Great Lakes Regional!

[Quatitos]

Originally Posted by Beth Sweet

99.9% sure it wasn't topped at GLR, but someone in the first week got one in the 90's.

Yeah, I think it was like 98, they had all the goals capped but got a ten point penalty.

[TmWr2006]

To get the standings straight, The first seed was 1. Number 2 was team 66 and closely followed by hot. I am unsure of 68. I know that 66 picked 67 and then picked 68. Thanks and congrats to all teams at GLR. 66, 67, 68: Great ALLIANCE!

[65_Xero_Huskie]

Originally Posted by Not2B

That's what I thought.... We didn't think it was possible either. The students were looking at the schedule on Friday morning and came to me saying that we were going to get smacked around on Sat morning... It sounds like there are MANY problems with the results, so I won't feel to bad.

yea, the juggernauts ( #1 seed ) were ranked 7-1-1 so 66 couldnt have been 9-0-0, just to let everyone know. But 66 was the best robot there, 67 was a close 2nd, and id like to give props up to 279 for the hurder.

[Chriszuma]

Originally Posted by TmWr2006

To get the standings straight, The first seed was 1. Number 2 was team 66 and closely followed by hot. I am unsure of 68. I know that 66 picked 67 and then picked 68. Thanks and congrats to all teams at GLR. 66, 67, 68: Great ALLIANCE!

Heh, my bad. I knew that 66 and 67 had picked each other, I just had the order wrong. I do know that we were pretty far down the list though. It really wasn't until the finals that we got our strategy and driving working so exceptionally.

[Adam11]

Originally Posted by ttedrow

Can somebody help me out to understand this. How do three teams ranked in the top eight end up on the same alliance for the elimination rounds. On the FIRST website for the GLR, Team 67 was rank 1st, 66 was 3rd and 68 was 6th and ended up on the same alliance.

Actually....68 wasn't ranked 6th before going into the elimination rounds. the FIRST website was wrong. We were actually ranked 26th place before being picked. Hot just did some really good scouting

[ne0x0n]

Thanks Mech Warriors and Huskies it was a hard hit to go from #1 seed to dropped right out of the semi finals two first matches lol, but thats ok i was just glad to be there. Thoes last couple matches of the finals were amazing cant wait for buckeye and atlanta =) thanks everyone for putting up good fights made it all the more fun =p

[Moloch]

Thanks to team #1 for choosing #1254 for the semi finals. I was one of the drivers for 1254, and it was a heartbreking loss. This was my first year in FIRST, and one of the best experiences of my life. This was the only even that we could afford, and we were glad that we were choosen into a #1 seed! Exciting stuff!

[Tamster548]

Shout out to Teams 85 (Zeeland) and 503 (Novi)! You guys were awesome alliances - thanks for picking us!

[Btower]

A shout out to you, #548, for bringing the best media coverage I've seen at any regional.

Ben

[donhoshow86]

I would also like to say thanks to the Mech Warriors and Huskies for putting up a good fight. Hopefully we will get to play a match with one of you again.

[TheShadow]

Thanks to everyone for the congrats, and to 67 and 68 for working with us. I do have to say that I was hoping we would face off against 322 in the finals, as our teams have a good relationship, and they have a great bot this year. The last match was really a nail-bitter while waiting on the ruling from the judges. See everyone at Western Mich. and Nats!

[kenz9000]

Originally Posted by Chriszuma

With regards to the question of rankings, the ones on the website are totally wrong. 67 was ranked 2, and picked 66, who was ranked 3. 68 was ranked around 26-ish.
Also, even though we had two teams in the top 3, remember that the rankings aren't actually that representative of ability. Alliances, technical difficulties, and inoperable opposition can all attribute to a highly inflated or deflated ranking. If they wanted to, the top ranked could pick the two directly below them, but it wouldn't necessarily be a good alliance.

no, team 1 was first, 66 was second and picked 67, who was 3rd, got it mixed up, not that it matters, 67 was gonna pick 66 anyways.

[Alex Cormier]

so is there any pictures of the winning alliance's bots?

[XtremeEagle04]

We at team 326 would just like to thank our alliance partners for doing a great job. Just for clarification as to the dropping mechanism that several people have posted about on our robot. Yes we did stack 4 tetras simultaneously during practice. just as a heads up we will be trying for 6 or more during practice at nats, look out Congratz to the winning alliance 66, 67, and 68 you all had great bots and deserved the win GL to all. 66 was real close to capping the center goal and i have a feeling that its going to happen either western michigan or nats.

Bots to look out for:

322
279
66
67
68
280

[dan 322]

Originally Posted by TheShadow

Thanks to everyone for the congrats, and to 67 and 68 for working with us. I do have to say that I was hoping we would face off against 322 in the finals, as our teams have a good relationship, and they have a great bot this year. The last match was really a nail-bitter while waiting on the ruling from the judges. See everyone at Western Mich. and Nats!

I knew we would either be in the finals against or with 66 as usual. That was an awesome battle. Your alliance was a tuff one, no doubt. I'm sure we will both be picking again at the Western, hopefully we end together this time.