Let’s get pumped up for the 7th Finger Lakes Regional at RIT’s Gordon Field House!
We’re bagging and tagging this year but that won’t stop some heavy competition from packing up their robots and bringing them to Rochester!
217 will be making their 3rd trip to FLR to defend their 2010 Regional win. Also 2056 and 2994 will be making their 1st FLR appearance along with fellow Canadian FLR veterans 188 and 2852.
FLR brings in some solid out of towners but we have plenty of home grown talent. 191, 1126 and 1511 will highlight a deep field of veteran teams that will surely bring their best to get 2011 started off right in week 1.
With Jondarr calling the action, Steve MC’ing and Dante in Yellow making the calls on the field, FLR will not disappoint.
Michigan Team 1528 MTR (Monroe Trojan Robotics), formerly the iPirates, is excited about coming to our first FLR. I have been trying to get the funds to come up there for the FLR/off-season event for years and have finally been able to do it. My team can’t wait to display their capabilities to those outside of Michigan once again. While also meeting up with our old friends with 1126. I also love the chance to talk with KoKo Ed for a full weekend.
1713 can’t make it this year. Something about not enough money. I even volunteered to sleep outside to save on hotels, to walk to save on buses. Apparently, you can’t do that. All that aside, even if we’re able to come up with the money at this point, we’ve missed the deadline for registration.
Good luck and have fun to the teams that will be there!
In addition to the FIRST Robotics Competition at RIT. RIT will also be hosting a it’s 1st annual “Brick City” Junior FIRST Lego League Expo the weekend following the FIRST Robotics Competition.
We hope to create FIRST March Madness in the “Rochester Area” with the addition of this event! As well as an opportunity for the area’s youngest to get involved with FIRST!
We encourage local FRC teams to spread the word throughout their community (elementary schools, scout troops, community centers and more)!
I can honestly say that competition in the Finger Lakes regional is some of the best I have ever seen, and it is my distinct honor to be able to compete once more in what will be my final year as an FRC student! I love being there, the energy is positively electrifying, and it is always one of the highlights of my year.
I can’t wait for the Finger Lakes Regional to come around!
Team 1126 is proud to compete with everyone again! We are so glad to be able to work with the great teams, and look forward to such a fun event (and all of the dancing)!
Don’t forget, that 174 will not only be defending their title, but their three-time FLR winner title!
FLR is one of the few Week 1 regionals that provides a Week 5 experiance. About 90% of the teams have seen each other before - it’s a very close FIRST family of teams and full of friendships. High energy, loads of veterens and rookies that are always better then the stigma of ‘rookie’.
But it has to be the volunteers that make FLR so much fun. I have to believe that EVERY volunteer has been a student or mentor of FIRST teams, which is what I think makes FLR so much fun, expecially for volunteers.
I can’t wait to have the Thunder Chickens return to the frozen tundra of Rochester! You help raise the bar and give us Rochester area teams something to aim for. And for all the teams returning, I wish you all a round of luck as this year just already feels exciting!
But the one big question…that everyone is asking…that will make or break how awesome FLR will be…is…will JonDarr Bradshaw return as game announcer?
Now that we’re getting close (only 22 days!? Can that be? :eek: ) could you guys please impart some practical information about your little corner of the universe to an out-of-town team? Like food, of course, and what to do in the evenings. The only info we got from our two RIT’ers is that Walpole has more snow than Rochester, which, while important, is not practical; and that I know how to pronounce Skaneateles, which is practical, but not important.
RIT is located just off of Jefferson Road… If you leave RIT and hang a right onto Jefferson, you will quickly encounter the magical LAND OF RESTAURANTS. There are tons and tons and tons (and TONS) of places to eat on Jefferson Road, and if you don’t want to go that far there are some pretty good restaurants on the northwest corner of campus.
Food at events are run by concession if you didn’t preorder.
As to what to do in the evenings… Umm… What are you looking for? You can have a LAN party at Millennium Games (which is immediately before the aforementioned magical LAND OF RESTAURANTS, just north of Jefferson road) – but you’ll pay for the experience with cold, hard cash.
You could go back to your hotel and compare scouting notes, strategize, etc, etc.
What is it that people do during the evenings at FIRST events? I try to get as much sleep as I am able!
Walpole is near Boston, right?
You guys don’t even have half the amount of snow Rochester gets (we average over a hundred per year. We’re up to 91 inches so far this year). Boston averages around 40ish. It’s that stupid snow machine to our North that keep making more of that annoying white stuff almost every day of our winter.
There are lots of resteraunts near RIT because there is a mall area very nearby.
Sadly both the Knighthawks and Amerks are on the road so go there. Thursday I plan on going to Laserquest so you guys are free to tag along (usually only members of 229 take me up on the offer with a few members from 1511 and others as well). Nothing else really comes to mind for entertainment.
