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.
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
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.
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.
Will anyone from team 230 be putting up an archive of the webcast?
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Thank you for posting these.
Do you know if there are plans to post the seeding matches?
Jacob
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…
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
You have a ridiculously fast server. I’m downloading 10+ mbps from you now.
There was a problem with one of the files, but it is fixed now.
All of the elimination matches have been uploaded to The Blue Alliance Match Archive System. We have some of the first few eliminations up thanks to SOAP, but we haven’t had time to split all of the other elimination matches. If anyone wants volunteer to help us, let me know and I can send you the big files to cut up.
Thanks to you as well!!! Yeah it’s pretty rough when things start breaking. In Semi#2 We would have had it if we could have gotten the second robot up, thats pretty impressive considering you we dead in the water the entire match. But things happen!!! 20 Put up a good fight in Round Three- When we got nailed and the ramp poped open 20Sec into the 2min Human Op time, they were stuck doing everything them selves.
Good job all around regardless.
Congrats to all the Winners- And lets all root for 236 in Atlanta for the Chairmans. This is there 6th year getting there, and 4 in a row for UTC Regional (2003 they submitted and won in NH) So They definately deserve to be there and need to win soon! Good luck to everyone going forward!
Steve
Oh Alex! I wonder who was telling you this info? 
I told you i would keep you updated, and i guess i did! 
5th year, actually. 4 at UTC + 1 at NH = 5
Last I checked anyway ~__^