2008 Boston Regional

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Roger

Food is so good, they come up from New Jersey to eat there!




See post #7. The "T" (MBTA) has the Boston College "B" line of the Green line goes out Comm Ave. If you're coming from Amtrak you can get off at Back Bay and walk up to Copley OUTBOUND and catch the trolley from there. From South Station you take the Red Line up to Park Street and transfer to the Green Line. Make sure it's the "B" trolley OUTBOUND. Not to Government Center.

If you do get off at Back Bay, you'll walk past the park with The Hint (42.349905, -71.076072, 342,242026) in front of Trinity Church.

By the way, the trolley is the "public transportation" to get to the Science Museum, but if your coming from the competition, you'll have to transfer at Govt Center to the E line, which is the only one that continues to the museum stop. (Or at least, that was the way it was the last time I took it a couple years ago.)

I learned my lesson from years of driving around Boston (born in Boston. Visit relatives regularly) to take the T whenever possible. Boston parking prices can be quite insane as is weekday morning traffic.

[Brandon Holley]

Originally Posted by Roger

Food is so good, they come up from New Jersey to eat there!

While the food is delicious...I go to school at Northeastern University in Boston, so I did not come up from "the jerz"

[Jessica Boucher]

Originally Posted by Roger

If you want something a bit higher than Taco Bell (~shudder~) there is the Sunset Cantina* across the street. It does takeout or eat-in and the portions are big and good. My boss goes there for lunch all the time, and it's where we have our "office parties", but only because it's right outside our back door.

*Don't worry about the "Restaurant Closed" on the website -- it means it opens at 11:30am.

I prefer their sister restaurant, the Sunset Grill and Tap, a couple stops down on the B line, but both are awesome. The Cantina can get wicked busy because of its prime location.

Koko Ed is coming to Boston?!?!? Now the party can begin! We must find a place with air hockey now!

[kibbs425]

For anyone not familiar with the T visit www.mbta.com

It's the website for the T. They have trip planners on the website too, so you can plan out your commutes, roughly... The T in general is pretty good though. It at the minimum will tell you an approximate time to go across town. This is not perfect though, there are backups occasionally and other things that will cause delays, especially around rush hour.

Also Green line trains can become very packed, around rush hour/busy night times, so make sure you can split up your group just in case you have to. I think in general though you are far enough out going inbound where it shouldn't be too bad.

If you are taking the T to the Museum you'll need to transfer to a Lechmere train. Lechmere trains do tend to be E trains but they are only specific B, C, D or E Trains when they are headed out of the city towards the end of the B, C, D or E line. When they are coming inbound they are either Government Center, North Station or Lechmere.

Just some experiences from taking the T for 4 years. Hopefully this will help some of you.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Jessica Boucher

I prefer their sister restaurant, the Sunset Grill and Tap, a couple stops down on the B line, but both are awesome. The Cantina can get wicked busy because of its prime location.

Koko Ed is coming to Boston?!?!? Now the party can begin! We must find a place with air hockey now!

Yeah. Wayne asked me to volunteer so I applied late but there may not be any more jobs to be had.

[kibbs425]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Yeah. Wayne asked me to volunteer so I applied late but there may not be any more jobs to be had.

Oh, I'm sure they can find a spot and if not stop by the Ask an Engineer booth! I'm sure there will be many jobs to be had.

[Brandon Holley]

A little birdie told me that the mainlight curtain is up and running in beantown!

http://mainlight.net/softled/images/

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by Brandon Holley

A little birdie told me that the mainlight curtain is up and running in beantown!

http://mainlight.net/softled/images/

This curtain is one of the coolest things the Boston Regional sports. I wonder if the Blue Man Group will put up graphics during their show?

[MikeDubreuil]

Originally Posted by Jessica Boucher

I prefer their sister restaurant, the Sunset Grill and Tap

Sunset Grill in Allston is my favorite restaurant of all time! The Cantina across from Agganis is very convenient and serves the same food; except PBJ sandwiches, they are only in Allston. Sunset FTW!

[Greg Marra]

I was just at the venue, and everything looks GREAT! The pixel panel looks awesome, and has a special "OVER DRIVE" logo with little race cars. The field is all set up, and the crates are ready to go.

This is going to be an awesome event!

[Macdaddy549]

Team549 will be competing. Can't wait. We missed last years.
GO PATS!!!

[Roger]

Go to http://maps.live.com and turn on Bird's eye view on the Agganis Arena (sorry, I can't seem to link it here) -- the North and South views shows a finished building (except for all the construction trailers), but the East and West views are the building is still wide open!

[bbr4d3r]

Hey everyone Team 20 will be there. How many teams going have gone to another regional so far and how did things go for your team??

[commodoredl]

Team 578 will be at Boston, we remember you guys from FLR. Great robot. We didn't do so hot due to lots of electrical problems. So far there looks to be some great competition attending this one.

[kborer22]

Originally Posted by bbr4d3r

Hey everyone Team 20 will be there. How many teams going have gone to another regional so far and how did things go for your team??

125 will be there, we went to PHX....our robot did not show up until about 3pm on thursday, but we were able to get up and working(with support from all the arizona teams) , and were semi finalists, with a few minor tweaks we will be firing on all cylinders, looking forward to yet another AMAZING Boston Regional....Any teams that need help we are continuing our Ask an Engineer program, we will have a booth set up where you can come and someone will help you with whatever robot related problems you have!!! See you all soon