2009 Palmetto Regional

[rbrown1]

Now you just need to think like a parent. Take the kids to an all-you-can eat buffet, then put them on a bus and travel all night. The trips are much quieter when a high school student has food and sleeps.

[BIG Dakota]

I just wanted to say that I had a lot of fun at the palmetto regional and hope to see every single one of those teams again because you were all great.
Congrats to 1771, 2415, and 21, for winning the regional as well as every other team for the great competition. And to 1553 and 1102, thanks for the great alliance, If we had a little more luck we may have done a lot better, but sadly luck wasn't on our side; hope to be allies again next year. To the Pioneers, congrats on Chairman's; we'll see you at nationals, Hope you win chairman's there too. My only complaint with the whole competition is that the pit area was pretty small, but I could cope with that because of all of the fun I had. I hope to participate in the palmetto regional again in my next 3 years on my team.

[Billfred]

The tape thread made me realize I'd missed one shout I meant to make:

Mike Bryan for showing our team the best way to apply our vinyl lettering. We were just getting ready to apply them to the robot as he was walking by, and his advice saved us all a lot of frustration (and a potentially crummy-looking job). I shouldn't expect anything less from someone who had spent so much time with the Burning Magnetos. After a couple of years of carefully-protected plotter-created graphics, I think we might be making the switch.

[Drivencrazy]

All I can say about the Palmetto Regional is Wow! We went all the way from Missouri and I am so glad we did. It was a blast! There were amazing volunteers, great teams, and a wonderful host. THANK YOU CLEMSON! I know our whole team had a blast and can't wait to go back.

I would like to congradulate all the teams for competing and doing so well and all of those who managed to recieve an award in this amount of incredible competion.I would especially like to congradulate teams 1676 for an awesome Chairman's award win, 1771, 2415, and 21 (Who dat bat, COMBAT) for winning the game and team 281 for the engineering inspiration award.

Lastly I would like to thank all the teams that came out and gave us something to cheer about. I would like to thank all of the volunteers for helping FIRST be able to put on such an event, and I would like to thank not only Team Driven's mentors, but the mentors for all the teams. For without you it would be truly impossible to have such a great program.

Good luck to all who are attending the Championship in Atlanta, and for those who are not, good luck in all years to come.

[rspurlin]

I have some video of selected matches. All are 640x480 resolution at 30 frames/sec, so they're a little on the large side. If anyone is interested in having a copy for yourself, PM me and I'll arrange it.


2009 Palmetto Match 4 - R 2362 2092 3025 B 1553 1676 1771.AVI 290,908 KB
2009 Palmetto Match 5 - R 1398 1746 343 B 1102 281 1379.AVI 409,016 KB
2009 Palmetto Match 12 - R 1287 1772 1379 B 1369 1758 1618.AVI 303,644 KB
2009 Palmetto Match 17 - R 1102 1676 2751 B 1771 1249 1287 .AVI 290,932 KB
2009 Palmetto Match 18 - R 2430 21 2187 B 3025 1379 1730.AVI 430,208 KB
2009 Palmetto Match 27 - R 900 1287 1553 B 442 1379 1959.AVI 324,308 KB
2009 Palmetto Match 33 - R 2751 1379 425 B 801 1225 2362.AVI 305,696 KB
2009 Palmetto Match 38 - R 1771 342 801 B 2973 1466 1369.AVI 303,344 KB
2009 Palmetto Match 40 - R 1261 1379 2187 B 1249 1959 2415.AVI 470,100 KB
2009 Palmetto Match 45 - R 2092 342 2483 B 804 1379 801.AVI 302,928 KB
2009 Palmetto Match 56 - R 2614 342 1225 B 21 1771 1746.AVI 304,092 KB
2009 Palmetto Match 58 - R 1319 1293 425 B 1249 1379 2092.AVI 308,252 KB
2009 Palmetto Match 60 - R 2483 2614 1746 B 1772 1261 1959.AVI 299,936 KB
2009 Palmetto Match 61 - R 1771 2415 442 B 21 1730 425.AVI 298,240 KB
2009 Palmetto Match 62 - R 1676 1293 1379 B 1051 337 281.AVI 301,664 KB
2009 Palmetto Q1-1 - R 2815 1379 3025 B 1758 1676 337.AVI 291,820 KB
2009 Palmetto Q1-2 - R 2815 1379 3025 B 1758 1676 337.AVI 282,360 KB
2009 Palmetto S1-1 - R 3025 1379 2815 B 1746 1261 1051.AVI 289,488 KB
2009 Palmetto S1-2 - R 3025 1379 2815 B 1746 1261 1051.AVI 308,344 KB
2009 Palmetto S1-3 - R 3025 1379 2815 B 1746 1261 1051.AVI 288,744 KB
2009 Palmetto F1-1 - R 3025 1379 2815 B 2415 1771 21.AVI 290,228 KB
2009 Palmetto F1-2 - R 3025 1379 2815 B 2415 1771 21.AVI 309,848 KB

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by rspurlin

I have some video of selected matches. All are 640x480 resolution at 30 frames/sec, so they're a little on the large side. If anyone is interested in having a copy for yourself, PM me and I'll arrange it.

Any chance you could pass these on to The Blue Alliance?

[Graham Donaldson]

Originally Posted by Billfred

Any chance you could pass these on to The Blue Alliance?

Billfred- 1676 plugged in one of our spare laptops and recorded the entire webcast that Clemson was putting out. Everything will be uploaded to TBA (I'm assuming that's where we'll upload it) within the next week or so, if not the next two weeks (week after this coming one is our April break, so it'll definitely be done then). I'll let you all know on the thread when it's up.

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by robotcanuck1676

Billfred- 1676 plugged in one of our spare laptops and recorded the entire webcast that Clemson was putting out. Everything will be uploaded to TBA (I'm assuming that's where we'll upload it) within the next week or so, if not the next two weeks (week after this coming one is our April break, so it'll definitely be done then). I'll let you all know on the thread when it's up.

And you wonder why these guys are figuring out where to hang another Chairman's banner.

[Thermal]

Team 1293 and I especially (1293 driver) would like to thank Team 801 and 1369 for choosing us for your alliance during eliminations. Tough luck seems to follow us, so sorry for rubbing off on you 801 during our second quarterfinal match ;-). It was great fun and 801, you guys rock.

As Billfred noted earlier, this year is the first time 1293 has reached elimations, which seems to be a great achievement but an unfortunate realization at the same time. 1293 has always had the potential to do great things, it just seems that this year is the first time we've gone out and achieved what we should of done all along. Build a great bot, do well at competition, avoid bad luck and make it to elims. Next season we hope will build on our successes this season and maybe we'll get past the quarterfinals, who knows :-D. As this years bot co-designer and driver, I feel as though we peaked on saturday but had an unfortunately short lived run in the elimination rounds. Such is luck, but big props to the robolions and their alliance for the win against us.

I'd like to give a shoutout to 342 for beating us by 1 point in the most heartbreaking match of the weekend for us, 343 for the sexy bot and the compliments towards us, 425 and 1319 for achieving the highest qualifying match score at Palmetto with us of 111, and the ever so lovely 1319 for that JB weld that practically cemented a troublesome bearing in place (at least until the final quarterfinal match when it got smacked super hard for the 10th time). Also a shoutout to 1618 for the battery chargers/battery for elims and Billfred, because his sideburns are just so wickedly awesome. (Also, sexy bot and t-shirts)

Also, i'd like to give a shoutout to 1771 especially. Each match they proved to be the best bot at the regional, and its refreshing to see an obviously dominating bot actually win a regional. I really do love to see the best bot or best alliance win at a regional, but it seems to be more often than not that some mishap happens and they end up falling short of the victory after a spectacular weekend. (See: 342/343 alliance last year, and 1251's alliance).

We'll see you guys next year for hopefully bigger and better things. As always palmetto was great fun and Billfred, stay sexy my man ;-)

[Zflash]

Originally Posted by Thermal

425 and 1 other alliance (sorry) for achieving the highest match score at Palmetto with us of 111,

That was 1319 and yes JB weld is great stuff. Congrats on your new found success.

[Thermal]

Originally Posted by Zflash

That was 1319 and yes JB weld is great stuff. Congrats on your new found success.

Lol my apologies. I had a strong hunch it was you guys but my memory pretty much only remembers 425's wildly animated and energetic coach haha.

[rspurlin]

Originally Posted by Thermal

425 and 1319 for achieving the highest match score at Palmetto with us of 111,

That was match 58 against us (1379, with 1249 and 2092). Awesome performance. Glad to be of service. Sorry we weren't able to supply some more ranking points for you.

[Graham Donaldson]

Originally Posted by Billfred

And you wonder why these guys are figuring out where to hang another Chairman's banner.

Thanks!

[RMS11]

Originally Posted by robotcanuck1676

Billfred- 1676 plugged in one of our spare laptops and recorded the entire webcast that Clemson was putting out. Everything will be uploaded to TBA (I'm assuming that's where we'll upload it) within the next week or so, if not the next two weeks (week after this coming one is our April break, so it'll definitely be done then). I'll let you all know on the thread when it's up.

Thanks!!!! I appreciate it so much. Still waiting for peachtree... lol. I guess I cant complain cause i didnt do it myself

[rspurlin]

Originally Posted by Billfred

Any chance you could pass these on to The Blue Alliance?

I'm uploading them all to filedropper.com right now. I'll be PMing the file links to those who requested them. If there's a better way to get them to thebluealliance, I'm certainly up for it.