97's BAE Media (Pics and Video of 13 Rounds)

[ZZII 527]

Seeing as the 18.X.X.X block of IP addresses is pretty sturdy, Team 97 has put up a bunch of video from our trip to BAE. You can find it here:

http://web.mit.edu/first/www

Of course, most of the time the camera is pointed in our direction, but you can see many of the other bots on our alliance and the opposition alliance. We'd also like to congratulate some of the teams that make their strength known in our videos:

Team 190 and Team 241 - You guys aided in one of our most fun and successful rounds (Round 4) . 190's amazing drive system made them a defensive nightmare for the other teams and allowed us, with help from 241, to strategically create a red "triangle" worth 30 row points.

Team 88 and Team 246 - As far as I know, our alliance (Round 6) holds the record for highest score (70) during qualification rounds at BAE (somebody hit 79 in playoffs). Most of these points were due to you guys as we were playing defense!

Team 501 - You were probably the fastest, strongest, and most feared defensive bot out there, and the only one able to flip us. (Round 8) Congratulations on your Chairman's Award win!

Team 125 - You guys played some deadly defense against us in Round 7 and Round 9.

Team 562 and 1027 - We had an amazing alliance in Round 10. We were up against some of the top playoff teams and we still managed to pull out an extremely exciting win. (We and 562 did not make the playoffs, but were the top two hot swaps and I'm glad 562 got into the finals...they really deserved it.) We could have went in together as playoff alliance 9 and taken the whole thing!

Again, congrats to all the BAE teams for a great competition!

[MattB703]

Thanks for posting these great video clips. This will help us teams who did not get to go to his week's regional events to plan our strategy.

Thanks.

[jeremy562]

Thanks for the kind words, 97!

While we were really surprised at not being picked (12th seed, c'mon!), we were glad to have a chance (in the very LAST round!) to compete in the finals. Congrats to 175 (BUZZ) and their alliance for making to the finals.

[Darwin695]

Yes, many thanks from team 8 as well...
The nasa webcasts can be so hard to deal with these days...