Florida Regional wrap up

[Ryan Albright]

in general i think all the elmination matches were intense. People were stacking tetra's like crazy. There was never a dull second, from swampthing breaking to heatwave breaking, even tytus got into the fun and got hit in the head with a tetra, i had to respond to that since iw as lead safety supervisor

[robot180]

Originally Posted by Ryan Albright

no no i had them on dont know what you talk about. Saturday was busy for me with all the incidents i had to respond to. Three people to the hospital in a matter of two hours.

I didn't realize that many accidents occured. I guess I always assume there are no accidents that in volve injury since I never see them. Did these happen in the pits or near the field?

[Tytus Gerrish]

yep, tetra right in my face, ledt a nice red mark too

[Sophey Chan]

I must say, the regional was a ton of fun for me, though I was not on the team anymore. The people who remember me make it a ton of fun (180, 179, 312, 1402, ect.), madd shout out to 234, bionic blue, or what not it was, you guys had an awesome bot, one of the few that sould hold a tetra good, pity you didn't get selected, I think you woulda done awesome in finals.

I must say however, I think it was weird in finals how some penalties were overlooked, true, the refs are only human, but to my knowledge when robots hold tetra's over the driver's stations, shouldn't that be a penalty? Lord knows no one were by two bots when they did it in finals, but oh well, not liek it woulda made a difference in finals or anythin'

Good fun, and some great bots out there, also awesome drivers. Wish you all the best at your next regionals and netionals, if I don't make it!

[Billfred]

I'm just curious...did anybody keep tabs on how many times the DJ played the chicken dance? Or the YMCA? Or "We Will Rock You"?

A little variety never killed anybody. (Although I guess if the DJ is the only thing I can nit-pick about, the folks in Florida must be doing something right!)

[tiffany34990]

Originally Posted by Billfred

I'm just curious...did anybody keep tabs on how many times the DJ played the chicken dance? Or the YMCA? Or "We Will Rock You"?

i never counted but it seemed like every time i went to the stands it was the YMCA or we will rock you...ucf arena got it down pack though...most teams were just dancing away with the YMCA and stomping with we will rock you


yeah..many lil injuries i heard through Ryan..good thing tytus is okay and everyone else

[Arefin Bari]

Originally Posted by tiffany34990

i never counted but it seemed like every time i went to the stands it was the YMCA or we will rock you...ucf arena got it down pack though...most teams were just dancing away with the YMCA and stomping with we will rock you


yeah..many lil injuries i heard through Ryan..good thing tytus is okay and everyone else

Funny that you mentioned Tytus's name before anyone else's. I was amazed that Tytus didnt climb any trees or poles this weekend. Florida regional ROCKED!!! Thanks to everyone for making those 3 days memorable.

[Amanda 179]

It just keeps getting better and better every year, the tetra coming over the wall made it a bit more intresting watching tyty move, i glad nothing happened, that wouldve been too many contorls ::hehe:: Anyway, thanks to the Refs, judges, and volenteers, and the tech ppl. I can only hope they had as much fun as I had. Thanks to Pink and the Bionic tigers, we had a awesome alliance. and can't wait to see every one at either SC or nats.
Now to try to get "we will rock you out of my head"....
Mandi

[Gary Dillard]

For We Will Rock You, we quit counting Saturday morning when it got to 12 times.

What a great regional. This is really a fun game to watch. The thing that impressed me the most was how well all the rookie teams performed; we didn't have very many there but I saw alot of pretty good tetra mechanisms, and even the teams that didn't try stacking had the capability to contain and play defense.

See y'all at nat's

[Mike Norton]

I have to say 233, 179, did a great job. They gave us the first match in the QF. but the second one was very close. Great job. It was pink time to take the win. Great job by 108 they where under rated. they did what they had to do to do well they just got bad breaks. We wanted to do well but we did not want to be in the top 8 after friday. We would of liked to have been pick by a top seed.


Florida regional I think is the best. We had three major snow storms in Mass. during our stay in Florida.

[Ryan Albright]

Originally Posted by robot180

I didn't realize that many accidents occured. I guess I always assume there are no accidents that in volve injury since I never see them. Did these happen in the pits or near the field?

There were 5 incident reports filled out and three people to the hospital. The three people in the hospital were all in the stands. Two people tripped on stairs hurting there legs or something else. One girl had a asthma attack and then a panic attack. Then one was for the nose bleed of a driver and thats why they had to stop the matches for a couple of min and one was thursday night a team was testing AI and the arm came down on a hand just a cut. There were alot cuts and scraps but nothing serious

[Mike Norton]

Two of the girls where mine students. One slip on a wet stair and slammed her leg into something. She has to wait a week before a Dr. even See her because of the bruise. The other girl did have a asthma attack and then a panic attack. the panic attack was caused by getting a IV which has a needle. she does not like needle. that is what set her off. She is fine now and doing good. On this trip I had a kid twist his knee that is why he was in a wheel chair at the competition. and when the kids got off the bus after the 28 hour ride I had one kid get sick on the driveway. had one girl drop where they had to call a EMT's. So this was the first year in 11 years I had this many problems.

I will be bring only 16 kids next year instead of 48. These kids are going to have to work very hard to come.

[Ryan Albright]

Yes you guys had alot of problems, but from my experience talking with you guys to find out what happen and get the paper work done you guys did very well and handled everything while staying calm. I guess it just wasnt your weekend

[Masterfork]

yeah i had alot of fun saturday and friday and i am glad we were able to have swamp and the tigers on our alliance for the finals and great driving from both teams in the finals. also great driving from all the teams in the finals that we were able to face u guys were great. although red dragon got kind of annoying lol but they were great at that defense see you guys in atlanta for nationals

[Jonathan M.]

Lol, the Red Dragons were great alliance partners. It's hard to defend too superfast robots like pink and swamp though. Lol. Yeah the finals were awesome.