2009 Florida Regional

[writchie]

2152 wishes to Congratulate ALL teams on a great regional and especially:

To: 1557 for a well deserved Regional Chairman's award.
To: 179 and it's partners 233 and 1649 for an exciting win.
To: 744, 79 and 1251 for almost carrying the day.
and to 1902 for their hospitality.

And many thanks to all of the officials and volunteers who made this a great and memorable FIRST event. The pit setup in the old arena and field in the new arena were perfect. Thanks UCF!

[hoorayforpink]

Another year, Another great Florida Regional. The finals, and the final match in particular were extremely close and were the funnest matches I've ever been apart of.

I want to send out a huge thanks to 179 and 1649 for picking us. We were definitely happy to be picked by two teams that had such awesome robots. Working with you guys was amazing and I feel like our three teams had zero problems working together. I want to send out a special thanks to 179's driver, Cody (sorry if I didn't remember the right name!). He was a huge help and gave some experienced tips and just kept the atmosphere very light-hearted that really kept my nerves down while on the field.

I want to send a super huge thanks to all the Pink alumni that came out the event. Gabe was a huge help on the scouting and strategy all throughout the elimination matches and Duke was a huge help to me as a driver. He helped me keep everything in perspective, and helped me keep my confidence up and gave me some great tips on driver mentality.

744, 79, and 1251 created the most thrilling best of three I have ever been apart of. After two (somewhat) lopsided victories our alliance barely squeezed out the win. I respect all three of those teams greatly and hope top see them out on the field later in the season. If there was nay alliance I wanted to lose to, it would be that alliance.

As always thanks to all the volunteers and people who ran this event, it was great.

[techtiger1]

The Florida regional was a great time. Special thanks to 1902 and 408 for helping us get our wonderful robot out in time and so many other things. 233,1649 and 179 you guys played tough and deserved the win congratulations. 744 and 79 thank you for picking 1251 as your 2nd pick we appreciate and enjoyed the opportunity to work with two amazing teams. To all the volunteers most of whom are my friends thanks for making the Fl regional one of the best again. Congrats to 1557 on the chairmans win. See everyone in Atlanta.

[Nawaid Ladak]

I got a few thanks/Congrats to give out as well

Michelle: without you i wouldn't have as much fun as i did over the weekend, and actually, i wouldn't be able to attend the regional itself

Teams 233, 179, Congrats on winning the Florida regional once again, you guys are starting to become the Florida version of 25 and 103, and i mean in the winning fashion

Team 1649 and 1557, I've seen you guys come a far way, I remember when i was with team 1402, and we drove to your schools to present the FIRST Robotics program. Not to mention us sort of kind of mentoring you guys along. Both of you have grown very quickly and i am amazed at all the work you guys have done and how far each of you have come along. from the. for 1557, winning the chairman in the first year you guys submitted it. and to 1649, for winning this regional for the second time in four years.

Teams 1557 (again), and 1902: you guys made great alliance partners for team 945. all of us did a great job together

Teams 25 and 103: Thanks for coming out to this regional, I know a lot of people on 25 now and have become good friends through previous events. It was great seeing everyone again.

a quick shoutout for everyone else who came from out of state: (Nica/ Koko Ed, / 238 / 501 / 1616 / 1612 / 1885 / 1922 / sorry if i missed you, running on fumes right now)

To all the people behind the scenes higher up than me: everyone did a amazing job to keeping the event managed excellently and i was amazed to how well the event was actually run. Im proud to be part of the volunteer.

Team 1902 (again) and team 86: thanks for letting me come to your party after the event, i had a great time and this was one of the many bright points of the weekend

Teams 79, 744, and 1251: you guys gave the winning alliance a good run for their money. some people mentioned Tempest In Tampa and the whole Tie thing, also noticing at the end of the third match, the score was tied 78-78.... It was THAT close. I hope all of you guys do GREAT at Championships.

I know im missing a lot of thanks/congrats, but be sure i appreciate everything that everyone did at this event.

[miketwalker]

I was really excited to see how well the new venues worked out. I seemed to get a good amount of feedback from teams and I think now that we've gotten our feet wet with having 2 venues we will have an even better event next year, I'm really excited about those possibilities.

As always, I need to say thanks to all of my volunteers... there's no way we could do it without any of you. Congrats to Melinda Hester for winning the 'Volunteer of the Year' award and James Jones for WFA, I've gotten to know both of them over the years and both of them definitely deserved their awards. Great job to all the teams, those were some amazing finals matches to watch. Hope you all had fun and can't wait for next year!

[swamp_child]

Originally Posted by hoorayforpink

Another year, Another great Florida Regional. The finals, and the final match in particular were extremely close and were the funnest matches I've ever been apart of.

I want to send out a huge thanks to 179 and 1649 for picking us. We were definitely happy to be picked by two teams that had such awesome robots. Working with you guys was amazing and I feel like our three teams had zero problems working together. I want to send out a special thanks to 179's driver, Cody (sorry if I didn't remember the right name!). He was a huge help and gave some experienced tips and just kept the atmosphere very light-hearted that really kept my nerves down while on the field.

I want to send a super huge thanks to all the Pink alumni that came out the event. Gabe was a huge help on the scouting and strategy all throughout the elimination matches and Duke was a huge help to me as a driver. He helped me keep everything in perspective, and helped me keep my confidence up and gave me some great tips on driver mentality.

744, 79, and 1251 created the most thrilling best of three I have ever been apart of. After two (somewhat) lopsided victories our alliance barely squeezed out the win. I respect all three of those teams greatly and hope top see them out on the field later in the season. If there was nay alliance I wanted to lose to, it would be that alliance.

As always thanks to all the volunteers and people who ran this event, it was great.

Hey I'm cody, i dont actually drive the robot, but i was the guy on the drive team pointing out supercells and communicating across teams, so if i was the guy you were talking about thanks! If not it was sean, and ill pass the thanks on because he doesnt read chief delphi.

[Swampdude]

I'd like to thank all the Volunteers, refs, judges and announcers. It was a great smooth running venue, and the nicest regional I've been to. Field never gave us trouble in our matches. Everything was right on time. Reffing was accurate. Field turnover was quick and not stressfull, the lead field guy was stern but nice. The announcing was really good by all of them.

Thanks to SPAM for the scouting help, it definitely revealed some things. I'm sorry we didn't get to run that alliance, it might have worked but we needed a stronger scorer than us. I really enjoyed our scouting meeting, you guys are very organized. Congrats to James for the WFA, he's the MAN!

1649.. WOW. I looked at your bot on Thursday morning and told some people in your pit you guys were going to do really well. It reminded us of 1625, and then when you were playing 180 in that repeat (last match of the day) that's when I was sold. You guys totaly rocked.

233.. As usual, we just love you guys. I love working with Andy and Gabe and Kit etc. The laid back confidence and focus on strategy is what works in the heat of it all. You're drivers were solid, confident and professional.

79.. Love you guys too. Amazing machine and excellent drivers. I'm still wondering how we beat you. Not to mention knocking off 103 and 25 was unbelieveable

744.. Beautiful machine, we had you and 79 as our top picks and statistical top scorers at the regional. Great job and Great games!

1251.. Thanks for letting us win for once.. That was a great strategy you pulled on us in the second match. Excellent driving, plus you scored a bunch on us. There was no way to win that. Again I still don't know how we did it in the 3rd. I can't wait to see some video.

1345.. Your students are very inspiring hard workers. I'm proud of you guys. I'm sorry we couldn't hook up in the end, we needed a strong defender but it was awesome playing you guys. That was a scary alliance with 238 and 501. I loved the simultaneuos score, can't wait to see that video either.

I'm extremely proud of my team and the hard work they all put in this year. Thank you to all of you. Also Sean, my driver is a senior and I had the pleasure of working with him 4 years. A very talented great young man. I can't get his parents to hold him back another year so now we need a new driver.

Thanks to everyone I didn't mention, but you know I love you!

[JesseK]

Congrats to all of the regional winners! 233 is a true inspiration with their persistence and never-quit attitudes! Their bot is truly amazing, though this year it's more for the fact that it holds so many examples of great engineering and so so many solutions to problems that teams face during build season.

There were also several other well designed robots there, who I stole snapshots of great ideas from . There was so much creative use of materials that blended well with the overall appearance of the robot.

We'd like to give a huge thank you to 1902, who not only put on a party, took care of us in the pits with tools, and cheered for us, but they also helped us with lunch all three days of competition. Special thanks to Ryan and Wendy for coordinating with us in advance. The flying pig on our hopper will still be there when we see you in Atlanta

It was nice to see Ed (again), Kit and Gabe in person, and I'm sure I saw many others in the CD community there without realizing it.

We'll see everyone in Atlanta!

[Pokechop]

Hey guys,

I would just like to thank 1902 for being their awesome selves and for all the things they have done for us. They have showed amazing graciousness and really are an amazing team. I would like to thank 179 , 233 , 1649 , for three AMAZING finals matches, it was close but in the end you guys prevailed and a huge congrats ... good luck in Nats.

[hoorayforpink]

Originally Posted by swamp_child

Hey I'm cody, i dont actually drive the robot, but i was the guy on the drive team pointing out supercells and communicating across teams, so if i was the guy you were talking about thanks! If not it was sean, and ill pass the thanks on because he doesnt read chief delphi.

If you wanted to pass out the sentiment to Sean that'd be awesome. You were definitely huge though. Too many alliances forgo communicaitng during the match, keeping communication was, in my opinion, one of the stronger features of out alliance. Lord knows as soon as I heard the word supercell I got out of those corners! or at least tried to might have sucked once or twice though.

[wendymom]

You can go to www.orlandosentinel.com/technology and read 2 different articles about the event. There are also 17 pics to look at and a video to watch. It is always fun to see the event from someone elses perspective.

[James1902]

What a fantastic event!!! I still don't have a voice from all the cheering. Congrats to the winning alliance, 1649, 179, and 233
Congrats to 1251, 744 and 79 for the most exciting finals matches i've seen yet.

Big thanks to 1251 and 408 for the amazing season we've all had so far. I'm looking forward to working with you all in the future

Thanks to everyone who came to the Pig-Out BBQ, it wouldn't have been nearly as fun without everyone there.

Great job 2757 and all the rookies this year. The Florida regional can look forward to many good years with teams like you sticking around.

Of course A HUGE congratulations to team 1557 for winning Chairmans. I can't wait to see what else you can accomplish in the next five years.

Finally I'd like to thank all of the volunteers who always make this one of the highlights of my year. From the pit admin to our trio of announcers you never cease to amaze me with your enthusiasm, dedication, and overall awesomeness.

Thank you all

[Doug Leppard]

Originally Posted by miketwalker

As always, I need to say thanks to all of my volunteers... there's no way we could do it without any of you.

Mike great job running the volunteers, it seemed to go smoothly. Jealous of you driving the segway everywhere, but I would not have wanted your job.

[Doug Leppard]

Originally Posted by Swampdude

1251.. Thanks for letting us win for once.. That was a great strategy you pulled on us in the second match. Excellent driving, plus you scored a bunch on us. There was no way to win that. Again I still don't know how we did it in the 3rd. I can't wait to see some video.

What I heard was one of 1251's partners, not sure which one, broke a chain 30 seconds into the match and couldn't pick up balls. That might have made the difference.

Either way it was a VERY exciting match to watch, it was so back and forth the whole time.

[gorrilla]

no a HUGE congratulations to team 1902 for playing with us in the elims'..it was almost funner loosing with you guys


we'll get it next year.....