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Posted by Chris.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Coach on team #308, Walled Lake Monster, from Walled Lake Schools and TRW Automotive Electronics.

Posted on 4/12/2000 3:17 PM MST


In Reply to: 'My Favorite Part was.....' posted by Erin on 4/12/2000 11:59 AM MST:



My favorite parts:

1. Finally playing in a match with Colleen. It was fun and I wish we got to do it more often. I got to play against her last year but that was different. She's a very nice person, you know.

2. All of our matches with the Huskie Brigade. We had some good alliances and some good fights. We both sustained some damage in the semis at the GLR in our shoving match (their frame got bent, our axles got bent). All of the matches had great spirit to them.

3. Seeding in the top 8 at the Midwest Regional. I knew we would be good at winning matches, but I didn't think a one-ball holder could provide the offense to seed well. Our drivers got very good and we ended up being an excellent offensive team (we could score up to 6 balls a minute at nationals - I never thought I'd see that).

4. Las Guerillas. What a great team and a great story. We got to play with them once at the GLR and once at nationals.

Least Favorite:

1. Starting a match at nationals and seeing our robot not move. This is a long story that I don't need to get into here (communication problem), but that was the longest two minutes of my life.

2. Seeing team 60 get declined so many times. What was up with that?

3. Realizing that had an alliance partner's hanging mechanism not gotten broken (and they lifted themselves when they were attached to the bar in the one match), we would have been the #10 seed (at nationals) and instead we went home early. That is tough to stomach. However, in light of #1 above, I feel I can't complain since we let our partner down even worse in one match. I supposed I should try not to what-if myself to death.