Gali-leo!

[ahecht]

Can anyone fill me in on what happened in finals? I was watching on the monitors in the pits, but I am a bit confused.

According to the FIRST web site, there were three matches in the finals, all of which were won by blue. Did red actually win the first, or was there some other wierdness? And what happened after the final match? I just saw one robot fly off the ramp and balls flying everywhere. Did autonomous get enabled again accidently?

[thatphotochick]

i wanna thank everyone in galileo for making is a blast. thanx to blair, the refs, the crew, the judges, and all the teams for making it clean and fun.

[deficite]

The third match was just played for CNN to tape, if I was informed correctly.

It was very fun getting to play in the finals!

[musicgal]

I was sorta disappointed that there wasn't any rookie teams selected in the Galileo Division finals. Of course, that might just be because i'm on a rookie team. But is this typical at the championships?

[Mike Betts]

Originally Posted by musicgal

I was sorta disappointed that there wasn't any rookie teams selected in the Galileo Division finals. Of course, that might just be because i'm on a rookie team. But is this typical at the championships?

Ashley,

Has this been typical in years past? No... Will it be typical in the future? Yes... Let's look at some numbers:

There were 33 regionals this year. That means that a potential 198 teams (not counting "repeats") were either finalists or regional winners.

The four divisions in Atlanta sent a total of 98 teams to the elimination rounds.

I would hazard a guess that each division had a few finalists and perhaps even a regional winner who were not selected. It is not surprising that our division fielded no rookie teams in the eliminations.

As the number of regionals grows, this aspect of the game will become more and more skewed. In fact, FIRST will someday be forced to change it's championship eligibility criteria...

I hope that this adds perspective to your observation.

Good Luck.

Mike

[Mr MOE]

Thanks to all who made Gali-leo the place to be this past week. Emcee and announcers were great - fun and exciting. The teams were energetic and high on GP.

Kudos to all the volunteers on the Gali-leo field also. The field ran smoothly the whole competition.

MOE 365 would like to thank all of our alliance partners through the qualifying matches and a special thanks to teams 1038 and 291 for being our partners in the eliminations. We made a terrific team.

Enjoy the off-season, everyone!!!!

P.S. If anyone is interested, Duel on the Delaware is scheduled for October 21, 2006. We would love to see Galileo teams attend!

[slickguy2007]

I would like to thank the emcee Blair for being such a great sport. Team 1403 orchestrated some tricks and stunts while we were being announced. We got all of our allies to show their GP as they all agreed to join us in the crazy stunts we pulled. In our last qualifying match we even got our opponents to join us for the fun. Their was no shortage of GP on the galileo field.

Some of the stunts for those of you who missed it:
1. Our alliance ran out into the field and hugged Blair(our hp accidently stepped on the MOE flag and he took a tumble but laughed the whole way down )
2. Our alliance slammed our hands on the player station as we were being called and cleaned it off with windex
3. Our alliance ran out into the field and did the limbo
4. We got our alliance and our opponent's alliance to "party boy" Blair out on the field. It was great seeing our opponents and our allies doing this b/c this proves that GP triumphs over all... and it is as simple as that

Thank you to all the volunteers that made this event possible and to all those who cheered us on as we performed each of our stunts.

If anyone has any pics or video I would love to have them. I am trying to find some video and I'll try to post it soon!

GO 1403!!!

[Mr MOE]

Great job to 1403 for orchestrating all the fun during the announcement of teams during your matches.

I didn't see all of it, but I was present for the group bear hug of Blair. It was great! His comments immediately after were hilarious.

Thanks for making Galileo the place to be!

[anna~marie]

Originally Posted by slickguy2007

We got our alliance and our opponent's alliance to "party boy" Blair out on the field. It was great seeing our opponents and our allies doing this b/c this proves that GP triumphs over all... and it is as simple as that ...If anyone has any pics or video I would love to have them. I am trying to find some video and I'll try to post it soon!

GO 1403!!!

That was a lot of fun! I'm glad we were able to get in on it.
Blair is/was such a great emcee to go along with it, and yeah if anyone finds any video post it please
FIRST isn't just about learning, it's also about having fun!!!

[ahecht]

Originally Posted by deficite

The third match was just played for CNN to tape, if I was informed correctly.

It was very fun getting to play in the finals!

Ahh, that makes sense. And congrats to the blue alliance for being the first alliance in the history of FIRST to win three matches in the finals.

[Jessica Boucher]

Originally Posted by deficite

The third match was just played for CNN to tape, if I was informed correctly.

That's correct.

Thanks to everyone, teams and volunteers, who made Galileo awesome! You made my job easy