2010 FLORIDA REGIONAL

[Taylor S]

Huge congrats to teams 86, 1612 and 1251 on being the winning alliance was great to watch you guys do your work and win it all!! Would also like to thank teams 1902 and 343 for selecting us in the elimination rounds was a great alliance and enjoyed every bit of it. Go exploding spam in motion!! Thanks everyone for a great regional from team 180!

[Doug Leppard]

Originally Posted by Sayrah

We don't have them yet, but the Regional Planning Committee did have two photographers taking photos all weekend. After the pictures are edited, they will be put on the regional website, www.floridafirstregional.com.

Sarah

Sarah you are alive after the food poisoning. Hope you are doing better, so sorry you were not there for 1902 getting Chairmen’s, you were a large part of that over the years.

[Josh Drake]

Looking back....
SWEET!!!
I had a blast, and I'm sure the rest of the team did too. One of the goals this past weekend was to play with and against some great robots, and we sure did. Now back to the engineering job for a break, LOL.
"Exploading Spam in Motion" and "JOC in the box"!
I hope to see a lot of the teams again in Atlanta. Thanks for a great time, and good luck to all.

[JonellGregor]

I would just like to send out a huge Thank you to team 801 and 1557 for picking us! We were a great alliance and it was intense until the end. Thank you for believing in us and our robot.

Also a shout out to Team 744 for helping us get yelled at for having too many people in the pits We love you guys!

Congrats to 1612, 1251, and 86. You guys were tough competition. See you in Atlanta

Team 1902, Congrats on Chairmans!!

[cziggy343]

anybody know when the videos will be placed on the blue alliance?

[Jmrandmax]

Great Regional Everyone! Just Great! I want to say congrats to 1902 on your Chairman's award, I loved the video! Also I would like to thank 86 and 1612 for picking 1251 to be in your alliance, we wouldn't have made it without you.

This Regional will be one to remember! Great game, great teams, great year!

[Sa-ji]

Congratulations to teams 86, 1612, 1251. You guys rocked. Team 86's rolly-polly robot was the best, it had a great design.

Congrats to 1902 for their Chairman's Award win. You really deserve it.

Also big thanks to 343 and 1902 for being the best allies we could ask for. Team Exploding Spam in Motion was amazing. Hope to see everyone in Atlanta.

[JoelC]

Team 86 and 1612! We couldn't have made it without ya! Thanks for picking us! Also, I'd like to congratulate Team 1557 on their robot! It really is an amazing robot! Oh and 3164! Congratulations on getting two awards this year! Anywho, we'll see everyone in Atlanta! Till then!

Think, Build, Compete.

[Mrs.Drake343]

I had tons of fun this weekend!!! I had no idea that there were volunteers that were sick and missing. Everything ran so smoothly!
Thanks to 180 and 1902 for being awesome partners!! And congrats to 1902 for winning the Chairman's!!! Congrats to 86, 1251, and 1612 for winning!!

I also like seeing teams that have awesome attitudes even when they don't get picked for eliminations. There were lots, but I really noticed 233...they do sort of stand out! We had the pleasure of being next to them all weekend in the pits and I ended up sitting right behind them after we were eliminated. They were fun to watch and extremely polite. They were always very gracious in congratulating all the winners! But they did sort of scare my 7 year old son! He refused to have his picture taken with one of you guys!! I look forward to seeing you guys in Atlanta!! Maybe I can get Joshua to pose for a picture then!

[Chris86]

Oh wow, definitely the most fun Florida regional I have ever attended.

(Even though I'm putting this first, this is the last thing I felt I just had to add): Thanks to EVERYBODY that came by to compliment our robot or cheered us on when we rolled over a bump and the judges for awarding us the Engineering Excellence Award (sponsored by Delphi xD) for our robot's roll carriage. It just made our entire team SO HAPPY (you know that warm fuzzy feeling inside?) that people liked our robot and its design so much. Honestly, you guys can't even imagine how awesome you made us feel and we are SO glad that people enjoyed watching our robot run.

NOW: Thanks to all the volunteers, judges, mentors, parents, ANY adult involved with FIRST. You guys make it all possible and nobody can thank you enough.

Congrats to Team 1902 Exploding Bacon on their Chairman's award!

Thanks to teams 1612 and 1251 for being AMAZING alliance partners, you were awesome guys.
1612: Oh my goodness! I found a button from last year from you guys with my picture on it. Too cool!
1251: I absolutely loved working with you guys again. In my freshmen year (Overdrive), our robot's claw broke and you guys and 233 gave us the privilege of working with you two to winning the Florida regional then. I knew that you guys could play stellar defense and had a good amount of ball control (the fact you guys could hang was unknown but a pleasant bonus xD) so it was an honor to be able to choose you guys and work and win with you again.

Thanks for rolling with us guys!

Some other shout-outs:

Team 79: You guys had some trouble with comm issues and your lift breaking (which was really unfortunate!), but WOW when you guys were working you were WORKING. Amazing ball control and in one of the elimination matches I saw you guys start your lifting mechanism at (I think) 7 seconds left and make it up to the top before the match ended. WOW

Team 103: When we played together in a qualifying match, you guys were AWESOME. One of the most fun matches I was at all day! You guys were skying balls across the field (and sometimes over the driver station!), so epic! Even after that, you all appeared to have gotten the power needed to kick the balls down to what it needed to be and were scoring from everywhere on the field, great job.

Team 118: AMAZING DEFENSE. Wow if you guys weren't the most annoying bot (in a good way!) to play. Had to get both us and 1612 to even have a chance of scoring on you guys!

Team 179: First off, congrats on the #1 seed as well as the co-opertition award! You guys excelled in all aspects of the game, from scoring any place on the field to hanging at the end. Way to go guys!

Team 945: Just love your team in general, you guys were SO NICE! One of the best midfield bots I saw AND an impressive hanging device!

Team 1065: I did not talk with your team a whole lot during the competition, but you were definitely one of the top short range bots.

Team 1592: I LOVED YOUR AUTONOMOUS. Seeing you pound in 3 points from the far side of the field was SWEETTTT.

Team 2383: NINJINEERS, YOU GUYS WERE SO COOL! Epic team name AND I got to hug a ninja, YES!

There are a TON of teams I didn't talk about that were no less amazing than any team I listed. Just thanks to every team that was there for making this Florida Regional the best EVER (in my opinion xD)

Sorry for huge amount of text and look out for us green people in Atlanta (FREE HUGS AT THE PARTY SATURDAY NIGHT!)

[Dan Richardson]

This will be one of my most memorable regionals, Florida really knows how compete, have fun and be patient when things don't go as planned. I'm excited for the years to come. Congrats to the many decorated teams this weekend, there were a lot of deserving teams it must have been a nightmare for the judges.

This was also one of the most intensely competitive regionals I've seen to date, I can't remember so many ties! I'm looking forward to see how the teams that competed at Florida fair on the world stage, at Atlanta and other regionals. Last time the regional was this competitive we put 5 robots on Einstien ( 07 ).

I'm also looking forward to hanging out with the Krunchers in NC. Who knows, maybe we'll have a delicious breakfast combo for an alliance.

Florida FIRST Rocks, that's for sure.

[Nica F.]

I'm really upset to have had to miss the regional because I'm sure it was if not much more, just as fun as it was last year. I just wanted to go ahead and say congrats to 1902 on Chairman's! Well deserved.

[JonellGregor]

Originally Posted by Stud Man Dan

I'm also looking forward to hanging out with the Krunchers in NC. Who knows, maybe we'll have a delicious breakfast combo for an alliance.

Florida FIRST Rocks, that's for sure.

That would be so awesome!!!

[xxAndrewxx]

Team 1612 would like to thank team 86 for picking us in your alliance along with team 1251. You guys were amazing. This is our first year winning the Florida regional (well, any regional ), and we're proud to have done it with you guys. See you guys in Atlanta!
Congrats to all other teams, competition was fun, yet challenging. There were some very interesting designs and strategies out there. Everyone did amazing! So thank you everyone, including volunteers.

Grats to team 1902 for winning the Chairman's award!

[Kit Gerhart]

Originally Posted by JackN

Can someone who is there or watched all the matches please tell me how 233 did not get selected?

We were "dead in the water" our last two matches Saturday because of a damaged power wire to the radio. That is the main reason we weren't picked, along with our having problems with "ball off the ground" penalties.