2006 Chesapeake Regional

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Spikey

From what I have personally observed.....there are a lot of teams that this is their first regional.

15 rookies, and some teams playing thier first comp of 2006 as well here in Chesepeake.. Craziness all around. I like how the rookies are in between 2 novice teams in the pits. Their is a huge pit map in a nice location, but it causes a bit of a delay when you look for a team in numerical order, but i think that was a great move on FIRST's part for rookie support at the event.

Speaking of that...

Originally Posted by petek

237 (their own bot, not to be confused with the 4 or 5 others they built yesterday and this morning)

237 has to be the standout team of this event for how they single-handedly put so many rookie teams, which were in dire straits yesterday, onto the field today. Shouldn't be any surprise that they absolutely defined gracious professionalism this week. And they have one strong scoring machine of their own.

Thanks Pete. We are more than happy to help. Within our team it's a bit crazy as of now and this has been an interesting weekend to say the least (we got stuck in an elevator at our hotel tonight in one instance among other things ) but we'll continue to offer and give help to any team (novice or rookie who needs it on Saturday as well.

I personally think it was our duty as a novice team in FIRST to offer this support for the rookies (or an team at a competition for that matter). As of right now, we have had no major problems with our robot (knock on wood), and that has made it easier to help more teams at this event.

I want to as of right now thank all the people organizing this event for making our efforts to help multiple teams get through inspection on Thursday, and also as early as we could on Friday morning/noon-ish as smooth as possible.

I'll try to get some names to put behind that thank you, but for now. Thank you Chesapeake Regional Committee, and the many Volunteers and other teams for your support in our efforts of supporting some less well off teams than us at this regional.

Oh and just a little side note to Pete. We did end up having a team find us a Flux Capacitor, and when we were done with it, we indeed did give it back.