CT Championship - May 11

[dsmoker]

Somehow, I knew you guys would

If you could post when and where it's posted, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks, and Happy Mother's Day to all the RoboMoms out there!

[davepowers]

A huuuuuuge congrats to 177, 558, and 1699! You all deserve the win and it was incredible to play against your alliance in the semis. In all honesty, that last semi match was the most emotional match on my career.

Thank you to our alliance, 195 and 3104! It was a pleasure to play with you guys. After four years CyberGUS finally got their alliance together and it was awesome to finally play on the same side of the field as you!

Thank you to all of the volunteers and sponsors and CT FIRST fellows, it was a smooth event with little hicups. I've very excited for district play years year after seeing how this event was run.

Congrats to our close friends 195 for taking away the CT champs equivalent of the Chairmans award! I can't think of a more deserving team. You're practice field and your teams dedication is an enormous help throughout the year. Gino, Lance, Sandra, Stephen, Misty, George and all of the mentors I missed, thank you for everything this year, I love you guys like my family.

On that note I couldn't be any prouder of my team, it was a day of ups and downs but in the end even though we couldn't get the banner, it was a win in my eyes. Now who's ready for Battlecry?!

-D

[M. Lillis]

The videos are being uploaded currently, we have video of 177 (except for one quarterfinal match). The angle is not the best for some of the matches, but we will be uploading footage from our Contour and camcorder within the coming weeks. The videos can be view here: Videos

[dsmoker]

Thanks for getting this done so quickly! Again, it was a real treat working with you guys. See you in Wolcott!

[O'Sancheski]

Originally Posted by DevenStonow

Anyone have alliance selection results?

I think I got them right (Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.)

1. 228 195 3104 SF
2. 2168 230 2064 F
3. 2067 175 155 SF
4. 4055 1991 178? QF
5. 558 177 1699 W
6. 176 2170 3525 QF
7. 1124 181 236 QF
8. 1784 237 571 QF

[Banderoonies]

195 sends congrats to 558, 1699 and 177!

558, you were especially AMAZING and put together an awesome alliance and strategy!

Thank you to our alliance, 228 and 3104! It was a dream come true to play the "cyber-gus" alliance with you both.

Team GUS, the respect 195 has for your team has no end. We value your friendship immensely. We share a vision....to bring all the CT teams to a stronger sense of community because together, we all get better and learn more! To all CT teams: here's to building many more and stronger friendships next season!

Thank you to all of the volunteers and sponsors, very well run event indeed!

A special thank you to all Connecticut teams who voted for 195. We were truly humbled and honored to be selected for the CT Choice Award. That award meant more to our team than any other achievement this season because it came from YOU!

195 looks forward to building with you all an even stronger Connecticut FIRST community in the 2014 season

[MamaSpoldi]

On behalf of Team 230, I would like to add our congrats to the winning alliance 177, 558, and 1699. You were a force to be reckoned with. I would also like to thank 2168 for picking us. It was amazing working with you and awesome to take it all the way to the finals. And to 2064 for being there every step of the way to help our alliance get there.

I would also like to give a shout out to our all freshman drive team. As our regular drive team was headed to prom, these freshman stepped up and drove in all but 2 matches that day. They did a great job with exceedingly little experience. It was a nice peek into the future.

And we would also like to add our appreciation for all the volunteers running this inaugural event. The day went smoothly and other than some difficulties hearing the announcing due to the difficult acoustics in the beautiful old armory building it was an amazing event.

Finally I would like to add our congratulations to Team 195 for their winning of the CT Championship chairman's-like Award. So glad to see your team recognized for all you do. Your outreach to other CT teams and sharing all that you have with them is a model for us all to follow. I too am looking forward to more camaraderie among the CT teams as we head to districts next year.

Hoping to see everyone up at BattleCry!!

[sg999]

Just a couple shout outs:

Congratulations to the winners, 177, 558, and 1699. You guys had truly inspirational robots.

A huge, enourmous thank you to teams 1991, 2067 and 230 for helping us out with our electronics problems that caused us to miss matches in the morning. We truly appreciate the effort you put in to help get our robot working. On that note, an apology is owed to everyone who was affected by our faulty robot. Congratulations to teams 1699 and 2067 for managing to win a match with only two robots on your alliance. We regret not being able to join you, as well as teams 1991, 181, 3654 and 3718.

[mom-bot]

I want to thank the teams of CT, the CIAC and CT FIRST for making the CT Championship a great event. It was a lot of fun, there were a LOT of good matches and it definitely shows that CT teams have the “FIRST stuff”! We have enjoyed playing with all the teams and look forward to playing with you in the upcoming New England District System. One thing I took away this year talking to folks in District systems at Championship is how it helped formed better bonds between teams. We have seen some of this in 2013, and we look forward to strengthening & building these bonds.

Thanks to our alliance partners 2067 for choosing us and 155. Both of you are good teams we are proud to play with. It was great to see how the kids worked so well together and we thought they all did a super job for our teams.

Congrads to our friends at 177, 558 and 1699 – you were awesome! To our friends 228, 195 and 3104 – you fought well and played hard -no one could have asked for better finals with these six teams!

And to our up & coming underclassmen robot-masters - you did a great job on the drive team, in the pits and programming. A special thanks to our “retiring” & “life” member/driver (Kelsie!) who got to practice coaching.

“It’s all good!”

[JustbeingJFK]

Did anyone hear about the picnic the Athena's Warriors are going to have? If you did, do you have any info about it? and what teams are going?

[Kims Robot]

Hey CT teams & CT State Championship Volunteers... sorry for the delay but I finally got the Photos Preview Album done! I hope to catch up soon and get the full set posted, but there are nearly 180 photos in the preview
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimsrob...7633539580346/

Had a blast as always!!

The photos are posted for all teams to use however they would like. I just ask that you provide photo credit and/or leave my copyright symbol on the photo. If you need any without the symbol for publications, please feel free to contact me and I can get you another copy.