I would like to thank everyone who made this regional amazing. Everyone from the volunteers to the announcers, to the organizers. We had an AMAZING Friday, simply the best we have ever performed. We were in 1st place for half of Friday, I feel that was a accomplishment in itself with such a deep field of amazing robots. We even got the chance to beet a triplet
. We ended Friday loosing only one match because we got tipped over during.
However Saturday ended up being a totally different story, we were in a unusually position of being THE target for defensive bots. In out first match we had to play the defensive powers of 1305 and 1281. What can I say they put on a defensive show. Then we also lost another match to 296 who were able to out score us.
We got chosen by the 5th seed 703, and had a tough first round match against 771 and 188 who we had such a great time with in Waterloo, going to the finals with them. We beat them showing that 703 and ourselves were a true offensive powers who complimented each other. 703 enjoyed the top of the ramp, we enjoyed the bottom. They were consistent in auto going on the ramp and shooting, and we were consistent at dumping in auto. In our second round we played the amazing alliance of 229, 217, and 4. We knew that to get to the finals they would be the ones to beat. They found out our weakness and exploited it, 229 was able to push us around when we were at the front of the ramp, and caused us to tip over in both matches. They were an amazing alliance whom put on quite a show.
Thanks to everyone who made GTR great, and I can't wait for Atlanta. We proved that we can compete with the elite teams, and can't wait for the increased competition.