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Originally Posted by XaulZan11
Looking very impressive. Not many people know about 2949, but I think they could a huge year and become a household name. I don't think many know they had the confidence/balls to select 2358 ahead of 71 and then beat an alliance led by 1625 and 111 last year at Midwest.
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2949 is a team so dedicated, they rebuilt their entire robot before IRI. The robot was by no means bad before - Midwest finalists and Toronto semifinalists, but they did anyway because they thought they could be more competitive.
2949 has an impressive history before that too.
If I'm not mistaken you can trace their roots back to 2741, one of the three teams that held the national high score in Lunacy with 71 and 1625. They won Rookie Inspiration at the Championship Event.
If you go back even farther, they were a dominant team in the FIRST Tech Challenge. So dominant, that they captained the 2nd seeded alliance at the 2008 Wisconsin Championship.
They took a gamble and picked a pretty weak looking team with their second pick - a team who rebuilt their entire robot at the event and was down to a single student by the time alliance selections rolled around. This event win catapulted that little Vex team they partnered with to the National Championship, where their remaining student joined 1714, becoming inspired to pursue mechanical engineering as a college major. The student now mentors 2791 in New York.
Small world, huh. 2949 is one of the up and coming teams in FRC.