[StephLee]

Anyone who went to Pittsburgh remember Q5, the match they changed the score to later? I doubt anyone will, except the 4 teams who played...it was a 2-on-2, us (1629) and 1727 vs. 1370 and 365. The other two teams were having mechanical problems, and unfortunately their robots didn't make it to the field. Us and 1727 were honestly terrified before that match; both the other teams were good shooters AND solid pushers, and neither of us could really push well. We came up with a strategy, and played it out...we played "sneaky" defense, blocking and nudging instead of pushing...and when ramp time came, we held MOE back together until we thought they didn't have time to make it to the ramp, then got on our own together. We looked at the RTS score, added the 10 ramp points, and knew we'd won...but the final score didn't add our ramp points, and said we'd lost. We sent our drivers to talk to the referees, and they reviewed it and corrected the score a few matches later.

That match is special in my mind because we had to fight SO HARD to win, and because we couldn't give up when we knew the score was wrong. We thought we had no shot against those two teams.


The other best one I can remember also came at Pittsburgh. The 3rd match of our semi finals, we thought we'd lost and it was all over. BUT, the scoring system had been off...IT WAS A TIE. To be honest, that was nearly as good a feeling as winning at Chesapeake. (Almost)