2012 Bayou Regional

[Akash Rastogi]

Good luck in elims 1477! Bring another one home.

[Meredith Novak]

Congratulations to Team Breakaway, FRC 3937, from Searcy Arkansas for being the Highest Rookie Seed and Rookie All-Star at Bayou! I'm so proud of you. See you in St. Louis.

[dbell]

Thanks Meredith, You're our biggest fan!

A huge congrats to all those fantastic award winning teams:

Industrial design... 2992 SS Prometheus
Motorola Quality... 624 CRyptonite
Gracious Professionalism...456 Siege Robotics
Team spirit....2080 torbotics. (you guys were so loud and awesome)
Coopertition award....3672 Robotors
Judges award... 3310 black hawk
Safety award....624 CRyptonite
Finalists....2992...1421...2078. (you guys put up an incredible performance)
Winners...1477...624...4353 (from the beginning of the competition you guys wowed us all. You absolutely deserved to win)
Engineering inspiration...1477
Chairmans award: 1912 (you guys were such a great team both in the pits and on the field. Sure looks like y'all have done some impressive stuff.)

Sorry if I messed up or missed any team.
Also, thanks to all the refs, judges, and volunteer staff for putting on a great bayou regional. It was a great event and I look forward to next year.

[AllenGregoryIV]

Bayou was an exceptional event, I hadn't been here since it's inception in 2007 and it has now become a really great event.

Thank you to all the event planners and support staff you made it such a great event to work.

Congratulations to all the teams your awards and accolades were well deserved. With 15 rookies so many of you took time away from your own team and robot to really lift up the quality of play and teach the rookies the ways of FIRST. Bayou was a shinning example of coopertition at work.

A few special thanks

Team 456 Siege Robotics - Bayou would not work with out you guys, from field setup to key volunteers (Chuck, Amy, Eddie, etc..) you all make the event work. Your gracious professionalism award is extremely well deserved every one of you was willing to go above and beyond to support other teams during the event.

Team 2080 - I first met you all at Alamo and you were a fantastic team to work with. You pulled down the field in record time making the lives of the volunteer crew so much easier at Bayou. Thank you so much. Your team spirit award is also well deserved. Even after every other team was gone and the judges were no where to be found you all were doing step routines in the entry way before boarding the bus. A great team and true testament to team spirit.

Thank you every who worked at making Bayou such a fantastic event, and I can't wait to return next year.

[familyguyfreak]

I personally want to thank everyone at Bayou for the awesome experience this weekend. The TigerBytes loved their time there and can not stop talking about next year. This was my second time at Bayou (2010 was my first visit with the DiscoBots) and I love the growth of the regional. The TigerBytes will do our part to keep the level of competition at Bayou high every year.

Congrats to all the teams and I hope everyone enjoyed Pac-man as much as we enjoyed being apart of such a great regional!! See ya next year!!

[JohnSchneider]

3310 had an awesome time at our first out of state regional.

We got there with a dead drivetrain that didn't turn.

Through the help of a few teams and tons of miscilanious donated parts we constructed a coaxial drive train in 2 hours that led us to the semi finals.

Thanks to 3039 and 57. We were a bit Leary at first but you guys showed great cooperation and strategy and we were very proud to be chosen by you.

Also on a biased note I really enjoyed the Texas team domination.

[jeleser]

I just want to say that it's been an honor competing and working with everyone this year at Bayou. Every award was very well deserved, and it was nailbiting watching the finals matches. Team 2080 is very grateful for the Entrepreneurship and Spirit awards, as well as having the privilege to disassemble the field. Despite all of the problems faced by each team (ourselves included), thank you to everyone that made this regional possible. Counting down for next year already!

[JaneYoung]

Bayou Regional 2012 was a wonderful experience.

Wearing the volunteer cap, I'd like to express a heartfelt thank you to all of the teams that spent time on the practice field or tried to access the practice field by waiting in line very patiently. The level of professionalism with which each of you conducted yourselves will never be forgotten. I would also like to thank the teams that volunteered helpful suggestions and assistance. You were all terrific. There were several moments on the field that were so inspirational that I was brought to tears. 2 of those moments occurred when 2 different teams encouraged me to drive their robots. I was stunned by their sincere and generous offers - and scared to death.

I'm putting together a list of suggestions to send to our Bayou RD and VC. If you have any thoughts on the matter, send them to me - or send them directly to the Regional Director or Volunteer Coordinator.

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Wearing the mentor cap for FRC 418, LASA Robotics, I'd like to say thank you to the Bayou Planning Committee, the volunteers, the team supporters, and the teams. This was a PHantastic experience for Purple Haze. I have a few thoughts about the experience that I may add later after some rest - but for now, thank you, everyone!

Jane

P.S. It was really fun receiving messages from teams in Arkansas, Florida, and Texas - asking me to go find teams and individuals to say hello to. That was really cool. I did it, too, and each greeting brought big smiles. I know the message senders would have been at Bayou if they could have been.

[wireties]

Team 1296 had a great time at the Bayou Regional - good competition and great food! We were privileged to join 2848 and 4316 and make a good run in the eliminations. Freakish hardware errors hurt the alliance in the semis but we are re-tooling and hope to make a run in Dallas!

Many thanks to the Bayou Organizing Committee, FIRST and many awesome and gracious competitors!

[Elizabeth Waters]

Words cannot describe how humbled 624 is by the recognition we received at the Bayou Regional.

We want to graciously thank everyone present for the friendly welcome, the incredible enthusiasm, and overall fantastic experience. There were so many phenomenal robots and teams... We were blown away by the exceptional strength of character and level of gracious professionalism surrounding the whole event.

Congratulations to all the teams who participated. It was a pleasure to work with all of you, and we look forward to seeing your continued successes.

[Flyer522]

Once again Team 3753 is grateful to have been a part of the Bayou Regional this year! With a big thanks going out to everyone who helped organize the event, and to the teams that helped us along the way. Also special thanks to 1912 and 1927 for allowing us to be on their alliance this year, and we look forward to hopefully working with both next year.

I hate that we did not discover FIRST until last year, and that this was my last time being a student with FIRST. Though, I can honestly say it has been one of the best experiences I've had. I look forward to coming back to Bayou next year as a mentor!

~Holton

[Kevin Sevcik]

Thanks to 3039 for the alliance pick and thanks to 3310 for the great work on the strategizing and those 12 points in auton. It was a fun alliance and great after all our troubles on friday.

624, 1477, 4353: I said to a few of you at the regional, but I'll say it again. It's an honor to lose to an alliance like you guys. But I hope we made you at least a little nervous with that first semi-final match.

[baronep]

Team 2848 would like to thank the teams 1296 and 4316 for graciously accepting our alliance invitation. We had a great time in the elimination rounds, making it the "final four" and almost making it to the finals. Thanks to the Bayou regional for a fantastic regional and we hope to be there next year.

Team 2848: The Jesuit All Sparks

[Jax]

Team 418 would like to thank Team 2080 for teaching our (semi-uncoordinated) team step-dancing, and for dancing with us on the floor, and Team 2848 for sharing the early breakfasts back at the hotel. We had a great time at the Bayou regional.

[JohnSchneider]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

Thanks to 3039 for the alliance pick and thanks to 3310 for the great work on the strategizing and those 12 points in auton. It was a fun alliance and great after all our troubles on friday.

624, 1477, 4353: I said to a few of you at the regional, but I'll say it again. It's an honor to lose to an alliance like you guys. But I hope we made you at least a little nervous with that first semi-final match.

Yeah. We figured out why we couldn't get the other 2 balls to work right, right after that second match. Had we learned that sooner we might've won that first game.