2007 Great Lakes Regional, Best Ever?

[KTorak]

Originally Posted by Bongle

Big props to alliance 8 for putting up the biggest fight of any underdog so far, despite being the 8th alliance.

Edit: In fact, they put up the biggest score of ANY alliance, excluding alliance #1 itself.

Thanks. We knew that Alliance #1 was our biggest competition. We we're quite shocked at the outcome of the matches actually. But it just goes to show how a spoiler can dramatically change the outcome of a match. Also, I may be wrong, but I think we had the highest score of 256 points during a eliminations match, although I may be wrong on that one.

I have to say that I think our alliance proved how rank has no real showing. Our team was seeded around 40ish. However, we got selected to be an alliance partner, mainly for our ramps, but we ended up not even using them. I think the key to this game is solid offense performance and critical placement of the spoiler.

Also, I'm interested in the selection of my team. It appeared as if other alliances were hoping to choose us because when 494 chose us (much to our surprise....we had no idea they were interested in our robot) that other alliance captains began to frantically shuffle papers and what not. But maybe it's just my imagination...

Thanks to everyone for their help and congratulations to everyone. GLR was a great regional and I hope Boilermaker can bring on the heat next weekend! Also, maybe we can finally get that regional win and we'll see everyone down in Atlanta this April.