Great Plays of 2009
 

Let's start it early this year.

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i think that it was in the quarter finals at dc and it was 7th seed v 2nd seed. i cant remember exactly which match it was... but it was close, then the hp for 118 hit three super cells to seal the match.

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How did he have 3 super cells? The corners only have 2 super cells each.

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then it may have been posted wrong on tv(it posted three little lightning bolts next to the number 118)... but the alliance did score three.

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The other alliance could have thrown a super cell, missed, been collected by 118, and all 3 were made in.

But thats just a guess.

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I've got a couple

1114 won a match with 2 partners that weren't moving. They scored a full hopper of balls with 20 seconds left to seal the deal


2022's human player launched a 40ft supercell into a pile of robots and had it land in 1625's trailer with 2 seconds left in the game, in semifinals.

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I enjoyed it in match #49 of the Granite State regional when 20 and 175 hit 2370's trailer from both sides and simultaneously dumped, filling it almost instantly.

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If Im thinking of the same match, I believe their partners actually didn't show up at all. It was 1 vs 3 and they pulled off the win.

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Yeah their partners werent there. I went down to see the regional and that was the first match I saw. I was pretty excited about the rest of the tournament after that.

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It wasn't a game-changing play, but a human player at Buckeye launched a moon rock half the length of the field right at the buzzer, and managed to land it perfectly on top of the vision target on the opponent's trailer. It was pretty exciting one-in-a-million occurrence.

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THERE WERE MANY GREAT PLAYS AT THE MWR, but the following are my favorites:


1114's match was great.

2022's human player made MANY game saving plays. She definitely scored about 5 super cells just during elimination matches. And if I can say that all 3 semi-finals matches of 2022, 271, 2781 vs 1625, 111, 1675 were amazing on both alliances!

In those semi finals matches, 2022 and 2781 were both able to push around both Wildstang and Winnovation. 2022 is only using 1 Cim to power all 4 wheels, while Wildstang has 4 Cims AND traction control.

I also have to say that the qualifying match 63 was great because team 2022 just pushed around 1024 for the second half of the match. It was hilarious to watch!

-Caitlin
Team IRS 2022

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In the Buckeye elims, 1038 and 1787 proceeded to pin an opponent against the wall and then subsequently push them toward their corner payload specialist. The combination of 2 robots and 1 PS proceeded to completely fill up the captured robot's trailer.

I look forward to seeing an increase in this form of teamwork at future events.

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1675 beating the undeafeated 1114 in the last qualifying match, twice!

1675 pinned 1114 in the corner the whole match and ended up winning. But then they replayed the match because one of the winning teams alliance partners was never enabled. So they replayed, and they did it again!

I think that is what killed 1114. Before those matches they were unstoppable. Then 1675 showed the rest of the competition that they could be stopped. So they were stopped in the quarterfinals too. Ended up #1 seed losing to #8 seed. Great matches.

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While this wasn't game changing either, and also during a practice match. Team 2410's robot launched a moon rock onto the top of the vison target aswell. Unfoftunately, this was not ruled as a scored moonrock. The entire crowd was unhappy :(.

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Your drivers should have been unhappy as well. Practice match or not I would have contested this with the Head Ref to assure that this was correctly scored if it happened during Quals or Elims.

The Vision Target is a part of the Trailer, so if the ball was fully supported by the target it should have been scored.

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I think it was at Midwest or buckeye...One of the human players threw a Moon Rock and it landed on top of the trailer's sensor bars. It was there for a few seconds before it was knocked off due to a collision to the wall...

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So our alliance (1279, 118, and 538) had a pretty dynamic alliance. 118 was our empty cell runner. I don't remember the specific match but it it was usually a tandem of our human player and the human player from 538 (I think) that made the critical super cell shots.

In one match, 1279's human player made 2 super cells, and our other human player made 1. That was really exciting.

KUDOS to our human players, because without them, the matches would have been a lot closer.

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1732 did an awesome job shutting down 1114/71 too when they played defense on them in the quarter finals. Didn't it get to the point where 1000 ended up playing defense on the defense(1732) to try and free up 71 or 1114?

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The first match 68 was a very interesting one... And great for me to see before our regional as a driver! It's a excellent example of what to do/avoid depending on if you're playing offense or defense.

I'm working on getting the Midwest video I have on TBA, but since 68 was redone and the score of the second match was the one counted I don't think TBA will have a link to the original, so if you want you can watch it here:
http://www.polytechfusion.com/Midwest_Q_68_bad.wmv

- Austin

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I agree. A lot of people are going on about the underdogs beating the top ranks... but I think what is more memorable about that match was the defense and the active movements the robots made. They didn't pull any "run-away" defense, they went head-on, and forced 71 and 1114 to make offensive maneuvers which 1732 and the others on that alliance would take advantage of.

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Yeah I heard about this, do you know if it was scored at Buckeye?

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Little biased, but BAE Finals were awesome.

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I think it was Buckeye finals #1 where 2 robots pinned another during autonomous in it's starting position. The human player scored and got a 20 point lead going into teleoperated.

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As far as individual moments go (not alliance), one of my favorite moments for us was when in our last qualification match, our robot pinned two enemy robots by itself. We wanted to pin the enemy alliance's best scorer, but a rookie team's robot got in between us and them. We proceeded to push the rookie team's robot into the target robot and pin them both to the wall. We then held them both there for somewhere between 1/5 to 1/3 of the match while our human player filled up the target robot's trailer. We knew we had a lot of pushing power, but just knowing we could do that was a amazing moment for us.

To be honest though, it really wasn't that good a strategy. We could only fill up one of their trailers, and the rookie team's robot didn't have the ability to score so pinning it didn't benefit us. Having two robots between us and the wall also put us in the middle of the field making us a good target for their human players. However, we still were excited when we pulled it off.

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I my favorite play is quaters 3 match 2 at BAE when team 20's ROBOT scored a super cell with a secound left (yes i know im biased). Our alliance partner had shot and missed and we just had time to pick it up and shoot before time expired.

http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv...?matchid=11854

Unfortunalty you dont see the shot but you see us pick it up and then it being in the trailer.

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I saw the field manager take a cell phone pic of that moon rock on the trailer before taking it down. that was cool!

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Actually, on Thursday, we (1732) were able to slow down 1114 pretty well. Instead of scoring on 'robotless trailors', our aggressive driver decided to try to score on 1114 and in the process held them to one dump in the two practices matches. While it was only practice, it gave us hope that we could slow them down in the quarterfinals. 1675 was the first to pin them in 'real matches' (if I recall correctly) and probably did a better job than we did.

Anway, thanks for the praise, I'll be sure to pass it along to our drivers. We are just lucky it was a best of 3 (I doubt we could beat them again) and got to 1114 early in the season. Knowing 1114's dedication, I'm sure they are doing everything to get better; there is no way I would want to play them again this season.

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Semi finals and the Finals at San Diego. Check out the defensive play of team 2543. They had the entire arena on their feet as they held 968 pinned to the wall and prevented them from being able to dump. 968 dominated the whole regional.... that is until the met 2543. It was awesome

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I think the common term a bunch of us used was "968 got 1114'd at San Diego"

It was sick strategy. No offense to them, but 968's partners (IMHO) were not helping out RAWC as much as they should've. Don't get me wrong, they were darn good robots.

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There really isn't much that can be done when wide robots pin long ones. It was a tactic that really gained popularity at this regional.

Wide robots would use the bumpers to their advantage and pin robots between the kingpin and the trailer. Teams were able to "pin" robots without using the walls, even in the middle of the field. This strategy was demonstrated perfectly by 2543 during the Finals when they pushed the Holy Cow's halfway across the field, sideways, into the drivers station wall. 2543 had quite a machine, as they were able to maintain this pin on more than one team over the course of the regional, for extended periods.

We gave it our best effort to free our Alliance partner, but despite our best efforts, there really was nothing we could do to free 968.

In my opinion, 2543's choice early on to use their robot's low center of gravity and power ramping system to pin other robots, was a brilliant tactical decision. My hat is off to you guys.

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In the first quarterfinal at FLR, what has to be the most epic stragity of a 8th seed against one of the best robots of the 1st seed. Red Alliance's 188 goes off to take over an idle robot and goal by one of the Blue Alliance's human player stations. 188 goes over to drop off 4-5 moon rocks, and all of the sudden the other two blue alliance robots attack 188 from behind, pinning them in and scoring from both robots plus the human player...this happened really late in the match before the other red alliance teams could come back. The match went to the 8th seed.

Had to be the best stradegy of FLR. I can't wait to see if we have video of it.

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As much as I hate to say it... the best co-ordinated stratagy I saw was during our semi-finals match in Boston.

61 and 1099 had our robot pinned to the far wall while 190 just kept on making dumping runs into our open trailer. I think our teammates were also tied up on the wall, so they couldn't do anything.

I have to say, it's a nice feeling when all the robots want to stop your robot because it's so good. Haha.

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If there is video, this will probably be the best match from the first two weeks to study. It will be of interest for teams with all ranges of robot abilities showing examples of both what to do, and what not to do.

Most every team wants to go out there and show what they've got. Sweep balls, then once you reach a reasonable capacity find the closest stationary target to unload into. Not a bad strategy most of the time, and we spent the entire qualification round doing this, with a fair amount of success.

This match will demonstrate just how dangerous it is to do this with little regard for field position, time left, position of other opponents on the field, and super cell distribution.

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As part of rookie team 3015, I was really proud to be part of that match and contribute to that win. We were really stacked against it going against that unbelievable alliance with two rookies teams. We knew we couldn't win with pure scoring, we had to think of something and targeting 188 was our best option. I remember us being down by about 14 with ~15 seconds left and thinking we were done, then I saw 188 pinned in a corner with our human shooter going crazy, sinking shot after shot and our robot scoring and watching our numbers go up. We by about 4 points, it was insane. Even though we lost the next two matches, that one match made my day. Were not going to Atlanta but this was one event I'll remember forever.

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1622 Spyder was doing their best to push 2543 off of 968, but then the two best offense components of the alliance are basically out of the competition because of the one pinning robot.

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At Traverse CIty finals, someone threw a moonrock [who hadnt had a good time throwing that match] and tied the game!!!

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Kettering had an incredible squeeze play by 65 and 2771.. 65 uses their auton to drive over to the payload specialist and fill up their hopper, so they had a completely full bot as well as 2771 with their initial rocks. The two of them jumped on 33 the instant teleop started, pinning their trailer between the two of them.

At first it was ust an impressive pin in the middle of the field that completely locked down 33, until you realize you have two very full, very efficient dumpers in perfect position. The poor Bees had a completely full trailer within the first 10 seconds of teleop.

I really hope that the matches get up on TBA, it's a play that every driver/strategist needs to see. Ken maintains it was luck.. I disagree ;)

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In our last match today we were playing with 1515 and 1644 against 4, 973, and 1323. We gave an empty cell to 1515's HP at the beginning of the match. With 20 seconds left there was nobody nearby to score on. With about 15 seconds left team 4 gets close enough and 1515 and ourselves pinned them between us and 1515's HP shot the supercell, but missed with 10 seconds left. It lands a little bit in front of our robot so we go to pick it up and we get it with about 7 seconds left on the clock. We turn to aim at team 4's trailer and shoot it in from 3-4 feet away with 2 seconds on the clock.:ahh:
That was definitely the most exciting match so far.

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You saw the L.A. buzzer shot one right? Blue "home" fueling station to red trailer, half-court or so and right in the middle, at the buzzer. I don't remember if it changed the match or not, but I will go on record as saying that I saw at least one ref cheering the shot. Plus half the arena. It was sometime after lunch, maybe mid-afternoon. I don't remember the teams involved.

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I missed that one, but I remember Team 40 making a couple half court shots in Manchester.

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I think I missed your robot scoring the SC. I was probably about to head for the blue outpost and get the bins onto the field for reloading.

See you tomorrow...

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I felt our Team 48 drive team contributed to some great plays in Pittsburgh:

1. Pinning 291 the entire match.
2. Watching our payload specialist BOUNCE IN a supercell from half court to win a match.
3. Watching an empty cell delivered with less than 10 seconds left, then watching our PS grab it with the tongs, hang the EC, and pickup, throw, and make a supercell shot with about 1 second left. Unfortunately, it didn't make a difference in the final result, but that's about as clutch as you can get. Watch out for Anthony in CT and the ATL! :)

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I'm not sure if this is under everyone's definition of great plays but in SVR in the finals 852 had 1280 pinned pretty much through the entirety of all the finals matches.

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Match 61 of Boston Regional when team 178's Payload Specialist throws a Supercell at the Buzzer all the way across the field to score it
http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/match/2009ma_qm61

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Florida regional quarter finals match 1
179, 1649, 233 vs 501, 1345 and 238.
we dumped on i think i was 238 and just as we dumped our basket, 1345 dumped theirs on us, it was really cool looking, and I really hope someone got a picture.
Also the entirety of that last match was awesome and will probably go down as one of the best of the season.

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There was the quarterfinals where the platypi(2655) didnt work for some reason due to a dead OI and us and 832 were able to tie the number 1 alliance in the quarterfinals
Then there was another situation in which both 1746 and 1771 where able to pin us on either side during auto mode and rock our life with moon rocks
then there was match 1 of the finals in which our main breaker had problems and we shut down and 2655 and 832 were able to win the match
that was absurdly good driving on their parts

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I'm going to second your first one. We were 8th seed facing the once thought unbeatable 1st seed alliance of Otto (1746) and Global Agenda (1771), and we had a dead Drivers Station, and due to having amazing alliance partners still managed to tie.

Another is in the final round of the finals, we were up 30 with 15 seconds left, and the human player from one of the teams on the other alliance scored a super cell on either 2415 or 832 from across the whole field, it was amazing. We still held on for the win though.

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At the Florida Regional, I forgot which elimination match, but a human player threw a Super Cell from the alliance station wall, missed completely yet it bounced right into the goal!

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QF Match 1-2, the 8th seeded alliance threw the super cell in the last 5 seconds I believe and got the bounce on one of our alliance partners. I didn't see it (little focused on driving our own robot) but I certainly heard the yell from the crowd. I'm waiting for the video of that to be posted.

-Greg

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I just posted a pic of 848 pinning team 399 at the LA regional during the elimination matches. It was an incredible pin and they were able to shut 399 down for most of the match.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/33446?

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LA Regional, match 13, 973 and and 399 both come at a trailer from opposite ends and unload, filling the trailer.


It looked a lot like 254's demo video with both of their robots.

It was pretty awesome.

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Rumor has it that 67 won a match where they were essentially the only functional robot taking on 3 functional robots (supposedly 2 no shows on HOTS alliance). Can anyone substantitate that rumor?

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I'd like to nominate the L.A. SF1 series and L.A. finals. If you want some tough plays, I don't think any of those were decided by more than 4-6 points. SF1-1 was a tie.

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Its true, Cass Tech match #25. 1 v. 3 when two of our partners didnt show up.

Plan was to move the empty trailers to safe zones that our human players could protect.

247 attempted to slow us down with some defense, while 2137 scored in the empty trailers.

I was told (by Copioli) that our shooter unloaded about 5 balls in one of the empty trailers, when he forgot they were for our alliance....so we were lucky to pull it out in the end. :yikes:

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I'm surprised they didn't devote 2 (or 3...) robots to pin you ASAP. Good job dealing with the adversity.

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florida regional-Qual' match 50.......


when 945 and 1557 pinned the "ninjaneers" at the outpost station and had them for about 20 seconds unloading 1557's hopper and 945's basket untill 1902 came over and started shooting...........


It wasent the most impressive match, but definitly worth watching again......

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The buzzer beater that EricH was referring to at the Los Angeles regional was team 848. We pinned 399, but were still down and needed a super cell for a chance. What a great shot and it was fun to hear the crowd cheer.

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I've got to say that watching that was my favorite moment on Friday. Friday the 13th, 13th match, amazing play. The Tinman and Raptor were an amazing team that day.

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In a Q47 of the Chesapeake Regional, teams 40, 1719, and 287 were allied together. In autonomous, 40 rockets across the field and smashes into 1719, causing 1719 to get caught on the 40 robot.

We thought 40 was done for the match, but the coach for 40 stood between 1719 and 40 and coached both of them. To our disbelief, the two robots began moving around the field as if they were one robot! 40 was able to collect balls and score, while 1719 was able to avoid being scored on by the other alliance.

This, coupled with 4 more-than-half-court shots IN A ROW by 40s human player drove them to a WIN!

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In a qualifier match at the Orlando regional, team exploding bacon was pinning team 79 krunch the entire match with its big blower fan because they were afraid to let the beast that is the krunch bot out of its cage...
in the last 10 seconds of the match bacon released its strangle thinking the game was theirs, but alas, krunch goes and while picking up balls on the way swiftly scores a full load in the last microseconds of the match sealing the deal for our alliance!

WHAT TIME IS IT? - KRUNCH TIME!!!!

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I Remember That!!!!!!!!!!! it won the match

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I know the match you are talking about even though I can't give a number, but bacon didn't have a fan, spam did, I am not sure which robot it was.

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really?... i thought it was bacon... o well... either way what that robot lacked in offense it succeeded exponentially in defense, it was a very agile and deadly defender

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LA Regional
Match: 39
1438 3027 1070 VS. 207 995 702 12 71

The Payload Specialist on Team 702 shots a Half court buzzer beater with perfect accuracy! and ya all the judges looked out for him all day.;)

Check the last 10 Seconds

http://vimeo.com/3786675

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Anytime 1625 was playing at Wisconsin Regional, they would get pinned and/or double teamed, but would always break free and score at least 2 huge dumps. The crowd went crazy every time. It was spectacular (and scary).

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That was awesome.

http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/match/2009fl_qf1m2
2:18 keep your eye on the bottom right corner of the video

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The best super cell play I saw was at Arizona, quarterfinal 2 match one. (video here)

The red alliance of 2840, 60, and 2839 had a super cell available in each corner. The first super cell was thrown into a pileup, missed the trailer, and landed on 2839's pneumatic shooter. Several seconds later they aimed and fired it into the trailer (the only robot to score a super cell at AZ, I think). To top it off, the payload specialist from the other corner scored the second super cell from over half the court away!

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At the Lansing District Team 1918 was about to unload their bot in to a trailer and it had a supercell in it at end of the game. Then my team, team 2075, pushed them out of the way to save the game. We ended up winning by 2 I think.

This is my favorite so far but i haven't watched many matches because i am either in the pit or driving.

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I remember at the finals at traverse city our alliance and BOB's (85) were there.
we were alwase hoping for BOB to jam so we could win.

but they ended up winning.

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Change "1625" to either "488" or "1280" and "Wisconsin" to "Seattle" then I couldn't agree more!

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Yesterday, Long ISland regional

Quarter finals 3 vs 6

Match 2 4 point win for Seed 6 after a super cell
Match 3 1 point win for Seed 3 even after Seed 6 threw a super cell...

epic!

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One of the weirdest plays of 2009 that I have seen so far doesn't even concern our team at all. Our team was at Traverse City a few weeks ago and were watching a game when we saw a PS throw a "Hail Mary" super cell across the field and watched it bounce off the field and land in his own alliances trailers. At first, we all cheered because we thought he made it into an opposing alliance's trailer :o . However, he looked angry and we soon saw why. It was more of an issue of bad luck on their part than the PS's fault. Oh well, what happens happens...;)