2013 SVR

[DampRobot]

First of all, congrats to the winners. 254 and 118 both made it look easy, and as always: dat 254 climb...

We had a truly awesome regional. As some of you know, we used our 30lb allowance to put on a completely new shooter assembly with a pneumatic ten point hanger. As far as I know, it was the largest change to a robot between regionals in FRC history. After the change, it shot straight as a laser with two direct driven wheels off a CIM. We went some matches where we were 80-90% accurate, which is just huge, and got 3-4 scoring cycles on a regular basis. If we'd performed just a little bit better in our first match, we could have been picking.

And yes, beating Pink was super cool in our last qualifying match. My personal favorite was match 50 where we beat 971 106-68, scoring 76 points on our own. (Thanks to 766 for shutting down 971, literally, with their awesome defense.)

Getting selected by 233, a NASA team, as first pick (!!!) was super cool. I couldn't believe that such an awesome team valued us enough to pick us first. Had Pinks hopper not jammed in the first match and had they been able to block 148's full court shots, we would have probably been able to go on to semis. But losing to the powerhouse 148 and to 1662's sick little robot made me proud that we'd been able to compete against such a awesome alliance. (Michael Corsetto, I can't wait to play against you again!)

Thanks for such an awesome regional! A special shout out to 1662 and 973 for being such awesome competitors and cool people.

Oh, and I got to ask my girlfriend to prom! How much better could it get?