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Unread 03-07-2011, 13:47
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Re: Best Team Never To Win at Championships?

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Originally Posted by sgreco View Post
If 233 and 968 won, then I think we could all agree that 1114 would be the best team without a title. If I recall correctly 233 and 968 won the first match (217 fell over during that match, so it wasn't very close). The second match was won by 1114's alliance, but only after penalties (G22 was a killer in 08). Then in the final match 968 missed a premature hurdle, and fired a ball out of bounds, and it seemed like without those minor mistakes they would have been able to win. I think those three matches make up the best round of matches in FIRST history.
In Einstein SF1-2, the un-penalized score was 122-114 for the 968/233/60 alliance. The 968/233/60 alliance took four penalties that match. Two of the penalties were for G22, backward line cross violations, while the other two were for hurdler interference. Each one of those hurdler interference penalties cost our alliance an 8 point hurdle. After it was all said and done, the final score of that match was 114-82 for the 1114/217/148 alliance.

That match was especially intense as we hadn't realized that the angle on our arm was off, and as a result we missed 5 hurdles and left a ball on the overpass in autonomous. (We missed more hurdles that match than we did all season long.) I'll never forget the feelings of fear I had as we missed each hurdle, and the audible gasps from the Georgia Dome crowd as they were stunned by what they were seeing. Watching that match is still a bit painful for me. Thankfully for our alliance, Team 217 played their best match of the season and were able to make up for our short comings.
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