Peachtree District: Columbus Event

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Wow! This past weekend is a great example of why I love FIRST so much. We have had so many people and teams help us out throughout this season.

2415 You guys are truly awesome. If it wasn't for your help scouting we wouldn't have been able to win our first blue banner. We can't wait to work with you again at KSU and State Champs!

1648 Congrats on your first Chairmans win you guys deserve it! Thanks for all the help throughout this season with parts and advice. Hope we can set a higher high score at State Champs with you.

4188 It was great working with you guys this year. Your consistency carried us through eliminations. I hope we get to work with you again sometime this year!

5074 You guys filled out the alliance perfectly and did a great job adapting to our unusual strategy. If it wasn't for your quick coding during semi-finals we might not have won the finals! (PS: we have 2 of your batteries... PM me)

4026 I love you guys. Thanks for all the help through the build season and congrats on the Creativity Award!

3091 Congrats on Engineering Inspiration! If it wasn't for your team Fernbank LINKS would not have been able to do anywhere near as well for the last two years. We are proud to be a part of the JRD Alliance!

Positive:
Seating This was one of the first FRC events where seating was not a major issue or scary (GSCR). Our team was easily able to sit together and have a good view without staking out seats early in the morning.

The Voulenteers As always the volunteers were amazing and put in tons of work to run the event.

Matches 12 qualification matches really allowed all of the teams to get their robots working. With only 8 qualification matches the eliminations would have looked completely different.

Negitive:

Practice Field Not having a practice field meant that autonomous was just guess, code and hope it works. This meant that many teams were running straight into the drivers station wall.

No Outside Food I would go as far to say that this was a safety or health issue. Drive teams and pit crews were running around constantly focused on competition. When these students don't have water easily accessible they are not going to focus on finding water. I know that many people in the pits were dehydrated by the end of the day.This needs to be fixed next year.