New Central Illinois Regional Looking Good!

[Cataclysmatic]

First of all, I would like to thank everyone for this amazing "rookie" CIR.

As the driver for 4296, I would really like to thank our team for construction of such a robust robot, able to handle the beatings of the field(If your robot cannot handle defense, believe me when I say, MAKE IT SO IT CAN) I feel a lot of the defense in this game is due to the 1 game piece, when a robot does not have a ball all it really can do is defend/set picks for team mates and as a result there are often 4 robots playing defense at a time.

This was our first time ever getting out of qualifications and moving onto eliminations and I have to say, it was a lot of fun. Interacting and working alongside 525 and 1986 was extremely enlightening, as a newer team still, we still have a massive amount to learn.

Thank you to the drivers for both 525 and 1986 for keeping everyone calmed through our first loss of eliminations and for all of us working together and adapting extremely quickly after the loss of one of our two able to shoot robots(525) resulting in the last two matches being conducted with one robot able to shoot.

I would also like to thank 4143, 2039, and 171 for the absolutely amazing (and brutal) finals matches, which resulted in an extremely close final deciding match that no one really had any clue of the outcome until it was displayed. These final matches were extremely well played by both alliances and it was a lot of fun to participate in them.

I look forward to seeing anyone who will also be at the Milwaukee regional.

In addition, I would like to apologize about any damage that we caused during the entire regional from defense, I know our robot took a lot of damage through out the weekend and has caused us to prepare to make a lot of fixes at our next regional, thankfully these robots are able to take a fair amount of a beating.

Overall, Thank you for the great regional. Thank you for the alliance selection to 525 and 1986, thank you for the amazing final match to 4143, 2039, and 171. And most of all, prepare your robots for a lot of defense in this game.