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Re: Michigan State Championship

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Originally Posted by stuart2054 View Post
To 1918 NC Gears from what I see from our drivers post you gratously you used your time out for our problem and were not able to use it when you needed it. That is GRATIOUS PROFESSIONALISM at it's best and I am sorry it worked out the way it did. We respect your team and hope to be on the same side of the window at nationals or any othe venue because you are a class act!!!
Thanks for the kind words, but I don't think that's quite what happened. As I understand it, somebody from our alliance asked the referees if we could take a time-out right after yours between S1-1 and S1-2 to give you more time, but they wouldn't allow back-to-back time outs. After S1-2, we noticed the un-mistakable aroma of a sample dose of the magic smoke of death coming from one of our shooter motors. We tethered up to check it out, and that let the rest of it out. By then, it was too late to call a time-out or call in a backup robot for S1-3, so we did what we could with what we had.

Thanks also to 2145 for picking us and 3572 for completing the alliance. It all worked out very well when things were working. You were both great to work with and tenacious fighters. I hope we get the chance to do it again sometime.

Congratulations to everybody that made it to MSC, the winning & finalist alliances, all the award winners, and the teams that made it through to CMP. Thanks to all who made the event possible. What can I say that hasn't already been said a million times. MSC is an absolute riot.

And to 2054 - all this idle chit-chat about getting on the same side of the glass someday is like dealing with the weather. Everybody talks about it, but nobody ever does anything about it...
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