2009 Troy District Event

[Nick Orlando]

I am excited for Troy, lots of great teams, looks like it's going to be a crazy event.
See you all there

[Corey Oostveen]

The Troy District Event will be webcast by Code Red Robotics


Available at

www.coderedrobotics.com


Any questions please let me know



Corey

[EricLeifermann]

Originally Posted by Coosty

The Troy District Event will be webcast by Code Red Robotics


Available at

www.coderedrobotics.com


Any questions please let me know



Corey

You guys are the one of the greatest things to happen to Michigan/FIRST. We sat next to you in the stands at Traverse City and I was dumb struck when you won a rookie award. I didn't think you were rookies at all! Thanks for everything you have done this year. I know the parents of the kids on our team appreciate the chance to see their kids compete.

[JNelson]

Originally Posted by EricLeifermann

You guys are the one of the greatest things to happen to Michigan/FIRST. We sat next to you in the stands at Traverse City and I was dumb struck when you won a rookie award. I didn't think you were rookies at all! Thanks for everything you have done this year. I know the parents of the kids on our team appreciate the chance to see their kids compete.

Thanks Eric. Our students have set some pretty high goals, and one of them is to have absolute blast at the competitions.

We had a great time at Traverse City and liked being next to the Yeti's. We enjoyed your mascot, your chants and your cool students. Your team made a big statement at TC. I hope we get to see 857 in more competitions next year.

I know it's not easy for you to come all the way down from the U.P. to be part of the action. I think Traverse City will be a must for us next near, so maybe we'll see you there in 2010. Please cheer for us at West Michigan - there will be some great teams there.

[IKE]

Let me be the first to congratulate 67, 217, and 3119 on a spectacular job at Troy. Way to go guys.

To 3119 especially. Nice job. Your faith is rewarded with a victory. Congratulations! I hope you guys took notes, becuase you just got to work with a couple of teams that could win the championship!

[GaryVoshol]

Don't forget 3095, who was selected by the alliance and played in one round before they elected to call in the backup bot.

[IKE]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

Don't forget 3095, who was selected by the alliance and played in one round before they elected to call in the backup bot.

Yep, I just found that out after my post. I was not at Troy so I just got the whole story.

Congratulations also to 3095.

[Herodotus]

Big congrats to 67, 217, 3095 and especially 3119. We've been watching you guys closely during the season and are overjoyed that you managed to win a district event. And I hope you all realize that you did not ride on the coattailes of 67 and 217. There were several matches that would have been loses without your incredible defense. In fact I'm willing to put out there that you guys have the best defense in Michigan, at least.

Big thanks to 94 for selecting us and 308 for joining us as well. It was a pleasure working with you and we had a good run. A few things different here and there might have led us even farther, but no one can say we didn't put our best foot forward.

Thank you to the Judges for another Xerox Creativity Award! We really appreciate the design awards such as Xerox and are as proud of them as we would be of a district win. Congratulations to everyone else who won awards, especially 217 on the well deserved Chairman's award and and 3119 on the Rookie Inspiration award. You guys are both fantastic teams and deserve the awards.
We'll see everyone at states, and good luck.

[Zach O]

Troy was great! There were tons of amazing teams that were fun to watch, and vending was much cheaper No EMS/Fire alarms this time, what was good considering the venue was multileveled. There wasn't much room to walk, and the pits were confusing because they were in no real order, but it was a GREAT facility. There was more then enough seating, and I hope they host again!

[roboraven15]

Great job 67, 217, and 3119 for a great win! 217 nice job with a chairmans win aswell! We had some really epic matches there in the semi's, we definatly didn't wanna leave lol. Anyways thanks to our alliance partners 1250 and 326, we were great together comunicating and all of us were strong dumpers and good defense, great alliance. Hopefully we'll see you all at states!

[Jablonski@1250]

Hey 1188-
Thanks and Great Job to you and 326. It was great to beat 217 and 67's alliance once during semi's. Best match ever-even if we did get knocked out of the running.

[Enli]

This was probably one of the craziest couple of days of my life. If it gets any more intense - and I know it will - I'm going to put my cardiologist on standby.

I'm speaking on my own here - I'm no spokesperson, that's for sure, but...

We appreciate everything that everyone has done for us - Ike (on Loan from the Incredible Killer Bees) and the Fantastic Foley Freeze (who has made us feel like family), Nick S. (Property of GM, doncha know), BAE Systems and Gail Alpert (our start in all of this), DTE Energy for their support and the loan of our husband/wife team of engineers, Nick and Anita, the Wonderful Mr. Whidby - so many people absolutely defining gracious professionalism for our kids. I know I missed some - simply because everything has gone by in a blur. So many encouraging words and actions - people with wrenches and advice, a pat on the back and a kick in the rear - all offering a push in the right direction.

Your kind words and your kinder hearts mean the world to all of us.

Oh, yeah and - what a RIOT!

[dwaynetrip3119]

Originally Posted by IKE

Let me be the first to congratulate 67, 217, and 3119 on a spectacular job at Troy. Way to go guys.

To 3119 especially. Nice job. Your faith is rewarded with a victory. Congratulations! I hope you guys took notes, becuase you just got to work with a couple of teams that could win the championship!

I would especially like to thank you guys so much for your help. Isaac Rife you are truly one of the best things to happen to 3119. You had hope in us and you took time to come out and help us out. I have so much respect for you and words cant really explain how i feel. You and the killer bees and the Foley Freeze are truly the best. You guys deserve the Chairmans Award and the Gracious Professionallism Award,Times 100.
I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!

[Btower]

400 Photo's of the Troy Regional by Daniel Ernst (the guy with the big cameras)
As usual they are awesome. Especially great are the ones at the end of the winning alliance.

Daniel Ernst's Troy 2009 Flickr Set