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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
I'm going to be like the 5th person to post a match from 2006 involving 25. To give a little back story as to why this one in particular is just so darn awesome.
It's the IRI semi-finals. Alliance #1 is composed of 1114, 25, and 33. The Simbots and Raider Robotix are widely considered the two best teams anywhere in 2006, both with truly awesome scoring machines. The Killer Bees are certainly no slouch either, and are the perfect fit to be that alliance's "back bot" with their turreted shooter and quality ground pickup. It seems like an unbeatable alliance, and performs that way in the quarterfinals. All three teams come out on fire in QF1-1, and look like they might not only break the FRC high score for that year (171), but completely shatter it and top 200 points. Unfortunately, it's blown dead for a field fault and their autonomous doesn't quite work as well in the replay. Either way, the #1 alliance dominated the quarters.
The #4 alliance is captained by a little known second year team that had just started to earn their reputation as a elite team, 1625. They were paired with 71 and 910, who was a defensive powerhouse that year. They were certainly a very good alliance, but nobody gave them much of a chance. Maybe they'd keep it close until the final period, but then 1114 would put the match away.
Keep in mind the scoring in that year's game was much lower than this year. It was more in line with 2012, where 100 was considered a really impressive score. You could win most regionals with scores in the 50s or 60s, and most championship alliances were only scoring in the 60-80 range.
Here's the match in question. I can't remember if it was the second or third match of the semi-finals, but either way, it was incredible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7fep3iJ5e8 |
My favorite match ever for many reasons. I was the lead scout and human player for 1625 at the event.
To make a correction, 71 was the 5th seed alliance captain. 71's human loading paired with our floor pickup was a perfect offensive combination. While the scores may not reflect it, 910 played brilliant defense. The best instance being their autonomous mode in SF 1 match 3 where they hit all three of the opposing robots allowing our alliance to win the autonomous period. Without that defensive autonomous in match 3, I would be willing to bet that we wouldn't have pulled out the win to advance to finals. Their robot seemed to know exactly where all three of the their robots would be.
Also, it was the second match of the semi-finals.
All of the eliminations matches for the 5th seeded alliance:
QF2 match 1
QF2 match 2
QF2 match 3
SF1 match 1
SF1 match 2
SF1 match 3
Finals match 1
Finals match 2
Finals match 3