2012 MAR Mt. Olive District

[oswaldonfire]

Don, thanks for the kind words. However, huge thanks are also in order for you and the PI-Oneers. Thanks for being our inspector and having the patience to deal with all of our pneumatic issues, for sending members of your team and parts over to us when we needed them most, and of course for lending us those fancy air tanks today! Our team is happy to have become friends with yours and we wish you good luck at Philly; hopefully we'll see you there if we can pull a grant together!

Thanks are also in order to Teams 75 and 1302 for helping us resolve our strange CAN-bus-during-autonomous-mode issues.

Congratulations to 25, 222, and 3929 - it was great to play against you guys and the one-point winning final round was incredible!

Thanks especially to teams 1403 Cougar Robotics and 103 Cybersonics as well for their amazing performances as alliance partners that helped us get to finals.

Thanks to everyone who came out to make this a great weekend and congratulations to everyone who won any well-deserved awards.

[Robert103]

We were thrilled to play against everyone this weekend and happy for the winning alliance. That last finals match had me jumping up and down. Congrats to all the teams who played and a big thanks to our alliance partners 3142 and 1403.

[Akash Rastogi]

Are the match videos archived anywhere?

I'll post up my thoughts about this event after a nice long nap

[oswaldonfire]

I was able to find almost every video here EXCEPT round two of the finals which was arguably the most intense match played all weekend..

http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...0l0l0l0l0ll0l0.

[Kristian Calhoun]

Originally Posted by oswaldonfire

I was able to find almost every video here EXCEPT round two of the finals which was arguably the most intense match played all weekend..

http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...0l0l0l0l0ll0l0.

The second finals match is now up: http://youtu.be/7h2Dm29WPik

The buzzer beater shot isn't shown because the camera is focused on the balanced robots, but watching the scores climb so quickly as us and 103 exchange shots at the end is almost just as exciting!

EDIT: Found this video that shows the game winning shot! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=225Iaf-wPBg

[Wayne C.]

Now that we have recovered from our heart attack...

Thanks to our alliance partners and opponents for making the tournament one of the most memorable I have had in years. Special thanks to our friends at 103 who worked with us all season and made it possible to get a robot up to speed for the events. I personally learned a lot this year and I am exceptionally proud of how our students have bonded together and grown.

And congrats to all the award winners, especially 75 for receiving the Chairmans. There were a lot of fine machines out there this weekend.

I have a special bonus for some lucky FIRSTer

We found a really nice camera left on a table in our pit area when we were breaking down. So far none of my team members have come forth to claim it. If you lost your camera at the event PM me and identify it and we will figure out how to get it to you.

[ENeyman]

When 25 hit that last shot at the buzzer... that was probably the most exciting moment of my life.

On behalf of all of team 3929, I would like to send out a huge thank you to our wonderful alliance partners, 222 & 25. You guys were great!

Also, good job 1403, 103, and 3142.

Lastly, I want to say thank you to 75. They were so helpful in the pits and so spirited in the stands. They truly deserve to win Chairman's.

[Akash Rastogi]

I've got a bunch of people to thank and recognize, both personally and on behalf of 3929.

To MORT Team 11 - still my home team. You guys did insanely well at this event and I am so proud to see how the younger students have dramatically changed the performance of the team since 2010. David Bodmer, Ernie DiCicco and the various other volunteers and students who ran this event were awesome, and I expected nothing less! Compared to Hatboro and Chestnut Hill, your arrangement and use of space of the high school was by far the roomiest. Also thanks to you guys for providing so many teams, including my own, spare parts and electronics. Looking forward to seeing you guys in Philly, keep on inspiring!

To teams 222 and 25- thank you guys for giving us the opportunity to show off other attributes of our robot and for letting us feed into you for autonomous. (We had been waiting to use that autonomous mode since Chestnut Hill! ). We were glad the top teams were looking at our performance as the weekend went on rather than the rankings. It was cool to see our drivers pull off really quick double balances in each eliminations match. Shaun and Cliff, coaches of 25 and 222 respectively, you guys were great! Cliff, thank you for helping myself and our team keep its cool while under pressure, you are really a class act and it was a pleasure working with you. By far one of the kindest, calm, and collected mentors I've ever met. Both your teams were powerful and we were glad to be able to help you earn those blue banners.

1403, 103, and 3142 - thanks for those crazy final matches. You guys were definitely putting the pressure on our alliance in that last match.

See you guys in Philadelphia!

[Brandon_L]

Originally Posted by Kristian Calhoun

The second finals match is now up: http://youtu.be/7h2Dm29WPik

The buzzer beater shot isn't shown because the camera is focused on the balanced robots, but watching the scores climb so quickly as us and 103 exchange shots at the end is almost just as exciting!

EDIT: Found this video that shows the game winning shot! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=225Iaf-wPBg

Hmmm... that shot from the red alliance at the end of auton was counted as a teleop score

This would have ended different if we still had that couple second grace period

Congrats to 25, 3929, and 222!

[George A.]

Originally Posted by Brandon_L

Hmmm... that shot from the red alliance at the end of auton was counted as a teleop score

This would have ended different if we still had that couple second grace period

Congrats to 25, 3929, and 222!

The scores were updated manually after the match. I can attest to that as I saw the scorekeeoer confer with the ref and add the 6 points.

[Brandon_L]

Originally Posted by George A.

The scores were updated manually after the match. I can attest to that as I saw the scirekeeoer confer with the ref and add the 6 points.

Didnt know this!

Oh, and entertaining announcing as usual!

[camtunkpa]

After a good nights sleep and my first cup of coffee I think I've collected my thoughts well enough to post. First of all thanks to team 11 and all the volunteers for putting together a smooth running event.

Thanks to our partners 25 and 3929. We knew 25 was the team to be with based off of our scouting data and the consistency they displayed. We were extremely happy when they selected us. 3929 played hard and you guys were a pleasure to work with. I can see big things in the future of 3929!

1403, 103 and 3142 you guys pushed us hard in two very exciting matches.

Akash thanks so much for the kind words. You and your team was excellent at keeping their cool during some tense moments as well.

We'll see everyone at the MAR championships!

[Brandon Holley]

Now that I am back in Boston, and have recovered slightly I wanted to send some congrats out on the Mount Olive event.

For this being the first time this event took place, the entire planning committee, volunteer staff and MORT parent involvement was spectacular. I've heard nothing but positive things from everyone about the event. Congratulations to everyone on a successful district event.

Congrats to the winning alliance of 25/222/3929. As soon as your alliance formed, everyone knew you would be the ones to watch out for. It was great to see my friends on 222 take home their first district title!

To my friends on MORT, you guys had a fantastic showing. Congratulations on really dialing in the robot and becoming an offensive powerhouse all weekend. The lack of failures on the robot side also speaks to the design and robustness your robot has. I'll be pulling for you at the MAR championship on the field and off the field for Chairmans.


-Brando

[techhelpbb]

Thanks to everyone who came, saw, played, volunteered, judged, fed and help pay the bill to make this possible. Thanks to ChiefDelphi for helping get the word out. Thanks to the folks at MAR. Special thanks to Mount Olive High School for putting a roof over our head. Another special thanks to Umut, James and Joey of "All Computers Go!" who with no warning dug up a used Dell Latitude D620 laptop battery, rushed to close the shop for the day, drove it to the competition and then gave it to the team to keep.

Nice to see you all at spare parts and thanks for keeping on top of your returns.

For those of you worried because we didn't have enough tags for your bags, again apologies about that last issue but FIRST was contacted directly about this several times and you should be okay. If not please contact MAR or ask me and I'll help you straighten it out as best I can. We just weren't issued the necessary materials.

For all you teams with broken Ethernet latches on your 2GO PC, may your hot glue live long and help you prosper.

[Conor Ryan]

For a rookie district event, this event was fantastic! I had a great time and I really did enjoy my job this weekend.

Ernie & Dave, you guys nailed it! Its not easy to run an event of this magnitude, especially the first time.

All of the teams, great job on being gracious and professional. I spent every single day on and around the field and I saw very courteous performance by everyone in and around the Arena.

All my volunteers in and around the field were great, it really felt like we were one big family at times. Literally. George, Sarah, Big Mike, and Cassie, the event could not have run the way it did without your help. Brando, Henry, Howard & Bharat, thanks for keeping sanity and doing everything I asked and didn't ask for. Kim, and the Refs, thank you for keeping it fun around the field and keeping it great. Inspectors, CSAs, Brian and Garret, thank you too, because of you guys the robots had spent more time competing and less time sitting around. Andy and the AV Crew, you guys were great to work with! Evelyn, none of the above names would have been mentioned without your excellent job.

Congrats to 25, 222, 3929, 1403, 103 and 3142 for putting on a great finals. Extra special shout out to 75 and 3142 for Chairman's and EI. There was a very deep field for both of this awards this week and they were well earned.