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The event is over but it is far from cool down time for 1403. On the bus ride home from Rutgers our team was already discussing changes that will be made to the bot to help keep us competitive at MO and hopefully states. With that being said our entire team would like to thank all the volunteers, mentors, sponsors, teams, and students that made this event possible.

2016 - Thanks for being such a great alliance partner. It was fun being matched with you guys for our first time at a regional, and the results clearly payed off. Hopefully we will see you guys as states and champs

3515 and 203 - Thanks for being such a great pick and backup respectively. We could not have made it to the finals without either of you guys.

1676, 56, and 1370 - Congrats on winning the event, all of you deserved it. We all played hard and I think it is safe to say we all pushed our robots to the limits by match three. Can't wait to compete with 56 and 1676 at MO and hopefully we will see 1370 at states as well.

11 and 75 - Congrats on your well deserved Chairman's and Engineering Inspiration awards. We know how hard both of you worked for the awards and could not be happier for the two of you.

Lastly I would like to say that this event was our first district event and that the event ran very smoothly and out team had a great time. But there were some complaints that must be addressed. First, the reason that first moved away from this venue was that it could not handle over 36 teams. It would appear that they did not learn their lesson, as the let in 42 teams (which probably have more members than the original 36) which resulted in insane crowd control measures hindering ones ability to access the pits, field, stands, and bathrooms (which were way to small for the amount of people attending the event). Also the venue was so hot that I was attempting to go outside to cool down after almost every match. However I had to climb up one set of stairs and down another to reach the exit. As a college student this was a minor inconvenience but for other it was a large problem.

Ultimately the team had a great time and we look forward to the rest of the rebound rumble season.