2007 St. Louis Regional

[Richard Wallace]

Registration for the 2007 St. Louis Regional is approaching 60% of capacity (25/42), with seven eight states represented as of this evening. Breakdown is as follows: 10 teams from the immediate St. Louis area, 6 from the Kansas City area, 4 from Indiana, 2 from Iowa, and one each from Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Mississippi. So far there are six rookie teams registered.

Based on strong past performance, I'll go out on a limb and predict at least one Indiana team in the 2007 winning alliance.

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by Richard

Breakdown is as follows: 10 teams from the immediate St. Louis area, 6 from the Kansas City area, 4 from Indiana, 2 from Iowa, and one each from Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Mississippi. So far there are six rookie teams registered.

You can count on another from Indiana signing up, as a second regional. The TechnoKats attended back in 2003 and it's time to go again.

Never been up in the Arch,
Andy B.

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Andy Baker

Never been up in the Arch,
Andy B.

Andy, I'll make it a priority to see that you get to the Arch. As an engineer you might actually prefer the movie on how it was constructed, shown several times a day in one of two theatres located in the museum under the base, to the somewhat claustrophobic elevator ride that gets you to the top. The views from up there are nice, though.

[JaneYoung]

It sways - the best part is put your back up against it at the base and then look up. That is fun.

[Jeff Waegelin]

The Rat Pack is looking at a trip to St. Louis this year. We want to do a Week 1 event, and we've heard nothing but good things about this regional. So, hopefully we'll add Michigan to your list of states...

[Kellen Hill]

We plan on signing up once we can as our 2nd regional. Hopes its as fun as its been the past 2 years.

[GMKlenklen]

As soon as we get it togeather, the MASMabots will be joining in!

[Paul Copioli]

Rumor as it that the ThunderChickens will be at St. Louis this year (we like following the teknokitties around) .....

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Paul Copioli

Rumor as it that the ThunderChickens will be at St. Louis this year (we like following the teknokitties around) .....

Egad! Thunderchickens!

Last year the Bomb Squad and the Beast, this year the T-Kats and Thunderchickens!

The rafters will resound, the floor will shake! (Really, it will; it's on plastic tiles over an ice hockey rink!)

[amandab]

Unfortunately the Robot Rams will not be attending the competition this year. All of our mentors left to teach at other schools and we have not found anyone who will be a mentor and get the team going this year. Hopefully we will be back next year.
Amanda

[Hieb]

Amanda,

Hopefully we can work something out with Spartan Robotics (2014) so you can continue in FIRST. We could use your experience, and "What?!?" says Hi.

Hieb

[Woe]

Just saw the note that FIRST will no longer be involved with the hotel recommendations. River City Robots (the Channel Cats FRC team 1094) is based in St. Charles County and would be happy to give you ideas of where to stay. The other St. Charles County teams are team 1288 and team 1706. Going out a limb, I would say they would be happy to assist as well.

[Sgraff_SRHS06]

Originally Posted by Richard

Egad! Thunderchickens!

Last year the Bomb Squad and the Beast, this year the T-Kats and Thunderchickens!

The rafters will resound, the floor will shake! (Really, it will; it's on plastic tiles over an ice hockey rink!)

What's this? A robotics POKE WAR? Sounds like a good reason to pool $500 for a hotel in St. Louis, other than watching the Cardinals and Mets plodding around like they're the evil Yanks.

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Sgraff_SRHS06

What's this? A robotics POKE WAR? Sounds like a good reason to pool $500 for a hotel in St. Louis, other than watching the Cardinals and Mets plodding around like they're the evil Yanks.

Nobody is as evil as the Yanks. Let's suspend discussion of the Cards and Mets for the next four hours or so. (I'll be offline, glued to my TV, until Game 5 is over. StL is a baseball town...)

But if you're serious about coming to STL March 1-3, let me know and we'll get you signed up as a volunteer. Go for field reset, and you'll get to see the action up close.

[Kyle Love]

I am pumped about this one! It will be realllllllly fun!