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Re: The 2056 Streak has ended!
There's an important distinction between losing and being beaten. Losing implies that you, well, lost. Being beaten is when there's really nothing you could have done - you just come up against a hot alliance and they happened to come out on top.
2056, you've lost a couple competitions over the years, but ONWA 2016 isn't one of them. You were beaten, and there is no shame in that. None at all. So proud of all my family and friends on one of the most remarkable teams in FIRST.
Now, story time. When the streak started, way way back at Waterloo in 2007, the current record holder for consecutive regional wins starting from a rookie season (aka the "truly undefeated" streak) was 254, with 5 wins.
It's fitting that it ends here, where it began, against a team that could have ended the streak at five. GTR 2009, 188, 610, and 1305 came this close to beating 2056, 1114, and 2185. A flukey rule and a last-second supercell broke the Poofs' record. A ridiculously close Finals 3 match broke 2056's streak. That's poetic.
OP Robotics will go down in FRC history with the likes of the Beatty Beast, and the Bobcats' impressive Einstein streak. 2056 has done something that no other team will come close to accomplishing ever again. That's something to be happy about.
I'm all over the place here. But I'll end with this super cheesy quote: "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."
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