2008 Boston Regional

[Nawaid Ladak]

any word on a web cast?

[David55]

Originally Posted by Nawaid Ladak

any word on a web cast?

Yes there will be a webcast of the regional, as well as an online archive with all the matches. The Blue Alliance is taking care of that.

David

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Nawaid Ladak

any word on a web cast?

NASA and The Blue Alliance will be providing a webcast of the event.

There will be a chatroom and embedded video player on a webpage, much like the Waterloo ustream.tv setup, only with much better video quality

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

NASA and The Blue Alliance will be providing a webcast of the event.

There will be a chatroom and embedded video player on a webpage, much like the Waterloo ustream.tv setup, only with much better video quality

Third post in a row on the same topic

http://www.thebluealliance.net/boston08/

[Brandon Holley]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

Third post in a row on the same topic

http://www.thebluealliance.net/boston08/

HOLLA

[matt91]

HAS EVERYONE FORGOTTEN???? Taco Bell is like a 5 min walk right down the street!!! I cant wait i dont live any where near one so yea good times to be had by all!!

[afi419]

Is there a team social?

[Brandon Holley]

Originally Posted by matt91

HAS EVERYONE FORGOTTEN???? Taco Bell is like a 5 min walk right down the street!!! I cant wait i dont live any where near one so yea good times to be had by all!!

Its about 5 minutes, it might be a little longer, its down almost to the end of the BU campus

[Steve Howland]

Originally Posted by afi419

Is there a team social?

There will be two organized social events for the FIRST teams this year. On Thursday, an Ice Cream social will be held nearby the arena for a limited number of members per team. It will run from 4 to 7.

On Friday night, all teams will be given free access to the Boston Museum of Science. Unless teams have already arranged getting a spot for a bus, public transportation is probably best. There is a food court if teams don't have other dinner arrangements.

[Roger]

If you want something a bit higher than Taco Bell (~shudder~) there is the Sunset Cantina* across the street. It does takeout or eat-in and the portions are big and good. My boss goes there for lunch all the time, and it's where we have our "office parties", but only because it's right outside our back door.

*Don't worry about the "Restaurant Closed" on the website -- it means it opens at 11:30am.

[Brandon Holley]

Originally Posted by Roger

If you want something a bit higher than Taco Bell (~shudder~) there is the Sunset Cantina* across the street. It does takeout or eat-in and the portions are big and good. My boss goes there for lunch all the time, and it's where we have our "office parties", but only because it's right outside our back door.

*Don't worry about the "Restaurant Closed" on the website -- it means it opens at 11:30am.

Just ate their a few days ago...good stuff!

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by ZZII 527

Where is everyone going to park now that the parking lot is a building? (Don't worry - the parking garage is still there.) But it was amazing how fast that thing went up...or maybe time just went really fast. I thought construction was just starting around the time of last year's event.

Do any train lines go out to the arena?

[Brandon Holley]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Do any train lines go out to the arena?

The "B" Green Line has a stop right in front of the arena

[Roger]

Originally Posted by Brandon Holley

Just ate their a few days ago...good stuff!

Food is so good, they come up from New Jersey to eat there!

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Do any train lines go out to the arena?

See post #7. The "T" (MBTA) has the Boston College "B" line of the Green line goes out Comm Ave. If you're coming from Amtrak you can get off at Back Bay and walk up to Copley OUTBOUND and catch the trolley from there. From South Station you take the Red Line up to Park Street and transfer to the Green Line. Make sure it's the "B" trolley OUTBOUND. Not to Government Center.

If you do get off at Back Bay, you'll walk past the park with The Hint (42.349905, -71.076072, 342,242026) in front of Trinity Church.

By the way, the trolley is the "public transportation" to get to the Science Museum, but if your coming from the competition, you'll have to transfer at Govt Center to the E line, which is the only one that continues to the museum stop. (Or at least, that was the way it was the last time I took it a couple years ago.)

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Roger

Food is so good, they come up from New Jersey to eat there!




See post #7. The "T" (MBTA) has the Boston College "B" line of the Green line goes out Comm Ave. If you're coming from Amtrak you can get off at Back Bay and walk up to Copley OUTBOUND and catch the trolley from there. From South Station you take the Red Line up to Park Street and transfer to the Green Line. Make sure it's the "B" trolley OUTBOUND. Not to Government Center.

If you do get off at Back Bay, you'll walk past the park with The Hint (42.349905, -71.076072, 342,242026) in front of Trinity Church.

By the way, the trolley is the "public transportation" to get to the Science Museum, but if your coming from the competition, you'll have to transfer at Govt Center to the E line, which is the only one that continues to the museum stop. (Or at least, that was the way it was the last time I took it a couple years ago.)

I learned my lesson from years of driving around Boston (born in Boston. Visit relatives regularly) to take the T whenever possible. Boston parking prices can be quite insane as is weekday morning traffic.