2005 Waterloo Regional - Feedback!

[Hafize]

The waterloo regional was amazing. Thank you to all the planning committee for all their planning and commitment. Team 1305 would also like to thank 68 and 1241 for all there hard work. The defensive strategy worked out great.

[IndianChieftain]

Waterloo was AWESOME!! Besides the fact of smooth planning and very few technical errors (which have been mentioned many times already), the 24 robots there were awesome.
Winning there just made it a little sweeter.
More teams should try to come to the regional next year. Trust me, you will definitely not be disappointed

[babbish]

I liked waterloo alot. The people were friendly, the campus was clean and nice, and overall it was an excellent and sucessful regional. Thanks to 1241 and 1305 we, team 68, were able to take home gold for the second time this year.

I was impressed by the diverse genres of music selected. By far the best music at a regional that i've personally attended.

Nothing beats the free arcade. That was awesome.

Great enthusiasm from all teams. I was impressed with how well some of the rookie teams did! Everyone proved to be tough competitors and I am looking forward to seeing their improvements as they gain experience in the upcoming years.

Refereeing was great. There wasn't any half-an-hour powwows over an application of a ruling (like other regionals) and everything ran incredibly smoothly.


The safety crew was impressively overseeing all, but was a bit too unnecessarily precautious at times. However I do congratulate waterloo at having no serious injuries throughout this holy weekend.

Overall the waterloo regional was excellent. It was hard to believe this was the first year they have hosted it, for everything was done in an enormously professional matter. Congratulations to all teams for making Waterloo a great and memorable regional!

[Mike Lat]

That was one of of the most amazing games ever.

Personally, I had been saying that Team 40 (the one with the 3 metal balls) was going to win during the entire regional. They really had it going for them, because they had an awesome robot and they were quick cappers. We had the privledge of being defeated by team 40 many times during the qualification matches, and they were just one of the top competitors there. Congrats to them, it has to be one of the best robotics matches this season.

I loved the music as well, and dancing to YMCA was all the more fun lol

The level of spirit I saw in the teams made me think as if there were twice as many teams there. It was fantastic.

[Mark Garver]

Team 68, General Motors North America Engineering - Structural Development Laboratories would like to extend a special thanks out to team 1305 and 1241. You guys were great!!!

Although the Regional was comprised of only 24 teams, there were many teams that could score well. The selection process for us was difficult because of the number of teams that proved to be successful scorers.

Team 1305 was GREAT; we could not have done it with out you.

Team 1241, you played a great role defending our side of the field and going down to their home zone, playing defense with only a few penalties.

The funniest part of finals for me was team 1241 asking our opinion of taking off their arm because of their role of playing strictly defense and needing to add weight. Team 68, 1305 and 1241 frantically looked around the pits for 20 pounds to add to 1241, when we discovered our vice weighted 18.7 pounds and could be bandtied to their chassis easily.

Again great job to everyone, the Regional was great!!!

[vtrehan]

The Waterloo regional could not have been any better.

The refereeing and the organization was phenomenal and very smooth. The Friday night social was also very cool (free arcade and movie can help anyone relax).

The robots competing were also excellent. Cannot list favorites as there are so many, but have to commend the robot design of team 40 and 68, which were exceptionally impressive robots. I also enjoyed team 1503/188/772's strategy, which lead this alliance with a rookie team to the semi-finals.

Congrats to all teams who participated and a very special thanks to teams 68 and 1305.

[gren737]

Thanks for the kind words everyone!
We had a great time at Waterloo, it was an exceptional regional and alot of fun.

1241 you guys did an awesome job as did the rest of your alliance partners, you guys were tough. Congrats to you guys on your win, you deserved it.

[thatrotierkid]

just wanted to say that waterloo was a great regional. having been to the BAE regional three times, i can honestly say that it was well put together. everything when smooth and everyone was wicked friendly. not bad for the first year.

the best is when the judges can out to dance during downtime. the social was a great idea too. most regionals r too big for something like that, but it works there. thanx also to our alliance partners and congrats to the winning alliance.