[Jonathan Norris]

Yes we did beat 1114! With an interesting turn of events in the final. So as expected 1114 finished first and 1503 finished second. However, unlike other regionals 1114 decided to choose the rookie team (named team 2000 at wonderland (it is not their official number)) who performed amazingly. Basically think 1305 with split track tank drive system, its was another beautiful robot from the 1114 shops. They were regularly able to score 10 balls in auto and i saw them dump 30 balls at once! Then 1503 took us second, i think we ranked 8th, finally after competing against the triplets in all our regionals we got the opportunity to play with one of them in the play-downs. We then had a tough 3rd choice after 1114 and "2000" took 1680, we decided on a very strong and reliable bot in 1547 (Waldo). We both made it to the finals and this is where it gets really interesting....

game 1.1: The match starts 2000 scores 10 balls in lower goal in auto, 1114 does not move, 1680 plays D. 1503 tries to score (did not hit any), and we try to stop "2000". We start in in O and both us and 1503 are lining up hitting almost all of our balls, then right in front of me (i am opperating in the #2 position) smoke clouds my vision. 1114 has just started to violently smoke up (possibly flames...), and they immediately stop the match to attend to the smoking robot. Finals match 1.2 is then played without 1114 while they are attending to their robot. We end up winning that match. then in the last match it looks like 1114's shooter did not work (too focused on the bot i was operating). It was a close match but we ended it with all three bots on the ramp and we won something like 70-50 (not sure sry).

It was an amazingly well run and organized event and I thank all the the 1114 team members and volunteers who made it run so smoothly. It was a really useful event to get all the team members back into robotics for the new season. Thank you to 1503 and 1547 you guys were awesome and a lot of fun to play with! It is really unfortunate what happened to 1114, we would have loved to compete against a fully-working 1114!