Thank you Tyler for collecting some statistics.

I apologize for the massive amounts of emails that everyone is getting regarding this subject, but just a few minutes of your time can save our club hundreds, even thousands!

                This is how our VEX entries stand at this point in time:

Promo Video: 6^th place  (in the past 20 hours, two people voted the video a 50 and five people voted it less than 10)

Website: 2^nd place (in the past 20 hours, one person voted the video a 50 and two people voted it an average of 23)

Top Five Essays: 1,3,4,5, and 6^th place

Watch out for the following websites:

“Robotica Challengers Website” – high threat

“Team 254” (Cheesy Poofs) – first place website so far

“DiscoBots” and “VEX team 1138” – rising slowly

And the following videos:

“We Are One” – very close to ours, but with more votes

“254 promotional video” – 79 votes and counting

“What’s the meaning to be a VEX Team?” – very popular

“Lynfield College Robotics” – rising fast

“VEX, Its about” – this team won second last year

If you haven’t voted yet, now is the time to vote.  Voting will be over on March 19^th.

So far, our video has been doing very well, moving into first place.  However, I am becoming increasingly concerned because our video did not top the charts by our high ratings, but because people voted the previous first and second place videos poorly.  We need to win through our own video’s popularity, so we should not vote other videos dishonestly.  I don’t believe that any video in the top positions deserves any lower than a 20 out of 50.  The VEX judges may disqualify us if they can prove that our team lacks good sportsmanship.  However, I still recommend spreading the word to vote for our video because this is a popularity contest.

-Tyler

Very well said, Tyler. Vote for Saints 1899!

Hello everyone,
The VEX team not only constructed a fantastic robot to compete in this year’s competition, they have written a number of essays as well! We have a good chance this season, but we need everyone to vote in the VEX web, video and essay competitions this week! Hopefully, we can win an award for at least one!

VOTING INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Register an account at http://forum.robotevents.com/register.php
a. Type in your user name, password and e-mail address
b. Type in the verification code
c. Click “Complete Registration”
2. Log in to your new account here: http://forum.robotevents.com/design/
a. Click the “LOGIN” button in the upper right hand corner of the page.
b. You may already be logged in after registering.
3. Vote for our video
a. Visit the following link to view our promotional video: http://forum.robotevents.com/design/entry/detail/1189
b. Push the play button on the video link at the bottom of the page.
c. Under “Entry Voting” on the right hand of the page, drag the three red sliders to give us a score. The farther right you drag, the more points it gives us. Please give us a high rating.
d. Finally, click “Submit” to send your score.
4. Vote for our website
a. Visit the following link to view our website: http://forum.robotevents.com/design/entry/detail/1426
b. Click the “Saints Robotics” link under the category named “Entry Files” to visit our website: http://saintsrobotics.com
c. Under “Entry Voting” on the right hand of the page, drag the three red sliders to give us a score. Please rate our website high.
d. Click “Submit”
5. Click the “LOGOUT” button at the top of the page.

Register here: http://forum.robotevents.com/register.php
Vote for our video here: http://forum.robotevents.com/design/entry/detail/1189
Vote for our website here: http://forum.robotevents.com/design/entry/detail/1426
Vote for Larry’s essay here: http://forum.robotevents.com/design/entry/detail/1021
Vote for Kevin Tam’s essay here: http://forum.robotevents.com/design/entry/detail/1171
Vote for Isaku’s essay here: http://forum.robotevents.com/design/entry/detail/13

Hello everyone.

As you all well know, we’ve submitted a few entries to the VEX Design Challenge, among them the website and promotional video competitions.

Hence, we encourage you to vote for Saints Robotics 1899!

You will need to create an account first: http://forum.robotevents.com/design/register

The challenge overview can be found here: http://forum.robotevents.com/design/ 

Lastly, visit our entries and tell us what you think! Thanks for your support!

MEMBERS: More information, with the titles and links to our entries, can be found at our forum: http://teamwork.saintsrobotics.com/showthread.php?tid=180

Brandae – Sun.
Gur – Sun
Keith – Sun (maybe)
Clay – Sat or Sun
Katie – Sat (maybe)
Dom – Sun (maybe)
David – Either/Both
Kevin K – Sun/Both

WE NEED MORE PPL. If you can come to STI, please do, we still have work to do.
Sat 4-9 PM
Sun 1-5 PM

Thank you,

Marc-Antoine Fontenelle

For those who didn’t know, FRC Seattle Regional competition is from March 25-27th (Thursday-Saturday). Your precense at the competition will benefit the club and you will gain valuable experience, as well as have tons of fun!

Make sure you can come to Wednesday meetings so you can receive important information about the competition.  During the three-day, super-intense competition, you will see everyone’s hard work pay off and experience the real FIRST atmosphere. It’s truely amazing.  You also get to miss school!

Although we don’t have a meeting tomorrow and build season is over, we have A LOT of preparation to do.

Make sure you come to Wednesday, Friday, and weekend meetings. We NEED everyone to keep working hard.

Also, make sure you go support the VEX team at Redmond High School from 8:00am to 6:00pm.

EDIT: The Washington VEX Championships is on the 27th (two days from today), in case it was unclear.

The build season is over and the robot has been shipped off!!! Thank you to every member who participated in the construction of the robot! Also, a special thank you and shout out to all of our mentors without whom we would not be where we are today. They have spent countless hours helping us build this robot, spending time on the design, programming, construction and testing phase.

Also, a big thank you to our Sponsor STI Optronics for letting us use their facilities during the Build Season.

Thanks to all the parents who let your kid go to the robotics meeting, and also thank you for feeding us at meetings when we were hungry. :)

We are really proud of our finished product, so anticipate awesome videos on the website in the near future.

GO SAINTS!

We learned about a lot of problems with our robot this weekend. Tomorrow (Monday) will be the final meeting to work on the robot before it ships. We need EVERYONEto help out! The meeting will be at STI Optronics from 6-10pm.
Also if you are in graphics there is a meeting after school to paint the bumpers.

This is the last day for us to get anything really done at all.
If you aren’t a driver we need you to come to STI Optronics from 10:00am to 4pm to help out fixing the robot.
If you are a driver, it is extremely important that you come to the driver practice meeting at the practice field in Seattle from 4pm to around 9 pm.

You can either get a ride from STI or go directly at 900 poplar place south Seattle, WA

We will be holding a meeting from STI optronics starting from 9:00am to about noon and from then there will be a practice session for the drivers from noon to about 4 to 5pm in Seattle. If you are at STI at the time, you will get a ride to Seattle. However if you come only for the driving session you will need your own ride.

The practice field is:
900 poplar place south Seattle, WA