2007 Great Lakes Regional, Best Ever?

[Beth Sweet]

From 1504, thank you sooo much to 548 & 65 for being great alliance partners! We knew you guys were going to come through when we picked you and we almost had them! Hope to see everyone at West Michigan and Atlanta!

[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.

[Kevin Sevcik]

Thank to 67 and 1114 for the great alliance. We're still sorry we let them down in the semis with our battery difficulties, it would've been a heck of an interesting match if we'd kept it together.

Also huge, huge, huge thanks to 910. They lended us their expert welder on friday to weld together our busted BB trannies so we'd have our awesome ramps actually working so well today. We'd have been completely lost today without them.

[Jack Jones]

Thanks to 33 and 322 for giving it all they had. No one expected the Bee’s run of bad luck in the quals to follow them into the elims. Not until we picked them, that is.

I prefer to look at it this way:
There were 25 teams who would have preferred to lose in the quarters, than to sit there and watch us lose. Come to think of it, there were a lot of people who would have preferred not to watch something that ugly.

[Gene Williams]

More Martians, Team 70 thanks 1596 for picking us as alliance partners along with 279. All of you did an outstanding job. I thought it would of been really cool if we would of advanced to the finals as this would of put the two Martian teams on opposing alliances. That would of been an absolute blast.

Congrats to the winning alliance you guys put on quite a show.

This Regional had some absolutely awesome robots. The designs, concepts, build quality, fit, form and function of these robots just gets better each year. These robots wowed us all. I'm impressed!!!

1596 if you still need team buttons I have tons of them, send me a mailing address.

[dan 322]

Originally Posted by Jack Jones

Thanks to 33 and 322 for giving it all they had. No one expected the Bee’s run of bad luck in the quals to follow them into the elims. Not until we picked them, that is.

I prefer to look at it this way:
There were 25 teams who would have preferred to lose in the quarters, than to sit there and watch us lose. Come to think of it, there were a lot of people who would have preferred not to watch something that ugly.

Thanks for picking us.......... It's always a smart move to pick the Bee's they are solid 99.9% of time, they just had some bad luck this weekend that they very rarely have. You guys did a great job on "D". We just missed getting our 4th ring on the last match or that probably would have been enough. That was fun though, I'm looking forward to Western.

[Jack Jones]

Originally Posted by dan 322

... You guys did a great job on "D". ...

We had our moments; but "D" is all about position, not aggression. They did not execute as we planned. Now I still don’t know if defense is key!

[Sagar Vyas]

On behalf of Team 1503, Spartonics, I would like to thank teams 1023 and 494 for being excellent alliance partners.

Congrats to the winning alliance 503, 573, 1015.

I'll be editing and uploading the videos to SOAP108 as soon as possible (Thanks to Joel J. for setting up the co-ordinated video program)

Thanks

[JoeXIII'007]

Originally Posted by SAV1337

Congrats to the winning alliance 503, 573, 1015.

I second that, and I want to personally thank 573 for sharing the fun with us 66 members that were getting excited along with them. Even though this is FIRST, you have to love winning, and especially in a heated competition as this one truly was.

This GLR was a BIG shocker, a BIG shocker... I loved it all, and makes me look forward to Buckeye. Just extremely happy we got the ramps to work once... just once... it'll be better down in Cleveland. (knocks on wood)


-Joe

[Pat Fairbank]

I would like to thank team 494 for picking us, and both them and 1023 for being awesome alliance partners. We really regret that we weren't able to fix our arm in time after it got mangled in the second match of the finals...

Congratulations to teams 573, 503 and 1015 - you guys worked together really well as an alliance, and your combined scoring and ramping power was a sight to behold.

Originally Posted by KTorak

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...

It's not your imagination - you guys were up there on our list, too.

Originally Posted by Bongle

1. 1114 - 67 - 57
2. 573 - 503 - 1015
3. 1213 - 322 - 33
4. 308 - 469 - 68
5. 494 - 1023 - 1503
6. 70 - 279 - 1596
7. 818 - 326 - 1
8. 548 - 65 - 1504

This is inferred from the match results, so it may not be entirely accurate.

The FIRST site has a minor inaccuracy - alliance #5 was 494 - 1503 - 1023.

[1596guy]

On behalf of team 1596, I would like to thank teams 70 and 279 for being the greatest alliance partners ever. You guys rocked.

Also congrats to the victors. You were amazing, and I'm proud to say that we played against you before you won.

Originally Posted by Gene Williams

1596 if you still need team buttons I have tons of them, send me a mailing address.

I'll go ask our team on Monday and send a pm if we need some. Thanks.

[Mr.G]

To team 1 and 818. Thanks for the great alliance.

I believe that team 1 was lifted in the final match. The popped tube was not supporting the robot. It was stuck in the frame and coming out the side.

In the first match I would like to have been able to see if the spooler was hung or not. I did not like Ron’s practice of cutting off tube throughout the whole event before anyone could get a good look at them to dispute the ruling. This was the second time this happened to us. The other time was when we got one on in Auton and the ringer was clearly rocking back and forth on the spider leg. He said it wasn't, but there was nothing that could be done once it was cut off.

I also don't like the rules that aren't in the book that are enforced. I know many other teams are frustrated with this also.

[TVan]

sounds like a great time I wish we were there,
could some one post the selection order or correct this one

1114, 67, 57
573, 503, 1015
1213, 322, 33
308, 469, 68
494, 1023, 1503
1519, 70, 279
818, 326, 1
1504, 65, 548

[Jack Jones]

Originally Posted by TVan

sounds like a great time I wish we were there,
could some one post the selection order or correct this one

1114, 67, 57
573, 503, 1015
1213, 322, 33
308, 469, 68
494, 1023, 1503
1519, 70, 279
818, 326, 1
1504, 65, 548

Third seed was 1213, 33, 322.

[Bill_Hancoc]

On behalf of team 573 i want to extend a huge thank you to teams 503 and 1015, without you guys we could not have done it. and congratulations to teams 494, 1023, and 1503. you put up a great fight. Good luck you the rest of the year. And team 1023, we hope to see you again at boilermaker, except on our side of the field


by the way does anybody have a picture of the semi-final match when both my team and 1015 fell off 503's ramp i would love to have a copy of it.

heh, heh...just noticed this was my 573-rd post