Ramp Riot 2005 :The Official Thread

[coastertux]

I just returned from the competition and must say I had a great time. Thanks to all who made it possible. Also, great job to the alliance I was with in the quarter-finals. You did a great job. We went out fighting!

[Corey Balint]

wow.
such a great competition.

thanks to team 341 for running a great competition, with no problems whatsoever. great job guys. and thanks for giving 1712 a robot to play with. i love the comraderie.

and thank you to 484, 1676, and 365 for being terrific alliance partners. didnt make one mistake out there. you guys were amazing.

Just a quick recap of the elims for us, the #5 seed.

first round versus #4 seed, 316, 1143, and 341 was a sweep in pretty intense matches. they sure put up a swell fight.

second round versus #1 seed, 173, 272(had been the 2nd seed), 716 was another sweep in two great matches. in the first match, 173 was going up for a cap on a side goal, and we tapped them onto the goal, and left them stuck. sorry guys, had to exploit the hole. second match was clean and just well played.

final round versus #3 seed, 222, 103, 99(103's backup robot), and 303. first match was very close. in the final 5 seconds we put a cap onto the corner goal of the field, while 222 was defending, which killed their row, and gave us another, giving us a clear 20 point win. second match was great. 303 came in for 99. it was just great. very close match, but ultimately, we outcapped them 13-9 and gave ourselves a clear victory.

6-0 through eliminations. not to brag, but the alliance we had made no mistakes, and capitalized on every fault another alliance made.

and a special congrats to team 1712, i love to see prerookies out there.

Thanks to all, was a fantastic day.

P.S. High Score of the day was 25, 484, and 272 versus 303, 365, 225. 101-28

[Conor Ryan]

Corey couldn't of said it better, it was a fantastic competition, It felt great to have our robot at a competition again. I had the most fun I've had in awhile and a lot of the Freshman/Rookies to robotics got a good feel for the competition and were giving back 100% positive feed back. The teams that won earned the title played very well and the final was evenly matched.

I had almost too much fun today, and I hope to see all who attended at Brunswick Eruption on 11/19

[Michael Leicht]

congrats to the winning teams put up a good fight. had a good time.


only thing i have to say is the pits were close together. other then that thank you to 341 for hosting


A big thank you to my good friends from 222, and some good friends from 103.

AND YES OUR DUMP VALVE WAS CLOSED THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

[Bharat Nain]

My friends above me said all there is to the competition. Thanks to our alliance partners and all other teams for putting up such a good fight and letting us experience some real competition. It was great attending Ramp Riot 2005 and thank you for hosting it Team 341.

[Kristian Calhoun]

eh, Corey beat me to it, but i couldn't have explained it any better.
even though this was only my second competition, I had a blast, so thanks to team 341 for arranging the whole thing.
Alliance #5(seed)= 484 Haverford Robotics , 1676 Pascack Pioneers , and 365 MOE did an awesome job, and i look forward to working with you all at brunswick eruption! and 484,and 365, there's still some time left to sign up!

[Alexa Stott]

Hey, great job everyone! Thank you to team 341 for organizing it; you guys did an excellent job. It was a lot of fun. And Teams 365, 484, and 1676, you were awesome alliance partners!

[C.Roberts 1089]

I'll have to agree with Corey & Conor and everyone else. Though I didn't show up til about 2:30, and I wasn't participating, it seemed like the whole event was pretty well run. I also liked the set-up right inside the door where you came in from outside, it was pretty cool. Congrats for running such a successful event! I had a lot of fun, and I hope to bring my team [1089] out next year.

[Mr MOE]

Hats off to all the team members and volunteers for 341 and their sponsors for putting on a terrific off-season event yet again. Also, thanks to NASA and the ever present Mike Wade for the FIRST playing field.

MOE 365 would like to shout out thanks to Teams 25, 484, and 1676. What terrific teams to be with in an alliance. You guys demonstrated great teamwork, spirit, and competitiveness. What a wild ride! Thanks for picking us!

Thanks also to Kathie Kentfield for facilitating the NEMO session and to the adult mentors, who participated. I know that I gathered some nuggests of wisdom that I can take back to my team.

Great things about the event - music, video, team introductions, friendliness of all the volunteers, food prices, Vex driving area, canned food drive, space in the stands, 4 teams per alliance.

My only improvement area would be the crowdedness of the pits. Wearing my corporate hat, I am concerned about safety with all those robots in close proximity.

Miss Daisy. Congrats on another great Ramp Riot! Best of luck to all teams attending the Brunswick Eruption in a few weeks!

[OZ_341]

To All of the participating Ramp Riot Teams:

Thank you to all of the teams for your continued support of Ramp Riot!

Your Competitive Spirit, Support of Rookies and Volunteerism is what gives this event meaning.

We could not hold this event without a massive amount of help from the FIRST community of teams (that's you).

However, one very special person that deserves our thanks is Mike Wade from NASA GSFC. For the past four years he has been traveling up and down the East Coast supporting off-season events (RR, DoD, and NBE) by providing an entire playing field and his personal time.

I urge you to support Mike by doing two things.

1) First and most importantly send him a message. Not only does he like to hear from teams, but Mike can use your stories to help maintain his support from NASA. mwade@mscmail.gsfc.nasa.gov

2) Secondly, if your are going to the Brunswick Eruption or the Chesapeake Regional take a minute to thank him personally. This man works so hard for us!! He's a great guy and likes to know that this means something to you.


I'll write again later about results, improvements etc.

But for right now... I gotta get some sleep!!

[looneylin]

that was an awesome competition!

i made 20 ppl wear the unicorn which was joe's by the way b/c it's his birthday today! n we celebrated it at ramp riot! (go pm him n say happy b-day! he's taltree2007 ) unicorn hat n boas rock!

thanks to 306 n 1712 for being our alliance partners
n everybody who made this possible
n to my robot, who is a spaz. i <3 her anyways!

[Andrew Blair]

Hey, I must say that Ramp Riot was a great time all around! Thanks to 433, 1712, and 1113 for being our alliance partners! I would especially like to thank 341 for hosting the thing and giving 1712 a bot! They played great and I'm sure they'll do great this coming season. I even learned something new: how to take down a field! I'm really impressed with Mike and all he does for FIRST. Make sure to thank him and take him out to eat!

[IraJason]

Hello Everybody!
I am a member of team 1712 and a first time poster.
I would like to thank all the members of team 341 again for letting us use one of their previous robots. If it wasn't for them, we wouldn't have been able to participate in Ramp Riot and have such a good time as we did.

Also thanks to Teams 306, 433 and 1113 for choosing us to be their alliance partners. This gave us some much needed experience and what to expect when it comes to actual competition time. It felt great to be a pre-rookie team and make it that far. Thank you all for making that possible.

Again, special thanks to Team 341 for hosting this event and their generousity in allowing us to compete. It was a great time meeting all these new people from different teams. Hope to see you all again soon!

[BandChick]

Ramp Riot was great from the little bit of it I got to.
It was well run and very efficient.
Congratulations to all the winners.

[KathieK]

Al Ostrow and his team hosted a terrific event - has anyone ever calculated the number of volunteer hours spent pulling off an off-season event? It must be huge! Thank you to all of you! I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Ramp Riot...

A big thanks to all the teams who sent mentors to the NEMO meeting - we probably could have exchanged ideas all afternoon if we'd been able to. I hope those of you who are withing reasonable driving distance will continue this discussion and schedule another mentor meeting sometime soon.

And a big thank you to RAGE for allowing me to hitchhike along with them. You will always be family to me and it was wonderful to be able to yell "Git 'R' Done!" with you guys again!

Best of luck to all of you in the coming season (we still have a few slots open for the UTC New England Regional so I hope to see some some PA/NJ/DE teams come up north! ).