2054's look back at MSC

[Vikingtech2054]

First of I would like to say we had a very fun time at MSC and we never would have expected to be seeded #1 at the end of qualifications. The field of teams there were very competitive and the were many others that could have earned that #1 spot, it's impressive that some many team had broke 1000 teleop points, some even broke 1100. we overall feel lucky to get that spot. I would like to thank each team for accepting to be on our alliance.

Team 67- They are a legendary team and were clearly one of the best in the state. There FCS was phenomenal, so far the best I have ever seen. In addition to a climb and the scoring of the color disc made them very valuable to us. Also I would like to specially thank them for picking up the slack for us in both quarterfinal matches when our robot had a freak jamming problem we had never had before. In the end they were clearly the right pick for our first selection.

Team 2337- We were surprised that this very good team was left at the end of alliance selection. There very strong drive train made them valuable to us to push away any defenders that tried to block 67. There autonomous hit very well, and they were able to play offense when we had an unplugged shooter motor in the last match. Overall we were happy to snatch them up at the end of alliance selection.

Although losing in the finals is not what any of us wanted (obviously), we feel 469, 3539, and 217 was a very powerful alliance and deserve to be state champions. I wish our alliance could have been running at full capacity, our alliance had been fighting some unfortunate mechanical problems all throughout eliminations and finally got most of them solved by the first match of the finals, but went right back in the same boat after the first finals match.

Another special thank you to the #4 alliance in the semi-finals (2145, 1918, 3572) When repairing a robot on our alliance a student from 1918 had offered to use their alliance timeout for us to have time to repair the robot. Although after talking to the head referee we were unable to have back to back time outs, but this is a great example of gracious professionalism.