Re: 190, 177, 987!!!! 2007 Rack and Roll Champions!!
 

It's too bad about the DQ because you guys were such a fun alliance to play. A few more matches would have been awesome! I love the way you guys always squeaked by with a few extra points; it made it so much more exciting. And congrats on the win, you made an incredible alliance. (Glad to see Newton win.)

Re: 190, 177, 987!!!! 2007 Rack and Roll Champions!!
 

Good job to 190, 177, and 987. You guys will forever be in my mind as the maroon alliance that went all the way. Can't wait till the videos are up so I can show off those robots to my non-robotics friends.

Re: 190, 177, 987!!!! 2007 Rack and Roll Champions!!
 

Teams 190 and 987, I'd like to start by saying thanks a lot for being an awesome alliance. Unfortunately, I couldn't be there because of a band trip. I should have listened to the rest of our team and dropped wind ensemble so I could go to Atlanta.

On a side note, when we heard we won, we were eating dinner before an award ceremony for the competition we were at, when we all started jumping up and down hugging each other yelling "WE WON! WE WON!" I wasn't sure if the people were looking at us because they thought we were a little messed up, or if they thought we had won the competition.

Re: 190, 177, 987!!!! 2007 Rack and Roll Champions!!
 

CONGRATULATIONS TO TEAMS 190!!!
You guys played a well fought match. WPI ROCKS :cool:

Re: 190, 177, 987!!!! 2007 Rack and Roll Champions!!
 

Congrats all, and 987, it was awesome bign next to you team in the pits. Once again congrats.

Re: 190, 177, 987!!!! 2007 Rack and Roll Champions!!
 

Nobody? With all the great teams playing on our field, we knew from the start which field would take Einstein. Our only doubt was which of our alliances would be there. :D

Add my congratulations to 190, 177 and 987. Your strategy, driving skills and teamwork really carried the day against some very formidable opponents. Thanks for demonstrating for everyone what Newtonian physics is all about!

Re: 190, 177, 987!!!! 2007 Rack and Roll Champions!!
 

GREAT JOB to team 190, 987, and 177!!!!
And also CONGRATS to 365- MOE. You deserved Chairman's. I thought your robot was pretty cool too. Its gripper was very unique.:D
Also congratulations to all the rookies that just competed in their first FIRST Championship.:)

Re: 190, 177, 987!!!! 2007 Rack and Roll Champions!!
 

The Einstein matches weren't up on SOAP. Anyone know where I can find them?

Congratulations, 190, 177, & 987!

Re: 190, 177, 987!!!! 2007 Rack and Roll Champions!!
 

OK, now my face is red.:o Posted too quickly, and in excitement, just before finally getting to bed.

My comments about 987 are based entirely on observing them on the practice field Thursday and Friday, and during the Newton and Einstein eliminations. The assumption that they were #8 A.C. was based on incorrect hearsay from a rookie scout sitting near me in the Newton stands, after I had missed alliance selection to escort some visitors around the event. I had stopped following their qualifying performance just before their last match (which they lost), so I assumed the scout was right about their seed.

Anyway, congratulations again to the whole winning alliance.

Re: 190, 177, 987!!!! 2007 Rack and Roll Champions!!
 

Awww yeeeah!!!!!!! Words cannot express my excitement with 190, 177, and 987 winning Nationals. It is absolutely great to see two New England Teams on the winning alliance a nationals victory for New England, it's just great. Having been working Einstein for the finals I can say that they were incredibly well fought. Congratulations goes out to both alliances!!!

New England Represent!!!

-Justin

Re: 190, 177, 987!!!! 2007 Rack and Roll Champions!!
 

The two points in both of those matches were both scored by myself as human player and made the difference. It was extremely tough playing against you guys, given our history, and given your brute domination at scoring, everything could've gone either way.

I (of course) want to thank 190 and 987 for asking us to join their alliance. It might have taken our representative a little longer to accept your invitation, but trust me, we wanted it. The combination of our three teams ended up working perfectly, with two hybrid robots who were both quite good at scoring, and us able to play defense against the biggest threats. We were not the most dominant alliance, and none of us were the best robots in our class, but the ways in which we complemented each other ended up working perfectly for the type of game that our alliance could play.

Congratulations to 71, 233, and 179 on their solid performance throughout the day. It still amazes me how close it was when we played against you, and how lucky we got with some of our last second ramps. Those matches were just too intense, and I was impressed with each of your robots.

173, 1319, 1902 - As always, 177 needed to face RAGE at least once each year during eliminations, and I couldn't be happier that for this year it was on Einstein. I was so happy you guys resolved your control issues from UTC and Boston, and was impressed how well you and 1902 worked together under defense with tubes while 1319 ran some great counter defense against 987. Again, those were such close matches, and congratulations on Galileo.

1124 and 236 - Thank you for the spare batteries you let us borrow after we needed to save the ones that 190 loaned us. We wouldn't have been able to play without them.

Also, George, I noticed that SOAP is also missing a lot of elimination rounds for the divisions. If anyone has these parsed, please contact Greg Marra or I, and we can help you get them online to TBA.

PS: I should mention, being an all maroon alliance was an excellent choice by 190. It gave our alliance a whole new kind of flair with our coordination.

Re: 190, 177, 987!!!! 2007 Rack and Roll Champions!!
 

As the base driver of 233, I congratulate that "maroon platoon" (yes, thats a FRC team name...i thought it was funny you all were the same color) on an amazing 3 matches. After an insane war of scoring and defense, it came down to ramps all 3 matches, and our alliance "failed to execute perfectly", as one mentor put it. You succeeded, and took the last two matches for the win. It was a crazy finals, but we couldn't of been beaten by a more resourceful alliance.

Re: 190, 177, 987!!!! 2007 Rack and Roll Champions!!
 

QFT. Your amazing human player skills were what really helped carry those squeaker matches, and I cannot express my gratitude to you and your team and 987 for an amazing run! It just goes to show that almost nothing can defeat a well-rounded alliance that plays well together. 177, thank you for being so willing to redistribute weight to make our ramps work to their full potential. Your hard defense also was a tremendous help in staving off other teams out to stop us and 987 from scoring.

987, I'd like to thank you guys for some amazing teamwork and gameplay. For anyone not aware, between semifinal Einstein matches, they had smoked a Globe motor used to raise and lower their arm. You managed to not only completely replace the motor between matches, you managed to perform at the same level of excellence, if not even better, that you had without your automated scoring functions.

71, 179 and 233, it was an honor playing against you. We were honored to play against such powerhouses, and we had a blast. 233, it was amazing playing with you at the Florida regional in '06, and it was even more amazing to play against you on Einstein. Having been on the field with you on both sides, I think it's safe to say that you are an amazing team.

Re: 190, 177, 987!!!! 2007 Rack and Roll Champions!!
 

190-I could go on forever about you, but guys are in one word...amazing. You guys were so smart on the field and knew how to win. Your ramps were simply ingenious. You were incredible when you were offensive while being defensive. Thank you so much for picking us.

177- Wow. Your driving skills and smart playing helped us pull out the win. You guys never stopped to impress us drivers with the maneuvers you pulled, like blocking a robot defending us and blocking an opposing robot trying to score at the same time. Thank you.

Congrats to all of the robots that made it to the Championship...that in itself is something to be proud of.

Oh, and by the way, our arm was in hot water three times on Einstein. Our potentiometer controlling the arm up and down was hit after the first semi-final. It was hit again the second semi-final. Then, we smoked the globe motor because I was driving the arm without potentiometer control and the motor was driving past the arm's range of motion. We then replaced the motor. We played a total of three matches on Einstein without the normal control of our arm due to the absence of the arm potentiometer, which we replaced after the first final match on Einstein.

Re: 190, 177, 987!!!! 2007 Rack and Roll Champions!!
 

I ranked Newton as 2nd on my small list of the competition in Atlanta. I put Galileo to win. But Newton came and pulled it out in the end... amazing!!! Shows how much previous competitions may not affect the Championships.

Congrats to the winning alliance - 190, 177, 987.
Congrats to everyone who made it to the Einstein field. Yall did an amazing job to make it that far and should be darn proud.

I'm going through withdrawl already lol. I cannot wait to mentor my team next year and just wait for January :D