[Peter Matteson]

Originally Posted by JABot67

67 caught 1124's arm fabric and tipped over in that second semifinals match, destroying our arm potentiometer. In the finals matches we were manually positioning the arm which was far trickier than pressing a button to go to a set position, and we couldn't even run an autonomous that removed balls from the overpass. Facing 1114, 217, and 148 in that situation, we were toast.

I really want to blame the Curie Curse for 2008, but if I did that I would have to acknowledge that it's perfectly reasonable for others to blame 2010 on it. So, I'll just say I don't believe in curses. Curie will win one of these years!

I suspected that something like that happened but I couldn't remember if I actually got the whole story from anyone on your team. It was was an ugly semi-final in general that I wouldn't mind having stricken from the record.

That finals was also the begining of one of the greatest championship runs by any team when HOT had three Championship finals appearances in a row. I have to give HOT a lot of credit for being the only team to ever do that. I feel people generally don't appreciate that enough.