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Originally posted by Rurouni
Well there are a good amount of strong teams at this regional. Quite frankly, Team 571, Paragon, impressed me immensely today. They saved their stacking for their last match and got a stack height of 6-7 boxes. They are quite fast and are able to push boxes around with ease.
Techno Ticks(236) also surprised me. I watched all their matches today and they did phenomenal. I have a feeling they are going to do very well in this regional. Rage(173) and Buzz(175) gave me a similar feeling. Aces High (176) also put up a very good showing, though I am kinda upset that we had to have 3 matches against them.
Aztecs are putting up a good showing as well, but every now and then their autonomous mode goes a little psycho it seems.
Well to me it seemed like those teams are going to be the top 8 for seating. Though I have never been gooding at reading/predicting this kind of stuff so who am I to say? Watch for those teams though, they're going to go to finals.
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Thanks for the compliment.
It was 6. We're kinda psyched about it because we really wanted to get a chance to stack something at least once throughout the competitions.
As far as robots go, I think the ones that really shined today are 173, 175, 236, and (time for some shameless self-promotion) 571. There were other robots that had a few good matches (and I didn't watch them all so I'm probably missing a bunch), but they weren't working till the end so I don't know much about them.
When 229 finally managed to get their transmissions back together, they had a great round (love the arms). 782 is good also (didn't see them much but they are the #1 seed so they must be doing something right). 870 and a few others I can't seem to remember are also going to be contenders.
The autonomous modes have been a mixed bag. There are a bunch that can get to the top of the ramp, but there are a lot less that can get there quickly.
So far this regional has been a blast. As for our canadian friends, they probably just heard about how cool a place hartford is and just couldn't wait to come down and visit.