Winning a competition on your 18th? PRICELESS!
 

Here's a question for the historic record keepers of CD: Has any team's driver ever been known to win a blue "WINNER" banner on their 18th birthday?

Yesterday, Jake Mathews, the driver for our team - 3467: The Windham Windup - did exactly that - he drove our team's robot to victory at the Northeastern District competition (along with a little help from 125 and 5000, btw). The alliance also put up a tournament-high score of 275 (w/ no penalties) in the last match of the day!

I'm thinking that this may be the first time a driver has won a blue banner on the exact day of their 18th. Anyone know of any others?

Congratulations Jake!

Re: Winning a competition on your 18th? PRICELESS!
 

53 regionals per year (not including district events or Championship) means 159 competition team wins per year. 2 drivers per team = 318 drivers win per year (some drivers win multiple times, but this is number of winning days for a particular driver).

Based on statistics alone, I'd estimate this happens nearly once every year.

Re: Winning a competition on your 18th? PRICELESS!
 

But then you have to consider that some students drive when they are much younger than 18.

Re: Winning a competition on your 18th? PRICELESS!
 

The weekend of South Florida, we had two team members with (seventeenth)birthdays, a driver and a mascot. We won the regional, won Gracious Professionalism, and one of the birthdays was named a Dean's List Finalist.

Especially funny because a team tradition used to be telling random strangers "Happy Birthday!" and waiting for confused responses.

Re: Winning a competition on your 18th? PRICELESS!
 

Our driver turned 18 last September during the Battle O' Baltimore. We clinched the #1 seed and won the event, never losing a match.

No winner banner, but we won 30 t-shirts and a really cool trophy.

Re: Winning a competition on your 18th? PRICELESS!
 

I turned 18 the Wednesday before we won at the western Canada regional. (co driver but i have no controls because of the simplicity of our robot)