Long Island!

[Athleticgirl389]

I'd like to thank teams 2487 and 2010 for picking us (102) to be on their alliance. It was an incredible competition and everyone was great, and it was a true battle to the end. So congratulations to ALL the teams in Long Island. Hope to see our alliance partners in Atlanta

Also, congrats to 329 on a well deserved Chairman's win.

[wt200999]

Great job Jbirds and 1203, we would have had this competition if our we didn't have certain problems in the end. Big disappointment . Great job overall, we had an amazing alliance!

Congrats the the finalists and the chairmans winner as well!


Video?

[Alalea]

Congrats to everyone who got in an alliance or got an award.

I would like to say a special congrats to Sayville. They were very gracious and professional with us. I didn't think they were rookies. Great job guys!

I'm a bit dissapointed that we didn't get in, even though we placed 19 and people lower then us got in...but I'm being overdramatic. We should be proud we got such a good place, sinse we are made of a 4th grader, three 5th graders, a 6th grader, five 7th graders, and two high-schoolers. Our driver was the 6th grader (congrats to him, too). We did very well.

Again, congrats everyone! Good luck to The Gearheads, Sayville, and 2010!

[jayjaywalker3]

Originally Posted by lingomaniac88

I believe there was a game (it was toward the end of the qualifying matches) where the red alliance scored 112.

I think that was the match where 375 hurdled 5 times.

Originally Posted by Athleticgirl389

I'd like to thank teams 2487 and 2010 for picking us (102) to be on their alliance. It was an incredible competition and everyone was great, and it was a true battle to the end. So congratulations to ALL the teams in Long Island. Hope to see our alliance partners in Atlanta

Also, congrats to 329 on a well deserved Chairman's win.

I just wanted to say to Team 102 that I was very impressed at how much your driving improved since New Jersey. Congratulations on your win and congratulations to 2487 and 2010 also.

[A_Reed]

Congrats to all participants, winners and the dedicated folks who put on the regional and way to go 2010 Lightning bots our Neighbors and fellow NEOFRA members, from Champion township(Warren), Ohio.

[Alalea]

I would like to say one thing though: I understand you like to watch your team. However, I would prefer if people sat down so that us little people behind them can also eenjoy the game. Thanks ^^

Btw, anyons stuck sitting next to a girl who kept screaming "JUST KEEP LAPPING! COME ON! LAPS!", sorry. I got a little caught up XD

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Michelle Celio

Could someone please explain what "Musical Theme", "MVP", and "Greening Award" were awarded for?
It's listed on the bottom of : http://www2.usfirst.org/2008comp/events/LI/awards.html

I'll add just a bit to what Joe mentioned.
These are three local awards SBPLI-LI FIRST has added just to our event, not FIRST awards.

The Musical theme award is intended to attract and involve other elements of the school to FIRST. In Hauppauge's case we involved the music department, specifically, the budding composers and recording media teacher. (unrelated) We also had our concert band perform at opening ceremonies were Matia was honored. The theme is then played throughout the competition as a signature piece.

The Greening award was new this year. SBPLI-LI FIRST wanted to highlight the importance of solving our ecological problems. The winner Team 871 West Islip, has been involved in Adopt-a-Highway since 2004, spending one Saturday a month and have picked up more than a ton of trash and recyclables.

The MVP award is to recognize individual contributors to the success of a team and to the objectives of FIRST. The overall winner is based on an essay submitted by the team leaders. Sort of a student Woodie Flowers.
This year's winner, Suliaman Usman, is a senior at rookie team 2476 Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park. I had the opportunity to work with Suliaman and he really is the driving force behind getting this rookie team started.

Originally Posted by Tt321b

Thank you teams 358 and 533 for asking us to join you in the elimination rounds. We had a nice run to the finals. Congratulations to the winners and everyone who received awards.

It was a lot of fun wasn't it?
I'm really glad we got to play together Tony.

I recorded the elimination matches--I finally got to see some robots competing
I won't promise my videography is any good though, but I'll make you a copy of what I have. Let me know an address to mail it to.
I might not get to it until after Atlanta, but then again I might watch it today...

[Bcliff358]

I would like to thank 533 and 1803 for making such a great alliance with us. I would like to congratulate our mentor and advisor Mark McLeod for winning both Volunteer of the Year, and the Woodie Flowers Award. We will put the essay onto our website soon. To teams 870, 522, 375, 1468, 287, and my favorite racer of the year, 496, you guys were at the top of our scouting lists all weekend. 4 straight SPBLI Finals and counting. Great Regional!

[Mr. De Simone]

Team 1203 “Pandemonium” would like to thank teams 870 Team R.I.C.E and 1468 the Jbrids for selecting us to be on your alliance.

[fatjoe3833]

Congratulations to:

2487, 2010, and 102 on a well earned win.
358, 533, and 1803 for making it to the finals
329 for a well deserved Chairman's win
2638 for winning Rookie All Star (I hope you guys can go to Atlanta)

Mark McLeod for winning Woodie Flowers and Outstanding Volunteer
Chris and Pat Early for winning Outstanding Volunteer.

Congratulations to all teams for a competitive and fun regional. Hope to see you all next year!

-Joe (aka the annoying guy who made everyone leave the pits at 6 on Friday)

[orion]

Originally Posted by Alivia

I have been informed from Ashley Marshall from Team 102 that the Gearheads (her team) will be webcasting the Long Island Regional! She asked me to post the URL on here so you all could watch!

You can find the webcast (starting tomorrow) at http://team102.frc

I have been told that it shouldn't matter if the 'www' is included or not.
Team 102 is hoping to get this up and running tomorrow!

If you have any questions, Team 102 is the team to ask!

Hello, I am the team 102 member responsible for the aforementioned webcast at Long Island. I setup the wireless network on Thursday. Unfortunately I noticed that nobody was going to use our wireless network because the Hofstra Wireless Network offered Internet access. Since you can only be connected to one network at once people had to make a choice between the chatrooms/webcast/radio and open Internet. Obviously people chose Internet. Thus on Friday and Saturday I decided not to lug the server/WAPs back to the university.

Additionally "team102.frc" is NOT a mistake. If you were connected to our wireless network on Thursday and typed that in you would be connected to our landing page. You can't access it from the Internet... only from our network.

I hope that clears some stuff up.

[Brian C]

Newsday, the local paper here on Long Island has some really NICE footage of the competition from the practice day on Thursday.

The footage can be found here: http://www.newsday.com/video/

Look for the video titled "Robot Wars on Long Island"

Yeah I know it's not really a robot "war" but it's still some nice video footage.

[Alex_2487]

Originally Posted by Athleticgirl389

I'd like to thank teams 2487 and 2010 for picking us (102) to be on their alliance. It was an incredible competition and everyone was great, and it was a true battle to the end. So congratulations to ALL the teams in Long Island. Hope to see our alliance partners in Atlanta

Also, congrats to 329 on a well deserved Chairman's win.

thanks, it was a great time being with your team in the elimination rounds

we would also like to thank team 2010 from being on our alliance and team 375 for being our mentors and helping us throughout the competition