We had a great time at the NYC Regional! While there were many technical difficulties, (RIP to one of our Jaguars) we still managed to come through in the end. On Saturday, because of our second to none defensive strategy, we landed in FIRST place! We hoped to keep it that way, and everything looked promising. Every time our robot went in the pit area, it was worked on. Unfortunately, since time flies when your having fun, matches just kept creeping up halfway through a solution. We did not have a single match where our robot was fully functional on Saturday. Cold Fusion (Team 1279) showed their gracious professionalism (for the millionth time) by helping us out with the programming.
By the time the arm was working perfectly, it was our last game, and our drivers could not resist the temptation to try out the new and improved arm & grabber. Perhaps this was where we went wrong. It was either match 59 or 74 when our driver was so focused on offense, he completely forgot about defense. We were on the red alliance, and the score was 6-0(we were in the lead), ....but then, one sneaky bot crept up to the podium and his minibot shot up the pole faster than you can say whoa! Now the score was 6-30,which meant we had lost, and so we dropped to 15th place. I believe if we had won that game, we would have landed in the top 8, and been able to select our allies, but because of that game we became the top runner up instead.
It was a lot of fun while it lasted and we had a GREAT time to say the least. Our minibot was not working, but that will be taken care of sooner than later, and then we will be unstoppable! See you during the post-season matches! -Narcisse
"In Logomotion, offense is overrated. Defense is the name of the game. "
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 11:52AM 
