2010 Palmetto Regional

[cziggy343]

Originally Posted by hipsterjr

I was planning on bringing my trackball (giant 40" exercise ball for the rookies) for an extreme kickball game during the team social. Any one up for it?

Also, does anyone have a decent sized compressor? Plan B will have to be to take 5 robots and use their compressors together to pump it up .

im not sure where there would be a good place to play this extreme kickball... and that is very extreme... like broken bones extreme

idk about the compressor... since we are so close, if you ask one of our mentors, im sure someone could hook you up

[hipsterjr]

Originally Posted by cziggy343

im not sure where there would be a good place to play this extreme kickball... and that is very extreme... like broken bones extreme

idk about the compressor... since we are so close, if you ask one of our mentors, im sure someone could hook you up

There is a big field next to the building where the team social is held.

[cziggy343]

Originally Posted by hipsterjr

There is a big field next to the building where the team social is held.

you must be using big very loosely... there is a big hill in front of the union. and there is bowman field, which is rather large... but i would hate to see the lawsuits that come about from that trackball getting onto the highway

[ttldomination]

hahaha, at the Peachtree Social, my friends and I played around with the trackballs and conservation of momentum. (We basically ran at each other with the ball between us).

I think if you let one compressor run, then you'd definitely fill one up alright. And since most teams are using pneumos this year, you wouldn't have to go very far to find a couple of spares.

[JulieB]

any chances of coverage being on usteam like dallas and midwest?

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by JulieB

any chances of coverage being on usteam like dallas and midwest?

I have an email in to Clemson's IT folks at the support address listed from last year's stream. Hopefully they'll email me back. (Probably should've left off my USC affiliation to grease the wheels...)

[Josh Drake]

Team 343 will be hosting a blood drive at the Palmetto Regional on Saturday from 9am to 2pm. This is a benefit blood drive for one of our students, Jordan Hawkins. The blood mobile will be parked outside the coliseum for those interested in helping out. If you are 16 and would like to give, you can with parental permission. The consent form is attached. Hope to see lots of people from the CD community there.

[Josh Drake]

A quick heads up if you are unloading pits/tools tomorrow morning. The Avenue of Champions will be one-way from East to West (same as before). The directions on the Palmetto site have people turning down Perimeter road. That's fine for parking, but for unloading trailers it would be best to turn a block earlier onto Centenial Blvd. and then right onto the Avenue of Champions. See you soon.

[Nawaid Ladak]

Originally Posted by hipsterjr

I was planning on bringing my trackball (giant 40" exercise ball for the rookies) for an extreme kickball game during the team social. Any one up for it?

Also, does anyone have a decent sized compressor? Plan B will have to be to take 5 robots and use their compressors together to pump it up .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17mQ-ZEo-yc <--- My response to this idea

Originally Posted by JulieB

any chances of coverage being on usteam like dallas and midwest?

I would like to know this as well.

[JohnFogarty]

We Will be on USTREAM I am hosting the webcast from my HATCAM (IPHONE) Look for the guy wearing a large green leprechaun hat

[ttldomination]

ARE YOU READY TO RUMBLE?!?!?

Well, team 1261 is.

We're settled into our rooms and full from the delicious barrel, and now we can't wait for tomorrow.

We'll be there in the wee hours of the morning in hopes of getting a good jump on the changes. I would REALLY like to run at least one practice match tomorrow, but all of that depends on how long our changes take.

[CHapstack]

We set up the practice field today; it's indoors this year!

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by CHapstack

We set up the practice field today; it's indoors this year!

WOOHOO! Hauling 1618's robot up the ramp and covering it with a trash bag for the run through the rain was a bit rough last year.

As for the webcast crowd, the webcast page has been updated to say it'll be running Friday and Saturday.

[cziggy343]

Originally Posted by ttldomination

ARE YOU READY TO RUMBLE?!?!?

Well, team 1261 is.

We're settled into our rooms and full from the delicious barrel, and now we can't wait for tomorrow.

We'll be there in the wee hours of the morning in hopes of getting a good jump on the changes. I would REALLY like to run at least one practice match tomorrow, but all of that depends on how long our changes take.

yup, im ready but like you, im not sure how much we will be running tomorrow b/c of our changes...

[hipsterjr]

we had most our gremlins at Peachtree, so we are expecting a lot more practice tomorrow that we simply didn't get in week 1. So yeah, we are ready