Midwest Thank You List

Here's my personal Midwest Regional thank you list.

Team's 269 & 930
You guys were awesome elimination partners. The team worked very well together and everyone pulled their weight. These two teams covered our butts when we broke our turett in the semis and these two hangers successfully defeated the team of Wildstang and Team Rush. You guys are awesome and keep up the good work. Good Luck.

Team 292
What can I say...our buddies across the county are awesome. Number 1 seed, semi finals trip...you guys are really making a wonderful name for yourself. Also the support you give us, (especially Austin ) is awesome. Keep it up.

Team 461
Another elimination round apperance by this team. You guys are truely nuts. Keep up the good work and thanks for the supprt.

(Oh goody, we just hit a traffic jam on I-94 in chicago)

The Rest of the Indiana Teams
Thanks for the support and way to go in pretty much clearing house in the awards. Indiana had a champion, finalist, chairmans award, engineering inspiration, KPCB award, sportsmanship, and 461 took an award. Its a proud day for IndianaFIRST.

Paul "Copioil" Copioli & Team 217, Kyle Hughes & Team 27, & Ken Patton of Team 65
I can spell Paul's name unlike some people . The 6:30 am tailgate was great! Everyone pitched in and made this great. I think Baker's Egg Chicken Sandwich was the hit of the morning. Grilled Chicken + Scrambled Eggs + Bread = Breakfast for many people. Thanks to Team RUSH, Thunderchickens, and Ken Patton of Team 65 for helping to put this awesome event on.

Finally, a special thanks to our pit neighbors, Team RUSH for the support and the friendliness throughout the weekend, between swapping tools and whatnot. Special thanks to Mrs. Hughes for helping our young coach, Amy out and helping her feel more comfortable and prepared. Its rare to find female field coaches in FIRST and it was great having an expierenced female coach help ours out. Honestly, I think these two ladies are some of the most dangerous on the field. I wouldn't want to go up against the team of 45 and 27 with Amy and Mrs. Hughes coaching.


In conclusion, thanks to everyone for the support and cheering (that arena got really loud towards the finals and it was awesome seeing all these teams cheering not only for our alliance, but our opponents. That is what makes FIRST truely great. Finally thanks to the individuals/teams I missed (my brain is drained for the next 24 hrs or so ). If I think of anyone in the next few days Ill add it.

I <3 Midwest Regional

-D.J.

Edit #1
Thank you to the Regional Committe, Motorola and DeVry University for putting on such an awesome event!

[mightywombat]

I'd like to thank anybody (and everybody) from soap108 and NASA (and anyone else...) for working on the webcast. IT WAS SWEET!!!!
Thanks alot.

[ebmonon36]

I would like to thank 525 and 554 for thier partnership in the quarterfinals. We had some great matches and it was sad to see it end so soon. Long live the Midwest Regional.
Eric

[Kevin Kolodziej]

Man, I just typed this and got an error....time to start over...

Team 135:
Thanks for the aluminum (I hope this was you guys...if not, my apologies to whoever it was!). Its a shame that we didn't get to use what we needed it for since we never got our autonomous mode running.

Team 93:
Thanks for the angle and the nuts and bolts we needed for the solenoids.

Team 71:
Thanks for the assistance and suggestions throughout the weekend and for lunch on Saturday!

Team 111:
Thanks for the help with our program when it was on the fritz with only 2 matches before our last match.

Team 45:
Thanks for the radio modem for our controller while ours was somehow misplaced.

And my personal thanks:

John from 461:
Never a dull moment with you around...enjoy the shirt!

Wildstang:
Thanks for a fun volleyball game on Friday night...maybe my serves will be better next time around.

There are many more, but everything is a big jumble right now! If I come up with more specifics, I'll add them to the list later on.

Kev

[Greg McCoy]

I'd also like to add 65, one of our opponents in the finals, to D.J.'s list: when we had our only field breakdown during the regional (broken turret), they graciously cheered for us to get our robot repaired and I believe even gave us a pin to fix it. You guys are awesome!!!

Thanks again to all those mentioned above as well...

[Ricky Q.]

Wooooo Woooo!

Thank you to teams 45 and 930: WOW! Thats all I can say about this alliance. We worked it together great and I couldn't have asked for a better showing. Thanks for being awesome partners and pulling through when we needed it the most. AWESOME!

Team 93: It was tough having to go up against you guys in our last qual and then in the semis. You played an awesome game and had an awesome weekend. Thanks for all the support!

All the WI Teams: We showed the Midwest what we are made of this weekend! Thanks for all the support and help this weekend. Cheeseheads forever!

There is proabably a bunch more people that need to be thanked, but this is all I can get out for now. I still don't believe that we won, we're going to ATLANTA!!!! Thanks again to everyone!

Edit #1: PS....If anyone has any extra money, let us know, we need some extra for this whole Atlanta trip, just about $6000, let me know

Originally Posted by robo hottie71

John from 461:
Never a dull moment with you around...enjoy the shirt!

Can you say that again? Coming soon: Brazilian team embarass americans in soccer at team party with your hosts, John and D.J.

[mzitz2k]

I watched much of the MWR thru the webcast and it was excellent. Congrats to 45 also! I think your bot is incredible.

I have a question though - Does 45 hang? I see that they have a good and everything, but I never saw 45 hang. Some of the camera shots missed 45 for periods of time so I may be completely wrong. But did 45 hang often or at all at the Midwest Regional? Just wondering... thanks!

Good luck guys!

[Greg McCoy]

Originally Posted by mzitz2k

I have a question though - Does 45 hang?

Thanks for the kudos...we think that we can hang, but we haven't got a chance to really get it down in practice so we haven't done it in a match yet. The robot still has the capibility of hanging though.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...&quiet=Verbose

[AmyPrib]

Hay All!

What an exciting Regional, Chicago...

There's a lot of people that I need and want to thank, and sorry if I miss anyone. I have yet to know and remember a lot of people's names...

* Thank you to Team 269 for choosing Teams 45 and 930 for elimination rounds. We made a great alliance together, wrapping it up with a victory after going up against so many excellent teams. Your match with 930 was especially exciting as DJ has mentioned. It was an awesome, awesome day.

* Thank you to our own Team 45, the parents, engineers, teachers, friends, family, teammates, spirit, scouts, and our awesome pit crew, consisting of many brand new team members, for consistently maintaining a robust, reliable robot that has taken us this far. There's no way to do it without you, everyone on the team.

* Thanks to our friendly neighbors Team Rush and Kyle Hughes. Kyle, it's great to share something that not many (none?) other teams have....... Thanks for the support and encouragement since the day I met you.

* Of course, Thanks to Andy Baker, for having the trust and strong encouragement to put me in the position you love. I couldn't do it without your support... really...

*..... and... thanks to Austin, Greg, and Devon. You guys rock (yeah, you know . Today you've showed what you can and will do in the future. I'm extremely proud of you guys..... and thank you for supporting me.

* Thanks to all the teams that we were fortunate enough to play with and against. The level of competition was..... simply unbelievable.

Thanks again,
Amy

[Ryan F.]

Hi, I'd like to thank 461 and 554 for being our alliance partners, and our short yet exciting run in the finals. We definetly had some great matches there, showing then what the underdog robots were almost capable of

-Ryan

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by AmyPrib

* Of course, Thanks to Andy Baker, for having the trust and strong encouragement to put me in the position you love. I couldn't do it without your support... really...

Amy, you are great. You are doing a better job than I could've done. It is not a hard job to give up when we all see that you are awesome at coaching the drive team.

Hey FIRSTers (especially you gals), here is a mentor you can look up to. She's cool, she's smart, she's even a mechanical engineer! Does she take crap off of the pit crew? No! Does she keep the drive team in line? Yeah! She's Amy - the new TechnoKat field coach.

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As for thank-yous...

Thanks to team 269 for picking us in the finals. You are awesome partners with an incredible ability to hang from afar. Special thanks go out to Ricky - an awesome driver, communicator, and alliance captain. It's great that 269 gets to go to Championships now.

Thanks to team 930, who always have a great team and awesome robot. They simply showed dominance on the bar in the finals.

(by the way, get these hometowns of this alliance: Oconomowoc, Kokomo, Mukwonago. Say that 3 times fast and it sounds like you're speaking Klingon!)

Thanks to teams 217, 27, and 111 for having a great breakfast tailgate. Thanks to Jennifer Copioli for letting Paul bring the fryer. Someone MUST post the picture of the Thunderchicken, in a chicken suit, frying the chicken wings... hilarious.

Thanks to team 65 for being very gracious and tough competitors. These guys should win the Phoenix Award for recovering so well after GLR.

Great job to team 234, Cyberblue for winning the Midwest Regional Chairman's Award. These guys and gals are an awesome team, and could be the favorites to win it all at Atlanta. Not only do they host a great competition in the summer (bigger and better this summer, by the way), but they have an awesome mentoring program and outreach effort. This team is turning into the model for FIRST teams to follow.

Excellent job to team 447, Team Roboto from Anderson, Indiana. These guys fought through adversity to make it to the finals and played hard to the end - even bending their arm and blowing out a knee in the process. 447 is always there to lend a hand and is another great Indiana team.

There are soo many more that need attention, but this is it for now. It was great to see a great FIRST game entertain so many people in Chicago. Congrats to all who made it work.

Andy B.

[Chris Fultz]

Thanks to everyone who made Chicago great.

I think it is cool that we were able to use some of our tools and spare parts to help other teams, and at the same time others came thru for us with some much needed hardware (thanks Hammond for the solenoid use and others for WD40, tiewraps and other parts).

Thanks to Mr. "Will Fix Robots for Food" (447 I believe) for some awesome welding work!

And, thanks to the fantastic Cyber Blue team! Engineers that don't let up, students in the pits - doing scouting, talking to judges and presenting our Chairman's story, great teachers, and what a parent crew - cheering in the stands and getting us lunch every day. This is a great group of people to be a part of.

Our programmer / electroincs mentor was not able to make it to Chicago and others stepped up to work out issues as they came up and even added new features - this group really came thru when they needed to.

[rufu5]

I would just like to give all the thanks in my left AND right pocket to team 217 for lending the skills of the great Mike Copila (I really hope I spelled that right He helped me so much in fixing my optical joysticks, which had a bad Digital to Analog Converter and problems in a custom circuit I made. Thanks a ton Mike!!
Also thanks to a great alliance (Team 65 and Team 648) who fought with us all the way to the finals (great job to 269, 45, and 930 for a well deserved regional victory).
I say it every year but the midwest regional is, in my opinion, the thoughest regional in the country and the most fun too!

[Allison K]

Thanks to whoever planned the team social (Sorry forgot the name), it was awesome. I didn't even break anything (last time I was playing on one of those inflatable things I broke my thumb).