[Mike Schreiber]

Thanks to 33 and 4003 for an awesome event and congrats to 33 on another District Chairman's award - well deserved. 1023 congrats on EI and an awesome robot. I was very sad to hear we wouldn't get to face you in the finals.

Also to the toaster who asked me for our model of the 3D printed Microsoft camera mount PM me. I apologize, but I think I lost your email address, unless my notes ended up locked in the toolbox which I'll find out sometime next week. I'll try to get in contact with someone on your team. If any one else is interested in it let me know. I'll probably thingiverse it.

I learned a lot this weekend about this game and had a blast.

1) Elimination audience selections of defense is SO MUCH fun, like unbelievably fun. Especially when you have 3 big teams. I thought it'd be dumb, but FIRST nailed this one. Screaming with a giant crowd of people was the highlight of the event. I'm a bit worried this gives big teams an advantage

2) Most alliances could do either A,B,and D defense plus low bar, so defense selection became less strategy and more what we could see through and what they might not be able to cross in auton. For Waterford, that meant always pick sally port and CdF and put the sally port to the side. No one had a CdF auton. The only reason to ever put out the portcullis was if no one on the other team could do it or all the CdFs are broken.

3) Visibility is bad. As expected.

4) At District Champs if you don't breach in every qualifying match you will not seed - at that level maybe it won't be that hard.

5) Breaching wasn't that tough and capturing will not be 8 balls at championships.

6) Low goal is way better if your shooter is less than perfect since a capture is the goal and a missed ball wastes a ton of time. Also not using brass gears on a shooter again. PM me if you want details.

7) 33 is really good. As expected.

8) It's not a matter of if something breaks but when. There's plenty of stuff to fix in bag time. We broke several things that we thought were built robust enough for this game.

9) Still no clue how defense will shake out later in the season.

10) Hanging got us the #1 seed and a 30 pt end of match swing is awesome. We made it a priority to get a working hang by Waterford even if it was a slow one because the event was so competitive, definitely paid off.

11) The game will be fun to watch and play as long as teams aren't broken.