Smoky Mountain Regional 2011

[Richard Wallace]

Q48! Four minibots up, 87-114!

EDIT: here are the Friday evening seedings; the FIRST site is not responding for me now, but I happened to have a current window open.

Rank	Team	Wins	Losses	Ties	Played	QS	RS
1	234	7	0	0	7	14	25.14
2	71	6	0	1	7	13	41.57
3	547	6	1	1	8	13	26.75
4	801	6	1	0	7	12	44.28
5	337	6	1	0	7	12	34.85
6	1741	5	2	1	8	11	44.5
7	1766	5	2	1	8	11	24.37
8	48	5	2	0	7	10	32.57
9	931	5	3	0	8	10	31.75
10	79	5	3	0	8	10	31.25
11	1592	5	2	0	7	10	26.85
12	3824	5	2	0	7	10	21.57
13	1655	5	2	0	7	10	19.14
14	2918	5	2	0	7	10	16.28
15	3227	5	3	0	8	10	14.87
16	1519	4	3	0	7	8	33
17	1249	4	4	0	8	8	29.12
18	1261	4	2	0	6	8	26.5
19	451	4	4	0	8	8	25.62
20	2393	4	4	0	8	8	25.5
21	3821	4	2	0	6	8	25.42
22	3797	4	3	0	7	8	21.57
23	3628	4	3	0	7	8	16
24	3675	4	4	0	8	8	11.12
25	829	3	5	0	8	6	35.37
26	1466	3	4	0	7	6	22.57
27	3844	3	5	0	8	6	18.5
28	3861	3	5	0	8	6	17.25
29	3140	3	5	0	8	6	14.25
30	1208	2	4	1	7	5	33.85
31	2973	2	4	1	7	5	26.71
32	379	2	6	0	8	4	35.87
33	3856	2	5	0	7	4	35.14
34	1747	2	4	0	6	4	32.57
35	1421	2	5	0	7	4	29.71
36	3843	2	5	0	7	4	28
37	3783	2	6	0	8	4	24.75
38	3000	2	5	0	7	4	23.71
39	34	2	5	0	7	4	23.57
40	3214	2	5	0	7	4	23.42
41	3829	2	4	0	6	4	20.42
42	3516	2	5	0	7	4	16.85
43	1024	2	4	0	6	4	13.28
44	2817	2	5	0	7	4	13.25
45	2775	2	6	0	8	4	10
46	2974	1	7	0	8	2	17.87

[Fireworks 234]

Originally Posted by Richard

Q48! Four minibots up, 87-114!

If I'm not mistaken that was (48 or 79), 71, 931, and 1747!

Go HBR

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by Fireworks 234

If I'm not mistaken that was (48 or 79), 71, 931, and 1747!

Go HBR

48 and 79. Fun match. Barely lost to 71's minibot.

It was a fun day today.

[Gary Dillard]

Our team is doing great.
Unless you include the robot; it's not exactly having a stellar performance.

[dustinjones36]

Originally Posted by Gary Dillard

Our team is doing great.
Unless you include the robot; it's not exactly having a stellar performance.

Sound familiar to us as well...... Maybe we'll be able to turn it up tomorrow morning. Autonomous has been giving us fits.

[emmell]

What was the star of the show, given that this is an inaugural event here in Tennessee, is that our Emcee, Blair decided to dress the part and show up in a completely orange body suit (in honor of UT). Fortunately, he was wearing a covering which soon became known as the "Skirt of Indiscretion". However, I'd like to call it the "Hundertmark". Attached are a couple of pictures.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by emmell

What was the star of the show, given that this is an inaugural event here in Tennessee, is that our Emcee, Blair decided to dress the part and show up in a completely orange body suit (in honor of UT). Fortunately, he was wearing a covering which soon became known as the "Skirt of Indiscretion". However, I'd like to call it the "Hundertmark". Attached are a couple of pictures.

Did he wear it the whole time?

Jane

[ttldomination]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

Did he wear it the whole time?

Jane

Nope, only for the first few matches and the opening ceremony.

- Sunny

[Dancin103]

Congratulations to the winning alliance 71, 48, 2974 as well as the finalists 801, 234, and 1747. Also a BIG congratulations to 79 for winning Chairman's.

Congratulations to all it was a fabulous regional and everyone worked very hard!

[Nathan Streeter]

A big congratulations to the winning alliance of 71, 48, and 2974, they were definitely a very strong alliance! The finalist alliance of 801, 234, and 1747 also performed very well, giving the winners a great challenge!

Similar congratulations to Chairman's winner, 79... You guys are one of those "Chairmans" teams that can always be expected to be a very strong contender for the award!

I'm really proud of Smoky Mountain's two Deans List winners, Ishi Keenum (1466) and Sarah Bell (1519)! Although I only know Sarah, I can safely say that they both do great things for their teams! Sarah's really grown and become a leader in her years on 1519; she also has helped several FLL teams personally. Congratulations to both!

The #6 seeded alliance - 1592, 1024, 829 - also merits congratulations, they put together an alliance to match any other from the 6 spot! Having the red-card call reversed after several matches for that first quarter-final between their alliance and our alliance (1741, 1519, 451) must've been really hard... Having been on the "wrong" side of a very similar situation, I know it's really rough! The #6 alliance showed that red-card or not, they had what it took! They performed very well, winning the QF's and nearly making it to the Finals (in which I think they'd have stood as good a chance as #1 or #2 did). I hope there's no hard feelings on either side... 1592, 1024, and 829 showed they were the stronger alliance regardless!

For the record, seeing all 6 ubertubes hanging in QF4-2 was great!! :-)

On behalf of 1519, many thanks to the event volunteers and organizers! I believe I can speak for all on our team, when I say it was a great experience, despite our own on-field mishaps!

[XaulZan11]

Congrats to 71-48 and 2974. It was fun to root for two of my favorite teams. Was 71 broken in the third finals match or did strategy call for them to play defense?

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by XaulZan11

Congrats to 71-48 and 2974. It was fun to root for two of my favorite teams. Was 71 broken in the third finals match or did strategy call for them to play defense?

71 damaged their elevator in auton in SF1-2 (which they repaired before the next match), and switched to rockin', blocking D. They proved awesome at it, so much so, they actually played it at times during the final two matches.

In Finals 1, it was very evident we could not maintain a straight up scoring battle with 801/234/1747, so we went with something else. After Finals 1, the strategy tended more toward tube starvation, defense, and unleashing the 1-2 minibot punch at the end. Worked for me!

LOL, I absolutely loved this event.

[jtus]

Congratulations to 79 for winning Chairman's.

[Chris Fultz]

This was a great event.

The depth of high performing teams was awesome - I think there were 8 very strong and very balanced alliances and any one of them had a shot at winning this event.

The venue and organization was top notch. I really like beign able to easily move from the stands to the pits to the playing field all at one level.

My only suggestion would be more places for food purchase and more options. With limited time to go anywhere outside of the venue the concession area got very crowded.

I hope this event fits into our 2012 schedule - we would love to go back.

[sportzkrazzy]

Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter

A big congratulations to the winning alliance of 71, 48, and 2974, they were definitely a very strong alliance! The finalist alliance of 801, 234, and 1747 also performed very well, giving the winners a great challenge!

Similar congratulations to Chairman's winner, 79... You guys are one of those "Chairmans" teams that can always be expected to be a very strong contender for the award!

I'm really proud of Smoky Mountain's two Deans List winners, Ishi Keenum (1466) and Sarah Bell (1519)! Although I only know Sarah, I can safely say that they both do great things for their teams! Sarah's really grown and become a leader in her years on 1519; she also has helped several FLL teams personally. Congratulations to both!

The #6 seeded alliance - 1592, 1024, 829 - also merits congratulations, they put together an alliance to match any other from the 6 spot! Having the red-card call reversed after several matches for that first quarter-final between their alliance and our alliance (1741, 1519, 451) must've been really hard... Having been on the "wrong" side of a very similar situation, I know it's really rough! The #6 alliance showed that red-card or not, they had what it took! They performed very well, winning the QF's and nearly making it to the Finals (in which I think they'd have stood as good a chance as #1 or #2 did). I hope there's no hard feelings on either side... 1592, 1024, and 829 showed they were the stronger alliance regardless!

For the record, seeing all 6 ubertubes hanging in QF4-2 was great!! :-)

On behalf of 1519, many thanks to the event volunteers and organizers! I believe I can speak for all on our team, when I say it was a great experience, despite our own on-field mishaps!

No hard feelings at all. Thanks for the compliments as well. All six ubertubes and all 4 minibots being deployed was a pretty awesome thing to witness. Hope we can be on the same side of the glass as you guys someday because you guys are definitely a team that can compete with the best. You should really try coming down to Florida one year and we will show you around.