disappointment loss at san diego regional

[David Brinza]

Losses can make you feel empty and probably should - but just for awhile.

If you're asking yourself "what could we have done better to win?", then you've won something more than a mere game. If your answer is: we did the best we could and it didn't work out; maybe it was just your opponent's day to win. If you know that there are things you can do to improve, you win even more when you do them.

Team 1717 has what all good FIRST teams have: high goals, desire to achieve them and persistence. Congratulations on an outstanding year and a really great robot. I'm sure we'll be seeing more of it later this year...

[rsilverstein]

Originally Posted by David Brinza

Losses can make you feel empty and probably should - but just for awhile.

If you're asking yourself "what could we have done better to win?", then you've won something more than a mere game. If your answer is: we did the best we could and it didn't work out; maybe it was just your opponent's day to win. If you know that there are things you can do to improve, you win even more when you do them.

Team 1717 has what all good FIRST teams have: high goals, desire to achieve them and persistence. Congratulations on an outstanding year and a really great robot. I'm sure we'll be seeing more of it later this year...

Thanks David. We're hoping to make it to some off-season events and use our robot again. And we'll certainly be back in years to come (well, I'm graduating, but team 1717 will continue to rise).

[TKM.368]

While 368 is disappointed we weren't able to take it all the way with our partners 1717 and 294, we're definitely pleased with how far our alliance was able to get. Thanks to each of them and congratulations to 330, 696, 835, and 1216 for their win and best of luck to each of them in Atlanta! Too bad off season events are a bit far away for us to get to. Until next year!

[Tyler D]

one of our losses in the qualifying matches at waterloo we scored 78 points and still lost 90-78 us (1901) were with 854 and 1503 against 1114, 188 and 2166. If we could have just scored one more ringer we would have tied, if we could have got a spoiler we would have won. Just a heads up for teams going to Atlanta, look out for 1114. they were incredibly maneuvrable and nearly impossible to defend against.
Heres a link to the match if any one want to see it.

[rsilverstein]

Originally Posted by Tyler D

one of our losses in the qualifying matches at waterloo we scored 78 points and still lost 90-78 us (1901) were with 854 and 1503 against 1114, 188 and 2166. If we could have just scored one more ringer we would have tied, if we could have got a spoiler we would have won. Just a heads up for teams going to Atlanta, look out for 1114. they were incredibly maneuvrable and nearly impossible to defend against.
Heres a link to the match if any one want to see it.

Wow, that was a great match. Really close and a lot of good scorers