Conor - I’m sorry I couldn’t get a hold of you to come down to the field for the short fuel cell demonstration; I somehow missed you each time I went to your team’s pit.
congrats to my team, team 1676 on not only placing higher than we have ever placed before (placing as the overall #3 seed, with a previous best of the #49 rank), but also winning the WEBSITE AWARD, SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD, and QUALITY DESIGN AWARD… as well as making it to the semi finals, congrats to everyone else, including the winning alliances
Umm, yeah. There was a glitch in the rankings tabulation and those aren’t correct. All teams completed 7 rounds (and a few did 8 to fill in the matches) - which was our first clue that not all was well in the data.
Great heaping kudos to Sara and Darrell for exporting the qualification match results to Excel and creating an accurate ranking - in less than 30 minutes!
Congrats to all the teams that competed at the NJ Regional. I must agree with everyone that this is one of best regionals in FIRST. Today was one heck of a competition.
Remarks
Team 75 and 1403: Congrats to 75 for winning Chairmans Award and 1403 for winning Engineering Inspiration Award. You guys truly deserve this honors for the hard work and dedication you put into FIRST.
Wayne P: Amazing job as an emcee for this regional, one of the best in FIRST!
Monty’s Madness will return for another round of great robot competition in New Jersey. When I got the pamphlet, I was ecstatic.
Volunteers: It was fun meeting all you and sharing this wonderful experience together.
I must say that this is one of the greatest robotics competition that I have been to for a long time now. I had a blast meeting other volunteers and talking to other them about FIRST. Good luck to all teams in upcoming regionals.
Kudos to you Pete for dancing with a vacuum cleaner. That was very entertaining, and I’m laughing now just thinking about it 
Oh and great work as usual keeping things running.
I would just like to thank team 75 for all there support throughout the year.
You guys were a real help. 
Congrats to all teams. It was so much fun and lots of great memories.
**Congrats teams 25,103 and 1302. **
**And to Team 1403 for winning Engineering Inspiration
And 2016 for the rookie all star award!**
And A huge thanks to Teams 1403 and team 11 for being the best alliance partners we could ask for:)
So I’m pretty sure (and also pretty sure that everyone else on 1547 agrees) that NJ was one of the best regionals we’ve ever been to. It actually made me cry at the end. Thanks to everyone that made it so memorable!!! Congrats to every team that won an award.
A special thanks to Wayne for letting Waldo do his hair and all the random spirit things (the hokey pokey, the conga line, and the wave). Love everyone!!! Boston in 3 weeks - hope to see most of you again there.
Glad you thought so. It was nice to meet some Canadian “sisterin”, particularly Canadian FIRST “sisterin”. Hope you return to NJ again. My whole team was teasing me about the national anthem when you guys were singing it- it had been a long time since I had heard it, and I enjoyed it. (Thanks for showing my team how the anthem really goes- half the time, they’re just “Oh Canada, Oh Canada, …”)I really want one of those shirts too- Zara should be getting in touch with you guys soon. Congrats on the Imagery Award, and hopefully you’ll return.
Congrats to 25, 103, and 1302 for winning. Congrats to 75 for a well-deserved Chairman’s and to 1403 for the Engineering Inspiration. Congrats also go to 2016 for the Rookie All Star award- we won it our rookie year. Show the judges you deserved it by coming back and doing more next year.
Thanks everyone for a great regional!!
EDIT: In case anyone needs them, here’s the results.
Here is full resolution videos of both the (not including the false starts and field resets) Finals matches.
I have quarter and semifinal matches as well and may add them.
I must add that the level of play during the Elimination rounds was fantastic on everyone’s part. Your robots really showed their stuff!
Specials include the Waldo conga line, the 359 hula, and Pete Kieselbach on vacuum.
Heh… 
I’d like to thank both Teams 103 and 1302 for being AMAZING alliance partners - we look forward to playing with you at the Championship Event!
Also, congrats to the Finalist Alliance, 359, 486, and 1155 - you put in a tremendous amount of effort, and made the final matches very interesting. It was awesome playing against our friends from Hawaii, and if all goes well, hopefully we can visit you next year!
I’d also like to thank teams 1547, 1923, and 1089 for letting us borrow batteries for our alliance during the elimination matches.
I have to agree with the others and say that this was the best NJ Regional that I’ve yet to experience - there were definitely many memorable moments, matches, and crazy plays.
Thank you so much to all of the teams who were at the 2007 NJ Regional. You all made the regional an amazing experience for me, as well as for the rest of my team.
A special congratulations to the NJ Regional Champions, 25, 103, and 1302. You all did an amazing job, and your robots were truly outstanding.
Congrats to 1403 for your Engineering Inspiration Award, 2191 for the Rookie Inspiration Award, as well as to 2016 for winning the Rookie All Star Award.
To all other teams, congratulations for your hard work, dedication, and efforts at this year’s event.
I am truly proud of all of you.
For our first time to NJ, and I believe, to a Week 1 regional, 177 had tons of fun and really enjoyed the competition at NJ. Congratulations to all of the award winners, especially for 1403’s Engineering Inspiration, 75’s Chairmans, all of the rookie awards, and the WFA. Also, thank you to the great teams who defined the regional, including, but not limited to, 75 for ALL of their assistance everywhere, 1547 for the Wave and the Canadian National Anthem (I can’t believe I’ve never actually heard it before), and of course, our alliance partners, 223 and 2191 for being great team-mates.
I apologize to all of the people who did not see me (Sorry for ignoring you Laura) as I was running around trying to get 177 queued all of the time yet deal with NASA losing power to Kennedy Space Center for the webcast. Roho - I still need to trade shirts.
Also, we should have a full archive of all of the Saturday Matches in full quality. It will make its way to the TBA TV archives soon enough, but if anyone really wants some specific matches, Sam Hillyer from 177 (AV_Guy on CD), should be able to help you out.
PS: Congrats to 2191, our alliance partners, on their Rookie Inspiration. The Judges were asking us about your team after Alliance Selection, but after playing with you guys, it looks like our good word wasn’t needed with how impressive your robot and your team was. Congratulations!
Congrats to all award winners!
First and foremost, thanks and congrats to our alliance partners 103 and 1302.
Thank you 359, 1155 and 486 for an exciting final match. It was great to see you guys come all the way from Hawaii.
I hope you Canadian folks had fun too…
1089 - thank you for your batteries.
NJ Regional committee - lets have more than 7 matches next year per team…
Wayne Penn- happy birthday!
Ok I just got home (woke up at 4am, at the arena by 7, worked SBA until 5ish, then worked until 1) so I’d like to add my few cents in and apologize in advance if my post runs long…
I second what Pete is saying. If it weren’t for Sara and Darrell we’d still bet there right now. What you three were able to do with that field is nothing short of miraculous.
A very big thank you to our Canadian friends from Where’s Waldo for helping keep the excitement up (not to mention doing a great job on Wayne’s and my hair). We’d love to see you back next year and many many more years to come.
Of course the congrats go out to 25, 103, and 1302. 25 going back to back and 103 going back to back to back. Winning a regional once is impressive, let alone being able to repeat numerous times.
To Wayne: You did an amazing job as MC, the excitement you poured into the event was breathtaking and I personally cannot wait to work with you in the upcoming weeks.
To everyone else in attendance, thanks for making this the best NJ Regional in my 8 year career with FIRST.
I was processing the NJ match list for Fantasy First purposes, and I simply can’t get a standings chart that matches the one used for elimination picking. Can someone post the top 16 rankings of NJ?
Here are my results:
25 6 0 1 13 0.857 260
836 6 1 0 12 18.714 256
1676 6 1 0 12 13.571 256
223 5 1 1 11 12.429 64
1807 5 1 1 11 10.000 44
613 5 1 1 11 9.429 98
1155 5 1 1 11 8.000 36
2180 5 1 1 11 5.429 63
75 4 0 3 11 4.429 46
375 5 2 0 10 22.286 256
1218 5 2 0 10 10.714 260
708 5 2 0 10 9.571 44
103 5 2 0 10 1.429 98
1391 4 2 1 9 9.571 32
1403 4 2 1 9 8.000 128
1881 4 2 1 9 3.571 236
694 4 2 1 9 2.143 64
88 4 2 1 9 1.429 76
359 4 3 0 8 16.000 64
2016 4 3 0 8 12.857 72
177 4 3 0 8 11.000 46
293 4 3 0 8 10.714 72
716 4 3 0 8 9.571 38
237 4 3 0 8 8.429 236
2140 4 3 0 8 7.714 46
1495 4 3 0 8 2.000 260
381 4 3 0 8 1.429 128
522 3 2 2 8 0.286 76
165 3 3 1 7 6.143 30
1617 3 3 1 7 2.857 36
869 3 3 1 7 1.429 16
1048 3 3 1 7 1.429 6
816 3 4 0 6 9.571 39
1302 3 4 0 6 7.286 35
1367 3 4 0 6 2.429 17
224 3 4 0 6 2.286 8
486 3 4 0 6 1.429 57
550 2 3 2 6 0.286 4
219 2 4 1 5 16.143 64
1727 2 4 1 5 6.857 32
1811 2 4 1 5 6.714 38
1882 2 4 1 5 4.143 17
637 2 4 1 5 2.143 16
1689 2 4 1 5 1.714 16
1547 2 4 1 5 1.429 64
1672 2 5 0 4 15.571 64
1279 2 5 0 4 10.714 44
714 2 5 0 4 9.571 32
1923 2 5 0 4 8.143 32
303 2 5 0 4 5.857 31
341 2 5 0 4 4.429 32
2191 1 5 1 3 12.714 38
555 1 5 1 3 9.429 64
11 1 5 1 3 8.571 36
1089 1 5 1 3 8.000 54
136 1 5 1 3 0.286 2
834 1 6 0 2 18.714 64
41 0 5 2 2 3.286 23
102 1 6 0 2 1.429 8
Unfortunately the pit display throughout the day only showed the overall ranking of teams and not their win-loss record. Maybe the “improved” version will correct this oversight.
Good job Sara!
Pics of robotos lifted in NJ.
