Best Teams to Be Left out of the Finals

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Originally Posted by PandaMan

1089 in Newton. They had an easy to climb ramp, and could easily put up 7-9 ringers undefended (3-4 defended probably). After Friday's qualification matches, they were 5-0, but on Saturday morning they lost 2 consecutive matches (motor for mast blew out in first match, and their second match was coming up almost right away, so they didn't have time to fix the motor). After the second loss, they dropped out of the top 8, but fixed their motor and were running again.

Bharat,

Thanks for the compliment. The most we put up in a qualification round at the championships was 6. I am supposing that teams based their alliance selections on Saturday's performance, weren't interested in having another rampbot/scoring hybrid, had better teams than us in mind, or we just REALLY snuck under the radar. We honestly had only one team come to us to check to see if we were working (even though we had a "we fixed the arm" sign on our machine), but I suppose that's what happens when you blow a motor before the last two near back-to-back matches.

Of course, after the fact, we had about four teams say "Oh man, you guys didn't get picked?!".

The worst part about it, though, was that being seated relatively high, we were a back-up bot, and couldn't even finish packing to get to watch the divisional rounds. We barely made it back in time to watch the Einstein rounds.

Thems the breaks, though!