Finger Lakes Regional – Qualification Rounds Begin

Friday, March 5. 2010

8:00 am and the team is ready to go!  Time to set up space in the stands, time to get the robot prepped for the first qualification match of the day.  We were slated for match #2 and had to be prepped and on the field before the opening ceremonies.

We sat through the usual amount of introductions and short speeches. The Canadian National Anthem was sung by a choral group from Nazareth Academy and the Star Spangled Banner was sung by a quartet from Team 340. Both groups did a very nice job! Let the games begin!

We spent the day wrestling with a variety of issues.  The mechanical elements seemed to work in the pit but when we would get to the field and something would go wrong. But with our drive team rapidly improving in drive ability and strategy, we still seemed to be doing ok.

Here is our match summaries for today:

Match 2 – we won – 2 to 1
Match 8 – we lost – 2 to 9
Match 22 – we won – 7 to 2
Match 27 – we won – 5 to 3

Oh look!!!! After Match 27, we are in first place in seeding points! All of the cameras on the team rushed to take photos of the monitor. It looked like this!

 

The strategy team intensity just picked up a notch!

Match 31 – we lost 1 to 2
Match 44  – we lost 0 to 3
Match 50  – we won 9 to 0

At the end of the day we were ranked 5th.  Not too bad!

I was impressed with the whole team especially considering all if the first timers!  There was a great scouting crew in action at all times and the students all got to spend some time in the pits either pit scouting, or just meeting teams and swapping buttons.  However, we do need to work on cheers as a whole!  Tomorrow will be another opportunity to get loud and make the Thunder Roll!

And tomorrow I promise you a good photo of the robot!

Posted by Cynette Cavaliere

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