Favorite Team Moments

[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!)