Best Matches/Moments of 2016

[Kherda0]

One of my best personal moments was the blackout at the Rock City Regional in Little Rock this year. It was not neccwhat I was looking for in a memorable senior year, but it was still worth every hour of it.

[AveryLevin.]

Originally Posted by wajirock

Seeing my team, 2052, shoot over a 54 inch blocker for the first time was pretty exciting.

Another exciting match was Quals 20 from Newton. It was a pretty strong match up with 118 on Blue going against 16 and 1477 on Red, but what made it interesting was that 118 stopped moving shortly after autonomous. They came back to life 50 seconds later, and the Blue alliance ended up winning by 1 point.

*sigh* My team was in the match with 118. We are the red alliance robot that was stuck near the portcullis for most of the match. *another sigh* I am to blame for our robot's malfunction and, subsequently, the loss. Being the team's lead programmer, I was asked to create an autonomous sequence to go breach the portcullis and shoot a high goal. LET THE NEXT SENTENCE BE A WARNING TO ALL PROGRAMMERS . One line in the code was missing a semicolon, causing the robot to get stuck in a loop, ruining the entire match. My missed keystroke is to blame for that close match (we didn't have time to test the auto code so it was never discovered).

[Dan Waxman]

Originally Posted by AveryLevin.

*sigh* My team was in the match with 118. We are the red alliance robot that was stuck near the portcullis for most of the match. *another sigh* I am to blame for our robot's malfunction and, subsequently, the loss. Being the team's lead programmer, I was asked to create an autonomous sequence to go breach the portcullis and shoot a high goal. LET THE NEXT SENTENCE BE A WARNING TO ALL PROGRAMMERS . One line in the code was missing a semicolon, causing the robot to get stuck in a loop, ruining the entire match. My missed keystroke is to blame for that close match (we didn't have time to test the auto code so it was never discovered).

It happens to the best of us haha. If it's any consolation it made the match a lot more entertaining than just another 118 win.

[Wayne Doenges]

Originally Posted by Jay O'Donnell

#1 alliance on Hopper (1678, 148, 364) had a few triple hangs.

Yes, but that was a picked alliance. Ours was a computer generated, random alliance during Quals.
But congrats to them.

[TheBoulderite]

Newton Finals. I still don't understand how 217 managed to pull out an upset win over a 1241-254 combo.

Or Curie eliminations. Only reverse perfect bracket in history.

[prozack19]

team 1712 of the blue alliance had been flipped over in quarter 3 match 3 at the MAR district championship. Not being able to right themselves their robot literally crawled away to avoid getting a penalty for blocking the tower. This is a moment I will probably remember for a while.

https://youtu.be/z6K9Nt-0ZJU

[Tyler Olds]

I forgot to mention on this thread that if you are interested to see which matches we highlighted off of this list starting with regionals/districts here: https://youtu.be/b6Eu5WSyw3M?t=1748

Thanks to everyone who posted