[Jared Russell]

Frustrating event for us. We had a tough-as-nails schedule that wasn't helped by a few unfortunately timed mishaps (including such highlights as an orbit ball getting jammed in an opening not 2" across, getting all of the "fingers" of our intake roller taken off at once, and my personal favorite...the match where we got two empty cells back to one of our payload specialists only to watch him then grab the empty cells rather than the super cells at the 20 second mark).

Congratulations to MOE, 2 Train, and Robbe on a well deserved win. On Thursday I was extremely impressed by how effectively MOE threw their weight around; sure enough, they pulled off the repeat in a typical Philadelphia Regional (defense, defense, and more defense). The three "blue alliance" bots simply played through the defense they faced better than anyone else.

1923 and 272 - we gave it a good fight. I think that we had the robots and the strategy to make it all work. We nearly 968'd 103 and 1153 in round 1, but that one dump in the final 5 seconds did us in. And then round 2 brought even more bad luck with the machine for Daisy...

Thanks to the FTA, event coordinator, and staff for another well-run event. The troubles of Trenton are now a distant memory for many of us.