2005 Lonestar Regional Awards, Congratulations all teams!

[Jverdon]

Originally Posted by Stud Man Dan

We are sorry they broke, this never was our intention we did not mean for them to tip. But as far as being disabled in the second matchif I remember correctly 57 drove straight into a goal during the autonomous mode, and was stuck there for the rest of the match.

They were not stuck and got out and were able to try to play defense. Unfortunitly it was not enough and we were not able to win the match with only one capper.

On the note of penalties there were not many called I think it was 118 that knocked over some tetras off the loading zone and did not get the penalty called.

Thanks to all the teams at Lone Star and we hope to see you in Atlanta.

[MasonMM]

118 did knock some tetras off the auto loader, but we were always touching the HDPE triangle making it legal to interact with the tetras on the auto loader... except for one case when a tetra we were holding bumped into another tetra that was on the auto loader while we were trying to get into a capping position, which meant we were not touching the HDPE, and the tetra we were holding was considered part of our robot, so we got the 10 point penalty that we deserved. That was our first and only penalty this season. A rule clarification our drivers had to learn the hard way.

[Kevin Sevcik]

Hey all,

So I was the coach for 57, and I'd like to clear a few things up. I did feel that 1255's defense was a bit rough at times, but they were called for it, so that's been and done. To any interested, the fall actually broke a welded seam on our tower. Luckily, we've gotten it rewelded and that system will still be 100% for the Championships.

The second round, there was a miscommunication on the team and our automode was set to straight forward instead of nothing. I don't believe we managed to get out of the goal, as we got high-centered on the base of our tower.

Finally, our arm was giving us problems before that. We'd managed to break a retaining plate earlier in the regional, and that was giving us some problems. The fall exacerbated the problems and our globe motor gave out to boot, so we ended up planning on being an all defensive bot in the last match.

Thanks to 364 and 660 for allying with us. Y'all were great and we're sorry to let ya down. We'll be looking for ya at Champs and next year's Lone Star.

[GB330033]

Yeah, we were rough, and we know it. Heck, it's all we could do. However, we had no intention of breaking yalls arm, or even tipping yall, we just wanted to keep you from capping the center. It was 1083 that let us in on the fact that yall had casters, which meant yall could spin. That's what we were trying to do, we're sorry it ended the way it did. You guys and 364 carried us to a win in our first qualifying match, so we definately wished no ill will. Good luck in the championship!