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Re: RESULTS - Duel on the Delaware 2006

On behalf of team 1089, I'd love to thank teams 369 and 422 for being amazing alliance partners. We had a fantastic shooting bot in 369, a fantastic defense and low-scoring bot (that vaguely reminded me of a snowmobile) in 422, and with us, what I refer to as a "jack-of-all-trades, master of none", it made a pretty well-rounded alliance.

Going into the alliance selection off a 1-4 record, we were very pleasantly surprised to have been picked at all, let alone passing the quarterfinals. And making it to the finals against 25, 365, and 422, all I could do is go up to Wayne C. and say "please don't completely destroy our machine, we want to compete in BE in 2 weeks". When you go into the finals against national finalists and two other fantastic teams with "2/3 working" bot on our end (our balls kept jamming and we couldn't figure out why), you pretty much know how it's going to end up, but we played our hearts out anyway and didn't leave disappointed. As one of my kids said "how can you feel bad getting beat by 25"?

This competition was meant for us to teach some of our new students about jobs done at an FRC competition. We had a small amount of pit scouting, round scouting, etc...we also tried to emphasize improved communication between our students and mentors -- and we did it with flying colors. Coming home with a finalist trophy only pushes some kids harder to do even better in the future.

Thanks to 365, 316, Mike Wade, and all the volunteers who made Duel5 an amazing success!! Our students had a fantastic time, the event ended at a reasonable hour, and everyone was courteous and professional. Also thanks to John LaRock and the announcer (who I forget his name, I'm sorry) for helping to push our upcoming FLL competition (Mission: Mercury)!

Congrats again to 25, 423, 365, and 1980 for "doing the duel!"
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