2010 Philadelphia Regional!

[OZ_341]

On behalf of Team 341, I just wanted to thank a few groups and individuals involved with the Philadelphia Regional

Pete Keiselbach, the Philly Field Crew, Refs, and Volunteers
Incredible job. It is so important for the quality of everyone’s experience to have a consistent flow of matches. Your hard work made a huge difference. You should write down everything you did this weekend and pass it along to HQ. They could definitely learn a lot from this crew.

Carol Kauffman
Best wishes on your retirement. You built the best regional in the country and stayed another year to get Donald off to a great start. Your dedication to the advancement of students is unparalleled. We will never know how far and wide your positive influence on young people has traveled. We will miss you.

To Teams 56, 103, 1143, 639, 1640, 87, 816,1712, and 709
You are true competitors the outcome was never certain right up until the final buzzer. We played 8 out of the 9 possible matches with every match being close. Just amazing teamwork and competitive spirit by everyone involved.

To our Partners 365 & 486
We developed a true partnership this weekend. We had very few matches in which we were all working and on our wheels. I was really impressed with how you both picked up for our failings whenever we were in trouble. That was true teamwork.

Drexel U.
I also wanted to say how exciting it was to be back in the Drexel Gym. The Philly regional is crowded, hot, loud, and we love it. I always tell our team how fortunate they are to live so close to the most exciting regional in the country.

Best wishes to everyone traveling to Atlanta or preparing for the 2010 off-season.

[rcmolloy]

Sorry to bust in on everyone's thanks and congratulations but, are the match videos going to be archived on TBA? I know Miss Daisy had the feed for the webcast. If so, did you guys archive it and are going to give it to TBA? I know a lot of us here want to see those matches!

[OZ_341]

Originally Posted by rcmolloy

Sorry to bust in on everyone's thanks and congratulations but, are the match videos going to be archived on TBA? I know Miss Daisy had the feed for the webcast. If so, did you guys archive it and are going to give it to TBA? I know a lot of us here want to see those matches!

I'll have to check with Kir to see if she archived the regional. I know she was trying to do it. I am just not sure if she was successful in getting it to work.
I will get back to everyone in a day or so.

[Grim Tuesday]

I know that some members of our team have videos of some of the matches--Il see of we can get them uploaded.

[Carol]

I've uploaded about 50 of the best photos taken by some MOEsters. There's some great shots - most have at least a little green in them, but not all. I'll take a few of them and post on CD-Media.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8285488...7623735599254/

[Barry Bonzack]

Had a great time on my vacation to Philly. Working with George, Chiniqua, Pete, Jess, and the refs is always a blast. I don't get to come often, but I think Philly has become my home regional away from Florida. Keep up the great work.

433: You all are one of the most fun and spirited teams I know. I'm already looking forward to seeing you again in Atlanta.

Ryan: Dude, next time I'm there we need to try to hang out more. how on earth did you end up on 357 anyway? it was great to see ya again!

And of course a special thanks to Bethany and her mother for picking me up from the airport, providing transportation to and from the event, and putting up with me for a weekend.

[thefro526]

So, I've got a picture request for all of those who had Cameras the Saturday of Philly:

Can someone send me any pictures they have of 816's Robot smoking, and the scramble to fix it that followed?

[Carol]

There's a great one in the set I uploaded:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/8285488...7623735599254/

Here is a small version of it:

[DUCKIE]

I LOVE George's expression in the picture when MOE is upside down.

[Big Kid]

George's expression when MOE is flipped is priceless, and that truely is a great picture of 816 smoking. I think DAWGMA has some more, so if someone wouldn't mind sending them to me or TheFro, please do.

[Phil Ross]

Hello everybody,

I hope you are all recovering well from all the excitement this past weekend.
If you were at the Philadelphia Regional this past week have good pictures I would appreciate it if you could send it to me.

Also, any pictures you guys may have from previous years would be appreciated. We are trying to recreate the archive of images that was on the old Philadelphia FIRST website that was lost. So, to anyone: please send me pictures labeled with your team number and year.

You can send the pictures to either pross@usfirst.org or phil.j.ross@gmail.com

Thanks everybody!

[Kristian Calhoun]

Here's a neat video from the event that Drexel's College of Engineering just posted on its Facebook page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo_mOwcszFg

[Grim Tuesday]

Awe, we [639] arent in the video . Looks like they took all their footage from one match. Also, that is the first fiddle+rap combo I have ever heard. Very unusual.

[Carol]

6ABC was filming at the event on Friday; did anyone see the broadcast? I couldn't find it on their web site.

[Phil Ross]

Originally Posted by Carol

6ABC was filming at the event on Friday; did anyone see the broadcast? I couldn't find it on their web site.

The story is posted here but there is no video yet.