Favorite Team Moments

[FiMFanatic]

My favorite moment was when one of our mentors was adjusting the robot, it moved, and it grabbed her wind pants and ripped a large portion off.

No injuries and no highly inappropriate "viewage", but was really funny - especially since she was once a safety captain!

[Knufire]

MSC 2010 Finals. Those were some nailbiter matches.

[JEE89]

For my team it was the win at Pioneer Valley at 2015. My first ever event I participated in, and the first time my team has ever made it to playoffs, we won, as alliance captain nonetheless. Mentors were crying, lots of hugging, it was the absolute best feeling ever.

Although, it has unlocked a need for another blue banner deep within me and it is insatiable.

[TAlholm]

Being a part of the drive team when 1991 was the 7th seed captain at Groton in 2014. Upsetting the 2nd seed, 3rd seed, and the 4th seed in the finals. Waiting for the score after a rubber match was a sureal moment and the most memorable.

That and learning our team got an invite to worlds in 2016 after being on the waitlist.

Yet another, learning Solidworks with friends.

[TheBoulderite]

For me, it's either when our team won the Chairman's Award for the first time in our history at the Arizona North Regional or upsetting the #2 seed in the 2016 Carson quarterfinals as the captain of the #7 seed. The first was a pretty awesome moment, the second were two very intense matches.

[Bkeeneykid]

While technically not in my time on 1982, it's become an infamous moment in our history, and is still told to today. Supposedly, in 2009, we were #1 all the way up to our very last qualification match. As I'm told, about 2 minutes into the match, another robot fell down onto our robot, expertly hitting our robot breaker and disabling us for the rest of the match. This is still on of our biggest design criteria because of this event.

Oh, and that time we got picked by the #3 alliance at CowTown throw down, from having a nonfunctional robot the day before. That was cool too.

[M217]

My favorite 3419 memory from this season would definitely have to be upsetting alliance 3 as alliance 6 on Carver this year.

I think alliance 3 were definitely the favorites going into Carver eliminations (it's hard to top a combination of Team RUSH, Simbotics, and The Rocketeers, and they also had a very well-built and well-driven substitute in Team 5924 The Cat Machine) but our alliance managed to hold out over 2 matches. Our robot didn't have a blocker and our driver had literally never played defense before, but we knew we couldn't keep up with them offensively so it was pretty much our only option. And it worked!

Of course, immediately after that, we were thoroughly trounced in the semifinals by the eventual champions, but the glory was fantastic while it lasted .

[WinterPoet]

My very favorite moment would have to be winning the Spirit Award. Seeing the team slowly realize that those little hints were about us was so fulfilling. It was the first award our team won, and it was a really great way for the seniors to end the year.

My second favorite moment (and a close second at that!) happened at our second competition last year. Another team presented a video about their team loyalty and how much they bonded, and by the end of it I was sobbing and hugging every teammate in site. My family situation can be rocky, so it really hit me how much I loved having my robotics family, and knowing they were always going to be there for me.

[Connor McBride]

My top two favorite moments:

1. Winning Chairman's at the 2016 UNH district event. Our chairman's team graduated in 2015 so winning the award was a very emotional moment.

2. Bringing Chop Shop to it's first regular season finals appearance (alliance captain!) (we lost ). This happened at the 2016 Pinetree district event. Another emotional moment for us.

[Trevor1523]

My favorite moment on 1523 had to have been Roboticon 2015.

We were regional finalists in Orlando, event finalists at Mission Mayhem, and event finalists at Panther Prowl. Two of those times we were finalists against 2384 and 179, us being paired with 2383, so there was a lot of rivalry between 2384 and 2383.

We made it to the finals, going up against 179 and 2384 for the third time this season. We won the first match, they won the second. Then... for the third something crazy happened. It took ages for the scores to be released. Then, they came up, I was praying we would win, and take home the gold, and we tied. 180-180 in Recycle Rush. I have never seen anything like it.

1523 had no batteries left (thinking it was the last match), so we actually had to borrow 2383's battery. And with 2383 powering 1523, we managed to win the regional. I don't think there has ever been a time where i've felt so many emotions. It was absolutely awesome... Huge thanks to 2383 and 2797 for such an awesome event.

Here's Finals 3; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-NNY3vXMx0

Finals 4; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY_keqmAAO8

[MailmanDelivers]

My favorite moment is hard to decide. It was an awesome traveling to Worlds for the 2015 season, but it was amazing walking down on stage at WPI DCMP knowing we had won one of NEs District Chairmans. Each one everyone on the team was overfilled with joy as we had made it to Worlds and even were an alliance captain on the Newton Field.

Seeing our robot work it's full potential at offseason events after devasting robot failures throughout the season and DCMP this year was also amazing.

It's hard to decide what the best moments are as I can think of many as being on a robotics team is just simply awesome.

[rlounds]

For me, my favourite moment would have to be at the Waterloo regional, during qualifications one of the gears in our gearbox got completely stripped and we had a 2 match turn around.
The next match we played was alongside team 148, all they excepted us to do was start in the spybox and move onto the batter. We went on to do 7 low goal cycles, winning the match by 47 points.

That's also tied with when we held the regional high score in North Bay for 35 matches although we were tied for that score 12 matches after ours.

In short, we played some great matches with great teams this year.

[fargus111111111]

My 2 favorite moments were; number one, the quaterfinals in Huntsville in 2016 where we tied two times in a row and each alliance won one of the ties because each match had one penalty, and number two, in a offseason event in 2014, the event decided to go with the elimination alliance structure used at champs where there was 4 robots on an alliance and during the semifinals we asked if our third pick was ready to play to which they responded, "do you have a screwdriver?" They did not play in the next match, but in the final match they were able to play, they were a rookie team with just a driving base so we put them to defense and, though the refs were pretty lax, they managed to keep all three blue alliance robots busy without incurring massive penalties and we were allowed to cycle the balls with almost no interference. That is such a fun match to watch because throughout the match there was a major 3 vs 1 battle going on and 1 was winning.

[Billfred]

Which team?

1293 (2004-2006): Definitely knocking off 1319, the sitting #1 seed of Palmetto 2004, with a window motor drive box on wheels. And after that, bowling with 433 and 393 that came from Pennsylvania and Indiana, respectively.
1618 (2007-2009): Palmetto 2007, being the beneficiary of The Algorithm (old-timers know...) that kept pairing us with a fantastic 1251 enough to make us the #8 alliance captain. None of us had ever done that. Truth be told, none of my teams have ever ended up as one since. (Honorable mention: We did Chesapeake 2008 instead of Palmetto, and since it was USC's break my girlfriend and I spent the first half of the week in New York. We then met the team in Washington, where we hopped on the bus...to the kids singing old wrestling theme songs. You've never heard Shawn Michaels' music quite like that.)
2815 (2009-2013): Gah, this is hard. Arriving with a bang in 2009, medaling for the first time at Palmetto and winning RAS. The first regional win at Peachtree 2011 as the coach, when we had no business being picked. The next one one week later at Palmetto, when we had more business being picked but we're a BLT what the hell? The first year of SCRIW, complete with helping Exploding Bacon get from the train station to the school. That backup win at Palmetto 2012, which took us from unpicked to punching our ticket to St. Louis again.
4901 (2014-): 4901 was literally 24 hours from not happening--that's how close the rookie year funding was. They formed two weeks before SCRIW that year with a borrowed drivetrain and a robot built out of 2x4s I bankrolled myself that shook itself apart after about two matches (okay, like four but we didn't move the first couple). It was still a small team, seven kids by Kickoff if I remember correctly. To get picked by SPAM and Bionic Tigers at Orlando was thrill enough, but then to win the whole freaking Orlando Regional was beyond anyone's dreams. Getting cheered by 4451 as we pushed our toolboxes back to the pits was icing on the cake. (Honorable mention: The surprise going away party they organized behind my back was prit-ty slick!)

[Kevin Leonard]

Getting completely trounced is terrible, and winning by a lot is fun- but neither compares to a really good close win or loss.

My favorite moments in FRC aren't the 2012 Granite State Regional where we weren't selected, nor is it our 2013 Connecticut Regional where we went undefeated, but instead the regionals we barely eked out a win, or lost by the closest of margins.

The 2014 Tech Valley Regional is my favorite event of all time, followed by IRI 2016, TVR 2016, and FLR 2014 for this reason.

2014 TVR we won finals in three matches, after having to entirely remove a wheel from our robot between finals 2 and 3.

IRI and TVR 2016 we won and lost some exciting close matches/sets, and FLR 2014 we narrowly beat 341 and 2791 in semifinals to go on to win the event.