I would like to congratulate the winning teams 78, 88, and 1099. What a fantastic final match, though it was marred by that auto-red card. I can hardly imagine how much it must suck for 125, 2648, and 222. You guys played great, especially 125's great game of defense.
Finally, I would like to congratulate the guys who beat us: 1100, 1153, and 241. 241's defense was unbelievably good, while 1153 just hung tubes like crazy. And 1100 had the only minibot that could get up the pole faster than ours. Fun fact: That last match we lost was the only match we have lost the minibot race. And that second match was amazing: 69-66, one of the closest scores I have seen without them going into the minibot-winner tiebreaker.
It was an honor to be alliance captain, though it goes to show how much the seeding system is skewed towards teams with reliable(ly) fast minibots. But when you get to elims, it's the tubes that matter.
I don't know if we'll be in Boston next year, but all the teams were great. We were glad we could help everyone out with their parts requests (makes sense if you know we gave out 5 spikes to different teams, not to mention the insane amount of steel cable)
The energy in Boston is unmatched at any event I have ever been to, though the pit setup is a bit wonky.