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Unread 11-04-2007, 18:32
Justin M. Justin M. is offline
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Re: An Inspirational(?) Story

We were in the same boat, except we only got the chance to compete at one regional.

We had the money to go to Nats but one of our coaches "decided" to not register us, and lied to the team and said we registered way back in January. She told us this about one week before the Philly regional, and it sort of killed our spirit. But, we knew that the only way now was to win, and that we could do it.

Everything worked great the first day of seeding matches. All problems were fixed, we were winning. Left the arena that day with hope - if we to win our last three matches the next day we would make the top 8, and get to pick alliance partners. The second day wasn't so great. Our first match was ruined by a spoiler, that cancelled out our combo and made the other alliance win by 2. Oh well, two more matches left, still hope. De-activated the next match, from our human player. Last match, not looking so great. De-activated again, we were rammed while loading a tube and our claw went past the slot.

By losing the last three matches, we dropped to 25th place. We all thought, oh well, we did good. Still have alliance selections.

I felt like I was ready to walk onto the field everytime I heard a "3..." from another team rep. We didn't get picked, though.

No nationals this year. We still built a great robot though, so we'll be at just about every off-season event in our area, even ones not in our area. No need to dwell on the past. We always have next year, and we'll make sure that we are registered for Nats before any building even happens.
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