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Originally Posted by Chris is me
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.
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Okay, 2 dumps for us and then WE turned to hassle 2970, and it was 96-72, with a dead bot on our alliance...that bot was also supposed to be our defense on 2970, so instead of being hassled they had a free trailer to score on.
I wouldn't exactly be trying to brag about beating an alliance with a dead robot, just saying
MY most memorable moment of this year probably has to be coming out of the toughest REGIONAL (not msc) Midwest with a win AND the chairmans award.
Also not being a student on the team anymore meant i was no longer responsible as a driver and team captain and i was free to meander as i pleased, this meant meeting some more people i've known from CD and getting to know people better.