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Originally Posted by Nemo
I am a little heartbroken on behalf of the finalist captains who came very close, our fellow Iowans from Team Neutrino (3928), who are a great bunch of truly nice people. They brought an amazing machine that seemed like the clear favorite at the event, and our team is inspired by your work. The combination of 3928 and the lightning fast scoring 2574 was pretty daunting, and adding even more autonomous scoring (and defense) from 4239 was even scarier. After watching the predictably large scores and the way team 4239 was playing defense in the first couple of rounds, I was thinking "this is gonna be tough if we make the finals..." We knew we'd need to catch a couple of breaks. I thought both sides played great. The finals matches were the most exciting ones I've seen.
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Thanks Nemo. We were so disappointed not to finish our season strong, but you guys had a fantastic defense. In fact,
our robot suffered a major impact that we think was enough to move our 25 pound weight forward enough to injure our pneumatics and our auton controls, which ultimately did us in. The only regret we had was to not use a vice but instead a large
Congrats to you as well for being named the WFFA recipient. Nice to have 3 Iowan WFFA's at North Stars.