2007 UTC Connecticut Regional!

Competition Regional Competitions
#123

I had a great time at the regional. I really enjoyed it, especially as a part of a rookie team. A lot of cool stuff happened, including changing out a BaneBots carrier plate of whom’s pins fell out in under 8 minutes!

Kind of a sucky way to end the day though… After the closing ceremonies, we had a Social back at our build site, and I had to leave to go to the hospital due to some chest pain (I have a history of pneumothoraxs…) Turns out it was just a pulled muscle in my back from picking up the bot… Glad it was this though (better than a week in the hospital…)

Anyway, the regional was great. Congrats to the winning alliance, and to the rookie all-star winners… We know how hard it is to be a rookie team, and you guys deserve the award for all of the great work.

Jacob

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#124

Does anyone have a video of the match with teams 25 and 1991 in which there were 316 points scored?

#125

I think I do. If so it will be posted on www.team2064.com under Video.

#126

Shh! Don’t tell them that!

Actually, the finals were very intense and my heart was pounding even when I wasn’t up there coaching. It was so much more fun to have a difficult match at the end, so thanks to 195 and 558 for your amazing teamwork, and thanks to 176, 25, and 2104 for spicing things up for us. Congrats to everyone on your excellent robots!

#127

If your team/visitors/sponsors/family happened to arrive home this weekend with FIRST safety glasses that they borrowed to visit you in the pits, and you will be attending the Boston event you might want to turn them back in there. A number of them went missing (perhaps because teams left early or in haste on Friday) and were not turned in to the Student Hosts who were collecting them yesterday… They are marked by a yellow line on the nosepiece.

#128

This was the devil dawgs first time competing at UTC. The competition was excellent, and we made some new freinds. The parking fees were marginal, and the food was moderately priced (where else can you get a cheeseburger for six bucks that tasted that good?). I was kinda confused on loading dock senario. I know it’s a union shop and they have their own rules on when certain docks can be used, but to wait to the last minute to tell us we can’t use the front doors to load/unload our tool carts caused some confusion, that shoulda been on the UTC event website info. See you next year at UTC…

Stills

#129

About a third of our team, including our drivers and coach, came down with a similar problem Friday night/Saturday morning… luckily it worked out in the end, but between that and the snow, we were worried for a while.

#130

It’s the FIRST Flu as I like to call it. Some years it take form as a stomach upset. Some years as a cold. Some years as the laryngitis virus (last year that was the one that got me - couldn’t speak in a normal voice for several weeks! and it wasn’t from yelling - I caught it at BAE where I was a spectator - not cheering - and had it through Championships). This year it seems to be the stomach thing that is affecting different regionals.
Wash your hands. Frequently. Get rest and drink lots of fluids. Eat properly. Take care of yourself before the competitions and you will be able to fight things off better.

#131

Will anyone from team 230 be putting up an archive of the webcast?

#132

The folks over at Soap 108 (www.soap108.com) have already started uploading matches from CT. It usally takes them about a day to get everything uploaded which isn’t surprising considering the enormous task they undertake for all these regionals, encoding, editing, and uploading every match…but I’m sure glad they do it!!

-Justin

#133

The matches were being uploaded live as they happened, but then stopped after match 20ish. I believe theres a few DVDs floating around with the remaining matches in them. They need to be parsed and uploaded though.

#134

Stills (and anyone else),

As always, things can deviate from the script. I was not happy with the event loading and unloading for the teams but most of this had to do with teams having ignored or not read the information on our event web page.

The info on unloading was posted here (“Access to the Loading Dock”). If you experienced something different please send me an email detailing your experience. Please be as specific as possible.

I was upstairs supervising the load-in at the loading dock and could not be everywhere at once. We need your input if we are to make corrective action for next year.

I look forward to getting your emails…

Mike

#135

Congratulations to the winning alliance, we saw first hand how powerful you guys were. Also, a big thank you to our alliance partners 716 and 1027.

And a big thank you to team 134 for sharing the bus ride to and from Connecticut with us.

Except for the “FIRST flu” this was a great regional.

#136

I’ve got the eliminations rounds parsed out and up. These may only be up for a day or two as we update the TBAtv system with week 3 data and videos. Enjoy.

http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/vids/utc07/tombeta/

#137

Congrats to 1124, 195 and 558! And many thanks to our great alliance partners 25 and 176 for giving us the opportunity to have an amazing experience in our first FIRST season. We’ve learned so much and are looking forward to next year.

#138

Thank you for posting these.

Do you know if there are plans to post the seeding matches?

Jacob

#139

Team 1493 would like to thank our alliance partners team 20 and team 230 for teaming with us and using great team work to get as far as we did.

Sorry things went bad and a gremlin busted our bot and we were no help for match 2+3 of the semi’s…who knows how things would of worked out if that had not happened…

#140

Also if anyone wants to have the finals in DVD quality of the UTC finals, you can download it here:

http://www.rhodewarrior.org/temp/utc/

Note these are not web-ready videos. These are meant to be burned onto a DVD

#141

You have a ridiculously fast server. I’m downloading 10+ mbps from you now.

#142

There was a problem with one of the files, but it is fixed now.