13-03-2007 21:41

deshirider430

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or got knifed

13-03-2007 21:41

Chuck Glick

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About how many matches worth of tubes are there? Because that could be costly...

13-03-2007 21:42

CaseyKasem77

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danggg that is a lot of tubes. I knew a few bots would pop the tubes but never knew this many would be popped wow.

13-03-2007 21:43

Koko Ed

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Apparently FIRST planned to go through alot of tubes (they have to be the flimsiest game piece FIRST has ever chosen) because at BAE I saw a huge pile of tubes. Espcially Keepers which tells me they plan to sacrafce them if they don't come along willingly.

13-03-2007 21:44

Dylan Gramlich

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haha yeah i knew about the secret stash from Cromer and was tempted to get a few more for when we were practicing since we only had like 3 spoilers...but i didnt cause we had issues and had to bring the bot to the pits.

13-03-2007 21:44

Richard Wallace

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I heard the defense was very intense at FLR. Guess some of those ringers just were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

13-03-2007 21:47

Gertlex

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Most of those ringers look fine to me...

13-03-2007 21:47

rachakate

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I heard the FIRST average was 55 popped tubes a day.

13-03-2007 21:47

Alex Cormier

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well most of them are ones that were patched and ready to go for qual. matches. but we were told, no taped or fixed tubes for elims, so we had to keep those far away.

13-03-2007 21:48

Joe Matt

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I really hope FIRST recycles these tubes or something, otherwise it's going to be really bad for the environment....

13-03-2007 21:51

Koko Ed

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Donate them to little kids for sledding.

13-03-2007 21:54

Joe Matt

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/me whistles





But what about the popped ones?

13-03-2007 21:55

Alex Cormier

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nice lunch tray there matt!

13-03-2007 21:56

Tetraman

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These were all the tubes used in the qualifying matches at FLR. About 2-3 tubes were broken every 3 matches, and sometimes about 3 each match. Many of these tubes were tubes that were from BAE, and we patched them and used them before we used the stash meant for FLR. After Qualifying matches, Finals tubes have to be pure, as in they must be new and no patches with tape. We had 32 blue tubes at the beginning of Finals to use, and we ended up with 5 left over afterwards.

I have a tube with 25 patched holes that works like new. It took me forever to find them all.

13-03-2007 21:59

Kyle A

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That is both a good and bad idea at the same time. We have a hill in the back of our school and we decided to try the tubes out. They work perfectly as a sled but there is no way to really hold on to the tube. Also if you go over any small hill at the bottom of the hill you will fly into the air and smack onto the pavement and land into a puddle. (Atleast this is what happened to one person on our team.) They are really fun though as long as you ditch it before the bottom, or not if you don't mind hitting the road.
And I know that in Pittsburgh they had crates full of new tubes so they definatly had alot to spare, and must have known that tubes would be popped or get worn out fast.

13-03-2007 22:00

Tetraman

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The holes can be as small as a pin hole. About 2 hours later when we were ready to deflate them all, it didn't look like this, but more of a wrinkled tube yard.

And there are at least 20-30 more underneath all them that are completely deflated that you can't see.

13-03-2007 22:28

dlavery

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Boy, am I ever glad we decided not to use eggs as game pieces like I originally suggested...

13-03-2007 22:34

Tetraman

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They should be Cadbury Creme Eggs. Therefore the broken ones are much better and much more enjoyable to clean up.

13-03-2007 22:36

JaneYoung

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Sweet!

14-03-2007 02:01

Gertlex

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My siblings got a couple of the used ringers from GLR

I wouldn't recommend them for sledding; they even say "Not a Life Saving Device" or something similar.

14-03-2007 02:21

artdutra04

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Tubes and saucer sleds are always interesting to sled on, especially because they can go anywhere. But with a little creative engineering, you can create snowbanks on the hill to "steer" the tubes away from objects., kind of like a luge/bobsled course. (Although the best hills I've found are those that lead right down to a lake. By the time you get a good 12"-18" of ice on that lake, you'll never have to worry about ditching your sled at the bottom of the run!)

Too bad there is nowhere to sled in downtown Hartford, CT. They are forecasting show from Friday night into Saturday this year, which is about the time all the dead tubes from the UTC Regional would start to accumulate.

14-03-2007 08:10

robostangs548

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Good thing I got my hands on some of those that didn’t have holes in them. And oh about the whole costly thing.... One, FIRST gets an amazing deal on all of these, or they are donates. Second, Even if they don't they only cost like two bucks a piece, and there is like 100 per regional, there is like 30 regional’s, so 100x30x2 = $6000 which is nothing considering the fact that there is 50 teams per regional, that pay 5k each, and there is 30 regional’s, which is 50x5000x30 = $7,500,000 so pretty much that is like chump change. Anyway good thing that I got my hands on a couple of those that were left over from GLR! They were handing out the ones that were in "Used" shape. Which mine was brand new. But yah.... I agree it is sad to see them all there. And even worse to think about that at the end of nationals they just get thrown away.... Does anyone else think that it is rediculus that the judges just knife them out of grabbers that dont let them go..... WOW when I saw that I just thought what a waste! No big deal... I guess they have to do what they have to do. This is a great picture though!

14-03-2007 08:14

petek

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I suggest Peeps - they're more resilient and come in so many shapes and colors!

14-03-2007 08:16

GaryVoshol

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Did you ever put Peeps in a microwave?

14-03-2007 08:53

Taylor

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Of course the tubes had holes in them - if they didn't they would be disks!

14-03-2007 09:00

mtaman02

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At the NJ Regional we took the dead ringers, spoilers & keepers and donated them to the audience. Whoever wanted one could have as many as they wish. It's better then throwing them out. A team could patch the tube and re-use it till it can't be re-used no longer. I'm pretty sure FIRST got a great deal and had a lot of these tubes made up. If I'm not mistaken each regional was sent a pre-set amount (probably according to how many teams were competing at each event) and also had a few spare crates full as well. All in All thats a lot of pool tubes. Imagine what the carnage will be like at the championship

14-03-2007 09:03

Koko Ed

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Says you.

14-03-2007 09:38

Pavan Dave

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I wonder how that would work? With all of that splatter we'd have to have the audience wear safety glasses and I don't think that would go over very well...

14-03-2007 09:45

Pat McCarthy

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At GLR, we gave a ton of the popped Ringers out for judges and crew and whatnot to wear as skirts. Seemed like half of the people there had one on by the end of Saturday!
The slashed Keepers were given to the team who had tried to place it as a 'souvenir'!

14-03-2007 10:13

Taylor

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Gallagher as emcee....?

14-03-2007 13:01

petek

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Gallagher robots!

14-03-2007 13:10

Kati_Kat

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Yea we did the same thing at FLR with the whole idea of wearing them as skirts. And, at the end, a few people jumped into the big pile of them. That was definitely a lot of fun and I now own a pretty red skirt.