2006 NJ Regional

[dutta]

Team 41 will be there once again. 2 days to go!!!!!!!!

[KillerCows456]

Team 555 will be there.
We cant wait to see all of the other teams down in Trenton

[slickguy2007]

Has anyone else seen the Winter Advisory for tomorrow? I don't know about you guys, but this kinda' worries me.

http://www.weather.com/weather/local...om=search_city


GO 1403!!!

[Bharat Nain]

Originally Posted by slickguy2007

Has anyone else seen the Winter Advisory for tomorrow? I don't know about you guys, but this kinda' worries me.

http://www.weather.com/weather/local...om=search_city


GO 1403!!!

Maybe I should leave for Trenton right now. I'll spend the night in the car and be the first one in when the gates open.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by KillerCows456

Team 555 will be there.
We cant wait to see all of the other teams down in Trenton

Darn it.. I was hoping you were going to NYC so I could pick you in my Fantasy FIRST league.. Now I don't know who to pick.

And as for the snow expected for NJ regional.. I'm glad the Hartford regional is finally not the only regional who has weather problems now..

And it figures, since I will be in NJ on Saturday for the regional..

Yes, you can blame me and the rest of us from CT who are coming down this weekend for bringing the snow.. I dare you.

[Freddy Schurr]

Just came back from the NJ regional volunteers meeting and the field looks great and arena is cool looking. Can't wait to see all the teams.

[KillerCows456]

We have to drive from Montclair, NJ to Trenton, NJ which is about 1 hr 30min drive. You may think that if it snows we are stuck here but no a parent of one of our students owns his own construction business. So our plan is make him drive out front with his plow and we have 2 other 4wheel drive cars behind him.

[The Lucas]

Ill be there Fri and Sat with Team 1495. This should be the largest Regional I've ever been a part of.

[Steve W]

I'm coming to observe.

[George A.]

The field was looking great and the volunteers were ready to rock...just one tiny problem...when I left no one knew where the Poof balls were...those are kind of an integral part of the game, no?


Anyway, I'm giving my voice a rest tomorrow and doing some leg work and interviewing teams...so be ready to talk tomorrow!!! I'll be the one with the mic on Friday and Saturday, so come say hi!

[KillerCows456]

Today is the big day
only 2 hours until the pits open

[Alex Burman]

I'm so glad my school held off on closing other wise we wouldn't have been able to go. If we have an early dismissal we have to leave early.

I can't wait to see everyone's ingenious creations.

[Spikey]

Please can anyone give updates that is there!! I am stuck at college and I want to hear how things are going! Please post any robots that have struck you as good, or any game impressions in general!

[Conor Ryan]

Ok everyone, heres an update:

So we got there and the first issue everyone had to overcome was the weather. Freezing rain, hail, ice, the road conditions weren't great. On top of that the weather was starting to get bad as everyone was driving down. Some schools actually ended up canceling class, like 56 and 303's school. Guess what that means? No buses, so there were quite a few teams that got off to a late start.

It gets better, the official field doesn't have any Poof Balls, zero. The shipment that was on its way down for today probably got delayed because of the weather, however they got enough teams that brought balls to competition that they borrowed all of those and returned them at the end of the day. As for the control system, rumor has it that NJ had more problems than VCU and BAE, but they were working on it and its getting there slowly but surely.

Most teams that got there didn't pass inspection at all today. There were teams that had all sorts of problems, improper wiring, illegal parts, robots 33 pounds overweight. I talked with the inspectors and they said that the robots just weren't developed enough and had a lot of issues.

The average practise match had 2 robots on the field total. 2. Of those robots none really ran smoothly everyone was having problems at one point or another. Autonomous mostly looked to be buggy too, not too many looked clean.

Overall the game play looks like its a whole lot harder than anyone predicted. The ramps at the corner goals are preventing a lot of easy points being scored, if you thought that ramp was easy to get on and score on, watch and see its a good bit harder. The center goal is getting some balls in and by the look of it more teams are giving up on the corner goals and just trying to make a shot with the center goals.

Everything should and will clean up for tomorrow, but for one of the first regionals this year NJ looks like it'll be great, a lot of teams are looking good but a little more than half still have a good deal of troubleshooting to do.

See everyone bright and early tommorow!

[Alex Burman]

jeez Connor how did you beat me home? last I saw you went off to find a staple gun when I went to leave. IMO 103 had the most functional robot. Very consistent and over all well rounded