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Originally Posted by JackS
Moving on to the rest of the regional. Our driver station refused to connect to the field on Friday morning and we spent 4 matches working with the FTA trying to correct the issue. We would really like to thank him for being patient and working with us to solve all of those issues with us, even staying through lunch to help us troubleshoot, we appreciate it, even though it never ended up working. Your spare classmate saved our regional.
Then on Saturday morning, the drive motor issues from BAE resurfaced. It took all morning to troubleshoot the issue, and we finally put the robot together after sitting dead for our first three matches on Saturday. I will come back and elaborate more on the issues so we can troubleshoot the issue more, but we ended up replacing almost every component on our electronics board before the morning was through. We would like to thank the FTA again, another volunteer named Oliver, and two mentors from 1511 for helping us troubleshoot the issue all morning. You made our eliminations possible.
Lastly, I would like to thanks 2168 and 118 for picking us for eliminations. We know you took a huge leap of faith in doing so, but we were able to triple balance twice on the practice field and twice in matches and it was a lot of fun. We're disappointed that control system issues on 118 ended the regional for us, especially after control issues cost us BAE and 2168 NYC. We wish 118 luck next week in trying to qualify for championship. That robot is a work of art and it would be a loss for it not to be in St. Louis. I am also amazed we won the Creativity award for our drive train and you did not win that award for your innovative coopertition balancing system. That was totally cool.
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Jack couldn't have said it better.I would like to again thank 1511 on all their help. After years of competing with them as a mentor on 229, this was just another reminder that they are a team that exemplifies the values of FIRST.
I would also like to thank team 20. You were always there when we needed help. Your expertise has been a tremendous asset to us.
I would also like to congratulate teams 195,181, and 20 on their regional win. I would also like to congratulate regional finalist teams 1071, 558, and 2067. We had some really fun matches and I enjoyed playing against you.