Thread: Archimedes 2013!!!
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Unread 01-05-2013, 12:21
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Re: Archimedes 2013!!!
First off, I had a great time at the Championships as did our entire team. The Archimedes Division did not disappoint this year. I always enjoy meeting and working with new teams each year, such as 33, 469, 291, 1714, 694, 868, 2590, 948 and seeing old friends like 51, 71, 254, 365, 525, 973, 1902, and 3245. I wish the Championships were a few days longer so we could get to know more, but I guess that will have to wait until next year now.

I want to thank our Alliance Captain, Team 2415, for choosing us to be a part of the #1 seed. Going undefeated at the Championships is never easy and you guys earned the #1 seed with your solid robot and game play. We have still never gone undefeated during qualifications at the Championships after coming so close with one loss in 2006, 2008, 2012, and now 2013. (This year's loss is going to sting for a while.)

I also want to thank our other great Alliance Partner, Team 2959. You guys were such a great scoring machine (worthy of a 1st pick) that I was shocked that our Alliance was able to steal you at the end. A great undervalued Michigan team that was a pleasure to work with this year.

Congratulations to Teams 33, 469, and 1519 for winning the Archimedes Division. The finals matches were incredible and all six teams left everything out on the table. I wouldn't want to win or lose any other way. We were pulling for you all the way through Einstein.

Congrats to the Archimedes Teams for their Championship Awards:

254 Industrial Design Award
1902 Imagery Award
33 Quality Award
3478 Engineering Inspiration
2614 Entrepreneurship Award

And again, we were sorry to Team Crush for the hit in Match 2. I don't think we could recreate that if we tried, but at least it is a video clip that we'll both be remembered by for a while. As Greg mentioned in another post, they were next to us in the pit and were gracious enough to give us use some of the glue/solvent, with which they repaired their robot after Match 2, later in the day after we cracked a part of our intake chute. Great team from our neck of the woods (or desert).

Good luck to all of the teams in the offseason. See you at IRI or next year!!

Now back to work....