rookie teams at nationals?

[deejay021]

ok so our alliance won at the milwaukee regionals and it's our rookie year... wanted to ask if there will be any other rookie teams at regionals we should party

[PrincessJae]

Which ever team wins Rookie All Star is invited to Nationals, thus there will be quite a few rookie teams

[EricH]

Originally Posted by PrincessJae

Which ever team wins Rookie All Star is invited to Nationals, thus there will be quite a few rookie teams

Or if a rookie wins a regional.

Hmmm... I wonder if 1511 will be doing their rookie get-together on Thursday again. (I'm not part of a rookie team, nor am I going, but I know this has happened in the past.)

[Cynette]

Congratulations Team 2549 on your regional win!

Originally Posted by EricH

Hmmm... I wonder if 1511 will be doing their rookie get-together on Thursday again. (I'm not part of a rookie team, nor am I going, but I know this has happened in the past.)

For the past three years Team 1511 has hosted the "All Rookie Meet and Greet" (ARMAG) at Championships. I'm pretty sure we will be hosting it again this year. It will be announced here on CD as well as in e-mails to Rookie teams, if we can collect their e-mails. There will also be a flier given to all of the rookie teams as early as we can when we get to the competition with the date, place and time.

So yes! There will be other Rookie teams and yes, you'll have a chance to celebrate your success with some other rookies!

[excel2474]

Excel #2474 will be there if we can raise the funds. Those of you who won the rookie all-star award, what did you do to earn it (other than have a good robot)?

[XXShadowXX]

umm 2337 will be there, if they got the funds, they won rookie all star at detroit

[PrincessJae]

Originally Posted by excel2474

Excel #2474 will be there if we can raise the funds. Those of you who won the rookie all-star award, what did you do to earn it (other than have a good robot)?

team 2599, who one in san diego, made a team handbook

[i_am_samus]

Team 2590, Nemesis will be there. We won runner up...so look forward to getting your butts kicked ;o

jk, good luck to all rookies! Looking forward to meeting all yall

[XXShadowXX]

team 2604 will be there (not a question of getting the funds, we will)

look forward to a seeing all the rookie and senor teams there

[PrincessJae]

Originally Posted by i_am_samus

Team 2590, Nemesis will be there. We won runner up...so look forward to getting your butts kicked ;o

jk, good luck to all rookies! Looking forward to meeting all yall

what do you mean runner up? Rookie Inspiration?

[XXShadowXX]

Runner up?

second in finals, but got rookie all star?

[bduddy]

Originally Posted by XXShadowXX

Runner up?

second in finals, but got rookie all star?

Originally Posted by my.usfirst.org

Team Number 2590
...
Awards Won 2008 NJ Regional Finalist
2008 NJ Rookie All-Star
2008 NJ Highest Rookie Seed

Also, for the original topic:
http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv...hp?eventid=182
Scroll down; everyone past 2335 is a rookie. Can't tell you how many are actually going, though...

[Akash Rastogi]

Just curious, how many of you rookie teams out there actually hurdle? Many of the rookies I have seen are either lapbots or run laps and try to herd.

So my question is, what do you all do and what do you do the best?

Can't wait to meet everyone in Atlanta

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by excel2474

Excel #2474 will be there if we can raise the funds. Those of you who won the rookie all-star award, what did you do to earn it (other than have a good robot)?

1676 won Rookie All-Star 4 years ago - and I can tell you that it wasn't because we had a good robot*.

It was because we had a good team.

Being rookies and all, we found in competition that we had built an extremely robust robot, one that just was not breaking, and we hadn't yet learned how to do scouting - so we had several dozen kids who had just spent six weeks building a robot, and were now itching for something to do.

Out they spread, to several other teams (some rookies, some not) - helping everywhere they could. Loaning tools, parts, hardware (we have these huge racks of all sorts of nuts & bolts). We didn't do it to win an award, it just came naturally - we like building robots!

Anyhow, these teams we helped I guess were appreciative and told the judges and, well, I guess we did something right, because we won Rookie All-Star. Nobody was more surprised than us, really.

Don

*It's not about the robot.

[PrincessJae]

its not. the san diego team that won rookie all star only won 1 qualifying match. hmmmm.