BAE FINAL REMARKS

[rocknthehawk]

Originally Posted by Pin Man

Yes yes... another great team we were hoping to be with... 549... Great robot and great team members... I love the hair haha though we were thinking of holding you down and using some spray painting hair dye and writing 88 on both sides... hahaha

we actually thought of telling our sponsors whoever gave the biggest donation would get their name on the sides, or we would put our team number. you guys probably could have...i'm very weak, with very little muscle

[mdefreest]

To Team Discovery - It was great neighboring with you at the BAE regional. Best wishes for your team going forward..and the students I talked to about ways to mentor Lego League...team 501 can help you with a plan to make the "Would benefit from additional emphasis" on the Chairman's Award Feedback Form become "Currently Strong"!
M

[Rick]

The reffing was UNBELIEVABLE (as the announcer would say). Benji and his crew were on top of things all day and it showed. I only heard booing once from a team with a high cg that fell over, and they were upset the other alliance was not DQed.

The music was loud on the field, but not over the top. The music and lights before the finals set the mood for an exciting bunch of matches. I would like to thank team 126 for their great scouting, human player, and machine. 350 also gets my thanks for being a great defense and teamwork. Our alliance worked like a well oiled machine and without our teamwork the outcome may have been different.

Their were two volunteers in particular that we always have fun with. The walk around match cuer and the woman who gave out the early stickers (see attachment). The announcer was great again, and the music was too. These are the people that give the BAE regional the atmosphere that we will continue to enjoy for years to come.

[Todd Derbyshire]

I have searched everywhere can someone plz post the Top 8 seeds along with who they picked for the elimination rounds. Would be much appreciated for those wonderful College students who are enemic in their thrist for FIRST.

[meredith]

I would like to thank Team 121 for choosing Team 126 for the elimination rounds. Team 121 did a great job scoring and keeping robots off of us while we scored. Also, Team 350 did a great job defending for us. Our three teams worked excellent together and did a great job adapting to the action on the field. Good luck at the Championship!

You can find all of the teams that made it to the elimination rounds on
www.gaelforce126.org (under the BAE regional link).

[Melissa Fitta]

A big thank you to teams 121 and 126 we all really appreciated the opportunity to play with you. We were drooling over your bots during the days of competition and we ecstatic to be chosen after a hard start on Thursday. We are hoping to make it to competitions this year but in any case we are just so happy to be champs after our 2nd consecutive year due to money issues. Thank you again. We all really enjoyed it.

[Ken Streeter]

Originally Posted by iCurtis

I would have to say our final quarterfinalist match against 133 1519 and the other team was one of the best matches there. We even had the announcer confused.

As one of the coaches of Team 1519, I definitely agree that the quarterfinal match you mention was one of the most amazing of the day. (BTW, the other team on the alliance was 1153, the number two seed.) It seemed like the lead/momentum went back and forth at least four times during the match.

We were very surprised at the importance of strong defense. By Saturday morning, most alliances had realized the importance of having a robot playing defense, as in the qualification rounds it wasn't unusual for an alliance with one good stacker and one strong defender to win over alliances with two strong stackers.

Since we were way behind on the robot build schedule, we didn't have a stacking capability until Saturday morning. As a result, on Friday we had not attempted to stack, but instead played defense almost all day. We were amazed at the number of top teams that aggressively scouted our robot on Friday night as a defensive ally. As a result, on Saturday morning we continued to focus on defense to demonstrate our capabilities there even though we had a new stacking capability. We found that one quick defending robot could generally keep two good stackers from making much progress. After dropping the hanging tetra in autonomous mode, Team 1519's robot was on the field solely for defense and our robot took an awful lot of battle damage as a result. Being in the opponent's zone as a defender against two or three other robots resulted in mangling a couple frame rails on the robot such that they will surely never be straight again. The elimination matches had a surprising amount of "brutality," but it sure made for exciting play.

We are disappointed that our rookie competition season is now at a close, but we're looking forward to offseason competitions, as well as next year! Thanks to all the teams that gave our rookie team advice and suggestions during the tournament!

[rocknthehawk]

yes, i agree with what was said before, the woman giving out early stickers was awesome!!! She was a lot of fun to talk to, and plus, i danced with her a bit lol

[Matt Shea]

I just wanted to say that BAE was a great event and i had lots of fun. I also want to thank team 126 and team 350 for being such great alliance partners. You guys did a great job and we couldn't have done it without you. Thanks again.

[Bcahn836]

Overall I think it was a good regional, I thought the whole 3 Vs 3 thing would make things very difficult in the queuing area but it was handled very well. We had a little trouble with the interpretation of the rules (penalties) but adapted and overcame our troubles in our first few matches. I am looking forward to Chesapeake because we now know how we play the game we know what rules and penalties the judges and refs are looking for.

Finally I would like to thank team 157 the Aztechs for their support in cheering for us. THANK YOU!!

[MikeDubreuil]

Originally Posted by Ricksta121

The reffing was UNBELIEVABLE (as the announcer would say). Benji and his crew were on top of things all day and it showed.

I'll agree with this- Benji was amazing!

Case in point- it was a match early into the seeding rounds, I forgot the round number. A robot grabbed a tetra and ended up falling out of bounds. Their arm resting on the floor on the outside of the field. But they weren't disabled so the team righted the robot by applying force to the floor on the outside of the field with their arm. Once they were back up and driving to the loading zone you could hear gasps from the crowd. Benji was on the opposite side of the field as the arena control system. He risked life and limb by jumping over the wall and through the field to get to the arena controllers. By that point the illegal robot was just about to cap a tetra on a goal when they were disabled. Because of Benji's heroics that match avoided a serious reffing blunder. Awesome job

[Erin Rapacki]

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[Petey]

Ricksta of RhodeWarriors:

We had a complaint when our robot was disqualified for an offense that our human player did not commit--namely, touching the robot as he loaded it. It is quite clear, on tape, that the infringement the referee alleged did not occur.

So I wouldn't say it was flawless refereeing--I'd also note that there were some extraordinary discrepencies in penalties about ramming robots--but it was good.

--Petey

[Greg Perkins]

Originally Posted by Petey

Ricksta of RhodeWarriors:

We had a complaint when our robot was disqualified for an offense that our human player did not commit--namely, touching the robot as he loaded it. It is quite clear, on tape, that the infringement the referee alleged did not occur.

So I wouldn't say it was flawless refereeing--I'd also note that there were some extraordinary discrepencies in penalties about ramming robots--but it was good.

--Petey

Petey,

the more and more i read, the more and more you continue to bash referees. I myself am a referee, and let me tell you however easy you think it is take that and multiply it by 10000 times harder. It is as i quote "the hardedst working people there". yes, we do sometimes make "bad calls" but no matter what, the final say is made. So stop griping about it, and move on, and next year maybe try and not get those penalties.

[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by Greg Perkins

(...)I myself am a referee, and let me tell you however easy you think it is take that and multiply it by 10000 times harder. It is as i quote "the hardedst working people there". yes, we do sometimes make "bad calls" but no matter what, the final say is made. So stop griping about it, and move on, and next year maybe try and not get those penalties.

No one, and I mean NO ONE, who has umpired a Little League baseball game would ever criticize you or any other competitive official (except maybe certain Olympic figure skating judges ). My hard hat is off to you.