Philly Champions - 177, 381, & 284

[Meredith Rice]

Team 341, Wissahickon's Miss Daisy, won the Chairman's. Congratulations to everyone at Drexel and especially to the champions! It was a terrific regional and alot of fun as always.

[oneyd]

357 won the Engineering Inspiration award, 1391 was the Rookie All-Star, and "Action" Joe Perrotto from team 365 (w00t) recieved the WFA nomination. The total list of awards can be found here

[Solace]

did 177 finally stop tipping over? sounds like it.

[edomus]

Originally Posted by Fireboidsgrl

Team 341, Wissahickon's Miss Daisy, won the Chairman's. Congratulations to everyone at Drexel and especially to the champions! It was a terrific regional and alot of fun as always.

Congrats also for the second year in a row

[fred]

Wow, I am still trying to sort all of this out in my mind. First of all, HUGE congratulations to 177,381, and 284. You guys beat us in the playoffs and the competition was very fierce. Great robot, I remember seeing your video up on that wall and thinking "that is a real nice robot," our whole pit was really impressed and even more impressed with the actual thing. Also congrats to the alliance of 486, 222, and 651. That final was a great one to watch.

Miss Daisy did win Drexel Regional Chairmans for the 2nd year in a row and we are so psyched and I'd like to thank all of the teams that helped us in many ways, shapes, and forms. Also, big-time congratulations to our friends at Upper Darby for their Engineering Inspiration Award.

Other thoughts that I had. 272 (Lansdale Catholic) had a really great robot. I also loved the drive system on CHA-bots (1218). After some problems at Chesapeake, it really came together for you guys at Drexel. Also thanks to 1218 and 204 for being in an alliance with us. I felt that we were very, very competitive in our playoff rounds and without a penalty and then a mechanical malfunction (i.e. infernal bad luck) who knows where we might have gone.

BTW, those last comments are not taking anything away from the alliance that beat us, 177, 381, and 284 were fantastic and they certainly deserved to win. Well, that's just what I have to say, I thought that this regional was the best out of the three that I went to and I hope to see everyone at Nats.

[Pat Roche]

Wow congrats to all.......another close one with 222 and miss daisy winning another chairmens...... cant wait to see everyone at PARC.

-Pat

[Dave_222]

Hat's off to 177,381,&284, Truely amazing showing, you guys fought us tooth and nail every inch of the way and WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You guys should truely be proud of yourselves, you played the game in excellant form. Special recognition to 284 OUR SISTER TEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hope to see you guys at natts, were proud of you guys, same with 1143, congratts on your first finals ;-)

[roboticscom13]

Royal Assault would like to congratulate teams 177, and 284, 381, and 486, 222, and 651 for putting on a phenomenal final round. The competition started with a bang and sure ended with one. Also we would like to congratulate and wish luck to Miss Daisy, what else can be said about you guys other than your a fantastic team and we are honored to come in second place to you guys. Maybe at nationals we will be in the same division and we will tear the competition up!!

Good job everyone and Good Luck everyone in their quests.

[Heretic121]

i swear 121 has a curse this year...

first at BAE 126 couldnt hang, but we did fairly well and lost in the semis, then at UTC they beat us and made it to the finals...

then at UTC 177 did an alright job, but we eneded up loosing in the quaterfinals AGAINST 126, and now 177 wins the philly regional... AAAHHH!!!! but congrats! =P

[JVN]

Originally Posted by Heretic121

i swear 121 has a curse this year...

Maybe... working with 121 is what made these teams perform so well! Both 126 and 177 are excellent teams, who learn and adapt as the weeks go on. After working with you Rhode Islanders, they learned to turn their strengths into weaknesses and come back strong. (Much like you boys did after BAE).

*Shrug*
Paradigm shift...

John

[SAMmentor]

316 wants to thank 272 and 224 so very much for choosing us for the elimination rounds!!! You guys were great, what an awesome bot!

Philly is always a blast!

Congratulations to all of the teams!!!!!

[Peter Matteson]

Just got back from Philly and wanted to throw out our thanks and appreciation to teams 284 & 381 for being on our alliance. I also wanted to thank 222, 486 & 651 for being such a strong allianceand putting on such a great final match with us. Also we have to thank the Judges for the Xerox creativity award.

I have to ask, Does anyone know whether or not another small ball team has been a winning alliance captian yet? Just curious.

Thanks again to everyone who helped make the Philly regional happen.

Pete

[EvanG]

I would also like to extend Pete's thanks, and state that all of team 177 is greatful for the amazing show that the teams put on at Philly. All the bots there were excellent and they were great competition.

I'd like to thank our alliance partners for helping us make it. 381 & 284, thanks for the hard work and good strategies. I'd also like to thank all the teams we competed against. Particularly, I'd like to thank 222,486, and 651 for the great show they helped put on. I thought all three robots were excellent and I wish you guys the best of luck on your future endeavours.

Also, i'd like to make an out of place thanks here; perhaps i'll make a new proper thread for it later because it well deserves it. Thank you TechnoKats for your great designs for the gearbox and omniwheels. While we modified both in various ways to fit our needs, I will not deny that those white papers you did were incredibly useful. The gearbox allowed us to push and run, and undoubtedly helped us significantly. Thanks guys, i'm sure many teams in FIRST have you to thank. Of course, the mechanical guys would know more so than me, but I just want to thank you for what i saw in action.

Congrats to all the teams who won awards, I look forward to seeing you all again at nationals.

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by EvanG

Also, i'd like to make an out of place thanks here; perhaps i'll make a new proper thread for it later because it well deserves it. Thank you TechnoKats for your great designs for the gearbox and omniwheels. While we modified both in various ways to fit our needs, I will not deny that those white papers you did were incredibly useful. The gearbox allowed us to push and run, and undoubtedly helped us significantly. Thanks guys, i'm sure many teams in FIRST have you to thank. Of course, the mechanical guys would know more so than me, but I just want to thank you for what i saw in action.

You're welcome, and congrats! Double-congrats go to cousin PJ. Way to go Bobcats!

Andy B.

[fred]

Originally Posted by Dzdconfusd

Just got back from Philly and wanted to throw out our thanks and appreciation to teams 284 & 381 for being on our alliance. I also wanted to thank 222, 486 & 651 for being such a strong allianceand putting on such a great final match with us. Also we have to thank the Judges for the Xerox creativity award.

I have to ask, Does anyone know whether or not another small ball team has been a winning alliance captian yet? Just curious.

Thanks again to everyone who helped make the Philly regional happen.

Pete

Panther robotics (303) AKA the fridge won at Trenton and went to finals at Chesapeake. I forget if they were an alliance captain, but they were a great small ball machine and also did great with the 2x ball. 177 and 303 best small ball machines that I have seen so far.