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Originally Posted by DRAKE2751
I guess I'm from the bad guy alliance, that got our way into the finals on a technicality. We were getting our back sides kicked hard, and standing on the side lines, I knew we were done. To add insult to injury, we had lost comms. and 343 tried to deploy their minibot, and missed the pole. That's when 11 had gotten the 30 point minibot and drove into 343.
I don't know what to say except that we knew it was an uphill battle the whole way. We got into the semi-finals, and I looked at the match-up between us and the #2 seed, and knew we would have bring our A game to have a chance. When we won the first match because of the 50 points in minibots, I had a good feeling, but told the drive team that the #2 seed would change their strategy. We were truly beat the next two matches.
In the finals there was another incident with a robot hitting another robot while trying to deploy. We won on another technicality, but felt good that the raw score was still good enough to beat that great #1 alliance. But in the end the better alliance prevailed, and a big congratulations to 180, 2363, and 2815.
We now look back at what could have been and look forward to North Carolina. We will try to make improvements (if that Banebot stuff will ever get here). We were very pleased with the outcome, because we are a third year team, and last year's robot was a B.L.T. (brave little toaster).
See you in 10 days!
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I don't think anyone considers your alliance to be the "bad guys" or downplay your alliances achievements in any way for making the finals due to a red card. I know I certainly hold no ill feelings towards 343, 2751, 1287, or even team 11 for how SF Match 3 went. Rules in FIRST exist for a reason and they cannot be ignored just because the score is an unreachable gap. I was wholly bummed seeing your robot go without comms in that final match then pushed out of the way by 343 to try and clear the way for more scoring. It's a circumstance that seems to happen much too often in the elim matches. I remember in 2009 when our alliance in each QF match had a robot dead in the water to start the match (Horsepower FRC801, then the Minotaurs FRC1369). In 2010 the roles were flipped in the semifinals and it was us who was floundering on the field with comms issues and the CRIO resetting, costing our alliance a possible finals trip. It's a real unfortunate way to end a series but it happens and it cannot be faulted.
I can't lie about not being disappointed in being unable to hang our teams first finalists/champions banner in our warehouse, but theres always next year and many more after that. I am thankful for being given the opportunity to compete in the elimination rounds because of MORT and MARS, and I cannot ask for any more than that.