[Boltman]

Originally Posted by 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 5 points, and if you watch that match, if 5499 moved two more feet, a breach would have been granted, giving a tie. Another park, you'd be winning, 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 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.

Thank you for the kind words, we had a great time at both regionals and actually enjoyed the two weeks in a row we put a lot of mileage on Varsam in the past 20 days since bag and tag. Might do the same next year. As our lead mentor said to me at CV "not sure what we would have done with weeks in between"

It does sting a bit to be so ridiculously close two years in a row in world class regionals. I post my thoughts and experiences to help other teams, its what I do during robot season. I always look forward to robot season a love seeing our team grow each year. Sure we'd love to be in worlds again who wouldn't? We were very fortunate to go as rookies (and placed 90th) , I did not think we were the best rookie that year in SD so we were surprised. Last two years we earned it and had really good shots at i its fun to be able to hang with some of the best on the planet. That's why I was personally a bit put off by the "pray for those in CV "comments leading up to week 2. I saw it as a fun time coming up..it was.

Sorry about your team issues too..that stinks when so close in a game to perfection.

This year , I know we played our best and it'll just take a bit more to get there just have to do better and that is part of the fun. Thanks for the great Central Valley regional everyone was fantastic. We'll be back next year somewhere in CA