2014 Virginia Regional

[dougwilliams]

TigerTronics from Endicott, NY will be making the trek again this year after such a great experience last year.

We look forward to playing with our Finalist partner from last year, 2363 - Triple Helix again. We also just ran into our other partner, Ranger Robotics this past weekend at the NY Tech Valley Regional.

The game is intense and we're looking forward to playing again this week... and seeing all the great robot designs and mapping out good game strategies with all the teams.

See you in a few days...

[wilsonmw04]

is there a webcast this year?

[dellagd]

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

is there a webcast this year?

I attempted to find it but the Virginia site still says coming soon.

[kjohnson]

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

is there a webcast this year?

It will be listed here when the stream is available.

[pyroslev]

Good morning Ladies & Gentlemen and welcome to Day One.

[wilsonmw04]

Originally Posted by pyroslev

Good morning Ladies & Gentlemen and welcome to Day One.

Bus leaves in 1 hour!

[pyroslev]

Thank you ladies and gentlemen for a good day yesterday and welcome to Day Two. See you guys at the Siegel Center.

[Johnbot]

FIRST Team 2607 has been having an amazing time so far! It's so nice and warm down here

Good luck to everyone tomorrow!

[brrian27]

Thank you to Virginia FIRST and everyone at the regional!

We had a blast at our first out of state regional, and as finalists for the first time.

Thank you also to the best alliance members 1418 and 435. You guys were awesome.

We made a lot of new friends! If any team wants to come to Florida, look out for the Ninjineers to show you around.

Thank you again everyone and congratulations to all the winners.

[DRH2o]

Congratulations to 1610, 384, and 2607 on the Regional win. You had a great alliance. Hank -- Love the tutu. Thanks to 346 and 540 for joining us in eliminations -- we put up a good fight. Congratulations to 422 on the Chairman's and 540 on EI -- both well deserved. Thanks to all the volunteers and refs for a well run event. It has already been stated that this is a tough game on the refs -- I think Lisa and the crew did a great job of getting everything as "right" as they could. Pattie, Carol, Sally, and all of VA FIRST -- wonderful. Some of you know that my son's '76 Corvette that we spent 6 years restoring caught on fire and was destroyed while he was coming to Richmond Friday (he is okay), so Saturday was a day of mixed emotions for us, but it was great to be around friends in Richmond. Thanks everyone for a great time!!

[RoboHatter]

Team 346 Here. Thank you for selecting us to join your alliance. Together we put up a really good fight. We enjoyed working with you. Your drive team was fun to work with.

[mwilbur]

Triple Helix would like to congratulate team 2607, the Robovikings, and our friends from Sparky 384 and 1610, Builders of Tomorrow on your win at the Virginia Regional. Also, congratulations to all of the award winners, especially our friends at 422, the Mech Tech Dragons (RCA), Talon 540 (EI), and 4969, Iron FeNix (RAS). And a BIG CONGRATULATIONS to our own Sarah Selim for her selection as a Dean's List Finalist!! Triple Helix has three Dean's List Finalists out of the four years that we have submitted essays, which is a testament to the quality of students that we have at Menchville High School. You're all great, and your dedication to the team and your commitment to the ideals of FIRST is a major contributing factor in our team's success over the past several years.

We would like to thank team 1533, Triple Strange, and 2068, the Metal Jackets for being such awesome alliance partners in the elimination matches. You guys all performed excellently, allowing us to consistently execute our plan. Another second or two and we would have cashed in on another 3-assist cycle and we would have been in the finals, penalty or no penalty. Thanks for being so good to work with! We would also like to thank all of the sponsors, volunteers, and the dedicated staff at VirginiaFIRST for another awesome Virginia Regional. We look forward to at least one more Virginia Regional before we go to the district model. Keep up the great work!

Finally, we would like to thank all of you who complemented our team and our robot this weekend. As a few examples, we had a student from the Chairman's-Award-winning Mech Tech Dragons come up to us and tell us how our team inspires them to excel, we had someone ask if he could buy one of our team hoodie sweatshirts, and we had several people tell us that they consider us to be the easiest team to work with in the state of Virginia. We feel that these statements validate our approach to being good representatives of FIRST, and we humbly appreciate all of the support that you provide us. Our team is dedicated to turning Virginia into a state that people mention when the subject of the best-of-the-best among FIRST teams comes up. We look forward to working with each and every one of you in the future.

[Maldridge422]

Congratulations to the winning alliance of 2607, 384, and 1610, who won the regional for a 2nd year in a row! Kudos to 540 for winning the Engineering Inspiration Award again!

Thank you to 3939 for inviting us to the 5th seed alliance and to 2053 for accepting our invitation!

Thank you to 2363 giving us hardware for setting up cameras and for being great neighbors in the stands. We hope to be uploading match video eventually.

Shout out to 1086 for a well-deserved Judges Award! I'm looking forward to seeing the results of their impressive drivetrain in Queen City.

Team 422 is so grateful that we won the Chairman's Award, we appreciate the work of everyone who has helped our program succeed over the past 15 years.

[Dmentor]

Thanks to the organizers, volunteers and teams that made the 15th Virginia Regional such a great experience for all of our students! Congratulations to all the award winners (especially the Regional Chairman's Award-winning Mech Tech Dragons (422)), each year that bar is raised higher and higher.

Originally Posted by mwilbur

We would like to thank team 1533, Triple Strange, and 2068, the Metal Jackets for being such awesome alliance partners in the elimination matches. You guys all performed excellently, allowing us to consistently execute our plan. Another second or two and we would have cashed in on another 3-assist cycle and we would have been in the finals, penalty or no penalty. Thanks for being so good to work with!

Some alliances just seem to fit together perfectly and the "Triple Alliance" was one of them. Between the leadership and firepower of Triple Helix (2363) and the flexibility and adaptability of Triple Strange (1533), we formed a whole greater than the parts. We were honored to play with you and disappointed about letting you down at the end.

Originally Posted by mwilbur

And a BIG CONGRATULATIONS to our own Sarah Selim for her selection as a Dean's List Finalist!! Triple Helix has three Dean's List Finalists out of the four years that we have submitted essays, which is a testament to the quality of students that we have at Menchville High School. You're all great, and your dedication to the team and your commitment to the ideals of FIRST is a major contributing factor in our team's success over the past several years.

... and we had several people tell us that they consider us to be the easiest team to work with in the state of Virginia. We feel that these statements validate our approach to being good representatives of FIRST, and we humbly appreciate all of the support that you provide us. Our team is dedicated to turning Virginia into a state that people mention when the subject of the best-of-the-best among FIRST teams comes up. We look forward to working with each and every one of you in the future.

Your team's gracious, welcoming attitude was apparent throughout the regional. In the very short time we interacted in setting and executing strategy together, the quality of your team's student leaders was exemplary and Sarah's selection as a Dean List Finalist was well deserved. 2068 (among many others in the state) shares your team's vision for overall development and improvement of FIRST within Virginia and look forward to helping achieve this goal.

[pyroslev]

To the teams:
Thank you for showing the rest of the regionals how to play good defense. The quality of play was on par with last year. To the Finalists, you made them earn it. 1418 I knew was gonna make it to the semis just from their play on practice day. 2383's robot was different design that impressed me. 435 brought their usual solid performance up from Carolina. Triple Helix, your robot, I still maintain was one of the best ones to take the field. 1086, congrats on the Judges Award. It remains my favorite award just for it's nature. Talons, thank you for the TuTu loan. 422, you got the big one and it was well earned.
2607 thank you for the pick and to 384 Sparky, great team and great robot.

As a Volunteer:
Thank you all to the teams that provided help. Some of you provided help to many other teams in need. To all of you that help 3361 in their hour of need, words do no exist for me to thank you. I walked over to help more than once and saw they were in great hands. The robot that resulted was easily rival to the average of the season. I call it the Robot in One Day build. I've seen it happen before but never a robot of that caliber come out of the mix.

Thank you one and all. Walking out last night after we sent the truck on to DC, can honestly say I have never felt prouder of not just one group but everyone.

And the icing on the cupcake is this.