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Originally Posted by JackS
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, although I agree that coop-balancing assist system on 118's robot is incredible and deserving of an award, along with the rest of their robot, you shouldn't sell yourselves short! Your drive train is very good, and you guys really stepped it up this year with your design! 2791 had two great regionals this year in terms of performance, came away with a few awards and don't be shocked if 20 takes a page out of the Shaker Robotics book with their drive train designs in the future
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I'd also like to extend thanks to teams 195 and 181 for asking Team 20 to be a member of their alliance. Our hybrid scoring was incredible and really made a difference in our success! Both 195's deadly accuracy from the key and 181's awesome autonomous were impressive. I really enjoyed strategizing with both of you; it's really cool to align with teams who take scouting as seriously as we do and take that all the way to a regional championship! Hope to see you guys in St. Louis and Washington DC!
2067, 1071, and 558; those were some intense finals matches! Coming from behind after a loss in the first finals match is never easy, but with matches as close as those, it was a real nail biter, especially with all three of you going for the bridge at the end.
177, 228, and 236; WOW! That was the easiest triple balance I've ever seen! You're strategy made it indefensible too, couldn't figure out how our alliance was going to beat you guys if you balanced that quickly every match
. It's really a shame the season and 177's amazing Einstein streak had to end with robots not moving on the field. Many people who attend the FIRST Championship this year will have never seen an Einstein Field without Bobcat Robotics.
Congratulations to StuyPulse on their Chairman's Award! Well deserved recognition for making an impact in the FIRST community and the rest of the community. Also, congrats to 1511 on their Engineering Inspiration Award! Congrats to team 250 on their safety award as well! It was great to see so many capital region and New York teams well represented at the award ceremonies!
Shout out to 1493, our collaborative scouting effort was awesome! The kids on your team really made a difference for us, and the scouting went really smoothly! That information we collected helped us get picked with our new strategy Saturday morning, and then to strategize with our eliminations alliance. Hope the information was useful for your team as well, we'll have to consider continuing this in future seasons!
As some of you may have noticed, our robot was having some intermittent issues where we would stop moving during parts of eliminations matches. I can't say if these issues were in some way similar to the issues other teams were experiencing, but we did find that if we rebooted our cRio mid match via the driver station, we would restore operation for the duration of the match. This did mean we would be non-operational for 20-30 seconds in some of the matches, but at least we could come back.