PARC XI May 10, 2008

[Rabbit222]

Another great PARC everyone. Thanks to all who participated, the sportsmanship was outstanding. A special thanks to all who volunteered!!!!!! your help was GREATLY APPRECIATED. Congrats to our champions and the recipients of our special awards. I can't wait to see everyone again for PARC 12!!!!

[Bethany Mc.]

This was an awesome event. I had so much fun! Thank you for putting this together for another year. THANK YOU SOOO MUCH to all the volunteers!!Great work!

[DarkFlame145]

That was a great day, I had loads of fun even though this years robot (Team 145) didnt make it to the finals, last years robot (Team 1452 or 145 2) was on the winning alliance. Thank you 1640 and 222 for picking my 145 (my drive team), I think our matches where the best =). Also thank you 365 and 25 for taking our Ish (1452) to win PARC XI. That's the seconds time we have been on the same alliance this year.

[OZ_341]

On behalf of Team 341 we wanted to thank Scott, the Tigertrons and all of the organizers of PARC. Even though we had a rough day on the field, we had a great time.

PARC is so important to us. It is the first time our rookies really get to learn how to run the team by themselves. The experience is priceless. We lost a lot of matches but you would never know from all of the fun they had.

Thanks for all of your efforts to keep PARC going.

You can count on us being at PARC 12.

(sign us up now)

[DarkFlame145]

We got some robot eye footage from PARC, we hooked a camera up to our 2nd robot, once it's uploaded to our site i will send a link.

Also i would like to thank 222 for helping use with the biggest upset at PARC this year. If i may say so. 2 V 3 was hard. But thought a good strategy we pulled though.

[MoeMom]

This was so much fun! Thanks to all the organizers and volunteers for everything. I was wondering- who won the raffle for the TIGER wall hanging?

[andrew348]

Match Archives?

[Scott L.]

Originally Posted by Scott L.

I was getting a bit cross-eyed editing the awards page, sql data base(will provide an asp view of this later), match results, uploading more photos, etc.

I will try to get the servers running in the next day or so, so for now the site is down untill than

The servers are back up and running and I have corrected the champions/Finalist mix up.

I will try to seperate the video into matches when I get the time.

[Akash Rastogi]

It was awesome to watch as well. 1218 was great out there, I've been rooting for them since I saw them in Chesapeake. It would have been even more intense if 25 and 365 decided to form separate alliances though. Now that would have been crazy to watch: both putting up crazy hurdles against each other. I was a little disappointed in 341's performance, but I think it was just new drivers. On that note, much kudos to all the teams that actually use different drivers, I wish I was there to try out our robot. =/

Please sign us up now for next year.

[DarkFlame145]

i knew after my first match with both of them on the same alliance they would pick each other

[Scott L.]

How was the webcast? We found out how to increase the bitrate from last years 350kbps to 756kbps, we tried higher (1.5Mbps and 4Mbps) stream rates on Friday, but while the quality was extremely good , the only ones that could reliably view it without either freezing, or being jumpy were those with high speed internet such as cable or dedicated lines such as T1 etc.

Also for those that viewed the webcast, did you prefer the external player or the embedded player with meebo chat?

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Scott L.

How was the webcast? We found out how to increase the bitrate from last years 350kbps to 756kbps, we tried higher (1.5Mbps and 4Mbps) stream rates on Friday, but while the quality was extremely good , the only ones that could reliably view it without either freezing, or being jumpy were those with high speed internet such as cable or dedicated lines such as T1 etc.

Also for those that viewed the webcast, did you prefer the external player or the embedded player with meebo chat?

I opened the stream in VLC. It was nice. I heard other people had it buffering every like 20-30 seconds, but mine was great!

[Mr MOE]

Thanks to Scott, Cliff, Frank, Team 222, and all the volunteers for another successful PARC event! PARC was the first off-season event MOE ever went to back in 2000 and it has had a big influence on many other off-seasons, including the Duel on the Delaware event MOE holds with Team 316.

All the teams did a great job and made for a fun day. Special thanks to Teams 25 and 145-2 for a fantastic alliance. Also, congrats to all award winners and the finalist alliance (433, 1218, 1143), who played some great matches.

I also give credit to the two alliances who played four matches to decide who was going to the finals. It was exhausting for us to watch. I'm sure it was tougher and more intense for you to play.

Team 145 - I would love to see any photos, video of the camera you mounted on the 145-2 bot.

Thanks also for the webcast and recorded match scores! Great job.

I hope everyone has a great summer!

[Sheetmetalgirl]

I had an awesome time at PARC. Thanks again Scott for finally allowing me to reach that goal of becoming an anouncer... I hope to someday be able to do that at a Regional. What did everyone think? Did I do the job well?

Also, a great big thanks to the guys from The Cruzin' Comets for making my day a bit more random with all the notes.

[Scott L.]

Originally Posted by Sheetmetalgirl

I had an awesome time at PARC. Thanks again Scott for finally allowing me to reach that goal of becoming an anouncer... I hope to someday be able to do that at a Regional. What did everyone think? Did I do the job well?

Also, a great big thanks to the guys from The Cruzin' Comets for making my day a bit more random with all the notes.

You did an excellent job of anouncing.