Michigan State Championship

[FIMAlumni]

First off, congrats to 1023, 548, and 1711. Does anyone know if videos of the eliminations will be available anywhere? FIRST in Michigan's youtube page updated after Thursday and Friday, but not yesterday. I wouldn't be surprised if there is just burn out from the gracious volunteer running the channel, just wanted to see if they are available elsewhere.

[mikemat]

Originally Posted by FIMAlumni

Does anyone know if videos of the eliminations will be available anywhere? FIRST in Michigan's youtube page updated after Thursday and Friday, but not yesterday. I wouldn't be surprised if there is just burn out from the gracious volunteer running the channel, just wanted to see if they are available elsewhere.

The DPTV website has their coverage of some Saturday quals and all of playoffs archived.

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by GaryLuo

What's interesting about this years MSC is that none the Michigan big 3 teams(33, 67, 469) were in the finals.

Originally Posted by orangelight

It felt really weird walking through the pits during semi-finals and seeing 33 and 67 bots bagged

The robots are still evolving for Recycle Rush. Many top robots (including those of the two previous posters) have not yet reached their peaks.

Ten days until CMP starts.

[tr6scott]

https://youtu.be/Lgz5yiUT9Kc

Yes, still much to be written....

[BenGuy]

FIM State Championship went well for most teams I thought. We (3641) are going to worlds! A note about the eliminations - one bad match and it's over. We had a bad match in the quarterfinals (116 points) and followed with a 210 point match but still didn't make it to the semis. Good luck to all the teams going to worlds.

[Adam Freeman]

Originally Posted by GaryLuo

What's interesting about this years MSC is that none the Michigan big 3 teams(33, 67, 469) were in the finals.

We were operating nowhere near full strength this weekend. We had high hopes, but given some of the circumstances, I think we overreached a little bit with what we were trying to do.

We had a little bit of good execution, a bunch of poor execution, and a whole lot of extremely bad luck.

Luckily, we were able to put in a lot of time developing our canburglars for champs. We now have a bunch of improvements to make to get them to world class speed and consistency.

Thankfully 3641 saw through all our issues and made us the #2 pick. Gave me a chance to play with my home town team. Also got some great help from 5114, some of my co-workers help with their team. Unfortunately we were bit with a little bad luck in QF1...no way to overcome a bad score in this format with every alliance capable of putting up 200pts.

Congrats to 1023, 548, and 1711. They were truely the best alliance. The rest of us were playing for 2nd place.

Congrats to 503, 68, and 2137 on the Chairman's awards, along with all the other award winners.

Thanks to all the great volunteer in Michigan. We'll wish we were back here when we get to St. Louis and experience the differences on the outside.

But, we move on with our ultimate goal still in front of us. Good luck to all the FIM teams at Champs!

[Jaywalker1711]

All of you have no idea how much it means to us when you say congrats. Hearing teams that we attempt to emulate, like 67 or 33, congratulate us is absolutely amazing. Thank you guys so much, and also a huge thank you to our fantastic alliance partners!

[Soupp]

MSC 2015 in my oppinion had the best eliminations out of past states congratulations to 548,1023,1711 and were happy us 573,27 could put a show on in the finals with you

[Nyxyxylyth]

Originally Posted by Soupp

MSC 2015 in my oppinion had the best eliminations out of past states congratulations to 548,1023,1711 and were happy us 573,27 could put a show on in the finals with you

Mech Warriors put together a beautiful alliance. I didn't see 27 face off directly with 548, but it's no surprise that the two fastest grabbers ended up in the finals.

Somebody needs to make a compilation video of the first second of the St. Louis matches. It's gonna get silly.

[stuart2054]

Congratulations to 1023,548 and 1711 on a big win. You guys formed an awesome alliance. 1023's ability to consistently put up 3 capped six stacks was awesome and I know that 548 was on the top of our pick list if we would have qualified higher.

Thanks to team 85 BOB for choosing us and to 2337 the Enginerds for rounding out our alliance. We had a lot of potential and I was hopeful when we came out of the gate with 208 in octo #5 but we never seemed to click as well after that.

Congrats to all the teams that made it to MSC. There was still a lot of talented teams that did not get to play in the finals. I look forward to seeing all the Michigan teams in St Louis.

[Tungrus]

Congrats to all teams who competed at FiM District Championship. Hats off to 15 rookie teams who made it! Probably this is the first year so many rookies were competing at this event.

The event was well organized, Marjie Jenkin, Cindy Nade and others did a great job. There were no delays in quals, infact many a times they were ahead of schedule...thanks to volunteers and the teams for being on time. Field reset crew were lighening fast and have amazing stamina.

And then comes Don Bossi and the man himself Dean Kamen! Meeting them in person makes you forget that you didn't make it to elimns!

[Adam Freeman]

Originally Posted by Nyxyxylyth

it's no surprise that the two fastest grabbers ended up in the finals.

I've got a set of grabbers that would like to argue that statement.

[RonnieS]

Originally Posted by Adam Freeman

I've got a set of grabbers that would like to argue that statement.

I have a slow mo that says add carbon fiber and you should have the worlds fastest
-Ronnie

[Lisa Perez]

I cannot thank our 200+ volunteers enough. You had a bigger challenge than usual this year. Regardless, you all absolutely rocked at your roles, and I am so happy I had the opportunity to work with all of you!

[Bob Bonczyk]

I just want to Thank EVERYONE at the MSC for the great time!!!!!!!