2009 Lone Star Regional

[Pjohn1959]

A giant TEXAS size welcome to all teams that will be participating at the upcoming Lone Star Regional. This year it will be held at the George R. Brown Convention Center, downtown Houston. Plenty of attractions, hotels and parking.

http://www.houstonconventionctr.com/

We are a week 5 regional. Dates are Thursday March 26 to Saturday March 28.

I would also like to welcome back to Texas, teams 34, 462, 1421 and 1710, as well as all the rookie teams (16). This should be a very competitive and exciting regional.

Good luck to all teams, and we will see you in March.

[ParkerF]

With so many teams from Dallas rolling over right back into the Houston regional, I think this will be a very interesting and great competition. I look forward to seeing all of the teams, robots, and meeting other great Texans!

-Parker

[midway78224]

i cant wait to go back there. After missing it last yr. with my old team 457. Im coming back with a rookie team. I think its going to be a great competition with the mix of all the rookie and vertans returning. Look to see all the teams there. Good Luck to all the teams attending

[JVN]

Originally Posted by francistexas

With so many teams from Dallas rolling over right back into the Houston regional, I think this will be a very interesting and great competition. I look forward to seeing all of the teams, robots, and meeting other great Texans!

-Parker

2009 is the year of the Texas Shoot-Out. I'm excited. Looking forward to playing against old friends and making new ones.

-John

[lynca]

I am impressed with the number of Texas Teams Last year, the Houston Regional had 46 teams. Now Houston has 50 teams and Dallas is approaching 50 as well. DOUBLE the Texas TROUBLE !

Rookies are going to need tremendous support in Texas. Especially a few of the new teams which are hundreds of miles from another veteran FIRST team.

Right now the txfirst.org website is putting up lots of Training information between Houston and Dallas to help teams along with local workshops ! Nov 8th we have a workshop with FRC#499 and the Beta Controller, please RSVP !
http://houston.txfirst.org/node/56

I'm curious to know which teams are supporting the new rookies. Does anyone have success stories of Veteran connections with the 2009 Rookie teams ?

[Ed Sparks]

So ...... What's up with the 2009 Lone Star Regional Thread ?

You guys all sleeping or what?

Were comming all the way from Athens AL to see you all (It's been a few years). Hope you perk up a little B4 we get there.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Ed Sparks

So ...... What's up with the 2009 Lone Star Regional Thread ?

You guys all sleeping or what?

Were comming all the way from Athens AL to see you all (It's been a few years). Hope you perk up a little B4 we get there.

Hi Ed.
Traditionally, the Texas threads are slow, quiet, and short.

But also, traditionally, the teams have a great time at Lone Star. It's a fun regional and has been known to have some pretty exciting moments.

It's already gotten more exciting knowing that you guys will be pulling into town ready for some competition action.

I'm looking forward to it! Let me know if you guys need anything.

Jane

[midway78224]

I cant wait to go to Lone Star. After what i see at the oklahoma and dallas regional and all the teams coming to lone star i am very exicted. Good Luck to all the teams going and i cant wait to play with all of you in competition. See Ya There in 10 days and counting down.

[schaffin]

Due to finacial reasons, team 1710 won't be able to attend the Lone Star Regional. Thanks for the welcome anyway and we'll see you guys in Atlanta!
=]

[LSevcik]

We are looking forward to seeing all of you next week. There are 24 Rookie Teams at the Lone Star Regional. Kudos to NASA/JSC for web casting the regional. The web page will be posted on the FIRST and NASA education web sites. See you next week!

[Pjohn1959]

Lone Star will be great again this year. With 63 team (4th largest regional), there will be a lot of fun and exciting competiton. Can't wait to see the Dallas winners, 418 and 148.

[roboticWanderor]

Originally Posted by Ed Sparks

So ...... What's up with the 2009 Lone Star Regional Thread ?

You guys all sleeping or what?

Were comming all the way from Athens AL to see you all (It's been a few years). Hope you perk up a little B4 we get there.

Oh I'm exited to see 34 and their awesome swerve coming down to texas to visit us! be on the lookout for the guy with the DLSR attacking your robot!

[Pavan Dave]

I kind of slept and ended up in Dallas... As for this thread, LSR should be pretty interesting this year. The venue will be much better so more room with the people that know what their doing running it, this will be the regional of envy.

Dallas proved the Texas Curse true, as the #1 seed lost an intense and close fight in the finals so there is talk of the curse possibly moving from Houston to Dallas.

As for where I lie, everyone knows robonaut blood runs in my veins so I'll be watching pretty closely, but I have an eye out for my Dallas Wranglers, and watch out for the KAOS coming from Galena Park!

This should be good! Good luck all!

Pavan

[ginosoprano09]

Originally Posted by lynca

I'm curious to know which teams are supporting the new rookies.

Andrew,
We've been providing support to team #3103, the team from Duchesne Academy for about half a year.

[midway78224]

Since 457 had school problems, the team got cancelled so all of our mentors went to 2745.