The championships were awesome, for the most part. I've already explained the negatives in another
thread (there were a couple) but essentially the best parts about it were in the Dome! The competition was amazing, and the other robot designs almost ingenious. Einstein's Daughters was the best I thought (very simple, robust, and effective) and it's a shame they or Jr. Bomb Squad didn't get picked for elims -- if they had things may have turned out very differently.
Our scouts and parents got a taste of what GOOD scouting can do, as was evident by our 11:45 bedtime Friday night before elims. QF-1/2 were easy, and SF-1/2 would have been easy if bots didn't break. Eh, that's life though.
I'm pretty sure ministang (111) figured out the same
exact lockdown strategy we did for elims, as their first autonomous against us was identical to ours. We joked that the only strategy that could beat the proper execution of the lockdown strategy was the lockdown strategy itself, and we were very surprised in QF1/2 when it happened.