2011 DC Regional...

[George A.]

Originally Posted by MooreteP

Lets get this thread updated.

Alliance selections are about to begin.

Let me say as a veteran mentor and a game announcer:
The game announcers here are excellent.
They explain the game and the scoring well and pay attention to both alliances.
Any visitors should understand the game.

Also, IMHO, the DJ's are doing a great job.

Of Course, Blair rocks.

I always knew Jeff was one of the Elite MC's in the country, but I had no idea he was that epic on play-by-play! As an announcer for 7 years, I'm really enjoying his style.

[Foster]

Congrats to:

The winners:768,233,2377

Regional Chairman's Award: 1511
Engineering Inspiration Award: 1885

FIRST Dean's List Finalist Awards:
Amy Frankhouser - Team 116
JB Ring - Team 2534

Woodie Flowers Award: Gail Drake - Team 1885

[Akash Rastogi]

Congrats to our friends from Jersey 2016 for giving Pink and their alliance a great fight in the finals. You guys rock!

[Coach Tom]

Congrats to 768, 233, and 2377. It was great to be there. 2016 and 233 are truly amazing bots. You could sense the mutual respect for each other. The 2016 alliance showed a lot of 'class' sticking with 1708 (their cRio was failing - they gave it everything).. 1885 did a good job stepping in. It is good to know that 2016, 233, 768, and 63 are all competing in STL. Cheers.

[Coach Tom]

Opps. ... good to know 2377 has an invite to STL too!

[tim-tim]

I would like to extend a congrats to:

1511 - Regional Chairman's Award
1885 - Engineering Inspiration Award

768,233, and 2377 for winning the Regional. Congrats to PINK for winning their 2nd Regional this year, and 768 for winning two back to back. You guys were amzing competitors at Chesapeake.

[JesseK]

I'm really glad Gail finally won WFA. She's literally changed the entire paradigm of STEM education in the county for the better, and the entire region is taking notice of its effects.

We got a miracle chance to be a backup bot today, and took the opportunity to play some intense defense on PINK in Finals match 3. Now while I can't say this as a sweeping fact for every team, I do believe that it's quite possible to totally shut down one GOOD robot on the opposing alliance. You guys on Einstein choose carefully

[cluksic]

what to say congrats to team 768 the woodlawn high school technowarriors for the win in the dc regional and also the win in the chesapeke regional. team 768 back to back regional wins awsome

[Anonymous2011]

Congrats to team 623 for coming out of nowhere and becoming the second seed. 44th in NJ and 2nd in DC, thats pretty amazing. Too bad the fight you guys put up in quarters wasnt enough. that entanglement with 1418 should have been a penalty!

[flyingcrayons]

What a great event! as a senior, this was my last official FIRST Regional Event. 1089 didnt have a chance to secure a spot at CMP's but we came into this regional hoping to win an automatic bid. unfortunately we came up a little bit short but what can you do? hopefully I'll be back next year with our team, and we can make a run in St. Louis

To our alliance partners 1598 and 116, amazing job in the eliminations! 1598 was ranked very highly on our list, and when i got onto the field for alliance selection as the 7th seed, i didnt have a very tough decision to make (they were the highest team left on my list!). the second pick we made was a lucky one. i was about to pick a different team (who got picked soon after, no worries), but at the last second saw 116 hadnt been crossed out. after asking 1598, I made the selection. having pit scouted 116 i was excited to work with them. 1598 you guys are awesome, we really rocked the QF's. 116, i loved the sound your arm made when it went up (so did half my team lol), and i think you guys were a total sleeper pick. i know you werent doing so well on friday morning, but by the end of the night you had me in awe. great job to all of you guys

Congrats to 2016, you guys represented jersey extremely well, and although you didnt win the even, you showed DC what Jersey FIRST is all about.

congrats to 233, 768, and 2377 on winning the event. 2 wins apiece now for PINK and 768, thats impressive!

congrats to everyone else who won an award haha, at this pace i would have an entire page for my one post!

on a more serious note, concerning the JVN thread about Pittsburgh (here is the link), i heard something that sounded suspiciously like booing (booing and oohing sound similar), when 2016 declined 768. having known what it feels like to be booed for declining an alliance, i was so proud of 2016 for showing the people who booed why they declined.

[DRH2o]

Thanks for the kind words from 1089. We had a great time playing with your team -- You were great. Thanks for picking us to join your great team in elims. Thanks to 116 for joining in with a great HP and MiniBot -- Tough last match, but that is the way to go out - just sweep it up and put it in a bag . We had a great time at DC, all the teams were great - it was nice to talk with 233 and let them know how much they inspired our design for this year.

This was a great regional for our small rebuilding team - we only brought 8 team members. Only two of them have ever attended a regional, and only one of them was on the drive team. These new students are HOOKED now and will aid in our rebuilding process thanks to the positive experiance they had. This was one of - if not the best regionals I have attended. Load-in was run great, there were great teams there, all the volunteers were great and very helpful ( especially pit admin ). Inspectors, and field crew was great. Thanks to everyone for helping me give these new "FIRSTERS" a great experiance.

Dan Waters
Mentor FIRST Team 1598

[Fred Needel]

I want to congratulate ALL the teams that played at the DC Regional. The competition was exciting throughout the matches. Team 768 would especially like to thank our alliance members in all matches for helping us to become first seed, and congratulate our winning alliance partners from 233, PINK and 2377, C Company. Game play in the finals was fierce, thanks to the awesome alliance of 2016, 63, 1708, and 1885. We hope to play with you all in St. Louis.

A very special thank you to Team 340, GRR, who gave us a minibot at the Chesapeake Regional, to replace our broken one. We attribute much of our success on the field to your great design and generosity!

Congratulations also to Team 1511 for winning Chairman's, Gail for becoming the DC Woodie Flowers Award winner, and to all the other teams who won awards!

[OScubed]

Thanks from Team 1511 to the other competitors, and the judges for 1511's chairman's award nod. We had so much fun at this regional - everything from helping other teams (by the end of the competition we'd counted over 60 individual "assists" to other teams - almost 1/2 the teams in the pits had an assist of one sort or another from 1511). We even were able to help out Pit Admin to touring the mall and visiting the Air and Space museum. We fould all of the competitors at Washington to be gracious professionals, and fun competitors.

All in all we had as much fun working with everyone as we had actually competing with our robot. Despite some early mechanical problems the drive team really came together by the end of the competition. We were happy to be picked to team with the 4th seeded team and felt that the entire alliance gave it all on the field - we fought hard until PINK and their team eliminated us in the semifinals. Jason really showed them that he could "drive it like he stole it" when playing defense against the formidable PINK machine in our final match... It all came down to minibots that match as the tube score was pretty even.

We all look forward to seeing those that qualified in St. Louis, and were a bit disappointed we had to leave Washington - it was so nice and warm there (I know YOU think it was a cold snap - but to us that was shirtsleeve weather). When we got home it was in the 20's and there is still snow on the ground....

Cheers,
Lee Drake
Corporate Mentor, Team 1511
www.penfieldrobotics.com

[B-Bot]

DC was amazing.
Working with 233 was an honor i didnt expect to have in DC. 2016 was an amazing robot to face.

A special thanks to 340 for their amazing help with our mini bot. Also i would like to thank 2377 for joining our alliance. Finally a shout out to the rooky team 3549 seeing the excitment in 3549 was truly inspirational.

[ks_mumupsi]

On behalf of 2016 I would like to say this was a really fun regional and event for us to attend.

We were honored to be selected by 768 as the #1 seed, but the team needed to learn to grow and understand how to select their own alliance partners. There was nothing wrong with 768 or their robot, we would have loved to partner with them. This was a decision knowing that we had already qualified for St. Louis and the team has really never gone through the process of picking an alliance even though being 5 years in. So it was a good learning experience and a good stage for us to practice our strategy and scouting capabilties.

We want to congratulate 768, 233 and 2377 on their alliance, a great set of finals matches but a few mishaps, which are ever so present in FIRST. I wish we could have had a few more strong battles.

I want to thank 63, 1708 and 1885 for joining our alliance and partnering into the finals. It was a great pleasure to work with each of you.

I will also give a shout out to 3549, it was a great deal of fun working with this rookie team, these guys were awesome. They never let their heads down and always looked next. These guys will be capable of some extra-ordinary things in the near future, will definitely be keeping an eye on them.

Good luck guys and hope to see many of you in St. Louis.