Rochester Thanks and congratz

[A. Leese]

Thank you to Jeff Zampieron for putting together the team party. You did an amazing job! I know I thanked you in person, but I cannot say it enough. The kids on 340 kept talking about it yesterday!!

[Karthik]

I want to send a congratulations out to the entire Rochester Regional Planning Committee. You guys put on an amazing show, especially considering that it was your first effort. Despite some uncontrollable technical difficulties, your event managed to keep the crowd and team energized all day long.

Teams 772 and 1547. It's always great to see our GM of Canada teams do so well away from home. Congratulations on your wonderful performance and your well deserved awards (772 - Regional Finalist, Website; 1547 - Rookie Inspiration)

Jay and John,

Thanks for your kind words. It was my pleasure to help out where I could. Team 229 will always have friends north of the border. Good luck in Cleveland. You'll be fine as long as you keep that Canadian flag on your robot.

[rachakate]

Keep the feedback coming! I will be making sure all input makes it to the ears of the planning committee!

[maikull]

Originally Posted by rachakate

Keep the feedback coming! I will be making sure all input makes it to the ears of the planning committee!

I loved how many healthy choices there were, with respect to food and drink at the competition and would have liked to have seen something other than soda at the social. I was happy, however, that the food at the social was all "good for you".

On a side note, I thought our presenter (not sure what the official title is) was amazing -- one of the best. I hope we have him next year!

[Justin Montois]

-Id like to thank every team that participated and the planning committee and everyone involved for putting on a great show. Walking around you never would have guessed it was a rookie regional.
Congrats to 191 X-Cats, 639 Code Red Robotics and 494 Martians. You guys were the class of the field and you deserve the win.
-A special thanks to Code Red Robotics. You guys displayed the most gracious professionalism that i saw at the competition. I wasn't happier to see you guys win.
-Also Congratulations to....
Wheres Waldo. A team of Canadian girls winning the Rookie Inspiration Award is absolutely awesome.(they can sing too)
-Team 250 for winning the Engineering Inspiration Award
-Team 1511, Rolling Thunder, without a doubt a very impressive rookie showing and well deserved rookie all-star award
-Team 1507,229 and 772, you guys made the finals very exciting to watch. All of you guys had great robots.
-Last but certainly not least, to Thunder Chickens 217 and Sie-H2O-Bots 237 for selecting us to be your alliance partners. We had a blast and hope to see you guys in Atlanta come April.

[Doc Wu]

Originally Posted by TierraDelDiablo

Wow...

I'd like to quote 1507's driver, whom I met on the sideline waiting for the decision of a very close final match. He said: "Hey, if we lose this, this is the way we'd like to lose."

As 1507's Coach, I'll second that. The X-Cats, Martians and Code Red earned that victory and it was a close one at that. We're proud to have played in such good company. Losing to such good competitors is no disgrace.

Our alliance mates, Division By Zero and Club Sandwich, were good partners and were glad to have played with them.

237, 217 and 340 were an awesome alliance too. Too bad we all can't win.

Kinks in scoring and never enough time in the pits aside , I thought the FLRC was great. Very well-run. When you consider that it was their first time, it's even more impressive. The volunteers were all great.

FLRC is a perfect regional for us. We're close enough to commute each day, which makes it less expensive to attend. That's like having one more regional we can afford to do each year. I think it's safe to say, you'll see us there every year.

[Alex Cormier]

If you had all this fun why not have fun at the Rochester Off Season Comp. (hopefully) heres a link to the thread!

we need your input. thanks

[Doc Wu]

Originally Posted by Pit Bull 1126

If you had all this fun why not have fun at the Rochester Off Season Comp. (hopefully) heres a link to the thread!

we need your input. thanks

Thanks for bringing that to my attention. It's a team decision, of course, but it's something we will definitely consider.

Last year, Team 378 went to IRI and had a great time. It ended up being mostly the core of this years Team 1507 that was able to go, so you can see how the experience paid off this year.

"Organize it - They will come!"

[bordenre]

To: All who enjoyed the FIRST Finger Lakes Regional Competition,

The FLRPC would like to thank all the teams that participated in our inaugural event!

We want to thank all the teachers and mentors for all their time and dedication.

We want to thank all the team sponsors and our Regional sponsors, the RIT campus, and of course the RIT catering department.

We want to thank all the volunteers who made it all possible.

But above all we want to thank the students who showed gracious professionalism, good behaviors, and had a lot of fun. You are the reason we do this. You are the reason it is worth the time and energy it takes to put on an event like this. Thank You!

See you next year!

Ron Borden
Co-Chair
Finger Lakes Regional Planning Committee

[Alex Cormier]

i can't believe i forgot this before. thanks to team 22 from LA for coming out to our rookie regional just to help out. also thanks for the best robot design award it looks great! and we hope you like our GP award for you guys! thanks a bunch you helped make it run smoothly!