[Chris Nowak]

I already posted this in another thread, but it was the last match in the galileo division, and I dont really remember who we were up against. At the beginning of the match, our opponents got most of the bins, so we had to clear out their scoring zone. We were pretty sure that whoever got on the ramp would decide the game, as there werent many bins around. Well, at the end, our robot is on the ramp and our two opponents are on the ramp. I dunno who are partners are, but instead of trying to push our opponnents off, they push US off of the ramp. At about 5 seconds remaining, we thought we were screwed, cuz our robot was touching theirs and we were off the ramp. However, I managed to maneuver the robot so that we ended up with only 3 wheels touching but our center of gravity was on the ramp so the fourth wheel lifted up. We ended up winning by one, with a score of like 58 to 57 or something.

What made this match so intense was the fact that we were #1 seed, and if we had lost this match we would have dropped significantly. Man, I almost had a heart attack at the end, because I was so close to touching our partner, which would have gotten us like 8 points for the match, which probably would have dropped us to around 5th or something. I almost made the call to get far away from the ramp at the end, to make sure we at least had the 25 points for our partner being on. Lucky I didnt!