Well I am VERY happy to be able to say that 77WHO?! is officially registered for Waterloo along with 33 other teams, 7 of which are rookies.
This is the 9th Regional held at the University of Waterloo. We have 1 prior World Champion team attending (1114). Two Teams who were on Einstein last year (1114 and 2056). All 3 of the 2012 Waterloo Regional winners are returning to try and reclame the title (1114, 2056, and 4372), and 1 of the Finalists is returning (2852). Two teams have dominated this regional for the past 6 years and are looking to make it number 7 (1114 and 2056). With 10 regional wins together and 2056 never losing a regional in their existance it will be interesting to see what will happen with all this huge competition this year.
We have 34 teams attending this year, which include:
188 - (Regional finalists twice last year)
610 - (1 regional win last year)
772 - (1 regional win last year)
781 - (1 regional win last year)
865
1114 - (2 regional wins last year, Archimedes champions, and Einstein Semi-Finalists, Regional Finalists once)
1241
1305
1310
1846
2056 - (3 regional wins last year, Archimedes champions, and Einstein Semi-Finalists)
2200 - (1 regional win last year)
2386 - (Regional finalists once)
2625
2702
2852 - (Regional Finalists once)
3161 - (Regional Finalists once)
3494
3683
3756
3949
4039
4069
4152
4200
4250
4372 - (1 Regional win last year) 4519
4525
4618
4647
4677
4678
4691
I really am a bit worried about Waterloo from the standpoint that enough of the public school board teams that haven’t dropped yet still might, and leave Waterloo with fewer than 24 teams to play. Pretty hard to do eliminations without at least 24 teams.
I’m pretty sure if they haven’t dropped out yet they won’t be dropping out. Most, if not all, have established a way to work and find money. I know we have.
Some are still working it out. For instance, the school may have paid FIRST, and so they still appear in the registrations, but no teacher is supervising, so they can’t build a robot, or get out of class to go to the competitions, etc.
There is definitely at least some teams still in limbo.
We (3756) dropped Waterloo to switch to Toronto. We will also now likely be making an appearance at Waterloo as well - it just hasn’t updated in the system yet. I am glad we will be returning once again to our home regional! Despite losing all of our full time mentors this year due to the teacher strike among other things, I think we’ve managed to produce a pretty fine robot
Good Evening Waterloo Teams… I have some news that I regret having to report on behalf of my former team.
Team 216, 244, and 288 the RoboDawGs of Grandville Michigan have had one of their trucks and trailers stolen out of the hotel parking lot this afternoon.
The Truck is a 2005 Chevy Silverado crew cab [diesel] that is Red in colour. It has a RoboDawG decal on the back window. The Trailer is black that says “AB Rental” along the bottom. License plates on the truck and trailer are both Michigan License plates.
Inside the Trailer, we have 50 or so kid’s worth of luggage, some robot bits and the official drive stations. We were in [Oshawa] Toronto when it got stolen at about 4:30 local time.
The local police have been notified about the Truck and Trailer being stolen, but if anyone in the area could keep an eye out and contact me about any information, that would be wonderful. My Father appreciates it, as well as the teams.
My Email to contact me at would be [email protected] , a personal message on Chief Delphi would work as well, but may not be checked as soon.
On behalf of Grandville’s teams, we thank you for being a wonderful community that can have each other’s backs in time of need, and look forward to finding the truck and trailer.
~Abby “RoboDawg” Wilson
[this was posted as a thread, I was advised to put it here for perhaps more eyes on the situation. If you have already seen this, I apologize]
Looking like ONWA’s rankings could get interesting. 1114/2056 play 1 together, and 2 against. If each wins one of the against matches, another team could go undefeated and seed higher.
The team that looks most likely to be undefeated and place first given that 1114/2056 split their games, is 610. However they do have a match against 1114 on the Saturday I believe.
