Another year, another great NJ Regional. I cant believe this is my last one as a student! so many memories, I realllyyyy hope i will be able to make it the next few years (college beckons lol). To me this was an amazing way to go out. I've never seen one of our robots make it that far at a regional, so to tmake it to the finals is incredible.
Ive been involved with scouting and strategy for 3 of my 4 years on the team, and this year was way better than any other year. I never had the chance to actually go out on the field and handcraft an alliance. I was upset about declining 2180, I love their team, but our scouting team had a partner in mind if we made it to the top 8. Lo and behold 1647 was still available after we declined 2180 and formed our own alliance. That was a fantastic bit of luck, as 1647 was one of our top 3 ranked robots at NJ at the end of quals. I was so happy i was able to pick them!
Im so proud of our alliance for not giving up after that first round beatdown. We could have played out the second match of the QF's much like the first but we figured out a strategy and WON! very proud to say we're the only alliance to beat 25 in elims in 6 (?) years! A very big shout out to 1647, your consistent scoring and beastly minibot all but guaranteed us a ton of of points. 102 played amazing defense throughout and without them, the opposing alliances would have scored at will. We formed a great strategy and made it all the way to the finals as a 6 seed! Good luck 1647 and 102 at all your future events. Sorry 25
I want to give a shout out to 2016, 1676 and 303. when i saw the final alliance selection results, I knew that if we got to the finals, we would be facing a major challenge. 2016 and 1676 were the top two robots at the event (imo). 303 was another amazing robot and when your faced with an alliance like that, you should be proud to even be in their presence lol. Congrats to you guys for the win, especially 1676 for their second NJ regional in a row! I know 1676's drivers and I personally told them how amazing they were! Good luck to all of you guys!
Congrats to 2016 for the Chairman's win! It was well deserved. I loved the rap! See you guys in DC in a few weeks and Good luck to you guys at St. Louis
Also, congrats to Lenny Bernas, from my own team on making Dean's List. Lenny contributes so much to our team and it was amazing to see his reaction when his name was called. He literally jumped out of his seat and almost tripped down the stairs in his excitement to get to the field!
That about wraps it up, I cant believe my last NJ regional is over. Upsetting that i was only able to attend one day of competition this year (i unluckily got sick on thursday and couldnt go on friday), but what a day it was. I cant wait for DC and I really hope i can come back to jersey next year!