2006 Chesapeake Regional

[Elgin Clock]

If anyone has a Regional gallery for Chesapeake set up on their site, link them here.

I didn't take 1 picture this weekend.
I especially want a picture of the rock wall in the pits.

[MattD1Drift]

I attended the "Jet-Lag" regional with my team (1524) and I honestly must say, it didn't seem the have the same amount of excitment to it, and I am blaming that on the seating. At Hartford, they placed the bleachers really close to the feild, making it seem like you were really right there, with the setup at Chesepeake, the bleachers were way far away from the playing feild. (well, on the side I was anyways)

Fun bits:
1. Finding out the hard way that Brits spin backwards in the Macerena!
2. Finding out 237 needed a flux capasitor (how do you plan on getting the balls to go 88 mph?!?
3.Playing DDR with 165
4.Drop-kicking people in our Hotel
5.Famous Dave's!
6.Seeing a Team from CT win
7.Don't remember anything else...

Not-so-fun bits:
1. Finding out the hard way that Brits spin backwards in the Macerena
2.Our chain kept on breaking......
3.Our team in the hotel (can you say 'gassy?'haha)
4.The guy with tthe guitar on 007, that just anoyed me.
5.Not really meeting anyone.

I cant remember anything else ATM...

[RoboMom]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

I especially want a picture of the rock wall in the pits.

ask and you shall receive...
check out the picture gallery

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by RoboMom

ask and you shall receive...
check out the picture gallery

Awesome, Thanks a lot Jenny.
Good things DO come to those who wait it seems.

Originally Posted by ScoutingNerd175

Hope this isn't an information overload, but I am a data nerd. Anyone else who is curious can ask me in the forum or PM me.

I just have one question. What kind of equipment did you use for scouting? Was it all paper/pens, or computers, or some other kind of data collection means?

Congratulations on the win, and hope to see the big smiling faces (especially after this win) at the Championship Event in Atlanta.

Also, Thanks to BUZZ as well for the use of some tools while we were helping get some rookies in the game on Thursday and Friday morning.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by coldabert

Ah... the Pit Administration Divas. I have never seen a rendition of the macarena performed with such skill.

YES!!! The Divas.. lol They rocked! How can anyone forget about them??
A huge thanks to them for announcing every part we needed to help everyone else, and also the use of a photo copier at the end of the day (even though it had some issues ), and the "borrowing" of the microphone on Thursday night to have a bit of end of the day fun for the Elvis comment, the BEEEEE-OOOOOOOP, and the helicopter sounds, they were all great sports.

They also were great sports about announcing some rather unusual requests, such as ours, and another teams Flux Capacitor request our Right Sided bit shifter request, our Pinecone request, and also Team 1337's ROFL COPTER request.




From the warm southern welcome on Thursday morning with the classic "Y'all", to the hourly Safety announcements, you could tell they were definately enjoying their jobs this year.

Hope to see you all next year.

Originally Posted by MattD1Drift

Fun bits:
2. Finding out 237 needed a flux capasitor (how do you plan on getting the balls to go 88 mph?!?

Oh, we have our secrets.

[RoboMom]

[quote=Elgin Clock]YES!!! The Divas.. lol They rocked! How can anyone forget about them??
and the helicopter sounds, they were all great sports.


[quote]

The head pit diva-Dr. Spence-as well as being an outstanding dancer, is the first woman to graduate in aerospace engineering from the Univ. of MD, is an expert on helicopter design and an engineering professor. She is our state FLL partner. And I think I've talked her into coming to the Championship!

[sw293]

Though we did not win that elusive regional championship banner, this was a banner regional for team 293. We had our best ever qualification performance, and we were the first pick in alliance selection for the first time ever. Our scouting effort was once again superb (we even ran several "mock drafts" on Friday night before alliance selection), allowing us to build what we felt was the most powerful alliance in the field.

The event was very well run. While I was initially concerned about the officiating regarding robot-robot interaction, the refs kept the flags in the pockets throughout the intense elimination rounds and let the robots and drivers decide the championship on the playing field.

Congrats to the winners, 1629, 175, and 1184. To 1629, I guess it turned out better for you that we declined your offer of alliance. We have no hard feelings towards your team and we hope you have none towards us, but team 103 was #1 on our board and we wanted the higher second round pick.

It was a privilege picking Cybersonics team 103. You are one of the benchmark teams (25 being another) against which we measure our performance. We take great satisfaction when we can beat you, but at Cheasapeake we enjoyed working with you even more. We also thoroughly enjoyed working with team 1389. We were very surprised that you had not yet been picked when we chose you. You remind me of 293 before last season--a small, competitive team that builds good robots. Best of luck to both 103 and 1389 in your competitons in this year and in years to come.

For the scout from 175: who were the top 5 teams in the qualification matches in center goals per game and what were their averages? Thanks!

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by sw293

Congrats to the winners, 1629, 175, and 1184. To 1629, I guess it turned out better for you that we declined your offer of alliance. We have no hard feelings towards your team and we hope you have none towards us, but team 103 was #1 on our board and we wanted the higher second round pick.

No hard feelings at all. To tell the truth, we breathed easier when we knew we wouldn't have to play your alliance in the finals. You guys were scary good.

Originally Posted by chrisinmd

A very special thank you and recognition to teams 175, 1629, and 1184, we wouldn't have had a chance if you didn't give us your time-out to allow us to repair our gearbox on the front rollers. You guys are amazing!

Call it following the example of 2train last weekend. Buzz suggested calling our time-out first, and the rest of us agreed wholeheartedly. From a competitive standpoint, it was a tough decision since you guys are so good when you're up and running, but we all agreed we didn't want to win that way. Thanks for the awesome final matches, they were nerve-wracking to say the least.

In the same vein, the GP of the teams we knocked out of the elimination rounds was amazing. Almost every single team came to us and said something along the lines of "Good luck, we'll be cheering for you." It felt awesome to see not only our team and our alliance partners cheering for us during the finals, but several other teams as well. I don't know for sure which were cheering for us and which for our opponents, but that doesn't really matter; all the teams were rooting for everyone to do well. One team I really want to thank is 1727; several of them stood by the curtain near the field the whole time from semis on, encouraging us on the drive team and cheering their heads off. They were the first to congratulate us when we got off the field. Thanks, guys; you have no idea how good it felt to look over and see you rooting for us in between matches.

[ScoutingNerd175]

Originally Posted by sw293

Congrats to the winners, 1629, 175, and 1184.

Thank you very much. You guys had an excellent robot and I think you were the first choice of every team there.

Originally Posted by sw293

For the scout from 175: who were the top 5 teams in the qualification matches in center goals per game and what were their averages? Thanks

Well this should make you happy, although I know that it wasn't your goal

By total shots [auton and driver opporated] (we scouted 7 matches for most teams)
293- 9.667
341- 8.286
399- 7.714
1389- 6.143
56- 5.857
with 237, 888, 175, and 1629 very close

By total shots during driver opporated period
56- 5.75
1389- 5.571
399-5.429
888- 5.286
341- 4.857
with 612 and 293 very close

By total auton shots
293- 5.333
341- 3.429
175- 3.2
399- 2.286
237- 2
with 1629 very close

Hope this isn't an information overload, but I am a data nerd. Anyone else who is curious can ask me in the forum or PM me.

[dbeck103]

Originally Posted by sw293

Though we did not win that elusive regional championship banner, this was a banner regional for team 293. We had our best ever qualification performance, and we were the first pick in alliance selection for the first time ever. Our scouting effort was once again superb (we even ran several "mock drafts" on Friday night before alliance selection), allowing us to build what we felt was the most powerful alliance in the field.

The event was very well run. While I was initially concerned about the officiating regarding robot-robot interaction, the refs kept the flags in the pockets throughout the intense elimination rounds and let the robots and drivers decide the championship on the playing field.

Congrats to the winners, 1629, 175, and 1184. To 1629, I guess it turned out better for you that we declined your offer of alliance. We have no hard feelings towards your team and we hope you have none towards us, but team 103 was #1 on our board and we wanted the higher second round pick.

It was a privilege picking Cybersonics team 103. You are one of the benchmark teams (25 being another) against which we measure our performance. We take great satisfaction when we can beat you, but at Cheasapeake we enjoyed working with you even more. We also thoroughly enjoyed working with team 1389. We were very surprised that you had not yet been picked when we chose you. You remind me of 293 before last season--a small, competitive team that builds good robots. Best of luck to both 103 and 1389 in your competitons in this year and in years to come.

For the scout from 175: who were the top 5 teams in the qualification matches in center goals per game and what were their averages? Thanks!

We have always considered Spike to be a quality team and were honored that you picked us, we are humbled by your remarks and hope to see you in some of the off season events, We do have some unfinished business to take care!!

[Spikey]

Hopefully I can encourage my team to compete in Monty Madness, I guess it all depends on what the rest of the team wants to do.
I came to Chesapeake during my Spring Break to mentor my team and I had a lot of fun. I was really impressed by our drivers and our scouting operation which did a great job. What really impressed me was how fast we fixed our robot after the third quarterfinal match. During that match our infamous net had two poles completely sheered off. We only had 6 minutes to repair our damaged net and we still managed to fix it, mad props to 103 and our pit crew for fixing it so fast. Unfortunantly we were in such a rush to get back on the field we did not replace our battery so our battery died midway through the first semi-final which was dissapoting becasue we could have shot a full clip of balls
Oh well, I was very proud of my team, and I am glad to see they have carried on the traditions from last years team, I am proud to be an alumni and mentor of this team.

Hopefully they can go to Nats, becasue in my opinion this is the best robot our team has built, it would be a shame for it not to go to Nats.

Good luck to all and congrats to the winning alliance on a come from behin victory.

-Spikey

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Freddy204

Each team got 6 matches to play?

No FIRST (as usual) didn't update the CHesepeake standings after day 1.
Check the awards and you can see they didn't update those niether.