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Originally Posted by Tim Koch
On behalf of the Regional Planning Committee, we would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to all the teams that came and volunteers who took on the challenge of a week one inaugural regional and made it feel like we had been doing this for years! Your attention to detail, willingness to change things up to make something run smoother, and your overall positive attitudes and responses were simply stellar.
Whether it was engaging in conversation with teams in the pits, or watching you cheer from the stands, sharing your seats with visitors (we had an overwhelming response from the local community of first time people to an Robotics competition), to the closing rendition of YMCA, it was the “hardest fun” we have ever been part of.
We knew this regional was going to be competitive when we saw the registration list. Anyone willing to share what the best match they were part of? Good communication, good strategy session, good game play? Best shot under pressure?
Again, our thanks on behalf the entire Regional Planning Committee for the CIR.
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My two favorite match moments involved the Roboteers:
In our match before Quals 21, we ended with a bent lower cylinder. We managed to get it removed, but didn't have time to install the spare. We sent the robot out anyways hoping the arm would stay up with only 1 cylinder. This was a tough match up against the Roboteers and Titanium. As we played some tough defense with our arm flopping around, our alliance managed to pull off a very close win by 1 point. I hope someone has the match recorded for our team to watch again.
The 2nd was Quarters 3 Match 2. With the Roboteers on our alliance this time and down 1 match already, our alliance played a great match to force a rubber match. On defense, our alliance was able to prevent the opposing team from scoring for over a minute to end the match. As I caught our driveteam coming back to the pits, Martin from 2081 on the opposing alliance was coming back to the pits with a big smile on his face and said something to the effect of "I knew you guys could do that to us." Here's a video of the match uploaded by 4213:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2vOnc1RrEE
You can see at the end the blue ball still hasn't been put in the goal. 2081 went on to win in match 3, and I'm sure we'll reminisce about this great best of 3 in the future.
It was a lot of fun to finally be able to play with and against all the local teams from Central IL at the same regional along with all the great teams who traveled.