2007 St. Louis Regional

[DeAnnaC]

Just fyi for those who will be attending the St. Louis Regional - the Working Women's Survival show is next weekend too and it's off the same exit as the St. Louis Regional: http://www.historicstcharles.com/event/Item.aspx?ID=141

On Friday it's from 11-8pm, Sat from 10-8pm. Traffic may be a problem at lunch time and leaving the Family Arena.

DeAnna

[Ryan Dognaux]

Does anyone know if there will be a webcast available for this regional? I didn't see it on the NASA site, but sometimes events take it upon themselves to do one.

[Idaman323]

Oh great... can't wait until Thursday! I see many good teams coming/returning to the regional. Now I just have to hope that i will be with and not against these teams.

Good luck everybody.

[darsh5000]

Much of Team 461 is already in St. Loius. I'll be joining the rest of the team tommorow; how are the practice rounds going?

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Wow... I was going to ask for some info on 71... but then second guessed myself and decided to check and see if they were attending StL this year. And I was correct, the second time...

(For an Every Time I Die fan.... that was all SHINFO... FYI)

[Rich Ross]

how are the practice rounds going? Any news on 45, 71, 830, purdue teams or any other teams?

[Luckyfish05]

Update as I know it as of about an hour ago. I got off the phone with my Mom (yes, it's a family afair) who was able to make the trip to St. Louis (I unfortunately had to stay for a few classes) she told me these things.

There were a lot of software changes this morning (I believe Firmware and radio reconfiguration to be exact) so many of the teams that had early practice rounds didn't make it out. Not many teams are able to place tubes right now (so much so that when anyone does people are cheering), two teams that I do know are able to are TechnoKats (45) and us (PantherTech, 292). Other than those two teams I don't know who else is, she didn't mention any other numbers to me just that there were a couple of teams that were able too. Autonomous is yet again a challenge this year, teams are still trying to get theirs to work without much success. The Thunderchickens are yet to be seen on the field besides their human player. Off the field, they have been seen crowded around their trailer, no word on what's going on there.

That's about all I can remember. I hope this helps, I wish we had webcast for St. Louis. Best of luck to all the teams out there, I really hope we see some good matches as the weekend progresses!

[Grant Cox]

Posting from the hotel @ St. Louis after the practice matches, it looks like the game is going to be extremely low scoring. Even in practice matches (with no defense), most games were under 60 points.

45 and 148 seemed to be really good. I saw a couple robots with fast drivetrains but nonfunctional arms yet, so tomorrow and saturday should be interesting. The main weakness seems to be teams requiring close proximity to the rack in order to score (we even got tangled up in there once or twice, haha).

best of luck to all the teams competing!

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by GeeForce

Posting from the hotel @ St. Louis after the practice matches, it looks like the game is going to be extremely low scoring. Even in practice matches (with no defense), most games were under 60 points.

45 and 148 seemed to be really good. I saw a couple robots with fast drivetrains but nonfunctional arms yet, so tomorrow and saturday should be interesting. The main weakness seems to be teams requiring close proximity to the rack in order to score (we even got tangled up in there once or twice, haha).

best of luck to all the teams competing!

How'd you guys do today?

[DeAnnaC]

Video footage from tonight's news:
http://www.myfoxstl.com/myfox/pages/...Y&pageId=1.1.1

Another plug on another channel (the video will be taped tomorrow morning at 5am)
http://www.ksdk.com/life/programming...l/default.aspx
There was a short video clip on Channel 5 of the teams uncrating their robots today, but I couldn't find it online to link it.

There are some great bots here at the St. Louis Regional. The grasper designs are very interesting. I'm always amazed at the different ways each team created something to play the same game.

Good luck to all!

DeAnna

[Joel J]

Does anyone now have pics of what each robot looks like? Also, how did 461's ramps work out?

[Richard Wallace]

We started the day with a little extra excitement, when the tornado warning siren forced everyone inside in a hurry. The tornado itself didn't attend our event, although it did touch down in a nearby town. For us it was just lots of wind and some rain, and then in less than an hour things were back to normal.

We were fortunate not to have any injuries, damage, or delays due to the severe weather.

[Compnerd]

We are Having a "meeting" for all webteam members of teams participating at the FIRST St. Louis Regional. Read more information here

[Schnabel]

This is a post from Kyle Love.

We are having a GREAT time here in STL. The robot is performing brilliantly. The atmosphere around the event is also great. There are two really good bots really, 217 and 148. 525 has scored in automode about 2-3 times. The site is nice and clean. I definitely want to come back next year.

[Luckyfish05]

Originally Posted by Schnabel

This is a post from Kyle Love.

I definitely want to come back next year.

Kyle, my friend, I do believe that, that's going to be kinda hard considering you're a senior. It's great to hear you guys are preforming brillantly though!