Proof that districts work: PNW

[Thad House]

The PNW has never been a superpower at worlds. We have sent teams into eliminations at worlds, but getting far has not happened much. Before this year, only 2 teams have ever made it to a division finals from the PNW, and neither one of them made it to Einstein.

This year, we sent 10 teams, out of the 24 we sent, into eliminations. Over on Archimedes, we had an all PNW alliance at #2, which was 2907, 3393, 2557 and 4911. Also, 4077 was the #6 alliance captain. The #6 alliance lost in the quarters, but the #2 made it to semi's

Over on newton, 1983 was picked in the 3rd round by the #6 alliance, and they made it all the way to finals.

On Curie, 2928 was the #3 alliance captain, going undefeated. They made it to the semi's as well.

Then over on Galileo, we had both 4488 and 1318 on the #2 alliance as the 1st and 2nd picks. We made it to the finals as well. 488 was 3rd pick by the #4 alliance, and made it to the semi's.

So this year, we put 10 teams in elims. 9 made it out of quarters, and 3 made it out of semi's. We went from only have 2 teams ever make it to division finals, to having 5. I directly attribute this to the great quality of robots that we sent because of districts, and I think that within the next year or 2 we will finally cross the hump, and send a PNW team to Einstein.

We had such an amazing time at worlds this year, and the entire region plans on coming back with firepower next year.

Go Pacific Northwest!!!