Annapolis Regional Wrap-Up

[Keith Chester]

I can not get over three things from Annapolis, all of which are rookie teams.


Team 1168, who deserved their Rookie Award for having that spirit up there throughout the competition, working hard on their bot everytime I came by their pits.

Team 1027, amazing rookies who placed in the 6th seed and third in the finals. You guys definately had the right stuff to be a FIRST team, and I look forward to seeing you guys at nationals.

Team 1184- I commend you not for catching on fire, a horrific accident, but your actions thereafter. You guys were able to keep your spirits high after such a tragedy and, by the end of that day, have your remade bot on the practice ramp trying to get your autonomous down! An engineering feat in of itself!

[Madison]

Thank goodness it's over.

On the whole, the regional was run well. I'd never been a regional that large before, so I was surprised to see things so organized and easy to handle. I was somewhat expecting to be overwhelmed.

Parking offsite was, really, the only tedious, annoying aspect of the regional. The Naval Academy needed to run more shuttles; especially during the morning and evening rush. It made getting out of the event to get spare parts nearly impossible for my team, as it was always an hour+ time commitment.

The machine shop was amazing. We cannot thank the guys over there enough for helping 810 out on many, many occasions, and they made it possible for us to get up and running by event's end. Likewise, so many teams came through for us with spare parts and hardware that we didn't think to bring along. We'd be lost if team 506 hadn't provided us with a solenoid.

It seemed like everyone really enjoyed the event, and that's great to see. Personally, I didn't have the best weekend ever, but that doesn't matter too much in the grand scheme of things.

...see everyone next week, I guess.

[Andy4Hawks]

Team 614 would like to send a BIG THANKS to our alliance partners 25 and 103, we sincerely appreciated you choice in picking us as a alliance partner. You guys had some awesome bots and played great in the finals, a big pat on the back to you. Annapolis was a lot of fun. Good luck to the alliance teams and to all teams as they continue in the regionals and the nationals! If luck has it in for us we might even see you at the nationals too!

[Dante Sparda]

Good job everyone!! Even though I wasn't there in person, I was there in spirit! Congrats to not only SPARKY! but the other teams that helped us along, and even those that did not, for FIRST is all about fun, and fun with each other, so, I hope you guys had a great time.
Hopefully going to Houston,
~Chris Poon, Team 384

[Lil'Mellie03]

Aloha Everyone,

I just wanted to say a big mahalo to all those who were there. Annapolis was my frist real event and it was incredible. I met some awesome people. (Not to mention names but Brian from 87 and George from 398) My team was great with our cheering stuff too. And thanks to all the mascots that did our jumping jacks with us...it really made a difference. It was hard to leave all of that and come home. Good luck to everyone in the future.

Lots and lots and lots of love,
Melanie

[melitami]

Hey back to you, Joseph! Thanks for letting Gui and I hang around with y'all!

Congrats to all the teams at Annapolis! I was only there on Saturday, but it was a great venue, a great competition, and a wonderful group of teams.

I'll see a bunch of you in Philadelphia! Best of luck!

~Melissa

[soezgg]

yeah our team had alot of fun

even though we got hella SHAFTED

but thats all good

props to 25 and 103 (RURAL PEOPLE UNITE)

and moe

and...134?

and the robobees

and 891

and 1084

[Chipawa]

I'm a rookie mentor for a rookie team. We placed next to last at Annapolis (AHHHHH!!). STILL.....had a great time. We were the other Sparky - Team 1111 - and one of the locals at the event. I'm hooked and plan to be back next year (if the team will keep me )

Kudos to the Chesapeake Regional Team for putting on a spectacular event. I'm sure there were some behind the scenes glitches, but from my viewpoint, everything went like clockwork.

I'd like to give a big thanks to Team 271 and to the Broadneck/Severn/Nav Acad team for supplying us w/ drill motor transmissions for our last match. You all were life savers. We had drive train problems all day Friday into Saturday - we'll chalk it up as a learning experience.

I'm glad many of you enjoyed coming to Annapolis, and hope that some of you got to walk around the historic district (right outside the Naval Academy). There's plenty to do and see here (if you're not tied up fixing your Robot like we were!)

Congratulations to all the winners, you all are tops! Best of luck to all of you who go on to Nationals. Look for us next year in Annapolis.

Chip Tucker
Anteon Corp.

[ssjcell]

best regional ever my only complaint is that the judges did not ask enough of those really interesting questions when going around to give their awards and what not

[DaveO'B365]

ya, i would have to agree it was surely a fun regional, even for us volunteers... especially for us volunteers, it was a pleasure inspecting robots, and getting to talk to people... just relax a little during inspections though, i'm not out there to get you anyway, thanks joseph for the compliments and such, it was certainly an honor to be next to you guys at VCU in the pit last year too. be on the lookout for moe at philly... he's probably gonna be working a lot better there... i believe it was 1184 that caught on fire too though, i was standing right there when it happened, i wanted to use the fire extinguisher...i had to do a little inspecting afterwards too. it's ok though, i'd forget my own team number if it weren't the same number of days in a year.