2008 BAE SYSTEMS Granite State Regional

[Ken Streeter]

Originally Posted by Heretic121

2nd i want to thank 1519, 126 + 1307 for almost giving me a heart-attack during our FOUR ROUND SEMI-FINALS!!! 4 rounds in a semi-final is un-heard of and by far those were the most 4 exciting matches i have ever been apart of in FIRST so thank you guys for being such great competition...

Congratulations are definitely in order for the alliance of 121, 40, and 134! Your alliance was definitely the one to beat at the tournament, and those 4 matches in the semifinals were extraordinary. In all honesty, the only two matches where you didn't beat us were when all three of your robots didn't stay on their wheels for the entire match! When you had all three robots running properly we were simply overmatched.

With the incredible robot that 121 built this year, (and in only three weeks!) you definitely deserved the recognition of being the #1 seed and also the regional champions. Well done!

That said, we'd love to have that first semifinal match (the 70-70 tie) back again -- our normal 12 points in autonomous were only 4 due to just barely clipping the center wall support just after going under our overpass. Or, for that matter, if we only had 10 more seconds in the fourth and final match -- both we and Gael Force (126) had just entered the home stretch with balls ready to hurdle... (Then again, you had some misfortune, too -- your autonomous mode in that one round with the long, long delay never did seem to get scored correctly; we're pretty sure that you scored 36 points, rather than the 32 that were on the big screen.)

In any case, best regards at the Championship -- you'll represent the Granite State Regional very well. We're hoping to see you carry that representation all the way to Einstein!

[Tim Baird]

Originally Posted by Heretic121

2nd i want to thank 1519, 126 + 1307 for almost giving me a heart-attack during our FOUR ROUND SEMI-FINALS!!! 4 rounds in a semi-final is un-heard of and by far those were the most 4 exciting matches i have ever been apart of in FIRST so thank you guys for being such great competition...

lastly... Congrats to team 126 on the chairmans award... i think that says it all =D...

Thanks Pat! Yeah, it was a great weekend. Thanks to 1519 and 1307 for helping us give 121 such a hard time. Aside from watching 125 fly up the ramp at the buzzer in Boston last year, it was some of the greatest matches I've taken part in, and it's always fun to have friends on the other side of the field.

Also, thank you very much to 166 for donating a vandoor motor to us as we were entering the finals to play THEM. We really appreciate it. gp man, gp.

[T3_1565]

Is there any chance that more videos will be posted soon? I would love to see the elims matches! Thanks..