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Re: Championship Thanks from Team Xbot

Madison,
Your team had a great robot design this year and great drivers also. Your team was high on our scouting pick list if we (343) were to make it in the top eight.
To be honest we had several match's that bothered us and match 34 against 488 and 61 was one of them. We have found out scouting to watch for robots and drivers that play the game with a purpose, repeatability and execution. Team 488 had that this year. Congratulations on a very fine year!

343 was honored that 488 picked us to play with you and 118 during eliminations. The first thing I said to our team in the stands is we have a very good chance to make it to the finals on Archimedes with this alliance. The reason was the diversity of the three robots was great. 488 with the hidden moon rocks who knows how many you would dump on an opponent. 118 with the turreted shooter/dumper running empty cells and dumping super cells and 343 with our SKWID AKA swerve/skid steer bot that had a fast power dumper.

I think it took the wind out of all our sails a little when we lost the first match in the finals by two points, I still can't believe it.

I want to congratulate teams 222, 1218 and 2753 your robots and teams were awesome all weekend and no one can say you didn't earn your way to Einstein. It was a scary alliance and I salute you.