Team 846 would like to thank so many people and teams for making our final competition with our 2012 robot so much fun. We owe a lot to WRRF, our gracious hosts on Team 100, and all the volunteers for once again running a great offseason competition! And our friends on Team 604 for streaming it on GameDay!
We'll start by thanking everyone who played in a match with us, especially those that dealt with our initial communication and joystick issues (fortuitously resolved by elims). Despite it all, we managed to pull 6 wins and 5 coop balances out of it, and that is in no small part due to the concerted efforts of both alliances on the field! I remember in particular 766 and 649 pulling the coop balance during our final qualification round to give us the 4 qualification points we needed to get us 3rd seed. You guys were clutch for us at that critical moment, and we can't thank you enough.
And of course, our alliance partners. Thank you to Team 3256 and Team 1351 for really bringing some firepower to the 3rd seeded alliance. I honestly thought that the Warriorborgs would be gone before we got to them, and we were ecstatic to have the chance to work with Team 3256 for the first time! No hard feelings about your shooter encoder problems during the semifinal rounds; we still put up one hell of a fight. And of course, Team 1351 was another great pick. We've had the chance to work with each other now twice in my time in FRC, and both times it has been a blast working with a team that is so cooperative and plays our alliance strategy so well. We took it to three rounds with the 2nd seeded alliance, and could have taken it home with the uncounted double balance . . . we played hard and we have no regrets. We need to do that again sometime.
Also, a huge thanks to Team 114 for loaning us two batteries after we played two tough quarterfinal matches against each other. We were in bad shape with our limited number of batteries at the event, and I was so thankful that you guys agreed without hesitation to lend us your batteries even though you were packing up to go home. We still have your batteries, and we will cooperate with whatever arrangements you make to have them returned to you as soon as possible!
Finally, thanks to everyone who played us in the elimination rounds! Teams 670, 114, and 115 gave us tight matches in the quarterfinals; all the present Fremont Union High School District teams were on the field at the same time, which was quite exciting. The rivalry shall continue next year? Also, thanks to the 2nd seeded alliance, Teams 1678, 1671, and 100! Going to three rounds with you guys was really a blast, and you guys were very deserving of an appearance in the finals!
Finally, we'd of course like to thank our head coach, Mr. David Giandomenico (affectionately known as Mr. G). At CalGames, he received the Volunteer of the Year Award, which while prestigious is of course only a fraction of what our students feel he deserves! He managed to not only create and maintain the CalGames scoring system that immediately updated rankings and match scores on the CalGames website during the event, but he continued to make time to check on our team to make sure we were still all right. His dedication to WRRF and our team is truly inspiring, and the definite high point of CalGames for our team was being able to cheer him on as he walked onto the field to receive the award. In fact, we'd like the video of that to go up soon so we can cheer him on again . . . and again . . . and again. Team 604, get those videos up fast
Basically, thank you everyone for making CalGames so great!
