2009 Peachtree Regional

[ttldomination]

AH OH!!!.

Hopefully the matches are as exciting at home as they are at the regional.

[ttldomination]

Sorry about the double post, but just as an FYI, one thing I noticed at P'tree yesterday was that teams don't show up.

If anyone here reads this before coming to P'tree today, please remember, SHOW UP TO MATCHES. If your manipulator isn't working, then fine. As long as you can drive, please show up.

Empty trailers hang out to dry, and decent human players go to town on the trailers and there are easily 30 points in one trailer, and then if the other team gets a super cell...well then it's almost impossible to win.

[crake]

Can someone please post the winners of the various awards at the Peachtree regionals? They don't seem to be posted anywhere (that I could find).

[Meredith Novak]

http://www2.usfirst.org/2009comp/events/GA/awards.html

[crake]

Originally Posted by Meredith Novak

http://www2.usfirst.org/2009comp/events/GA/awards.html

Ah - thanks, helps if I actually went through the links on the usfirst website!

[cziggy343]

big thanks to all the teams that helped to make it a great regional.

another big thanks to all the volunteers that worked so hard.

thanks also to 1848 for picking us, and 1002. you guys were awesome! its just too bad we didn't quite get over that hump

[1002Founder]

A big thanks to everyone for making the Peachtree a great success.
As the game announcer on Sat. it was just to exciting that I had to sacrifice my voice for the teams. If you did not watch the matches you missed some amazing play. 3 of the 4 quarterfinals and 1 semifinal went to 3 matches and the finals featured the #8 vs. #7 with the #8 winning the event.
Congrats to our winning alliance 2655,2415, & 832
Congrats to the Chairman's team #1311
Engineering Inspiration #1002
Rookie All-Star 3091


Also team 1002 thanks our alliance partners 1848 and 343. We had a great run to the semi's.

[joshsmithers]

CONGRATS to 2655, 832, and 2415 for consistently playing great matches... y'all were a blast to watch. (Especially QF 1-1; never saw that one coming.)

THANKS to 1102 and 2119. I loved playing with y'all. (PS- 1102, Chris wants more of your mints )

[speedbuggy76]

Congratulations to all the winners, especially Kell High School for Chairman's Award. I came back in town to see the team I have mentored in the past 2415 - the WiredCats), who got off to a rough start. We had a tough time in the qualification matches, but started to improve with time. Team 2655 - the PlatyPi must have seen our improvements, because they picked us as well as team 832 - Chimera for the 8th seeded alliance.

From there, everything was golden for the alliance, as they won over the #1 alliace (1771, 1746, and 547? - excellent robots as well) in 4 rounds (one match was reset mid way through for communications problems and the reset ended in a tie). After winning in 2 matches in the semis, the #8 alliance went on to the finals to face teams 590, 1319, and 342 (the #7 alliance - I can't remember ever seeing the bottom two alliances face off in the finals). After two hard-fought rounds, the 8th seeded alliance of 2415, 2655, and 832 was victorious!

Anyways, I really enjoyed coming home for the Peachtree regional this year, it was a very exciting event! Congratulations again to all the winners and to all my friends at team 2415 for an incredible run! Hope to see everyone at Championships!

[PlatyPi Gunner]

There's absolutely no way we could have done this without our amazing alliance, so thanks to them. I would've never dreamed we would win in only our second year of existence. T'was a glorious Pi day!

[Nancy O.]

Wow, some crazy times! Team 1261 would like to thank our alliance partners teams 57 (all the way from Texas! nice costumes btw) and 1311 for an awesome run in the quarterfinals.

We would also like to thank 1746 and Mr. Folea (congratulations on the Outstanding Volunteer Award!) for letting us practice on their practice field so many times, helping us with programming, and just being very helpful in general and inspiring us with GP spirit. As well as 1771 for scrimmaging with us / building an incredible robot.

Also, I'd like to thank all the people (I think I talked to 343, 34, 1771, 2007, 2918, 2362, 1648, and 1758 on Saturday) who patiently answered my questions, thanks!

And of course, to all the announcers and referees and judges (who were always pleasant to talk to) and volunteers that made this event possible, thanks so much.

Hope everyone had an awesome Pi Day!

[Josh Drake]

I guess my shout out will be a little different. Of course thanks all around to everyone who made it happen, and made it great.

I didn't get to play the Lockheed Martin simulator, but my younger kids had a blast playing Lunacy and Overdrive on the computers. My 6 year old son placed second in the finals, so I know he had a great time at it. Thanks to team 1002 for putting that event on.

[ebarker]

Congratulations to everyone - you are all champions.

Thank you to everyone - you are all dear friends.

Good luck to everyone advancing to Atlanta.

And a million cheers to Rick Folea - volunteer of the year is an understatement - it should be superhero of the year.

Team 1311

[rfolea]

Congrats to all - especially the dedicated volunteers that put the event on.

From our perspective, it was exceptionally well run and supported.

Geez, we even got to the point where we were running rounds every 5 minutes!!!! Incredible.

Looking forward to seeing all of our friends at Palmetto (hopefully Otto's wounds will have healed by then! We got him some little smiley face band-aides ...)

- Rick

[sdcantrell56]

Thank you to everyone. It was an extremely well run event as usual. I want to especially give a thanks to 1746 and 547. You guys were both great partners and with a couple slight changes, things would have looked a whole lot different. Thanks 1746 for letting us practice with you guys all season. I wish you guys the best of luck at Palmetto and at the Championship.