Central Illinois Regional 2024, Absolutely insane for yet another year

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This year will be absolutely bonkers

111 - Wildstang
2481 - Roboteers
4028 - The Beak Squad
1756 - Argos
2338 - Gear It Forward
4096 - Control Z
4143 - Mars Wars
1736 - Robot Casserole
112 - Plus One

… And that’s not the depth of competitiveness either, there are still more teams I haven’t mentioned that could seed first at many other events but will likely find themselves way down the order here.

Midwest also keeps on getting stronger, so that
could be even more insane will probably be a bloodbath.

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This year is gonna be insane for Central Illinois. I can’t wait for it, especially Midwest.

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don’t forget respawn!

I’ll go tell the team to make sure the robot is good this year.

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We shall see how things play out after week 1 and 2, but (by epa) it remains a harder event than most district champs.

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Peoria as Illinois dcmp maybe?

:melting_face:

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On the table for sure :smiley: …

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Yeah, I am EXCITED. I don’t think I could’ve asked for much better for my first real run with FRC GAing

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I’m really excited for this competition!
However, it’s the reason my team’s goals for this season changed from “get to Einstein” last year to “win a regional” this year.

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Correction, our goal was not “get to Einstein” last year until after winning midwest and qualifying for CMP.

Qualifying for CMP just feels especially scary this year.

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Frankly, given your event lineup, I don’t see much of a difference between those two goals :).

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Oops, I guess I shouldn’t be saying too many things about a team I wasn’t on last year.

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There are going to be a lot of big names that miss out and a mad dash for some of the week 6 events to try to salvage a qualifying slot/wildcard shenanigans.

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To add to the list of strong teams not mentioned yet:

4213 has won regionals the last two years from the # 1 alliance
5934 was the # 1 seed at Midwest last year
5847 was the # 1 seed at Midwest in 2020, has had a number of other strong showings historically

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Let me be humble dang it :joy:

Be crazy if we managed to pull that off again but who knows. We didn’t go Barker Redbacks levels of simple, but not far off either.

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I don’t think any of us are going to go into this event underestimating anyone :slight_smile:

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I’m really excited to see everyone’s robot reveals, hopefully they come out soon!

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Scared. All of us are going into this event scared XD

(Or at the very least excited for the chaos)

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Before the excitement/chaos begins, Friends of Robot Casserole is hosting a spaghetti dinner to help those out-of-town teams save some money on food costs Thursday night. $10 per meal, about a 3-minute walk from the Coliseum. Search CD for post with more details. Sp excited to have such a great regional in my town!!

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Theming issue :wink:

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Field setup is rolling! Looking forward to yet another awesome year.

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Still holding the spot for toughest regional by Mean EPA

It’s not too far off the top for Top 8 or Top 24 either.

Local teams are already talking. This one really is going to be unpredictable - the field is so deep, it’s going to be a ton of fun watching each match. Teams have their work cut out for em!

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I’m heading out tomorrow morning and look forward to catching up Thursday-Friday! Great set of teams and always an awesome event.

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