[Kevin Kolodziej]

As posted in the Midwest thread:

We (1675) had to pull out of the match at the last second because a battery lead came loose from the RA Distribution Block somewhere between our pit (where everything was tested and checked out fine) and placing it on the field. The crew would not grant us a time out to repair it, so we pulled off the field to do so (in hindsight, leaving the bot on the field would have at least caused a bit of a bottle neck in that corner and possibly slowed down 1114 and 1024, but it was fun to see such a high score). There was nothing wrong with our bot so there was no reason to call in a replacement. Our defense took out 1114 in qualifying before, so there's no way we weren't going to give it a shot in the second match. Had our alliance had two full matches against them, I think we could have made it a pretty close second match, but the best alliance definitely took home the gold. Congrats to 1114, 1024, and 2041!

We seem to be developing a history of only playing in QF match 2..every time we've been in the quarter finals, we've had some sort of battery problem in the first match (and one time we played back up in the second match). At least its never been the same problem twice, so hopefully we're getting it all out of our system and there's nowhere to go now but the semi's!