2006 SBPLI Long Island Regional

[Spindash54]

Well like I said, I don't have all of the specifics since I was in a world of hurt and cheering at the same time.

Brain, could you clear up what actually happened with that. Being half-there and listening on several conversations at once, I obviously missed something with that. I'm sorry Hauppauge if its looks like I'm trying to knock you, I'm just trying to relay everything I knew in the hopes it gets corrected.

This is why I really wish they would check their own video feeds for things like this...

[Brian C]

OK Greg, to help clarify:

With all the excitement of the replays, replays & uh....oh yeah replays of the final match there was some misinformation flowing around.

1. There was no actual goal incursion by any team on any alliance. Matt (not Krass our teams Matt C.) verified that afterwards with the refs due to the confusion. The ONLY issues during the replays were field/computer related, (oh yeah and that tie score in the 3rd match)

2. As I mentioned earlier 358 did not have ANY mechanism on their robot that would allow them to enter the lower goal in any way, shape or form. We saw that in Hartford and also knew from our scouting info that dumping was not part of their strategy. Quite frankly they didn't need to dump 'cause their shooter is excellent and only getting better as they "massage" their technology.

On a side note I want to echo Scott's congrats to 514 for their chairman's award. They have been around for many years and through all their up's and down's have always been a class act when it comes to Gracious Professionalism.

Greg, remember that the competition is only a means to and end and the robot is the method of getting to that end. The real payoff is having people like yourself, Matt Krass and anyone else on any FIRST team anywhere having the opportunity to do this.

Like I kept telling all of your 1468 team mates during the build period:

"If you're not careful you're actually going to learn something from this and then you'll be addicted like the rest of us."

[wt200999]

Hey, Good playing guys, we played really good as a team. Im a pit crew guy from 870, but we did really well together. Congrats too all

Wow, our team went from dead last for most of friday into saturday , to winning the finals. you guys made a good pick.


GO 870!!!

[sw293]

Congrats to 358 on a successful defense of their regional championship! I understand that makes four straight regional finals appearances for you, and, if only in my book, three regional championships in two years. Good luck in Atlanta; I won't be there but my team might. If we are, feel free to drop by our pit and say hello.

[Ken358]

Thanks sw293

Spike is one of our all time favorite teams.
We appreciate you taking us to the finals in Philly last yr.

By the way your robot looked great in NJ this year. I liked the antenna springs that opened your basket/hopper.

Ken

[DarkJedi613]

Congratulations to 514 for winning Chairman's Award, and thanks to 329, 353 and 1468 for an intense Finals. Thanks to 271 and 870 for being with us at the end. Also congratulations to all the MVPs chosen by their teams.

and to echo others - third match was a tie, fourth match was replayed because we lost autonomous mode, the computer said we won. So a field mishap created the fifth match.

Originally Posted by Joel J.

Who was the alliance captain of the winning alliance? What seed did they pick as?

Specifically I was. 358, first seed (11-1-0), picked 271 as our first pick then 870 as our second pick.

Originally Posted by sw293

Congrats to 358 on a successful defense of their regional championship!

870, Southold was with us last year too.

Also our shooter never actaully broke - it was just jammed and had positioning problems from a slipping potentiometer.

Its a good thing it ended when it did - we were starting to run low on batteries!