2008 Connecticut Regional

[Brandon Holley]

congrats to 1124, 175 and 716!

[Magnechu]

1124 and 175 had amazing robots this year. 1124 did not lose a match throughout the whole tournament, what a showing!

We ended up losing in the semi finals, along with 383 the Brazil team and 549. The Brazil team was an amazing alliance partner and an amazing robot. They used an omni wheel drive system, and they made the wheels themselves! Now THAT'S impressive. 549 was a great defensive bot that almost helped carry us into the finals. Our bot was very solid and we hope to make another good showing in 2 weeks at Long Island.

Congratulations one and all!

[TD78]

Originally Posted by Magnechu

The Brazil team was an amazing alliance partner and an amazing robot. They used an omni wheel drive system, and they made the wheels themselves!

I believe those are mecanum wheels. And their robot looked eerily familiar.

Even though I just went to watch, I wanted to extend congratulations to the winning alliance of 1124, 175, and 716! And also to 126 for winning EI!

I also thought it was pretty cool that all the coaches on the alliance of 195, 126, and 173 were all former students of their respective teams!

See y'all either in Boston or ATL!

[Uberbots]

funny, aquaman, funny.

I cant wait for this years game... I'm so excited to build the robot! (and get yelled at when it doesn't work)

wow 70 teams? thats quite the show.

[Ericgehrken]

This is going to be one big event! I can hardly wait.

[MWTrek]

Aces High, 176, will be there, assuming we don't get snowed in.

[KathieK]

Originally Posted by MWTrek

assuming we don't get snowed in.

[Jon236]

The Ticks (236) will be there, even if we need to bring snowshoes!

Hoping to see all of you at the BASH on Oct 13th!

[Tom Bottiglieri]

I'm not really sure why messages are being deleted in this thread. If the RPC wanted to keep whatever is being discussed a secret, they should have been better secret keepers.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

I'm not really sure why messages are being deleted in this thread. If the RPC wanted to keep whatever is being discussed a secret, they should have been better secret keepers.

A) It had nothing to do with the RPC or the regional itself. (Regional Planning Commitee I'm assuming btw.)

B) It was rumors about a water game in a thread meant to discuss the regional itself, and the speculation about a 70 team regional.

3) The newly registered person "Aquaman101" was pretending to be someone from Team 25 who well known actual Team 25 members (Bharat & someone else) disregarded as being on their team.

4) It was spam in the wrong place. (Duplicated in 2 threads across CD by the same username)

5) The message was reported, and thus removed.


Moving on...

[smurfgirl]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

A) It had nothing to do with the RPC or the regional itself. (Regional Planning Commitee I'm assuming btw.)

B) It was rumors about a water game in a thread meant to discuss the regional itself, and the speculation about a 70 team regional.

3) The newly registered person "Aquaman101" was pretending to be someone from Team 25 who well known actual Team 25 members (Bharat & someone else) disregarded as being on their team.

4) It was spam in the wrong place. (Duplicated in 2 threads across CD by the same username)

5) The message was reported, and thus removed.


Moving on...

I just noticed that you switched from letters to numbers in your list. Was that intentional? (-:

[dsmoker]

Maybe we're nuts, as we still are desperately searching for mentors (found one new one so far), but #558 is registered. See you all there, and at the Bash in a few weeks, too.

[steve0o]

I heard from an anonymous source that there was going to be two fields this year. Not sure if that was supposed to be a secret of if everyone knew that already but that's what i heard.?

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by smurfgirl

I just noticed that you switched from letters to numbers in your list. Was that intentional? (-:

Maybe.. lol No.. I just took a while to write that and wasn't paying attention that much to the format. Oops.

Originally Posted by steve0o

I heard from an anonymous source that there was going to be two fields this year. Not sure if that was supposed to be a secret of if everyone knew that already but that's what i heard.?

With a 70 team capacity, it seems like it would be considered a "super-regional" (such as GTR has been in the past), thus it may have 2 fields, but that's all just a guess at this point till an official announcement is made, but I wouldn't be surprised.
At this point though, it looks like the newly named CT Regional is going to be pretty busy this year no matter what.

[smurfgirl]

Originally Posted by steve0o

I heard from an anonymous source that there was going to be two fields this year. Not sure if that was supposed to be a secret of if everyone knew that already but that's what i heard.?

I'm guessing it depends on if all 70 spots are filled. With the 49/70 last year there was only one field, but I'm assuming more teams will be at the regional this year, what with the rookie teams and all. It would be a new experience to have two fields at the CT Regional, that's for sure.