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Steve's hair is far less effective in black and white :D

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indeed it is not

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good to see 188 and 610 together again. should be an interesting eliminations. Whats up with the black and white feed??

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:) Excellent idea huh... :P

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During our scouting meeting last night, the idea for the 6v0 match kept coming up. We knew that it wouldn't be the most popular idea, so we made sure to choose a match in which we were playing with some good friends, and the college mentors past teams.
Before the start of the match, all six teams sat down to discuss if we really wanted to try this.
This idea behind this match was not to show off, or to try and be rebelious.
The six teams just wanted to play one match that every team would come away with a great ranking score.

-Andrew Morrison

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This is really turning into a good final: 217, 1551, 174 vs. 188, 610, 191

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Even though I've been out this season building my little 10 month old robot I can't stay way from all the friend in FIRST.

What a great set of Elimination Rounds. Congratulations to 1551,217,174 on the FLR Regional Win.

To 1551 - it was a long time coming and with all the hardships in the past few years you deserved it.

Congratulations to 610,188,191 for a great show and great teamwork shown during all the Elimination rounds- great strategies seen as more than worthy FLR Finalists!

Great job to all the teams and volunteers who attended and made this year's event exciting as always!

Ellery

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First of all, I would like to say good game to 217, 1551, and 174 on their victory at FLR today. It was fun and a good learning experience for Atlanta, such as, don't recycle the wheels from last year by adding tread over the top of them and then trying to use wood screws to attach the gears to them unless you want them to fail (with just the darnedest timing) during the finals.

To be honest, I was surprised that we went as far as we did. I was more surprised when 188 and 610 picked us for an alliance partner during the eliminations, though.

Ahh whatever, onto Atlanta, I say!

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That particular match the highlight of the preliminary matches for me, as well as the rest of the drives team.

It was a good feeling to be working with all of the teams on the field.

Thanks 229, 1511, 250, 3173, and 3181 for a great match!

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Jason, a team like 188 doesn't pick partners without VERY good reasons. 610 wasn't picked just because they were Canadian, and you weren't picked just because you have a low team number, are in the Hall of Fame, and are arguably Rochester's most recognizable team.

From an outside observer, I doubt the alliance would've gotten to the finals without 191's stifling defense and hanging, 610's ability to muscle its way through robots to balls in the midfield and advance balls, or 188's ability to control balls and finish around the net.

It didn't seem like you guys were able to play your best strategy during the finals due to mechanical issues, but from here it looked like you did the absolute best you could given what you had. You should be extremely proud.

It was inspiring to see you guys drive into position and successfully hang, even though you really only had 1 working drive wheel. How you managed that, I will never know - but it was impressive!

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I didn't mean to sound like I was saying that we were picked for any of those reasons, or that even 610 was picked for being canadian (I saw how 610 was on thursday and was impressed, but I honestly wasn't paying too much attention to how 188 was doing prior to them picking us, except knowing that they were a consistently solid team in the past) if I came off sounding that way. I was saying that mostly because nearly the entire 3 days of FLR we've been plagued by mechanical and some programming issues, and I was unsure at that point how we were being perceived by other teams in terms of reliability. That said, I find it to be somewhat ironic that our only successful in-game hang was during the very final round with only one working drive wheel. Also, while we were designing the robot, I don't recall us ever really putting an emphasis on defensive capability, although I'm not exactly complaining that we're as good at it as we are. You can bet that we'll be using these weeks between now and Atlanta to get some fixes ready to install.

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Congratulation Teams 1551, 217 and 174 on your impressive win!
Teams 188, 610 and 191, you guys played great and made it a great finals match!
Congrats Team 340 on your RCA!
Congrats 1511 on your Engineering and Inspiration Award!
I would like to say thank you to Teams 145 and 250; you guys were great alliance member. FLR was amazing and I can't wait to see you all again at GTR and hopefully ATLANTA!!!!

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Oh wow. What a weekend!

Firstly, The weekend was made so awesome by the little USA v. Canada battle that Steve brought up on us. The judges got him good though - someone make sure to upload that picture of Steve behind the American Flag.

Thanks to all those who made the 6th FLR amazing. It was so much fun working on Field Reset this year, and I'll be there next year so long as I can.

Next, Congrats to 3157 on their well deserved Rookie All Star Award, 1511 on receiving EI, and of course to team 340 on their incredible and amazing journey to being Regional Chairman's winners once again. This year you'll get it at Atlanta, you'll see!

Congrats to Teams 188, 610 and 191 on their efforts in the competition and Finals. You played some of the best Breakaway on the field with some of the best robots of the weekend. Good luck on your next regionals!

But finally, congrats to teams 1551, 217 and 174 for their Regional win, and a super congrats to The Arctic Warriors team 174 for winning three Finger Lakes Regionals in a row! Can you say Three-peat?, Turkey?, Hat Trick?, maybe even Dynasty? Good luck to both 1551 and 217 on their next regionals and at the championship. 174 is done for this FIRST season, but we'll all be cheering for you for the weeks ahead.

Congrats to all the other teams, students and FIRST members for your own personal victories and I'll see you all back in Rochester next year!

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Congratulations to teams 1551, 217, and 174 on your excellent run through the playoffs. When we won our quarterfinal match and realized we were up against such a powerhouse, we definitely were worried at the thought of facing such a strong group of teams. And when we did pull off a win over you guys, the elation we felt was the same as if we had just won the whole thing.
Thank you so much to our alliance partners 1511 and 3157. We had a great run and I was excited to be back in the playoffs at FLR.
Congrats to 1511 on Engineering Inspiration and 340 on the Chairman's yet again. You guys are truly the cornerstones of the area's FIRST growth.
Thank you to Steve and JohnDarr for the excellent program! This was one of the best FLR's I can remember!

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Thank you to 217 and 174 -- you're the best alliance we could have hoped for!

Always, always, always, thank you to all the teams that have helped us along the way, especially 1511 and 340. We quite literally would not be the team we are today -- indeed, probably would not be a team at all -- without your constant and unwavering support through what I like to think of as our 'birthing pains'.

Of course thank you to Bausch & Lomb, to our local sponsors, to our mentors and parents, all the judges and volunteers.

A very personal thank you to the kids on my team -- many of you worked 80+ hours over February "vacation", and your hard work and dogged persistence paid off. Winning isn't important; trying to win is. Your dedication and "can-do" spirit inspires me to do more every year.

I couldn't have hoped for a more uplifting experience.