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Unread 07-04-2008, 21:38
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Those three days were some of the most exciting days of my life!
I still can't believe we won!

I would also like to say nice work to all that competed. You all did great!
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Unread 07-04-2008, 21:59
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Re: 2008 New York City Regional

Wow, these past 4 days have been insane; it's all just a blur. Just competing in what was the most awesome regional setup I've seen is great enough. Then being picked for eliminations at all was enough for us to call success, but getting picked by 41 and 555 is..."wow."
Getting to help two amazing hurdlers do what they do best..."extra wow."
Getting to the final round..."wait what just happened."
Winning the finals..."that did not just happen."

Then coming into school today with the principal announcing the win got a lot of teachers and students seriously interested in FIRST.

Big thanks to teams 41 and 555 for picking us.

Congrats to 348, 375, and 637 for being finalists, you were great competitors.

More congrats to Wayne Penn for the WFA win. After you were announced I saw you and your team interact, and you seemed to be the definition of an inspirational mentor.
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Re: 2008 New York City Regional

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Pit Layout-We never had to even ask anyone to move out of the way, plenty of room to get robots out to the field. After the 2nd entrance/exit from the pits was opened, getting from the pit to stands was easy as well.
The disorganized pit layout was really crazy but not to the extent where it made me angry or anything. I didnt even remember when you asked.

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Did you guys get to deliver the ball in your elimination matches? I only watched the Finals and I was really out of it when i did.
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To 1989:
Did you guys get to deliver the ball in your elimination matches? I only watched the Finals and I was really out of it when i did.
We did to a small extent when we were closest to the ball, mostly after hybrid mode. We also tried to bounce the other alliances ball just a little to delay them.
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Unread 07-04-2008, 22:48
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We did to a small extent when we were closest to the ball, mostly after hybrid mode. We also tried to bounce the other alliances ball just a little to delay them.
Heh. Well luckily for your team that strategy did not work out in our teams' first qual match together or else you would have never made it down to the first alliance and you might not have become champions. Congrats though. You guys truly deserve it.
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Re: 2008 New York City Regional

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The disorganized pit layout was really crazy but not to the extent where it made me angry or anything. I didnt even remember when you asked.
I had it listed as a pro, because the aisles were wide enough that unlike in NJ, there weren't crowds of people and bottlenecks to have to force your way through. The way the team #'s didn't go in order was odd, but didn't bother me, so I hadn't factored it in.
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Unread 07-04-2008, 23:57
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I had it listed as a pro, because the aisles were wide enough that unlike in NJ, there weren't crowds of people and bottlenecks to have to force your way through. The way the team #'s didn't go in order was odd, but didn't bother me, so I hadn't factored it in.
The oddness of the pit # were done on purpose.

A compliant from last year was that the veteran teams were all on one end of the pit and the rookies were on the opposite end of the pits. They asked that the rookies and the veteran teams, be place next to each other; like big brother little brother (or sisters).

Team and mentors also suggest that rookies be place close to the pit admin so they can hear all the announcement and not be isolated.

That is the reason for the strange numbering system.
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Unread 08-04-2008, 00:04
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Re: 2008 New York City Regional

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I had it listed as a pro, because the aisles were wide enough that unlike in NJ, there weren't crowds of people and bottlenecks to have to force your way through. The way the team #'s didn't go in order was odd, but didn't bother me, so I hadn't factored it in.
Yeah I was definitely almost run over at least a couple of times in NJ. In NY i was able to run in the pits safely(relatively that is).

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The oddness of the pit # were done on purpose.

A compliant from last year was that the veteran teams were all on one end of the pit and the rookies were on the opposite end of the pits. They asked that the rookies and the veteran teams, be place next to each other; like big brother little brother (or sisters).

Team and mentors also suggest that rookies be place close to the pit admin so they can hear all the announcement and not be isolated.

That is the reason for the strange numbering system.
Yeah I was told about this. How were the teams assigned though? It was just terrible for me as strategy to find a certain random team at a certain time to talk about an elimination match.
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Unread 08-04-2008, 00:14
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Re: 2008 New York City Regional

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The oddness of the pit # were done on purpose.

A compliant from last year was that the veteran teams were all on one end of the pit and the rookies were on the opposite end of the pits. They asked that the rookies and the veteran teams, be place next to each other; like big brother little brother (or sisters).

Team and mentors also suggest that rookies be place close to the pit admin so they can hear all the announcement and not be isolated.

That is the reason for the strange numbering system.
Yeah having veteran teams and pit administration around our pit really helped
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Yeah I was told about this. How were the teams assigned though? It was just terrible for me as strategy to find a certain random team at a certain time to talk about an elimination match.
The pit map given out at the pit admin table gave both the physical layout of the pit stations and a cross reference of team number-team name- pit station.

Rookies got priority in the front, veterans that are already mentoring rookies get the next assignments, veteran that are known to be helpful are the next layer then everyone else.

Next year I want to name all the aisles, like Broadway, Wall St., Lenox Ave., Queens Blvd, Coney Island Ave. etc......
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Re: 2008 New York City Regional

That idea sounds awesome. I just wish the teams on the list telling you their pit number was organized by number not by name.
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I agree that our matches were very intense. I was amazed by your teams spirit and I have already sent an email to my team talking about your team's spirit in hoping we can emulate it. I have a question about Monty Madness. How do we get our robot over there? I know you guys are able to go to Nationals because I was at Trenton also but I hear you guys may not be going. Why not? If you were then our entire alliance would be there even without winning it all because 2344 got rookie all star and my team got EI.
Well, we're not going to ATL because of security reasons according to our school's administration, plus we spent a lot of money going to Florida but it would be crazy to re-create our alliance.
Haha, I think the spirit was an alliance effort. After all 2344 wanted to be the loudest alliance ever, I think we pretty much achieved that. Other than that, this year the freshmen that have joined the team have brought in a lot of spirit with them, and I'm happy to say that I'm proud of them.

About Monty Madness, usually teams just bring their robots with them. For example, when we went to Brunswick Eruption, we just piled our '07 robot and all our tools in the back of our bus and headed out to North Brunswick High School. If you have a lot of people on your bus, you can just put it in someone's van but it would be awesome if you guys could come.
If you do bring an extra 694 shirt would ya?


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I want screens in the pit displaying the matches that are played!!! I missed lots of matches cause I was helping with repairs

project it way up high for all to see!!!

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Re: 2008 New York City Regional

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Well, we're not going to ATL because of security reasons according to our school's administration, plus we spent a lot of money going to Florida but it would be crazy to re-create our alliance.
Haha, I think the spirit was an alliance effort. After all 2344 wanted to be the loudest alliance ever, I think we pretty much achieved that. Other than that, this year the freshmen that have joined the team have brought in a lot of spirit with them, and I'm happy to say that I'm proud of them.



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Man, that sucks you guys can't go to ATL. It would've been really cool if the 3rd Alliance could get back together and kick some more butt.
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Re: 2008 New York City Regional

Hey everybody, great competition in NYC! My entire team had so much fun that they fell asleep on the bus ride home. I have to say that this year was the most fun out of all of mine (sadly it's my last) and New York was the highlight of the year. Of course, big thumbs up to Watchung Hills and 1989- you guys are the greatest and you know we'll see you soon. Stuyvesant I'm so glad you guys will be down in Atlanta with us. 348, 637 and 375 great matches at the end. The competition was great, the refs made it fun and fair; which meant instead of fixing the robot I got to wander the pits talking to people and helping out. The people at the event were all great and I think it was more fun talking to students and mentors from other teams then actually competing. Everybody there it was great playing with you and I just hope my voice comes back by Atlanta.

Pit ordering- Killing me guys, I know they switched it up so rookies weren't grouped together and people weren't always next to the same crews; but, some order has to be there. If you do it by team numbers backwards (555 would be...bad example, 2070 would be 702), or first number last number ( 1, 4000, 2, 3999). But the unorganized pit gave me a headache, some order off of team number would be greatly appreciated.

FTC- Great job guys, I only saw a few matches but the program is one I became really impressed with this year. Keep up the good work because the innovation I see in VEX often trumps what the FRC guys come up with (just don't tell them I said that).
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