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Originally Posted by GKrotkov
Seriously, the vast majority of our scouting data was written in Pascack Pioneer-provided pencil.
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So your people posted points on paper with Pascack Pioneer-provided pencils?
No, seriously: I wish I'd had more time to spend in your pit. I like your robot though, and it was truly our pleasure to be next to you.
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Originally Posted by Ben Martin
2590, you have (in my opinion) the best robot in MAR. Best of luck at champs!
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Re-quoted for truth.
In addition to congratulating everyone going to St Louis, I'd also like to congratulate Team
2016...who wasn't even there*, but managed to snag TWO major awards for their mentors: Woodie Flowers Finalist Award for
Dave Pechter, and Volunteer of the Year award for
David Morris (who was, not surprisingly,
a volunteer at the event. David was the guy shaving the carpet after almost every match on Saturday. I need to get him a Bic Disposable for CMP...
)
I managed to snap this photo as the MAR previous Woodie Flowers winners gathered to present the award to Dave.
My heart is broken for our friends on Team
75, Team
223, and Team
3314, all of whom truly deserve to be headed to CMP. It is a small consolation that they each brought home a trophy this weekend. We will do our best to represent MAR on your behalf.
A shout out to Team
4035 for their Judge's award. To those outside MAR, this is the little team that can. Not a large team, not a wealthy team, but with more heart than any team I've met. And I've met a few.
Now back to my recovery from the weekend...
*They declined to attend the MAR CMP because they'd already qualified for St Louis by winning a well-deserved EI at Queen City, allowing another team (like Dawgma 1712, Firebirds 433 and RooBotics 4373) to attend and get the thrill of MAR CMP. How graciously professional of them! 2607 also declined MAR CMP for the same reason, having won at Virginia. Team 103 also declined (They are a HoF team) but I can't say if they wanted to open up a spot at MAR CMP for someone or had other reasons.