2006 Great Lakes Reigonal

[DjAlamose]

I had to leave early but there was quite a bit going on today even though it was only Thursday. The first thing I noticed was there were quite a few veteran teams not playing today, but I can see why because of this year’s complex game. Also there were allot of high scoring matches, 540, 662, 487, and matches like that (seriously I thought they had that fixed). And autonomous was dominated by only a few teams.
Teams that looked great:
Triplets: All three of them looked great, especially 1114 which scored 10/10 in auto one match and went on to make 23 shots !
201 FEDS: they have a robot similar to 223 (pink) and were looking good when I left
1528 I-Pirates: Also looking good with quite a few goals during the day.
66 B22 Flyers: Amazing robot with allot of scoring capabilities.
1 Juggernauts: Did see it shooting for the high goal at all today but it was amazing with the lower goals.
322 FIRE: Great little side goal robot that cleared the field of balls just about every time, although it can get a bit tippy when depositing balls into the goal if balls get under it.
47 CD: They were just getting into the game late in the day. Although I was surprised to see different drivers from the Teaser

These were just a few of the robots that stuck out in my mind. I was also surprised to see some vets like 67 only out once today and not make a single shot! But knowing them it will be fixed and working great by tomorrow. There weren’t as many robots falling over today which surprised me allot! And one last thing id like to note is that defense wasn’t as harsh as other Regionals (it is only Thursday though). Allot of backbot penalties today would have been given and then there was a huge difference in the time between when the buzzers sounded and when the periods actually changed. But this is shaping up to be one great competition.