Thread: 2005 UTC New England Regional
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Unread 15-05-2005, 12:02
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Re: 2005 UTC New England Regional
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Originally Posted by qhsscience
Having just joined the CD community recently, I did not see this until now. In hindsight, the fact that team 69 and 1071 teamed up in the finals might make all this seem ironic.

However, for what it is worth, I have been involved with FIRST for 10 years now and have seen and been involved with dramatic and defensive play for much of it...anyone from team 121 from WAY BACK would remember the year of the "flipper", one of the years that tipping machines over was actually legal. Good defensive play makes for great crowd pleasing action, and many times, it is the right strategy for winning.

All of this to say, I am sorry that you feel like we intentionally tipped you, and we lived with the decision of the referees, but I feel like you need to know that our coach did not say to the drivers, "Hey, yank over team 1071!" The tipping happened, but the intent was not there.

Thanks again for graciously accepting our alliance offer and thanks for helping to make the UTC finals matches one of the more talked about this year.
Yea, that was the day of the tipping i made that post. We weren't exactly the happiest group of people at the time because from where I was with the advisers it looked intentional. We had that 14ft arm up, and it looked like we got rammed into, backed up, and rammed into again which the next day we talked to somebody on your team and they said they got bumped back into us or something.

Obviously you guys knew what our team could do or you wouldn't have picked us on the second seeded alliance. It was just a situation that 1071 knew we belonged on a top 3 alliance and just having our alliances in qualifing get penalty after penalty and then the tipping incident, it kind of made us flip out with our poor ranking.

The tipping incident is forgotten and actually helped us in a way, we realized our 14ft arm is really strong and is a design that will be used again in the future. 1071 has all intentions on trying to make an alliance with 69 and 126 at beantown if it all works out with the rankings.