2007 Great Lakes Regional, Best Ever?

[cire]

On behalf of team 1015 I would also like to thank teams 573 and 503, this was our most exciting year ever!

I only hope we can scrounge up the money to be able to go to championships, it would be our first year there.

[Jack Jones]

Originally Posted by cire

On behalf of team 1015 I would also like to thank teams 573 and 503, this was our most exciting year ever!

I only hope we can scrounge up the money to be able to go to championships, it would be our first year there.

IMO - with over $6M cash or equivalent on hand, FIRST can afford to award Championship entry free to Regional winners.

[Wigginsgame]

Like everyone else, congrats to 503, 573 and 1015.

*2007 Shouter of: "We Love Our Froggie Friends"*

Good luck in other regionals/at nationals all!

[WEHickok]

What an amazing Great Lakes Regional! It truly lived up to its name as an exciting event.

First, from Team 67, thanks to Team 1114 and 57 for making an amazing alliance. This was the only time (and it happened several times, in fact) that I have seen two keepers hung by the same alliance during autonomous. What a rush!

Then congratulations to 503, 573, and 1015 in their victory. What a great job. And especially after the two partners fell off of 503 in the quarter finals.

And Frogs...The double again (did it last year at West Michigan). Winning the competition and the Regional Chairman's. Great Job!!! Clink-Clink. Good luck in Atlanta as a Chairman's challenger.

Again, Great Lakes did not let us down. It was a great event to watch and be part of.

[Lisa Perez]

Congratulations to 573, 503, and 1015 on the win. (Amazing feeling to see my former team finally get that banner!)

[bhaiu116]

As a former member and current mentor of 503, I'd also like to extend my thanks to 573 and 1015 for forming an amazing alliance. We had some scary moments, but we pulled through all right !

Walking by Team 67 and hearing them call out "We love our Froggy Friends!" brought a HUGE smile to my face . As far as we've come these past few years, we still look up to The HOT Team as a shining example of FIRST success.

I would also like to point out that Team 280 TNT is possibly the classiest group of students and mentors I've ever had the pleasure of running into. Every time we've gone down to the field during awards ceremony (all 4 years I've been at Great Lakes), TNT 280 has lined up to give us high fives. You are really a wonderful group.

[kramarczyk]

1189 had a rough regional and didn't show up on the field until Q45... whoops.
We wouldn't have made it if it was for help from a few other teams. We'd like to send a huge thanks out to:

1114 - for showing us how to flash our controller
65 & JVN - for controller troubleshooting help
65 - for 6WD programmming help
1015 - Wiring help
326 - Wire Covers
1188 - Loan of a programming laptop for troubleshooting ours
469 - Packaging materials

And a big thanks to all the well wishers that were pulling for us. It was an 'exciting' and frustrating event for us, but it was a success thanks to all of you, we are indebted.

[ClinchMacGyver]

Yes, I would have to say it was the best ever GLR, winning the Championship and the Chairman’ Award.

On behalf of team 503 I would like to thank team 573 for choosing us as there alliance along with team 1015 and congratulate both teams for creating one team to win the championship.

To are opposing alliance in the finals, teams 494, 1503 and 1023 you guys were awesome!

I also would like to thank team 67, because of your gracious professionalism, high stand of excellence and because you’re HOT, we have grown from tadpoles into Frog Force.

Also to all the teams that competed in the GLR you’re all winners in my book!

[Chevymann89]

On behalf of team 503 FROG FROCE I would personally like to first thanks 573 for picking us into the #2 alliance and 1015. Those memories and new friends that we made will never be forgotten. Secondly would I thank all the teams for congratulating us on our GLR Championship win and Chairman's award, I am still amazed that we made it that far, I just drive the robot the same way I drive my truck!

I would say that the referring at this event was done very well throughout the entire competition, they made the same calls no matter who was on the field or what match it was. The ruling of a tube supporting the lifting robot or the robot being lifted changed the winner a couple times, but it was always called and once on us, then we adjusted.

I would like to thank all the teams that came and participated at events, with out all the teams out there with the passion for FIRST, the GLR event wouldn’t be the same. Making a shout out to the HOT team and the Martians, we love you guys. See you soon Martians (70,494) at the Buckeye event, hopefully this time together as an alliance not against each other.

See you all soon

[Rich Ross]

The correct picking order for #8 was 1504, 548, 65

To the Robostangs: Thanks for letting us climb you that many times. When we first got that 60 with you in qualifiers, we knew we liked you. Additionally, thanks for the muffins (Contraband! haha). Last but not least, thanks for being accomodating in our road to trying for the wins.

To the Huskies: Amazing scorer. I honestly don't know how you were still around for picking. Thank goodness for the serpentine draft. Our atrategy was excellent, its just so hard to beat a #1 alliance, especially when the top two ringer scoring teams are on that alliance.

Grats to the winners.
Patton, we'll be ready for you to climb us in Atlanta if we're in the same division. I promise.

[1596guy]

Team 1596 would also like to thank teams 67 and 818? for giving us victors after we released the magic smoke.

[Ken Patton]

On behalf of team 65 I would like to say thank you to teams 1504 and 548 for letting us be part of your alliance. We had a great time being underdogs against that awesome #1 alliance.*

It was very cool to be part of an alliance run by a bunch of "college kids." I consider our team to be on the ball strategically (thanks mainly to Lars Kamen's alter ego and some experienced FRC students), but your team called the shots perfectly in my opinion. I wish we (65) could have been a little quicker to get back to the ramp.....

We'll definitely look for some 1504 high ground in Atlanta!

Thanks,
Ken


*The #1 alliance had incredible tube scoring power, ramp options, and defensive capability. Check out their double-keeper-scoring in the quarterfinal round, and 1114's "go for the back nine" approach during the early part of the matches.

[Karthik]

On behalf of Team 1114, we'd like to thank all our alliance partners from throughout the weekend, especially Team 67. Team 1114 has always modelled our program around yours, and it was honour to be paired with you once again.

It was a blast seeing all the amazing teams from the Michigan area. For the past two years, GLR has been our first regional sign up, because we love playing with the great teams from the Midwest. We were glad we could put on a show, even if it ended a few matches earlier than we had hoped.

Congratulations to the entire winning alliance, and especially to Team 503 for pulling off the double, going home with the Regional Championship and Regional Chairman's Award.

[JackN]

Man I have been to several regionals but I don't think I ever had this much fun.

I would like to thank in no paticular order

1503-WOW just WOW we were shocked to pick you guys, but man did we love it. You guys have one amazing machine, and should be a force at championship.

1023-You guys were a great third pick, your scoring made us one strong aliance.

Karthik-We talked several times and you put up with my constant assault of questions the entire weekend. The patience and kindness you showed towards me was truly amazing. Plus you traded me an extra shirt, which I am wearing while I type this.

Alex 469-Thanks for the shirt, it is a great gift. Also thanks for the constant updates you gave me on your robot, hope to see you guys going by Detroit.

Congrats to the winning aliance, 573, 503, 1015. We really need to stop facing 503 they are becoming the Martian Killers .

[Don Wright]

Just a couple of things about GLR from me:

Thanks to all the teams that helped us and gave us encouragement over the weekend. We set the bar very high for ourselves this season and have had some setbacks... But, we aren't giving up and I know of 24 students that are all working hard coming up with creative and innovative ways to improve on things that didn't work well this weekend.

Thanks to the Monsters for picking us... I was proud as a WLW grad to see you guys play so well over the weekend...

I also want to thank the EMU and event planners for doing some small things that really made the event great. Things like the relaxed rules on exiting and entering the building by letting us go in and out the side doors of the stadium. Not making everyone always going to the front or down to the back to enter the building might seem like a small thing, but it really made things better.

I thought the pre-staging of the teams was a little over zealous at times. We were ALWAYS running behind and when we almost missed out last practice match because the practice rounds were running almost an hour ahead of schedule, I was frustrated. I understand that you want to keep things moving, but give us chance... Finishing an hour early doesn't really do anyone much good... And during quals, hearing last call and rushing out of the pits only to get into a line 3 or 4 teams deep didn't seem to make much sense either...

Please don't take these as complaints...just observations... Overall, I felt it was a great event and success...

And to Jack Jones... The great schedule Carnack... You always seem to put things in perfect perspective...

To our friends at 1114...thanks for the fun you guys provided our kids on Thursday night at Laser Tag... They had a blast... It was fun to finally play with you on the field too!!! I know that little piece on our ramp would cause us a problem some time... Hope to be in the same division in Atlanta...