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Re: Ungracious professionalism at internationals?
If you doubt a decision can be made about the health of robot late in alliance selections, this happened at the 2010 Los Angeles Regional:
In the second last qual match, a robot broke off a front wheel assembly after landing awkwardly coming off a bump. It really looked bad, as the wheel flailed around - just held to the robot by its drive belt. Most teams wrote the robot off as DOA, but the team went back to the pit to repair the robot. A mentor from first pick of the #3 alliance saw the robot could be fixed, and rushed to the field just in time to select that team to round out their alliance. The #3 alliance made it to the finals, losing to the #1 alliance in four tough, exciting matches (first one was a tie).
Team 980 was most grateful to Teams 294 and 968 for taking a chance by picking us. What a wild, emotional ride for our team!
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2003 AZ: Semifinals, Motorola Quality; SoCal: Q-finals, Xerox Creativity; IRI: Q-finals
2004 AZ: Semifinals, GM Industrial Design; SoCal: Winners, Leadership in Controls; Championship: Galileo #2 seed, Q-finals; IRI: Champions
2005 AZ: #1 Seed, Xerox Creativity; SoCal: Finalist, RadioShack Controls; SVR: Winners, Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technologies"; Championship: Archimedes Semifinals; IRI: Finalist
2007 LA: Finalist; San Diego: Q-finals; CalGames: Finalist || 2008 San Diego: Q-finals; LA: Winners; CalGames: Finalist || 2009 LA: Semifinals; Las Vegas: Q-finals; IRI: #1 Seed, Finalist
2010 AZ: Motorola Quality; LA: Finalist || 2011 SD: Q-finals; LA: Q-finals || 2013 LA: Xerox Creativity, WFFA, Dean's List Finalist || 2014 IE: Q-finals, LA: Finalist, Dean's List Finalist
2016 Ventura: Q-finals, WFFA, Engineering Inspiration
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