[dsherw00d]

378 would like to thank 4039 and 3015 for inviting us to join their alliance. Both are great teams and we had a fantastic time!!! Congratulations to 4039 on their Chairman's and to 3015 for the Engineering Inspiration and Woodie Flowers!! I graduated from SUNY Brockport and worked in Spencerport during college.

The finals were a bit stressful given our controller and arm deployment issues, but it worked out in the end (3 pts!!) with all 6 teams going to Champs!!! The last couple of years, we've been the 3rd robot with enough uniqueness to be beneficial to the winning alliance. Last year with 1507 and 20 we had the 1507 ball hand off and the back stop. This year, we had the first "noodle quiver" (an idea from 4039) and the can battles with 174. We never imagined we would be part of the winning alliance 2 years in a row!!

We've also had very good experiences with our neighbors in Canada. We won the 2014 Ruckus with 610 and 1241. We then went to GTRE (Oshawa) for our first 2015 regional and finished 5th with 1815. We played with 2056/2852 and as the #8 seed were opposite of them in the quarters when they put up 210! 1114/2056/4039/610/2852/etc are all going to St. Louis and the can wars are going to be crazy!! 340 and 1511 have great auto can snatchers and they are going to be a huge asset at Champs.

We had a blast and are very grateful for the opportunity to compete with some very high performing teams. This is my 4th season as the coach/mentor for 378 and I'm always amazed with the robots at FLR from the top to the bottom!!! We had 340 on our right and 1507/1511 across from us in the pits. Then 191, 1405, 20, 174, 578 in the same short stretch of pits just down from us. It's amazing how we walk around the pits and see so many high quality teams year after year.

See everyone in a few weeks!!!