Another intense BattleCry for sure! Thanks to WPI and all of the volunteers who made the biggest and longest event possible!
Congratulations to 4048, 2168, and 3719 for taking home the victory you three worked so well on the field making some beautiful three assist cycles so consistently. Enjoy your first win 4048 & 3719 its always the sweetest and BattleCry is one of the hardest events to win in New England!
Huge thanks to 126 Gael Force for inviting us to join your alliance it was a blast to finally get a chance to play with you during the eliminations! Hopefully we can do it more in the future! Skip5 Forever!
Thank you to 3499 for sticking through the long weekend and joining our alliance for the elimination rounds. Most of your weekend was spent trying to chase down mysterious problems and we know from experience they are not easy to find or remedy! You guys stuck through it and played very hard on the field with us!
Going out in the semis was not what we had hoped for but it was still a strong showing nonetheless. Unfortunately our shooter was damaged by the heavy defense of 246, 230, & 1687 and what looks like a few missed penalties but you win some you lose some. It just wasn't our day.
Overall our team had another great year at BattleCry!
One suggestion for future planning would be how to better go about the selection of the third robots for eliminations when there isn't an even amount of teams. Obviously careful planning cannot take into account how many teams will not be able to make it at the last second but in the future the selection of the additional robots for alliances should allow more time for said alliances to prepare. Selecting our third partner as we were putting our robots on the field for the first quarter finals left us with only moments to discuss strategy and no time for human players to practice inbounding to other robots or practice passing from one robot to another (something we know many of the other alliances had time to practice in addition to many having already played 1 or 2 matches on the field). In the future it might be better to select from the first 4 eliminated alliances and/or alter the schedule so the other quarter final match ups face off first. I wouldn't go as far as to say we were competitively hurt but it was a part of the event that rubbed me the wrong way as all teams should have a fair chance to plan for the elimination rounds.