Recorded can burglar times and special thanks after CMP

[Jared Russell]

The sting of defeat goes away when you watch your friends succeed. As soon as we saw that 118 and 1678 managed to land 1671 with their second pick (were Newton scouts napping...?), we knew that you were the favorites. What an alliance.

118, you have provided the FIRST world with immeasurable inspiration through the years, and it is fantastic to see you finally get to the top of the mountain with your incredible machine. I was having horrific flashbacks to 2012 when I saw you were having some comms issues, but you powered through and did what it took to win.

1678, what else can I say? Your team and all of its accomplishments are proof that the competition aspect of FRC holds such amazing power to change the world. Yes, you have blue banners and trophies...but anyone who has ever been on an alliance with 1678, or any of the countless teams whose robots have been improved by Citrus Circuits, or anyone who has watched you receive GP award after GP award, or anyone who has ever talked to your students, knows that your rise to dominance has dragged behind it a wake of inspiration and improvement in everything and everyone you touched along the way.

1671, what a steal you were! Your robot has more than doubled in effectiveness since CVR, and you were the key piece of the puzzle that set this alliance apart.

5012, while you may have been on the sidelines, your pragmatic approach to the game and willingness to do anything to win will pay incredible dividends for your team.

[Abhishek R]

This alliance was full of inspiration for me.

118 - Best team I have ever seen, hands down. I've had the opportunity to work closely with all of their students, and their team is nothing short of amazing. Cheering them on was the highlight of this championship for me, their win was long overdue.

1678 - In 2013, 624 failed to qualify for the world championships. I had TBA up on my TV, and I was watching all 4 fields intently, from my house. When it came around to the Curie alliance selections, I saw what looked like one of the coolest logos in FIRST in the number one alliance captain position - it was the Citrus Circuits. Immediately afterwards, they must have gone through 3 or 4 of the biggest names in the field, who all declined them, choosing to form their own alliances. 1678 fought hard, and made it to Einstein anyway that year. The next year, they came into CMP as an assisting machine, locking up the number one seed, cruising onto Einstein again, proving 2013 was no fluke. Then in 2015, they're back again, with the most dominating can grabbers to take the field this year! To see how quickly they've rose to the challenge is really inspiring, and this Championship win was well deserved.

1671 - What an awesome robot. To imagine they almost missed out on CMP this year...I really wanted to see that autonomous in action though. They were the lock holding the alliance together, quietly putting up their 42 point stacks in the background. I enjoyed watching 1671 compete at Sacramento and still can't get over how they were able to pick you up on that alliance...

5012 - Beautiful looking bot with an awesome team behind it. I'm sure big things will be coming from the Gryffingear House soon!

[Citrus Dad]

Jake has said most of what I would say. I'd like to add just a couple of extra notes.

A shout out to Lucien, mentor on 118. This is the first time that we've gotten to sit in on another team's drafting and strategy session. Lucien ran an entertaining and productive draft session that kept the students fully engaged. Wow!

And to 1671. Amazingly this is the first time we have been allied with them despite facing them twice a year every year. That we could get the robot as our 2nd pick that we most feared in our division was truly amazing. Along with 118, 1671 and us had gone 1-2-3 in qualifying in Sacramento. (Why didn't the announcer call us the "Sacramento Power Alliance?") Birdbrains had improved tremendously over the season, and they were willing to take risks. They went for the win in Sacramento rather than just trying to reach the finals, and fortunately they qualified through Chairmen's. And again on Newton they risked added an auton which would have made them formidable. Just ran out of time. They were able to get back to their Sacramento configuration and we were off. We never had to bring out our cheesecake. (And I talk about 5012 in their thank you thread.) We have been working more closely with 1671 and look forward to an even better relationship.

[falconmaster]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMEb661Rqr0

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by falconmaster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMEb661Rqr0

2 bins.... And you could've done more!

[Rangel(kf7fdb)]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

2 bins.... And you could've done more!

yup.... I think it's a good lesson for us that we need to analyze the game better for the highest level. This contraption was designed and built in about 3 weeks and even then we were building the second at competition and still dialing in. Maybe an elastic powered tape measure and designing the robot to take 4 would have been a better strategy week 1 of build season but this was a fun Hail Mary that might have worked out with a bit more luck.

[AWoL]

No data on 225? I'm interested to find out how fast our canburglar is, as we hadn't timed it since MAR Champs, and it had been sped up by about 200ms since then...well we have 240fps from a mentor's iPhone of every match that we used the canburglar in so I'll have to take a look.

[themccannman]

Originally Posted by AWoL

No data on 225? I'm interested to find out how fast our canburglar is, as we hadn't timed it since MAR Champs, and it had been sped up by about 200ms since then...well we have 240fps from a mentor's iPhone of every match that we used the canburglar in so I'll have to take a look.

I actually did get you on video but you were in one of the clips I accidentally deleted. I don't remember your exact speed but you and 67 were very close, within a couple of frames IIRC.

[AWoL]

Originally Posted by themccannman

I actually did get you on video but you were in one of the clips I accidentally deleted. I don't remember your exact speed but you and 67 were very close, within a couple of frames IIRC.

Ah ok, thanks, that's fun to know