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Originally Posted by Karthik
In terms of FIRST history every discussion of greatness should include the 2010 Las Guerrillas.
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If I could continue the sports metaphor, I consider 469's performance this season tantamount to the '07 Patriots.
This was my first event as my team's operator, and holy carp. You always hear about some awesome teams using a rookie drive team at IRI, I know 2056 and 217 are some examples. It's a little different when your team is a first-timer at IRI and people called the robot "that stupid little Oregon Trail wagon."
I'm incredibly surprised at our results at IRI. The fact that we even got in was an accomplishment in itself. I'm sitting here a week later still in awe that our team was actually an alliance captain. Go NH for being home to a quarter of the alliance captains.
After alliance selection, our teams met up, and for our incredibly difficult match-up for the quarter finals, we had a ton of outside support. Our team likes to think we are good with strategy, and we generally are, but the incredible way our alliance partners 910, 343, and 111 came together for the match took me by surprise. Raul of 111 is definitely a master in his game. We had great help from an anonymous member of 2041, who just showed up out of no where. Our biggest help in hind sight came from 1519, who gave us some 469 info that combined with strategy from Raul led to the events of QF1.2.
In the end, I left this competition with positive memories. I really hope to return next year.