2005 Lonestar Regional Awards, Congratulations all teams!

[Andrew Schuetze]

Originally Posted by MasonMM

Thank you so much, but we couldn't have won the robot competition without the help of our awesome alliance partners. I have to say, it was a great few final rounds. Very competitive teams, and great consistency across all the bots.

A big thank you goes out to team 118, winning alliance captian, for selecting our team to be the third alliance partner. This is our fifth year competing and it is taking us a while to reach the competitive level. The major emphasis on wins and loses in the rankings this year caused our capable robot to be low in the standings at the end of the qualifying rounds. As the lead sponsor, I had told the team on Friday night that if we continued to compete that our team might get the attention of an alliance captian.

So thanks for noticing us and it was great to play good strong, legal, defense for you and team 231. (We are still penalty free remains one of the top five reasons to select team 499 for an alliance) The action was just amazing. Three robots per side yielded so much action that it was hard to keep track of the stacks and rows. The automodes and driver action of 118 and 231 was terrific. Our driver, Gilbert, was all over the mid-court pushing and shoving