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Originally Posted by Weepy
Yeah, Spencer from 1982 told me that they had to replace their claw TWICE.
I was crying for 447, and I was in tears for 1710! Our alliance partner in the semifinals, 1706, had their track knocked off their claw system. Then 2112 got stuck on our Lexan panels after pinning us in the corner, which made everyone in our side fall out of their chairs.
One of the volunteers suggested to our drivers to act more aggressively, and I raised an eyebrow to that.
No one was that aggressive at Milwaukee!
But WOW. That was the craziest final I've seen ANYWHERE in the sports world. Grats to everyone! Especially 648 for that awesome display of autonomous sock rocking.
2047 will see everyone in Atlanta. But... the thing is...
I kind of promised the girls on the team that I'd wear a dress at the Championship if we went D:
Oh, out of curiosity... did anyone notice the 'FIRST Cadenza' poster I put up in our pit? 
GREAT JOB EVERYONE! The judges and FIRST staffers won't forget the 2007 Midwest Regional anytime soon! |
The Midwest Regional is always one of the more hotly contested regionals and there is always a display of pure performance in the elimination rounds. I'm just glad 648 made it out with only having a chain jump off of a sprocket. We had at least one robot on us at all time, most of the time two. They were battering us from all sides. Multiple times did our arm get stuck inside the rack. We were penalized for having our arm inside of Wildstang, but it most certainly wasn't intentional. When we released the tube the arm went right down into their robot.
I was terribly sad to have to face our good friends, 107, in the quarterfinals. That was one tough round. Then again, all of the first seeded alliance's rounds were sent to overtime.
Congrats to 71 for winning Chairman's at MWR.