Does any one going to the regional play a game called Flames of war? im curious if i should bring my army or not for a quick game.
I would appreciate it if people going to chesapeake would participate in this thread. http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45396
bowling? interesting…
The Annapolis regional is always a ton of fun and team 888 cant wait to get there.
It looks like we’ve gotten most of the work done on our robot so if anyone needs help with electronics or autonomous feel free to stop by and ask for the Dude in the hat.
I would like invite all teams attending Chesapeake to go curling with the Team 888 curling team. The Potomac Curling Club will be having an open house at 7:00 on Thursday night. As Skip of the Glenelg Varsity Curling Team, I am challenging all the other teams to a night of stone throws and broomstacking.
Good luck to all teams, especially the rookies!
-Skip Dr. Cole “The Dude” H.
Team 1524 should have some PS2 onlinage, maybe, ToCA Race Driver 3, ToCA Race Driver 2, and whatever my buddies bring. I will be bringing GT4 however, so anyone in the Best Western(I think, will update Wensday morning for correct place) in Annapolis, feel free to join us!
Flames of war is a company level WWII miniatures game that uses 15mm size miniatures. I figure at a collection of nerds as big as this :yikes: someone else has to be a war gamer
Also, are we allowed to keep our ship crate for a work bench? I know we were last year.
Curling is always facinating to watch during the olympics so i might just convince my team to go.
Sorry, I know this is redundant, but I feel it’s very important to reiterate.
Hey now… one catchy soundbyte echoes in my head: “life’s not fair, and neither is FIRST.” I’m saying this even though it was my team that suffered because of some other people’s errors. We’re going to put up with a lot of crap from a lot of idiots in the real world; frankly, I’m just greatful to have experienced FIRST, where idiots and crap are at a minimum.
Having cleared that up, I can say confidently that team 888 had an overall pleasant, positive experience at the Pittsburgh Regional, despite the frustrations. To any individuals who made our acquaintances, please understand the team’s frustration and try to look at it from** our point of view**–you were there too. The situation simply outraged us. This does not excuse our team’s rants, but perhaps the rest of the FIRST world could borrow a little bit of perspective.
To tell you the truth, on Thursday, we felt that a few other teams were absurdly aggressive towards us, both in and outside of the arena. We were even subjected to repeated “speed screenings” because “other teams reported” that our shooter violated a velocity regulation. After three intermittent screenings, absolutely no breach of regulation was found. We were suspicious and a bit insulted, but we beared it.
I feel it’s also important to acknowledge that there were *individuals *who were notably courteous and pure-intentionedly helpful to us as well. They made gestures that were more typical of FIRSTers.
most importantly:
I’m ready to put all of this behind me so that I am completely unburdened to look forward to the Chesapeake Regional. I can only ask and hope that everyone else feels similarly. After all, each day is fresh with no mistakes in it [yet].
I expect that to be fine. I saw teams do it at Pittsburgh this past weekend. You’re on the Carroll County team, aren’t you?
Yep,
you guys were our mentors last year weren’t you?
That would be up to the event organizers. Sometimes they let you - especially if you made your crate so that it doubles as a workbench. But if they are really tight on space, they may want to remove it. A few teams did it in Pittsburgh, but with only 24 teams, we had lots of room.
Well, I (I cannot say about the rest of 1111) casually invite you all to an incredible Improv Show at our school on Friday at 7:30 PM (in South River’s auditorium). Tickets are $5 and do not go to 1111. Trust me, these guys are hilarious and everyone will have a good time. Plus, snacks will be served…so you don’t have to go hungry. The show goes until anywhere between 8:30 PM and 10:00 PM at night, if you want an idea of the time.
I thought it would be a good way to provide some good entertainment outside your hotels, Annapolis Mall, and Medieval Times (though I’m liable to go to either one).
If you need directions, just browse our team website or PM me.
Updates! We want updates! 
How’s the game going? Who is cheering the most?
How’s Buzz doing??
rank list as of a min ago
175
1629
56
614
341
293
181
225
888
1727
612
237
836
399
303
602
etc…it is hard to type when you are doing play by play announcing
Standings at End of Friday (jess jank typed her fingers off for this and i stole the credit):
1629
56
7
181
293
614
888
175
612
1647
237
341
303
602
1727
1111
225
1051
709
484
1748
399
686
836
1218934
1904
224
611
1123
1823
103
1719
334
615
1886
1184
1389
1820
1507
1524
1597
203
122
768
1656
1895
316
1933
1418
165
1894
1446
1900
1849
1544
1449
1791
1168
1464
1195
449
624
1915
Greg,
Be careful of getting too close to Jess … others have been irreversibly harmed by her enthusiasm 
Tell her to type the Friday award winners, we want them too
Award Recipients (I stole the computer from greg… and plus he needed to announce the winners):
Volenteer of the Year: Rob Taminelli
Imagery: 1791
Radioshack Innovation in Control: 1629
Xerox Creativity: 709
Delphi Driving Tomorrow’s Technology: 237
Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers Entrepreneurship: 103
Judges: 1597
Website Design: 1895
Woodie Flower’s Award: Jeremy Skene (612) (I hope to read this entry and those of other regional winners soon!)
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WINNERS!!! Good luck to everyone tomorrow!!!
Thank you Jess!
Can anyone post their impressions of the robots at Chesapeake, I am interested in seeing what people think of the various robots here.
From what I have personally observed this regional is not as deep as the NJ regional, and there are a lot of teams that this is their first regional. There are a lot of shooting robots, but only a few are very accurate, and score consistantly. Anyone want to give their top 5 picks? Please share some thoughts.
Hahaha real nice Kres… now I can see why you are so disturbed… 
And all you had to do was wait one more minute and I’d have had it up for you. No patience…
The internet access has some issues at the venue but we’ll try to keep you updated. I’ve been Greg’s helper monkey all today after filling in for him during practice matches on Thursday and have gotten a little practice in myself as a game announcer, which is a lot of fun (though I still need lots of practice to get as good as Greg and all the other fantastic announcers at Regionals. The competition has been tons of fun so far, filled with great offensive and defensive action. Who knows what will happen tomorrow. Again, congratulations to everyone so far! Can’t wait to see what happens tomorrow. Good luck to all!
Oh, and don’t ask about the boy’s bathroom thing… Greg added the message below his name and mine and he simply doesn’t know what he’s talking about…
Hello everyone, this is a programmer for rookie team 1820 here (I’m not sure if anyone else from my team has posted yet). This is our very first competition ever, and so far it’s turned out to be very exciting. Things were a little rough at the start, but we’ve been doing ok with help from our mentors, team 888. Well, good luck to all of you, and I hope to see you tomorrow!