UCF regional!

[Kit Gerhart]

Originally Posted by mechman108

one thing that i realize about this year @ UCF was every single member of every single team in the pits were wearing safety goggles... which i think is very cool... one thing about it though... one of the volunteer was standing outside the pit asking everybody to wear safety goggles... i think that we all should be responsible of wearing safety goggles in the pits at all time and hopefully a volunteer doesnt have to stay infront of the pit ALL day to ask everybody to wear safety goggles next time...

Everyone was wearing safety glasses because there was the threat of a 10 point penalty in their next match to the alliance of anyone caught in the pits not wearing safety goggles. Such threats shouldn't be necessary, but they work.

[Ryan Albright]

Ya i think it was good that everyone had to wear them, but then there was the problem what if you didnt have enough, my parents didnt come up till friday and my team didnt have any extra ones and the pit adminstration gave all theres out so my parents couldnt come back and see the robot up close

[George1902]

Originally Posted by Kit Gerhart

Everyone was wearing safety glasses because there was the threat of a 10 point penalty in their next match to the alliance of anyone caught in the pits not wearing safety goggles.

Just curious, but did anyone actually get penalized for this?

[Arefin Bari]

Originally Posted by George1083

Just curious, but did anyone actually get penalized for this?

nope george... there was nobody who was penalized...

[Jay W.]

Man...all I have to say is that the UCF competition was AWESOME. Every part of it..the matches, the teams, everything. I'd like to thank all the teams that were there for their gracious profesionalism, and congrats to the winners (insert team numbers here, its late I can't remember). Also, thanks ComBBAT for the use of their battery charger during our 2 finals matches. I know ComBBAT and The Flashbacks will be comming here (South Carolina) for the regional, anyone else?

Ps
I have pics from my camera loaded, they'll be up shortly. And, big thanks to #233, great team, hope to work with you in the future!

[Specialagentjim]

Originally Posted by Kit Gerhart

Everyone was wearing safety glasses because there was the threat of a 10 point penalty in their next match to the alliance of anyone caught in the pits not wearing safety goggles. Such threats shouldn't be necessary, but they work.

You beat me to it! lol.

Yeah, tell everyone they'll loose an eye and no one cares. Tell them they'll loose 10 points, they'd come wrapped in bubble wrap if the rules called for it.


Hey, btw. No one had my flux capacitor i was looking for

[LittleGirlGreen]

Originally Posted by Specialagentjim

they'd come wrapped in bubble wrap if the rules called for it.

bubble wrap, eh? hmmm... ok, guys, I've got an idea for a new "team wardrobe" that'll definately get us some attention...

[Dan Richardson]

lol Half our team had almost come in hasmat suits to protect ourselves from that pesky nora virus.. I was washing my hands every 5 minutes!

And I still got sick!

Dan

[kane]

Well this was my last competition with SPAM (can't miss the school for palmetto, and prom is the weekend of nats). Next year i'll be on 1083, if they'll have me (seems like im not the only one). UCF was great, thanks to swamp thing, which was in my opnion the best bot out there, awesome job guy.

I really hope we can manage to hang in palmetto, and get it perfected for the championship. We got off the ground in our last match on saturday, which was a big help to our confidence in our current arm.

[Tytus Gerrish]

i sheared off the tip of my finger crushed another got various bruses on ly legs severl cyts on my hands and arms my voice was completely horse and im not sick

[Arefin Bari]

my hands are full of cuts... lost my voice (almost)... and very sick...

[shark_byte]

WOO WOO! The UCF Regional event was my first FIRST competiton ever, and let me tell you, I never had that much fun at a live sporting event. Sure I nearly lost my voice, but hey! That was the last thing I was worried about. Thank you to all the teams who made my first FIRST experience a great one! Special thanks to Coquitron (did I spell that right?) and the Red Jammers for being such great alliance partners in the finals. You guys ROCK! WOOT!

[miketwalker]

I will say, it was quite depressing loading all of the field equipment into the FIRST semi afterwards and just seeing the arena empty after taking everything down... but then again... the next competitions are still close. That's what's great, there's always a "next competition."

[miketwalker]

The gallery from the "Unofficial Social" hosted by 1083 is now up on the ComBBAT site. Check it out! If you want the full size picture of any of them just send me a PM or an e-mail at miketwalker@cfl.rr.com http://www.combbat21.com/ucfsocial/

[Jonathan M.]

Originally Posted by Specialagentjim

Hey, btw. No one had my flux capacitor i was looking for

YOU asked for it! I should've known! I never heard which team asked for it otherwise I would have gone and offered my assistance in the making of one. Lol.