So we got back from Philadelphia just over a week ago. We did very well considering the problems that we faced. Our robot seemed to have problems with just about everything, but that did not stop us. We had to change parts of our gear boxes, fix our car, porch (technical term for holding platform), and the lift. That was only a couple of our problems but we still managed to finish Friday with a record of six wins and two losses. Then saturday we had pretty bad matches and finished in the thirteenth qualifying postion. We had pretty high hopes for being picked during alliance selection and we got picked by the fifth alliance team, which was team number 539 and then we decided to pick team number 834. We went into the elimination rounds as the underdogs in both the quarter finals were we beat the fourth alliance in two matches, and in the semi finals were we went up against the number one alliance. This is were we had our catastrophic failure in the gearboxes, but our replacement cam in and helped our alliance take a win in the semi finals but we lost in two matches in the finals. I do have to say that our team put our hearts and souls into this competition from drive team to scouting to spirit. We left the competition with a barely drivable robot and two awards finalist and spirit. Thank you to all of the east coast teams that were there thank you for the great competition we had a blast and loved the city and the regional.
-Nick Hayes
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