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Hello everyone, I was going to post sooner but then the hurricane happened...
This competition went great and even managed to end early! I want to thank 1519 and 3467 for being such great alliance partners, and I also wanted to share a couple of pictures.



and after I took that I noticed that in the final match a bearing had worked its way out of its mounting plate on our shooter!



And if you are wondering, the only damage we incurred from falling from the bridge was a cracked lexan hood and a slightly bent piece of metal.

Re: River Rage 16
 

Thank you to the Manchester teams for hosting another amazing event and all of the volunteers who made this happen! River Rage is always one of the best off-seasons both in how it is run and its competitiveness!

Thank you to teams 166 and 1519! We couldn't have asked for better partners with solid autonomous, balancing, scoring, feeding, defense, and teamwork. It was great to finally play with 1519 it seems like in the past two years we have always been against but never with you in eliminations! ;)

Congratulations to the finalists 125, 2648, 78, & 88! You guys were a very tuff alliance throughout the tournament!

As a team it was a great event to give new students experience from scouting to mechanical. Our robot faired well but our arm broke during our third qualification match and was repaired by our second elimination match. The repair lasted us two matches before becoming too much to fix in a timeout leaving us to defense and balancing. The cause was the plate that held the arm motor starting becoming two pieces causing the chain to lose tension resulting in no arm movement! :( The team pulled through well and our drivers changed our strategy perfectly!

Thank you to all the teams for a great 2012 season we look forward to compete with most of you in 2013 at GSR, Pine Tree, and hopefully CMP! See you around New England!

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Thanks Brendan. Our 2nd partner was actually team 2648, Infinite Loop.

We wanted to thank our partners for working so well together. We picked team 2648 at the Boston Regional in 2011 and were Finalists, and we picked team 78 at the 2012 Boston Regional and were again Finalists. It was awesome to be able to pair up with both of them again.

Thanks to TJ as well for stepping in after 78's drive experienced some issues.

The last match of the finals was our 103rd match of the year, an all-time high for the NUTRONs. It was great to play with all our New England friends one last time in 2012, we'll see you all in 2013!

-Brando