Today was a good day, we had some electrical issues mid-day but we’re all together now. We were playing pretty good in all of our matches, finishing off the day at 14th place. Lots of good robots out there…can’t wait for tomorrow and the semi finals.
today was my first philly regional and you guys made it totally awesome. Thanks for having such great spirit and I hope to see you guys out on the field tomorrow during regular matches and the FINALS!.
Congratulations Steve Bartlett on winning the Woody Flowers Award!!
Just think, I knew you way back when… well let’s face it, way back when you didn’t look too much different than you do today!!!
Why thank you Kyle for the shout out. I unfortunately will not be returning as Pit Announcer for tomorrow’s matches. However I will be there for my team, 204, mentoring. I must say that I had so much fun Pit Announcing for the past two days and meeting a lot of cool people and teams.
Shouts to
Ducky, Brenda and Momma Troy and Judy for helping with announcements, keeping everything on schedule and also making me laugh throughout the entire two days
All the cool people from CD at Philadelphia. You guys and girls rock. Hope you are feeling better Sara (Bandchick)
Team 433, the Firebirds for saying HI! and chatting with me.
To all the other teams for making the 2007 Philadelphia Regional one of the greatest regional competitions that I have been to in awhile.
Stop by Team 204’s Pit and say hi
I can’t wait for tomorrow competition. Good Luck
From the match results it looks like this regional is a complete tossup. The entire field is full of capable offensive machines. Based on what I saw in NJ, 486 will be a force to be reckoned with in the playoffs. Their ramp design is excellent and will easily get the bonus points needed to secure a win.
Alliance selection with live edits
#1 103 272 87
#2 365 316 709
#3 1712 222 484
#4 1143 204 1791
#5 539 399 834
#6 84 341 181
#7 1647 357 571
#8 423 433 486
teams are currently at lunch and the 24 teams are getting ready to take part in the “Big Dance”. This regional has been full of high energy and never ending team spirit. thanks to 399 for being our cheering buddies.
Looking at the fierce competition of the qualifying, the finals are going to be wicked tough. I cant wait for the final matches to start at 1!
Semis
1v5
6v7
816 replaces 399 (carrier plates) in #5 and wins in match 3
#6 wins in 3 matches
Finals
5v6
539 816 (399) 834 versus 84 341 181
Congrats to
Team 341 for winning E.I and Team 365 for Chairmans.
Thanks to 1143 and 1791 for being great alliance partners.
Well we had a blast at this competition we won the spirit award and we were on the runner up alliance. We had to back out of the semis because our banebots carrier plates failed on us for a third time this weekend. Now I really think this is a problem that needs to be addressed by FIRST because we have had the soft plates hard plates and even used a different gear ratio plate. No matter we still had a great time thanks to our alliance members teams 539, 834, and 816. We will see you who are going to atalanta in about a week and a half.
Wow, what a great regional! 399 lead the cheering and made the event crazy fun. there were some of the best machines here and they showed it in the past 3 days. 341 84 and 181 were amazing with great and very fast scoring from 341 and 181 and the best defense I have ever seen from anyone provided by Chuck 84. The rookies 2229 and 2253 who both won awards were amazing for rookie teams and I can’t wait to see them next year. team 1712 was incredibly fast, I was told that was due to the AndyMark products, and they were just great at scoring. Teams 103 272 and 87 made up the #1 alliance and they were the 3 teams that all through the regional were always fast, high scoring and good at defense they put on a great show. 341 won the EI award and it couldn’t have gone to a better team congratulations to them for an amazing robot and team.
Wayne Penn was once again great at getting the crowd excited and dancing and made the event one of the best I have been to.
There are many many more people and teams who made Philly a great regional and I hope that all of you come back, I will be back later to thank the ones I didn’t here but I gotta get some rest 
Yes we did use AndyMark Products, but we used AM one speed gearboxes(similar to 2006 kit gearboxes)!
We’d like to thank our great partners 222 and 484 for helping us put up a fight against 341, 181, and 84. Chuck 84 played some of the strongest defense I have seen in a while, and 181 and 341 just filled that rack. Grats to 341 for winning E.I. and Grats to 365 for the Chairmans.
See you all in ATL!
-Chuck G.
We ended up in 16th over all. Had some difficulties with out robot at first but in the end got all the kinks worked out. All in all that was one of the best Philly Regionals I have ever been to. The energy from all the teams was great. Especially from our friends from the westcoast 399. You guys were mad awesome. Hope to see most of you down in atlanta and if you wanna talk just find 816
Chuck would like to thank Miss Daisy and the Birds of Prey for joining us in the finals matches and helping us to our first regional championship. The competition was fierce, but you made it happen! (I still can’t believe we really did it!!!)
The finals matches were fierce! 539, 816, 399, and 834 made us work for the wins.
Congrats to our sister team. 284, for the special Judges’ Award. You’re always willing to lend a hand or two when help is needed.
Congratulations to all the award winners in Philly!
Thanks to all of the volunteers who made the Philadelphia Regional not only possible, but such a pleasure to attend. We all had a great time!
(The rest of my team mates aren’t home yet, but I had to say thanks to everyone.)
I would like to say congrads to Moe for Chairmans, Daisy for Engineering Inspiration, and 103 being the first seed. Also the 6th seeded alliance(84 341 181) for winning the whole thing. A BIG THANK YOU TO TEAM 1647 AND 571. Thats was an amazing alliance. To all teams that was playing good job and hope to see you at the champs or a offseason.
team 422 attended this regionmal for the first time ever, and we had a blast. The energy levels were high, and you could feel the gracious profesionalim all around you. Our robot worked well, but unfortunently we did not have the record to proove it. Still, we enjoyed the weekend and look forward to possibly coming back in the future.
Well, it’s been said a few times that it wasn’t our team’s first time ever, but whatever. :rolleyes: I really liked the regional in Philly more than some others I’ve been to. It was a bit smaller sure, but it was filled with really great teams and everyone there was awesome (Also, it was nice and cold 
). Hello again to Melissa Thiessen, it was great meeting you.
One more thing, for the Firebirds: Can you send me any information you have involving the shipping of robots over to Ghana? I know that our team has 3 robots that were built before any of our current members were even on the team, and there’s one other that may be fixable from '05. We’d have to fix them up a bit to replace salvaged PWM’s and such, but we should be able to have them in working condition again in no time. I talked to a couple of you at the event about it, some said it might be an issue being all the way down in Virginia, others said it should be fine. I just want to make sure we can work it out. 