[Ellery]

It was definitely an exciting day for qualifying matches. Many teams looked totally different after the practice day since we gave out alot of practice matches for this event. Many teams realized that their original setup either didn't work or was not robust enough.

There is a core group that sticks out in my mine watching from the sideline as MC.
316 - Lunatecs - Awesome robust lift system
365 - Moe - Removed their ramp completely and is a quick scorer. Also has good auto mode.
1126 - SparX Great autonomous and controls (well deserved since it's done by one of the best controls engineers at Xerox) They beefed up their gripper since it ripped off 2x.
191 - X-CATS - Very Fast scorer with a very robust machine with one of the highest scores of the regional so far. (They did an awesome job without my wife and I on the team this year.)
229 - Division by Zero - Nice manipulator and drive system but I have yet to see them deploy their new ramps that they built from scrath the last day.
467 - Awesome drives system and nice ramp
2228 - CougarTech - by far one of the best bots by a rookie team - I can't say enough about them, very organized and great team in general.

The one thing I still never understand how some teams never play certain teams all weekend long?

But all in all the performance of all teams were amazing to see it's still fair game to anyone - looking at the rankings alot fo good teams don't get the recognition they deserve for the output of a poor alliance matching.