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From Oregon:

While not having been traditionally strong during most of their existence, 2990 has really stepped it up in the last two years, learning from other teams and really working to improve their program. These improvements really came out in their 2015 robot, which showed excellence in strategy, design, and execution. Their real break out year, though was 2016, when they were a supportive robot to be reckoned with at all levels of play. This culminated in being the first team to reach Einstein in the state, and first PNW team to have played a match there, and boy did they put on a show when they made it. I knew we were in for a treat when Hotwire was on the field with the beach bots (a very defendable team).

New to the scene, 5468 - already tied with 1510 for The Flaming Chickens' favorite alliance partner (yes, I actually looked through all the events) - came to their first district event and captained an alliance to the finals from the #5 seed. In 2016, they displayed a very consistent robot, and was taken as the 24th robot to win Oregon City in a steal matched only by Chezy Champs 2014. Their luck at District Championships has been unfortunate, but one of these year's they will make it to St. Louis Houston.