2013 Chesapeake Regional in Baltimore

[RoboMom]

Year 11. Another great event brought to you by a hard-working committee.
A new week and some new adventures.
Website: http://www.mdfirst.org/

See you there.

[RoboMom]

Chesapeake went to wait list status today. A great mix of local and teams from afar.
VIMS is open if you are interested in volunteering.
https://my.usfirst.org/FIRSTPortal/L...IMS_Login.aspx

[Peyton Yeung]

Team 45 is very excited to be going to the Chesapeake Regional

[RoboMom]

Originally Posted by Tubatroopa

Team 45 is very excited to be going to the Chesapeake Regional

Thanks for making the trip!

[wilsonmw04]

Greetings,

FIRST team 1086: Blue Cheese is looking forward to our first trip to Baltimore. We have heard great things about this event and can't to experience it for ourselves!

[ehfeinberg]

449 is extremely excited to come back to Chesapeake! Looks like the whole week 7 thing is giving Chesapeake some very interesting dynamics.

Some things that stand out to me;

• 27 out of 54 teams are out of state. With 8 New York teams, and 3 more from New England, the North East is invading.
• 25 teams did not attend Chesapeake last year, including 5 rookie teams.

Personally, I'm supper excited that MOE is coming down, and we could always use some Moe' green at Chesapeake!

Can't wait for competition!

[RoboMom]

Lots more info to come as we get a little closer to week 7!

But introducing FIRST Stop. Take part in our FIRST Stop program for a guided tour by FIRST ambassadors or grab a FIRST Stop card for your own self-tour! We will be recruiting lots of student ambassadors.

More information on the Chesapeake website.

Best wishes to all the week 2 events!

[JesseK]

We snuck in at the last second

This will be our first Chesapeake, and we're totally psyched!

[bearbot]

Can wait to come back as a FIRST alumni and see my team compete at Chesapeake regional as well as all the other amazing robots on the field.

[Rhelik]

Our scouting team using electronic scouting through a laptop. We're concerned about keeping it powered at the regional. Does anyone know if there is a location we can keep it plugged in and still be watching the matches.

Thank you,

-Bernie

[Seth Mallory]

We have been taking an old robot battery and and inverter to the stands for the last couple of years. This gives us power without the extension cords. Just charge the battery or exchange it at lunch and you can run your laptops all day. I hope Chesapeake Regional is as good as it was last year. 192 GRT had a great time. Good luck.

[Peyton Yeung]

Team 45 is so excited as we are travelling by bus to Baltimore right now.

[wilsonmw04]

Originally Posted by Tubatroopa

Team 45 is so excited as we are travelling by bus to Baltimore right now.

We are leaving from Richmond @ 1:30pm today to try and beat the famous Baltimore traffic. Don't talk about bus rides. We have a 16 ride to Worlds in two weeks. SOOOooOOooOOOooOO not looking forward to that ride

[Clayton Yocom]

Congrats to the winners! We were kind of suprised we weren't picked, but we definately were extremely happy with the progress of the robot. Thanks to all of our alliance partners through-out the weekend and thank you to all the volunteers that helped make Chesapeake possible.

[alberth]

Wow! Great competition! Although we didn't get past the qualification rounds (we didn't get picked), we have a lot of fun and met a LOT of great people! Like others, our robot did pretty well after many improvements, even though our ranking was low. We're proud of what we have done in the past 3 days.

Next up - Battle of Baltimore!