2169 is going to North Star? I’m glad I’m back announcing on my favorite field!
Looking forward to seeing the teams on Thursday.
Indeed they are!
“Midnight” is finally ready to get over his fear of heights at 10k 
I see what you did there;)
Is 2175 planning on showing any of practice day on the webcast? The feed currently says “See you tomorrow”. Obviously no one is going to be in the field now but later in the day would be nice to see the field.
We hope to have the stream up by noon today.
Well it was a fun and exciting day for teams 3275 and 3134, ending the day 1st and 29th. Best finishes for each team at day 1. Good luck to everyone tomorrow hopefully see you in the finals.
Anyone know why 2574 sat out the first quarterfinal match?
Their main breaker broke couldn’t get it fixed. Should be back for next match.
2826 pressed the deploy hook button after we had climbed. Caused us to drop down.
2169 would love to thank 967 and 4239 for accepting to be in our alliance. We had a wonderful time competing. Soo close in match 2.
Pew pew to infinity and beyond
967 had a blast competing with you guys, thanks again to 2169 and 4239 for competing with us! Also huge thanks to Team Neutrino 3928 for all of the help and support at both Iowa and North Star!
Happy for 4607.
Team 2855 had a great time this weekend with us ending up rank 12 and making it to the quarterfinals. This was our best year so far, with us winning one of the quarterfinal matches forcing it to go to a tiebreaker that we lost by 8 points. Can’t wait for next year.
Thank you to 4549 for picking us, 3244 for being a great part of our alliance, and 4207 for saving the day when 4549’s robot broke.
4215 had a pretty crazy weekend. we were dead at some point in 3 of our 8 matches. Still somehow ended up in the top 20. We still can say that we scored 8 goals by ourselves in a match.
Thanks to all our quals alliance partners and thank you 5826 and 2239 for picking us and working on 5826’s blocker. Huge thank you to whoever the inspector was that cleared the blocker before QF1!!!
Congrats to our friends 3130, 2175, and 3042 on your regional win. all of you will do extremely well at Champs. No hard feelings after QF 
This was my last competition as a driver and it wasn’t the way I wanted to go out but it still has been a great ride.
2175 had a really fun time this weekend! Huge shout out to our alliance partners 3130 and 3042!
I’m speechless and amazed as I’m on my way back to Fargo from the FIRST Robotics Minnesota North Star Regional. CIS 4607, the Becker Robotics team has been honored with the most prestigious award in competitive robotics, the Chairman’s Award.
CIS has been striving to achieve the culture change outlined by FIRST since our inception in 2012. The Chairman’s Award is so much more than just another award. It is a validation for the countless hours of work done by a special collection of people in an effort to change the world. I think I speak for everybody on the team when I say that we’re humbled to have been honored with the Chairman’s Award.
There are so many people deserving of thanks, and so many people who deserve recognition for this achievement. I’ll leave all of that for a different form of communication. There is, however, somebody that needs to be recognized here.
Alex Jurek (Chief Hedgehog), you won the Woodie Flowers award. There isn’t anything I can say that isn’t summarized by that award. I will say simply this, I wouldn’t be interested in STEM education, or robotics if it weren’t for you. Any/all of the successes that I have had and will hopefully have in the future can be attributed to your success as a mentor, a teacher, and a friend. 4607 doesn’t have a FRC team without you, we certainly don’t win any awards. Many people have put in many hours, but you’ve been the guiding force. Without your vision for the future, 4607 is nothing, and all of the work we do doesn’t get done. This award should serve as a validation for all the time you’ve given up with your family. It should serve as validation for the sleepless nights, worrying about one thing or another for the team. It should certainly validate the blood sweat and tears you have put into this program.
I’d also love to thank Laurie Shimizu, Jon Stratis, Mark Lawrence, and Ken Rosen. They’re all incredible people who have helped show 4607 how to become the team that we are today.
Interestingly, I was told today at the event that 4607 has a reputation. At the time I wasn’t sure what this meant, was it good? I suppose after this, I can believe that we have a good reputation.
4607 knows that the work doesn’t stop here. CIS isn’t going to sit back and relax knowing that we’ve accomplished what we’ve always dreamed of accomplishing. The work is just beginning. We won’t ever stop trying to improve our community, spread STEM education, and change the world.
Congrats to 4607 for the Chairman’s Award(beautiful video) and the #1 alliance on winning the regional!!
We, on the other hand, received the very short straw.
On average we scored:
11.25 Auto points per match
53.3875% of the our alliance’s points
We are quite proud of those statistics until we see that we ranked 60/60 teams. It was devasting to our team spirit to do so well for us but be ranked the lowest team there.
We submitted Chairman’s for the first time and it was a great experience. We were pretty sure we wouldn’t win, but the judges and volunteers helped encourage us to do our best!
Good luck to those teams going onto State and Worlds! Hopefully we can draw a longer straw next time!
Congratulations to CIS. You folks have done an amazing job to growing your team and STEM in your area. You have inspired me with what you have accomplished in such as short amount of time.
A thank you and congratulations to the students and mentors of 2715 & 3130. I was very impressed by the way the teams handled the adversity of robots loosing functionality and finding ways to get the robots back on the field and develop strategies to get past three outstanding alliances (5826, 2239, 4215) (2225, 3928, 3026 missing 4778) & (2826, 2194, 2574).
Safe travel to those of you headed to St. Louis and good luck.
Fondy Fire really enjoyed coming to the North Star Regional. We would like to thank Mark Lawrence, Jon Stratis, the rest of the Regional Planning Committee, and the all of the volunteers who make this such a great event.
We would also like to give a huge shout-out to 2826 Wave Robotics, who always helps and keeps pushing us to improve. Thanks for picking us for eliminations. Also thanks to our other alliance partner 2574, who was also great to play with.
Congratulations to 4607 for winning RCA. Their video is worth checking out. Also, check out their unique pit banners at the Championship.
Congratulations also to the Regional Champions, 2175, 3130 and 3042. We fought you as hard as we could!
The rookie teams there were all really good! Congrats to 5194 for winning Rookie All Star, and to 5826 for winning Rookie Inspiration and being the 8th Alliance Captain.
Good luck to all the teams going to the FIRST Championship and to the teams going to the Minnesota State Championship.
Was a lot of fun We thank 4549 and 2855 for selecting 3244 to come defend the stronghold along side you. We couldn’t sleep all night reflecting on what could have been a great first round upset. With no code change our Autonomous failed to execute the last round. would a been a different result even with a defense breach. Our week started with failed autonomousCommand.start() and seemed to end there too. We battled together and fought every challenge together. Thank to 4207 for helping an ally stand up to he supper powers and show we will not fall over easily.