Congratulations 222, 284, and 145 on winning PARC VII!
A well fought battle by the finalists 341, 175, and 357!
… today was an excellent show!
I must say today was a great day for the PARC series. The comp. ran smoothly, the food was great (I liked it anyway), and the shirts sold like hotcakes. The competion was amazing and the field was stacked. I love a great PARC rumble! Thanks to everyone who showed up, I love the crowds! Can’t wait for next year!(I can’t believe I am thinking about next year already.)
Also great job to the finalists. You gave us a run for the money. 357, 175, 341. 
Sadly I wasn’t able to attend today. Does anyone know how MOE did?
Wow… what a way to go out… we moved our battery from the back to the front and it cleared all of our woes, I’d like to thank 175 and 357 for an awesome run to the end, stinks how the balls didn’t drop in the first round and three balls fell out the second… before that I thought the stars were aligned correctly, us being 10-0 up to the point. 175, we knew you had an scary machine, seeing you in einstein and all, it was wonderful to watch buzz work once again… and 357, what a way you’ve come from drexel, glad that little tussle in the qualifications didn’t hurt you at all…
major props to 222 for holding this event, having the pits in your cafeteria was great and there was absolutely no delay between matches, it couldn’t have been more well run-
[/edit] I believe Moe was picked 7th by Chuck and they lost a tough match against 522’s 2nd seeded alliance [edit]
Team 11 didnt quite do what we wanted to (26th out of 28)… We ended up having a string of bad luck followed by our robot deciding to extend its pistons directly into itself. We had to remove the hanger, leaving us with just a drive train (2 drills, 2 CIMs). We figured we wouldnt get picked, but 25 and 1403 picked us!!. We played 222’s alliance in the quarters. (Oh and 25 also didnt have a hanger and was just a drive train)… You would think that 2 robots that can do anything but drive wouldnt do to hot. But we def gave them a run for their money 
… THANK YOU 222, for putting on such an excellently run event!..Like said above, cant wait til next year!
Just to reiterate what everyone else seems to be saying, kudos to 222 for yet another awesome PARC! This is one of the few off season competitions that had on schedule, especially considering the number of teams that attended. On another note I’d like to thank all of the members of 222 and the officials for letting me get my chance at doing the play by play, I had a blast and I know now what the announcers have to go through, except I did it for 1/3 the time.
You dont want to hear what happened the one round. But since i did it, i think ill break it to ya.
So we are up vs. you, i go to knock u guys off the movable goal, i hit ya, go back in again, then you flip on to us. And they are stuck. Sorry to all of MOE, had no intention of getting hooked on, it just happened, and we needed the win. Past that you guys did pretty good.
Past that, with 1403 and 11, we actually won a match with 2 broken hangers, was pretty funny, and a lot of fun.
All in all, it was a great comp. Run very smoothly, no real delays, refs made great judgement calls.
And congrats on the great set upof the comp and then winning it 222! Simply amazing.
that’s 357 henry…not 134
Thanks, as always, 222 for a great PARC, and to 134 and 834 for being great alliance partners. Special congrats and thanks to 222’s leader Fred Harding for his eight years of dedication to FIRST.
Chuck was seeded 7th for alliance selections and chose MOE and (1302? someone correct me please, big scissor lift). The alliance lost to the #2 seeded alliance of 134, 103, and 834 in the quarterfinals.
Congrats to 134 - A long trip to PA, and a long endured event.
Boohdah,
This is what I was hoping would not happen. Being a Ref. we discussed this manuever. There is no need to revist issues that were allready finalized on the feild.
Anywho,
Congratulations to the alliance of 222, 284, and 145. Also, an amazing effort by 341, 175, and 357. Personally, I would like to compliment my team as they made a 7 hour drive to PA. for this event. Through the first match there was a lot of issues, HOWEVER, they fixed it and went on to seed 2nd. CONGRATS!!!
222 It was an honor to be a Ref. at your event, I hope I will be invited back next year to return to the Ref. staff.
Well since I personally know boodah, I know that he would never have any malicious intent and he always practices great sportsmenship. So whats done is done and I don’t hold a grudge against him. I’m just anxious to see the extent of the damages.
I had to leave early, arround 3:30, could someone please post who won what awards?
Thanks,
Dave
Congratulations to **Fred Harding ** and the Tigertrons Crew!!!
A great event and a great win!! Congratulations 222, 284, and 145.
This year’s event was the best run ever!!
PARC was the inspiration for our Ramp Riot event and Fred has always been a huge help. He will be sincerely missed.
And finally, thank you to 175 and ** 357**, fierce competitors and true partners. We tried hard to spoil Fred’s retirement party but it just wasn’t in the cards.
See everyone in the Fall!!
Al Ostrow
Coach, Team 341
Thanks 103 and 834 for joining up with us. We wouldnt of had it any other way. Congrats to 222, 145 and 284 on their victory and thanks 222 for the awesome competion. One of the best we’ve been to.
-Pat
Greg Perkins -
From what i could tell from my vantage point, they hooked on your angled supports with their hook for hanging. When they tried to free themselves, they dragged you over on your side. As they were valiantly trying to freethemselves I believe they damaged more of themselves than you MOE.
~ Greg
Oh boy…that was one heck of a day.
We start off unloading the robot and tools at about 8:00. And wait a minute…oops. I guess we forgot our OI. Thanks to the Tigertrons(222) for sharing theirs with us for the morning. And also thanks to Pat, on of our mentors, who turned around 1/2 way into a 3 hour drive to go get them and then drive all the way back up to PARC.
I think we ran on one motor drive for 4 of our 6 matches, and were still able to cap the stationary goal in most of them…
Two bosch motors later, thanks to Chuck (84) for picking us and 1302 for being a great alliance partner. Sorry we let you guys down. When we went to go grab the 2x ball out of the mobile goal there, the 1/2" steel shaft we have the arm on just sheared clean. The arm collapsed and got tangeled up in the rest of the robot.
But, despite all of the things that went wrong, I had a good time. Thanks to 222 for hosting another great event.
That was a great competition. It was my first time driving for the team. Got my first dose of real competition, and boy is it tough out there to concentrate and to be absolutely chill. I dunno how the rest of you guys do it.
I drove our first and only match in eliminations, and when it came time to hang, i just couldn’t get up to the second platform. I’ve been able to do it tons of times in the pat, just not this time, when it really counted. 
This was a really great experience. Thanks for hold PARC, I think we’ll be back next year.
Congractulations to all the winning alliance, and to all those attended. This was a simply awesome event, and went extremely well. Thanks 222 for hosting this. On another note, apologies to those whose robots we caused damage etc., it was totally unintentional. We try to be as gentle on the controls as we can, but sometimes its just uncontrolable.
A little additional to add to this- the round has been eating at me all night too,
In the earlier round where our machine was trying to hang with Miss Daisy and the two hanging robots got entangled our arm’s electrical system somehow got crimped, shorted out and melted the entire lead system. As a result we only had two ranges of motion- vertical twist and the shoulder lift arc- no elbow to close the angle joint. And with time flying between rounds we made the decision to leave the immobile joint as an L and try to use it to uncap the goals and the base to run interference as much as possible. It may have appeared that we were playing with a “weapon of death” but that really wasn’t the intention. Frankly, it never occurred to us until later that a few zip ties across the hook would make it “weedless”
Anyway, in the aforementioned round, the robots came out and our machine got into the fray with Gizmoe over the rolling goal and big ball. In the excitement that hook just angled into an edge of the frame and when the EM moved, Gizmoe landed on top of it, mangling the hook inextricably from the mass. Invisible from the driver station, the drivers tried all manner of turning and pulling but the machines wouldn’t separate.
I’m (we’re) sorry if this was misunderstood as an effort to destroy other robots or anything unsportsmanlike. It was simply an attempt of a team with a grossly damaged robot to stay in the game and do the best they could with what was left of their machine. With only a drive base and a broken arm there really wasn’t much more a team could do except push balls and run interference.
In any case, our apologies to 365 and any others we angered. Hopefully we can leave any bad feelings on the field and move on. I know my guys love the Miracle Workers team and wouldn’t deliberately do anything to hurt them.
WC