2005 Palmetto Regional

[Arefin Bari]

Congratulation to team 1251 , 25 and 301 for the great finals.

Congrats to Team 1466 , 179 , 1051 for winning Palmetto regional.

::Tytus loves his robot::

Congratulation to team 25 for the General Motor Industrial Design Award.

... Corey, B-rat...you guys were very close for the gold, I believe in you guys and know that you will win the gold next year, you guys rock.

Team 1251 has proven themselves again by being finalist again 2nd time in a row this year. I saw this rookie team grow and come out as one of the best.

Everybody in Palmetto did a great job, I had fun watching the webcast, wish if I was there.

[Jonathan M.]

Yayyyyy. Judges Award! <3

[Bharat Nain]

Congratulations to 1466 , 179 , 1051 for winning the regional. Special thanks to our alliance partners 1251 and 301.

I personally did not agree with the call made by the referees in the final match, I have to admit, this is undoubtedly the BEST REFFING CREW I have encountered. The head ref Christopher Cook is one of the best refs in FIRST. Team 25 respects their decision in the finals because they are the best crew around. See you all in Atlanta.
-Bharat

[BaldwinNYRookie]

I had been watching the Palmetto webcast, I saw purple hawaiian shirts and remembered team 25 who hosted the first competition I'd ever been to, the Brunswick Eruption. Isn't that a little far to travel to a regional? Anyway, I missed the awards ceremony today, anyone know who won the rookie allstar award down there?

[ttedrow]

On behalf of all the inspectors at the Palmetto Regional, I would like to congratulate all the teams that attended. Each inspection was conducted with the utmost level of gracious professionalism. Everyone involved with FIRST knows that 6 weeks is not enough time design, build and test a robot. But each year the teams are able to accomplish this seemingly impossible task. WAY TO GO TEAMS!

Tim Tedrow
2005 Lead Inspector

PS. Team 179, what was that green slime dripping from your robot?

[BandChick]

Congratulations to everyone who competed, especially the winners and the finalists. You all did great, and I do have to say the scoring and the reffing was wonderful. <3 See you at Nats!

Originally Posted by Bharat Nain

Congratulations to 1466 , 179 , 1051 for winning the regional. Special thanks to our alliance partners 1251 and 301.

I personally did not agree with the call made by the referees in the final match, I have to admit, this is undoubtedly the BEST REFFING CREW I have encountered. The head ref Christopher Cook is one of the best refs in FIRST. Team 25 respects their decision in the finals because they are the best crew around. See you all in Atlanta.
-Bharat

I was the announcer for Palmetto and on the floor for every match. Christopher and the crew were awesome.

I have some pictures of the unusual tetra stacks that they had to deal with. There were situations that were totally unexpected and they judged each one with careful consideration. (how can I post a picture of the kattywompus tetra stacks?)

barry hudson

Originally Posted by BaldwinNYRookie

I had been watching the Palmetto webcast, I saw purple hawaiian shirts and remembered team 25 who hosted the first competition I'd ever been to, the Brunswick Eruption. Isn't that a little far to travel to a regional? Anyway, I missed the awards ceremony today, anyone know who won the rookie allstar award down there?

Rookie AllStar and Highest Rookie went to Team 1539. Team Scorpius/Clover SC.
Other Saturday awards:
25 GM Industrial Dseign
1320 Motorola Quality
342 J&J Sportsmanship
212 DailmlerChrysler Spirit
845 Judges
1553 Rookie Inspiration
342 Safety
1398 Engineering Inspiration
342 Regional Chairman's

[Ed Sparks]

Thanks all for another great year at the Palmetto regional.

A special thanks to Team 1539 for picking us as a partner in the third alliance along with some old friends (S.P.A.M. 180).

We're looking forward to seeing everyone shortly in Atlanta!

[Collmandoman]

palmetto was wonderful -thx everyone for making it so fun - and thx to the refs for being 100% consistant - Can't wait to finally see some of your robot's in person at nationals

[Swampdude]

Originally Posted by Collmandoman

palmetto was wonderful -thx everyone for making it so fun - and thx to the refs for being 100% consistant - Can't wait to finally see some of your robot's in person at nationals

Collmandoman, were you the alliance captain? It was great working with you guys, thanks for picking us. Congrats on winning second seed, you guy's were awesome. I knew we were gonna win it with both our abilities to spread out caps. We had some great strategies. Sorry for some of the close calls, it was a little crazy with us. 1051 did an excellent job as well. Thanks folks.

Also thanks to all the Palmetto volunteers, and teams. A lot of tough competition, I learned a lot and saw some crazy stuff. Stephen it was good getting to chat with you a bit. Thanks 1251, 25 and 301 - you were a great alliance, and we had our hands full.

[sebas2mil]

Thanks to all the teams that were at the competition

25 and 301 great job you guys awsome alliance

Cutting Edge you guys are the best tough match we had against you guys

Cutting......................Edge

good job

Sebas
1251
TechTigers

[MikeGriffith]

Originally Posted by sebas2mil

Thanks to all the teams that were at the competition

25 and 301 great job you guys awsome alliance

Cutting Edge you guys are the best tough match we had against you guys

Cutting......................Edge

good job

Sebas
1251
TechTigers

Thank you so much for being so nice to our team, you guys are awesome. 1251 did an awesome job in Palmetto, hope you'll come back next year *please* and we can hold up our sword together and win this regional. It was great working with you in Florida and I'm soooooo glad our teams have become such great friends. It was an honor going up against you guys! We are so proud of you for doing so well. You guys are always a winner in our book. We'll cya at NATIONALS!!!!!!!!

1251...1251...1251!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Mike Griffith (kid with the once blue but now green spiked hair, lol)

[Stephen Kowski]

Originally Posted by Swampdude

Stephen it was good getting to chat with you a bit.

thx a lot be sure to come find me on one of the fields @ the championship....ill be reffereein (or however you spell it) up there again....i had a great time....all the teams i wanna thank for making it fun and exciting, in particular: 179 (what a fun team to talk with), 25 (even though you almost killed me with your robot), 180 (Warren, tiff, and your drive team it was a pleasure as always), 343 (too many awesome ppl to even begin to name off), 34 (Ed, great talking with ya again), 342 (another great SC team), 11 (i still love the angles @ the bottom of ur bot even though by the end one of them had been flattened)...all the other teams congrats and i hope to meet you all nxt time....

thx to the rest of the ref crew (sorry if i have some mispellings) chris, terrell, dee, stu, and the few that their names are escaping me right now.....oh and Aidan thx for all your help....thx for putting up with me all of you

Bob hammond, paul shay, mike (grow that goatee back, who cares what the collegiate football tells you), matt (what a field resetting maniac), and all the rest of the FIRST crew/judges and anyone else I left out.....what a great event

oh and nxt year i want those massage chairs Frank.....

[techtiger1]

Thanks everyone for the wonderful complements on 1251 . Palmetto was awesome thanks to all the voluenters that made that happen. Well see everyone at nats. All you teams up there rocked!





Team 1251 the Tech Tigers
2004 ucf roookie all star
2005 ucf 3rd seed and finalist with 845 and 1270
2005 ucf judges award winner
2005 palmetto regional 1st seed and finalist with 25 and 301
2005 palmetto regional xerox creativity award winner.