Thursday:
On March 17 2011, Team 2655 The Flying Platypi arrived at the Gwinnett Civic Center in Duluth, Georgia to participate in our first competition of the year, the Peachtree regional. It was obvious all the team present were excited to be there and enthusiasm was really high as we waited in line to enter the pits on Thursday.
After everything for pit set-up was brought inside, I went with a few other team members to the stands to save some seats for the team to sit during matches throughout the regional. As I walked into the arena area, I saw the very shiny, brightly lit, full-size Logomotion field for the first time and I got incredibly excited for the upcoming weekend.
As Thursday progressed, Team 2655, along with many others teams, ran into numerous problems with out arm, end effector, and programming. However, after finally making it to the field to run a few practice matches, things really seemed to come together.
Friday:
Friday stared with a very early hair-spraying session as a hand full of team members bravely volunteered to spray their hair for the day. Afterwards, the team headed over to the Gwinnett Center to begin the first day or seeding matches for the Peachtree regional. Not all our matches went well, but we were able to hold a spot in the top twenty-four teams.
At the end of the day, the pre-judged awards ceremony was held and the entire team was there to cheer for the teams who received awards. Much to our surprise, we won the Website Award at Peachtree for our 2011 team website.
Saturday:
On Saturday morning we finished our last three seeding matches and were able to maintain a 6-4 record for the regional. Just before lunch, I headed out to the field to be the team representative while picking alliance partners for Peachtree's elimination matches. We were very excited to be picked by the 6th seed, team 2967 IronWorks, from Columbus GA. After quickly talking for a couple minutes, we picked team 1848, SOUP, from Atlanta GA, to be our last Alliance partner for elimination matches.
After lunch, elimination matches began and we were scheduled to go against the 3rd seed alliance. After talking over a little strategy, we had our first match, which we won without too much stress. We later went on to lose one match and then win our last match, securing our advancement to the semi-finals. After a quick break, we were set to go against the 2nd seed alliance. Needless to say, it was incredibly intimidating, all the teams present were great, strong teams with some really amazing robots. We eventually lost in the semi-finals but, it's easy to say that all the team members of each alliance partner was happy with our performance during the Peachtree regional.
All in all, everyone on Team 2655 had a great time at Peachtree and it was a good learning experience for the 2011 game. Every member had time to have fun, compete and relax. Even Archimedes had a fantastic time.
A big thank you to Team 2967, IronWorks for picking us and to Team 1848, SOUP for being another great alliance partner.
Also a big congratulations to Teams 2415, 1771 and
2815 for being regional champions
And even bigger congratulations to team 122, The Nasa Knights on winning the Chairman's Award.
Next up, the North Carolina Regional!
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