Day 82: Palmetto Day 3

Wow, what a long and eventful day for the TechTigers. We had our final three qualifying matches and won them, making us the 1st seeded alliance. During the alliance pickings, our team represented by Melissa, we chose teams 1626 and 1758 to join us. In the elimination rounds, we won both our quarter-finals and semi-finals matches, advancing us to the finals against 832, 342, and 1319, where we lost 1-2. It was an intense elimination round and we has some technical difficulties with our robot during the finals rounds, but all in all, we were very pleased with the outcome, as we, along with 1626 and 1758, are the 2007 Palmetto Regional Finalists. We also won the 2007 Palmetto Regional Motorola Quality Award, whcih was very exciting. Tomorrow morning we depart back to South Florida and in less than two weeks [with Spring Break next week! yay!] we depart to Atlanta, Georgia for the 2007 Championship Event.

Team 1251 would like to thank teams 1626 and 1758, as well as our mentors, chaperones, family, friends, and everyone whose helped our team - we know we couldn't do anything without you. Awesome job, 1251!






Qualifying Match Breakdown [wins in green, loss in red]




Alliance pickings


Our alliance: 1251, 1626, 1758


Strategizing with our alliance partners


Elimination match breakdown


2007 Palmetto Regional Motorola Quality Award


2007 Palmetto Regional Finalists





Championship: T -12 days

Day 81: Palmetto Day 2

Today was an exciting day for the TechTigers. Today was the first day of qualifying matches of the 2007 Palmetto Regional. We had 7 matches today: we won our first six, but lost our last one, and are currently rank 3rd. Tomorrow is going to be a very busy day. Be sure to watch the live broadcast of the matches, and look out for 1251!




1251 in the stands










The least of our battle scars...


Our Driveteam: Kenny, Koza, Dave, Melissa


Friday Match Breakdown

Day 80: Palmetto Day 1

Today was the first day [the practice day] of the Palmetto Regional in Columbia, SC. Long story short: we uncrated our robot and worked on it, passed the size and weight inspections [final weight: 119.3 lbs.], and participated in three of our four practice matches, capping an average of 6 ringers per match. Tomorrow will be the first day or qualifying matches and the TechTigers are pumped and ready to go. Check back later for updates about our progress!












During a match


Happy Birthday Koza! [He's 17 today!]


Working in the Pit







Palmetto: It's here!

Day 79

w00t! The TechTigers are in Columbia, SC, ready to get started with the Palmetto Regional tomorrow. We departed from ATC around 6:00 am and arrived in Columbia at 5:00 pm. After a brief team meeting and dinner, we are now settling down and preparing for the long practice day tomorrow.


The luggage


Our mascot peaking through the luggage


Our team

Palmetto: T -1 day

Day 77 - 78

The TechTigers set off for South Carolina tomorrow morning. Updates daily on our progress!

Also, check out the newly established FIRSTTube [a YouTube-like site for robotics videos]. It currently in its beta form, so the kinks are being worked out, but its sure to be a hit in the FIRST community. Check out the Chief Delphi thread about FIRSTTube for more information.

Palmetto: T -2 days

Palmetto to be Broadcasted

FYI
To all FRC Palmetto Regional Teams,
The FIRST Robotics Competition Palmetto Regional Rack N’ Roll program can be viewed on ETV satellite channel 311 on Friday, March 30th and Saturday, March 31st. Tune in to capture all the excitement.

Day 72 - 76

Palemetto is almost here! The TechTigers have been busy recently preparing for our second regional, Palmetto in Columbia, South Carolina, and are ready for the competition. The coming two days will be veyr busy with packing up everything we need for the competition and bright and early Wednesday morning [5:30 am to be exact] we will be departing on the 14-hour drive to Palmetto. Check back for updates!

Palmetto: T -4 days

Day 71

Today was a great day for the TechTigers. Work was done on the scouting prgram, which is coming along nicely, as well as on an updated informational video about our team by the marketing team. We also had Julie Levin from the Sun-Sentinel newspaper stop by and interview our team for an article, which was an exciting oppurtunity. Good job, 1251!






John working on the scouting program.


2005, 2006, and practice 2007 robots

Palmetto: T -8 days

Day 69 and 70

Picture post.


Mr. Ellich





Palmetto: T -9 days

Day 66 - 68

The past few days have been very productive for the TechTigers. We have been working on a prototype for a possible modification to our arm that we are planning on testing on our practice robot in the coming week. We have also been discussing possibly making a new cart, with attached toolchest, for team 86's cart like this came in very handy during the finals rounds at UCF.

Next Saturday is the City of Coconut Creek's 40th Anniversary Parade, which we will be participating in. More details on that in the coming week.

Congratulations to team 247 on their 2nd regional win this year at the Detroit Regional! 247, 11, and ourselves were the regional winners at Palmetto last year, so we are really excited that they have won both the Pittsburgh Regional and the Detroit Regional this year. 1251 looks forward to seeing them at Nationals! Congrats again, 247!

Palmetto: T -11 days

Day 64 and 65

Today was a very effective day for the TechTigers. Today, and yesterday, we had meetings to discuss the events that happened at the UCF Florida Regional last weekend, such as good strategies, things we could or need to improve on, and ideas for ther rest of this year and the future. As this week is our midterm exams, we are not meeting as extensively as normal, but for the most part we are reflecting on the weekend. Keep it up, 1251!









Palmetto: T -14 days

1251 views!

Thanks everybody for checking out our team blog! Next milestone: 2007 views :D

Day 63

Today was a break day for the TechTigers. Our next meeting is scheduled for tomorrow. Today we unpacked the trailer and got the workshop back in order. All in all, a good day for 1251. Below are some of the pictures found on The MARS Team (FRC 1523)'s website. They have a ton of pictures from the UCF regional. Thanks 1523!

Palmetto: T -16 days


Mr. Koza on practice day :)


Sebastian - he was quite excited :D


The winning alliance: 1270, 1251 and 86