Smoky Mountain Regional 2011

[sportzkrazzy]

The regional as a whole was probably the best first year event we have ever attended. Team 1592 had an awesome time and will probably be coming back sometime in the future. The kids had a blast in the very relaxed atmosphere and also loved the competition that the veteran teams brought to the table. Thank you to all who made this event possible.

I would also like to thank our alliance partners

Team 1024- You guys are probably the lowest seeded scoring powerhouse I have even seen. Luck did not fall your way on quite a few things that weekend but our scouts did not over look you. With a mini bot that could climb the pole in the blink of an eye and a top tear scoring robot to match it we were lucky to pick you up that late in the alliance selection. You guys where a very valuable asset to our alliance and when you switch over to defense it looked like you had been playing it for a lifetime. You definitely slowed down our opposition and gave us a chance to keep up with the best. As soon as i saw the three of us score all of our ubertubes with the aid of the golden foot of truth I knew we would be a difficult alliance to beat.
P.S. defiantly the most unique arm design I have seen all year.

Team 829- All i can say is wow. How were you guys still available.... You were on our first pick list. I don't know what the other teams were thinking passing you guys up. Your ability to floor load coupled with your consistent ubertube scoring made you a valuable asset not to be missed by our scouts. Not to mention the fact that you guys had 931 minibot. Whats not to like?
(shout out to other teams going to the championships- If you have the chance stop by there pit and check out the honey combed aluminum they use. It is probably the most unique building materiel I have ever seen used on a FRC robot)

You guys our awesome people and we really hope to be on the same side of the glass as you guys again someday. Who knows maybe we will get lucky and make it off the late notice wait-list lol.

Also would like to congratulate the first place alliance on the win(71,48,2974). They deserve it because the second place alliance(801,234,1747) was a scoring power house.