2015 Chesapeake Regional

[notmattlythgoe]

Big congratulations to team 1629 GaCo for once again winning the Regional Chairman's Award, your team is truly an inspiration.

Also, a congratulations to team 4945 Titanium Wrecks on winning the Engineering Inspiration Award in only their second season. Keep your eyes on this team moving forward, they are doing big things.

How bout them Robobees? Rebuilding their entire robot on Thursday and making it to the finals on Saturday!

Once again, glad that the entire finals field was qualified for the Championship! Aren't wildcards awesome?

[1629GaCo]

Team 1629 GaCo, would like to congratulate Teams 1690, Team 2363, and Team 4050 on their big regional win. Great alliance and great strategy!

2363, Triple Helix, you all are amazing, you keep working on things and seem to really nail them down when they count. Too bad we didn't get a chance to play together all weekend!!! We always enjoy seeing you at the events, a great group of people and a great team! Keep up the good work.

836, impressive rebuild, enough said. Great run into the finals!

Congrats to all award winners, and just all teams in general, we all are aware of how are these robots and competitions are to pull off!!!

Thank you all volunteers, your work is amazing!

Great regional, great venue!!

[tim-tim]

What an event! Thanks to the planning committee and volunteers for once again making the Chesapeake Regional an awesome event.

Congratulations to the all the award recipients, especially 1629 for Chairman's and 4945 for their first Engineering Inspiration.

Thank you to our alliance captain, 2534, for selecting us to be your partner along with 1610. We had a strong alliance, but couldn't pull off the victory. It was a lot of fun playing with both teams during the playoffs.

Congratulations to the winning alliance, 1690, 2363, and 4050. 1690 was by far the best robot at the event and when paired up with 2363 and 4050 we knew we were going to have our work cutout if we were going to win. I think we put on a good show throughout the playoffs.

A huge thank you to all the teams that supported us through our rebuild; from offering materials and manpower all they way to providing positive feedback and words of encouragement - this means a lot to us. We plan to release a more detailed write up on the rebuild in the near future.

Many of our friends we will see again in a few weeks at Championships; to all our other teams we look forward to seeing you at an off-season event, training session, or at a competition next year.

[ToddF]

Our multimedia team has begun uploading full field view match videos. You can find them on the Triple Helix youtube channel.

I also shoot closeup video to aid in troubleshooting in the pit. I have match video of our alliance in the playoff matches posted on my channel.

[JDGallagher]

1086 had a fantastic time at our second ever Chesapeake Regional.

First I would like to congratulate 1629 for their well deserved chairman's award, as well as their success on the field.

Congratulations to 1690, 2363, and 4050 for winning the event and showing consistent high level play.

Thank you to our alliance partners, 3941 and 1111, for showing excellent teamwork and bringing Absolute Power Cheese into the semi finals.

Lastly, thank you to the Virginia teams for making our state look good, on and off the field. Can't wait to see what we can do at Championship.

[wilsonmw04]

Gotta say that my team thoroughly enjoyed the event. If this is what the Champs of our new district is going to feel like, I think this is going to work.

I do think we need to educate our fellow FRC'ers, however. The "boos" or "Ohhhhs" we got from the crowd when we declined the alliance invite was a bit misplaced. There was no disrespect in our declining. No one should have read anything into it. As we go into our district next year, this is going to happen more often.

Best of luck to those heading to World's in the a few weeks. I will be very interested to see what the "Capital Area District" will do in St. Louis.

[gabrielau23]

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

Gotta say that my team thoroughly enjoyed the event. If this is what the Champs of our new district is going to feel like, I think this is going to work.

I do think we need to educate our fellow FRC'ers, however. The "boos" or "Ohhhhs" we got from the crowd when we declined the alliance invite was a bit misplaced. There was no disrespect in our declining. No one should have read anything into it. As we go into our district next year, this is going to happen more often.

Best of luck to those heading to World's in the a few weeks. I will be very interested to see what the "Capital Area District" will do in St. Louis.

I think lots of times "Whoaaaaaaa" gets misheard as "booooo". It's just that usually alliance selections are fairly scripted through the first 4 or 5 (or at least should be) picks, and it's generally surprising to hear someone get turned down in the first round. My reaction of "whoaaaaaaaaa", was definitely not a negative gesture, just a reaction, really.

[Electronica1]

Originally Posted by gabrielau23

it's generally surprising to hear someone get turned down in the first round.

I would be more surprised to see someone get turned down during the second round.

[zim2411]

Hello everyone! I served as one of the official photographers at the event this year, you may have seen me running around the event.

I've finished sorting the nearly 8300 photos I took at the event and pared them down to the best ~1200 photos. They are available on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/122681157@N06/

I have also dutifully tagged each photo to make them easily searchable: https://www.flickr.com/photos/122681157@N06/tags/

These photos are free to use and distribute as you see fit. (Please make use of them!) I can send the RAW (CR2) files if anyone would like them as well, shoot me a message on Flickr with the link for the photo you would like.

[ToddF]

Peter, thanks so much for this.

[wilsonmw04]

Originally Posted by zim2411

Hello everyone! I served as one of the official photographers at the event this year, you may have seen me running around the event.

I've finished sorting the nearly 8300 photos I took at the event and pared them down to the best ~1200 photos. They are available on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/122681157@N06/

I have also dutifully tagged each photo to make them easily searchable: https://www.flickr.com/photos/122681157@N06/tags/

These photos are free to use and distribute as you see fit. (Please make use of them!) I can send the RAW (CR2) files if anyone would like them as well, shoot me a message on Flickr with the link for the photo you would like.

Dude,
There are so many great shots in there. There's a pic of a young 2363 member suspended in mid air this is priceless. Thankfully there are a few Cheesy shots in there as well!

[KevinG]

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

Gotta say that my team thoroughly enjoyed the event. If this is what the Champs of our new district is going to feel like, I think this is going to work.

I do think we need to educate our fellow FRC'ers, however. The "boos" or "Ohhhhs" we got from the crowd when we declined the alliance invite was a bit misplaced. There was no disrespect in our declining. No one should have read anything into it. As we go into our district next year, this is going to happen more often.

Best of luck to those heading to World's in the a few weeks. I will be very interested to see what the "Capital Area District" will do in St. Louis.

They definitely weren't booing.