Any undefeated teams in the Q-matches?

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Posted by Chris, Coach on team #308, Walled Lake Monster, from Walled Lake Schools and TRW Automotive Electronics.

Posted on 4/26/99 9:27 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: Any undefeated teams in the Q-matches? posted by Mike Kulibaba on 4/26/99 6:58 PM MST:



: Some engineer from team 308(Walled Lake) was talking to my team and said then went 6-0 and were upset that that they didn't get picked. I felt really bad cause I hadn't seen their robot and I felt that we didn't even give then a look. Did anyone else have a diffucult time looking at all the other robots. I mean alot of teams had pamphelts but having a pamphelt and seeing the robot during a match are two totally different things. If anyone would liked to know, Team 308 finished in 24th place and went 6-0. I feel bad for the rookie teams and the teams that just went to the nationals because with all the team there I think it was tough for a rookie team or a team just at the nationals to sell their robot. And team 88 went 5-1

: Kuli Team 88 TJ²

Yes, we went undefeted and failed to get a bid to the eliminations. We also beat some good teams, such as NYPRO and Clinton, Ford and Fraser, and the HOT Team. Needless to say that we were disappointed that we didn't get picked up.

BUT: I should mention that we were more disappointed in not making the top 16 ourselves. We we in 7th place at one point and then had two tough matches that we had to win with defense. That made us drop to about 19th place. In our last match we had a motor problem. We ended up winning the match but what didn't happen is what is haunting us. Our opponents both pretty much died leaving the playing field empty for us to get a perfect score, which would have given us the #1 seed. Unfortunately, just after the match started we had a problem with the motor that rendered us useless and we blew the big score and had to settle for only 80 points. That dropped us to 24th and the rest is history.

Anyway, all of the what-ifs are killing us now. But we'll be back. Maybe we'll show our stuff at one of the summer events.