ok so our alliance won at the milwaukee regionals and it’s our rookie year… wanted to ask if there will be any other rookie teams at regionals we should party
Which ever team wins Rookie All Star is invited to Nationals, thus there will be quite a few rookie teams
Or if a rookie wins a regional.
Hmmm… I wonder if 1511 will be doing their rookie get-together on Thursday again. (I’m not part of a rookie team, nor am I going, but I know this has happened in the past.)
Congratulations Team 2549 on your regional win!
For the past three years Team 1511 has hosted the “All Rookie Meet and Greet” (ARMAG) at Championships. I’m pretty sure we will be hosting it again this year. It will be announced here on CD as well as in e-mails to Rookie teams, if we can collect their e-mails. There will also be a flier given to all of the rookie teams as early as we can when we get to the competition with the date, place and time.
So yes! There will be other Rookie teams and yes, you’ll have a chance to celebrate your success with some other rookies!
Excel #2474 will be there if we can raise the funds. Those of you who won the rookie all-star award, what did you do to earn it (other than have a good robot)?
umm 2337 will be there, if they got the funds, they won rookie all star at detroit
team 2599, who one in san diego, made a team handbook
Team 2590, Nemesis will be there. We won runner up…so look forward to getting your butts kicked ;o
jk, good luck to all rookies! 
Looking forward to meeting all yall 
team 2604 will be there (not a question of getting the funds, we will)
look forward to a seeing all the rookie and senor teams there
what do you mean runner up? Rookie Inspiration?
Runner up?
second in finals, but got rookie all star?
Also, for the original topic:
http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/event.php?eventid=182
Scroll down; everyone past 2335 is a rookie. Can’t tell you how many are actually going, though…
Just curious, how many of you rookie teams out there actually hurdle? Many of the rookies I have seen are either lapbots or run laps and try to herd.
So my question is, what do you all do and what do you do the best?
Can’t wait to meet everyone in Atlanta:D
1676 won Rookie All-Star 4 years ago - and I can tell you that it wasn’t because we had a good robot.*
It was because we had a good team.
Being rookies and all, we found in competition that we had built an extremely robust robot, one that just was not breaking, and we hadn’t yet learned how to do scouting - so we had several dozen kids who had just spent six weeks building a robot, and were now itching for something to do.
Out they spread, to several other teams (some rookies, some not) - helping everywhere they could. Loaning tools, parts, hardware (we have these huge racks of all sorts of nuts & bolts). We didn’t do it to win an award, it just came naturally - we like building robots!
Anyhow, these teams we helped I guess were appreciative and told the judges and, well, I guess we did something right, because we won Rookie All-Star. Nobody was more surprised than us, really.
Don
*It’s not about the robot.
its not. the san diego team that won rookie all star only won 1 qualifying match. hmmmm.
Team 2609 - Hurdle quite well and pretty fast with 2 speed Andy Mark transmission. Great team members
We will be attending Atlanta!
Kevin Reid
Kettering Rookie event - Winning Alliance, Quality Award
Waterloo Regional - 4th place Alliance, Highest Rookie Seed, Rookie All Star
Team 2468 from Austin, Texas will be attending Championships representing Lone Star Regional as Rookie All Star. We placed fifth overall in the seeding matches.
We are a speed bot (15 ft/sec) with the ability to herd and knock the ball off. We have an autonomous in which we got four lines at LSR. We have true Ackermann steering with two wheel drive. Our driver has had over 20 hours of practice since we also built a practice bot.
We had an education team, outreach team, website, business team. Our education team did presentations at several of our feeder schools, three area events with engineers and colleges concerning career fairs and career choices.
Congrats to ALL rookie teams for a successful first year in FIRST. If you still deciding weither or not you should go to Atlanta. Atlanta is a great exepeirce for the students, it s good for meeting new people, having fun, even if you do not do so good in the competition. the Social is fantastic and Atlanta is a great time to bond with your team. My advice is that you should go to Atlanta for the experice and to see the world champion of course too.
Congrats again and hope to see you in Atlanta!!!
Rookie team 2423 will be going to Atlanta! We won the rookie allstars award despite us having a very small community to begin with. I’m very happy with all the support we received from our mentors, team 125 (the nutrons), and the rest of our team. As the team’s only student programmer I can say this much. With almost no experience with programming when I joined the team in September, but with a ton of support from my mentors and other teams, I can say recognition is not all about winning, (we placed somewhere in the 40’s of 51 teams) but just as important (if not more) is having an organized supportive community who’s enthusiastic about what they do.
I guess we’ll be there if we get the money and enough people to go.
2415 is going to be there. This is going to be so great.
We can hurdle decently well. The most we have done in one match is 2 but with some adjustments we should be able to get that number a bit higher and our auto mode is getting a lot better hopefully.
Hope to meet all you guys at this rookie luncheon thing.
Good luck to everyone