FLR was good Day 1, I only wish they had the Real Time Scoring working 
Anyone elses thoughts?
Some very impressive looking machines on the field
Team 188 - paint roller shooter is amazing to watch in action
awesome bots after they got working!! oh and they had scoring going in the late afternoon.
Heres my awesome bot list from thurs:
229 Division by Zero (nice pneumatics)
191 X-Cats
1511 Rolling Thunder (after it got working)
1591 Greece Gladiators (ours, of course!!)
1126 Sparx
MY top few List.
I will not post about my team, 229.
1126
340
191
1559
1713
1901
They had the RTS thign on the screen however it was not working correctly. That one match had 223 points scored. The Center goals works perfect yet the cornor goals would count 2 balls as 4 or 6 and if there was like 10 being put through its would add as many as 25-30 points,I hope they get it fixed, if not we better find some volunteers with a fast trigger finger. We dont need matches ending in controversy.
On a different note, some great teams
-639
-1126
-229
-191
I think for the number of robots that we have, we really have some good teams at FLR this year
Robots that caught my eye today (not including my own teams bot).
1559 (great autonomous mode)
229 (vomits out mass quanities 
and put on one heck of a show jumping straight off of the ramp )
1126 (when combined with 229 made for an insane show)
1901 (tough little bugger)
1511 (once they got it put back together it worked well)
340 (Jason was busting my chops that it wasn’t doing anything in the morning and it was perfectly fine)
211 ( A little unstable but nice shooting mechnism and autonomous mode)
Ed, Is my list the same what from i told ya? i had a mind lapse when i got here.
You forgot 1713.
my mistake, i had posted 1731, not 1713.
Wow, great pics.
Let’s see… who wouldn’t want to take a picture of our giant red furball/elmo suit? And wait, when did we get new team polos!?
Good luck to all the teams at FLR. And a second nod to 639, 191, 340, 772, 229, 1511, 1126.
PS Can someone drive me from Boston to RIT…
PPS Videos?!
Haha… pick me up in Waterloo on the way… please :). And a second vote for those videos!
Also, thanks for posting those pictures, that’s the first time I’ve seen my team’s robot! (my reading week was right after it was shipped!) I hope you all have an awesome time tomorrow! That was one awesome regional last year.
Team 1930 has fixed our robot and our shooting is accurate now, but we found out we can’t go up the ramp the hard way (by falling down, nothing broke though).
I read the news today Oh-boy!
About a lucky Bot who made the grade:
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060310/NEWS01/603100398/1002/NEWS
So during the first week of MIT last fall, I was hanging out with a friend I met over the summer at camp. In the room, I noticed Dan Lopez after a few seconds delay (he drove for 191 last FLR w/me)… pretty awesome coincidence 
Good luck again to all FLR teams on this first day of qualification competition.
Thanks for sharing the photos, Ed. I look forward to seeing more soon.
It sure is hard sitting here, twiddling my thumbs, waiting for results at home.
I just got an update from Needel, he says 191 is in first with an 8-1 record, 1126 in second at 7-2, then a big old jumbled mess. 229 was sitting around 10thish/early teens.
He also said that the high score was about 109, 340-1126-229, that alliance is incredible. I dont know how the heck the randomizer spit that one out.
Well… As day 2 of competition winds down. I just wanna say kudos to all the teams out there. All robots looked very impressive.
Congratz to 229, 340, and 1126 for setting the regional high score so far with 109.
I just thought the match that got reset about 8 times before it actually went on was really funny. When they reset the system, they had everyone come onto the field and do the electric slide. It was originally gonna be a 3v2 match, but because of all the resets, it gave the other team enough time to come onto the field.
I was very surprised to see JVN as MC this year. He’s doing a really great job.
CAN’T WAIT FOR TOMORROW!!!
Props to a very well updated online record. Here are the quick links:
Standings:
http://www2.usfirst.org/2006comp/Events/ROC/rankings.html
Match Results:
http://www2.usfirst.org/2006comp/Events/ROC/matches.html
Awards:
http://www2.usfirst.org/2006comp/Events/ROC/awards.html
Corey,
We have some awesome competitors here as well, especially some of the rookie teams.
It’s definitely a greater variety with only 30 teams here vs Trenton’s 63 teams since each team gets 13 matches each.
Congratulations all today’s award winners especially to FLR WFA Jason Rees of 340 and SparX for their Awesome controls - (Go Mike Bortfedlt and Team!) We sure do Xerox proud this weekend!
Ellery