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Re: [BB] What Do You Want at St. Louis Championships

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Kansas City?
Nope, Ellisville, MO. It's not downtown but...

Barney's BBQ. I should know, I worked there summers during high school and some of my college years. I would put Barney's ribs up against any anywhere including down here in Austin, TX.

http://www.barneysbbq.com/Home_Page.html

They are open weekends during the summer and I'm not sure when opening weekend is but I could send an e-mail and let them know FIRST is going to be downtown. I'm not kidding you - the BBQ is unbelievable. It has a secret sauce that they wouldn't even tell me what was in it. And their beans are amazing.

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Re: [BB] What Do You Want at St. Louis Championships

Jane,

It does look like a hike.....maybe we could arrange something:

"We do catering as well for family or company outings. For further info please contact us at 636-227-2300 or you through email at TToone@barneysbbq.com"

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Re: [BB] What Do You Want at St. Louis Championships

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Nope, Ellisville, MO. It's not downtown but...

Barney's BBQ. I should know, I worked there summers during high school and some of my college years. I would put Barney's ribs up against any anywhere including down here in Austin, TX.

http://www.barneysbbq.com/Home_Page.html

They are open weekends during the summer and I'm not sure when opening weekend is but I could send an e-mail and let them know FIRST is going to be downtown. I'm not kidding you - the BBQ is unbelievable. It has a secret sauce that they wouldn't even tell me what was in it. And their beans are amazing.

Jane
Oh my, somebody warn Barney's what is coming their way in April! Thousands of hungry robotics students.

There is nothing like good BBQ from the midwest. Unfortunately good BBQ never made it over the Rockies... sigh.
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Oh my, somebody warn Barney's what is coming their way in April! Thousands of hungry robotics students.

There is nothing like good BBQ from the midwest. Unfortunately good BBQ never made it over the Rockies... sigh.
They don't open until later so ...
And they are nowhere near the venue but, it sure would be an awesome opportunity. *sigh*
Perhaps Jon can work some magic.

Here's a link to some other restaurants:
http://www.urbanspoon.com/nf/28/2708...ue-Restaurants

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Re: [BB] What Do You Want at St. Louis Championships

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Just got back from Union Station. Places to eat there include: Hardrock Cafe, Panda Express, Subway, Quiznos Subs, Gateway Burgers, Tollhouse cookies and ice cream (a Tollhouse stand), and various places for pizza, burgers, philly cheese steak sandwiches, fudge and more. Definitely a variety in eating choices if you choose to take the trip away from the stadium. Although in a previous post I said that the station was empty because of the economy, several new places have opened up (like Gateway Burgers, I suggest eating there, as they serve top quality food for a fair price.)
It seems like Union Station would be the best bet for teams to find something close to what CNN's food court was like. I was down at the dome last night, and it didn't seem like there were really any restaurants nearby, just office buildings. There might be some restaurants in Laclede's Landing, but if I recall correctly, it does tend to flood late April/early May, and it's mostly sit-down places.
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Re: [BB] What Do You Want at St. Louis Championships

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It seems like Union Station would be the best bet for teams to find something close to what CNN's food court was like. I was down at the dome last night, and it didn't seem like there were really any restaurants nearby, just office buildings. There might be some restaurants in Laclede's Landing, but if I recall correctly, it does tend to flood late April/early May, and it's mostly sit-down places.
There are quite a few places nearby. You just weren't looking in the right places. Try looking near the Capitol building--there's a few places along that park. There's a few more in some of those office buildings. If I can get that map from the handbook for that conference, I might just scan it and put it in this thread...

Laclede's Landing: When I was in St. Louis for a conference last winter, we were told that you don't want to go into that area after dark--and this was a bunch of college students. Good idea to go in with a big group.
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Re: [BB] What Do You Want at St. Louis Championships

What do I want at Championships? I'd like to see a non-engineering mentor from each team attend the annual NEMO meeting on Friday! Details to follow on the NEMO website as the date gets closer.
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Re: [BB] What Do You Want at St. Louis Championships

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Where would the best rib joint be?
Pappy's.
Not too far from downtown either.
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Re: [BB] What Do You Want at St. Louis Championships

Pappy's Smokehouse is by far the best that I've had in a long time!

http://pappyssmokehouse.com/
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Re: [BB] What Do You Want at St. Louis Championships

IKE made a post in another thread and it made me think of how cool it would be for teams to show some of the changes that have occurred/evolved over the past 20 years in FRC. Maybe teams could be invited to bring things to the Championship and have them on display in their pit, or have a photo album available to show folks as they tour the pits, showing some of the changes that we've grown through such as the satin sheet with zippers and secrecy. It would be nice to have a display near the HoF teams' display, showing a timeline of change/changes and highlighting some of the folks that influenced the changes such as Andy Baker.
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team 2849 wants to qualify for st. louis in our 3rd year we think we can make this happen due to expperience we had toward the end of last season if not for a gearbox malfunction
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It might be out of budget for the event, but perhaps you should invite Carole King. Little Eva is regrettably not available. Carole was co-author of the Loco-Motion song that is so prominent in pre-kickoff speculation about the game design. Just don't tell me that we'll have to evacuate the pits for her appearance as we did for President Bush.
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Sundial was a network-based service that tapped into field feeds to provide a time estimate to a team's next match--and an estimate of how far behind the field was running.

With it being on a network/wireless, use was stopped sometime around 2008/2009 due to wireless concerns. Hopefully it can make a comeback--it was incredibly useful for "We're in match 45, it's supposed to be in 15 minutes, but they're only on match 33, so we've got an extra hour to make those improvements" or "Uh... Guys, they're running ahead. GET TO THE FIELD!".
Based on the open sourced (and a few years old) version of sundial, it is possible to have someone host it on a website. This way, you can get a laptop to tether straight to the internet without a need of setting up a wifi network. It's not the most friendly way for teams to use it, but it would be in compliance with FIRST's rules regarding wifi as it'd rely on 3G/4G connections. We're going to be trying this online setup at the Las Vegas regional this coming weekend as a feasibility test. The LA regional was a bit hectic constantly trying to figure out how much time is left before we needed to leave for the field.
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