2010 Palmetto Regional

[JohnFogarty]

HOLY @%^$ We're ready!!!! compared to Florida it's gonna be a blast for those who were on the practice feild when we had the eureka moment sorry for hitting you with about 20 balls xD.

[cziggy343]

wow! it was great regional, and i am so happy that we came out with a win! thank you thank you thank you to 1261 and 1398! you guys were great and we all worked so well together. even through adversity, we stuck to the game plan and worked through it! i was so proud to win with you guys!

[hipsterjr]

Thank you to everyone that came out to 342's animation/ inventor / summer pygames workshop. Hopefully every one got something out of it. We would like feedback for any improvements for next year.

[LLogan]

Couple of shout-outs and thank-yous are in order from team 1261 and me:

343: Thanks for picking us with your first selection as the number one seed even though our ranking wasn't all too great. It was a pleasure working with you guys in the elims! You guys have a killer robot and some awesome drivers. Even though that DQ scared all of us a little in the finals, we pulled through and got it! Congratulations on the win! We hope to see you guys in Atlanta.

1398: I have absolutely no idea how you lasted all the way through the first round, much less the second to us. You were at the very top of our scout list! You guys had a great robot that scored very well. Thanks for changing your autonomous mode when I asked you to. How about those four balls in auto mode, eh? Congratulations on the well-deserved and long-awaited win! We hope to see you guys in Atlanta too!

342: Congratulations on the RCA! The Summer Pygames seem to be an amazing thing to the community. Thanks for reminding us all that FIRST isn't all about robots.

1379: Thank you so much for letting us collaborate with you guys on the scouting this year. There's absolutely no way we would have gotten it done this year without your help.

1959 (I think): Thanks so much for the Spike Relay and the ensuing advice about them! We really appreciated it when you guys ran to our pit approximately one minute after we asked the pit admin to announce that team 1261 needed a new Spike!

2815: You guys have a very, very nice robot and some great drivers. It was awesome seeing you guys score 8 balls alone in a match! We're sorry that you and your alliance got bit a little in the eliminations, though...

To everybody else: Thanks for the amazing regional experience!

That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I'll probably have some more once I get some rest and wake up tomorrow morning.

-Logan
(Coach/Vice-President of Team 1261)

[Tanner]

Wow - not sure what to say, but that was fantastic and fun!

Considering our team hasn't won a regional in 4 years (sadly) working with 343 and 1398 in a beautiful, swell strategy just made things absolutely fantastic.

Like, I don't know what to say. I'm happy and bewildered. We all rocked!

-Tanner

[Boydean]

What an amazing regional! I had a blast, and the finals kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time.

Thanks to Clemson for putting on another awesome regional.

[ttldomination]

We won the regional, and then I was like "Huh...so we won..."

First off, thanks to 343, it was great to get together in the finals and take this tournament. I know we had been talking about getting into finals since Friday afternoon, but it was sweet to see how everything fell into place.

1398 played the most strategic defense in the close zone that I have *ever* seen. We(1261/343) would take 80% of our shots from the middle zone, and when we felt like the close zone needed to be swept, we(1261 or 343) would come over into the close zone and clean up. 1398 set up *the best* screens, and the best part about it was that they communicated that they are blocking the bot and that we can score. An absolute pleasure to work with an awesome sleeper.

I want to give props to 1772 for offensively carrying their alliance through the finals. I know that the communication barrier gave them the short end of the stick during the finals selection, but they did the best with what they had, and they are a great group of guys.

Major props to 1379. Not only for collaborating with us for scouting, but also for making second seed alliance captains.

It was a great regional, and we're ecstatic that we came away with the win, and working on the robot for worlds will be a little bit sweeter.

[Tanner]

Originally Posted by Boydean

What an amazing regional! I had a blast, and the finals kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time.

Thanks to Clemson for putting on another awesome regional.

Congrats to you again for winning Dean's List.

Anyone know if this regional was archived or "saved"? FIRSTWiki doesn't have anyone down for it and as far as I know the stream doesn't do any saving, though someone mentioned something about UStream?

-Tanner

[team1102a]

re: I want to give props to 1772 for offensively carrying their alliance through the finals. I know that the communication barrier gave them the short end of the stick during the finals selection, but they did the best with what they had, and they are a great group of guys.

As the game announcer, I spoke to 1772 about their selection process concerns, and I know a little bit about their 1102 links.

During selection, they were concerned that they were no longer being allowed to be captains after having deined the invitation to join alliance 5. They were happy to be captains and had their teams pre-selected.

Last year when 1772 came to Palmetto, they were broke and basically homeless with 2 weeks to kill until the Championships. Many teams at Palmetto adopted them, took them to their hotels, gave them cash, and bought them food. After Palmetto, 1102 brought them to Aiken and put them up in student and mentor housing for about a week. They have stayed in touch all year.

1772 wanted 1102 for their defense (and perhaps also as an expression of thanks). And the climber (2751 Spark) to round out all their scoring oppotunities.

But the #1 alliance beath them fair and square despite the unusual double-DQs. I still have loose ties to 1102 (as my 2 sons have both graduated). I can tell you that they went home quite happy, despite being so close they could taste it. Perhaps John will give a student perspective on the events.

[team1102a]

I wanted to summarize my feelings as Game Announcer for Palmetto 2010.
AWESOME!!!!

Every year gets better. The bots, the GP, and especially the strategy improves every year.

We announcers are always looking for items to add drama to the event. We had it all. Dead robots coming back as contenders in the semi-finals. A robot succeding in a hang in their 11th match after making incremental improvements each round (including a partial hang from the wrong tower). 2 Cinderella Rookie teams, including one as an alliance Captain. I heard about so many acts of GP in the pits, I was just floored. In my brief visits, I often saw robots in other's pits being worked on or 5 different teams shirts in a pit helping a team on the skids.

In the end everyone has a success story to take home.

I kept a stats sheet, but misplaced it. I recall the highest seeding score in a match was 23. High individual score was 9 in the Elims (and a lot of 8s in the Quals), and high combined was 13 in the Quals in 16 in the Elims.

There were 23 elevations in the Quals (including 3 matches with Red/Blue hangs and nearly a triple on the Red Tower one time), and about 9 in the Elims.

Then 3 ties in a row in the Semis, and on and on as the drama unfolded.

I loved working with JDew as our new MC, and everyone was great in keeping up the energy during the 2 length field delays on Saturday.

Only 363 days to go till 2011.

[ttldomination]

Originally Posted by team1102a

During selection, they were concerned that they were no longer being allowed to be captains after having deined the invitation to join alliance 5. They were happy to be captains and had their teams pre-selected.

Ah..from the stands, it looked to me like 1772 wanted to accept team 49's invitation after they had already declined another team's invitation, but I'm glad that 1772 got to execute their finals plan.

[alicen]

Wow, what a regional. Between Qualifications, us and 2815 jumping back in forth between #1 and #2, then suddenly being overtaken in the end by 343, it was pretty intense.

On behalf of our team..

I'd like to thank 2815 and 1293 for being awesome alliance partners, it was great working with you guys and we hope to see you again in the future!

Congratulations to 343, 1261, and 1398, you deserved the win.

Thanks to 1261 for collaborating with us on scouting! It was a lot of work, but we managed

Congratulations to 945 on the Industrial Design Award, that was actually the one we were going for but, you snuck away with the win

And a final congrats to my own team for working well together, making it to being the #2 seed, to semis, and on the judges award. It's been a great season so far, now let's see what we can do at championships!

[team1102a]

Originally Posted by ttldomination

Ah..from the stands, it looked to me like 1772 wanted to accept team 49's invitation after they had already declined another team's invitation, but I'm glad that 1772 got to execute their finals plan.

You are correct. I forgot about that. That is what happend. They did try to Accept 49's offer after declining one a couple of alliances back. But they did have a list with them with team numbers listed, but I did not see the numbers. Actually 49 + 1772 + anyone might have been a winner.

But their scared look was mostly about being afraid they would not get to PLAY at all because of declining.

[team1102a]

Here are a few shots I got of some teams.
Flash Elevated.

[jeser#1772]

Hello All!

we chose 1102 because it could shoot 3 balls in the autonomous and defend, and 2751 because it could hang and defend,

thanks team 1102 for your defense and autonomous!
and thanks team 2751 for your hard work and your hang in the semi final 1

thanks all Teams!