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Team Illinois has officially dubbed ourselves "Robowinnage". Trademark pending. ;)

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or is it "Robopwnavation"?

CD Decides 2015.

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Big fan.

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1986 steals 3/4 of the bins!

If they can go 4/4 and their alliance can work out the kinks, they have a shot in Final 2. It would be tough and the upset would be real...

Edit: 3/4 Again in Final 2, don't think it's going to be enough, but this is interesting.

Edit 2: Arkansas was a lot of fun to watch. Congratulations to the #1 Seeded alliance. Eliminations were exciting!

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Great job Illinois teams. Those finals were fun to watch.

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I didn't get to see most of the matches, but how on earth was 1625 ranked so low and picked so late? Were they having some kind of technical problems? Also, as a Kansas City native it was incredibly weird to see 1986 actually lose :ahh:

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4329 had a great time at the Arkansas Rock City Regional! The event ran smoothly and it was great to see everyone pitching in to help given the weather issues on Wednesday.

We got to play with and against some very good teams, this was one of the strongest regional events I've attended in some time in terms of team depth.

2481 and 2451 put together an incredible alliance. We especially took some cues on how 2451 and 4522 used the human loader effectively and hope to improve our performance for St. Louis. After some early encoder issues on our drive train and some new drive team learning, we got things going a little too slow & too late. We plan to come out swinging week 4 in St. Louis.

We were honored to receive the Engineering Inspiration award. With so many other deserving teams in attendance it was amazing to win this award and earn a spot at the championship.

Thanks again to the Arkansas planning committee and everyone involved!

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Team Titanium (FRC 1986) had a fantastic time at the Arkansas Rocky City Regional this weekend. We loved the venue, the professionalism of all the volunteers and staff, and the opportunity to work with so many great teams. We are glad we made the trip.

Thank you 4330 for choosing us in alliance selection and to 4526 for helping us make all those stacks. What an incredible ride from the lowest score in the first half of the quarters all the way to the finals. This alliance had tremendous heart and a willingness to try anything in an effort to win. (By the way, noodle defense is for real.) We'll see you both at the St. Louis regional.

Congratulations to 2481, 2451, and 1625. That alliance averaged 173!!! in the semi-finals, and would be among the favorites to win any regional in the country. Beautiful machines, and great people too. We look forward to working with each of you again in the future.

Chairman's and EI contenders were everywhere in Little Rock, and hearing 3284 and 4329 awarded made tremendous sense for anybody that has spent time with these two teams. Well deserved, and a pleasure to share the state of Missouri with these exemplary programs.

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I'm still recovering from the most intense weekend I've ever had in FRC.

Just getting there was a lot of effort. This was the first time we had ever attempted a full out rebuild of our robot and I'm very happy with results. We went all the way down to just drive rails and built it back up to a full robot.

Thanks to the entire inspection crew, especially Andy Marts (16), and congrats on the Woodie Flowers Finalist Award, and Michael Hartwig (1986) you both put up with us constantly making changes and literally being reinspected before every single match we put the robot on the field. You went out of your way to make an incredibly difficult process a little easier. Thank You.

Thank you 2386 and 16 for selecting us to be on your alliance. There is a lot of risk in choosing a robot that had been build over the past 2 days and we thank you for taking a chance on us. There was a ton of potential on our alliance and I'd be happy to play with both of you again any time, anywhere.

Congratulations to 2481, 2451, & 1625 on winning the event. It was a pleasure getting to know all of you a little better and I wish you all the best the season. If people aren't paying attention to the teams from Illinois they better start.

This weekend was a good reminder of why I love FRC. I can't count the number of teams that offered us help this weekend, with what an entirely voluntary rebuild of our robot. Thank you all for your support and friendship, and we hope to see all again soon.

Thanks to the volunteers running the machine shop and 16 for bringing it down. We had a lot of strange requests and you all delivered every time.

Thank you Meredith and John Novak and the entire regional committee for putting on a fantastic event. Hopefully we will make it up to Rock City again in the future.

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Wow. What a weekend. Started with finding a way to navigate the winter weather conditions and survive a nerve wracking bus ride, to finding a way to navigate the incredibly competitive field of teams and improbably survive the Rock City Regional as champions with our fellow Team Illinois brethren from 2451 and 1625. Amazing. Huge thanks go out to the planning commitee and the plethora of amazing volunteers. The event was ran smoothly and the competition atmosphere was among the best I've experienced in my 7 years of FIRST.

As several people pointed out at various times, the field of teams competing in Arkansas this past weekend was quite possibly the most competitive regional on the 2015 schedule. The entire roster was full of amazing teams. We were thrilled to get to compete with many familiar faces again, as well as make many new friends from the fine crop of teams we had yet to have the pleasure of meeting. Huge thanks and congratulations go out to our fellow Robowinnage alliance partners from 2451 and 1625, as well as finalists 4330, 1986, and 4256. Its always an honor to play with or against all of you guys and thanks for some amazing finals matches! As Aaron pointed out, noodle defense is definitely real and the race to the center cans will become more and more critical as the season goes on and the robot performance curve inevitably goes up. Our goal was to make sure we got 1 of the remaining 2 off the step as soon as tele-op started because we knew 2 would be gone in the blink of an eye in autonomous. Come St. Louis, there won't be a race to be had in tele-op as it'll be complete autonomous warfare over those precious green containers.

Massive congratulations also go out to 3284 on a much deserved Chairman's award! As your video demonstrated, you guys fully represent what FIRST stands for. Absolutely inspiring. Best of luck and can't wait to see you guys in St. Louis, as well.

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Congrats to 2481, 2451, and 1625. I can't wait to see those robots at Midwest Regional.

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I knew the 1st seed alliance was going to pick 1625 no matter what if they were still available as soon as 2481 and 2451 teamed up. It's worth a lot to have a team you know you can work with and that you know the capabilities of.

I'm also really scared to see what 1625 comes out swinging with in week 6, because I can assure you they won't be happy with a 24th pick again by any means!

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Any video of finals? or semis?

thanks!

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Stream recordings are up on Breakaway's youtube page. Spectrum has most of the matches recorded in HD from the stands and we should be uploading them this afternoon.

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