2009 Long Island Regional

[Mark McLeod]

Here's a message from our Regional Director about SBPLI.
In addition to the stats Bill, our FTA, has provided below, I'd like to add that we didn't start a single match without all teams working with the field. Batteries were unplugged (or missing entirely in one case), robot radios were unplugged, robots were not turned on, Driver Stations failed (but never during a match), but the queuers and Bharat made sure everyone was plugged in and powered up before we allowed the match to go on. Everyone learned and got better and better as the matches went on.

Our match turnaround began to run so fast on Saturday that we had to actually slow down some of them to give the system time to post the scores.

The only team that missed matches was the one that burst into flames, and even they were back on the field playing by Saturday thanks to the hard work of inspectors and fellow teams.

I don't know how Brian C's voice heldup over three days of non-stop talking, but he provided the most excellent play-by-play and announcing I've heard at SBPLI!
(253/353, who's counting?)

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Hello Team Leaders -

I just wanted to take a minute to thank you for your help in expediting the match process at the SBPLI Long Island Regional. The stats below from our Field Technical Advisor, Bill Edelman, speak for themselves. If you see any of the technical and field re-set individuals, thank them also for the part they played.

a. to this point (with only 3 regionals remaining), SBPLI is the only regional to achieve 85 matches (the next closest were Philly & Conn, each played 80 total matches)

b. only 4 other regionals provided 11 matches per team (St Louis, Boilermaker, Hawaii, and Bayou - each with only 36, 35,33,31 competing teams respectively)

c. of the regionals with between 44 and 49 teams (there are 10 regionals that fit that criteria), only Israel managed to offer 10 matches per team, 4 others offered 9 per team, and the remaining 4 regionals offered 8 matches per team or less

d. 6 regionals had to play straight through lunch on Friday, and of those, only one (Israel) played more than 8 matches - this speaks to the efficiency of our scorers, refs, field reset staff, Mark, and above all the cooperation of teams themselves

It's teamwork in action - thanks for your help!

Janet