Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Results from Bronx Qualifier - Dec. 20, 2008

19 Teams Qualify

Awards


Research/Project
1st Place Team#6368 PS153X
2nd Place Team#7780 IS 125X Henry Hudson
3rd Place Team#5909 PS 103X
4th Place Team#1636 ESMT IS 190X

Robot Design
1st Place Team#523 PS/MS 194
2nd Place Team#1739 Kezner Academy
3rd Place Team#2656 IS 98X Herman Ridder
4th Place Team#2266 PS 76X The Bennington School

Teamwork
1st Place Team#109 PS/IS 123X
2nd Place Team#1739 Kezner Academy @ IS 192X
3rd Place Team#901 MS101X Maritime Academy

Performance
1st Place Team#2656 IS 98X Herman Ridder
2nd Place Team# 5909 PS 103X
3rd Place Team#1636 ESMT IS 190X
4th Place Team#6182 Archimides Academy
5th Place Team#895 Bronx Latin MS

Champions/Director
1st Place Team#6182 Archimedes Academy
2nd Place Team#5910 PS103X
3rd Place Team#584 Pablo Casals MS 181X

Judges Award
Team# 6388 MS144x Michaelangelo MS

The teams below did not receive trophies, but they are eligible to compete in the NYC FLL Citywide Event.

Team# 7509 PS 108X Philip J. Abinanti School
Team# 2545 272X Globe School of Environmental Research
Team# 1172 MS 302X
Team# 853 PS 121X


Sunday, December 14, 2008

Staten Island Qualifier Results: Dec. 13, 2008

Congratulations to SI Tech's Mike Siegel and his amazing team for putting on another great event.

All of these 13 teams will be going on to the citywide at Javits on March 7. Every single school or organization that competed gets at least one team into the finals.

Champions Award
Community Based Team ----- Microbots - 1341

Research/Project
1st Place ---- IS 34 Stell Talons #1667
2nd Place ---- IS 72 #1 2179
3rd Place ---- IS 27 Mustangs #1335

Robot Design
1st Place --- IS 49 CyberSoldiers A #5119
2nd Place ---- St. Claire Planeteers #3 #1784
3rd Place --- IS 75 Panthers #3 #1956

Teamwork Awards
1st Place ---- PS 57 Robotics #2708
2nd Place --- IS 24 Blast Bots #202

Judges Award
NYC Parks Dept Park Wizards #5721

Performance Awards
1st Place ---- SI Tech HS Tech Knows #2380
2nd Place --- SI Tech HS Tech Knights #2386
3rd Place --- IS 24 Knights of 24 #199

Friday, December 12, 2008

Housekeeping and A Suitable Stand

A suitable stand is probably allowed, but the final say on that rests with
the people running your event, so check with them in advance, as they may have
unique space or safety concerns.

RULING 45 – HOUSEKEEPING 2

For those of you who want to store objects off the table:
The new Housekeeping rule does NOT rule out the use of TV trays/folding stands, carts. etc., which most tournaments have allowed for a decade.

Re-stated: You don’t HAVE to dedicate one of your drivers to holding a box of stuff all the time,
but that is an option. A suitable stand is probably allowed, but the final say on that rests with the people running your event, so check with them in advance, as they may have unique space or safety concerns.

Also: “Partially” in Base could mean barely or mostly. “IN” itself can mean totally, barely, or mostly. In fact, it really doesn’t matter if you store something on the mat OUTSIDE Base,
as long as the only strategy for doing that is STORAGE.

Please, everyone, the bottom line is that teams need room and the referees need to see everything. Housekeeping is one of our “softer” rules, written to help teams and referees both.

Richard Wong