[Chris is me]

Plenty.

In Minnesota, when 2826 was the first ranked seed and we got picked 1st overall, it was one of the happiest moments in robotics for me. We'd pushed our team to the top, and got to pair up with a really cool team. We were cheering with and for them all regional and it just seemed natural that we got to compete together.

At the same regional, we decided to all do each other's cheers as they read off our team names in the eliminations. For Wave, we linked hands and passed a "wave" through them. For More, we waved shop rags that we gave to the drive teams in the air. Then for Blitz Team we did this weird hand thing. It was a great way to get excited for each match.

Winning the semifinals in one of the closest, most intense matches I've ever seen got us all pumped up and ready for the finals. Then two matches later we squeaked out a win, and I can barely remember what happened next, it was dizzifying. I'm truly proud of my teammates and our alliance partners for those matches, the highlight of the season.

Then Atlanta came around and I had one goal: to do better. There were two matches that scared me when I read them, our last match (loss by 4 points), and versus 1625. Now 1625's kind of been the 800-pound gorilla for us; we wanted to give them a hell of a fight. The alliances were really evenly stacked; 1625 was checked by 2970, and the other two robots did about as much scoring as we and 842 had. We spent hours planning out how to run the match, trying to figure out what they would do and how to best counteract it. We figured they'd burn a partner on pinning 2970 and 842 would pin Winnovation, so it'd be our robot versus the opponents. Figuring with all the pins our human player would make more shots than us, we opted not to preload and went all-out. If everything went to plan, I honestly wouldn't have cared if we won or lost, it would have been a match to be proud of. Unfortunately, one of Winnovation's partners didn't move, leading our HP and 2970 to make repeated dumps. Quickly switching up our strategy, we double-teamed Winnovation and held them to one dump... and the final score was 96-70 us.