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Originally Posted by Greg Needel
(Jess Jank posting as Greg)
correct. no rookies were picked in alliance selections. great job to all the 15 rookie teams at Chesapeake though!
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I was surprised that no rookies made it through. The two top pool teams for back-ups were both rookies, 1727 and 1719. Both were ranked fairly high; 1727 was 16th, I'm not sure about 1719 but they were definately up there. 1727 was almost pulled up to sub in several times when robots weren't working properly. It's a shame both of these rookies couldn't compete, they were both impressive robots as well as impressive teams in general. (Both are going to Atlanta, though: 1727 won Rookie All-Star at Pittsburgh and 1719 won Rookie All-Star at Chesapeake.)
I'd like to say that I thought the referees did an excelent job of calling the matches at Chesapeake. I don't think I saw any penalties that were unwarranted, and they made the tough calls that they probably didn't want to make. The entire volunteer staff at Chesapeake was awesome, they kept things moving along great the entire weekend. The field problems were comparatively minor in my opinion, even though there were a few scoring system errors. The one big one that I witnessed was the one jessjank posted, the restart of that awesome autonomous mode.
I want to go ahead and thank Buzz (175) and Cobra Robotics (1184) for the awesome alliance we made in the finals. You guys rock, I'm still trying to let it sink in that we won. We'll see you all in Atlanta!!