2014 Tech Valley Regional

[JackS]

There wasn't an "official" thread before, so here it is. It's hard to believe that the first ever Tech Valley regional is under a week away! I know that 2791 is excited to have an official "home" event and we're ready for some stiff competition. Also, the last I heard the event was short on volunteers, so if you're in the area please consider helping a new regional become a success. The team list:

20	The Rocketeers		2053	TigerTronics
53	Area 53		        2228	CougarTech
116	Epsilon Delta		2791	Shaker Robotics
145	T-Rx		        2911	CoolBots
174	Arctic Warriors		3003	TAN(X)
229	Division By Zero	3015	Ranger Robotics
250	Dynamos		        3044	Team 0xBE4
340	G.R.R.		        3059	Envirobotics
358	Robotic Eagles		3193	Falco Tech
379	RoboCats		3687	The Patriots
527	Dragons		        3936	Michigan City Robotics
578	Red Raider Robotics	3990	Tech for Kids
870	TEAM R. I. C. E.	4122	O-Bots
1126	SPARX		        4134	RoboRams
1493	The Falcons		4203	RoboKronos
1511	Rolling Thunder		4508	Nuts and Bots
1665	Weapons of Mass Constru	4975	Team RobotISTs
1708	AMP'D Robotics		5030	The Second Mouse
2053	TigerTronics		5149	TroyBotics
2228	CougarTech		5236	Man O' War Robotics

[jwfoss]

I'm looking forward to the new event and venue and seeing the teams that we no longer get to play with in NE.
I'll be one of the Game Announcers for the weekend, so if you have anything you'd like us to know about your team (or if we pronounce anything wrong) feel free to come find me.

Good Luck to all the teams!

[Koko Ed]

Be careful getting there everyone. Looks like the weather is going to take a turn for the worst.

[Hadi379]

Team 379 is looking forward to attending the Tech Valley Regional, but we also heard the weather was going to get bad for the trip there. The 7-8 hour bus ride from Ohio should be fun!!

[Jonathan Ryan]

T-Rx, Team 145 is chomping at the bit, pun intended.

Can't wait to get to Troy and see what our 'bot can do, see some old friends and make some new ones!

Safe travels, late is better than not at all!



http://youtu.be/EUtSwMH9ZFQ

[M. Mellott]

Team 3193, Falco Tech, will also be heading up from Ohio. It's gonna be great...but that trek East on I-90 is not looking pretty. C'mon man!!

[minhnhatbui]

Team 3990 Tech for Kids, from Montréal (Québec, Canada), will be heading to Troy on Thursday morning, starting at 3 am. It's a 4 hours drive from Montréal, not counting the time spent at the border, unpacking and packing everything.

Unpacking a robotics team truck at night and during the snowstorm, that will be interesting.

[Kevin Leonard]

This should be an awesome regional. I'm really excited to see how well all of the capital region teams will perform, since many of them have a practice bot for the first time!
Good luck, and we'll see you at the competition!

[Dominick Ferone]

So happy this regional got set up i was gonna look into going to the long island regional which is 5 hours away.( being I am an alumni from a long island team and came up here to start a team).
Good luck to everyone at the competition can't wait to see everyone there.

[JOEL340]

Who will be the MC for this regional? I have been wondering this for a while.

[jwfoss]

Originally Posted by JOEL340

Who will be the MC for this regional? I have been wondering this for a while.

As far as I know Angry Eric will be MCing this event.

[JOEL340]

Originally Posted by jwfoss

As far as I know Angry Eric will be MCing this event.

Thank you

[Larry Lewis]

Originally Posted by jwfoss

As far as I know Angry Eric will be MCing this event.

Angry Eric is awesome!

On a side note, how are teams dealing with the winter storm coming in on Wednesday? We are still determining if we can leave early to beat it or head out early Thursday.

[esquared]

Originally Posted by jwfoss

As far as I know Angry Eric will be MCing this event.

I'll be there helping to make the inaugural Tech Valley Regional awesome! After a great week 2 event at the New England Groton event, I'm looking forward to how week 3's strategies will play out. We've got a great set of teams coming in, including a few that NY doesn't typically see coming in (thanks for travelling!)

See you all on Friday, drive safe!

Originally Posted by JOEL340

Thank you

Hopefully that was a happy Thank You and not a disappointed one

[Rhelik]

Larry,

It looks like our weather here is changing by the hour. The latest has a snow/rain mix for morning, rain during the day and back to snow in the evening.

Everyone have a safe trip into town.

-Bernie