Posted by colleen - T190 at 03/10/2001 11:50 PM EST
Engineer on team #190, Gompei, from Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science and WPI.
Hey everyone--
Just wanted to hand in a thanks to our alliance partners teams 263, 353, 250, & 533 for doing an awesome job and helping us all win gold at LongIsland..
As the scores showed, Long Island got off to a slow start... even for us.. but by the end of the day Friday we were all working better together and by Saturday the competition was going well.. Team 340 (Grrr) with a great two goal balancer claimed Number 1 seed with a score of 348 in the last match of the day...
And the road to the finals wasn't easy.. a score of 480 was beaten with 490pts and a nice human player shot..
It may have been slow starting.. but the semis and finals were nothing to write off... At a regional with mainly rookie teams.. it was an impressive and ever-improving effort on everyone's part..
Look for some good teams to come out of this LI regional..
Congrats to all-- and thanks to our partners.. we went out with a plan.. we fought hard... executed and worked exactly like a team should.. See you at nationals
(.. and who says Hampster power doesn't work?!? Whatnot has two trophys sitting in her cage..