pic: Three in a Row!

[smurfgirl]

What an incredible accomplishment. Our team has never done more than one regional, and I don't think we'd have the stamina to go to three regionals... and still be able to pull off three wins. I really wish my team could have played with (or even against) you guys- I'm looking forward to seeing you play in Atlanta. Congrats!

[spinmunky]

Originally Posted by Qbranch

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strange.... your TBA badge says you were Semifinalists at Buckeye...

[Qbranch]

Originally Posted by spinmunky

strange.... your TBA badge says you were Semifinalists at Buckeye...

They haven't finished entering all the matches/scores for Buckeye yet.

-q

[Jonathan Norris]

Congrats on joining the three regional wins club, its quite a list: 47, 1114, 1503, and 1024.

[Jonathan Norris]

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[Dylan Gramlich]

2048 i am again so thankful that you were there for our alliance!!! I am sorry that we had to take 1386 out though. 1024 thank you guys so much for picking us and working with us, i will make sure to stop by in Atlanta! As an update the cell in our battery blew in the last match. The strange thing was, this had happened previously on friday.

[SSMike]

Congrats to 1126, 1024, 2048 and 1386! You guys played a great regional. Good luck in Atlanta!

[Tetraman]

Best team of 08...1024 will be on Einstin no doubt.

Glad to hear 1126 took a victory.

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by Qbranch

Unfortunately, sorry doesn't cut it here. 2048 deserves their medals as much as any team on our alliance or any alliance.

That "1 time" you casually mention was critical. Our robot was stuck in the fence and we couldn't move. 2048 rammed us with perfect timing to get us free and continue to play the first round of the finals match. 2048's ramming was not an accident or a mistake, but a well executed strategic move.

Considering how our robot got damaged in the match after that (extreme collision), if we wouldn't have had them there to help us off the wall and we lost the first round of finals, we would have had to run the remaining two matches... that third match may have been too much for our machine in it's state.

Also, we had some close matches, and the points that 2048 made running those perfect, PENALTY FREE (great job girls!) runs around the track eeked our alliance further to the end.

2048 was definitely an alliance contributor.

Thanks again to 1126 and 1386 as well!

-q

p.s. 1126/Sparx: What happened to you guys in the final final? I suddenly realized I never asked afterwards.

excellent post on your part qbranch

How I saw it was that 2048 did a lot more than run laps and push 1024 off the wall. They were the team that let the alliance move onto the finals by running the laps penalty free and doing as asked while 1126 and 1024 had issues. If you really think of it, they did a lot more and I am proud of those girls. They were actually the only robot on the alliance (i know it was a short time for them) that actually ran every match as intended without any issue. Early in the regional I was looking into a few teams for the third round, one of them was the 2048 girls. When i first heard that they were being bumped into the alliance, I got all excited. It was a intense elimination tournament and I could not have guessed how things would turn out on Thursday.

[geeknerd99]

Good Lord. You can score hat tricks in FIRST!?!

[adman]

Team 2048 you are the best! Normally teams slowly work
up to the finals and Wow you just suddenly were there
and you didn't panic but were REALLY COOL AND COLLECTED.
I enjoyed shaking all of your hands after we took the picture
together. I think you should know our Scouts had 2048 on our
pick list as a solid stable point maker with a guaranteed 4 point
Autonomous. You definitely had the right stuff.

Thanks for taking the advice of our team coach Marc on the
field and ramming us off that wall. I think we all saw what
happens in FIRST when multiple teams turn into an ALLIANCE!

I wish everyone continued success in their upcoming Regionals
and please stop by our pit at Nationals.

1126 sorry about your battery. As we all know anyone can
break At Midwest we caught on fire and our Robot Controller
decided it might be a toaster oven control ( failed ) at Purdue.
(WE put the fire out in Chicago! ha-ha and changed the brain in Purdue.)
This proves that SMOKING CAN LEAD TO BRAIN DAMAGE.

Happy mentor from Kil-a- bytes.
P.S. did anyone notice that 2048 is the next of power of two up from 1024?

[brentmcjunkin]

WOW

[BandChick]

Congratulations 1024! We loved being around you in ATL last year, and now I know why! What a dangerous team to mess with! Look out Beatty and all the big names!

Can't wait to see you guys in Atlanta. =)

[Josh Goodman]

Excellent job 1024!!! This is a huge accomplishment! I saw your robot play on the webcasts. It is a great design! I really hope we can meet up in the same championship division!

[mark johnson]

Three in a row ,way to go!!!!!!! Do i hear FOUR? Hope to be able to play with or aginst your awsome bot hopefully with at IRI. GOOD LUCK at championships.