Congratulations to 1257, 5624 and 1676 on the win!
Just wanted to bump this thread to say a gigantic
THANK YOU
To FRC 11 & 193 for being such wonderful hosts.
We always love playing at their event, but this year they absolutely went beyond the call of duty as hosts and as gracious professionals.
I don't want this to be too sappy or sob-story-ish but I felt I needed to offer a public thank you, times a million-billion-zillion, to all of the folks who offered us support.
For those who took the other entrance into the school & didn't see it, my car
caught on fire on the road between our team's hotel & the school.
(Everyone is safe and unharmed - material things are replaceable, people are not. We're very lucky that the problem was noticed before the car turned into a fireball, and that we had the gas station on the corner to pull into so we weren't a hazard to the buses & cars coming up the road for the event.)
Not only did the police, fire & EMS folks who responded have connections to the team (some alumni and kids-of-volunteers), but volunteers, judges and even some team cars stopped along the way to make sure we were alright. Another thank-you to the car of judges who stopped - I didn't catch their names... and went to the event, grabbed my mother and drove her to the scene, without being asked. Handling that for us helped our other mentors & chaperones not have to manage swapping out cars AND getting our busload of kids settled amidst the panicky morning.
The first thing 11/193's parents, mentors, and kids did when we came in was make sure make sure our kids were comfortable, we had everything ready to go for competition, and that we didn't lose anything event-critical for the team. They helped us print paperwork that we needed, offered to drive to a store for laptops, chargers, clothes for those in the car (so we didn't smell like smoke & rubber all day) and even set us up a 'quiet room' so we could decompress if need be...
believe me, I used the heck out of that room in the morning.
You guys are always a class act, but this just went so above and beyond.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
P.S.:
Thanks to our partners, 11 and 3142 - great working with you as always! & thank you to 1228 (LabView experts) for working with us to try to get 3142 an autonomous mode. It was awesome of you to help out.
