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Unread 14-03-2014, 11:33
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Todd Hanselman, Mentor
FRC #3018 (Nordic Storm 3018)
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Rookie Year: 2011
Location: St. Peter/Mankato, MN
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Re: 2014 Lake Superior

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Originally Posted by MrBydlon View Post
Congrats to 3018, 2052, and 3692! Couldn't have asked for a more exciting and difficult finals. I never want to lose but you're kind of my favorites (other than our alliance of course).

I wrote about our Elims experience at this post.

Thinking about it more today, each match for us was just a battle and that's kind of the way we wanted to play it. We would make some changes obviously after analyzing the video and talking it through outside of the pressures of Elims. We loved working with 3883 and 706. The range of emotions and adversity we all experienced together (losing, winning, losing but then winning, etc.) will stay with me and our team for a long time.

The switching from offense to defense for basically every team is actually awesome if you ask me. Takes incredible driver skill and Alliance communication.

Overall, a great experience and we couldn't be happier. All the best to 3018 and 3962 at the Wisconsin Regional. We'll be seeing 2052 at 10,000 Lakes in a few weeks.

Good luck to you as well! Your alliance was very strong - I think most of our alliances in eliminations picked very good robots to go along with our skills and strategy. That goes for alliances 1 through 8 in Lake Superior, almost all the alliances had a legitimate chance to win the whole thing. This year's game wasn't always about having the best robot on your alliance, but the best that fit with your strategy - a different thought process from the past. It was a lot of 'Battle Bot' kind of action out there at times, but most alliances found ways around it to score. Too bad the pounding we took hurt us in the Double DECCer final as it would have been good to find a way to pull that one out against three awesome robots (one even from Hawaii in Duluth, of all places!) Hope to see you in St. Louis, Jeremy!
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Nordic Storm 3018 Team Mentor (St. Peter, MN) 2014
Chaotech 3747 Team Mentor (Mankato, MN) 2011-2013