2007 Philly Regional

[Justin M.]

Today was a good day, we had some electrical issues mid-day but we're all together now. We were playing pretty good in all of our matches, finishing off the day at 14th place. Lots of good robots out there....can't wait for tomorrow and the semi finals.

[Bill Moore]

Soundbytes from the local news in Philly.

[Phil Ross]

today was my first philly regional and you guys made it totally awesome. Thanks for having such great spirit and I hope to see you guys out on the field tomorrow during regular matches and the FINALS!.

[BillRob]

Congratulations Steve Bartlett on winning the Woody Flowers Award!!

Just think, I knew you way back when.... well let's face it, way back when you didn't look too much different than you do today!!!!!!!

[Freddy Schurr]

Why thank you Kyle for the shout out. I unfortunately will not be returning as Pit Announcer for tomorrow’s matches. However I will be there for my team, 204, mentoring. I must say that I had so much fun Pit Announcing for the past two days and meeting a lot of cool people and teams.

Shouts to

Ducky, Brenda and Momma Troy and Judy for helping with announcements, keeping everything on schedule and also making me laugh throughout the entire two days

All the cool people from CD at Philadelphia. You guys and girls rock. Hope you are feeling better Sara (Bandchick)

Team 433, the Firebirds for saying HI! and chatting with me.

To all the other teams for making the 2007 Philadelphia Regional one of the greatest regional competitions that I have been to in awhile.

Stop by Team 204’s Pit and say hi

I can’t wait for tomorrow competition. Good Luck

[Scott Carpman]

From the match results it looks like this regional is a complete tossup. The entire field is full of capable offensive machines. Based on what I saw in NJ, 486 will be a force to be reckoned with in the playoffs. Their ramp design is excellent and will easily get the bonus points needed to secure a win.

[The Lucas]

Alliance selection with live edits

#1 103 272 87

#2 365 316 709

#3 1712 222 484

#4 1143 204 1791

#5 539 399 834

#6 84 341 181

#7 1647 357 571

#8 423 433 486

[Lea103]

teams are currently at lunch and the 24 teams are getting ready to take part in the "Big Dance". This regional has been full of high energy and never ending team spirit. thanks to 399 for being our cheering buddies.

Looking at the fierce competition of the qualifying, the finals are going to be wicked tough. I cant wait for the final matches to start at 1!

[The Lucas]

Semis

1v5
6v7

[The Lucas]

816 replaces 399 (carrier plates) in #5 and wins in match 3

#6 wins in 3 matches

Finals

5v6

539 816 (399) 834 versus 84 341 181

[The Lucas]

#6 wins

Congrats to the Philly Regional Champs 84, 341, 181.

[Freddy Schurr]

Congrats to

Team 341 for winning E.I and Team 365 for Chairmans.

Thanks to 1143 and 1791 for being great alliance partners.

[clean399]

Well we had a blast at this competition we won the spirit award and we were on the runner up alliance. We had to back out of the semis because our banebots carrier plates failed on us for a third time this weekend. Now I really think this is a problem that needs to be addressed by FIRST because we have had the soft plates hard plates and even used a different gear ratio plate. No matter we still had a great time thanks to our alliance members teams 539, 834, and 816. We will see you who are going to atalanta in about a week and a half.

[Kyle]

Wow, what a great regional! 399 lead the cheering and made the event crazy fun. there were some of the best machines here and they showed it in the past 3 days. 341 84 and 181 were amazing with great and very fast scoring from 341 and 181 and the best defense I have ever seen from anyone provided by Chuck 84. The rookies 2229 and 2253 who both won awards were amazing for rookie teams and I can't wait to see them next year. team 1712 was incredibly fast, I was told that was due to the AndyMark products, and they were just great at scoring. Teams 103 272 and 87 made up the #1 alliance and they were the 3 teams that all through the regional were always fast, high scoring and good at defense they put on a great show. 341 won the EI award and it couldn't have gone to a better team congratulations to them for an amazing robot and team.
Wayne Penn was once again great at getting the crowd excited and dancing and made the event one of the best I have been to.

There are many many more people and teams who made Philly a great regional and I hope that all of you come back, I will be back later to thank the ones I didn't here but I gotta get some rest

[Chuck Glick]

Originally Posted by Kyle

Wow, what a great regional! 399 lead the cheering and made the event crazy fun. there were some of the best machines here and they showed it in the past 3 days. 341 84 and 181 were amazing with great and very fast scoring from 341 and 181 and the best defense I have ever seen from anyone provided by Chuck 84. The rookies 2229 and 2253 who both won awards were amazing for rookie teams and I can't wait to see them next year. team 1712 was incredibly fast, I was told that was due to the AndyMark products, and they were just great at scoring. Teams 103 272 and 87 made up the #1 alliance and they were the 3 teams that all through the regional were always fast, high scoring and good at defense they put on a great show. 341 won the EI award and it couldn't have gone to a better team congratulations to them for an amazing robot and team.
Wayne Penn was once again great at getting the crowd excited and dancing and made the event one of the best I have been to.

There are many many more people and teams who made Philly a great regional and I hope that all of you come back, I will be back later to thank the ones I didn't here but I gotta get some rest

Yes we did use AndyMark Products, but we used AM one speed gearboxes(similar to 2006 kit gearboxes)!

We'd like to thank our great partners 222 and 484 for helping us put up a fight against 341, 181, and 84. Chuck 84 played some of the strongest defense I have seen in a while, and 181 and 341 just filled that rack. Grats to 341 for winning E.I. and Grats to 365 for the Chairmans.

See you all in ATL!

-Chuck G.