Hawaii Regional 2008

[xcentrix]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

I'm not getting it in Austin.
Yesterday, it was beautiful just beautiful.

try pointing your windows media player to:

mms://128.102.151.19/hawaii2008

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by xcentrix

try pointing your windows media player to:

mms://128.102.151.19/hawaii2008

It's working, yea!
Thank you!!

[Joe Ross]

1. 233 254 2454
2. 968 25 2459
3. 359 368 2437
4. 2024 846 2460
5. 1378 337 2504
6. 1572 2090 1834
7. 2444 2455 1138
8. 597 362 2443

[Winged Wonder]

aloha~

just tuned into the regional; i thought i had missed it but thankfully for time zone differences, i get to watch the finals matches.

There are some truly wonderful robots out there, and the energy sounds amazing. Great music and i'm happy to see that for their first FIRST regional, Hawaii seems to know exactly how to hold a regional.

on a slightly different note, 254's hurdles are just beautiful. i must say, wow. i havent really had a chance to keep up with scouting and watching all the regionals (passing college classes takes precidence), but realy, i'm pleased to see such success all over the board, especially with the rookie teams in Hawaii.

Good job everyone Mark wasn't lying when he said you are all winners. Just showing up with something that functioned is an amazing feat in itself. (So is the feat of having Mark lose his voice, thats not very easy to do) I hope you all had fun, because really, thats all the regional competition is about. What really matters is that you came away with this experience with knowledge and inspiration for the future.

[Raul]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

1. 233 254 2454
2. 968 25 2459
3. 359 368 2437
4. 2024 846 2460
5. 1378 337 2504
6. 1572 2090 1834
7. 2444 2455 1138
8. 597 362 2443

Wow, I think this is the first time in FIRST history that a 15 seed got to be an alliance captain.

The only way this can happen is for every team above the 15th seed to be picking or picked before it got to them.
1 picks 3
2 picks 8
4 picks 14
5 picks 6
7 picks 9
10 picks 11
12 picks 13
then finally
15 picks 19
Amazing! I thought this would never happen. That is FIRST for you - doing the amazing!

Raul

[AustinSchuh]

Anyone else appalled at both of the penalty free matches where Pink was tipped?

[DhavalP]

it definitely looked intentional

[chaoticprout]

I'm sitting in the stands now during the timeout after Semi 1-2 and I just have to say that that wasn't GP AT ALL. 2 matches in a row of drive teams cheering (I'm right behind them) when Pink tipped is not cool, plain and simple.

[Vikesrock]

Originally Posted by AustinSchuh

Anyone else appalled at both of the penalty free matches where Pink was tipped?

Which one, the first or the second?

[jackie Ha]

The first time 233 was either hurdling or removing the ball on the overpass and was hit from behind, second time was a side hit, how they fell I don't really know, but that was what I saw.

[Schnabel]

OH NOES! The webcast died for me right as they were setting up for finals.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Schnabel

OH NOES! The webcast died for me right as they were setting up for finals.

OH NOES! waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

Ok, that was very mature of me....*sigh*

[Michael Corsetto]

Yeah, it just died for me too, anyone know why?

[Winged Wonder]

the webcast just stopped working for me too maybe they have a time limit set up for the competition and they stop broadcasting after a certain time?

and yeah, it was hard to see the tip overs; i can understand the first one, but the second one doesn't make sense unless 233 was pushed over from a high point. we're really good about making the center of gravity of the robot as low as possible, so the side tip couldnt have happened unless it was tipped over from higher up. oh well. a single loss isnt the end of the world. the lack of GP is disheartening though. Hopefully we won't see things like this at the other regionals or at the Championship.

[SizzelChest330]

It appears to be down for everyone else ive talked to also!
bad timing!!!