Extraordinary GP at the 2013 Championship

[Maldridge422]

After three days of competition in St.Louis, I'm sure every attendee saw examples of gracious professionalism in use. I would like to use this thread as a place to retell some of the extraordinary stories of gracious professionalism that people have from the 2013 Championship Event.

I'd like to start off with a story from Galileo. In qualifier match 58, my team knew going against the power of 4334's FCS was going to be difficult. So, we contacted our alliance partner, rookie team 4627, to see if they had a blocking mechanism. Team 4627 did have a blocking mechanism that was 60 inches tall, but wanted to raise it to 84 inches during the match. The only thing holding them back from extending their blocker was their pneumatics system.

However, they had aid. Members of the Alberta Tech Alliance, team 4334, were assisting 4627 with the rookie team's pneumatics. 4334 members were ensuring the functionality of a mechanism which they knew was going to be used to stop 4334 from scoring. While our alliance lost match 58, FIRST and the spirit of gracious professionalism won. Kudos to 4334.

Please add your own stories from this event. They never cease to inspire.

[nicholsjj]

The best GP I saw at camps was when the entire 3 seeded alliance was just short of yelling at the head ref when the 1 seeded alliance recieved a red card in finals match one. Seeing people being held back because they despertly wanted to argue that they in fact didn't get an automatic win was amazing. major kuddos goes to 4814,67,1918 for that.

Also team 456 for driving up 55 all the way from Vickburg just to voulenteer was amazing GP.

[Grim Tuesday]

4334 is a real class act, this was a really admirable thing for them to do.

I don't have just one story but I'd like to thank all the teams that let us come around and talk to them about how their robots, their teams, and their outreach programs worked. The Championship is a really inspirational event to attend.

Also, shout out to team 340 who I counted at least 7 members in St. Louis despite them not qualifying. They didn't just come to spectate; they came to volunteer.

[Woolly]

Originally Posted by Maldridge422

After three days of competition in St.Louis, I'm sure every attendee saw examples of gracious professionalism in use. I would like to use this thread as a place to retell some of the extraordinary stories of gracious professionalism that people have from the 2013 Championship Event.

I'd like to start off with a story from Galileo. In qualifier match 58, my team knew going against the power of 4334's FCS was going to be difficult. So, we contacted our alliance partner, rookie team 4627, to see if they had a blocking mechanism. Team 4627 did have a blocking mechanism that was 60 inches tall, but wanted to raise it to 84 inches during the match. The only thing holding them back from extending their blocker was their pneumatics system.

However, they had aid. Members of the Alberta Tech Alliance, team 4334, were assisting 4627 with the rookie team's pneumatics. 4334 members were ensuring the functionality of a mechanism which they knew was going to be used to stop 4334 from scoring. While our alliance lost match 58, FIRST and the spirit of gracious professionalism won. Kudos to 4334.

Please add your own stories from this event. They never cease to inspire.

4334 is top notch when it comes to GP. Despite neither 1806 or 4334 wanting to be on the same alliance (we're both FCS bots that used the same feeder station) we had each others backs going into the quarters. I definitely hope our teams get to work together again when it actually makes sense to.

[OrangeCataclysm]

Originally Posted by nicholsjj

The best GP I saw at camps was when the entire 3 seeded alliance was just short of yelling at the head ref when the 1 seeded alliance recieved a red card in finals match one. Seeing people being held back because they despertly wanted to argue that they in fact didn't get an automatic win was amazing. major kuddos goes to 4814,67,1918 for that.

It was very heartwarming when that happened, I'm really happy that the number 3 alliance stuck up for us.