2009 Palmetto Regional

[cziggy343]

Originally Posted by ttldomination

. Welcome aboard 2415. . A SC pick?

Hm...This is interesting. Oh well, I must continue to scout the Palmetto teams. Muahahha.

hey billfred, we're calling you out here... any of the columbia teams want to stand as the 4th pick?

[ttldomination]

Just out of curiosity, some regionals play close to 11 qual. matches, but some, like p'tree only play around 9. So anyone know how many qualification matches we will be playing at Palmetto?

[Akash Rastogi]

NJ plays 7 usually.

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by Billfred

(cough)D-Capitals Locos(hack)
(wheeze)

You better get that cough looked at by someone, it sounds contagious....

[Shmee]

Originally Posted by santosh

Team 2415 is down to stand in.
I have a test and cant leave Emory till 12:45 Thursday but I might be able to make this. Andrew will be there i think... Or maybe there arent going to be any mentors thursday....

Indeeds, Santosh, there will be no mentors on Thursday until you and Giacomo arrive.

Team 2415 will try our best (we'll be working on autotracking almost all of Thursday), but we're having a substitute human player and coach...

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by cziggy343

hey billfred, we're calling you out here... any of the columbia teams want to stand as the 4th pick?

Hey, I'm currently distracted with other things. (And doing pretty well to boot.) Let me get back to the right time zone, then we'll talk.

[MikeReilly]

Just to give credit where it's due:

The "border war" concept was thrown down by Drake343, regarding the SC move to the Peachtree Regional:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...9&postcount=11

It's going to be SO COOL! Since we're a late entry to Palmetto, many of our team can't be there Thursday. Please, someone post this match video!

[rfolea]

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OTTO SUFFERS "CRUSHING" DEFEAT

SCORE: FedEx: 1 OTTO: 0

Sorry I haven't been around guys .. we found out Thursday evening
that FedEx dropped a 1/4 ton skid of 2ft diameter, 4"thick steel
sprockets on Otto.

The skid was on top of a taller crate behind ours in the truck.
While in transit the skid came loose, crashed through the top
of our crate and smashed our robot.

The impact actually pressed the robot through the bottom of the crate.

Destroyed the right side of the robot, smashed the cRio, destroyed
the drive train, etc ...

FedEx, Show Ready Events and FIRST have been marvelous in helping
us try to recover. They have given us a few days to do CPR and apply
as many bandages as possible ....

You can see the large sprockets in the attached pictures ...

[rfolea]

Border Wars MC

Geezz ... I didn't know we had so many MC's available.

I was assuming I would have to do it (not pretty ..)

Barry, if you are available we would love to have you.

Otherwise, Gene and I will muddle through it ...


Trophy is designed - we just have to find time to fab it (we're a little distracted at the moment ..)


Now .. If we can just get PEACHTREE to do the same thing we could turn this into an annual spectacle. I'm working on it (like you had to ask ...<grin>).

[martin417]

Rick,

Do you need any help resurrecting Otto? 1771 is available! If you would like, I will call around and get some of our guys to drive over this morning and lend aid / perform CPR. I know you guys are quite capable, but if you need more hands, I am sure we have several willing to jump in.

Also, do you need parts? We may have some extra KOP items we aren't using. Let us know.

Martin

[Josh Drake]

If there is anything we can do to help, holler. We've had shipping problems in the past, but nothing this bad

[rfolea]

Thanks guys, I think we are in good shape. Just have a few long days ahead of us. We have to re-manufacture a LOT of custom parts to replace the damaged components. Very time consuming ...

We expect Otto to make a full recovery (although, somewhat untested ..).

May have some loose ends to tie off on Thursday, but otherwise should be ok.

Keep your fingers crossed.

- Rick

[ttldomination]

That's nice to hear. None the less, if you ever need anything, please give either Tanner or someone else on 1261 an email or holler and we'll surely find someway to help out.

[Graham Donaldson]

Originally Posted by rfolea

\*********************************************
\************** NEWS FLASH *******************
\*********************************************

OTTO SUFFERS "CRUSHING" DEFEAT

SCORE: FedEx: 1 OTTO: 0

Sorry I haven't been around guys .. we found out Thursday evening
that FedEx dropped a 1/4 ton skid of 2ft diameter, 4"thick steel
sprockets on Otto.

The skid was on top of a taller crate behind ours in the truck.
While in transit the skid came loose, crashed through the top
of our crate and smashed our robot.

The impact actually pressed the robot through the bottom of the crate.
...
You can see the large sprockets in the attached pictures ...

Ok, 3 things:

1. Wow, that really stinks- having to rebuild that in a week cannot be too fun.
2. I'm happy for you that FIRST is being considerate with this- do you have the robot back at your shop, and how's it getting to Palmetto?
3. Who uses SOLID STEEL SPROCKETS that are that big?!?!?!

Good luck guys- hope to see you in fighting form on Thursday.

[santosh]

You probably should have built a better crate... haha just kidding.
You know that if you need anything we have you covered. Just give me or Andrew a call or Mr. Rosen or Dr. Bennet. We have a solid number of left over parts.
And If there isnt any room in your trailer to bring Otto up, we have our trailer which will more than likely have room for your robot. This way you wont have to sacrifice bringing anything else up