2012 Midwest Regional

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2151 wants to thank all of the teams that competed this weekend. We had a great time, and were extremely happy to be invited to join the 111/71 alliance. 111's robot had a clamp that can grab other robots, and we didn't even need to mount extra hardware to make it work on ours. They just grabbed our frame and brought us up the bridge with them. A quick change to autonomous to give them our two balls was a great 12 point bonus for our matches. Our only job in the in meantime was to block balls from the inbounders from bouncing to the opponent's side, and try to deflect them to the key for 111 and 71 to pick up.

Every team we saw in Elims at UIC played great matches and inspired 2151 with their great robots and great people.

I must say my two memories from our alliance are going to be:
1) We didn't shoot a single ball through eliminations.
2) Going back to the pit after selections to find Raul and two 111 students trying to figure out where they can mount the bar to our robot for them to clamp to. We removed one shield to find that they didn't need to mount anything.

Thanks everyone for a great competition. I can't wait to see the match videos!