2003 Long Island Regionals

[ShirtNinja]

Seriously, congratulations to everyone. And I mean that. I'm surprised we did so well. We really bombed it at BAE and UTC, but we took 5th at SBPLI. So, we're all pretty psyched about that. I mean, I'm excited. I was the human player and all. I know I didn't do much and stuff, but I'm feeling pretty good. And as for what Longwood said about our noisemakers...what rule are y'all referring to? Plus we advised against the blocks this year after we all went deaf last year. But they passed them out anyway. Yeah, so, great job to everyone, and good luck in the future.

[Scott358]

As a representative from FESTO Corporation, and a mentor on team 358, I just wanted to say thanks to all the teams for a great regional event.

After attending the BAE Regional, I felt we had "pretty big shoes to fill" as far as matching the excitement, energy, and spirit of FIRST, and I would say we did it!!!

Congrats to all on a great event. Hopefully, we'll see some of you in Houston, otherwise next year on LI.

Regards,
Scott358

PS - With regard to awards, there's a full list on the FIRST site under the LI regional event:

http://www2.usfirst.org/2003comp/events/LI/awards.html

[Rob Colatutto]

Originally posted by ShirtNinja
Seriously, congratulations to everyone. And I mean that. I'm surprised we did so well. We really bombed it at BAE and UTC, but we took 5th at SBPLI. So, we're all pretty psyched about that.

thanks 287 for making us your first pick, and setting up a good alliance with us and team 28. too bad we ran into a few problems with seeing the robot, and your chain fell off, then 28 had a little drive problem at the end of match 2. in all, we learned exactly how to work our robot now, so we feel we can do very well at nationals, congrats to the winners
ps...since thursday i was telling people to watch out for team 870, looks like i was right

[Adam Y.]

Just curious, which rule on noise makers are you refering to? I'm trying to convince people to give up the wooden blocks if that's what you mean, I know they're really annoying. heh.

Never mind there is a rule but it wans't enforced at all and I retract my former statement. After reading it I realized that all of the teams broke that rule in one form or another including our own team. I do not remember one team that did not hang a banner off a bleacher. Also it was in the shipping section.

Plus we advised against the blocks this year after we all went deaf last year. But they passed them out anyway.

Bah only death. We went death mute and blind at the same time. I think we were won of the most photographed teams out there.
Also thank you for lending us that saw tool to cut out our robot. It really helped us out to fix our robot.
Whoopeee team 564 won the chairman's award. I was jumping so much hehe. I looked down and thought to myself,"Where is my medal????" Then I realized that it fell a few feet back.

Mannnnnnn I am so depressed, we ranked 14 out of 32 in the regional, were a rookie team that never broke down once, and made it to the top of the ramp 10 out of 11 matches....

Do not feel so depressed. We were a third year team that broke down once and we placed last. Does anyone recommend something to place over our tires to improve traction. I believe that our shredded tires and our sensitive controls is what gave our team problems moving

[Solace]

yeah, long island was awesome (my team wasn't actually there, but we jumped on the RAGE bus and went up anyways).

congrats to everybody (and 870. we'll be seeing you at Nationals!)

Official Coolest random moment:
"Where the hell is Popek?"
The enemy has your flag
"Crap!"

[Adam Y.]

"Where the hell is Popek?"
The enemy has your flag
"Crap!"

Huh I must of missed that. Can you tell me about this?

[Solace]

ummm, yeah, that wasn't actually part of the meaningful post. (Its called a random moment for a reason.) Just think Halo parties at 1 in the morning.

As for the regional, I must say that even if it wasn't quite as competitive as the UTC one (the only other one i've attended this year), It was a lot more fun to watch. And the finals match was amazing.

The only thing I was dissappointed at was that 810 never used their stacker thingamajigger. (supposedly they go under and over the bar at the same time so that they can carry a stack with them). It sounds really cool, but they never used it.

[pras870]

I must say, it was truely a great regional. We were up at UTC last week, thought it was challenging, and SBPLI would be easier, boy was I wrong. The bots there were amazing, and really put up a fight.

I must say thank you to teams 514 and 569. We had an amazing alliance, not losing a single match during the entire final matches, and we pulled it off.

Unfortunately, we will not be going down to Nationals in Houston this year because of it being denied by the board of ed. Being a Senior, I'm truely dissapointed about this, but it was definetely an amazing year for FIRST.

[Solace]

well that's dissapointing, but congradulations on a great bot and a great year anyways

[pras870]

Actually I was mistaken, the only reason we aren't going to Nationals is simply because the 2 mentor leaders on the team did not want to go, why? I don't know. It's just really disappointing because I feel we had a very good chance at doing well in nationals

[SarahB]

Originally posted by wysiswyg
Never mind there is a rule but it wans't enforced at all and I retract my former statement. After reading it I realized that all of the teams broke that rule in one form or another including our own team. I do not remember one team that did not hang a banner off a bleacher.

Team 30 didn't use any noise makers and we didn't hang a banner off a bleacher. Then again we usually only had 4 people in the stands at any given time. I guess it comes with the territory of being a small team from an even smaller school. Some of the teams brought more people than we have in our entire school.

[Melancholy]

I'd like to say an extra special congratulations and awesome work to all that participated in the Long Island Regional! Especially 263 and 271, because you both rock my world. Oh yeah.

- You loving pit announcer, Kimberly

P.S. If you have borrowed goggles, please return them to pit administration by the end of the day.

[DanL]

I was really disapointed to see no big screen nor camera crews at SBPLI this year... =(

However, it was still fun, even if we didn't get chosen for the finals. We worked out the last of the robot's kinks (unfortionately, that doesn't do us much good because the school board cancelled our big trip to San Jose: -$4000 for us), watched some good matches, and played some Ultimate (thanks to everyone who came out during lunch and played some rounds with us today).

I also got to ride a Segway! The Segway person was giving out free rides yesterday after the awards ceremony.

[Scott358]

Being on the SBPLI FIRST Committee that sets up the LI event, this was not something we wanted to do. I comes down to having the financial support to do "everything" in a very, very difficult economy.

The Long Island FIRST Regional is like no other, in that the single largest corporate contribution is "only" $25k (which was the case even when the economy was good), then it goes down quickly from there. Many other events get upwards of $100k (or even more) from a single company, then the donations from other companies on top of that.

Our LI Regional is truly a "home grown" event, for which if it were not for the coordination and fund raising efforts of Fred Breihut of SBPLI (which is a not-for-profit organization), we would not have.

I agree the big screen would be nice, but I would ask everyone to keep the big picture of the whole event in mind.

Regards,
Scott358

[Adam Y.]

I was really disapointed to see no big screen nor camera crews at SBPLI this year... =(

There was a camera crew from one of the teams this year. They were wearing blue shirts. Of course that does not help you much because there must have been quite a few teams wearing blue shirts. I was doing the docy-do with our lion as he was filming us.

Team 30 didn't use any noise makers and we didn't hang a banner off a bleacher. Then again we usually only had 4 people in the stands at any given time. I guess it comes with the territory of being a small team from an even smaller school. Some of the teams brought more people than we have in our entire school.

Yeah I meant there was quite a few teams that did it. What school do you come from??
I am also quite surprised at the fact at how much of a work out I got walking/running around the place.