2012 New York City Regional

[henryBsick]

Here is a clip from the NUTRONS' GoPro showing the Finals 1-1 balance.

[jwfoss]

Congratulations to:
1635, 522, and our friends on 125 for using the unique combination of their robots designs to repeatably get the triple balance, ultimately resulting in the regional win.

333, 369, and our friends on 195 for making it to the finals after a long weekend of fixing and tuning in your machines.

The Aluminum Falcons could not have been happier with our performance in Qualification 8-0-0 and #1 seed with some good co-op balancing and offensive work. "Fat Swan" was running solid and required little to no repairs, and was connecting to the field quickly and for the entire match. We would like to thank everyone who played with us, and choose to balance on the center bridge with us.

We would like to thank and apologize to our amazing alliance partners 1676 and 329. Communication issues with the field (which I believe 1676 also suffered from), really took the wind out of our sails. After being eliminated in the semi-finals we spent the remaining time at NYC trouble shooting our robot, and are heading to CT with no clear solution. Without such problems we feel the results may have been significantly different. We wish you the best of luck the rest of your season.

[blazenight1]

Congrats to 1635, 125, and 522 for providing by far the most amazing set of elimination matches yet!!!!
Your methods proved successful with your partners on the seventh alliance by eliminating the second, third, and fourth alliances on your way to capturing your third ny regional win!

But probably most importantly is that you showed all the teams competing there, all 11 rookies and 54 veterans (not including yourselves ), that you didn't have to build a superstar robot that looks like it could compete in the NBA to succeed.

Over 99% of teams built a robot for mainly either offense or defense.
I'm glad you guys decided to be the exception.

It is truly refreshing to see an alliance win, not because of it's superstar captain's abilities (but credit is still appreciated ), but by a relatively simple robot that really any team could've built by themselves, without the need for some crazy sponsor or factory/warehouse of workers. Credit has to be given to the captain though, for recognizing the ability this team had managed to pack into their little robot

I look forward to seeing how you guys do at St. Louis!