2005 Regional AVA Winners

[opnickc]

280 won at GLR

The animations are awesome this year. In 2003 it seemed like there were mostly not-so-good animations, in 2004 there were mostly so-so animations, and this year most of them are looking great! Good job teams!

[stevek]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Yup it was 340 who won it.
Mike Roushey is the best animator in FIRST. period.
If you see the animation you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.

I'd love to find a link to this MASTER PIECE. I personally would hate to say someone is better than everyone else without seeing everyone elses work. I looked in the forum and on their site and had no luck finding the animation. Overall I'd agree the quality is improving, I think we need to get the word out and look for Animation Mentors. Lots of teams are still struggling.

Good luck to everyone in Atlanta- and in the remaining regionals

[Ken Delaney 357]

Royal Assault Team 357 won the AVA at the Pittsburgh Regional. The title is EDUCATION FIRST: First enhances education. One the great features of the animation is the original rap the students wrote and performed as the music for the animation. http://eugene.mikexstudios.com/anima...animation2005/

Here is a copy of the lyrics. “FIRST Rap” Lyrics

Listen up dude it was back in ‘92(1)
When I stepped out of the ‘hood' and Kamen started his crew.
Now in ‘05 robotics is owning our lives.
Six weeks later, now we’re going full drive

For inspiring and recognizing science and technology.
Listen up Holmes, or you’ll miss the terminology:
Dynamics, kinematics, electricity,
Work, force, torque, and gear theory.

I learned to program in my school curriculum:
Loops, variables, functions, and algorithms.
My robot lives with code.
I wrote it all,
Loaded the file, pressed compile,
And watched it fall.

Chemical reactions aiding the mind
To take learned actions and apply them to time.
Carbon tetrahedrals we cannot shun;
They’re the basis of life in everyone.

It’s not just the triangle, circle, and square(4)
‘Cause through its meaning, mighty things we dare(5).

1 1992 – the year of FIRST’s inception
4 Refers to the singular FIRST logo
5 “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those timid spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt

[takieddine]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Yup it was 340 wh o won it.
Mike Roushey is the best animator in FIRST. period.
If you see the animation you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.

Hehe, maybe you just havent looked hard enough
www.steeldragonrobots.com/animation.html

[Roushey]

We planned on having the animation up on our website, but then again things dont turn out how you plan now do they? Our website team is attempting to fix some 'problems' and get it up and good to go.
*rolls eyes* silly website team.

And as for this buisness of me being 'the best.'
Only the winner in 'ATL' gets that title, and there are quite a few Grade 'A' animations out there.

[stevek]

Yeah I know what you mean about that web team Oh I forgot I'm in charge of them too! Anyway... I'm the one they are waiting for, We need to recompress ours and get it posted as well. Hope to have it soon. Look forward to seeing all the winners. Make sure you post a link in the POST AN LINK HERE Thread so we can have one place to look. I will try to ask branden to break out the thread by year so its cleaner.

[Li Jianliang]

Just organizing things a bit...
Team 955 has won...another Regional?! Thank god we're not going to a 3rd Regional.

2005 AVA Regional Winners
Week 1:
BAE SYSTEMS Granite State Regional - Team 133
Finger Lakes Regional - Team 340
NASA / VCU Regional - Team 435
Peachtree Regional - Team 1414
Sacramento Regional - Team 955

Israel Regional - Team 1573

Week 2:
Arizona Regional - ?
Florida Regional - Team 342
Great Lakes Regional - Team 280
Pittsburgh Regional - Team 357
St. Louis Regional - Team 967
UTC New England Regional - Team 230
Pacific Northwest Regional - Team 955

[Kevin Thorp]

Team 342 won the Florida Regional AVA.

http://www.tridenttech.edu/team342/animation

[Zing]

*ahem* 967 won St. Louis.

[nightrenegade00]

I can tell u who won the UTC regional AVA. that would be us, 230. second year in a row.

-Crash

[3d_catastrophe]

We (868) were given the Boilermaker regional AVA... being our first submission (not including the safety animation) and myself being pretty much the only animator, I really didn't consider it a big possibility. I unfortunately wasn't able to attend the judging, so I didn't get to see what we were up against.. but I've seen many other's animations, and most were excellent.

Crazy stuff

[litchi_chan]

Team 116 (Epsilon Delta) won the Chesapeake Regionals ^^.

I think our team has more people on the animation (20+!) than people actually working on the robot XD. It's crazy. I wish I could get the link to the file, but I didn't get a copy of it *cries*. I did the voice -_-.

[Li Jianliang]

*Confused & curious* Okay, okay, so who won the Arizona Regional??
Please help with completing the winners' lists as soon as possible...

Week 3:
Boilermaker Regional - Team 868
Chesapeake Regional - Team 116
Detroit Regional - ?
New Jersey Regional - ?
SBPLI Long Island Regional - ?

Congrats to the winners of this week!

[kcy88]

Team 75 won the NJ AVA award.
Thanks to all who voted for us.

Originally Posted by Li Jianliang

*Confused & curious* Okay, okay, so who won the Arizona Regional??
Please help with completing the winners' lists as soon as possible...

Week 3:
Boilermaker Regional - Team 868
Chesapeake Regional - Team 116
Detroit Regional - ?
New Jersey Regional - ?
SBPLI Long Island Regional - ?

Congrats to the winners of this week!

SPBLI was won by team 1635 im really happy cause i did the robot modelling, robot animation, and voice over for our animation. my partner did the stadium and field modelling. we spent a lot of time on it and r very proud were a rookie team and i hear its rare for rookie teams to win the animation award in both the rookie and non rookie category