2012 Peachtree Regional

[martin417]

Originally Posted by Wing

Just 3 more days! I personally can't wait to get on the field on the practice day and start shooting some baskets and balancing that coopertition bridge. Let's all promise not to pull the antics of some teams at Toronto though, amirite?

I would be extremely disappointed to see, at ANY regional, a repeat of what happened at GTR. That was inexcusable (though not agaianst any rule I could find, at least not yet). It is within your rights not to cooperate if that might lead to a strategic advantage (I can see several scenarios where it might) but to hinder or attempt to unbalance a pair that has decided to cooperate is definitely not kosher.

[Anupam Goli]

yea, let's all compete with our utmost Gracious professionalism and play to win, not to make someone else lose!

Our team is probably going to be camping out that practice field a lot to do some tests, just a heads up (we'll leave if someone else needs it, but be warned, we'll need it a lot)

[ttldomination]

Originally Posted by Wing

Our team is probably going to be camping out that practice field a lot to do some tests, just a heads up (we'll leave if someone else needs it, but be warned, we'll need it a lot)

I think the practice field is going to be a mess, and if it's anything like the pathetic setup that we had last year, it won't be worth camping out on. Regardless, I think you'll find camping to be a rather futile effort since the sign up sheet usually fills up in about 30 seconds, especially on Thursday/Friday mornings.

- Sunny G.

[ebarker]

Hi everyone,

Let's all make a pledge to ourselves to have an awesome time at the Peachtree.

Georgia is one of the fastest growing areas in the country with 17 rookie teams at the event.

So what does that mean. Let's all go out and see what we can do to help these rookie teams get off to a good start. And it also means that the venue will be 'COZY' !!! And next year we hope to have a bigger venue...

But for now let's go have a good time.

[Anupam Goli]

Originally Posted by ebarker

Hi everyone,

Let's all make a pledge to ourselves to have an awesome time at the Peachtree.

Georgia is one of the fastest growing areas in the country with 17 rookie teams at the event.

So what does that mean. Let's all go out and see what we can do to help these rookie teams get off to a good start. And it also means that the venue will be 'COZY' !!! And next year we hope to have a bigger venue...

But for now let's go have a good time.

If we have the same growth next year, we may need TWO regionals to accommodate that many teams

Oh boy, the fun at volunteering at two Georgia Regionals next year would be on epic proportions.

[nighterfighter]

Originally Posted by Wing

If we have the same growth next year, we may need TWO regionals to accommodate that many teams

Oh boy, the fun at volunteering at two Georgia Regionals next year would be on epic proportions.

A northern Georgia and southern Georgia regional? Interesting.

Team 1771 just finished our last day of practice, today.

Looking forward to seeing everyone at Peachtree!

[Retired Starman]

Good News,

Even though we have a record number of teams this year, and even though there is going to be a very large military exhibit in the hall, along with an enclosed NASA machine shop, we will again have our full practice field! It will be the same one we used for the scrimmage, with real playing elements. The only concession to the critical space needs is that one end of the practice field may be pushed up a little closer to the wall than we would like, but that should only affect inbounding on one end.

See you there!

Dr. Bob

Chairman's Award is not about building the robot. Every team builds a robot.

[Jeff Pahl]

Originally Posted by Wing

If we have the same growth next year, we may need TWO regionals to accommodate that many teams

Oh boy, the fun at volunteering at two Georgia Regionals next year would be on epic proportions.

Growth is a a good thing!! In the 5 seasons since I left Georgia for Minnesota, we have gone from one regional to having 3 this year, with 64 teams at each one. And we need to add another one next year. I'm challenging Georgia to get out there and catch up to us!!

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Retired Starman

Good News,

Even though we have a record number of teams this year, and even though there is going to be a very large military exhibit in the hall, along with an enclosed NASA machine shop, we will again have our full practice field!

This is great news! I imagine we're not the only team that needs to tune a shooter (or two, in our case), and a full field should allow a few teams to do so simultaneously. Big ups to the planning committee for making this happen.

[Josh Drake]

I'm taking a day trip to check things out on Saturday with some students. Of course I'll be glued in front of a webcast on Friday too. Good luck to all teams. Peachtree is one of my favorite regionals.

[Anupam Goli]

A 1002 alumni will be hosting a programming workshop on Thursday at 4pm. The workshop will be mainly about Real Time operating systems and efficient ways for real time robot programs to run. We have very few seats, so space is limited, but the lecture should be very informative for all team programmers.

We only have 13 spots available for the lecture (The speaker is not comfortable with large crowds). We will have a sign up sheet in our pits.

[chmconkling]

Sorry to say that your defending woodie flowers and Chairmans award team First team 122 will NOT be returning this year. Our home regional is the same weekend as this year Peachtree Regional.

[ttldomination]

Anyone have a copy of the real match schedule?

Towards the end they said that the released schedule was wrong, and now I'm getting a 404 error on the FIRST page...

- Sunny G.

[dangerousdave]

Originally Posted by ttldomination

Anyone have a copy of the real match schedule?

Towards the end they said that the released schedule was wrong, and now I'm getting a 404 error on the FIRST page...

- Sunny G.

No but here are your matches:
1261 Match 7, 21, 26, 35, 50, 55, 68, 79, 86

[ttldomination]

Originally Posted by dangerousdave

No but here are your matches:
1261 Match 7, 21, 26, 35, 50, 55, 68, 79, 86

It appears all your match values are just 1 off.

The official schedule is up: http://www2.usfirst.org/2012comp/eve...eduleQual.html

- Sunny G.