[Kellen Hill]

The first ever Georgia district event turned out to be a good one. While there were plenty of positives to the event, there were a few negatives to go with them. Hopefully this feedback can be used to improve future events.

1. Seeding first. This was awesome validation for my team's design and strategy decisions. Focusing on breaching allowed us to wrap up qualifications with only one loss and one missed breach. This put us in the tough position to pick from a large group of robots that proved to be effective, but also came with a significant amount of risk due to communications issues, and consistency in the performance of their bot. Given the information on hand at the time, I believe we made the best selections possible in attempting to build an alliance capable of capturing.

2. Picking 1648. It was awesome to play with you guys. You presented one of the most consistent scoring options at the event and those skills lead us to believe that you were the bot that would best allow our alliance to complete a capture as well as a breach. Get those comms issues figured out and have a good time next week at your 2nd event! And congrats on winning the Chairman's award!

3. Picking 3091. Your team and robot filled out our alliance just as we hoped you would. Your consistent autonomous, great defense in the semi-finals, and ceaseless effort put our alliance in the right spot to make a run deep into eliminations. And congrats on winning the Engineering Inspiration award! We'll plan on seeing your team again at state champs!

4. Our robot. While we managed to throw a few chains and lose our intake axle a couple of times, our robot held up really well for a game that is so rough on robots. This is largely in part to designing and building our robot with our brand new sheet metal sponsor Metcam along with the amazing continued support of our founding sponsor Automation Direct. We even improvised a passive portcullis wedge at the event to guarantee a solo breach. We have a few things to work on, but it was gratifying to win the Motorola Quality award for a robot we worked so hard on.

5. To the winning alliance. 4468, 4188, & 5074. Consistency is always something to brag about in FRC, and your alliance is the one that best met that goal through eliminations. It was fun playing against you and I look forward to seeing you all on the field later this season.

6. Venue input.
Positives: Seating was great, Pit layout was great, loved playing with and against new and old friends throughout the event, 12 qualification matches!!!!, match turnaround times worked out pretty well.

Negatives: No practice field elements and only 1 or 2 practice matches was rough. We had no way of testing improvements to the bot without trying them out in an actual match. Putting the field on astro-turf wasn't the best idea.


I'm excited to see the progression of Georgia teams throughout the year due to the newly implemented district system. I look forward to playing with and against teams as they make design changes throughout the season to improve their bot. I know we already have some improvements to our bot in mind.