Top 5 Posted

[BuddyB309]

Alright A note to all animation teams in the top five. I will let you know that most students in first do not know they are suppose to go on this site and vote for the top five. So your mass campaigning begins now. You are going to have the job in Atlanta is rounding up as many students as you can so they can submit their vote. Also every student on your team has a vote so make sure they all vote for your animation.

We did it last year and it worked out for us. Good luck to all animation teams, I will see you all in Atlanta. Check me out in the Autodesk booth.

[seanl]

Originally Posted by hipsterjr

sweet, we're in the top 5 again! Congrats to everyone, the competition looks fierce. So who in the top 5s will be in Atlanta?

we wont

[BuddyB309]

Originally Posted by seanl

we wont

oh know! I really want to meet your animators. Autodesk also holds a lunch in and free books to the top five teams. You should really try sending at least the animators.

[Molten]

First off, congrats to everyone who made it. If possible, I think many people would find it interesting to actually open up one of your inventor files and disect how you did such an elaborate job. Please post them if you can.

Originally Posted by BuddyB309

Also every student on your team has a vote so make sure they all vote for your animation.

On another note, I know this was posted as a nice suggestion. However, you are supposed to vote for which animation and inventor image you think is the best. You should not vote for either just because you know the person who made it. That is turning this into a popularity contest. It defeats the purpose of voting to begin with. This is not a popularity contest, it is meant to allow the public to input their honest opinion about which one is the best. Vote on the entries, not the people who made the entries. Sorry, that line just rubbed me the wrong way.

Once again though, congrats.

[BuddyB309]

Originally Posted by Molten

On another note, I know this was posted as a nice suggestion. However, you are supposed to vote for which animation and inventor image you think is the best. You should not vote for either just because you know the person who made it. That is turning this into a popularity contest. It defeats the purpose of voting to begin with. This is not a popularity contest, it is meant to allow the public to input their honest opinion about which one is the best. Vote on the entries, not the people who made the entries. Sorry, that line just rubbed me the wrong way.

Once again though, congrats.

I understand your concern and yes you should vote for the best one. However I can say is this. If your team is up on the top five would you not think that your animation is the best up there? Obviously you want yours to win and hopefully your team is backing you up.

In a perfect world every student on the FIRST community will go on first base and vote for the animation or inventor that they think is the best and the winner will be rewarded his or her well deserved reward.

Now let me tell you how reality works. 80-90% of the students in the FIRST community do not even know that they are suppose to vote for the animations on FIRSTbase. When told that they should, mainly have trouble creating an account under their team name because they need a code that was given to their head team mentor. Durring the competition in Atlanta is the only way these students will find out about voting and by that time they will have some trouble getting the code from their leader because of everything that goes on in Atlanta. How do these students find out that they have to vote? Because an animation team is going around campaigning for them to vote on the animations.

I know other animation teams out there are grouping together and voting on the top five. There may be animation teams that are not in the top five that are organizing their entire team to vote on the top five. But thats not everyone. There are still votes that you can get from campaigning in Atlanta.

You may not agree with this but this is exactly how it was last year. The top five animations are in a race, a race to get the most votes. I'm not dissing any teams, I'm not bashing the system I am giving the top five animations a heads up of whats to come.

I will be in Atlanta getting people to vote on the animations. So the final result will not be bias.

[Big Kid]

Really awesome things made their in inventor, I am really hoping I can do some 3D design thing for Team 816 next year, unfortunetly I did have time to learn the program this season and next season I think my mentor has a new program for me to use, too.

But really cool job, I love them. Congrates, everyone

[rohit]

a i seriously wish I could go to nationals especially since we got top 5 at inventor. It would've been awesome to meet all the other teams that made it! but my team wont be going this year :<

oh & if you get in top 5 but dont get first, do you still win something? please say yes

[BuddyB309]

Originally Posted by rohit

a i seriously wish I could go to nationals especially since we got top 5 at inventor. It would've been awesome to meet all the other teams that made it! but my team wont be going this year :<

oh & if you get in top 5 but dont get first, do you still win something? please say yes

yes, All teams that are in the top five are invited to a free lunch and get to meet the autodesk workers. You also receive a packet containing tutorial books and such. Last year I got to have lunch with Ted Boardman. Unfortunately you have to be at Atlanta. If you REALLY REALLY want to go their are ways. Maybe you can hitch a ride with a neighboring team that is going.

[pmax]

Teams,

I want to extend a congratulations to each and every team that submitted an entry. It is clear that everyone has put in tremendous efforts, and it really shows in the quality of your results!

We look forward to seeing the results of the peer voting at the Championship.

Regards,
Pete

[Kevin Thorp]

Unfortunately we don't have the funds to go to the Nationals this year

We'll miss the Autodesk lunch. They put out a very nice spread.

We made it to the finals last year. Usually it's all about the robot at the competitions but our animation kids (and Inventor kids) were heros when the team found out they were getting a free lunch!

Does anyone know what day they announce the winners?

[BuddyB309]

Originally Posted by Kevin342

Unfortunately we don't have the funds to go to the Nationals this year

We'll miss the Autodesk lunch. They put out a very nice spread.

We made it to the finals last year. Usually it's all about the robot at the competitions but our animation kids (and Inventor kids) were heros when the team found out they were getting a free lunch!

Does anyone know what day they announce the winners?

Last year they announced it Saturday. Before the finals

[JasJ002]

I would like to congratulate the teams that made finals. All of you have excellent submission and I can't wait to watch the awards ceremony in Atlanta.

[GRS]

woo?

[Avarise]

Good job 135, 342, 867, & 868! The top 5 is a scary place to be, also anyone know anything about the top 5 lunch? It seems really cool, I saw Ted Boardman last year and it was awesome.

[Robert Thacker-]

I think 1477 should be there. Oh well