2016 for another Chairman's. It was also great seeing my friends on 1647 and 1089 breaking through to the finals. Awesome eliminations matches.

11 is excited to playing with 1676 and 25 in Virginia. 3553 is excited to play with 816 and 1647 in Philadelphia.

[DeifiedPenguin]

Since I'm pretty sure I'm about the only person associated with my team who ever actually posts at all on this forum, I'll say this. Huge thanks to 1676 and 2016 for picking us as an alliance partner. I may be a bit biased, but I think it worked out great. Hope to see another good competition in Philadelphia a few weeks from now!

[Brandon_L]

We did horrible this year, mostly because of a drive problem we had, but it was definitely the best time I've had at NJ yet. It was awesome seeing our minibot on two other robots, although we never got it working on our own.

Good job 2016!

Oh, and HUGE thank you to 1676!

[Cody Burd]

thanks to teams 75 219 and 1647 for helping us build our arm and helping us get the highest seeded rookie award great time at nj regional

[ks_mumupsi]

Thank you everyone for all the great comments.. It has been a fun year and a good start for us, I am really proud of the students and all the mentors. They put in a lot of time and effort into this and it seems to have paid off.

I hope to see many of the teams from here again in St. Louis Good luck rest of the season.

[J.Warsoff]

I would like to say thank you to 2016 and 303 for helping 1676 be the winning alliance!!!! great job to everyone!!!

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by Dancin103

Could you please elaborate on this one?

Sure Cass. What I find is that teams tend to hold many more seats than they could fill, often in prime locations, shutting out visitors who won't be there later anyway. Holding 3 rows for a team with 50 students isn't a real problem, holding a dozen rows might be. Not to mention: The teams have the advantage of persistence. They can wait a short while and get the seats they might need without resorting to 'saving' them.

I was furious when my own team 1676 started saving seats on Saturday morning. I made my point with the well-intentioned adults leading the way. Indeed, we ultimately filled an entire section, well over 140 seats, and overflowed into whatever was available nearby.

Originally Posted by Lowfategg

Also, is it just me or are all the NJ tubes over inflated?

Poking around backstage uncovered some inflation gauges issued by FIRST. So there tubes were within official spec. Teams take note!

Originally Posted by Coach Tom

25 is much stronger than their W/L record would suggest.

It looked like their drive team did not have the experience driving like we've seen in past years. A careful review of matches shows that their drivers steadily improved their technique as the day went on, and by Saturday they were back to awesome. Nest stop: Virginia, with 11, 75 and us.

Originally Posted by sNeff

Big thanks to 1676 for hosting the webcast--I wouldn't have been able to keep up without it.

You are most welcome. WE in turn are grateful to the NJ Regional Committee for allowing this, and NASA for the CPU cycles and connection.

BTW, all was archived and TBA will have it soon enough.

Originally Posted by DeifiedPenguin

Huge thanks to 1676 and 2016 for picking us as an alliance partner.

The thanks goes to your team. They performed well enough on Friday to earn that pick. And you went ahead and proved us right in elims.

I should start a thread to explain our process for picking which teams we pick.

Originally Posted by Brandon_L

Oh, and HUGE thank you to 1676!

For what? Anyway, you are welcome!

[Brandon_L]

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

For what? Anyway, you are welcome!

We were with you in your first qualification match, against 25. One of your mentors came over for the usual pre-match meeting and when he found out that we had major drive problems (couldn't turn, at all) he got us up and running.

Although, there were more problems with it that we didn't find until it was too late (two matches to go, that late). After we got that fixed we were doing great but two matches aren't much.

I didn't get his name but he was awesome.

Can't wait to see the matches up on TBA!

[BGiraud]

Originally Posted by Brandon_L

We were with you in your first qualification match, against 25. One of your mentors came over for the usual pre-match meeting and when he found out that we had major drive problems (couldn't turn, at all) he got us up and running.

Although, there were more problems with it that we didn't find until it was too late (two matches to go, that late). After we got that fixed we were doing great but two matches aren't much.

I didn't get his name but he was awesome.

Can't wait to see the matches up on TBA!

I was wondering why you said thanks as well. You are welcome. Thank you for your help in that match. It was a rough one.

[jblay]

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

Poking around backstage uncovered some inflation gauges issued by FIRST. So there tubes were within official spec. Teams take note!

How many psi is that for each tube?

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

It looked like 25's drive team did not have the experience driving like we've seen in past years. A careful review of matches shows that their drivers steadily improved their technique as the day went on, and by Saturday they were back to awesome. Nest stop: Virginia, with 11, 75 and us.

That kind of surprises me considering they could probably start practicing with their 07 robot from kickoff.

And congrats to 303,1676 and especially 2016. Your team has really reached another level over these last 2 years and it was amazing to watch you guys in action.