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!

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

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

Thank you to all who entered the VEX challenges. We had a team website entry, and team promotional video, and about 4-6 essays. If all goes well, we can win up to $2000 worth of parts. Wish us luck!

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

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!

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.

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!

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