Best Robots Not To Qualify For Champs

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Originally Posted by BrendanB

From New England, 2877 & 3467 were two very capable machines who fell short of qualify for St. Louis. Ligerbots had a solid autonomous program aiding them in autonomous as well as teleop and Windham started peaking at the DCMP with 7-9 high goals. We had a very capable field who qualified but its a reality of the district system is that a lot of good robots who could find themselves in the elimination rounds in St. Louis don't qualify.

Thanks for the mention! Our robot performed fairly well at our first two events, but by NE Champs the sprockets in our tread-based drive system had worn to the point where the chain of our treads came off every match, and left us immobile for most games. We managed to fix this for the post-season (as can be seen from our performance at BattleCry), but by the end of NE Champs we were Rank 63 and didn't make it to Worlds by just a few spots.

Windham definitely had it rough as well, as they missed Worlds by just one spot with a fully functioning robot. As a scout during NE Champs, I remember being shocked by just how bad their luck was for alliances during Qualification matches.