pic: Team 5254's 2014 Robot

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Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard

This team is one of the smartest rookie teams I've ever worked with. We had one qualification match with them against Miss Daisy and two other decent robots. We nearly won doing two-assist cycles with these rookies finishing in the low goal for us.
It was an exciting match.
Then they ended up on the 5 seed alliance for eliminations. In their first quarterfinal match, they beat the Daisy-Shaker alliance by one point with an incredible, on-the-run last second score.
Needless to say I thought they were a shoe-in for the Rookie All-Star Award, but unfortunately they did not receive it and their season had to end right there.
Look out for these guys in the coming years. They're going to be deadly.

I'd like to echo pretty much everything that Kevin said. Also, as a member of the team that did win the Rookie All-Star at FLR, I want to say that we were really pulling for 5254 to win it over us. This is a team that deserved to attend Saint Louis.