[NE FIRST] Connecticut Shoreline District (Groton)

[MamaSpoldi]

On be half of team 230, thank you for the congrats. It was teamwork that allowed our alliance to make it thru all those matches and the huge defense we all experienced. We appreciate the pick by 1991 and 1699 was a great team to round out the alliance. Still can't believe we won! District events are quite a whirlwind event, so fast paced, never time to relax between matches. Exhausting and exhilarating at once.

I would also like to add my congratulations to 78 on the chairman's, to 228 for the EI and to Art Dutra for the volunteer of the year, and to 2168 for hosting a great event. I can only imagine the incredible number of hours and headaches that were experienced leading up to the event. You guys did a great job. It was an awesome experience.

[JohnBoucher]

Where will match videos be posted?

[mc153]

A little late now but if anyone was interested in the alliances follow the link.

[plnyyanks]

Originally Posted by JohnBoucher

Where will match videos be posted?

I got some of them from the video guys and I'll rip the rest off the live stream. I'll post them on YouTube and TBA in the next day or so

[Steven Donow]

For those who missed it, here's the 'secret endgame' Angry Eric came up with prior to opening ceremonies

I'd also like to draw attention to team 5112. They were awesome and an absolute blast to work with; great mentors, knowledgeable students. I expect great things from them in the future.

[NotInControl]

On behalf of the Aluminum Falcons, I just wanted to say thank you all to the teams for making it an awesome weekend. We had an amazing time hosting, and it seems that the overall experience from teams was nothing but positive.

It was great to see a lot of old friends, and make news ones.

Congratulations to Airstrike for Chairman's, Gus for EI, and 5142 for Rookie-All Star - your all awesome.

5112 - Special shout out to you. Nothing but a phenomenal team to work with, no doubt you will be new force in the New England area.

To all the award winning teams, congratulations, very well deserved. (I did have a question for 237, I was curious about your use of the ultrasonic sensor which I believe won you the Controls Award, if someone from your team is willing to explain it to me - that would be awesome).

And finally congratulations to our finalists, (tics, black magic, and panthers), and our event winners (dragons, gaelhawks, and robocats). Very intense matchup, and an overall great performance by all teams in elimination.

It was an amazing time, and I hope everyone had a blast.

Regards,
Kevin

[Bill_B]

Written up in Hartford Courant here.

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by Chi Meson

Any other suggestions?

My biggest suggestion would be to do something about traffic in the stands-even just a single column or two with caution tape to somewhat allow walking throughout the stands. By Saturday afternoon, it felt nearly impossible to walk to and from the stands. It's unfortunately just a limitation of the venue, but I enjoyed how spread out the overall venue was-it was incredibly easy to find a quiet place to talk strategy or practice Chairman's without any interruptions.

[Chi Meson]

Originally Posted by Steven Donow

My biggest suggestion would be to do something about traffic in the stands-even just a single column or two with caution tape to somewhat allow walking throughout the stands. By Saturday afternoon, it felt nearly impossible to walk to and from the stands. It's unfortunately just a limitation of the venue, but I enjoyed how spread out the overall venue was-it was incredibly easy to find a quiet place to talk strategy or practice Chairman's without any interruptions.

Good ideas.

With only 33 teams out of the 40 openings, I'm very glad now we didn't fill up.

[otherguy]

There are a number of photos taken by one of the mentors on our team here: http://mysticriverpress.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1775388&CategoryID=72376&ListSubA lbums=0

[MarcD79]

1st of all congrats to 1991, 230, 1699 for your incredible win. The field was intense out there. You sure made my inaugural showing as a Field Supervisor rewarding. In the past years I have had other positions, including field reset, FTA & now Field Super assistant. But this year so far has proved to be very physically demanding. The Refs have so much more to do as well. Before you start criticizing some of their penalties, take a minute & put yourself in their position. You have 6 robots flying back & forth, propelling 2' balls all over the place & they are watching for possession, passing of balls, proper scoring of said balls. And at the same time they are entering it into their tablets & watching for violations. I have a new respect for the Refs this year.
The reset crew has so much more to do this year as well. I'm glad I had such a great crew & hope I might have most of them in Southington. I also found out that in Eliminations I was outpaced by the amount of damaged balls I had expected, Judging by how many I replaced in the qualifying matches, I thought I was doing fine by having a couple of back-up balls for each color. I was wrong. Luckily we were able to recover, but it was very physically demanding.
I am looking forward to being your Field Supervisor in Southington on the 22nd & 23rd.

One more thing. Learn to accept that life isn't perfect & some things you will just have to accept. Also learn, meet new people, relax & have fun.

[dradel]

We had a great time, even though our "hands" didn't work out like we had hoped. Back to the shop to reconfigure!!!!

But seriously thanks for putting on the event!

Let's not forget to thank all the volunteers !!! Without them it would have been a much different event.

Thanks again Aluminum Falcons

We had a blast!
Team 4557 Full Metal Falcons

[plnyyanks]

Originally Posted by plnyyanks

I got some of them from the video guys and I'll rip the rest off the live stream. I'll post them on YouTube and TBA in the next day or so

Sadly, the livestream seams to have not archived Sunday (bummer, if I could have figured this out from the scorer's table, I would have pestered the video guy more for the rest of the video), so I only have footage from Saturday afternoon (qual matches 1-46). I'll cut those up, at least.

[Bill_B]

Originally Posted by plnyyanks

Sadly, the livestream seams to have not archived Sunday (bummer, if I could have figured this out from the scorer's table, I would have pestered the video guy more for the rest of the video), so I only have footage from Saturday afternoon (qual matches 1-46). I'll cut those up, at least.

The archives for Saturday are equally pathetic. I eagerly await whatever you can get from the footage you do have.

[MooreteP]

Thank you everyone for pulling of this inaugural event.

I think most of us prefer the district model even though our Pit times are reduced.

A huge shout out to Brian Chidley and the families involved in FIRST through the Aluminum Falcons. Very impressive representation of the Groton community.

Here are some videos. I apologize for the shakiness, but filming from the field this year is tough.
They mostly focus on Southington because for all of the talk here about Ri3D resulting in common Robot design, they break the mold.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FngzL85tBwE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sg4yAD2YPY