Predictions for UTC New England Regional

[Rick]

i took 173's comments as a lashing out at us. i apoligize for all the trouble i started. i dont want to make any enemies with any team. i was mearly defending my team on what i thought was a hostile remark. I was out of line and will no longer say anything even close to what i posted. 173 and company did a great job. both our alliances had to be great to get through to the championship rounds of UTC the largest and most experienced regional ever. again i sincerly apoligize for what i said. i will be taking my medication in the future and evaluationg what I post in the future. Again no hard feelings we will see you guys in nationals and next year at utc. (just dont set our pit on fire )

i remember watching practice and saying "uh-oh they are going to be hard to beat" my teamates can vouch for that. i was suprised how well you guys handled balls and a goal and how you didn't fall over ever even though it seemed like you might. great robot and i just hope it doesn't get any better because then it will be unstoppable.

[Joel J]

Originally posted by Pat Bogard
I've been reading this thread for the last few hours and have watched this thread develop. I think whats been said is enough..whats happening is team bashing and soon someone is gonna regret what they said. They finals were a great match between 2 strong alliances, it just happened one came out on top and the other didn't. Both sides can sit here all night and bash eachother but is that really what this is about...no its not. So before anything worse is said lets just stop and leave it on the field. Gracious professionalism isnt just for the field, its for here to, and right now in this thread there is none. Both sides played their hearts out and what is happening here is tainting the experience that was shared by 60+ teams this weekend

Pat
Operator and President
Team 103 Cybersonics

I'm gonna agree with you, as it was never my intention to bash any other team...as stated in my original post "..we are neither dissapointed, nor angry; after all, this has been our best year so far." It seems as though this whole thing got started based on a really bad interpretation of my post, or really bad sarcasm on ricksta's part. In either case I wish for this to be over with; as brian said "whats done is done."

[STonn]

Congratulations to all of the teams in the UTC finals - our partners 69 and 103, and the regional finalists with 88, 173, and 195. When a championship goes to three matches, it's always exciting and of course extremely competitive. I left that day feeling that this regional final had been one of the most amazing in terms of quality of competition and teamwork. Again, congratulations to ALL teams who participated at UTC - you were incredible. Let's keep this a positive experience!

As for repairs, we have a few of our own
We drove in the last two matches of the finals with gaping holes in the thresher which I'm glad still worked. We lost a roller and actually drove the last match with it barely in place so my fingers were crossed. So I'm sure you'll see us working in the pits on practice day in Florida!

~Synthia Tonn
Driver, Team 121

in response to 88's post....




hey man, nobodys doing any bashing anymore except for you...... and 173 thanks for clarifying what you mean, and we do realize that there was a bit of an overreaction to your comment, my apologies for that


there really shouldnt be any blood like this out here and if you really do have a great robot it shouldnt matter if you won, people will notice, same thing if you dont have a good robot and you win, people will once again, notice....
also let me clarify a few things..... im not going to argue with you about the details of things.... but im not sure where you get off saying we have no pushing power, we do have 4 wheel drive...... and we did pull two goals and one of your alliance robots across the field
also the drivers are under a lot of pressure and its easy to make mistakes in strategy, everybody does
we happened to be lucky to have some really great drivers, i agree that 69s drivers were awesome, and we also had some great communication
we happened to need this win to help us get funding to go to florida, unfortunately we dont have a financial sponsor like many other teams and we cant afford to do everything that we want to

by the way did you get that side panel back on?

also im sorry that you have lost respect for us..... you did say that you ranted in your teams defense, i think thats exactly what we did and we already apologized for it... if we all apologize maybe we can all forgive each other.... a lot of us are pretty tired still and maybe not thinking as clearly as we should be

by the way, one girl on your team was pretty rude to us about the seats, im not going to get into that, i dont really care, but im just saying a lot of times a team member can make the whole team look bad, nobody is perfect, and first competitions are passionate times

also i have no idea what the theory about beatty and us is.... none of us have heard it

and its really rough telling someone that they arent the best team, especially if they won..... we know that we may not be the best, but trust me it was not just luck that got as us far as we did

and im sorry my teammate seemingly bashed your team.... you really werent high on our list though, and that doesnt mean you dont have a good robot, we just valued the qualities of our alliances much more...... and we worked REALLY hard on scouting

[Jeff Rodriguez]

Oh man, funny stuff.
Anyway, i think you guys had the second best ball bot there, only behind 95, and you know what they are. i love how you use the basket thing as a backboard for the human players. I'm callin for a rematch in Nats., but as long as there is no bad blood. i think if we played each other again, same teams and all, it would come out tied. We have some new strategy and im sure you guys do to. Congratulations <-- is that spelled right, i was never good at that

173, come by our pits in fl and we'll give you some gummi sharks to prove there no bad blood

and what rick said about us being threatened by your bot was true, it really is refined

95 is awesome too, nobody else can pick up balls like them

[Mack]

Hey Everyone....

I just want to say great job to ALL the teams at UTC. No matter who won, every team performed fantastically and deserves to be commended. I know that our bot didnt leave unscathed, proof that the opposition was fierce. As far as this argument goes... why dosnt everyone just forget who pushed harder and grabbed better, and concentrate on doing their best to ready themselves for nationals. I know we will be....

Great job to all the finalists again, and special thanks to 69 and 103.

[D@ve]

i've been doing this for 7 long years and have been waiting for some good rivalry ,,and trash talking ...but reamember its all in good fun ....

Great job to all the finalists and a special thanks to 69 and 103

[soap108]

Originally posted by Ricksta121
108 knows what they are talking about.

Remember that at EPCOT should we be in same division.

KA-108

[Joe Menassa]

D@ve is right- this is all in good fun. I especially had a lot of fun in CT and I can't wait to do it all over again in FL. Myself and team 121 learned so much from competing at UTC and I know this is the same for all other teams. The experience was awsome and it taught us a lot for FL.

no woriries guys, no worries

[Todd Derbyshire]

Ok I apologize for my comments for I saw Ricksta comments as an attack on my team and for all purposes 121 you didn't drag us in any of the matches. We will see in Florida what happens either in our division or on Einstein for the whole thing! Don't worry we don't take your whole criticizing our robot as bad because we were high on a bunch of other picking teams. So you in Florida no worries no worries remember

I never said we actually pushed your robot..... just your alliance teams...... and I'm not saying this out of the blue, merely to defend your statement that we have no pushing power

i am rather confused about the basis of that statement.....im sure we dont have the best pushing power, but its more than decent, 4 wheel drive usually is..... especially when its used to drag a robot sideways and 2 goals across the feild, we did do that in the elims

we are proud of our robot, and its success..... and we know that theres always a lot of luck involved in the competitions..... on a different day in a different place with a different order and a different alliance, something else might have happened, but we dont know do we?

anyway, come by our pits in florida and we can exchange a hug or something.... and just to prove theres no hard feelings we will make sure you get a gummi shark

Becky

[Greg Perkins]

Who saw our team 151 get flipped up on its back? i thought that that should have been the best play right there. but i guess you voters thought that 166 did a better job righting us, but it was certianly exiting to see.


Badjokeguy

[Kyle Fenton]

Congratulations to all of the UTC teams. All of you were awesome. Lots of 100's. I want to especially thank team 103 and 69. You were both awesome and played really good.

173 and 88, you took some of our comments way too seriously. Its a game, you got second, you should be proud of yourselves.

Florida is on the horizon, I'm sure that we will all get which division we will be in a couple of days or so.