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4. The Cheesy Poofs looked human! They were struggling to get their robot ready just like the rest of us!
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Yeah, after all I heard about them I was expecting everything perfect. When I looked at their pit, they had the hopper off and were still making modifications. However, once they got that puppy working it sure was something to see!
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There’s nothing superhuman about our program and I’m glad that we were able to show a new region that this is exactly the case. A lot of teams seem to think that there are “one hundred NASA Engineers” or full NASA machine shops that just deliver robots to us once every year. This isn’t the case at all, and I’m glad that the word is finally getting out. Like Dennis posted earlier, this year’s team was run by a 19 year old, a 21 year old, a 22 year old, and a 23 year old teacher. We are a team that’s built on hard work just like everyone else’s.
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3. The Cheesy Poofs made big clouds of magic smoke in one match, and broke a shaft in another. When they worked, they were AMAZING. Team 753 took them out of one match with inspired, genius, outstanding defense. The Poofs still scored some low goals, but their awesome shooter was quiet.
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Just for clarification, our FP motors caught fire, were plugged in wrong, and backed out of their AM Planetaries (our fault, not AM’s). No shafts of ours were broken at PNW. We also had a couple dumb problems with our ball system in a couple matches, one of which was the 2nd match of the finals.
753 was amazing. Their team is full of top notch kids, and they build consistently solid robots year after year. It was an absolute pleasure to be allied with those guys and gals. Same with team 1887. We were fortunate enough to have a pit right next to them, and they were an absolutely classy team. It was terrific how on at least one occasion each of our teams, pretty much, single-handedly won a match for our alliance. It was an amazing chemistry that we had, and I feel fortunate to have been a part of it.
I finally got the chance to thank my former HS Physics teacher, Eric Stokely (formerly of 258 and now with 360), for originally getting me into this program. It was very emotional for me, personally, being able to see, for the first time in ~4.5 years, this person who has been a huge influence on who I am as a person, and it was even more exciting to be participating in the same event with him. It was seriously like old times being in the pits or watching matches rooting our teams and each other’s teams on.
Thanks to all the teams who helped us out at the regional. Thanks to 492 for letting us mooch power for our scouts’ laptop. Thanks to 360 for that team color LED. Thanks to everyone else who gave us miscellaneous parts or tools to work on our robot. It was good to see Maddie again, too
I want to thank everyone who had a hand in putting on the PNW Regional. It was a terrific event to compete in with many terrific teams and robots. I’d love to attend this event again in either Portland or in Seattle.
I feel like I have a lot more to say, but for some reason I can't organize my thoughts right now.