[Exla357]

What I learned in Utah:

Defense is hugely important. In one qualifier, our alliance had 2 shooting bots (our shooter broke) and the other team had 3. We brought the game down to a few points thanks to hard defense from both sides (props to the 399 drive team).

Robust robots are hugely important. Many teams did not realize this, and after a match one ref came up to me and told me he was gonna start calling technicals on our alliance if I kept hitting robots too hard. I didn't really understand this, as we always hit with no protrusions from perimeter, but something to be aware of.

I didn't see many instances of pedestals not lighting up.

Overall, Utah was a lot of fun, and I'm excited for the Colorado regional now that we got the kinks worked out of our bot.

Congrats to 2996 Cougars Gone Wired for their win! See you guys in Denver!