[sgreco]

2079 had a great time at BattleCry. I’d like to thank everyone at WPI who helped put on such a high quality event.

I want to thank 125 and 2648 for being such great alliance partners. You guys both had awesome robots and were really fun to play with in eliminations. Both 2648 and 125 were very gracious in helping us get ready before eliminations and they both played a role in helping us win the purple heart award. I specifically want to thank 125 for helping us diagnose some electrical issues we had with our compressor. 125 has great robot, but unfortunately they’ve been finalists three times this year without taking home gold. Hopefully they’ll show the world what they’re made of at IRI. 125 is among the best in the country this year.

I also want to thank team 88. 88 saved our competition about 5 times on Saturday. None of our mechanical mentors were available to come to the competition on Saturday and we had a serious drivetrain failure in the morning. 88 was more than willing to help us out. They lent of tools to fix the problem, they lent us the experience and time we needed to get out on the field. They lent us the parts we needed that broke from the failure, and the even lent us a Velcro strap when our battery mount broke in eliminations. In short, 88 was always there when we needed help, and they really saved us quite a few times.

Overall I thought the competition was awesome. 1073, 1519 and 238 are more than deserving champions and even though they beat our alliance in the finals, I had no problem losing to such gracious and professional teams.