I echo the congrats to 1625, 5125, and 2451. You all are incredible teams and totally deserve to go to world championships! Your alliance was probably one of the best that I’ve seen - in my mind it rivaled the windsor 2056 - 1114 alliance!
2451’s swerve drive was incredible; the machine was probably one of the best that I’ve ever seen.
See you in St. Louis!
It was a pleasure teaming up with you guys, though of course it didn’t end up like we’d hoped. We’re still wondering who was able to get laminated Flaming Bear Squad signage made so fast… :yikes: Trying to figure out if we can make it to Rockford, fingers crossed!
Congratulations to the absolutely dominant 1625/2451/5125 alliance! We were following 5125’s rise to defensive powerhouse, it was so great to see them finish off the way they did.
The laminated signs came out so fast thanks to one of our members getting online to find a logo as soon as our alliance was complete, and one of our mentors bringing along a heat laminator. I think it was a great way to bring our alliance together, and we will definitely bring it along for future alliances.
Hope to see you at R^2OC!
I never saw the sign:(
Pics?
As soon as one of our team members said “Flaming Bear Squad”, one of our alliance members (not sure if it was a monkey or a bear) ran off and showed up with this after about 2 minutes.
https://twitter.com/FRCTeam3352/status/452503857709334528
We cut one out and put the Flaming Bear Squad logo on our puncher as well. I believe I also saw one on top of the Monkeys’ bot.
Too, too cool.
Here’s the official Flaming Bear Squad Logo: https://twitter.com/FRCTeam3352/status/454409903382073344/photo/1
Congratulations to the winning alliance and good luck them in champs!
Our team ranked 13th after qualification matches, we played quarters against 1732 3936 2338 with 2704 4241 and lost after 3 matches. It was a great season for us. We ranked 48th at MWR last year, our robot didn’t even work mostly and with this disappoinment we worked much this season and tried to do our best. Midwest Regional left some really good memories on our team. Thanks for every team welcoming us!
I’m a bit late here, but what a fantastic regional, as always! I’ve been attending the Midwest Regional since 1999 and it gets better and better every year. The staff is so friendly and the teams are awesome. Special shout out to the teams from Turkey - we got to play WITH all four teams, and each one was a real pleasure to work with!
I loved having 1625 and 1732 as our pit neighbors - we even used the “back door” entrance through 1732’s pit a few times 
Congrats to 1625, 2451, and 5125 for an absolutely DOMINANT performance. And huge congrats to 1732 for a well deserved Chairman’s Award - you are a team that truly embodies all of FIRST and it is a pleasure to know and work with your team.
For Team 1675, this was probably our best and most complete regional performance ever. We won a match 1 vs 3. We were undefeated until we hit the gauntlet of facing 1625, 2338, 2451, 71, and 1732 in consecutive matches (EEK!). Our pit crew kept our robot in tip-top shape even when our break-away forks came off with our 4 match turnarounds in our schedule. So proud of the team - AND our first ever engineering award!!
Despite the way the replay of QF4-2 was handled and our season ultimately being cut short, we had a blast, and can’t wait for next year! Thanks to 2358 and 3352 for playing with us and fully embracing the Flaming Bear Squad. Good luck to both of you in the future!
And if IL does go to Districts, can IL annex Milwaukee, just for FIRST??