[NE FIRST] Connecticut Shoreline District (Groton)

[Chi Meson]

Soon there will be a New England Forum, I just know it! And when that happens this thread will be moved there! I can see it now...

[wavy lines, harp music]

The Aluminum Falcons are stoked and running as hard as they can to make sure that the Groton event is going to be more than slightly Fantastic!

The school building has never hosted anything like it before, of course, and who knows what's going to happen.

On the roster so far:

178 2nd Law Enforcers, 1124 Uberbots, 175 Buzz
2067 Apple pi, 181 Birds of Prey, 278 GUS
558 Robosquad, 236 Techno-Ticks, 230 Gaelhawks
195 Cyberknights, 571 Paragon, 78 Air Strike
125 NU-TRONs, 155 Technonuts, 2170 Titanium Tomahawks
1099 DiscoTechs, 1991 Dragons, 1699 Robocats
237 Black Magic, 3718 Junkyard Battalion, 3182 Athena's Warriors
2836 Team Beta, 4055 NRG, 3719 STEM Whalers
3634 Hard Botties, 3654 Tech Tigers, 4557 Full Metal Falcons

[Gog]

I too am looking forward to this event!
I'm anxious to see how these smaller event turn out here in CT. Don't get me wrong, the Convention Center is nice and all, but I feel that the competition will now get more intense. Obviously you can't fit 80+ teams into a single school, so it will be significantly smaller; meaning, if teams do their scouting right they'll be able to know everything about all the other teams and the matches will be amazing!

[Chi Meson]

Glad to see the CyberKnights in the line-up. 195 is one of the teams that will guarantee a 1st-rate competition.

[Gog]

Well, I'm no longer affiliated with the team, ergo I can't tell you what events they will or will not be attending simply because I do not know.
However, from my past experiences with them I can agree that they do bring some competition to these events.
But it all comes down to the game, design, (a little bit of luck), skill, and of course...proper scouting.

[Chi Meson]

Completing the first 30 spaces are:
3555 Aluminati and 2064 Panther Project. Let's see what happens when the wait-list opens.

Here's an early draft of the main pit area, pending Fire Marshall approval. The "One Way" is specifically for robots going to and from competition.

[MamaSpoldi]

On be half of team 230, thank you for the congrats. It was teamwork that allowed our alliance to make it thru all those matches and the huge defense we all experienced. We appreciate the pick by 1991 and 1699 was a great team to round out the alliance. Still can't believe we won! District events are quite a whirlwind event, so fast paced, never time to relax between matches. Exhausting and exhilarating at once.

I would also like to add my congratulations to 78 on the chairman's, to 228 for the EI and to Art Dutra for the volunteer of the year, and to 2168 for hosting a great event. I can only imagine the incredible number of hours and headaches that were experienced leading up to the event. You guys did a great job. It was an awesome experience.

[JohnBoucher]

Where will match videos be posted?

[plnyyanks]

Originally Posted by JohnBoucher

Where will match videos be posted?

I got some of them from the video guys and I'll rip the rest off the live stream. I'll post them on YouTube and TBA in the next day or so

[Steven Donow]

For those who missed it, here's the 'secret endgame' Angry Eric came up with prior to opening ceremonies

I'd also like to draw attention to team 5112. They were awesome and an absolute blast to work with; great mentors, knowledgeable students. I expect great things from them in the future.

[NotInControl]

On behalf of the Aluminum Falcons, I just wanted to say thank you all to the teams for making it an awesome weekend. We had an amazing time hosting, and it seems that the overall experience from teams was nothing but positive.

It was great to see a lot of old friends, and make news ones.

Congratulations to Airstrike for Chairman's, Gus for EI, and 5142 for Rookie-All Star - your all awesome.

5112 - Special shout out to you. Nothing but a phenomenal team to work with, no doubt you will be new force in the New England area.

To all the award winning teams, congratulations, very well deserved. (I did have a question for 237, I was curious about your use of the ultrasonic sensor which I believe won you the Controls Award, if someone from your team is willing to explain it to me - that would be awesome).

And finally congratulations to our finalists, (tics, black magic, and panthers), and our event winners (dragons, gaelhawks, and robocats). Very intense matchup, and an overall great performance by all teams in elimination.

It was an amazing time, and I hope everyone had a blast.

Regards,
Kevin

[Bill_B]

Written up in Hartford Courant here.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by NotInControl

To all the award winning teams, congratulations, very well deserved. (I did have a question for 237, I was curious about your use of the ultrasonic sensor which I believe won you the Controls Award, if someone from your team is willing to explain it to me - that would be awesome).

And finally congratulations to our finalists, (tics, black magic, and panthers), and our event winners (dragons, gaelhawks, and robocats). Very intense matchup, and an overall great performance by all teams in elimination.

Regards,
Kevin

Thanks for the congrats (237 - Black Magic) and let me know what your questions are about our SONAR sensor, and I'll see if I can answer them myself or ask someone who can!

[NotInControl]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

Thanks for the congrats (237 - Black Magic) and let me know what your questions are about our SONAR sensor, and I'll see if I can answer them myself or ask someone who can!

No problem. It was well deserved, and you guys were pretty fun to watch.

The question I had was more of a general one. I was running around more then usual at this event so I didn't get a chance to talk to most teams to learn about their machines.

I was just curious the type of sensor, and how it was being used/employed on your robot.

I remember Eric saying your team prototyped it last year, and then perfected and used the system this year so it seemed to be pretty awesome and essential to the robots performance.

Regards,
Kevin

[Chi Meson]

Hey teams,

I lost my classroom spool-tape measure. Red plastic frame, says "Chidley" on it. Metric one side of tape, feet on the other. It disappeared at set-up on Friday.

Anyone?

[plnyyanks]

Originally Posted by plnyyanks

I got some of them from the video guys and I'll rip the rest off the live stream. I'll post them on YouTube and TBA in the next day or so

Sadly, the livestream seams to have not archived Sunday (bummer, if I could have figured this out from the scorer's table, I would have pestered the video guy more for the rest of the video), so I only have footage from Saturday afternoon (qual matches 1-46). I'll cut those up, at least.