As regionals wind down, districts begin to enter DCMP, etc. there have been a lot of champs-quality robots that have just barely missed the mark to make champs.
I’m assuming this list will get longer after week 6, but I’ll start:
2481
364
4728 is the best team I’ve seen in person to not qualify. They’re extremely impressive this year and I fully expect their upward trajectory to continue into next season!
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2451, unless there’s some Deus Ex Machina magic that I don’t know about
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They still have Midwest to qualify from.
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Good
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We need 2 champs again. or better yet, super events, followed by 1 champs. 
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Bias to San Diego since it’s the only region I seem to usually be able to keep track of who’s who at the competition but 2102, 2839, and 6995 under normal champs qualifications rules I’d expect to see. Unfortunately, no wildcards were generated at SDR this year 
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As well as 3255, their shooting was amazing, their climb was consistent, they had an awesome overall design, and had won del mar 2020 as a first pick, but didn’t qualify because of ya know… the world ending… they ended as captains of the finalist alliance this year @ SDR, but as you said, no wildcards which was unbelievably saddening.
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4068 would have led or been picked by the top seed at nearly any week 4 event, but instead got Colorado’ed. Will miss them in Houston
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Thanks! I’m really glad you guys (3128) got your first Blue banner, but it’s disheartening to be the 4th best robot at 2 of our 3 events and not get in because it’s so stacked in favor of the first alliance.
But we’ve gone to champs for 4 years straight, and we did 3 regionals already, so we’re tired and ok taking a break. That being said, San Diego is stacked with great teams that rarely get to go to champs because the regional has 54 teams competing for 4-6 slots. Teams like 3128, 3255, 6995, 2485, 5199, 2658, 4738, and 2839 should be going to champs regularly, but usually only 1 of that group end up going a year.
Southern California would really benefit from going to districts, but we’ve basically been told it’s 2 years away for the past 6 years.
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regional champs qualifications are fair, fun, and exciting for the whole family
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I was told that we are (thus far) the only team from Iowa to qualify for champs (eg, Children of the Corn, Swartdogs, and Iron Lions all out at this point). That’s pretty unfathomable to me.
Rumor around the Bayou is they may be pulling a 2013 Texas Torque so don’t count them out just yet
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I don’t think I can say 2481 enough.
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I would rather go back to a single championship. It’ll be nice having championships be an actual championship again instead of a pair of dueling super regionals.
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Please elaborate, I dont recall this story. Late add to the Razorback regional?
Dang 1477 was on the field a lot in 2013…
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Going off of TBA, I’d assume @MARS_James implied them being a late addition to Razorback/a Week 6 event and clinching their ticket to Champs that way.
Pretty accurate comparison I’d say, heard a couple rumors as well, certain calls were made. Don’t count em out.
364 is way too good of a robot not to be at champs. They went shot to shot with 118 and 179 and lost by 1 point from what appears to be not having an extra second to hit their traversal.
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Honestly there was so much in that match that was a coin flip 1 way or the other.
One of our auto balls was bounced out by theirs. But Blue shot a red ball and scored it by mistake.
364 didn’t get to traversal and 7094 didn’t climb at all for the first time in elims.
We nearly tipped over and 2992 looked to have turret issues.
Our alliance was also very prone to causing penalties from what we will call a very interesting interpretation of contact inside the frame perimeter rule. We had racked up 8, 4, 12, 16 and 20 points in fouls in the previous elims matches and lucky for us the dice fell on 4 not 8 or more.
I am not trying to sell 364 short the decision between them and 118 was not an easy one but there was a lot of things on both sides that led to that razor thin margin.
Honestly any of the top 3 alliances at Bayou could have won other events or even been on different alliances at Bayou had a few matches played out different.
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