This was our first time going to Niles Michigan for a competition. We had heard from others that the gym was small, but we were pleasantly surprised to find that there were plenty of seats. We only made minor changes to the robot since the robot performed well at Waterford. Once again, we set a goal to reach the finals and win two awards.
We did very well in the qualifying round, winning 9 of 12 matches. We ended up seeding 7th and we were picked 5th overall by Team 27. We then selected Team 3572. We had a great alliance in the elimination round. Team 27 is a great scorer in teleop and they can get the two balls on the coopertition bridge during autonomous. Team 3572 is very good at scoring the two balls in the hybrid mode. We won the quarterfinals and then beat the number 1 alliance in the semifinals. In the finals, Team 27’s robot hit the wall really hard and broke down. We had no chance with the excellent defense that our opposing alliance was doing. We lost both matches quickly.
We reached our goal to get to the finals and we also won two awards: Website award and Entrepreneurship award. The team did a great job at Niles.