Top 3 Days in your Team's History

[Nate Edwards]

I was talking to my mentor yesterday on the way up to the Portland Regional. I named the day before (Friday, we went 6-1) the 3rd best day in the history of WATSON Team 957. So I made a challenge to my team to make that day the best day in WATSON History. So we did. We won the Chairman's Award and finished 3rd in the Quallification rounds. I have thought it would be cool to see what teams thought their top 3 days were (Whether they are in competition, an award they got, a important breakthrough in design, a cool presentation etc....) So I hope other teams can post theirs on here and here is my teams "Top 3 Days in WATSON History" As of 3/13/05.

1. 3/12/05 WATSON Robotics Wins Chairman's Award for 2nd Time. We had our highest ranking ever as we ended in 3rd place after qualification rounds.. We got picked for the 2nd alliance with local team PHRED 847, and "graciously accepted" We were very spirited and active in cheering for all teams, and with our alliance partners 847 and 753 were very close and our voices echoed throughout the arena. We lost in the Semifinals, but in the Award Ceremony came away with the most prestigious award.

2. 3/5/04 WATSON Wins Regional and Sportsmanship Award. In the same day we came away with 2 awards for the first time. We were apart of the #1 seed alliance as the 3rd pick by 492 and 1031. We breezed through with a 6-1 record in elimination rounds on our alliances way to the championship. We won the Sportsmanship Award by helping out team 1432 a team that came with basically no robot and we had them working in 4 hours. Lots of spirit as we continued on in the elimination rounds as we gathered 5 or 6 oregon teams to cheer with us.

3. 3/28/03 WATSON Wins first Regional chairman's Award. This one was special but not quite as special as the 2nd one. We won this in Seattle the last year the event was held there, and we didn't have as good of day losing in the quarterfinals paired up with local rookie teams 1087 and 1130 in the 5th alliance, we only finished in about 19th place after qualification rounds and were dominated early, but then we went on to win the Chairman's Award alreadly having a spirit award from the previous day. Overall a great week.