Finger Lake Regionals:

[rjbarra]

Thank You Finger Lakes Regional from Team 20.

You could not write a better script for Team 20 the Rocketeers. It was one of the best regional we participated in. That is saying a lot from a team that has been around since 1992. It was not just that our alliance ff the Tigertronics, X-Cats and The Artic Warriors won it is also how well we connected with the other teams, judges and even the inspectors. We came into the tournament with what we thought was a great robot. Well our robot was two inches too long. We did not read all of the rule updates. Our team was mad but I told them those inspectors are a big apart of why we won. If we went all the way to the finals with an illegal Robot we could have been disqualified. So thank you for picking that up on Wednesday and not on Saturday. On the last preliminary round our robot controller was accidentally damaged by another robot. The service area had no more to sell. We needed a Robot controller. Not one team but two teams came to our rescue. Team 191 The X-Cats and Team 2053 Tigertronics came forward. Tigertronics said they might have one that we could use and the X-Cats had one back at the school. When the weather was at its worse with freezing rain the X-Cats had somebody in a car ready to go if Tigertronics did not have a spare we could use. Tigertronics came through! We got our robot working like new. Our scouts not knowing what had transpired with the X-Cats and Tigertronics had X-Cats as there number one pick and Tigertronics as our number two pick (no kidding). The facility was beautiful and we really enjoyed being in our own state. I would like thank everybody for graciously tolerating us in the pit area. We were on the hot corner and it seem like there was a Team 20 person always in somebody’s way. Thank you Team 174 coming in as late replacement in the finals after the X-Cats went down. Thank you Team 250 for supporting us. It was nice seeing you holding up the 20 sign.