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Originally Posted by BEEKMAN
Winning GSR after being told by one of the top 8 teams (we were in second to last at the time)(and i'm not going to say the team #) that they shouldn't take advice from us, as we're were "clearly not a qualified team to be giving advice". Many teams let the leaderboard go to their head. It felt very good to beat them in the finals, and become a regional winner!
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Brendan, that win was epic!
I will agree with Brendan, winning GSR was amazing, but because our team was on the winning alliance was not the reason why. Back in 2003 my older brother founded team 1058 and I was hooked on FIRST after watching them compete at GSR that year. I got involved with FLL that fall and was a 1058 fan ever since 2003. I went to every GSR since, traveled to the Greater Toronto Regional in 2005 with them, along with several off-season tournaments. In the fall of 2007 after graduating from FLL I decided to join team 1519 as they were a homeschooled team and I was close friends with several members. Since then, I have gained so many new and awesome friends on team 1058 at tournaments (BEEKMAN included
). So just being on the same alliance with them was amazing, but winning the regional with them was just so much more than that. My brother never/rarely smiles and is not one for emotion, but I have never seen him smile as big as he did or dare i say hug me like he did after the finals. So for me, awesome was after winning the regional and congratulating your teammates to go over to team 1058 and realize you won, and you won together. I only wish my grandmother was still here to see it. She hoped it would happen in previous years which it never did, but 6 months later it did.
