2011 Northeast Utilities Connecticut Regional

[TPNigl]

Congrats to teams 195, 1923, and 155 for such a great win!

Also thanks so much to 230 and 1027 for being such great alliance partners. We fought well and did great. Great job to all, HYPER had a great time in CT.

[Cheerleader1073]

Originally Posted by ksoccerbuzz175

Congrats to 1923, 195 and 155! You guys were outstanding. Thanks to our alliance partners 177 and 1073, we put up a good fight! Hope to see most of you in St. Louis, it's gonna sweet!

Originally Posted by Gino

Team 195 would like to thank Team 1923 and 155 for their gracious teamwork. We loved working with you guys.

Teams 177, 175, and 1073. Thanks for two exciting matches. Your bots are awesome this year. What an honor to compete with you all!

Congrats to Chairman award winner Team 694. Keep up the great work!

Thanks to all for a wonderful Regional and we are so glad we will see most of you in St. Louis.

Also kudos to Brazil! So glad you came out again this year!

Thanks 195 we were really excited to you, 155, and 1923 in the finals - especially after we heard about what happened to 1923 at another regional.

177 - We've looked up to you ever since our first year at Connecticut two years ago, and we were ecstatic to later find out the feeling was mutual.

175 - Finally we were on the same alliance for Elims, and we loved it!

Both of you - We had our strategies down and you were so easy to work with. I might be taking a risk saying this, but it is still a FIRST Robotics Competition and we felt very competitive with you two in the best possible way.

230 - The one match we had with you on Friday we could tell we really worked well together. Sorry that also had to be the first match we had CAN errors so we didn't know we had to do a physical reboot - but hey we still won. You're just one of those teams that 1073 works immediately well with so maybe if we stay with going to Connecticut you'll come up to GSR sometime and we'll see you at the off-seasons... I think I remember seeing you at Battlecry often.

69 - Again, we put up a good fight together at GSR and we really liked seeing you again at Connecticut.

694 - That one match we had together was AWESOME! I remember it being one where we were matched up against teams that had the same rankings and scoring as our alliance but you're also one of those teams that is just smart and we work well with in using all of our robots' advantages in the spotlight to win. That was a huge margin we won by!

501 - Exact same as what I said for 694. The blue alliance with all blue shirts was super cool and got us pumped up .

2836 - Wow, we can tell you really get it as just a 3-year team! Keep it up!

3719 - We LOVED taking a rookie team under our wing for a competition! Although we've said this many ways many times... stay with it, have fun, and please let us know if you need anything at all.

[Nick Rixford]

Congrats 195, 1923, and 155 on their win! It was a fun regional! Hope to see you guys in St. Louis!

Also a big thanks to Apple Pi 2067 and the Aluminum Falcons 2168, we put up a good fight in that second match of quarters!

[Rick Vogl]

Congratulations to the champions and finalists. That was some very good game play. Thanks to all of the teams that helped our rookie friends from Bridgeport CT FRC3634 with their Axis camera issues.

[donnie99]

Originally Posted by cebranzell

Team 558 had tons of fun! Team Max 1071, thanks for selecting us for your alliance, and thanks Team 237 for playing so strongly with us! Also, congrats to teams 1923, 195, and 155 for your win!

Thank you to everyone for supporting the alliance, we had a tough time with no amazing minibots, but we played hard and came out with pride. Thank you 1071 and 558 for picking us, 571 for lending us their minibot and others for offering, sorry if I forgot your team number, and congrats to all the winners of awards, I wish you all luck at St. Louis and any off season competitions.

[jblay]

We, as always, had a great time at Connecticut. It seems like every year the event is better run and the volume of great robots rises. The event really has a Championship feel to it with the amount of excitement and every match being interesting to watch.

We would like to thank our partners 383 and 20. It was awesome playing with both of you for the first time.

383, your robot was awesome and it was unfortunate that you had those code issues when we hit the eliminations but despite not moving for most of the second match you managed to put up your minibot and win the race because you decided to restart your robot, which while scaring the bejesus out of our coach, was a really clutch move and almost won us that match.

20, your defense in the eliminations was invaluable and your human player was the best I have seen play, every single tube he threw ended up in our scoring zone and it gave us a big advantage. It is always fun when we played with you guys on occasion in the qualification matches and I am happy we finally got to play together in the elimination rounds.

I want to give my congrats to the winners. 1923 and 195 were monstrous scorers throughout all three days and 155 you were a stone-cold sleeper that was very high on our own list and your minibot was crazy fast and your scoring was very effective.

A few side shout-outs:

1073, it was a pleasure playing along side you as well. I hope that we get to play with you again in the future. I love playing with teams in the qualification matches that look at the game and decide this is what we have to do to win this match, this is the way to put up the most points and take the idea of showing themselves off out of the equation.

173, I always love the rage machine and I was shocked to see that you guys did not play in the eliminations considering the fact that you had one of the fastest minibots out there and were excellent at herding the tubes. You guys played well and I loved that one match when we played together, I look forward to playing with you guys again in the future.

This event was one of the craziest roller coaster rides our team has ever been on. We entered the event knowing that we needed to win to get into the championship. We received a red card, that we took big issue with, early on in the event and then lost two straight matches but after that did not lose a single qualification match and found ourselves close to the top 8 and were pushed into the top 8 right before 383 selected us. We had some bad luck with 383 having code issues and lost almost immediately and it looked like our season was over. As the awards were being announced I could tell all the kids were getting upset that we would miss the Championship. As the judges reached their final award and all hope seemed to be lost, Andy Grady began to describe details about the winner of this years Chairman's award and I began to think to myself, "we did that and that and all of this." When I heard the word "pulse" on the speakers I screamed "YES" louder than I ever have in my life and that was true for everyone sitting in our section of the stands. We could not believe that we had done it two years in a row and are headed to St. Louis. I hope to see many Connecticut teams there!