2008 Wisconsin Regional

[XaulZan11]

I'm not a big fan of all the typical congratulations for the winners/thanking alliance partners that everyone does, but 1714 is truely deserving of the chairman's award. While they are not that well known here, they are the real deal. Every time there is some publicity for FIRST, community service or anything related to FIRST happens in the Milwaukee area 1714 is involved and most of the time leading and organizing it.

Not to take anything away from the winners, but it is always difficult to see elimination matchs effected or decided by robots breaking down. In the Semifinals, 1625 was 'shooterless' for a match and a half, and 1730 bent their ball picker upper, making it 'shooterless' too for almost an entire match. I think those two teams were a clearly the best two teams at the regional and it is unfortunate to see them fall short by breaking. Then in the finals 1652 broke down, forcing 1306 (not 2169 as mentioned above). In the final match, 2169 broke down or got stuck on thier first lap.