I'm a little delayed in posting here, but I would like to echo everyone's sentiments about how well done this district event was...thank you Clinton and Brandi and Team 2337! You've done an outstanding job - even with finding and returning stuff left behind.
Congratulations to 2604 on your Engineering Inspiration Award. You are sure to be a strong contender for the State Award.
To finalists 2619, 245, 3302 and semifinalists 2145, 2612, 3620 - you were both incredibly strong alliances. Although both series were done in two games, they were A LOT closer than that. 3620 - you guys played some tenacious defense and I don't believe you took any penalties (although I have not re-watched all the matches yet to confirm that)...great job. 2619 - I hope your robot is okay. Disabling you was definitely not our intent. I've re-watched the video of that hit quite a few times and it looks like it was just a fluke thing...the hit made the front of our robot pop up and as we both tried to continue forward we ran up onto your robot.
To 247 - some of those matches were so close that your autonomous and hanging points made the difference; plus you helped give us a little extra space to try to get some extra discs of our own in. Thank you for your help.
And to 33 - all I can say is WOW! You guys have an incredible machine...you were incredible at Waterford and you managed to improve on that for Grand Blanc. I can't wait to see what you have in store for Bedford and States. It's been an honor to be on an alliance with you and win...not once, but twice! You are definitely one of the teams that we use as a benchmark for where we want our team to be - not just from a robot point of view, but your whole team. It was great being right across the isle from you in pits.
Lastly, what a Cinderella season this has been for us so far! To go from 7 seasons of "so close, but no cigar" to 2 District wins and a District Chairman's Award in 2 events is beyond describable. I don't think anyone on our team has gotten their feet back on the ground yet. It's definitely given us a jolt of adrenaline. We're definitely looking forward to playing with the best teams in the state in a couple weeks.
Good luck to everyone in week 5 and 6 events.