2012 Palmetto Regional

[JohnFogarty]

I saw that in the video on your website, is that just decoration or does it function as a bridge device?

[davidjgz]

Originally Posted by John_1102

I saw that in the video on your website, is that just decoration or does it function as a bridge device?

The one in the video was our first design for the bridge tipper. Unfortunately it did not work as well as we hoped it would, so we ended up changing it to the design in this picture.

The spork in that other picture was a cutout from the shooter tower that we decided to give a new life as a power cable wrapper on our battery cart, no spork left behind.

[TShsg]

Originally Posted by bassoondude

We had time to go back to the hotel for a few minutes last year, I guess it would depend on where you are staying and how long you anticipate it to take to get to The Citadel.

"a few minutes"? Because nearly half our team is young ladies, taking "a few minutes" to dress for dinner is, ... well, not doable. We will need to remain in competition uniform for the Citadel in case any other teams are worried about having to change into business casual. We packed the trailer yesterday; it looks like a spider web of bungees and ropes inside there. Let's hope that line of thunderstorms stays away. Safe travels everyone!

[JohnFogarty]

Were packing our trailer tonight as were heading down at around 2 tomorrow afternoon. Doing some last minute shooter perfections and decorating with LED's since we withheld it in our 30lbs. Come by and see us in our castle thursday

I wish I had a spork cable wrapper.......

As far as I know we will be staying in our team shirts like last year, there isn't enough time to change into nicer clothes really.

[jblakeley]

Originally Posted by TShsg

"a few minutes"? Because nearly half our team is young ladies, taking "a few minutes" to dress for dinner is, ... well, not doable. We will need to remain in competition uniform for the Citadel in case any other teams are worried about having to change into business casual.

Last year some of the other girls on our team and I had a bunch of fun bringing some spring dresses to competition! We still managed to get to dinner early, and had fun! By no means do we want to make some sort of dress code for the event, but we were hoping to share a memorable tradition with the other Palmetto teams. Our team is quite looking forward to dressing up. We did not mean to make this a hassle for anyone else, as I am sure you can understand. Can't wait to see you in the pits and at the social!

[team1102a]

This is your announcer speaking.....

The awards will be over by 5:00 if we stay on schedule (which we have for the past 4 years). The Citadel is a 10 minute drive. And the food line will be 15 minutes long. If you get there by 6:20 all will be fine.

[JohnFogarty]

Originally Posted by team1102a

This is your announcer speaking.....

The awards will be over by 5:00 if we stay on schedule (which we have for the past 4 years). The Citadel is a 10 minute drive. And the food line will be 15 minutes long. If you get there by 6:20 all will be fine.

Barry! We have another assistant for you this year!

[Josh Drake]

Ok everybody, time to go if you haven't left for North Charleston yet. Some of our team will be getting in late tonight and the rest will trinkle in tomorrow and Friday.

One quick note if you still have time to read CD between now and Friday...
There seems to be a lot of teams complaining about blacklists and teams not co-oping with them. My take is there are teams that may agree to the bridge and then realize after they get behind the glass, that they can't do it for one reason or another. Robots break and time slips away during matches. So before you jump to any conclusions about other teams, try to get their side of the story.
Personally I'll be telling our drivers to focus mainly on the co-op. I'll be talking to you guys in the Q to see who is going up with us. If things work out, great, but if they fail, as long as we both tried, I see that as a partial success.
Good luck to all the teams out there and realize with this size field anybody could be seeded and anybody could be that diamond in the ruff. So scout everyone, and let's not eliminate teams from the eliminations because of the co-op bridge.

[team1102a]

Originally Posted by Kevin342

Anybody have a webcast link?

yes

http://ece.citadel.edu/robotics/

see the big green button on the left

[elemental]

Congratulations to MORT on winning the website award. You guys have a great website and being able to be an evaluator for it was a lot of fun!

[team1102a]

6 robots did it last match on friday....Q-54

As I remember, it, 342 (red) came into the blue side of the court and pushed 2751 (blue) up the ramp, and followed while 3459 stood by to stabilize the ramp and or push back if needed. Then after the coop bridge was balanced, 3459 moved over and did a double balance on the Red bridge with 3489. With 3 seconds to spare.

I am dying to know if it was planned, at least the 342 coop balance method.

I've been calling matches for 8 years and this was the best!!!!!

[KeeganP]

Thank you to teams 342 & 3489 for the AWESOME final round of the day!
Congrats to all the teams that won awards! Can't wait for tomorrow!

[PayneTrain]

Oh Co-op Bridge.

I hope 1102 can deal with being undefeated, and sitting in 8th place... that's a silly part of this year's game.

[Josh Drake]

Originally Posted by team1102a

6 robots did it last match on friday....Q-54

As I remember, it, 342 (red) came into the blue side of the court and pushed 2751 (blue) up the ramp, and followed while 3459 stood by to stabilize the ramp and or push back if needed. Then after the coop bridge was balanced, 3459 moved over and did a double balance on the Red bridge with 3489. With 3 seconds to spare.

I am dying to know if it was planned, at least the 342 coop balance method.

I've been calling matches for 8 years and this was the best!!!!!

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Flip 342 & 2751 in the co-op bridge statement. We lost the match and I loved it!

[elemental]

Congratulations 281 on Chairman's!! Your community outreach and programs are extremely impressive. I've really looked up to your team in previous years both for your outreach and the great sportsmanship displayed at competitions.

Also congratulations to the finalist and regional winners! I was so happy to see so many North Carolina teams in the elimination rounds!
NCR will be quite an event!