Great Lakes Regional!

[Beth Sweet]

Who knows how things are going over at GLR??? Who looks good, how are the rookies? Let's get some info out on one of the regionals most competitive regionals in the competition!!!

[Jack Murphy]

So far, my sources tell me that 33 and 67 look awesome! Lots of great teams on the practice rounds.

[MattB703]

Originally Posted by Jack Murphy

So far, my sources tell me that 33 and 67 look awesome! Lots of great teams on the practice rounds.

That is no suprise! Two incredible teams every year.

[KTorak]

Everything was awesome, I'm from Team 1023 (ones who gather large crowd when playing Halo 2 on the Xbox/soundsytem/LCD screen on out robot cart) Anyways...The competition is pretty strong, lots of good and innovative designs. Only thing I have noticed is that many teams use something similar to a fishing hook to pick up a tatra, making it very unstable and they have problems with it swinging around and falling off...if they hit the smallest thing. Other then that, the autonomous modes were...less then exciting, most people's robots just sat there. We'll have to see what tomorrow brings...! (I hope the snow doesn't cause travel issues)

[dman9385]

I was at the regional all day today (thursday). There were many robots that did very well. The ones that stick out to me at the regional are 33,66,67,326, and 1596. What was a shocker to see was 469 putting there robot together all day in the pit wasn't ready to see that one. Anyway game play should be picking up here tomorrow.

[opnickc]

66 stuck out the most, being to was the only team to cap a vision tetra in autonomous mode.

326 also caught some attention; it has its human player stack 2 or 3 tetras onto its appendage (I guess that's the best word for it), which it lifts up high and drops onto the goals. The tetras always seated correctly.

279 was also cool with its tetra hopper

Although the practace rounds aren't officially scored, I must say that scores seemed a little low. Of course, it picked up toward the end of the day, and I'm sure scores will be higher tomorrow. Drivers just need to get more comfortable putting the tetras on top, many robots today were only scoring 1-3 tetras.

Anyway, most impressive would have to be 66. Best autonomos by far, and in general it's good at scoring the tetras.

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by opnickc

326 also caught some attention; it has its human player stack 2 or 3 tetras onto its appendage (I guess that's the best word for it), which it lifts up high and drops onto the goals. The tetras always seated correctly.

really? they also did that just about every time at FLR but was not as successful as you say they are. it is one crazy robot though! i hope 67 and 33 plan together and get a win! so you have some experience on a winning strategy. so we cans weep buckeye again in 2 weeks together!

P.S. cool 67th post for ya...

[pakrat]

well, it seems the the teams that realluy stick out are 66 and 67. 66 was just cool once they got going, and then 67 was just... wow. Those two could make some magic together...

[dman9385]

Originally Posted by dman9385

I was at the regional all day today (thursday). There were many robots that did very well. The ones that stick out to me at the regional are 33,66,67,326, and 1596. What was a shocker to see was 469 putting there robot together all day in the pit wasn't ready to see that one. Anyway game play should be picking up here tomorrow.

I heard from a friend that 33 had a great run. However I was just informed they are having some troubles and missed every one of there practice matches....

[Will Hanashiro]

hey... can someone keep us updated on how things are going? i couldnt get outta school and not being there is killing me!!!

i'll deffinately make it out tomorrow. good luck teams!

[dman9385]

Today went much better. There was a huge increase in stacking by many different teams. The teams that stick out are still the same. Lots of improvements made, 469 has a full functional robot with a nice concept. We had channel 4 news there and at the end of the day we did a mock up match with 2 on 2. Some awards went out, I forget which went to who. Besides that I was much more impressed today than yesterday. Should be exciting tomorrow for sure.

[Sakura141]

I'd like to know how Team 141 is doing, does anyone know? I wasn't able to go and my computer isn't letting me accsess the usfirst site. I wasn't able to go due to money issues, but someone keep me posted please! It's killing me to not know how my team is doing...

[Moloch]

1254 here. Not registered under my number though. 66 sticks out. Our team almost had theres beat on our last match but our bot got stock on a goal and we were not able to break up there row in the middle. Have to say they are a great team. There are some good teams out there, rookies are showing that it can be done. I wish I could give a number to one rookie team, they only have four people on there team, and there bot is very effective. I wish I knew the rankings, last I knew we were ranked 5th with >22 QP. Any questions glad to answer.

[IMDWalrus]

Originally Posted by opnickc

66 stuck out the most, being to was the only team to cap a vision tetra in autonomous mode.

As impressive as their auton is, I think it's worth noting that they've only capped goals once or twice, and not in a real match. They've come very, VERY close in other matches - literally, inches in some of today's games - but they're not quite perfect yet.

The biggest question I've got: how the heck is our robot doing so well? We've been in the lower end of the top ten for most of the competition, and I have no idea how that happened...

[Beth Sweet]

Fantastic day today. 279 was totally impressive! I thought that their mechanism was very good.

As to the food, I was very unimpressed. I think that's it's very irresponsible of the venue (not FIRST) to not allow us to bring our own food to an all day event, and then to supply us with nothing but pretzels, pizza and nachos all day. I'm sorry if I sound like I'm whining, but what about those of us who don't eat those three options? I understand that they're used to providing food for a 3 or so hour game, but if they are unable to sufficiently do the job then they need to let us bring our own food in. :end rant: