[PlatyPi Gunner]

My best moment would have to be my entire 2nd year(this year). After a disappointing rookie season in 2008 with one team essentially playing battlebots in a practice round, we had our entire pnuematic system ripped off and it took us the entire regional to recover, we ended in a three way tie for 19th overall and didn't make it to eliminations. This year, we revamped our image, and marketing plan, we went from C.Y.B.E.R. Robotics, which made us sound like stalkers, to the Flying Platypi. I got a chance to be the secondary driver this year(belt, guns) and The first day of Peachtree we went 6-0, and finished in 2nd place for the day. early day two was a little disappointing with us going 0-3 for the morning, and the head ref giving us a little bad publicity after a mishap with the E-Stop. We ended up 12th overall before the eliminations, after falling from 2nd. Luckily(or not depending on how you see it) the top 8 kept picking inside the top 8, which cleared us into the 8th spot by the time the 7th alliance had picked. Due to our position, we hadn't really planned an alliance to pick, nor had we kept up with who had been picked, so we kinda embarassed ourselves by picking 2 alliances who'd been picked already, then settled on 2415(you may know them as the palmetto winners), and collaborated with them to pick 832. We were a little intimidated going into eliminations, having to play the beast that was 1746,1771, and 547, coupled with the fact that our robot didn't like being on the blue alliance. first round we ended up winning by four points, the arena went nuts, maybe halfway through us and 832 had slammed 1746 into the side pretty hard, and it messed up their chains methinks. we managed to tie the next round 80-80 with our robot screwing up, we got owned the 3rd round, and won by a good 20 points on the fourth and final round, 1746 chains were acting up again. we went on to beat what I think was the 3rd seed, and then we beat the 7th seed in the final to become the 2009 peachtree champs. and that, is the best moment of my FIRST career