I would have to say my most memorable on-field moment from this year's championship was when we knocked out the #3 seed on Curie. Up to that point 816 had never won an Elimination Match at the Championship and it was only our second time playing in the Championship Eliminations even though it was our Seventh Time going.
We were up Against the Power House Alliance of 175 and 254. Their third robot played pure unadulterated and effective defense so we knew that they'd only have two scoring bots. We decided that our best option was to "remove" 254 from the Match. I as the alliance Captain, Decided that we would play defense on 254 while 245 and 341, our partners scored. The strategy worked, not flawlessly and it wasn't pretty, but it worked.
Off the field though, I'd have to say that my favorite moment was when some students from 1089 came up to me and asked me for My AutoGraph. It was possibly one of the coolest things thats ever happened to me at any Robotics competition ever. Needless to say, I had a huge grin on my face for the rest of the day. (Fyi, I signed it as "TheFro"... No one knows my real name
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Maybe next season I want to develop and test a new metric for FRC scouting: Bumper Quality Rating (BQR).
BQR-5: The platonic ideal of FRC bumpers.
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BQR-0: Moderate to heavy use of duct tape.
I believe BQR would outperform OPR as a predictor of on-field robot performance. - Nate Laverdure [more] 
26-04-2009, 11:09
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