[Swampdude]

Well Akash, as you know 179 went home early too. According to our scouting, if you dropped our first match, that we scored zero with the bot while the opposing alliances strategy was simply to avoid us, we averaged 15 balls a match (our last match we had 23 balls). That was the 4th highest scoring average in Galileo, and we didn't get picked. Talk about surprised.. Thats the first time since 2003 we haven't been in finals. But the way I look at it, I knew nobody was going to beat 111 and 67 - or even if it was 111 and 71. There was no beating that alliance, and it was the one we wanted to be on.
I knew great teams would get passed up in a crowd like this, it's statistically inevitable. The best team(s) won and thats the good part. Pat's right in saying the smaller venues will give you the chances and confidence we all need. I consider us extremely LUCKY to have made it to Einstien in 2007, as I consider us unlucky to not have been picked this year. As everyone knows luck has a lot to do with it, and you can't win em all. That really is a good lesson.