2011 Los Angeles Regional

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by tb222

Thank you Oscar... I've posted this link on my FB page, and I'd like to see it spread through the FIRST community like wildfire! Let's spread the word, I feel people need to know.

It may not be our news to spread right now. The family is the first concern. And the team. I don't know that making it spread quickly would be wise. I'd let it spread on it's own. Just a thought, not a reprimand of any sort. This is very very sad.

Jane

[Akash Rastogi]

Really sad to hear about this. The students from Newark robotics teams were really excited to travel cross country this season due to generous grants to the city.

I know all New Jersey teams will be acknowledging this loss tomorrow. My sympathies go out to the family.

[KarenH]

After the awards ceremony, a special meeting was held to break the news to representatives from each team attending the regional, now the teams know.

Team 1366 went home and did not compete today. I presume they have arrived safely home by now. Their robot and equipment was packed into their crate for them, and will be shipped home.

Aside from this being such a horrible thing to happen, they were one of just two teams from outside California at our regional. The other outside team is from Chile. I sincerely hope they continue to enjoy their visit to beautiful seaside Long Beach.

We also had a robot catch fire during today's competition. Team 702's machine required the assistance of a fire extinguisher, and the match had to be stopped and replayed without them. They repaired their robot, renamed it Phoenix, and came back to play their later matches. Too much excitement today!

Most of all, condolences to our visitors from New Jersey.

[rsisk]

I had the pleasure of meeting the members of 1366 during inspections in LA.

We will keep you guys in our prayers.

[alubin237]

Team 75 just learned about this tragedy, and announced it to our team. We are all deeply sorry for the tragedy that has occurred. The students, parents, mentors, and alumni all wish to send our deepest condolences to the family and Team 1366.

Please don't hesitate to contact 75 if you guys have anything that we can help with.

[EagleEngineer]

Most legend regional of 2011. Most amazing thing ever, when team 702's robot got on fire!!! literally there was flames on their robot. They had to re-start the match. Also Congradulations to teams 1197, 968, and 3473. They used a strategy that ive never seen before, they had one of their scoring robots play defense and pic up tubes and move them on their side. They had one defensive robot stopping the opponent top scorer and they had 968 doing all the scoring. Also amazing proformance by team 1717, 330, 1515 and 3851. Team 599 had an amazing robot and won almost every match, but lost their last match against 1717 and 399. Congrats to 3512, though their a rookie team, they played just as good as any veteran team. Team 1717 and 968 both had some amazing robots and some amazing human players and drive teams, see you guys in St. Louis. Also its kinda cool having the Chilean teams at La, i kinda like the Chilean anthem . Overall amazing proformance and effort by all teams. Good job, and hopefully see all you guys next year. I tried to keep the tradegy that happen in the back off my mind, but i wish the best of luck to the families and students of team 1366. Our team signed three cards and were giving them to the team, family, and school. I'll keep them in my prayers.

[stupidgerman]

Team 88 just heard of this news today, and we all send our condolences to the members of team 1366 and also to the family of the girl who died.

[KarenH]

Here is a lo-res, lo-fi video of the "magic white smoke" incident. Not that smoke needs HD video.