[Marc S.]

Team 5102 had a great time at our first ever FIRST competition. We all really enjoyed meeting other teams and seeing what solutions they had thought up for this year's game. I'm so proud of all our students, they all worked hard to earn the Highest Rookie Seed award.

Our Oculus Rift was a great hit, and we hope to have an even better robot fpv experience for our next competition. For those who weren't there, we plan on posting all of our fpv video (normal and Oculus ready) real soon!

We'd like to thank team 3562 and 2761 for picking us. We had a fun time competing with them in the eliminations. 3562, it was also a pleasure to see you win engineering inspiration, good luck at champs!

We'd also like to thank the following teams for helping us:
691 offered to let us use their bimba voucher since there team does not use pneumatics. We hope to get our shooter working with these for LA!

702 was a great alliance partner in qualifications and helped us strategize before alliance pickings. We almost seeded in the top 8, and would have been totally unprepared if it were not for Bagel Bytes help.

973 helped us during season and gave us some great advice during the competition.

1072 was quick to respond when we realized that we were one gear short of completing our drive gearboxes on Friday. Thanks!

1323 gave us a lot of help, from getting us wcp parts during the competition to teaching us how to mount a mini cim onto a versa planetary, it's no wonder why they almost won the event. We were all very impressed by their gracious professionalism.

There are many more, but these teams stood out to us the most. Thanks!


We had hoped to win the rookie all star award but after seeing team 5136 realized that we were not as deserving. Congratulations on your win and we hope to see you succeed at the championship as well.

I have had the pleasure to talk to many 1671 students and mentors over the past few years and all I can say is great job. The Bird Brains have been deserving of the chairman's award for a long time. Take into consideration their near win in the finals I think 1671 will be back in the spotlight in the near future. Congratulations.

To the winning alliance, 254, 973, and 2135, we were all inspired by your performance. Goes to show that your final seeding doesn't matter, any team can win an event.

As per the overwhelming blowback against 973, all I can say is that I am greatly disappointed by this. It was obvious to the entire event that the 973 guys were frustrated, and the sigh of relief was witnessed by all when they won. Congrats on your win and we can't wait to see you reach your potential at LA.