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Originally Posted by Joe Johnson
Will someone who saw it first hand give a thumbnail sketch of how the Elimination Rounds went in Sacramento?
On the surface, the story is simple: Cheesy Poofs win ANOTHER regional.
But, I suppose that it was more complicated than that.
Anybody willing to fill us in?
Joe J.
P.S. By the way, how many regionals have Cheesy Poofs won now 8, 9, more? Do tell...
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Well I can give you the elim rounds from a Cheesy Poof perspective, but I don't have the full story, down near the robot as I was (I didn't watch all the matches).
We started out winning the QF pretty easily against the 8th seeded alliance, with 955 showing that they were a whole lot better than their 29th seed said they were. The higher seed won every other QF pairing. After fixing a broken chain and rerouting a relay connection that had been cut, we stepped out for semis and faced alliance 4, but their lack of a good hanger or herder hurt them badly, and we moved on again. In the other semifinal round, 835 (nice autonomous), 869 (ball catcher) and 1072 squared off against Florida's 945, 1120 and 481. Thankfully for us, they put up a hell of a fight, and a tie breaker match gave us Poofs some more time to fix our robot. Eventually, 945's alliance prevailed and the final round was set up.
The first round of finals was an amazing show, with all four robots hanging at the end, and our goal capped with 11 balls! 254 and 753 won 210-125, and the entire place went crazy (lots of people running around and jumping on each other on our side of the field...). Our cable was fraying, though, and we had to replace it, but some snags meant we weren't going to make it on time. 753 and 955 stepped out to play, but as we were finishing repairs, the field coordinator gave us one last chance to call timeout...so we did and got our robot out on the field. One of 481's coaches came over to our side and amazingly told us that if we needed it, their alliance would call timeout to make sure we played in this round. The last round of finals was a nailbiter, as 955 defended 945 from the top platform and our hanging cable snapped (didn't we just replace it?

), and our last second decapping effort failed. 945, however, wasn't able to get on the platform fast enough, and couldn't get themselves in the air as the buzzer rang. 254, 753 and 955 took that final match 95 to 70. An amazing end to an amazing regional

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