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Results

Here are the results from yesterday's amazing competition.

Champions: 1114, 1503, 1310
Finalists: 1305, 854, 1397

Awards:
Creativity -- 188, for their gripper and easy to repair drive train.
Quality -- 854, for their holonomic drive train, and use of vision.
Best Defense -- 1241, for their hard defensive play throughout the day.
Spirit -- 1547, the Waldo girls were the loudest team at the event.
Best Autonomous Mode -- 1114, for their whacking of the hanging tetra, capping the back middle goal, and picking up a tetra from the auto loader, routine.
Play of the Day -- 1680 & Sir John A. MacDonald CI -- Team 1680 could not attend the competition, so Team 1114 brought their robot to the competition for a pre-rookie team to use. The kids from MacDonald CI had never seen a competition before, and had 5 minutes of practice time with the 1680 robot. Coached by 1114 mentor Tyler Holtzman, the team ended captaining the #5 seeded alliance! Not only this, but they also capped the 5th most goals during the event. It was a great display.


Skills Competion:

The Need For Speed -- Team 1305 dominated the competition, blazing across the field to beat all competitors.

How High -- 188 placed the 14 tetra on a stack on one of the side goals, to show that their robot could go higher than anyone else. 1006 set the bar earlier with a mark of 13, which it seemed that 188 could not match. Ingenuity prevailed, as 188 removed their gripper to gain a few extra inches of height and capped using the mount for the gripper. Their t-bar actually consisted of a pile of serial cables.

The Sponsor Challenge -- Team 1006's robot, driven by the Director of Engineering for GM Canada, was able to cap a goal across the field faster than any of the other sponsor/mentor driven robots.

The Tetra Test -- Team 1114 won this event by capping 8 tetras in 2:00 (15 seconds autonomous, 1:45 driver control). What made this feat even more impressive was the fact that they did while dropping 4 tetras during the 2:00.

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Overall the day was a great success. A big congratulation to all teams how came out to play. Thanks to all the wonderful volunteers, especially those who came from so far away. This includes Andy Baker, Mark Koors, Bob and Linda Hammond, Walt Porter, Paul Morrison and Travis Hoffman.

Also, a special thank you to girls from Team 771 for presenting with me one of their kilts. I've definitely never received anything quite like it.

We'll see you all next year!
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