2011 Newton Division

[Austin2046]

Team 2046 Bear Metal had a great time and I'd like to personally thank our alliance partners 525 and 3456. We put up a very good fight but couldn't pull out a victory over the number one seeded alliance.

It was very interesting to see the final rankings and alliance selections as the depth of our division divided the truly powerhouse teams. It made for quite a challenging event.

I wonder if anyone has some archived match footage available? I haven't been able to find anything yet.

[JVN]

Originally Posted by mwibbels

TToday it felt like the team was fighting a bit of a scheduling headwind and a couple of folks decided that it would be interesting to analyze the strength of schedule.
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Statistically the easiest schedule in the division!
You won't hear any of us complaining. We'll take some good luck from the scheduling gods any day of the week (and twice on Saturdays).

-John

[MrForbes]

You don't have to play against the best team if you are the best team!

[mwibbels]

Originally Posted by JVN

You won't hear any of us complaining. We'll take some good luck from the scheduling gods any day of the week (and twice on Saturdays).

-John

Nicely said

We were living in fear of 148 being able to set up a juggernaut, so were a bit relieved to see the great leveling due to the clash of the titans on Saturday morning.

The strength of Newton and the randomness of the qualification schedule were highly effective at splitting the powerhouses. It seems that it wasn't so on some of other fields.

Originally Posted by Austin2046

I wonder if anyone has some archived match footage available? I haven't been able to find anything yet.

Yep - the Tators captured all of the Newton and Einstein field video. Right now that video is somewhere between Kansas and Idaho - we will try to send it along to the blue alliance this week and post it on our web site, but we are currently a little strung out.

[Wayne C.]

Team 25 (and i) WOULD LIKE TO THANK OUR PARTNERS from teams 217 and 1503 for teaming with us and giving the Newton Division a series of rounds that resulted in a great success for us. By the end of the rounds we were getting pretty banged up but playing a little defense is something Raider Robotix is not stranger to.

As Paul stated right after the picking "you guys really sucked this morning". I hope we gave the alliance an afternoon that was more memorable.

Overall the Newton Division was a fun group with some great competition. Thanks to all the Newton teams for making the event a great one.

WC

[Bharat Nain]

217 - The quality of work and communication exhibited by your team throughout the elimination is the reason why you have been successful for so many years. Thank you for picking us. It was an honor to work with you.

1503 - From one of our strategy/scouting sessions.. "I wouldn't mind being partnered with 1503.. that would be fun". I'm glad it came true. You played very well and we were glad to be partnered with you.

[ChristinaR]

This was a great division to play in. While it was a bit of a bummer that we weren't picked, the competition was great to watch. Those alliances were intense. I definitely spent most of my time over at the Newton field, and not just because a friend asked me to photograph his team.

It was a great performance by the winning alliance. Congrats to 1503, 217, and 25! It seems 1503 was quite excited for their first trip to Einstein- and I was excited for them!

[legogeek24]

Originally Posted by Austin2046

Team 2046 Bear Metal had a great time and I'd like to personally thank our alliance partners 525 and 3456. We put up a very good fight but couldn't pull out a victory over the number one seeded alliance.

Team 3456 was glad to have you! It was definitely a tough match, but I feel we did outstanding. Together we held our own against an alliance that would make it to finals. Simply being in an alliance captain position was incredible for our rookie team, and I'm glad we were able to end up with some awesome alliance partners!

[TD78]

Big thanks to teams 1538 and 494 for being our elimination round alliance partners. 1538 was one of the top teams all weekend and 494 was fantastic as a feeder. It's too bad we couldn't have gone a bit further...what an exciting group to watch! A bit disappointing we threw those drive chains in the second semi-final match...and that the towers weren't up to snuff to registering those minibots. But we all had fun and everyone LOVED the cow bells (thanks 1538!!!) Had a great time in St. Louis and we hope to make it back again next year.

[Tom Ore]

FedEx delivered our robot today at about 2:30. We had a demo planned at a local elementary school fair this evening so it was great to get it back so quickly. We were going to run our Breakaway robot but it was a real treat to be able to run the Logomotion bot. Looks like the off season is underway already...

[Nick Lawrence]

Originally Posted by ChristinaR

It seems 1503 was quite excited for their first trip to Einstein- and I was excited for them!

Oh man we were... especially after having a complete failure of a season last year...

-Nick