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Two weeks ago we were happy to be able to compete in FIRST. Going to Houston from a relatively small town we felt that we would be overwhelmed by experience and knowledge of other teams. We were suprised after we went through practice rounds generally destroying the other teams. Competition on friday was more fierce but we continued to win only losing once and tieing another. We even took the most QP's with a 280 point match. When we were given the team spirit award, rookie all-star, and were rank 1 we were ecstatic. Saturday started slow with a low scoring match and a loss, but we returned to 1st with a 230 point match with the team with lossed with on friday. We chose a great alliance of team 34 and 647 and after two relatively easy wins we faced team 118 and 1010 for our first match. "immoboliuos" (team 118) lived up to its name that round and we were defeated 54 to 8 or 70 to 8 In the second match all was going well until they destroyed our stacks and team 704's robot got under our robot. We got off of them with 5 seconds left but couldn't move because they had wrecked our motors. Our alliance and 1010 ended up on top(luckily for us). The score ended as us winning 35-33 or 101-33 and the final score was us 109 to them 103. FIRST was great and I can't wait for next week. I hope to keep involved but will have to keep involved as a mentor (I'm a senior).
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