Why such short notice, you ask? Well, we didn't win a spot at the championships, but there were quite a few wait list spots to be had. The head mentor thought he signed us up for the wait list months ago......
But T decided to check on our registration Monday morning. We were never registered! So he took the liberty of registering the team himself, since he'll be the captain next year and all. On Friday morning, the call came inviting us to Houston!
Here are a few highlights.....
That tiny little guy down there is will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas. He loves FIRST Robotics!
"If you can read this, we're doing it right." T wrote this on the bottom of the robot at the Colorado Regional. The team definitely did something right this season.
Including making this 50 point climb in every single match at World Championships!
We finished in Houston with a 7-3-0 record! We beat World Champions this season, and at this competition, defeated several #1 ranked teams that went on to the finals!
T's face after winning the last match of the qualifiers. Priceless!
T has been living and breathing robots since January. There is not a rule, regulation or robot that he is not familiar with. There is not a strategy for winning he didn't visualize.
And then he, the drive team, and our alliance partners executed those strategies in match after match for some amazing and unexpected victories.
T says he isn't surprised we didn't get picked for a finals alliance--even though Hugh is the team's best robot in years, he knew we couldn't compete on the same level as the robots than moved on to the championship rounds.
I know I'm biased, but I think that makes his robot driving even more amazing! Because we did compete with them!
What a season! Congratulations Alpine Robotics!
This was so fun to follow on FB!!
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