pic: Three in a Row!

[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.