2009 Chesapeake Regional

[Josh Goodman]

I have to say for our first year in Chesapeake it really was an awesome experience! Thank you to 2641 for picking us and 1884 for joining our alliance. I think we didn't do too badly against a first seeded team. I know some of you guys were wondering how the score changed from 66-55 to 70-72 and I talked to the head ref after and it was simply really bad real time scoring. Thanks again to 75 for the team social, it was a real treat!

See you all in Atlanta!

[RoboMom]

Originally Posted by rees2001

I thought It was Greg's Mom's team. (congrats Fred & Robin & the rest of your team) We missed you guys up at FLR this year.

Greg's Mom's AND Dad's team
The Needel family had quite the weekend in two different states.
4 generations of Needels doing hi-fives at Chesapeake.
We missed Greg, but Andy did an awesome job on the mike.

[cool breeze]

Originally Posted by cool breeze

Congratulations team 1511 on you Web site and Imagery awards, I have been a fan of your website and team for many years. Some teams think that since they can they should. But when it comes to websites, that isn't always the best way to design. I love your site the way it is. I also feel thier is a national chairmans award in your near future. Way to be great ambassadors of FIRST.

This is a great strart to in your quest for a national Chairman's Award. It seems that many lower number teams are awarded this National award. But if everyone really knew all that you accomplished you would really get serious national consideration. GOOD LUCK in Atlanta.

[Robyn Needel]

Wow, where to start? First of all, we want to formally welcome and congratulate our rookie "babies," Team 2866 Project Mayhem (their head mentor told a reporter that we got them into this "mess"...lol). They really did have a difficult build season, with a defective control station out of the box, a flood in their room, and other things going on, in addition to what we all go through - but we promised them things would get better and our FIRST friends came through to make it happen! Thanks to ALL the teams who came over to help 2866 (more than I can remember!) and devoted hours to them throughout the weekend, especially 75, 2199 and 2377.

To Team 1195 - thanks for choosing us and 1893 as alliance partners. We had a wonderful time playing with you, and winning the Championship was just the icing on the cake!

To Team 1893 - as always good friends, good partners and good competitors...congratulations on helping make our alliance a winner! BAA Rocks!

To Team 75 - once again, thanks for helping our rookies out, your team is just the greatest, and congrats on winning EI.

To our friends from 1511 - we were so sad that we couldn't make it to FLR, so having you come down to our home turf was so much fun...but then getting to cheer for your Website, Imagery and CA wins - what a great time we had! Thanks for the camo ball, we will display it proudly in our trophy case!

To David Kelley of Team 134 - congrats on winning WFA. We talked to some of your team, and they can't say enough wonderful things about you.

To Jason, Justin and the rest of 340 and 424 - thanks for the congrats and good wishes for our team and family, which actually included 4 generations (Jenny was wrong!). Greg's team 2775 did wonderfully in St. Louis, too - they ended up Finalists in tough competition, plus they won Rookie High Seed and Rookie All Star.

To Andy and Blair - thanks for being our emcee/announcer team, you made the event really fun. Blair, we had a visitor who said she thought she'd wandered into a hockey game by mistake ;-) To everyone who came to the Chesapeake Regional, we hope you had a great time! Good luck for the rest of the season!

Robyn

[Rohith Surampudi]

Once again, an absolutely amazing experience.... So many people to thank,

Thank You

To all the entire regional for your support in putting together and building the 12 bikes for the boys and girls clubs of Annapolis, the kids who came were so excited about FIRST and FIRST Lego League... and of course the bikes...

To Everyone who attended our social at the Westin, It was a blast as always, and it was great seeing and getting to know all of you who came out.

To Our Alliance partners: 2866 and 2377, Its great to see that 2 teams that we forged bonds at at two separate Chesapeake Regionals help us get so far in the competition, we look forward to seeing both of you in Atlanta

To The all the Volunteers and Judges who gave up countless hours to make this regional the smashing success that it was...

Congratulations to 1511, You guys are absolutely amazing and couldnt be more deserving of this honor

Congratulations to 768, 1195, and 1893... you guys pulled off an amazing victory, it was quite the sight.


Thank You all for an amazing Chesapeake regional, it will truly be one to remember...

[bear1511]

Team 1511, Rolling Thunder, on the regolith at the Chesapeake Regional.

[Foster]

Thanks Jenny for running a great event. Team 1640 Sab-bot-age had a blast!

Congrats to 1511 on winning the Chairman's award!!! Thanks for letting us use your scouting system, that was a big help.

Thanks for all the congrats on Team 1640 winning the Rockwell Control Award. We had a lot going on and it all came together and worked like we wanted. The Seventh Wheel helped a lot in keeping us from being scored on.

Thanks again to all that helped out, it was a super fun time!

[Larry Lewis]

Originally Posted by Rohith Surampudi

Congratulations to 1511, You guys are absolutely amazing and couldn't be more deserving of this honor

Thank you so much for your comments! Team 75 is an awesome team. You guys do so much for your community and FIRST. Let's all continue to work hard to spread the word of FIRST in our schools and community. Also thank everyone on your team for the team social you guys put on. It was lots of fun and the food was great.

To all the teams that I worked with, Good Luck! I hope to see you all in Atlanta and/or next year.

The teams at Chesapeake really made this regional awesome and we were thankful for the opportunity to attend. Thanks!

[RoboMom]

Originally Posted by RoboMom

<sigh>
this is posted incorrectly on the FIRST site.
It is 1195, 768, 1893.

fixed on website

[Urban Hawk]

That was an awsome regional and props to teams 1195, 768, and 1893.
Also... anyone know where i can get video of the regional?

p.s. i was finnaly able to finnish my suit of chainmail made out of buttons!

[Doctorwho]

Congrats to 1195, 786, and 1983 for taking first place.

1511, good job on Chairman's, we should get in touch for next year's regionals Rolling Duct Tape will rise once more!

[Robyn Needel]

We had a video recorder tied into the house system in Annapolis, so if you need something let us know :-)

Originally Posted by Urban Hawk

That was an awsome regional and props to teams 1195, 768, and 1893.
Also... anyone know where i can get video of the regional?

p.s. i was finnaly able to finnish my suit of chainmail made out of buttons!

[Dave McLaughlin]

Originally Posted by Doctorwho

Congrats to 1195, 786, and 1983 for taking first place.

1511, good job on Chairman's, we should get in touch for next year's regionals Rolling Duct Tape will rise once more!

Thanks for the congrats, but I believe that it was 1893 not 1983 that took home the gold

[Anne Shade]

We had a blast this weekend.

Thanks team 2866 for picking us!! We'll do what we can to get you all to the Championship event.

To team 75, we had a great time playing with and against you all weekend. Our two teams work really well with each other. We hope to be able to play with you again soon!

Congratulations to teams 1195, 1893, and 768! The Chesapeake finals were the most exciting matches I've seen yet this year. Way to keep us on the edge of our seats.

Team 1511, you all were very deserving of the Chairman's award!

[RoboMom]

WBAL Channel 11 just posted the link to the story they ran 2 times on Friday and once on Sat.

http://www.wbaltv.com/video_legacy/18993807/index.html