2012 New York City Regional

[Megalodons333]

First and foremost Team 333 would like to congratulate teams 1635, 522, 125 on their fantastic play throughout this tournament. They showed unbelievable skill and consistency in balancing their robot time after time.

Secondly we want to thank our fantastic teammates team 195 and 369 for giving us the opportunity to play with them. Team 369s robot was unbelievable and could do practically anything they wanted, a great scorer, defender and with the help of 195 managed to balance with ease. Team 195 never seized to amaze, and was the "kobe" of our team. No other team in the competition could match the consistent scoring of this robot. It was truly a pleasure playing with and watching these two robots.

When it came to the final match our robot would move in bursts. We would have moments where the robot wouldn't get any communication and just stand there. It was truly frustrating and disappointing. It was even more disappointing that we felt we let our teammates down. Honestly I don't even think our robot had communication in autonomous mode. Our robot isn't as consistent as our teammates but we managed to make in shots in prior match-ups

Coming into the finals we figured we could afford fouling as long as we stopped that triple balance like we managed to do in match 2. 40 points is just a huge obstacle to over come.

Originally Posted by bduddy

Here's the video, thanks to trident for getting it up so quickly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifzwt...ure=plpp_video

I have no idea what 333 was trying to do... it looks like they helped blue way more than they hurt them.

From the video if you look at our robot between the intervals of 1:30 - 1:50 you can just see our robot practically useless. We really weren't sure what the problem was, it could have been all the beating we took while playing defense in our prior matches. Even in match 2 we ended up with another robot on top of us for nearly the whole match.

Once we started moving we thought everything was working fine again and tried to resume our job at defense but by then it was almost too late because team 522 and 125 were almost in position. And once again as soon as we got there we lost connection. Frustrated we just tried moving our joystick up and down trying desperately to get it running again only to get 1 last second of burst which unfortunately put us underneath the bridge which ultimately helped our opposing team.

We do apologize for this and wish we knew exactly why our robot malfunctioned during the last match.


Thank you everyone who rooted for us and once again THANK YOU TEAM 369 AND 195. I pray we could have the opportunity to seeing you guys next year.