Newton 09

[MrForbes]

I think you'll go on to great things, your team now understands what it takes to succeed

[Chris is me]

Twas a hell of a division and a great way to end the best season I've ever had in FIRST.

First of all I'd like to thank all of our alliance partners, in particular teams 2970, 1629, and 2836. We would not have won our respective qualifiers with your help. 1629's defensive offensive bot was really underrated and without their scoring we would have lost the match. 2970 was a massive scoring partner that rivaled 1625, and definitely tipped the match in our favor. 2836 is a defensive behemoth, I'll be looking toward your team in future seasons simply because you guys have very intelligent drivers who can do exactly what is needed. Also because you had the best pit display ever put up by a rookie. Robot on a spinning turntable? Awesome!

Okay, 2970, I just found it really awesome that this unheard-of team were the leaders of an alliance with legendary teams like 33 and 102. Please be at IRI.

Congratulations to the Newton Alliance! 121, 177, and 1507 was a great alliance in general and upset all the way down the line through smart play. Any alliance can win any match with the right strategy, and you guys definitely proved that.

Now if 2970 went with Code Red Robotics... the alliance selection would have been different. 8th seed would have likely been 1714 / 1726 / 16. How would this have worked ?

[IKE]

Originally Posted by Kit Gerhart

This was not one of our better years, competition-wise, and may have been the first time in the team's history that we were not in the elimination rounds.

From the stats I have heard, it is true that this is the first time since the alliance years began. I would blame it on the lack of hot pink on the robot this year. More pinker is more betterer. (I think the lack of neon green on the thunderchickens actually helped them qualify higher and be a captain more often this year, but that is purely wild speculation).

DEAR GDC,

Please design next years game so that PINK can be PINK, and Thunderchickens can be Thunderchicken green. Also the BEES and Rush would like to place goldenrod yellow off of the list of targeted colors.

How about a Tie-die taret or one with flames. Both those teams are champions and Chairman winners. they can just coast for a year.

[Tyler Hicks]

It was a great year for the NC Gears!

[ShotgunNinja]

On behalf of Team 2970, my "other team", I'd like to say thank you to everyone else who competed on Newton. You gave us some great memories and fantastic matches. Though we didn't make it to Einstein, for a rookie team, we went incredibly far. So thanks again.

P.S.- Hope to see everyone next year when I start mentoring through Milwaukee School of Engineering's MFSO organization! See you at the U.S. Cellular Arena, all you Midwesterners!

[ShotgunNinja]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

First of all I'd like to thank all of our alliance partners, in particular teams 2970, 1629, and 2836. We would not have won our respective qualifiers with your help. 1629's defensive offensive bot was really underrated and without their scoring we would have lost the match. 2970 was a massive scoring partner that rivaled 1625, and definitely tipped the match in our favor. 2836 is a defensive behemoth, I'll be looking toward your team in future seasons simply because you guys have very intelligent drivers who can do exactly what is needed. Also because you had the best pit display ever put up by a rookie. Robot on a spinning turntable? Awesome!

Okay, 2970, I just found it really awesome that this unheard-of team were the leaders of an alliance with legendary teams like 33 and 102. Please be at IRI.

Congratulations to the Newton Alliance! 121, 177, and 1507 was a great alliance in general and upset all the way down the line through smart play. Any alliance can win any match with the right strategy, and you guys definitely proved that.

Now if 2970 went with Code Red Robotics... the alliance selection would have been different. 8th seed would have likely been 1714 / 1726 / 16. How would this have worked ?

From 2970: We are trying to go to IRI, along with 2970's "big brother" team, the Lakeview Legends "Robot Mafia", 1652.

Also: I, along with most of our team, agree with you on Code Red, and the fact was, we kinda skimped on scouting at the last second, hence almost being late for Alliance Selection, and somehow we didn't really have a second pick lined up. I believe that our alliance that we did pick was incredible as far as alliances go (and a big heads up to the Killer Bees, you were awesome, guys) and yes, it would have been very interesting to see how Code Red would have factored into our alliance.

And thanks to everyone else!

[#2970-tim]

Originally Posted by ShotgunNinja

From 2970: We are trying to go to IRI, along with 2970's "big brother" team, the Lakeview Legends "Robot Mafia", 1652.

Also: I, along with most of our team, agree with you on Code Red, and the fact was, we kinda skimped on scouting at the last second, hence almost being late for Alliance Selection, and somehow we didn't really have a second pick lined up. I believe that our alliance that we did pick was incredible as far as alliances go (and a big heads up to the Killer Bees, you were awesome, guys) and yes, it would have been very interesting to see how Code Red would have factored into our alliance.

And thanks to everyone else!

Nick, Robot Mafia( 1625) is NOT our so called "big brother" team.

[Aren_Hill]

Originally Posted by #2970-tim

Nick, Robot Mafia( 1625) is NOT our so called "big brother" team.

And our names not Robot Mafia lol, i believe your saying 1652

[ShotgunNinja]

Originally Posted by #2970-tim

Nick, Robot Mafia( 1625) is NOT our so called "big brother" team.

Of course not.

Robot Mafia (1652) is our Mentoring team. How could I forget. Although there was a bit of coldness between the teams...