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April 15, 2010
TJ2 begins practice and preliminary qualifying matches in the Curie Division of the FIRST National Championships. |
April 14, 2010
TJ2 departs for The FRC National Championships in Atlanta, GA |
March 27, 2010
TJ2 wins The Boston Regional! Oh Yeah! |
 March 26, 2010
TJ2 is awarded the Innovation in Control Award, and the Regional Website Award. |
March 25, 2010
TJ2 arrives at the Agganis Arena for the 2010 Boston Regional. Oh Yeah! |
March 13, 2010
TJ2 earns 3rd place overall, but falls to the eventual championship team. |
March 12, 2010
TJ2 wins Regional Best Awards for Animation and for Website design. |
March 9, 2010
TJ2 arrives in Baltimore for the 2010 Chesapeake Regional Competition |
February 23, 2010
TJ2 ships their robot to officially begin the competition season. "Oh Yeah!" |
February 22, 2010
TJ2 hold "Send-Off" Party for this year's robot. 7pm at B-R; Public welcome |
Febuary 20, 2010
TJ2 attends "Suffield Shakedown" scrimmage at Suffield High School; Home of Aces High. |
January 9-10, 2010
TJ2 officially opens the 2010 FRC season with its Strategy & Design Weekend. |
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December 5, 2009
TJ2 Wins Savage Soccer North! Oh Yeah! |
December 4, 2009
B-R's FIRST Robotics Team holds it's Annual Fundraising Auction at the Roseland Function Hall on Rt. 138 in Taunton |
October 31, 2009
TJ2 travels to Memorial HS in Manchester NH for the 2009 River Rage Competition. |
September 23, 2009
B-R's FIRST Robotics Team, TJ2 holds its annual Kick-off event at auditorium BRRHS. All are welcome! |
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A Conference Promoting STEM Education Through
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Saturday, October 23, 2010
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TJ2 Caps Off Great Season at the FIRST Championships in Atlanta |
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TJ2 has had one of its best seasons in its fifteen year history. The team traveled to Baltimore to compete at the Chesapeake Regional making it to the semi final round in a competition against 43 teams. The team was also recognized with an award for its website and for its computer animation. The team then competed at the Boston Regional Robotics Competition and won this tournament in a field of 60 teams. The team also won the website award and the excellence in control award in Boston.
Off to Atlanta
In April, 41 BRRHS students traveled to the Dome in Atlanta Georgia to compete in the FIRST Championship with 343 teams from all over the world. The teams are divided into four divisions; Archimedes, Newton, Galileo, and Curie. Champions from each division compete on the Einstein field to determine the world champions. TJ2 found itself in the Curie Division with 85 other teams. This division had 31 other regional winning teams, like TJ2! The teams in this division were very strong and many agreed that the world champion would come from this division.
The Competition
TJ2, driven by Seniors Pat Koczela, Zeke Georgantas, Elias Loucagos, and drive coach Tom Calef, started the competition by winning their first three matches Thursday afternoon, ending the day as 3rd seed in the division. Friday resulted in a win and four losses, leaving the team ranked 40th of 86 teams. Each of these losses were by one point. The team was discouraged because the TJ2 robot was a scoring machine, but its alliances were coming up short in score. The team regrouped and vowed to do their best to finish out the qualification rounds the best they could. These rounds were concluded Saturday morning with two wins. The team finished qualification as the 20th seed in this highly talented division.
The Quarter Finals
The top eight teams picked their alliance partners for the final rounds. Team 88- TJ2 was picked by sixth seeded veteran team 175- Buzz from Enfield , CT. and the third member of the alliance was team 573 from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. This sixth seeded alliance from the Curie division went up against the third seed alliance. The TJ2 alliance lost the first match to the 3rd seed alliance by one point. During the next match, a ball got lodged in the ball return mechanism and though the TJ2 alliance won the match by four points, the match had to be replayed- a controversial call by the officials. The next match was won by the TJ2 alliance by five points. The best two out of three quarterfinal was now tied. Robots were called to the final match. A time out was called by the third seed alliance. It was determined that the 54th ranked robot member of the third seed alliance could not compete. The rules state that an alliance can replace a non functional robot with the next available highest ranked robot. The replacement robot was ranked 11th in the division! After forty five minutes of replay, time-out, robot replacement, and restart the third match was played. The TJ2 alliance lost this match by three points.
The finals of the FIRST championship was a best two out of three match between the favored alliance from the Curie division and an alliance from the Newton Division. In a highly charged two matches, the Newton division alliance with team 67- Michigan, 1676- New Jersey, and 1421- Mississippi won the FIRST Robotics World Championship.
Go here for more competition results.
The Team has to say goodbye to 18 Seniors from its 42 member travel team. This group of very experienced Seniors brought TJ2 to a level where they could compete with the best in the world! - Liz Calef
Check out Team 88's Photo & Video Gallery
on our own media page.
Read about the team, featured in the local news at
Brockton Enterprise.com
Photos of the Week
Team 88 compeats at the 2010 FIRST National Championship
Photos by Jim Lynch
Just what is this game called...
The "soccer" themed game named Breakaway, involves
robots that can work cooperatively with other FRC team's robots to score points on an obstacle rich playing field.
View the 2010 game simulation here.
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