[Coco the Monkey]

This was undoubtedly the most exciting Regional I've ever been to.


Truly some great robots made it into the elimination rounds, since we saw many spectacular events occur that greatly affected the outcomes of each match.

Getting to the finals was not an easy task!

We always seemed to lose our first match, but then came surging back in our second match. I dont know if that has happened at any other regional so far, where a team loses the first one and comes back to win.

When we were going against Alliance #2, in the second match we almost got on top of the ramp, due to EXCELLENT driving on Dan-o's part.

In the Semi-Finals, we lost the first match again, and in the second match, Dan-O and I built a stack of 4 and then released it with 15 seconds to go. Our opponant, seeing that it was crutial to us tried to knock it down. With 5 seconds remaining he finally reached it as we pulled up onto the ramp. At 2 seconds the boxes were spinning and sliding on each other. At the sound of the buzzer, the boxes settled on eachother to create a beautiful stack of 4.

And the celebration began.

In the finals we just hit a wall of bad luck, when our robot was tipped over in both matches.

I hope we do as well at our other competitions as we did here.