Re: 2014 10,000 Lakes Regional
 

inkling16, yes the MinuteBots along with your whole alliance was very good and gave the 2nd seed alliance some tough competition. I too am impressed with 2705's bot this year. WE Robot is consistently very good, I'm quite certain they are on the threshold of taking the next step.

Re: 2014 10,000 Lakes Regional
 

WOW! What a Regional.

I'm scared to even list out all of the thank you's that I would need to because I know I would miss someone. But here goes something...

I could write a book about how amazing knightkrawler 2052 as a group has been to us this year. Troy and the other coaches were always so kind and friendly. Logan is an amazing team member and a wonderful person. The entire cheering section was great too.

10,000 Lakes was definitely more of a struggle for our team, robot competition wise, than Lake Superior. Our drive train blew out in the semifinals. Knightkrawler's wonderful pick up system saved the day for our alliance for sure.

2227 was great to work with as well. They're team members were super nice and always had a positive attitude.

It's super special to me that our alliance won by basically doing 3 assists and 1 pt goals (with a last second truss mixed in of course). I think that's the sort of thing that the GDC had in mind with this game. Not the defensive WAR OF ATTRITION that Lake Superior was but the cooperation and passing and, well, assisting that 10,000 Lakes showed.

So many teams at 10,000 Lakes have been an inspiration to us in so many different ways. Our West Central friends of 2538 and 3244 were fun to talk to between matches. 2508 stopped by our pit to chat as well, they were great partners. I spoke a lot with 2500 and am super happy they won EI. We loved eating dinner with 3184 and 2470 on Friday night. There are a ton more that I'm just not thinking of right now but it was all great.

I'll never forget my first Regional there in 2011. We built an enormous scissor lift with mecanums. I kid you not. We also spray painted our bumpers outside the arena in the wind. Then we spent 2 matches in a row with the numbers upside down. Seeing the engineering and presentations that teams put on definitely inspired me and the team members to do better the next year. I don't know where I'm going with this except that a lot can change in 3 years.

Thank you to all the teams who competed so hard. Thank you to all the INCREDIBLE volunteers who helped put it on. The FTA, Chris, was fantastic.

We are so excited for St. Louis. We hope to see everyone at 10K next year!

Re: 2014 10,000 Lakes Regional
 

If anyone has the video of the third simifinal match between alliance 1 and alliance 4 I would love to see it! Thanks

Re: 2014 10,000 Lakes Regional
 

As usual, another awesome MN event! A huge thanks to all of the volunteers "behind the scenes" who make it happen day in and day out (and in the case of the "fashionably late" North Star field ... night out).

Congratulations to all teams for completing this year's tough challenge. All the robots continued to improve throughout the weekend and, as far as I know, our only explosion was when 3313's cart spontaneously popped a tire on the field. :)

We continue to be inspired by the amazing things teams bring to the table, not just in their creative robots but also in their mascots, carts, pit set ups, and never-ending enthusiasm and drive. I hope that all participants went home having learned something new.

Congrats to all deserving award winners, especially Chairman's winners 3313 Mechatronics. You guys have redefined what it means to be FIRST in MN and we are in awe of what you do. We wanted you to get that ticket to your first Champs, but you never needed our help. 2500 Herobotics, congrats on the EI and to your Dean's List Finalist Emelia Skagen. Your team continues to be an inspiration to us all. We had some impressive rookies yet again, with Rookie Inspiration winner 5271 bringing an effective robot and awesome mascot well beyond their years, and Rookie All-Star/Highest Rookie Seed 5019 adding to the impressive array of teams from the LaCrosse area. A special shout-out to one of our hub teams, 2846 Firebears, on the Imagery Award. Your creativity, construction, and of course LED light show are always impressive. We were honored and humbled to be presented the Gracious Professionalism Award. We can only begin to try to emulate the teams who have earned it before and from whom we have received so much help over the years.

All of the elimination matches were great, and the finals were an exciting showdown of two great alliances playing the game strategically, as designed. It's too bad that all robots weren't fully functional for all matches, as it would have been fun to see what they could really do.

Finally, congrats to our own Logan Mildenberger on the much deserved Dean's List Finalist selection. KnightKrawler will miss him next year, but I expect FIRST will continue to benefit from his contributions. He has big shoes to fill since our other two past Dean's List Finalists between them have already become mentors, inspectors, safety glasses advisor, FTAA, field supervisor, GoFIRST officer, and Finalist drive coach. No pressure Logan. ;)

Re: 2014 10,000 Lakes Regional
 

Unfortunately my team had to leave early as the first alternate because we didn't eat lunch thinking we would be drafted as 14th seed. Who ended up winning the elimination tournament?

Re: 2014 10,000 Lakes Regional
 

You can always look it up on http://thebluealliance.com but here is the results of all of the alliances.

1.) 2181, 2498, 3082 (SF)
2.) 2052, 3313, 2227 (W)
3.) 3038, 3007, 2502 (SF)
4.) 4536, 2705, 3202 (F)
5.) 3299, 2987, 2232 (QF)
6.) 2508, 5019, 3244 (QF)
7.) 3745, 2855, 2823 (QF)
8.) 3751, 2529, 3407 (QF)

Re: 2014 10,000 Lakes Regional
 

Thanks for the website link.

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No problem if you haven't heard of the blue alliance you are in for a treat :D

Re: 2014 10,000 Lakes Regional
 

Our media person recorded this match, and I have asked him for all of the raw match footage, so I will post this video when I get it (hopefully sometime in the next few days). I personally really want to see this match as well. After the match, our alliance was a little confused because the score shown seemed lower than it should have been. The head referee came to our alliance after discussing with the other refs and said that they had not scored one of our cycles real-time, and that the score shown before the screen went blank was still shorting us these points. I really hope that this didn't effect your alliance's strategy during play.

The 1 seed was an awesome competitor. 2498 and 2181 were great teams (we got the qualification high score with them) and 3082 rounded that alliance well. As a testament to 3082's good defense, the 2705 driver was somewhat frustrated after match 1 because 3082 played such good defense on him. In the next matches, our team tried to counter your defense (with varying success).

Re: 2014 10,000 Lakes Regional
 

We would love to see the video of the last semi-final match as well. Would it be possible for you to post it on thebluealliance? Congrats on your performance! You guys had an awesome bot and it was fun to be in the qualification high score match with you. Hopefully we will get to work together again at State (assuming we qualify).

Re: 2014 10,000 Lakes Regional
 

Thanks so much for the update. We had a lot of fun competing and wish you guys the best of luck at state!