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Instead of a dance song break I sense an FTA vs. LRI mini-donut eating contest.

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Note to self: hit the gym extra hard this week...

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Team 2220 will be holding roundtable sessions throughout the morning and into the afternoon. Here is the schedule:

9:00AM

Safety Networking

10:00AM

Women In Robotics Empowering Sisters (WIRES)

11:00AM

Team Project Management

1:00PM

Outreach Fundamentals

These sessions are meant to be a causal sharing of best practices and everyone is welcome to participate. They will be held in the cafeteria.
Shout-out to the FireBears for working with us to run these sessions the past two years, Thank you!
We hope to see you all there!

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Here is the link to the webcast: http://www.team2052.com/mri/

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We are Live Now!

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Alliance Selection:

1) 2052, 2987, 4536, 2855
2) 2175, 3130, 3042, 2823
3) 3184, 4215, 1816, 3244
4) 2846, 3883, 2491, 2502

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Elimination Results:
1st seed, W
2nd seed, 3rd
3rd seed, F
4th seed

Re: 2016 Minnesota Robotics Invitational
 

For completeness sake, 2847 respectfully declined 2846.

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Also, there were no tiebreaker matches. All matchups were decided in 2 (other than the 3rd place matchup, which was a single match)

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Told you all we would be in the mix :D
But really thanks for the wonderful day and very well ran event. Also thank you to our Alliance 3184 Blaze Robotics, 4215 Tritons, and 1816 The Green Machine for trusting in us as your alternate bot during Alliance Selections and bringing us onto the floor to attempt to nudge off that very strong #1 alliance. If we could go a few more rounds at it.......

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It was also really nice to see that Isaac had recovered enough to attend. My wife was sorority sisters with Isaac's mom so our family has been keeping him in our thoughts.

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Huge shout out to the number 3 alliance! Especially my old team, 4215! Awesome job getting through to the finals! My first competition away from the team and I was definitely experiencing FIRST withdrawal. Still got to help with scouting remotely from all the way here in Canada!:)

Great job to all the teams today! congrats to 2052, 2987, 4536, and 2855 on the win!

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Thank you to Roseville Area High School, the Firebears, and the volunteers for making this event possible. Special thanks to Tom L. and the FireBears mentors as their vision and dedication have made this event possible for so many years.

It was great to see the college students from NDSU and UofM working the event - the strength and future of MNFIRST grows with the work from these young adults! Steve B. did an excellent job working with new announcers and emcees.

A lot of smiling faces in the crowd and in the pits - another great MRI, kudos to you team 2846!

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Team 2847 was very honored to be chosen, unfortunately we could not stay for the finals due to other conflicts.

It was a great event and we had the chance to try 5 different drivers at this event. It was a great learning opportunity for a team that is basically re-building!

Looking forward to the Mini-Minnie event to give the drive team more time!

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Hard to believe that there were $6000 in scholarships this year. Impressive.