2006 Boston Regional

[MOE]

HELLOOOooooo
Welcome to BOSTON may you all have a great time . Stop by and say HELLOOOooo to team 88 TJ2 . Park your CCAARRR and enjoy!!!!!!!!!
see all thursday
MOE and team 88 TJ2 I will be the one in the TYE-DYE Ha Ha !!!!!
see ya soooon
GOOD LUCK TO ALL !!

[MikeDubreuil]

I just got back home from setup at the Agganis Arena. This is an awesome venue. Good luck everyone

[Corey Balint]

Im currently sitting in my sisters apartment watching LOST, anxiously waiting tomorrow morning to see all the bots. I'll be wearing my MAVERICK get up tomorrow, Friday and Saturday i am all Cougar Robotics. If you see me, say hi...if you want.

Should be a great venue, the Agganis Arena has gone through one season of hockey, and from what my sister and friends tell me, it is incredible.

[Pat Fairbank]

Originally Posted by MikeDubreuil

I just got back home from setup at the Agganis Arena. This is an awesome venue.

I'll second that. My only complaint is that some of the boards they use to cover the ice are quite loose, and shift beneath you as you walk down the pit aisles.

[Jon K.]

One of my friends goes to B.U. and as she was walking by there today, she called me just to tell me about all the signs they had up advertising it. I will be there Saturday volunteering should be fun.

[MikeDubreuil]

Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

My only complaint is that some of the boards they use to cover the ice are quite loose, and shift beneath you as you walk down the pit aisles.

Yeah, BU has ice on the floor of the arena. The tiles easilly slide on the ice. Kinda makes me want to pull up a tile in our pit and do some ice fishing

[Conor Ryan]

Wow, the first day just ended and I can't say enough good things about the event. The organization is awesome, everything is running smoothly, problems with the field are minimal. I love how we are able to we are able to walk around the field and talk to people. The teams are looking pretty good too, the 14 rookies are competitive and all the veterans are bringing a pretty good game.

The most intresting match of the day to watch was probably the practise match where 69, 121, and 233 all were on the same alliance. For those of you that aren't familiar with the robots they all have a similar design (round spiral)


well the bus is moving and i have to wait for internet again

[Tim Delles]

So now that it is under way and the webcast is up here are few teams that are standing out to me.


121 - Nice shooter.
233 - What are the using so they don't get shoved around when they shoot.
1685 - Good defense

[ScoutingNerd175]

Watching the Webcast here in Enfield (I'm sick) team 233 looks awesome! Numbers seem to come up quickly here, don't they? I've seen a bunch of Teams up more than once in the last 30 mins.

Good luck to 839 (Go Hamilton SundStrand!)

[Sam Lipscomb]

hiya from boston! all of the teams are looking awesome, especially 121 and 233. who knew field reset would be such amazing fun! if you plan on going down just for tomorrow, yell hello! i'll probably end up distributing medals during awards...and i'll be 18! free hugs to anyone who says happy birthday!

[Conor Ryan]

Sorry I forgot to update, but heres my update after day 2. The competition is running really smooth, not many bumps, this really is a great regional and all the time they spent organizing it is really paying off.

Teams that have been impressive (in numerical order)

• 40 - One of the most advanced robots I have ever seen in FRC, crazy mechanism wheels (soon available on a larger market from what I've been told) as well as a great combination of DeWalt transmissions and CMUcam usage.
• 69 - These guys have a great robot that doubles as a washing machine, started high early off but they are still a very competitive team and in the top 5 last I checked
• 75 - My buddies from Hillsboro have been playing really well, one of the best players of defence in this group by the look of it, the 8 wheel drive train they got going is pushing a lot of robots around.
• 121 - consistently getting better and better
• 126 - This robot is really great to watch, they have wheels to help them self-right/get up the ramp and they are consistently scoring too.
• 233 - top of everyones list, pretty dominating but nothing like 25 at NJ, however still consistently the best all around robot here
• 571 - These guys are one of my personal favorites, the robot is solid defensively and they score points in the corner goal really well. These guys would make great alliance partners for almost anyone because of their awesome versatility.
• 1511 - These guys are easy great or have a good schedule, I think they got one of the best schedules here so they've had a good share of luck, even so, there robot is solid, with a strength in picking balls off the ground by the look of it. They look like they may get seeded so it'll be interesting to see how they work out later in the day.
• My own team is going pretty well too, we had a lot of sauces early off shooting, but we ran into a problem with our gearboxes binding and consequently eating up the battery, but that was fixed after competition ended yesterday so hopefully we'll impress the scouts as the seeding continues, or even possibly get seeded ourselves.

Lets see how this all plays out, only 5 hours until we find out.

PS- The sundial network is awesome, if you have the means set one up at your regional, it really is handy.

[Kristian Calhoun]

okay, the alliances were just selected:

1. 121,233,1568
2. 549,1511, 125
3. 40, 69, 213
4. 1685, 126, 1592
5. 157, 246, 383
6. 467,88, 1403
7. 97, 578, 1725
8. 1757, 1100, 571

good luck to everyone!

[Ashley Weed]

Fire at Boston Regional???

Anyone watching the webcast?

[SURVIVORfan44]

Does anyone know what's happening? I just tuned in to the webcast to hear the announcers telling everyone to leave the building. Is there a fire somewhere?

Seems like a fire alarm. Reminds me of a similar occurance at 2006 FLR. Someone probably opened an alarmed door.