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Re: 2014 Minne-Mini

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Originally Posted by jajabinx124 View Post
Although I was bummed because of the reverts on the IRI style rule changes it was still a killer finish to aerial assist. Thank you 2169 for hosting the Minnie Minnie regional once again this year! Congrats to 2846, 3883, 2169, and 3042 for winning the event. Congrats to 3313, 2175, 1816, and 3202 for being finalists. Congrats to 3883 for the Engineering outreach and Congrats to 3102 for the Team spirit award. Finally thanks to 4536, 3102, and 2472 for being excellent alliance partners with us during eliminations. Thanks to 525 for coming all the way up to prior lake from Iowa to present about the 2015 control system. I'm sure many MN teams are grateful for your Intel. Also sorry 4607 for asking you for our Red Ethernet cable when you guys returned it earlier to us. Sorry we made you guys search frantically for it when you guys already had returned it. Overall this regional was a great learning experience in many ways. Can't wait till next years Minnie Minnie regional and Workshops.
I too was extremely disappointed that many of the important IRI rules were not used. When I talked with the referees, they said that the event organizers decided upon the rule changes without including the referees in the discussion. The standard FMS does not allow for 4 auto balls, and the refs would have to count ASSISTs differently than they were used to, so these two key changes were not used. It sounds like this lack of communication will not happen again next year.

I'll also second all of these congratulations. The 3313, 2175, and 1816 alliance was a force to be reckoned with. Although I don't agree at all with many of the penalties in our semi-final matches against them, they certainly were a very good alliance that was worthy to advance. I would have loved to stick around for the awards ceremony, but unfortunately my team had to head out with the other St. Paul teams before they finished. Did 2052 win the Gracious Professionalism Award? I am guessing yes since Kshitij didn't congratulate another team for winning it. If so, congratulations to them, otherwise congratulations to whichever other team won.

Overall, 4536 had a great time at Minne-Mini, and will certainly plan to attend again next year. We tried a lot of new things at this event, and will hopefully be carrying over what we learned here into the official competitions.

I personally was also really glad that I finally got the chance to coach a match with 2052's primary coach, Peter Awker. It was so inspiring to be right in the thick of the action with one of my old mentors. Unfortunately our alliance didn't do quite as well as I had hoped we would, but it was still a great experience.
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