2013 Midwest Regional

[Sam390250]

Though not in attendance at this regional, congratulations to all the winners! Special congratulations to UPS! Way to represent Wisconsin! ;] The judges could not have picked a more fun, inspiring, hard-working, and deserving team. Good luck as you continue on to St. Louis!

[neshera]

A big congratulations to the winning alliance, FIRST Teams 71, 2512 and 2709. This alliance really showed the synergy that makes a Champion alliance. None of the teams was the highest ranked, but having the decimating cross-field shooter, a splendid robot to defend the cross-field shooter, and a robot with excellent field scoring capability and a reliable 30 point climb freed up by the first two robots proved to be an unbeatable combination. Very well done, and it was exciting being beaten by you! I suspect we will see this type of alliance(s) on Einstein.

Our team loves and respects UPS/1675. We felt sad when the description of the Chairman's Award team meant we didn't win, until we found out is was you! You totally deserve this! Will the award be placed on the altar somewhere at Renee's wedding?

Wildstang, we so wanted to be allied with you! A tie??? Really??? You should hold your heads high, you and Gear It Forward 2338 were the teams to beat at this regional. We hope to see you at R2OC in Rockford in August, and at the Flapjack Challenge in December in Winnebago.

[BigJ]

Originally Posted by neshera

Will the award be placed on the altar somewhere at Renee's wedding?

Best. Idea. Ever.

Thanks for the congratulations everyone, I think I can speak for the whole team when I say we are beyond honored to receive the award.

This regional was an exhausting and exhilarating one. A magical schedule let our team try our hand at 3 regionals this year and I don't think I want to try it again anytime soon. Midwest continues to be my favorite regional, though (especially when more of the usual WI suspects show up ).

Special thanks to Winnovation for opening their shop to our kids last week. We were on spring break and a few of our students took it upon themselves (with some mentor help) to design a shooter because our climbing functions didn't end up working out. By Saturday we were pretty consistent on auton 4-points! Expect to see some more in a few weeks .

Shoutouts to Wildstang and Winnovation for training up a couple great students who are attending MSOE this year and helping us out as mentors. Those 2 have taught all of us more than they know!

[dodar]

Originally Posted by neshera

A big congratulations to the winning alliance, FIRST Teams 71, 2512 and 2709. This alliance really showed the synergy that makes a Champion alliance. None of the teams was the highest ranked, but having the decimating cross-field shooter, a splendid robot to defend the cross-field shooter, and a robot with excellent field scoring capability and a reliable 30 point climb freed up by the first two robots proved to be an unbeatable combination. Very well done, and it was exciting being beaten by you! I suspect we will see this type of alliance(s) on Einstein.

Our team loves and respects UPS/1675. We felt sad when the description of the Chairman's Award team meant we didn't win, until we found out is was you! You totally deserve this! Will the award be placed on the altar somewhere at Renee's wedding?

Wildstang, we so wanted to be allied with you! A tie??? Really??? You should hold your heads high, you and Gear It Forward 2338 were the teams to beat at this regional. We hope to see you at R2OC in Rockford in August, and at the Flapjack Challenge in December in Winnebago.

Wedding cake shaped like the Chairman's Award.

[Tmaxxrox97]

Originally Posted by Jibri Wright

The reason why we were the blockers was because we got inspected Thursday with the detachable blocker and it was already built. If you watch seeding match 2, that's when we first used it catching 2512 totally off guard. We were attempting to make a blocker for 2010 but we couldn't make a blocker that blocks from two directions in time.
The reason we needed a two-directional blocker like the one we had is because we found that defensive robots protecting a full court shooter tend to force a bot to turn sideways.
Not only that but we lost the quarterfinals in Milwaukee due to not efficiently blocking a full court shooter. Over spring break our driver and I, (our shooter) practiced some defensive strategies against full court shooters and a defensive bot. We had the most experience against them on our alliance.

I was wondering why it was an "L" shape. You played very good defense and it was fun driving against you.

Originally Posted by neshera

A big congratulations to the winning alliance, FIRST Teams 71, 2512 and 2709. This alliance really showed the synergy that makes a Champion alliance. None of the teams was the highest ranked, but having the decimating cross-field shooter, a splendid robot to defend the cross-field shooter, and a robot with excellent field scoring capability and a reliable 30 point climb freed up by the first two robots proved to be an unbeatable combination. Very well done, and it was exciting being beaten by you! I suspect we will see this type of alliance(s) on Einstein.

It was very fun competing against you! You had us scared in those
last couple matches and for a good reason. You had a great robot and a great alliance.

And congrats to UPS on the Chairman's Award win, we will see you at championships.

[Jibri Wright]

Thanks guys! This was by far our best season yet, but ofcourse we were no match for the unstoppable 71, 2512, and 2709. Congrats guys. We'll try to put up more of a fight next year!

[neshera]

1) I am such an idiot! My apologies for neglecting to congratulate the Electric Eagles in my first post. I think the #1 ranked team representative should get one of those big #1 pointing index finger foam hands!
2) I have posted video of UPS winning the Chairman's award at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2SwRAn1Le8