Congratulations to 1986, 1658 & 4356 for winning the St. Louis regional! Also a huge congrats to finalists 2783, 1208 & 4154 for putting up one heck of a fight. If not for a very strategically placed piece of litter, I think they could have taken Finals match 2 and the regional. Litter defense is real!
I wanted to say thank you to 3284 and 5326 for working so well with us and helping us advance to the semi-finals. This is the farthest 4329 has ever advanced and the whole team was absolutely ecstatic.
We were again incredibly honored to receive the engineering inspiration award. There are so many great teams in the St. Louis area who are equally deserving.
We realized that since we had already qualified for champs via our Arkansas Regional EI, I believe we created a wild card spot. Since 2783 won Chairman's Award and was the captain of the finalist alliance, I believe this means that 1208 will receive a wild card spot for champs. They have a great robot and drive team this year and I hope to see them attend!
Lastly, thanks to all the volunteers who make the St. Louis regional possible. There are a lot of great people working behind the scenes to make everything go as smoothly as it did.
We hope to keep adding more functionality to our robot for champs. Becoming a part of #TeamTether doubled our tote stacking capability and we're hoping to add a step can grabber for worlds so we can compliment any alliance. If anyone is interested, we recorded most of our matches with a GoPro and those videos can be seen here:
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