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Originally Posted by MooreteP

What a great Friday in Connecticut.

One great story is the rookie team 4812, Crosby Robotics, with a paltry crew of maybe five students and mentors that felt like they had bit off more than they could chew. The team was created in December.
On Thursday, they were desperately trying to make their bumpers so they could pass inspection, which they didn't until after their first match. Teams jumped in to help, among many, 4134, Amsterdam, who with a staple gun and hammer, helped them to complete the job. 4812 team was so forlorn at this point.

Then the day began.

In their third match with 228, GUS, they were asked to go after 2170, the Titanium Tomahawks, with their climber dumper, and hit them as they transported their red disks to the pyramid. Crosby's driver did, they lost their cache, and the match was won by only two points.

No question that they are being carried. Nonetheless, they are ranked 12th (losing the first match by DQ) and are theoretically undefeated.
When asked about scouting, they seemed to think about camping.

They are in for quite the ride tomorrow, and may not even see eliminations, but the spirit of FIRST is alive and well in Connecticut this weekend.

I was also one of the assisting bumper builders with 4812. I brought over my electric scissors so we could trim their u-shaped bumper covers. I also demonstrated a folding technique that got them going. I was then distracted by the notch in their backing board. Discovering that the reason for it was the extreme extension of their drive axle bolts beyond the frame, I pointed out that they needed to reverse those bolts so the head was on the outside and put the nut and extra length on the inside.

About that match assignment: Our driver claims that a driving error had him hit the wall diagonally to jar the red disks out of the bucket. Streaming video does not show either theory of the loss of those disks.
My review of video of Q21 split from 230's live stream follows.

• at 113 left 2170 and 4812 do indeed meet with 2170 on the way to pickup disks.
• Both go out of frame as cameraman is distracted by 173 interior climb on the red pyramid. at 103 sec left.
• 92 sec remaining - 2170 approaches feeder to load disks, 4812 mid field between blue pyramid and center line
• then 4812 engages 230 emerging beside pyramid - 230 escape by 86 second mark, camera angle zoomed in on them so 2170 not visible.
• camera follows 230 to shooting position at pyramid corner and zoom out during shots to 77 second mark.
• 75 sec shows 4812 still on centerline and red disk already spilled
• 72 sec - 2170 continues to red pyramid and tries alignment.
  bothered by white disk on the floor.
• start climb at about 32 or 31, climb finishes but only 20 as 2170's ladder portion not raised out of zone 2 - red alliance gets 40 climb points.
  red alliance loses match by 4, so even one of those 4 dropped red disks would have won it for red. I'd still like to see a better video of the match just out of curiosity.

I have to agree about it being a great weekend. Many thanks to 1218 for picking us to play in the elims (eventually ) It was our first time for Saturday afternoon playing. We hope you found your trip from Philly was worthwhile. Best of luck with South Florida and the MAR district championship. Thanks also to 1071 MAX for energetic participation. It would have been nicer to have kept the pesky 4134 out of our path to the pyramid in QF4-2. At that point we had a pretty big target on our backs anyway. We did get the disks to the top but then proceeded to punch them right through the bottom of the pyramid goal.