Ramp Riot 2005 :The Official Thread

[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! ).

[OZ_341]

Hey Teams:

If anyone has good pictures from Ramp Riot, could you share them on Delphi or send them to me at aostrow1@comcast.net ? There is a Ramp Riot Folder on Delphi for Pics under the offseason comps pic directory.

Thanks!

For your help!

Al Ostrow
Team 341

[starbot]

I'd also like to express my thanks from team 1712. Of course, thanks so much team 341, especially Adam, Trevor, and the others who worked so hard to get our Daisy in competition state! Also thanks to our alliance partners 433 (yo Karen!), 306, and 1113; you guys were great!

In addition I'd like to give a shout out to teams 357, 365, and 103 for all their help! Respek!
-jon