[Dan Petrovic]

Thank you all for the kind words and thank you to the teams coming out to join us last weekend! We're happy to hear that teams had such a good time.

Originally Posted by kstl99

Thanks to 166 Chop Shop for a great event. Jay, Brandon and Adam did a fine job as MC/Announcers. I figure that to be one of the harder jobs in FIRST and you guys nailed it.

Yes, Jay O'Donnell, Brandon, and Adam were excellent this weekend. I look forward to seeing them volunteer at official events in the future!

And yes, it is definitely a difficult job, but the person with the most challenging job this weekend that we cannot thank enough was our FTA, Matt McQuaid. He had a rather stressful weekend (including set-up) with some FMS faults. He was also very flexible when working with us to implement our rule changes.

Originally Posted by Aboudy Dairi

I had loads of fun driving at this event for a second time, the double bracket elims meant a lot of pressure fighting through the losers bracket. It was also fun to play with 9319, that alone brought plenty of laughs.

1768 may have found itself at the top of my "Favorite Teams" list after that selection. For those that don't know the whole story, 9319 was assigned to a potential practice robot brought by 319 (we also had 9519 and 9467 ready). However, none of these practice robots were available so we had to turn to the robot our team members had been preparing for the last few weeks in order to fill up the 24th spot on the team list.

This robot was made from the chassis of our 2015 machine and a pneumatic catapult that wound up not being nearly strong enough to score. This robot could only cross the low bar and couldn't carry a ball under the low bar, much less pick one up off the floor. Its bumpers were made from old t-shirts Saturday morning (2015 was bumper-less, remember?).

Despite all of this, 1768 selected this robot as their second pick for fun. 1768, 811, and 9319 (aka Teh Simbots, High Rollers, and other teams that Adam decided to mention) actually wound up eliminating our own Stronghold robot later in the tournament. 9319 couldn't score, but they could play some punishing defense.

Any idea when match videos will be up? TBA has no records of the matches either. I was told there was a qual where we scored 9 high goals, thats definitely something Id like to watch again.

Francis told me that we can expect videos to be uploaded to our Youtube channel tonight, but I can't make any guarantees on his behalf. I'm not sure how the match data will get added to TBA since we used an irregular playoff structure. Francis might have a better answer.

The food was awesome, too!

Again, thank you for the kind words. We have many dedicated parents that run the concessions and they have been doing a great job at various events throughout the year for a very long time!