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Re: 2012 Washington DC Regional
639 had a great time at our first DC regional!
First off, a thanks to our two fantastic alliance partners, 888 and 346. When we were making selections, we took quite a few factors into consideration: Robot orientation, teleop scoring, and hybrid scoring. Every list we made, you guys came out on top. I have no idea how neither of you were already chosen. Honestly, I was expecting 888 to be chosen by the first seed, considering they had the second highest OPR, second only to 1218. I was ecstatic when we got the second robot on our list too! We had a list of 24 teams and only had to go two down. It's unfortunate that we couldn't pull off the triple on the field that we had practiced successfully three times . Also, we had one of if not the highest hybrid score at the event. Regardless, it was one of the best alliances, and I think we honestly could have won the event if we had gotten past the 620 alliance. As such, I think that there are congratulations in order for the 620, 3123, and 1731 alliance. Our first semifinal was, with combined scores, the second highest scoring match at the event, only second to finals match 2. There was no funny business in our matchup at all. All of our alliance worked, as did yours. There were no uncalled for fouls. It was a win well deserved, and especially to 620, your creativity award was well judged. The combination of dumper/shooter was a really cool and creative mechanism that performed perfectly in eliminations. Congratulations to the winning alliance, 2914, 467, and 357. To quote one of the members of my team, "467's robot is made of pure 3/16 aluminium sex". 357's Jester drive was also very very neat, I would love to learn more about it. It was great the entire regional, and the gameplay was great in elminations, once again, simply outplaying the opposing alliance. Speaking of the opposing alliance, we wish 1218 the best of luck at the MAR district championships! We would love to see you guys again in St. Louis. Finally, congratulations to 461, the RCA winners and 1885 the EI's! We hope to see both of you at the Championships in St. Louis! Every time I hear the judges read off the reasoning behind a Chairmans or EI team, and wonder why we didn't win it, I think to myself "Because these teams are just so $@#$@#$@#$@# awesome". And they are. Also, a special shoutout to team 174, our friends from the fingerlakes that beat the first seed in the first semifinals match. Once again, fantastic play. There were no broken robots, and no funny business. (Though, in the second semifinals match, the luck you guys encountered was almost comically atrocious: First 174's shooter jammed, then 116 got stuck on the fender, then 1418 tipped over, leaving the entire alliance incapacitated.) 888 mentioned that they were interested in attending the Finger lakes Regional next year, and we would love to see them in attendance! We do have a few criticisms of the event. I was trying to decide whether or not to post them, but I'll preface this with the fact that my goal is to be constructive rather than insulting:
In the neutral category, does anyone know why there were three field faults called over the course of the event? They replayed two qualification matches and a semifinal, even though it seemed to me that all robots were functional in that semifinal. Also, we noticed 1218 intermittently losing connection during the last final match. I wonder why a fault wasn't called on that one when there was such a history of them being called before? And a couple fantastic things that we loved about the planning of the event:
Onwards to St. Louis! We hope to see everyone who qualified in DC in a few weeks! |
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