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Echoing what many have already said, our experience at Wisconsin was absolutely amazing this year. We were able to fly through inspection with no issues on Thursday and only a mindbending software bug related to our autonomous caused any added Thursday stress. Once we got out on the field for the final practice match of Thursday (successfully coopertating with 706), everything clicked for our run through the competition. Our drive team put on an amazing performance (I still can't believe Luke managed to pull off that clutch coop balance with 4143 without half of our drivetrain working which kept our 1st place seeding alive), the quick fix work of our pit crew (fixing that chain/sprocket in record time and keeping up with all the regular maintenance inbetween matches), all the way down to our strategy and scout teams who allowed us to keep on pace with the other amazing teams such as:

48, 2826, 269 (congratulations on an perfectly cohesive winning alliance. you guys clicked from the start of elims and we knew we were in for one heck of a battle in the finals. back-to-back 98 point performances...that's absolutely surreal, guys. good luck to all of you at nationals!)

2169 (absolutely amazing alliance partners in every respect)
167 (you guys stepped up when we needed you as a replacement in elims and did awesome.)
4174 (great job in QF-1 and it was sad to see that we needed to go with a replacement afterwards. congrats on a great rookie season!)

868 (that human player shot was incredible)
2062/3418 (the perfect 36 point autonomous we collectively pulled off was EPIC!)
1714 (awesome pit neighbors and great coop/practice bridge partners)
4143 (amazing coop partners in the match I already mentioned and also on the practice field triple balancing with us and 706. great showing all around and we're all so proud of you guys!)
706 (great partners on the coop bridge [twice!] and on the practice bridge with some pro-level triple balancing skill which we were hoping to be able to bust out with you in elims, but you were off the board long before we had our 2nd pick).

I honestly feel I could continue on to include every team that competed this weekend. Absolutely stacked field of great robots and teams this year. Special shoutout to everyone who met us on the coopertition bridge: 706(twice), 1714, 1675, 1306, 4143, 167, 135, 171, 967, and 868/537/93...sorry, but I can't remember who was on the coop bridge with us during that match because of that crazy human player shot in the final seconds that won you the match...regardless, it doesn't matter because all three of you guys are awesome!

My personal favorite highlight of the weekend was the 3 point shot we hit from the coop bridge while balancing with 1306 in our final qualifier match. That put the perfect celebratory cap on an absolutely storybook run to the #1 seed. Hopefully we'll have some video of this moment to post links to and some other highlights from the weekend shortly, but I just wanted to make sure I expressed my thanks and congratulations to everyone that competed/volunteered/etc. in Wisconsin this weekend. Awesome job!

Finally, congrats again to the awesome winning alliance of 2826, 48, and 267, the chairman's winner of 537, and the awesome rookie (semi-sister) team of 4143! Tear it up at nationals, guys!