What a crazy weekend! In no particular order:
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181: you guys' autonomous program is the big reason we picked you, on top of your excellent ability to balance and your tele-op scoring capabilities. It was fantastic getting to work with you guys, and that 36-point autonomous was incredible. Great work!
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20: at our strategy/scouting meeting Friday night I kind of came up with and talked a lot about the idea of "alliance composition." Essentially, my idea was that at this regional the winning alliance was going to be one of two major alliance composition types: an alliance that attempted to win games by triple balancing, and an alliance that attempted to win by dominating hybrid and teleop. Because our (195's) robot was very good in hybrid and teleop but lacked a stinger or some other mechanism to help balance a bridge, we knew that our best bet was to dominate hybrid and teleop, thereby offsetting the 20 points lost in a triple balance. Our pit scouting uncovered that you guys would be great at feeding balls both in hybrid AND in teleop, so we watched you guys very closely on Saturday morning. Obviously, even with the issues you guys suffered in the elims (I'm going to elaborate on this a little more later), we were incredibly glad we picked you guys. When you guys were working you balanced the bridge every time and our side of the field was always absolutely packed with balls because you fed us so well. Fantastic job both to your drivers and pit crew for working through all the difficulties you had this weekend.
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1071: fantastic job guys! I talked with you guys a lot before and after the finals and again, I am thrilled to have played with and against you guys and to see you achieve this success here. You guys definitely earned it!
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558: I'll be honest here; when I first saw your robot at Suffield this year I was skeptical. Since then though my opinion on your robot has changed drastically. I don't think I ever saw you guys miss a ball in Hybrid, and your tele-op scoring was always dead on. It was just awesome how consistent that arm was. You guys definitely earned your spot in the finals there.
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228: I talked a lot with you guys, but for everyone else, I can't say enough good things about GUS. Their robot was a true feat of engineering, and it looked absolutely incredible. That, and it was so ridiculously fast on the field! Very fun to watch.
Oh, and a huge congrats to Dave on the Dean's List!
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118: The most professional FRC robot I've ever seen, hands down. If 228 was a feat of engineering, your robot was a wonder of engineering. At one point my programmer posed the question "I wonder which is a more impressive feat of engineering - 118's robot or the convention center where this is being held," and neither of us could agree which was more impressive. Ever since you released your video we were unable to stop talking about your robot.
The way you guys conducted yourselves was also incredibly professional - even with the...uhhh, circumstances you guys were handed in the semis you guys still kept calm and even, something i was very impressed by.
Oh, and I want to say, the fact that you replaced virtually every system on your robot and still managed to get out and score baskets on Thursday was
incredible. If our team tried something like that we probably wouldn't have been running 100% until our last Qual match. When I saw you guys replacing your whole drivetrain I could only think to myself "how in the world would these guys finish this in time for tomorrow," but you guys more than found a way.
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2168: Another robot I was very impressed by. There needs to be more engineering awards at these 60-robot regionals, because you guys (along with 228 and 118 of course) definitely deserved something.
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1124: I'd like thank to these guys for their support and encouragement. I'd also like to give a shout out to
Phil Lopreiato, who a few weeks ago helped us fix the control loops on our swerve modules. Without him I don't know if we ever would have gotten it driving!
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4055: Congrats on the rookie all-star award! We're glad we were able to lend a hand to you guys.
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3467: Wanted to congratulate you guys on the quality award - I don't know what it is, but something about you guys impressed me all weekend. In particular I liked your gatherer (and how it models some of the ones the world's top teams are using) and I took note of a last-second balance your robot completed in a qual match on Friday.
-Queueing/Field Reset crew: I was very impressed that you guys always managed to meet that 6-minute turnaround time, while still being friendly and considerate. When I saw our match schedule Thursday night I was shocked to see that we would be playing 10 qual matches this weekend, and you guys made it happen! (and, that goes without saying, a big thank you to the other volunteers and the judges!)
I'm sure there's some other things I'm forgetting here, I'll post here when I remember it.