[Coco the Monkey]

New Jersey: This was a big learning experience for our team. We went into it with a virtually unproven robot. We had to change some things around on the practice day and our record was I believe 4-3 or 3-4, I cant remember. But we were picked by 25 and as you read above we didnt perform as well as we'd hoped.

Philadelphia: We came into this regional with a little bit of experience and more practice time than NJ. It was pretty much the same story, we were really low in the standings and at the end of Friday we were lower than we ever were at NJ. 1-3-1. We came back on Saturday to win our two qualifying matches and got picked by the 8th seeded alliance again. We lost in the Quarters.

Nationals: This was the highlight of our season. We made even more changes to the robot, and it performed beautifully. We went through our matches and seeded in the top 30 of our division. 4-3. We were picked by 177 and 27 for the 7th seeded alliance. We blasted through the quarter finals 1, 2. Then through the Semi-Finals 1, 2 (Against 222 Tigertrons) It was great, we went up against 469 and their alliance. We came close, but no cigar. They swept us in two rounds.

All in all this was my favorite year in FIRST, not just because of what we accomplished, but from all the fun experiences I had.