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Re: Long Island Regionals: Results, "Story"
Posted by Shannon at 03/11/2001 8:48 AM EST


Student on team #250, Dynamos , from Colonie High.


In Reply to: Long Island Regionals: Results, "Story"
Posted by Kyle Hill on 03/10/2001 9:26 PM EST:



Congradulations to all the teams in the finals! and a special thanks to our alliance partners teams 190,263,353 and 533. we rocked and took home first! i guess that some of it is luck (like John's shot to the goal that was described as "hail mary&quot, but driver talent helps too! good luck to all at other regionals and in florida!

~shannon
team 250

: Here's a recap from the SBPLI-Long Island Regionals. We call it "The Hail Mary".

: Day 1 was a wash, and due to an extreme lack of luck or teammate ability, we finished 29th out of 33. Day 2 saw VAST improvement, as we scored 255 in the first match of the morning, breaking the record (previously 176). While our single-match record later fell, we somehow made it onto the 3rd seed alliance, and played...

: Here's how it went in the semis.
: Match 1 (Them): 48 points. Nothing goes right.
: Match 2 (Us): 50 points. See above.
: Match 3 (Us): Everything goes right. _400_.
: Match 4 (Them): 408. One extra black ball was put in a goal. Without that ball, they have 399.
: Match 5 (Us): We capped off both goals with big balls. 480 points.
: (At this point, we're celebrating like mad, because we figure that A- they can't score 400 again and B- they sure as hell cant score 481.)
: Match 6 (Them): They only put 6 or 7 black balls in the one goal, fetched both cylinders (one capped with a large ball) and pulled both up onto the ramp, and balanced it within 50 seconds. With a full goal, that easily would have scored them 550+, but the goal was half empty. Yet, as they timed out, one player from the station threw a "hail mary" ball into the goal on the ramp. It goes in. They got 490 points and won the semifinal.

: The alliance then went on to win the championship over the 4th seeded alliance (nothing spectacular scoring-wise, the winning score was a little over 200).

: The moral of the story? Luck means everything.


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