[araniaraniratul]

@boltman: I can't help but feel for you a little bit. That's also considering that they changed the schedule, and ours got ridiculously harder in the second one (even though we weren't functional 99% of the time.) As for the one loss that 254 sustained, it was with us. Our CAN cycle broke, and their battery wasn't clipped in properly. We lost by 4 points, and if you watch that match, if 5499 moved two more feet, a breach would have been granted, giving a slight win. Another park, you'd be winning for sure, but obviously the dynamics would have changed so that doesn't mean anything. I will say this though, even in my time with 294 (2 world championships, few regional wins, countless finalist results) we often got left with horrendous schedules. Hell, they went undefeated in quals at LA with a horrendous one this year! Not to mention being left in the dust by admittedly bad referee calls. I'm not entirely sure it's purely because they're a good team, just that at this event the historically better ones got a bit better off. As much as I love Jim, I'd understand why he should have kept accomplishment bragging relevant to the current year, but that's above my volunteer-grade.

I loved inspecting your bot, and I love seeing awesome 5k+ teams! I'm really disappointed your season is over, and y'all definitely deserved better. I hope the momentum stays up, and can't wait to see y'all bigger and better in the future.