2012 Bayou Regional

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by animenerdjohn

Also my question about where to eat was never answered ;__;

The thing about New Orleans is that there are so many good places to eat - how will we ever decide? I found this list when looking for restaurants. It's fun to look through. It also looks like it is a good idea to call ahead and make sure the restaurant is open before we go. This is information provided in the Bayou Regional website. (Scroll down past the hospital info to the restaurant section. )

This is a new experience for our team and I'm very excited that we're coming to BAYOU REGIONAL!

Jane

[sircedric4]

We are looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow! And just in time for the regional one of our students finally got us a cool intro video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=3Q6Wr12W9WA

[familyguyfreak]

It was great seeing a lot of teams tonight at the Pontchartrain Center. Can't wait to see everyone tomorrow!! The TigerBytes are thinking about hosting a little video game/social night at our hotel tomorrow night. We'll update everyone tomorrow at the competition if we decide to give it a go.

Good luck to everyone!!

[Meredith Novak]

Can anyone on the ground at Bayou let me know what is going on? No match results on usfirst.org, TBA, Spyder...no web stream working. Last I heard they had gotten through 5 matches. The first Arkansas rookie team to compete this year is there and I was certainly looking forward to at least monitoring their progress without pestering the team.

[StevenB]

Well, one tweet got through 40 minutes ago, and another one just now.
I guess we can keep hoping!
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EDIT: The official rankings page and the twitter feed are both back up now!

[dbell]

Updated live from lunch break at the Bayou regional. Sorry everyone about the webcast- I'm not sure whats happening or who's in charge...

Picture of rankings is not completly recent. I think its as of 4 or 5 rounds before lunch.

Meredith, were doing great! Team breakaway lost our first match but won the second 2 matches. We've balanced twice on the bridge, and scored a couple balls.

[Meredith Novak]

Originally Posted by dbell

Meredith, were doing great! Team breakaway lost our first match but won the second 2 matches. We've balanced twice on the bridge, and scored a couple balls.

David, thanks for the update. I really don't want to distract you from your event. Sounds like the team is as outstanding as I predicted.

Still can't get the stream to work, but at least Spyder is updating now. And I am getting a lot of flowers planted in my anxiety. I will have a lovely "Breakaway" cutting garden to show for it!

[AllenGregoryIV]

Friday Team Awards, Congradulations to all the teams, Bayou has been great so far and the eliminations are going to have everyone on the edge of their seats.

Imagery award - 364
Innovation in control award - 624
Creativity award - 1421
Engineering excellence - 2848
Entrepreneurship award - 2080
Rookie inspiration - 4316
Website - 1912

[lynca]

Texas teams are headlining the eliminations of Bayou

#1 seed: 624 & 1477 , (Houston alliance)

#2 seed: 2848 & 1296 , (Dallas alliance)

[Akash Rastogi]

Good luck in elims 1477! Bring another one home.

[Meredith Novak]

Congratulations to Team Breakaway, FRC 3937, from Searcy Arkansas for being the Highest Rookie Seed and Rookie All-Star at Bayou! I'm so proud of you. See you in St. Louis.

[dbell]

Thanks Meredith, You're our biggest fan!

A huge congrats to all those fantastic award winning teams:

Industrial design... 2992 SS Prometheus
Motorola Quality... 624 CRyptonite
Gracious Professionalism...456 Siege Robotics
Team spirit....2080 torbotics. (you guys were so loud and awesome)
Coopertition award....3672 Robotors
Judges award... 3310 black hawk
Safety award....624 CRyptonite
Finalists....2992...1421...2078. (you guys put up an incredible performance)
Winners...1477...624...4353 (from the beginning of the competition you guys wowed us all. You absolutely deserved to win)
Engineering inspiration...1477
Chairmans award: 1912 (you guys were such a great team both in the pits and on the field. Sure looks like y'all have done some impressive stuff.)

Sorry if I messed up or missed any team.
Also, thanks to all the refs, judges, and volunteer staff for putting on a great bayou regional. It was a great event and I look forward to next year.

[AllenGregoryIV]

Bayou was an exceptional event, I hadn't been here since it's inception in 2007 and it has now become a really great event.

Thank you to all the event planners and support staff you made it such a great event to work.

Congratulations to all the teams your awards and accolades were well deserved. With 15 rookies so many of you took time away from your own team and robot to really lift up the quality of play and teach the rookies the ways of FIRST. Bayou was a shinning example of coopertition at work.

A few special thanks

Team 456 Siege Robotics - Bayou would not work with out you guys, from field setup to key volunteers (Chuck, Amy, Eddie, etc..) you all make the event work. Your gracious professionalism award is extremely well deserved every one of you was willing to go above and beyond to support other teams during the event.

Team 2080 - I first met you all at Alamo and you were a fantastic team to work with. You pulled down the field in record time making the lives of the volunteer crew so much easier at Bayou. Thank you so much. Your team spirit award is also well deserved. Even after every other team was gone and the judges were no where to be found you all were doing step routines in the entry way before boarding the bus. A great team and true testament to team spirit.

Thank you every who worked at making Bayou such a fantastic event, and I can't wait to return next year.

[familyguyfreak]

I personally want to thank everyone at Bayou for the awesome experience this weekend. The TigerBytes loved their time there and can not stop talking about next year. This was my second time at Bayou (2010 was my first visit with the DiscoBots) and I love the growth of the regional. The TigerBytes will do our part to keep the level of competition at Bayou high every year.

Congrats to all the teams and I hope everyone enjoyed Pac-man as much as we enjoyed being apart of such a great regional!! See ya next year!!

[JohnSchneider]

3310 had an awesome time at our first out of state regional.

We got there with a dead drivetrain that didn't turn.

Through the help of a few teams and tons of miscilanious donated parts we constructed a coaxial drive train in 2 hours that led us to the semi finals.

Thanks to 3039 and 57. We were a bit Leary at first but you guys showed great cooperation and strategy and we were very proud to be chosen by you.

Also on a biased note I really enjoyed the Texas team domination.